Theory:Timeline - Jackie Tyler

This page lists appearances of Jackie Tyler in the order in which she experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed that for each novel, comic or television series, their published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.

Early life

 * TV: Father's Day
 * Jackie's marries Pete Tyler in a wedding ceremony witnessed by the future Rose Tyler and the Ninth Doctor. Pete later dies on 7 November 1987 while their daughter Rose is still a baby. Jackie later tells the young Rose of this day.


 * TV: The End of Time
 * Following New Year 2005, Rose is walking home behind her mother when she comes across an apparent drunk in the shadows who predicts that she will have a "really great year".


 * TV: The End of the World
 * Jackie receives a call from Rose, who she believes is still at work. Rose, having joined the Ninth Doctor in the future, is in fact calling from the year 5,000,000,000 via the superphone.


 * TV: Rose
 * Jackie meets the Ninth Doctor on the the day following the destruction of Rose's workplace: Henrik's.

Befriending the Ninth Doctor

 * TV: Aliens of London
 * Jackie is shocked to see the return of Rose who, though only traveling with the Doctor for a short while, has been missing for a whole year from her perspective. Ending leads directly into World War Three.


 * TV: World War Three
 * Rose leaves with the Doctor again but promises she will be back soon.


 * PROSE: Essay Competition
 * Two weeks after the London UFO crash, Jackie finds an old video of a wedding and shares it with Mickey.


 * PROSE: Winner Takes All
 * Jackie knows about Rose travelling with the Doctor, setting this after World War Three.


 * AUDIO: Retail Therapy
 * Rose and the Doctor are returning to the Powell Estate from the Moons of Fordice. The Doctor feels that his "old body is wearing a bit".


 * PROSE: Only Human


 * COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen
 * Jackie knows that Rose is travelling with the Ninth Doctor, setting this after World War Three. The Doctor and Rose are travelling with Jack, setting this before Boom Town. Jackie loses her memory of her meeting with Jack.


 * PROSE: The Stealers of Dreams
 * Jackie mentions when Mickey took a trip to Cardiff.


 * TV: The Parting of the Ways
 * Jackie and Mickey help Rose return to save the Doctor in the year 200,100.


 * Jackie believes Rose will return despite not hearing from her since she left in the TARDIS. (PROSE: Mars)

Friendship with the Tenth Doctor

 * TV: The Christmas Invasion
 * Jackie and Mickey meet the newly regenerated Tenth Doctor on Christmas, and learn about the Time Lords' ability to regenerate into new bodies to cheat death.


 * PROSE: The Christmas Inversion
 * During the events of The Christmas Invasion, Jackie briefly meets the Third Doctor, Jo Grant and Mike Yates while the Tenth Doctor, Rose and Mickey are on the Sycorax ship.


 * AUDIO: Two's Company
 * Despite the present date being given as 2006, Jackie asks the Sixth Doctor how many bodies he has as if she is already aware of regeneration, which would set this after The Christmas Invasion, which took place on Christmas 2006, thus meaning Jackie should be living in 2007. Jackie meets Lady Christina de Souza and Harry Sullivan, but, due to the Doctor's degeneration crisis, she forget her adventure with them. Jackie hasn't properly met River Song yet, setting this before R&J.


 * PROSE: The Feast of the Drowned
 * The Doctor is still adjusting to his new body, mentioning how he was getting used to his new teeth.


 * COMIC: The Lodger
 * Returning to the Powell Estate, the Doctor tries to lodge with Jackie when he forgets to lock the time settings and the TARDIS jumps a time track without him, but she turns him down, forcing him to lodger with Mickey instead.


 * TV: New Earth
 * The Doctor and Rose leave the sunny Powell Estate for more adventures.


 * PROSE: The Stone Rose
 * Rose dreams of the events of New Earth. Jackie alludes to the Doctor's recent regeneration.


 * AUDIO: Wednesdays For Beginners
 * Following an encounter with dragons, the Doctor and Rose nearly return to London in answer to a call from Jackie in 2007.


 * COMIC: The Green-Eyed Monster


 * TV: The Age of Steel
 * Jackie learns from Rose and the Doctor that Mickey has gone away.


 * AUDIO: Infamy of the Zaross
 * Mickey's absence indicates this takes place after The Age of Steel. The Doctor and Rose's dynamic indicates they have been traveling together for awhile before The Tenth Doctor Adventures Volume 2.


 * TV: Love & Monsters
 * Jackie befriends Elton Pope but falls out when she finds out that he was using her to get to the Doctor.


 * AUDIO: R&J
 * Jackie meets River Song after she moves into the Powell Estate. Jack comes to visit her.


 * AUDIO: Crush
 * Since the events of Wednesdays for Beginners, Jackie has developed a friendship with Captain Jack. He takes her on her first trip into space. Jackie mentions that people are always looking for the Doctor and Rose, but are never after her suggesting a post Love and Monsters setting. Jackie mentions that Rose has been travelling with the Doctor for just over a year.


 * AUDIO: Harvest of the Krotons
 * Jackie and River have already met on several previous occasions and Jackie knows that River is a friend of the Doctor's, setting this after R&J. However River has come specifically to spend time with Jackie, suggesting a setting after Crush.

The Battle of Canary Wharf

 * TV: Army of Ghosts
 * Jackie, along with the rest of the world, witnesses the appearances of ghosts of dead loved ones whom she introduces the Doctor and Rose to when they return two months later. Stowing aboard the Doctor's TARDIS, Jackie accompanies him and Rose as they trace the ghosts to Torchwood One in Canary Wharf.


 * TV: Doomsday
 * Reunited with Mickey, Jackie meets the Pete Tyler of a parallel world where she and Rose remain behind after the Void is closed. The Doctor is able to make contact just long enough to say goodbye to Rose, three months into Jackie's pregnancy with Pete's child.

Living on Pete's World

 * AUDIO: The Last Party on Earth


 * TV: Journey's End
 * Jackie temporarily returns to N-Space as she joins the Children of Time to stop the New Dalek Empire. While Mickey stays behind, Jackie returns to Pete's World with Rose now accompanied by the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor. Pete is on the nursery run with their son Tony Tyler.


 * AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben
 * Tony is four years old.


 * AUDIO: Flight Into Hull!

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 * PROSE: Judge, Jury and Executioner