Theory:Timeline - Romana

This page lists appearances of Romana 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. 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 Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks Database, the Big Finish forums, The Whoniverse and the Divergent Universe forums. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

On Gallifrey

 * AUDIO: Lies
 * Romana meets her future self in the Matrix.

The Key to Time

 * TV: The Ribos Operation
 * Romana is assigned by the White Guardian to accompany the Fourth Doctor in his quest.


 * PROSE: Tomb of Valdemar
 * TV: The Pirate Planet
 * TV: The Stones of Blood
 * PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang
 * PROSE: Heart of TARDIS
 * COMIC: The Seventh Segment
 * PROSE: Pericles
 * AUDIO: Ferril's Folly
 * TV: The Androids of Tara
 * PROSE: The Glarn Strategy
 * TV: The Power of Kroll
 * AUDIO: Tales from the Vault
 * AUDIO: Luna Romana
 * Romana and the Doctor are looking for the sixth segment.


 * TV: The Armageddon Factor
 * The Doctor installs a randomiser on the TARDIS to evade the Black Guardian.

Hiding from the Black Guardian

 * AUDIO: The Auntie Matter
 * Romana and the Doctor hide from the Black Guardian in Antibes in 1929.


 * AUDIO: The Stealers from Saiph
 * AUDIO: The Sands of Life / War Against the Laan
 * AUDIO: The Justice of Jalxar
 * AUDIO: Phantoms of the Deep
 * AUDIO: The Dalek Contract / The Final Phase
 * PROSE: Good Queen, Bad Queen, I Queen, You Queen
 * PROSE: Life from Lifelessness
 * The TARDIS is still travelling with the randomizer. Romana has dark hair.


 * PROSE: X-Rani and the Ugly Mutants
 * PROSE: Light Fantastic
 * COMIC: Terror on Xaboi
 * PROSE: Reluctant Warriors
 * COMIC: The Weapon
 * PROSE: Return of the Electrids
 * PROSE: The Sleeping Guardians
 * AUDIO: The Doctor's First XI
 * PROSE: The Warren Legacy

Romana II

 * PROSE: The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe
 * The TARDIS traps Romana and takes her place.
 * TV: Destiny of the Daleks
 * The TARDIS releases Romana after forcing her to regenerate.


 * PROSE: Under Reykjavik
 * Romana is still wearing her outfit from Destiny of the Daleks.


 * COMIC: Victims
 * Romana is still wearing her outfit from Destiny of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: All Snug in Their Beds
 * Romana's regeneration is referenced.


 * AUDIO: The Old Rogue
 * The Doctor plans to take Romana to Paris.


 * TV: City of Death
 * The Doctor and Romana fight the Jagaroth in Paris.


 * PROSE: The End of Now
 * PROSE: The Final Analysis
 * TV: The Creature from the Pit
 * PROSE: The Romance of Crime
 * PROSE: The English Way of Death
 * PROSE: Seven to One
 * TV: Nightmare of Eden
 * COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * Takes place during Nightmare of Eden.


 * AUDIO: The Beautiful People
 * The Doctor mentions recovering from the experiences with the Mandrels and the CET Machine.


 * AUDIO: The Pyralis Effect
 * Romana does not yet have a sonic screwdriver


 * PROSE: The Little Things
 * The Doctor acquires a chrono-historical stress gauge.


 * PROSE: The Clanging Chimes of Doom
 * The Doctor is still using the chrono-historical stress gauge.


 * PROSE: Present Tense
 * The Doctor’s the chrono-historical stress gauge book is mentioned.


 * PROSE: Child's Play
 * TV: The Horns of Nimon
 * Romana reveals she has her own sonic screwdriver.


 * COMIC: Misdirection
 * Romana notes that she and the Doctor have been to Paris before.


 * PROSE: Return of the Spiders
 * AUDIO: Babblesphere
 * The Doctor knows about Romana's sonic screwdriver.


 * AUDIO: Wave of Destruction
 * The Doctor and Romana are still worried about the Black Guardian's revenge, and Romana posses a sonic screwdriver.


 * AUDIO: The Labyrinth of Buda Castle
 * AUDIO: The Paradox Planet / Legacy of Death
 * TV: Shada
 * TV: The Five Doctors
 * The events of Shada are overwritten by The Five Doctors, and later experienced by the Eighth Doctor. Upon returning to the TARDIS, the Doctor decides to go to Brighton.


 * PROSE: Glass
 * The Doctor and Romana have just encountered the "mind-wiping sphere" from Shada.


 * PROSE: Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen
 * The Doctor returns to Cambridge to retrieve The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey in order to destroy the Krikkitmen in Shada. Romana remains on Bethselamin during this, but they reunite.


 * AUDIO: Gallery of Ghouls
 * The Doctor is trying to get to Brighton.


 * AUDIO: The Trouble with Drax
 * AUDIO: The Pursuit of History / Casualties of Time
 * PROSE: Festival of Death
 * PROSE: Checkpoint
 * PROSE: Colony of Death
 * PROSE: Alien Mind Games
 * PROSE: A Midsummer's Nightmare
 * COMIC: Every Dog Has His Day
 * PROSE: The Voton Terror
 * PROSE: Sweet Flower of Uthe
 * PROSE: Suitors, Inc.
 * PROSE: The Monster in the Wardrobe
 * PROSE: Breadcrumbs
 * PROSE: Special Occasions: 1. The Not-So-Sinister Sponge
 * PROSE: Special Occasions: 2. Do You Love Anyone Enough?
 * PROSE: Special Occasions: 3. Better Watch Out, Better Take Care
 * PROSE: Special Occasions: 4. Playing with Toys
 * PROSE: The Well-Mannered War
 * PROSE: The Beast Inside
 * The Doctor has reunited with Romana, who is surprised that he is wearing a burgundy coat.


 * AUDIO: Luna Romana
 * The Doctor says that he has visited an alternate future in which the Roman Empire never fell, referring to Doctor Who and the Iron Legion.


 * PROSE: Into the Silent Land
 * The Doctor decides to go to Brighton.


 * TV: The Leisure Hive
 * The Doctor completely removes the randomiser after his holiday in Brighton.


 * PROSE: I Was a Monster!!!
 * The Doctor is “dressed entirely in red” and there is no sign of K9.


 * PROSE: Doing Time
 * PROSE: Insider Dealing
 * TV: Meglos
 * The Time Lords order Romana back to Gallifrey.

Journey into E-Space

 * TV: Full Circle
 * En route to Gallifrey, the TARDIS gets sucked into E-Space, where Adric stows away on the TARDIS.


 * TV: State of Decay
 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * AUDIO: The Invasion of E-Space
 * PROSE: O, Darkness
 * Adric has dealt with Marshmen and Great Vampires.


 * PROSE: Pathfinders
 * TV: Warriors' Gate
 * Romana leaves the TARDIS and the Doctor gives her K9 MK II. The Doctor escapes E-Space with Adric.

Return to Gallifrey

 * PROSE: Blood Harvest
 * Romana returns from E-Space.


 * PROSE: Goth Opera
 * Ruatha deliberately asynchronously involves the Fifth Doctor. She states that by the 20th century time continuum, Gallifrey is long dead.


 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * Romana becomes President.


 * AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element
 * Vansell is Co-ordinator of the CIA. The Sixth Doctor is the wrong incarnation, and Romana comments on it. Gallifreyan security systems are changed to require a human retinal scan. Romana has been gone 20 years.


 * AUDIO: Neverland
 * Vansell dies.


 * AUDIO: Zagreus


 * PROSE: Lungbarrow
 * Romana and Leela know each other, placing this after the events of Zagreus. Leela announces her pregnancy at the conclusion of the novel.


 * AUDIO: Weapon of Choice
 * Leela is no longer pregnant. Narvin is the new head of the CIA.


 * AUDIO: Square One
 * AUDIO: The Inquiry
 * AUDIO: A Blind Eye
 * AUDIO: Lies
 * AUDIO: Spirit
 * AUDIO: Pandora
 * AUDIO: Insurgency


 * AUDIO: The Chaos Pool
 * Later Graceless stories establish that Amy attends the Academy under Valyes.


 * AUDIO: Imperiatrix
 * AUDIO: Fractures
 * AUDIO: Warfare
 * AUDIO: Appropriation
 * AUDIO: Mindbomb
 * AUDIO: Panacea
 * AUDIO: Reborn
 * AUDIO: Disassembled
 * AUDIO: Annihilation
 * AUDIO: Forever
 * AUDIO: Emancipation
 * AUDIO: Evolution
 * AUDIO: Arbitration
 * AUDIO: Renaissance
 * AUDIO: Ascension
 * AUDIO: Second Sight

Romana III

 * AUDIO: Enemy Lines
 * Pre-divergence scenes and flashbacks to Romana III's world.


 * PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon
 * Romana II has regenerated into a more ruthless incarnation to prepare for the War.


 * AUDIO: Intervention Earth
 * A Braxiatel saves Romana and Omega returns.


 * AUDIO: Luna Romana
 * Romana is preparing for what is presumably the War.


 * PROSE: The Ancestor Cell
 * Gallifrey is destroyed.

The Last Great Time War

 * AUDIO: Enemy Lines
 * Braxiatel changes the past so that Romana doesn't regenerate. She steps down from the presidency and appoints Lady Livia Caralis as her successor.


 * AUDIO: Celestial Intervention
 * Time Lords under Livia officially declare war on the Daleks, after they obliterate many other Temporal Powers. The War Council secretly operates a project in the Death Zone that could result in the resurrection of the dead Time Lords.


 * AUDIO: Soldier Obscura
 * Follows on from Celestial Intervention. Ace and Braxiatel on a mission for Romana. She mentions that the Doctor refuses to help. Braxiatel wipes out Ace's memory and leaves her on the 20th century Earth, while telling Romana that she was killed by the Daleks.


 * AUDIO: The Devil You Know
 * Follows on from Soldier Obscura. The Master allows himself to be summoned to Gallifrey. He and Leela participate in a mission to recover vital information about a potential weapon that could end the Time War. He then throws Leela into the Time Vortex and decides to head for Arcking.


 * AUDIO: Desperate Measures
 * Follows on from The Devil You Know. Ace and Leela are lost and Braxiatel escapes the war. Livia steps down as Lady President and Rassilon returns to lead Gallifrey, which was the Livia's plan all along. The Doctor still refuses to help


 * AUDIO: Havoc


 * AUDIO: Partisans


 * AUDIO: Collateral


 * AUDIO: Assassins

Currently Unplaced

 * AUDIO: Companion Piece
 * Romana is President of Gallifrey, when she is kidnapped by The Nine.