Theory:Timeline - Sixth Doctor

This page lists appearances of the Sixth Doctor in the order in which he 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. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Series basics
The Sixth Doctor's stories can be sorted roughly by which companions he travels with and also the medium in which the companions first appeared together.

TV created

 * Peri Brown
 * Melanie Bush

Comics created

 * Frobisher

Novels created

 * Grant Markham

Audio created

 * Evelyn Smythe
 * Flip Jackson

Timeline

 * TV: The Caves of Androzani / PROSE: The Caves of Androzani
 * TV: The Twin Dilemma / PROSE: The Twin Dilemma
 * PROSE: Trapped!
 * TV: Attack of the Cybermen / PROSE: Attack of the Cybermen
 * TV: Vengeance on Varos / PROSE: Vengeance on Varos
 * PROSE: Telling Tales
 * The Doctor has just left Varos.

After Varos
 * PROSE: Grave Matter
 * PROSE: Shell Shock
 * Vengeance on Varos is still the most recent bad memory for peri.


 * PROSE: Synthespians™
 * The Doctor is still "fiddling around" with the TARDIS’ Zeiton-7 ore, which suggests its recent acquisition. However, this novel must take place after Grave Matter, as the Doctor mentions Peri’s scar acquired on Dorsill.

The doctor and Peri have a good friendship, which continues through the rest of the stories.
 * PROSE: Burning Heart
 * TV: The Mark of the Rani / PROSE: The Mark of the Rani
 * PROSE: Players
 * TV: The Two Doctors / PROSE: The Two Doctors
 * PROSE: Blue Box
 * TV: Timelash / PROSE: Timelash
 * AUDIO: Davros
 * AUDIO: Cryptobiosis
 * AUDIO: Trouble in Paradise
 * TV: Revelation of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: The Nightmare Fair / PROSE: The Nightmare Fair
 * PROSE: The Ultimate Evil
 * AUDIO: Mission to Magnus / PROSE: Mission to Magnus
 * AUDIO: The Reaping
 * AUDIO: Leviathan
 * AUDIO: The Hollows of Time
 * AUDIO: Paradise 5
 * AUDIO: Point of Entry
 * AUDIO: The Song of Megaptera
 * AUDIO: The Macros
 * AUDIO: The Guardians of Prophecy
 * AUDIO: Power Play
 * AUDIO: The First Sontarans
 * AUDIO: Whispers of Terror
 * PROSE: State of Change
 * PROSE: Palace of the Red Sun
 * AUDIO: ...ish
 * AUDIO: Slipback / PROSE: Slipback
 * AUDIO: Year of the Pig
 * AUDIO: Recorded Time
 * AUDIO: Paradoxicide
 * AUDIO: A Most Excellent Match
 * AUDIO: Question Marks
 * PROSE: CHAOS
 * COMIC: The Shape Shifter
 * COMIC: Voyager
 * COMIC: Polly the Glot
 * COMIC: Once Upon a Time Lord
 * COMIC: War-Game
 * COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * COMIC: Funhouse
 * COMIC: Kane's Story / Abel's Story / The Warrior's Story / Frobisher's Story
 * COMIC: Prisoners of Time
 * COMIC: Exodus / Revelation / Genesis!
 * COMIC: Nature of the Beast
 * COMIC: Time Bomb
 * COMIC: Salad Daze
 * COMIC: Changes
 * COMIC: Profits of Doom
 * COMIC: The Gift
 * COMIC: The World Shapers
 * COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!/Up Above the Gods
 * TV: The Mysterious Planet / PROSE: The Mysterious Planet (flashback)
 * TV: Mindwarp / PROSE: Mindwarp (flashback)
 * TV: The Mysterious Planet / PROSE: The Mysterious Planet
 * TV: Mindwarp / PROSE: Mindwarp
 * TV: Terror of the Vervoids / PROSE: Terror of the Vervoids
 * TV: The Ultimate Foe / PROSE: The Ultimate Foe
 * PROSE: Time of Your Life
 * Time of Your Life is set after The Ultimate Foe


 * PROSE: Killing Ground
 * PROSE: The Spindle of Necessity
 * AUDIO: The Wormery
 * Set shortly, but not immediately after the Doctor's trial.


 * AUDIO: Excelis Rising
 * The Doctor is in the same mindframe as in The Wormery

Occurs during later travels as the Doctor knows Glitz
 * AUDIO: Her Final Flight
 * AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox
 * AUDIO: The Ratings War
 * AUDIO: The Maltese Penguin
 * AUDIO: The Holy Terror
 * PROSE: Mission: Impractical
 * COMIC: The Age of Chaos
 * COMIC: Death to the Doctor! (flashback)
 * AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy
 * AUDIO: The Sirens of Time
 * AUDIO: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
 * AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element
 * AUDIO: Bloodtide
 * AUDIO: Project: Twilight
 * AUDIO: The Sandman
 * AUDIO: Jubilee
 * AUDIO: Doctor Who and the Pirates
 * WC: Real Time
 * AUDIO: Project Lazarus
 * AUDIO: Arrangements for War
 * AUDIO: Medicinal Purposes
 * AUDIO: Pier Pressure
 * AUDIO: The Nowhere Place
 * AUDIO: My Own Private Wolfgang
 * AUDIO: 100 BC
 * AUDIO: Bedtime Story
 * AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor
 * AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight
 * AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
 * AUDIO: The Feast of Axos
 * AUDIO: Industrial Evolution
 * AUDIO: Thicker than Water (Flashback)
 * PROSE: The Shadow in the Glass
 * AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors
 * AUDIO: I.D.
 * AUDIO: Urgent Calls
 * PROSE: The Terror of the Darkness
 * PROSE: Incongruous Details
 * PROSE: Defining Patterns
 * AUDIO: The Curse of Davros
 * AUDIO: ''The Fourth Wall
 * AUDIO: Wirrn Isle
 * AUDIO: The Ultimate Adventure
 * PROSE: Face Value
 * AUDIO: Beyond the Ultimate Adventure
 * AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was (cameo)
 * AUDIO: The Condemned
 * AUDIO: The Doomwood Curse
 * AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: Return of the Krotons
 * AUDIO: The Raincloud Man
 * AUDIO: Patient Zero
 * AUDIO: Paper Cuts
 * AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet
 * AUDIO: City of Spires
 * AUDIO: Night's Black Agents
 * AUDIO: The Wreck of the Titan
 * AUDIO: Legend of the Cybermen
 * AUDIO: The Four Doctors
 * AUDIO: Chronoclasm
 * AUDIO: Jago in Love
 * AUDIO: Beautiful Things
 * AUDIO: The Lonely Clock
 * AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers
 * AUDIO: Voyage to Venus
 * AUDIO: Voyage to the New World
 * AUDIO: The Acheron Pulse
 * PROSE: Business Unusual
 * The Doctor meets Mel for the "first" time in this story


 * PROSE: Millennial Rites
 * The Doctor and Mel haven't encountered the Vervoids yet.

Mel and the Doctor are aiming for New Year's Eve
 * PROSE: Dr Cadabra
 * AUDIO: The Juggernauts
 * Mel goes through a traumatic experience, leading up to Quantum


 * PROSE: The Quantum Archangel
 * The Quantum Archangel may take place after Terror of the Vervoids

Mel knows the Daleks
 * TV: Terror of the Vervoids / PROSE: Terror of the Vervoids (flash-forward)
 * AUDIO: The One Doctor
 * PROSE: The Best Joke I Ever Told
 * PROSE: Fegovy
 * Mel has more knowledge of future technology


 * AUDIO: Catch-1782
 * AUDIO: Thicker than Water
 * PROSE: Instruments of Darkness
 * There is confusion over these 2 accounts because they both feature Mel's first meeting with Evelyn.


 * AUDIO: The Wishing Beast
 * AUDIO: The Vanity Box
 * Mel is enjoying herself


 * AUDIO: Spaceport Fear
 * AUDIO: The Seeds of War
 * PROSE: Spiral Scratch
 * Spiral Scratch is set just before Time and the Rani


 * TV: Time and the Rani / PROSE: Time and the Rani

Unplaced

 * GAME: Doctor Who and the Warlord
 * GAME: Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror
 * GAME: Destiny of the Doctors
 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * PROSE: Battle Planet
 * PROSE: Day of the Dragon
 * PROSE: The Real Hereward
 * PROSE: The Deadly Weed
 * PROSE: Vorton's Revenge
 * PROSE: The Time Savers
 * PROSE: The Mystery of the Rings
 * PROSE: The Fellowship of Quan
 * PROSE: Time Wake
 * PROSE: Interface
 * PROSE: Beauty and the Beast
 * PROSE: Retribution
 * PROSE: Davarrk's Experiment
 * PROSE: The Radio Waves
 * PROSE: Power to the People
 * PROSE: Hall of Mirrors
 * PROSE: A Wee Deoch an ...?
 * PROSE: The Deal
 * PROSE: A Tourist Invasion
 * PROSE: The More Things Change
 * PROSE: Work is Hell
 * PROSE: The Golden Door
 * PROSE: Timeshare
 * PROSE: Wish You Were Here
 * PROSE: Moon Graffiti
 * PROSE: Turnabout is Fair Play
 * PROSE: Gone Too Soon
 * PROSE: Five Card Draw
 * PROSE: The Stabber
 * PROSE: Gone Fishing
 * PROSE: Walkin' City Blues
 * PROSE: The Earwig Archipelago
 * PROSE: Certificate of Destruction
 * PROSE: Whiskey and Water
 * PROSE: The Death of Me
 * PROSE: Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing
 * PROSE: The Glass Princess
 * PROSE: House
 * PROSE: The Ruins of Heaven
 * PROSE: Mortlake
 * PROSE: The Man Who Wouldn't Give Up
 * PROSE: Mortal Thoughts
 * PROSE: A Star is Reborn
 * PROSE: The Reproductive Cycle
 * PROSE: The Inquisitor's Story
 * PROSE: The Diplomat's Story
 * PROSE: Categorical Imperative
 * PROSE: Outsourcing
 * PROSE: The Last Emperor
 * PROSE: Water's Edge
 * PROSE: Christmas Special
 * PROSE: Sold Out
 * PROSE: Jupiter
 * PROSE: Home Fires
 * PROSE: Christmas on the Moon
 * PROSE: She Won't Be Home
 * PROSE: Curtain Call
 * PROSE: Old Boys
 * PROSE: The Eighth Wonder of the World
 * PROSE: Strange Attractor
 * PROSE: Gold and Black Ooze
 * PROSE: The Eyes Have It
 * PROSE: There's Something About Mary
 * PROSE: The Crackers
 * PROSE: The Stars Our Contamination
 * PROSE: Loose Change
 * PROSE: The Book of My Life
 * PROSE: See No Evil
 * PROSE: Change Management
 * PROSE: The Final Star
 * PROSE: Taking the Cure
 * PROSE: £436
 * PROSE: Swamp of Horrors (1957) - Viewing Notes
 * PROSE: Exclave
 * PROSE: The Christmas Party
 * PROSE: Revellers of Doom
 * PROSE: Priceless Junk
 * PROSE: Pass It On
 * PROSE: Trial by Fire
 * PROSE: Death Sentences
 * PROSE: Mardi Gras Massacre
 * AUDIO: Vigil
 * AUDIO: The Wings of a Butterfly
 * AUDIO: The Doctor's Coat
 * AUDIO: Seven to One
 * AUDIO: Murmurs of Earth
 * AUDIO: To Cut a Blade of Grass
 * AUDIO: A Town Called Fortune
 * COMIC: The Forgotten (flashback)
 * COMIC: The Time Machination