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
 * Charley Pollard
 * Constance Clarke

Early Adventures

 * TV: The Caves of Androzani / PROSE: The Caves of Androzani
 * The Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation.


 * 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.


 * PROSE: Grave Matter
 * After Varos


 * PROSE: Synthespians™
 * PROSE: Burning Heart
 * TV: The Mark of the Rani / PROSE: The Mark of the Rani
 * COMIC: The Forgotten (flashback)
 * PROSE: Players
 * TV: The Two Doctors / PROSE: The Two Doctors
 * AUDIO: Seven to One
 * PROSE: Blue Box
 * The Doctor is a vegatarian


 * TV: Timelash / PROSE: Timelash
 * AUDIO: Davros
 * AUDIO: Cryptobiosis
 * TV: Revelation of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: Year of the Pig
 * AUDIO: The Nightmare Fair / PROSE: The Nightmare Fair
 * PROSE: The Ruins of Heaven
 * the doctors watch, which was broken in Revelation is repaired


 * PROSE: The Ultimate Evil
 * AUDIO: Mission to Magnus / PROSE: Mission to Magnus
 * 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
 * PROSE: State of Change
 * AUDIO: The Reaping
 * AUDIO: Slipback / PROSE: Slipback
 * AUDIO: Whispers of Terror
 * AUDIO: ...ish
 * AUDIO: Recorded Time
 * AUDIO:  1963: The Space Race


 * AUDIO: Paradoxicide
 * AUDIO: A Most Excellent Match
 * AUDIO: Question Marks
 * PROSE: CHAOS

A Small Break from Companions

 * PROSE: Gone Fishing
 * PROSE: Walkin' City Blues
 * PROSE: Certificate of Destruction
 * PROSE: The Earwig Archipelago

Pursuing Astrolabus

 * COMIC: The Shape Shifter
 * COMIC: Voyager
 * COMIC: Polly the Glot
 * COMIC: Once Upon a Time Lord

The Skeletoid Menace

 * COMIC: War-Game
 * COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * COMIC: Funhouse
 * COMIC: Kane's Story / Abel's Story / The Warrior's Story / Frobisher's Story

Traveling with Peri & Frobisher

 * 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
 * AUDIO: Trouble in Paradise
 * TV: The Mysterious Planet / PROSE: The Mysterious Planet (flashback)
 * TV: Mindwarp / PROSE: Mindwarp (flashback)

Trial Of a Timelord

 * 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: The Eight Doctors
 * Takes place during The Ultimate Foe

Aftermath of the Trial

 * AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors
 * The Doctor returns Melanie Bush to Pease Pottage.


 * AUDIO: The Wormery
 * Set shortly, but not immediately after the Doctor's trial.

Grant Markham

 * PROSE: Time of Your Life
 * Time of Your Life is set after The Ultimate Foe


 * PROSE: Killing Ground

Adventures With Evelyn

 * 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
 * WC: Real Time
 * AUDIO: Doctor Who and the Pirates
 * AUDIO: Project: Lazarus
 * AUDIO: Arrangements for War
 * AUDIO: Medicinal Purposes
 * AUDIO: Pier Pressure
 * AUDIO: The Nowhere Place
 * AUDIO: 100 BC
 * AUDIO: My Own Private Wolfgang
 * 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)

Traveling alone

 * AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors
 * AUDIO: Urgent Calls
 * PROSE: The Shadow in the Glass

Returning to Jamie & Zoe

 * AUDIO: City of Spires
 * AUDIO: Night's Black Agents
 * AUDIO: The Wreck of the Titan
 * AUDIO: Legend of the Cybermen

Companionless again
The Doctor discovers that multiple versions of Peri Brown exist.
 * AUDIO: Excelis Rising
 * AUDIO: Her Final Flight
 * AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox
 * AUDIO: The Acheron Pulse
 * AUDIO: The Wings of a Butterfly
 * AUDIO: The Ratings War
 * AUDIO: The Four Doctors
 * AUDIO: Trial of the Valeyard

Revisiting Jago & Litefoot

 * AUDIO: Chronoclasm
 * The Doctor visits the victorian era and reunites with Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot under the alias of Claudius Dark.

The Doctor reveals his true identity and take Jago and Litefoot with him in the TARDIS.
 * 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
 * The Doctor leaves George Litefoot and Henry Gordon Jago in 1960s Earth.

Traveling With Constance

 * AUDIO: Criss-Cross
 * AUDIO: The End of the Line
 * After his trial the Valeyard has been left in a weakened state.


 * AUDIO: Planet of the Rani

Frobisher Returns

 * AUDIO: The Maltese Penguin
 * AUDIO: The Holy Terror
 * PROSE: Mission: Impractical
 * The Valeyard attempts to assassinate the Doctor. Occurs during later travels as the Doctor knows Glitz


 * COMIC: The Age of Chaos
 * The Doctor and Fobisher visit a version of Peri who has lived a long life as Queen of Krontep.


 * PROSE: The Terror of the Darkness
 * PROSE: Incongruous Details
 * PROSE: Defining Patterns
 * AUDIO: The Ultimate Adventure
 * PROSE: Face Value
 * AUDIO: Beyond the Ultimate Adventure

The Friend From The Future

 * AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was (cameo)
 * AUDIO: The Condemned
 * AUDIO: The Doomwood Curse
 * AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: The Red House
 * The Valeyard begins his masterplan.


 * AUDIO: Return of the Krotons
 * AUDIO: The Raincloud Man
 * AUDIO: Patient Zero
 * AUDIO: Paper Cuts
 * AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet

Traveling with Flip

 * AUDIO: The Curse of Davros
 * AUDIO: ''The Fourth Wall
 * AUDIO: Wirrn Isle
 * AUDIO: Stage Fright
 * The Valeyard is amassing power for his masterplan.


 * AUDIO: Antidote to Oblivion
 * AUDIO: The Brood of Erys
 * AUDIO: Scavenger

Returning to Peri

 * AUDIO: The Widow's Assassin
 * AUDIO: Masters of Earth
 * AUDIO: The Rani Elite
 * The Doctor has already traveled with Flip Jackson.

The Programmer from Pease Pottage

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


 * TV: Terror of the Vervoids / PROSE: Terror of the Vervoids (flash-forward)
 * PROSE: Instruments of Darkness
 * AUDIO: The One Doctor
 * AUDIO: The Juggernauts
 * PROSE: The Best Joke I Ever Told
 * Mel knows the Daleks


 * AUDIO: Catch-1782
 * AUDIO: Thicker than Water
 * 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 shortly before Time and the Rani


 * AUDIO: The Brink of Death
 * The Doctor sacrifices himself to stop the Valeyard from taking over Gallifrey. The Brink of Death is set immediately before Time and the Rani


 * TV: Time and the Rani / PROSE: Time and the Rani
 * The Doctor regenerates into his next incarnation.

Unplaced

 * GAME: Doctor Who and the Warlord
 * GAME: Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror
 * GAME: Destiny of the Doctors
 * PROSE: The Spindle of Necessity
 * The Doctor has a goatee in this story implying he's been traveling alone for a long time.


 * PROSE: Palace of the Red Sun
 * PROSE: Shell Shock
 * 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: Fegovy
 * 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: Whiskey and Water
 * PROSE: Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing
 * PROSE: The Glass Princess
 * PROSE: House
 * 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 Doctor's Coat
 * AUDIO: Seven to One
 * AUDIO: Murmurs of Earth
 * AUDIO: To Cut a Blade of Grass
 * AUDIO: A Town Called Fortune
 * COMIC: Death to the Doctor! (flashback)
 * COMIC: The Time Machination
 * TV: ''The Day of the Doctor