Theory:Timeline - Leela

This page lists appearances of Leela in the order in which she experienced them. This timeline is based on observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events in each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed, much like their TV story counterparts, that each novel or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in. There are also many gaps between stories.

The layout of this timeline is based in part on the observations on Doctor Who Reference Guide and Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as DocOhoReviews, The History of the Doctor, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks Databank, the Big Finish forums and The Divergent Universe forums. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Leaving the Sevateem behind

 * TV: The Face of Evil
 * Following her banishment from the Sevateem tribe, Leela forces her way into the TARDIS, joining the Doctor in his travels.


 * PROSE: Last Man Running
 * Though the book's blurb places this after The Robots of Death, Leela believes the TARDIS is possessed and the Doctor is highly irritated by her presence, setting this immediately after The Face of Evil.


 * PROSE: Psi-ence Fiction
 * Leela visits Earth for the first time, although her experience there is erased from the timeline.


 * AUDIO: Dumb Waiter
 * The Doctor uses a Time Ring to send Leela back into his second incarnation's TARDIS. Leela's eyes are brown and she refers to the Doctor as "the Evil One" out of habit, setting this shortly after The Face of Evil.


 * COMIC: The Orb
 * The secondary console room is still in use, setting this before The Invisible Enemy. Leela has only recently joined the Doctor, and fears she will be abandoned after angering him.


 * TV: The Robots of Death
 * The Doctor explains transdimensional engineering to Leela, and is happy to have her in his company. He claims to be 750-years-old.


 * AUDIO: The Helm of Awe
 * Leela has not heard of the Brigadier, setting this before The Revisionists. Leela changes into a pullover and coat upon arriving in Shetland.


 * AUDIO: The Revisionists
 * Leela claims that she has been travelling "between boxes" for "what seemed like days", first leaving her tribe in the TARDIS, then arriving on the Storm Mine 4 and then the Hôtel des Rois. Leela has not been outside in the open air since leaving her tribe, and on her previous trip in the TARDIS the Doctor refused to allow her to bring the Tesh laser, setting this shortly after The Robots of Death. Leela sees a city for the first time. She meets the Brigadier for the first time, although the Doctor has talked about him in the past.


 * PROSE: Drift
 * The events of The Robots of Death are still fresh in Leela's mind.


 * AUDIO: The Beast of Muir
 * Leela is still adjusting to life in the TARDIS, and is unfamiliar with stun rods as weapons, setting this before Corpse Marker. She and the Doctor have not yet visited any planets similar to her home planet.


 * PROSE: Corpse Marker
 * Though Leela is depicted dressed in her second attire, the book's cover places this between Last Man Running and The Talons of Weng-Chiang.


 * PROSE: Match of the Day


 * PROSE: It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
 * Leela still shows particularly violent tendencies, setting this early in her travels.


 * PROSE: The Bushranger's Story
 * Leela has never seen a horse before, setting this before The Talons of Weng-Chiang.


 * PROSE: The Prodigal Sun


 * AUDIO: The Ghost Trap
 * Leela has only been traveling with the Doctor for a few weeks, but has seen spaceships.


 * AUDIO: Black Dog
 * Leela is still new to traveling in the TARDIS, but has come to see the Doctor as part of her "tribe".


 * AUDIO: The Smallest Battle
 * Leela is still learning from the Doctor, setting this early in her adventures with him.

Being educated

 * TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
 * Battling Magnus Greel in 1889 London, the Doctor and Leela are aided by Henry Gordon Jago and Professor George Litefoot.


 * AUDIO: Destination: Nerva
 * The Doctor and Leela have just parted ways with Jago and Litefoot, setting this immediately after The Talons of Weng-Chiang.


 * AUDIO: The Renaissance Man
 * Leela refers to the events of The Talons of Weng-Chiang.


 * AUDIO: The Wrath of the Iceni
 * The Doctor and Leela have just visited the Morovanian Museum, setting this immediately after The Renaissance Man. Leela is aware of the concept of money. The Doctor decides to take Leela to visit the 21st century, leading directly into Energy of the Daleks.


 * AUDIO: Energy of the Daleks
 * The Doctor attempts to bring Leela to the year 2015, but they arrive in London 2025 instead and encounter the Daleks. Leela recalls her previous visit to London in The Talons of Weng-Chiang.


 * AUDIO: Trail of the White Worm
 * Ending leads directly into The Oseidon Adventure.


 * AUDIO: The Oseidon Adventure
 * The Doctor and the Master meet for the first time since The Deadly Assassin.


 * AUDIO: The Light at the End
 * The Doctor is currently using the secondary console room, setting this before it was disused in The Invisible Enemy. He indicates that he has had a recent encounter with the Master. Leela does not know about regeneration.


 * COMIC: The Mutants
 * The secondary console room is still in use, setting this before The Invisible Enemy.


 * AUDIO: The Ghosts of Gralstead
 * The Doctor and Leela discuss their previous visit to London from The Talons of Weng-Chiang. Leela has a limited ability to read English.


 * AUDIO: The Devil's Armada
 * Leela is still wearing Victorian clothing from The Ghosts of Gralstead.


 * PROSE: The Living Wax


 * PROSE: Famine on Planet X


 * PROSE: The Planet of Dust


 * PROSE: Terror on Tantalogus


 * COMIC: The Power


 * PROSE: Flashback


 * COMIC: Emsone's Castle


 * PROSE: The Crocodiles from the Mist


 * COMIC: Rest and Re-Creation


 * PROSE: Eye of Heaven
 * Set between The Talons of Weng-Chiang and Horror of Fang Rock, according to the book's back cover. The Doctor and Leela visit London, setting this after Energy of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: The Brain of Socrates
 * Leela recalls the Victorian theatre from The Talons of Weng-Chiang.


 * PROSE: The Destroyers


 * PROSE: The Sooner the Better


 * PROSE: The Very Last Picture Show
 * Leela still has brown eyes, setting this before Horror of Fang Rock.


 * PROSE: Stanley
 * Leela views jeans as ridiculous, setting this before Horror of Fang Rock.


 * PROSE: Shamans


 * AUDIO: Night of the Stormcrow


 * AUDIO: The King of Sontar
 * Authorial intent sets Series 3 of the Fourth Doctor Adventures between Season 14 and 15.


 * AUDIO: White Ghosts
 * Set a few days after The King of Sontar. Leela is able to read on her own.


 * AUDIO: The Crooked Man


 * AUDIO: The Evil One
 * Leela recalls her previous encounter with the Master in The Oseidon Adventure.


 * AUDIO: Last of the Colophon


 * AUDIO: Destroy the Infinite


 * AUDIO: The Abandoned


 * AUDIO: Zygon Hunt


 * AUDIO: Sound the Siren And I'll Come To You Comrade


 * AUDIO: String Theory


 * AUDIO: The Genesis Chamber


 * PROSE: Red Planet
 * In her travels with the Doctor, Leela has seen "false gods", metropolitan cities, and "Old Earth", but does not know about Christmas.


 * WC: Prequel - The Legacy of Time
 * The Doctor is using the secondary control room. He hears the Sixth Doctor's voice through the temporal distortion and decides to make an emergency landing after spilling his ginger beer on the TARDIS console.


 * The Doctor arrives on Hellan with Leela after making an emergency landing. (AUDIO: Collision Course)


 * AUDIO: The World Traders
 * Authorial intent sets Series 10 of the Fourth Doctor Adventures between Seasons 14 and 15.


 * AUDIO: The Day of the Comet


 * AUDIO: The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook
 * Leela is still somewhat early on in her reading education.


 * AUDIO: The Primeval Design

Gaining new eyes

 * TV: Horror of Fang Rock
 * Due to pigment dispersal from witnessing an explosion, Leela's eye colour changes from brown to blue. She also wears jeans for the first time.


 * AUDIO: The God of Phantoms
 * Leela has advanced to reading Jane Austen, setting this late in her travels with the Doctor. The Doctor mentions that Leela is still wearing her Shetland clothes, suggesting a post Horror of Fang Rock setting.


 * COMIC: The Devil's Mouth
 * Leela is wearing clothing similar to her clothes from Horror of Fang Rock.


 * COMIC: The Aqua-City
 * Leela is wearing trousers, setting this after Horror of Fang Rock.


 * PROSE: Dear Great Uncle Peter
 * Leela is wearing jeans, setting this shortly after Horror of Fang Rock.


 * PROSE: The Changeling Years


 * PROSE: One Bad Apple


 * AUDIO: The Foe from the Future
 * Leela's reading level has advanced to the point where the Doctor is having her read him the works of Shakespeare, setting this after Series 3 of The Fourth Doctor Adventures.


 * AUDIO: The Valley of Death
 * Leela refers to the events of Horror of Fang Rock.


 * AUDIO: The Child


 * In 18th century Japan, the Doctor and Leela fight Inek of the Orimsei as he tries to use a dimensional gateway to escape, at the risk of the Japanese population. (AUDIO: Time in Office)


 * AUDIO: The Catalyst
 * Leela does not know about regeneration. The Doctor starts a fire to destroy all trace of the Z'nai virus.


 * AUDIO: Empathy Games
 * The TARDIS' secondary console room is damaged by the fire started in The Catalyst. The Time Vampire later confirms that this was the reason they moved console rooms, setting this immediately before The Invisible Enemy. Leela is unfamiliar with the concept of money.

Adopting K9

 * TV: The Invisible Enemy
 * The Doctor closes the secondary console room for redecoration, and takes Leela to the main console room for the first time as he moves back in to it. Leela is still learning to write her name. K9 is adopted by the Doctor on Professor Marius's insistence.


 * TV: Image of the Fendahl
 * Leela has changed into a new set of clothes, and K-9 is suffering from "corroded circuitry".


 * PROSE: Crimson Dawn


 * PROSE: People of the Trees
 * Leela recalls being temporarily blinded during Horror of Fang Rock.


 * PROSE: Christmas Every Day
 * Leela mentions the Fendahl, setting this after Image of the Fendahl.


 * AUDIO: Death-Dealer
 * The Doctor teaches Leela about money for the first time, setting this after Empathy Games.


 * PROSE: Dark Horizons


 * AUDIO: The Exxilons


 * AUDIO: The Darkness of Glass


 * AUDIO: Requiem for the Rocket Men
 * Leela decides to leave the TARDIS to remain with Marshall, but she is kidnapped by after the Doctor leaves.


 * AUDIO: Death Match
 * According to K9, it has been roughly five days since the events of Requiem for the Rocket Men, but the Doctor hasn't "heard the voice of another living being" in the interim. Leela returns to the TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: Suburban Hell
 * Leela recalls the recent death of Marshall in Death Match.


 * AUDIO: The Cloisters of Terror


 * AUDIO: The Fate of Krelos
 * Ending leads directly into Return to Telos.


 * AUDIO: Return to Telos


 * PROSE: The Dogs of War
 * The Doctor is teaching Leela about chess, setting this shortly before The Sun Makers.


 * TV: The Sun Makers


 * PROSE: The Roots of Evil
 * Leela remembers seeing the steel hives of the Sun Makers during The Sun Makers.


 * COMIC: A Rare Gem
 * Leela and K9 are kidnapped by Adam Mitchell, leading directly into Endgame.


 * COMIC: Endgame
 * The Doctor joins with his other incarnations to rescue Leela and K9 from Adam and, and assists the other Doctors in saving their companions as well.


 * NOTVALID: Doctor Who Pinball: Time Streams
 * The Doctor is traveling with Leela, and depicted wearing his attire from Underworld. Leela is in her first outfit.


 * TV: Underworld


 * COMIC: Comic Relief Comic


 * AUDIO: The Sons of Kaldor
 * The Doctor and Leela are searching for a part needed to help repair K9, who is currently out of action.


 * AUDIO: The Crowmarsh Experiment
 * Colin Marshall is created from Leela's memories of Marshall, setting this after Death Match.


 * AUDIO: The Mind Runners
 * Ending leads directly into The Demon Rises.


 * AUDIO: The Demon Rises


 * AUDIO: The Shadow of London


 * AUDIO: The Bad Penny
 * K9 has broken down and requires a reboot. According to Leela, this has been happening often.


 * AUDIO: Kill the Doctor!
 * Ending leads directly into The Age of Sutekh.


 * AUDIO: The Age of Sutekh


 * AUDIO: Shadow of the Sun
 * Originally meant to take place during Series 13 of the Fourth Doctor Adventures. (BFX: Shadow of the Sun)


 * AUDIO: The Dalek Protocol
 * The Doctor recalls the events of The Exxilons.


 * AUDIO: The Time Vampire
 * Months have passed since the secondary control room was destroyed by the fire in Empathy Games. K9 Mark I has been behaving oddly, prompting the Doctor to begin gathering the parts needed to build K9 Mark II.


 * TV: The Invasion of Time
 * After the Doctor uses his position of Lord President to propel an invasion of Gallifrey, Leela decides to stay on Gallifrey to marry Andred, and K9 elects to stay with her.

Encounters with the Fifth Doctor

 * Leela participates in a clean up of the Death Zone, slaying the Raston Warrior Robot. (AUDIO: Time in Office)
 * Leela helps fight off the Dominator invasion of Gallifrey. (AUDIO: Time in Office)


 * AUDIO: Time in Office
 * Leela meets the Fifth Doctor and Tegan Jovanka.


 * AUDIO: The Garden of Storms
 * Leela is over 40 years old in this story and is visibly older-looking than the Fifth Doctor. Lowri is still President.


 * AUDIO: The Moonrakers


 * AUDIO: The People Made of Smoke

Meeting Romana

 * PROSE: Jealous, Possessive
 * Although Leela is only referenced, K9 announces to K9 Mark II that Leela is pregnant with the first infant born on Gallifrey for millenia, and the father being Andred.


 * PROSE: Affirmative
 * K9 is living with Leela on Gallifrey.


 * AUDIO: Zagreus
 * Romana and Leela meet for the first time.


 * PROSE: Lungbarrow
 * Leela is pregnant.


 * AUDIO: Weapon of Choice
 * Leela becomes Romana's bodyguard.


 * AUDIO: Square One


 * AUDIO: The Inquiry


 * AUDIO: A Blind Eye


 * AUDIO: Second Sight
 * Romana is president and calls Narvin a "CIA halfwit" behind his back, setting this before the two become good friends.

The Pandora virus and civil war

 * AUDIO: Lies


 * AUDIO: Spirit


 * AUDIO: Pandora


 * AUDIO: Insurgency


 * AUDIO: Imperiatrix


 * AUDIO: Fractures


 * AUDIO: Warfare


 * AUDIO: Appropriation


 * AUDIO: Mindbomb


 * AUDIO: Panacea

Exploring other Gallifreys

 * AUDIO: Reborn


 * AUDIO: Disassembled


 * AUDIO: Annihilation


 * AUDIO: Forever


 * AUDIO: Emancipation


 * AUDIO: Evolution


 * AUDIO: Arbitration


 * AUDIO: Extermination


 * AUDIO: Renaissance


 * AUDIO: Ascension

Living in Victoria London

 * AUDIO: The Ruthven Inheritence
 * Leela is reunited with Jago and Litefoot.


 * AUDIO: Dead Men's Tales
 * Leela explains that she has been sent on a mission by Romana, because she is familiar with the time period.


 * AUDIO: The Man at the End of the Garden


 * AUDIO: Swan Song


 * AUDIO: Chronoclasm


 * AUDIO: Jago in Love
 * Leela recognises the Sixth Doctor.


 * AUDIO: Beautiful Things


 * AUDIO: The Lonely Clock


 * AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers
 * Leela returns to Gallfirey.

Back on Gallifrey

 * AUDIO: Emancipation
 * Romana has sent Leela to investigate River Song after she impersonates the president.


 * AUDIO: Collision Course
 * Leela recognises the Sixth and Eighth Doctors. Romana is president, setting this before Enemy Lines.


 * AUDIO: Enemy Lines


 * AUDIO: Erasure
 * Narvin recounts a story of an encounter with the Fourth Doctor to an unconscious Leela.


 * AUDIO: Companion Piece
 * Leela is kidnapped by the Nine.

The Last Great Time War

 * AUDIO: Celestial Intervention


 * AUDIO: The Devil You Know


 * AUDIO: Mother Tongue


 * AUDIO: Unity


 * AUDIO: Deception


 * AUDIO: Homecoming
 * Rassilon sends Leela to the War Council to fight with the Time Lords.


 * AUDIO: The Last Days of Freme


 * AUDIO: The Passenger
 * Leela has been trained by the General for several weeks.


 * AUDIO: Collateral Victim


 * AUDIO: The First Days of Phaidon


 * WC: Gallifrey War Room


 * AUDIO: Collaborators


 * AUDIO: Remnants


 * AUDIO: Transference


 * AUDIO: Ambition's Debt


 * AUDIO: The Abyss
 * Leela is working for the War Council, setting this between The Last Days of Freme and The Lady of Obsidian.


 * AUDIO: The Lady of Obsidian
 * Leela was temporally wounded fighting with the Time Lords. Leads into The Enigma Dimension.


 * AUDIO: The Enigma Dimension

Prisoner of the Z'nai

 * AUDIO: The Catalyst
 * After Gallifrey's destruction, Leela ages rapidly.


 * AUDIO: Empathy Games


 * AUDIO: The Time Vampire
 * Leela dies.

Rebirths

 * AUDIO: The Child
 * Leela is reborn as Emily after her death.


 * AUDIO: Splinters
 * Leela is reborn as a Spriggan Changeling. She encounters the Tenth Doctor. She becomes aware that she is a splinter of the original Leela, who died. She can recall the events of the Time War, but not the Lady of Obsisian, suggesting her memories diverged from the original Leela at some point before that.