Theory:Timeline - Ace

This page lists appearances of the Dorothy "Ace" McShane 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, much like its TV story counterparts that for each novel or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in. This does not apply to short stories which are often ambiguous about their placement. There are also many gaps between stories.

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

Additionally there are statements on the back many BBC Past Doctor Adventures novels that state between which TV stories the novel takes place between. These can be used to narrow the field, but should not be viewed as the only placement for these novels.

Life in Perivale

 * PROSE: Ace of Hearts
 * The Seventh Doctor visits an infant Ace.


 * PROSE: Chemistry
 * Ace briefly has the Thirteenth Doctor as her new chemistry teacher. After an encounter with a Charvalian, the Doctor wipes Ace's memory of her.


 * AUDIO: Love and War
 * In the 1980s, the Seventh Doctor releases some Heavenite owls with Benny as Ace and Julian Milton speed past them in a car. Ace also experiences several flashbacks to her time with Julian.

Joining the Doctor

 * TV: Dragonfire
 * On Iceworld, the Seventh Doctor finds Ace and offers for her to travel with him in the TARDIS, to which she accepts.


 * PROSE: Echo
 * Ace has "only just come on board" the TARDIS, though has been aboard long enough to use up several cans of deodorant, and is exploring her new surroundings.


 * PROSE: A Rose by Any Other Name


 * PROSE: uPVC
 * Ace is familiar with the TARDIS, but is surprised that the Doctor keeps secrets, setting this early in their travels.


 * PROSE: The Ghost's Story
 * The Doctor plays the spoons, which Master indicated he did less as he matured, setting this early in his travels with Ace.


 * PROSE: Categorical Imperative
 * The Doctor and Ace go back in time to kill a dictator as a baby, but are unable to go through with it.


 * PROSE: A Yuletide Tail
 * Ace is carrying around the baseball bat that was destroyed in Remembrance of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: The Grotto
 * Ace visits New York City for the first time.


 * PROSE: Instead of You
 * Ace wishes to spend Christmas with the Doctor, who is reluctant and fails to see why it is so important to Ace, setting this early in their travels together.


 * PROSE: The Best of Days
 * The Doctor takes Ace to Rome during Saturnalia as a Christmas surprise. The Doctor's main priority is teaching Ace and, when they encounter danger, the Doctor sends Ace back to the TARDIS, setting this during their early travels.


 * COMIC: Where's the Doctor?
 * The Doctor and Ace attend the coronation of Elizabeth II.


 * PROSE: Three Steps to the Left
 * Ace feels the Doctor is showing off with his time travel shenanigans.


 * PROSE: It's Only a Game
 * The Doctor, who is beginning to lean towards his scheming ways, gives his white coat to Rebeekan, and begins thinking about changing it for a brown one.


 * TV: Remembrance of the Daleks
 * Ace encounters the Daleks for the first time. According to Head Games, this was the first time she doubted the Doctor's motives.


 * Immediately following Remembrance of the Daleks, the Doctor detects temporal abnormality at Coal Hill School in 2016. However, the TARDIS is attacked before he and Ace can tend to it. (AUDIO: In Remembrance)


 * PROSE: In the Community
 * The Doctor remains in the TARDIS while Ace visits Judith Winters in 1993, thirty years after Remembrance of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: The Ripple Effect
 * Ace learns that the TARDIS is stuck with the police box exterior due to a broken chameleon circuit, and begins questioning the Doctor's intentions and motivations.


 * PROSE: Prelude Birthright
 * The Doctor and Ace visit 1926 Africa. The Doctor leaves Ace with an old friend, Naikosiai, while he attends to some business alone, returning a few hours later. The Doctor and Ace leave for Terra Alpha, setting this immediately before The Happiness Patrol.


 * TV: The Happiness Patrol
 * Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule.


 * PROSE: Head Games
 * After The Happiness Patrol, Ace asks the Doctor how he operates, and believes they come to an understanding.


 * TV: Silver Nemesis
 * Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Doctor Who. Ace encounters the Cybermen for the first time. The Doctor spots a chess set in Lady Peinforte's home and realises that Fenric is orchestrating events in his favour.


 * COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen Prologue: The Seventh Doctor
 * In an alternate timeline created by Rassilon and the Cybermen, the Doctor finds Ace converted into a Cyberman during Silver Nemesis.


 * PROSE: Ante Bellum
 * The Doctor does not have much control over events, and his relationship with Ace is more trusting, setting this in their early travels. Ace has encountered Nazis during her travels with the Doctor, setting this after Silver Nemesis.


 * AUDIO: Seven to One


 * PROSE: Christmas Every Day?
 * The Doctor, out gift-shopping for a friend, mentions that Ace likes Charlton Athletic, which he learnt in Silver Nemesis.


 * TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
 * Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, due to a delay brought about by the 1988 Olympics, explained how Ace was wearing Flowerchild's earring in Silver Nemesis, despite acquiring it during this serial.


 * PROSE: The Time and Tide
 * The Doctor is wearing his off-white jacket. Ace is described as a teenage, is carrying a baseball bat, and has a Charlton Athletic badge pinned to her jacket.


 * PROSE: One Card for the Curious
 * Set soon after The Time and Tide.


 * COMIC: The Forgotten


 * PROSE: The Living Image


 * PROSE: Private Investigations
 * The Doctor is described as wearing a light jacket with a patterned sweater.


 * AUDIO: 1963: The Assassination Games
 * The Doctor recalls his movements in 1963 from Remembrance of the Daleks and an unknown second adventure. The Doctor changes into his chocolate brown jacket for the first time.


 * COMIC: Hill of Beans
 * The Doctor is wearing his brown jacket, and the TARDIS has the console room from the television series. According to the introduction, the events of The Greatest Show in the Galaxy happened "not so long ago". Ace convinces Mags to take a trip in the TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: The Light at the End
 * The Doctor has not yet told Ace about regeneration, and she doesn't know who the Master is, setting this before Survival.


 * PROSE: The Feast of Seven... Eight (and Nine)
 * Though she is absent, the Doctor is currently travelling with Ace.


 * AUDIO: Dark Convoy


 * AUDIO: Doctors and Dragons
 * The Doctor is travelling with Ace, and together they trap an Elder God. The Doctor is wearing his brown coat and plays the spoons.


 * GAME: Dalek Attack
 * The Doctor has a sonic screwdriver that fires laser attacks, and is wearing his white safari jacket. The Doctor and Ace visit Paris, New York City, Tokyo and Skaro.


 * PROSE: Living in the Past
 * The Doctor leaves Ace in the Cretaceous period of Earth's pre-history, and the two resume travelling together after he returns to collect her.


 * PROSE: Living in the Past
 * The Doctor retrieves Ace from the Cretaceous period of Earth's pre-history, and the two resume travelling together.


 * AUDIO: The Riparian Ripper


 * PROSE: The Anchorite's Echo


 * TV: Battlefield
 * Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule. Ace meets the Brigadier for the first time in her life, while the Doctor meets him for the first time since his sixth regeneration.


 * TV: Ghost Light
 * Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule.


 * TV: The Curse of Fenric
 * Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, as the episode's theme fitted well with the Halloween broadcast slot. Fenric's master plan reaches its climax, but the Doctor is able to best his foe again. Ace is gifted an authentic cap insignia of the Red Army by Captain Sorin.


 * TV: Survival
 * Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule. The novelisation details how the Doctor and Ace have returned to Earth for the first time since The Curse of Fenric, which was a week before. Ace encounters for the first time on Cheetah World, and both become infected with the Cheetah virus, though Ace begins to recover by the serial's conclusion.


 * PROSE: Dream a Little Dream for Me
 * Set shortly after Survival, with the last event that Zoe dreams before waking up being the Doctor's speech to Ace about having "work to do".


 * PROSE: Hymn of the City
 * Ace has a conversation echoing another that she had "not so long ago" in The Curse of Fenric. The earthbound setting places this after Survival.


 * PROSE: The Glass Princess
 * The Doctor gives Clio a Blue Peter badge on Ace's behalf.


 * PROSE: Fable Fusion
 * Ace is under 18-years-of-age and is familiar with UNIT and the Brigadier, setting this after Battlefield.


 * PROSE: The Hollow Men
 * Though the book's blurb would place this between The Curse of Fenric and Survival, the Doctor has it noted that he should leave a settee for his younger self to land on in Perivale, a reference to Survival.


 * PROSE: The Colony of Lies
 * Ace references the events of Ghost Light.


 * PROSE: One Minute Fourteen Seconds


 * PROSE: Dr. Seventh
 * Ace recognises the Master and the Cheetah People, setting this after Survival.


 * PROSE: Ace of Hearts
 * While Ace is asleep, the Doctor travels back in time to apologise to baby Ace for the events of Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric, and for the pain "yet to come".


 * COMIC: Terror from the Deep


 * PROSE: Anti-Matter with Fries


 * AUDIO: The Shrine of Sorrows


 * AUDIO: The Split Infinitive
 * The Doctor and Ace recall the events of The Assassination Games.


 * COMIC: Cat and Mouse
 * Ace recognises the Master, setting this after Survival. After thwarting the Mater's scheme, Ace is kidnapped by Adam Mitchell, leading directly into Endgame.


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


 * PROSE: But Once a Year


 * PROSE: The Devil Like a Bear


 * PROSE: Last Rites


 * PROSE: Relativity


 * AUDIO: Thin Ice
 * This is Ace's first encounter with an Ice Warrior. The Doctor claims to have never delivered a baby before he delivers baby Raine Creevy. The Doctor tries to get Ace accepted into the Time Lord Academy, but she turns down the offer and is also rejected by the Time Lords.


 * AUDIO: Crime of the Century
 * Set almost immediately after Thin Ice. After defeating the Metatraxi, the Doctor offers Raine Creevy the chance to travel in the TARDIS, which she accepts.


 * AUDIO: Animal
 * Raine's first journey is to Margrave University in 2001, where, she discovers that her father has died. Upset by the revelation, Raine decides to stay at Margrave for a short time.


 * PROSE: The Algebra of Ice
 * Set "more than twenty months" before Timewyrm: Revelation.


 * AUDIO: The Shadow Trader


 * AUDIO: Crystal Ball


 * AUDIO: Earth Aid
 * It has been some time since the Doctor and Ace last saw Raine, who decides to return to the TARDIS.


 * Under unknown circumstances, Raine leaves the TARDIS again.


 * PROSE: Relative Dementias
 * Ace refers to her escape from the underwater spaceship in Battlefield, and meeting her grandmother during The Curse of Fenric. She is still under the legal drinking age. Miss Gallowglass gives a cryptic warning to the Doctor and Ace about the upcoming events of Independence Day.


 * PROSE: Illegal Alien


 * PROSE: Matrix
 * The Doctor and Ace have just left the Blitz, setting this immediately after Illegal Alien. Ace is 17-years-old, and the Valeyard uses the Dark Matrix to briefly reawaken the Cheetah virus within her, presumably amplifying her continued difficulties with the virus. Months have passed since the Doctor and Ace were on Cheetah World.


 * PROSE: Storm Harvest
 * Set immediately after Matrix.


 * PROSE: Stop the Pigeon
 * Ace is depicted with the same character traits she showed in Illegal Alien.


 * AUDIO: The Genocide Machine
 * The Doctor and Ace meet Bev Tarrant.


 * PROSE: Prime Time
 * Ace refers to the recent events of Storm Harvest and The Genocide Machine. The Doctor refers to his encounter with the Master from Stop the Pigeon. The Doctor discovers Ace's future dead body, and tries to keep her out of danger, leading into Heritage.


 * PROSE: Heritage
 * It has been months since Ace went anywhere interesting and the Doctor is still paranoid about Ace's potential death. Ace hasn't yet worn her special sunglasses from the New Adventures era, setting this before Timewyrm: Genesys.


 * PROSE: Independence Day
 * Ace has more experienced and confident, and knows more about future technology than she used too.


 * PROSE: Loving the Alien
 * Sequel to Illegal Alien. Set several weeks after Heritage, with the Doctor still recovering from Mel's death. Ace is killed by George Limb, but the Doctor manipulates events so that, when Limb's plans are thwarted by James Dean, the timeline recreates itself with Ace still alive, though slightly altered.

Trouble with the Timewyrm

 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys
 * When the Doctor restores Ace's memories, the first thing that she recalls is the events of Survival, and she still feels some of the after-effects of the Cheetah virus. She knows about regeneration, and is aware that the Doctor has regenerated six times.


 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus
 * Set immediately after Timewyrm: Genesys.


 * PROSE: Endgame
 * The Seventh Doctor and Ace are observed visiting the Festival of Britain during Timewyrm: Exodus by an amnesiac Eighth Doctor.


 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Apocalypse
 * Ace sees an animal in the TARDIS, foreshadowing Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible.


 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation
 * The Doctor and Ace have "only just left Kirith", setting this immediately after Timewyrm: Apocalypse. Ace is now in her early 20s.


 * PROSE: The Algebra of Ice: Epilogue
 * Visiting Ethan Amberglass whilst in hospital, the Doctor mentions the recent events of Timewyrm: Revelation.

The best of friends

 * PROSE: Monsters
 * Ace is described as being "about 20", and acts like a mentor to a group of teenagers.


 * PROSE: Teenage Kicks


 * COMIC: Fellow Travellers
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Untitled


 * COMIC: Distractions / The Mark of Mandragora
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor mentions that he's recently been unable to take the TARDIS away from Earth. He has also been redecorating the TARDIS and has discarded his question mark pullover.


 * COMIC: Under Pressure
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: Party Animals
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor finally reaches Maruthea, just as his predecessor is leaving.


 * COMIC: The Incomplete Death's Head
 * The Doctor remembers that his real reason to come to Maruthea was to tidy up loose ends with Death's Head. He stuns the original Death's Head and wipes his memory of his encounter with Death's Head II.


 * COMIC: The Chameleon Factor
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor locates his old signet ring in the TARDIS control console and decides to resume wearing it. Complications caused by the ring result in the TARDIS interior changing to a new design.


 * COMIC: Seaside Rendezvous
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: The Good Soldier
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The TARDIS' chameleon circuit is inexplicably working, and has changed the TARDIS's form into a Cadillac.


 * PROSE: Atom Bomb Blues


 * PROSE: The Girl Who Stole the Stars
 * The Doctor, Ace and Raine, who is traveling in the TARDIS, have just left Smithwood Manor.


 * COMIC: A Glitch in Time
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: Evening's Empire
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Untitled
 * The Doctor is wearing his dark brown jacket underneath his duffle-coat, and Ace looks older than her television counterpart.


 * COMIC: The Grief
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. When listing the worst creatures she can imagine, Ace mentions the Daleks, the Timewyrm and the Cybermen.


 * PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible
 * Three years have passed since Ace left Perivale, and she hasn't seen her mother, Audrey Dudman, in the interim. The Doctor hasn't been to Alaska, and Ace has learnt how to swear in eleven alien languages. The TARDIS is damaged following an explosion in the console room. The Doctor sends Ace on a mission to Turkey while he takes care of some business of his own.

Reunited with the Doctor again

 * PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead
 * Ace spends at least three months in Turkey before she reunites with the Doctor, who has been operating out of Smithwood Manor and claims that the TARDIS is "waiting" after Ace inquires about how it is, following the damage done to it in Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible.


 * COMIC: Ravens
 * Set during Cat's Cradle: Warhead, according to Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
 * Ace can still feel the biological effects of being on the Cheetah planet. The TARDIS gets infected by demonic protoplasm.


 * PROSE: Sunday Afternoon, AD 848,988
 * Ace has already been traveling with the Doctor for several years.


 * PROSE: Closing the Account


 * COMIC: Metamorphosis
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: Memorial
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Nightshade


 * COMIC: Cat Litter
 * An opening annotation places this story directly after the consecutive events of Memorial and Nightshade, which is supported by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Séance, or Smoking is Highly Addictive, Don't Start
 * Ace has been traveling with the Doctor for years. The Doctor and Ace are joined on their travels by Neil Hilton, whom spends years with them.


 * PROSE: Meridians
 * Ace recalls losing her memory, setting this after Timewyrm: Genesys.


 * AUDIO: Washington Burns
 * The Doctor and Ace spend a month attempting to defeat CEREBRA.


 * AUDIO: Forever Fallen
 * According to the studio script, this audio is set after Survival. The Doctor explains fixed points in time to Ace, and is manipulating events around one of them to get an outcome of his choosing, implying this takes place during his time as "Time's Champion".


 * PROSE: Cathedral Heart
 * The Doctor is making a cube in his lab that Ace must not know about, setting this shortly before Love and War.


 * PROSE: Love and War
 * Ace claims that the events of Nightshade occurred some months ago. Ace leaves the Doctor after realising that his manipulations resulted in the death of Jan Rydd, a man she had fallen in love with.

New Ace

 * PROSE: Deceit
 * Three years after leaving the Doctor on Heaven, Ace decides to return to the TARDIS, but no longer trusts the Doctor. The TARDIS is cured of the protoplasm infection from Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark.


 * PROSE: Lucifer Rising
 * The Doctor gives his age as 943-years-old.


 * PROSE: Cold War
 * Ace is more curt and aggressive, setting this not long after her return in Deceit.


 * COMIC: Final Genesis
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: White Darkness
 * The Doctor and an Old One are in an antagonistic relationship, setting this before their truce in Signs and Wonders. The Doctor begins wearing a cream linen suit and fedora.


 * PROSE: Shadowmind
 * Ace still keeps track of her age. The Doctor decides he needs a holiday, leading into Birthright and Iceberg.


 * PROSE: Iceberg
 * Set at the same time as Birthright, with the events of both novels occurring concurrently for the Doctor, Ace and Benny.


 * PROSE: Birthright
 * Set concurrently with the events of Iceberg, with the Doctor being absent for the majority of Birthright. The Doctor's deceptions cost him Benny's trust.


 * COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: Cuckoo
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

Alternate universe cycle

 * PROSE: Blood Heat
 * A few months have passed since Deceit, but the events of Birthright are recent. The TARDIS falls through a puncture in the Time Vortex, and the Doctor later realises that someone is toying with time. The Doctor acquires a new sonic screwdriver from the possessions of his deceased alternate third incarnation, and also takes that Doctor's TARDIS after his is lost in a tar pit.


 * PROSE: The Dimension Riders
 * Ace still does not trust the Doctor, nor does the TARDIS from the alternate world. The Doctor discovers that the one who created the Silurian Earth has successfully altered the flow of time in the real universe.


 * PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird
 * The Doctor fixes the chameleon circuit in his new TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Conundrum
 * Its been a week since The Left-Handed Hummingbird, with the Doctor spending most of this time in the sick bay. Benny decides to stay with the Doctor after struggling with her inability to trust him. The Doctor learns history is going to change again, and he sets out to find the cause, leading into No Future.


 * PROSE: No Future
 * The Doctor discovers that has been corrupting the timeline as a revenge stunt, but is able to defeat his enemy and regain Ace's trust. He also smashes the chameleon circuit of his TARDIS with a hammer, destroying it. The Doctor thinks he killed the Master in Survival, despite having spoken of him in the present tense during Deceit.

Amicable travels

 * PROSE: Prelude Tragedy Day


 * PROSE: Tragedy Day
 * Set shortly after No Future, with the Doctor having found "a spring in [his] step" from his battle with Mortimus. The Doctor has had experience with delivering babies, setting this after Thin Ice.


 * PROSE: Question Mark Pyjamas
 * Ace refers to the recent events of No Future.


 * COMIC: Uninvited Guest
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Legacy
 * The TARDIS has been to Olleril recently, setting this shortly after Tragedy Day. As far as Ace knows, this is the first time she has seen an Ice Warrior. Benny, who has never been on Mars before this point in her life, takes a temporary leave of absence from the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Citadel of Dreams
 * Though the book's blurb would place this immediately after Survival, the Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit from White Darkness, and Ace is depicted with the confidence and general demeanour she had in the Virgin New Adventures. With Benny absent, this must take place during her brief leave-of-absence.


 * PROSE: Prelude Theatre of War


 * PROSE: Theatre of War
 * Benny returns to the TARDIS after her temporary leave of absence that started in Legacy.


 * PROSE: All-Consuming Fire


 * AUDIO: The Shadow of the Scourge
 * Set between All-Consuming Fire and Blood Harvest.


 * COMIC: The Last Word
 * The Doctor is wearing his white suit from White Darkness, though the TARDIS console room is the one from before Final Genesis.


 * PROSE: Virgin Lands


 * AUDIO: The Dark Flame
 * Set after The Shadow of the Scourge.


 * PROSE: The Last Emperor
 * The Doctor sends Ace and Benny on a mission to Antarctica.


 * AUDIO: The Big Blue Book
 * The Doctor, Benny and Ace spend a month in Liverpool in the early 1990s.


 * PROSE: Blood Harvest
 * The Doctor, Benny and Ace end up in E-space, where they find Romana and return her to Gallifrey, where she opts to remain.


 * PROSE: Strange England
 * Some time has passed since Blood Harvest, with Ace getting trigger-happy due to the lack of dangerous adventures.


 * PROSE: First Frontier
 * The Doctor and Ace encounter for the first time since Survival. Ace fatally shoots the Master, but he is able to regenerate into . Ace considers leaving the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: St Anthony's Fire
 * Ace has her head shaved clean.


 * PROSE: Falls the Shadow
 * Ace's hair is still re-growing from the events of St Anthony's Fire.


 * PROSE: Parasite
 * It has been at least a full year since No Future. Ace is still thinking about when she'll leave the Doctor.


 * PROSE: Warlock
 * The Doctor, Ace and Benny have been at Smithwood Manor for almost a year.


 * PROSE: Set Piece
 * Ace is 26-years-old. After an ordeal with the Robot Ants, Ace leaves the TARDIS crew to become Time's Vigilante.

Old friends reunited

 * PROSE: Set Piece: Epilogue
 * The Doctor catches up with an older Ace following the defeat of the Voltranons.


 * PROSE: Head Games
 * Ace isn't using her real name yet, setting this before Happy Endings.


 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * Ace is now going by "Dorothée" and is thirty-one years old. The Doctor believes that she looks much younger, citing TARDIS travel as the cause for her lack of ageing.


 * PROSE: Lungbarrow

''Ace joins the Academy on Gallifrey, at a point after Romana opens the Academy to aliens. Ace's life on Gallifrey is a possible explanation for the anomalies in her ageing or sterility, like with Leela and Chris Cwej.''


 * AUDIO: Good Night, Sweet Ladies


 * AUDIO: Random Ghosts


 * AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro
 * Ace asks the Doctor if she can stay with him until she is ready to return to Gallifrey, and the Doctor convinces Benny to join them for a while.


 * Benny takes a break from TARDIS travel to attend her son's wedding. (AUDIO: The Pyramid of Sutekh)


 * PROSE: Evitability
 * The Doctor is wearing a "light suit", implied to be his linen suit. Though she is only heard from afar, the Doctor is currently travelling with Ace.


 * AUDIO: The Vaults of Osiris
 * The Doctor and Ace attempt to steal the Eye of Horus from a museum in Nazi Germany, but the Doctor is transported to Egypt.


 * AUDIO: The Eye of Horus
 * The Doctor is reunited with Benny in ancient Egypt.


 * AUDIO: The Tears of Isis
 * The Doctor is pulled into a time loop with Sutekh.


 * AUDIO: The Pyramid of Sutekh
 * The Doctor is disintegrated, leading Benny to believe he has died.


 * AUDIO: The Tears of Isis
 * Isis retrieves the Doctor from the time loop, causing the effect that made it appear as though he had died in The Pyramid of Sutekh.


 * The Doctor, Benny and Ace investigate a stolen Time Ring at the Trib Museum. They then monitor the thieves, Harmonious 14 Zink and his wife, 1V Magda. At some point around this time, Benny leaves the TARDIS again. The Doctor sends Ace on a mission to stop Zink and Magda discovering the secrets of a Cult before its time. She follows them to Erratoon. (AUDIO: The Prisoner's Dilemma)


 * AUDIO: The Prisoner's Dilemma
 * The Doctor sends Ace on a mission to stop Zink and Magda discovering the secrets of a Cult before its time. While on Erratoon, Ace's mind is completely wiped. She is rescued by the Doctor and he tells her that he can restore her memories. However she does not entirely believe him and is unsure is if she should trust him. Ace refers to Happy Endings and Nightshade, placing this explicitly after Set Piece. After her memory is restored, Ace worries that whole chunks of her life might be missing and she would never know. She also only vaguely remembers Benny.


 * COMIC: The Armageddon Gambit
 * The TARDIS has a large, yellow control room, and Ace is depicted more mature than in the television series. After defeating Kla-Shi-Kel, the Doctor and Ace are contacted by Group Captain Gilmore, leading directly into Operation Volcano.


 * COMIC: Operation Volcano


 * COMIC: Crossing the Rubicon
 * Ace recognises the Master, setting this after Survival. She also has the baseball bat seen in The Armageddon Gambit.


 * AUDIO: Critical Mass
 * The Doctor has a sonic screwdriver.


 * AUDIO: Police and Shreeves
 * Ace is described as tanned, muscular and "more military than anything else". She and the Doctor are delivering a package to the Brigadier.


 * AUDIO: Shockwave
 * Ace has faced the Daleks and Cybermen. She knows the Doctor can regenerate, setting this after The Light at the End. The Doctor knows Ace's full name.


 * AUDIO: The Fearmonger
 * Ace obtains a CD Walkman from Paul Tanner.


 * AUDIO: Dust Breeding
 * The Doctor and Ace bump into Bev Tarrant again, after meeting her in The Genocide Machine, and she leaves with them in the TARDIS after they defeat the Master.


 * Bev travels with the Doctor and Ace for some time, before eventually being left in the 26th century. (AUDIO: The Judas Gift)


 * AUDIO: Colditz
 * At Colditz Castle during the Second World War, the Doctor and Ace are confronted by Elizabeth Klein, a scientist from an alternate timeline, who escapes her defeat as an anomaly. Ace decides to be called "McShane" from this story on, and still has the CD Walkman from The Fearmonger.


 * AUDIO: The Rapture
 * McShane references the recent events of Colditz and Dust Breeding.

Hex joins

 * AUDIO: The Harvest
 * McShane tells Hex that she has been travelling with the Doctor "for a surprisingly long time." The Doctor has a sonic screwdriver, and is convinced by McShane to let Hex join them in the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: These Things Take Time / The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac
 * Hex has recently joined the TARDIS and still isn't used to the idea of time travel. He is concerned that the Doctor and McShane don't trust him as much as they trust each other, and visits his first alien world.


 * AUDIO: Dreamtime
 * Hex sees aliens and spaceships for the first time.


 * Shortly after being joined by Hex, the Doctor battles the Cragvar. (AUDIO: Afterlife)


 * PROSE: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
 * Set before LIVE 34, as Ace is still going by McShane.


 * PROSE: Presence
 * Set before LIVE 34, as Ace is still going by McShane.


 * AUDIO: LIVE 34
 * Prior to their arrival on Colony 34, McShane decided that "Ace" was her true name, and resumed using it. Reporter Ryan Wareing estimates Ace to be slightly older than Lulu, whom he estimated to be in her early-to-mid twenties.


 * AUDIO: Night Thoughts


 * AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard
 * The Doctor has dropped Ace and Hex off in 1966 Monte Carlo with instructions to steal the Veiled Leopard, while he visits Evelyn Smythe.


 * AUDIO: The Settling
 * The TARDIS interior has been redecorated to the Victorian parlour design from Doctor Who.


 * AUDIO: No Man's Land
 * Ace and Hex mention the recent events of The Settling.


 * AUDIO: Shadow Planet
 * Set during the early days of Hex's travels with the Doctor and Ace. Ending leads directly into World Apart. The TARDIS interior has its Victorian parlour design, setting this after The Settling.


 * AUDIO: World Apart
 * Immediately after leaving Umbra, Ace and Hex become trapped on Nirvana for some time. Hex plans on revealing his romantic feelings for Ace.


 * AUDIO: Nocturne


 * PROSE: The Report


 * AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor


 * AUDIO: The Dark Husband


 * AUDIO: Muse of Fire
 * The TARDIS interior has its Victorian parlour design, setting this after The Settling.


 * AUDIO: False Gods


 * AUDIO: Order of Simplicity


 * AUDIO: Casualties of War


 * AUDIO: The Word Lord
 * Nobody No-One has been pursuing the Doctor for the past few weeks, and is the cause of the number "45" being prevalent wherever the TARDIS lands.

Battling the Elder Gods

 * AUDIO: The Magic Mousetrap
 * The Doctor sees a chess set in the sanatorium, and realises Fenric is preparing his return.


 * AUDIO: Enemy of the Daleks
 * Ace has significant military and tactical knowledge, implying a post-Deceit setting. Hex has his first encounter with the Daleks.


 * AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari
 * Hex is still reeling from the events that he witnessed on Bliss with the Daleks. The exterior shell of the TARDIS is shattered after the HADS are activated, and its colouration is stuck as white.


 * AUDIO: Project: Destiny
 * Follows directly on from The Angel of Scutari. Hex leaves the TARDIS crew after discovering that the Doctor had previously been witness to his mother's death. After learning from Aristedes that there is a Time Lord sarcophagus in the Forge archive, the Doctor and Ace decide to investigate.


 * AUDIO: A Death in the Family
 * Follows directly on from Project: Destiny, with the Doctor and Ace investigating the Forge archive. Ace is incapable of flying the Doctor's TARDIS. Hex rejoins the TARDIS at Evelyn Smythe's prompting, before Evelyn passes away.


 * PROSE: Natalie's Diary
 * Set a few months after The Harvest. Hex encounters the Daleks, setting this after Enemy of the Daleks.


 * AUDIO: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge
 * The Doctor goes to Alaska, setting this after Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible.


 * AUDIO: Protect and Survive


 * AUDIO: Black and White
 * The TARDIS is restored to its prime condition, and the Black TARDIS is destroyed.


 * AUDIO: Gods and Monsters
 * Hex enters the Time Vortex to defeat Fenric, apparently killing himself in the process.


 * AUDIO: Afterlife
 * Ace no longer knows her age, setting this after Set Piece, where she knew for a fact she was 26-years-old. The Doctor has posited Lysandra to fight in a war in her native time, and Sally also leaves the TARDIS. The Doctor and Ace find Hex, living under the name "Hector Thomas", in Liverpool and take him with them in the TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: Revenge of the Swarm


 * AUDIO: Mask of Tragedy
 * The Doctor takes Ace and Hector to Greece to relax after the events of Revenge of the Swarm. After their vacation, Hector asks the Doctor to return him home, leading into Signs and Wonders.


 * AUDIO: Signs and Wonders
 * Hector leaves the TARDIS and settles down with Sally to raise a family. Ace glimpses various futures where she is wearing a high collar, riding a motorbike in Paris in the 19th century, being surrounded by the Lobri and dying of old age in the TARDIS. The Doctor promises to teach Ace how to fly the TARDIS, leading directly into You Are The Doctor.

After Hex

 * AUDIO: You Are the Doctor
 * The Doctor begins teaching Ace how to fly the TARDIS, as he promised to do in Signs and Wonders, setting this after Deceit.


 * AUDIO: Come Die With Me


 * AUDIO: The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel


 * AUDIO: Dead to the World
 * The Doctor realises that the ongoing events of You Are the Doctor, Come Die With Me and The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel have been the result of the TARDIS searching for someone and decides to help it find them, leading directly into A Life of Crime. Ace refers to Hex having just left, setting this shortly after Signs and Wonders.


 * AUDIO: A Life of Crime
 * The TARDIS finds Mel on Ricosta. After being rescued from the Speravores, Mel rejoins the TARDIS crew.


 * AUDIO: Fiesta of the Damned
 * The Doctor, Mel and Ace have just left Ricosta, setting this immediately after A Life of Crime. The TARDIS interior has its Victorian parlour design.


 * AUDIO: Maker of Demons
 * At least one week has passed since A Life of Crime.


 * AUDIO: The High Price of Parking


 * AUDIO: The Blood Furnace


 * AUDIO: The Silurian Candidate
 * The TARDIS is on its way to a party on Maruthea, when the Doctor decides to change course and head to 2085 Earth instead. The Doctor refers to their recent encounter with the Galparians, setting this shortly after Dead to the World.


 * AUDIO: Red Planets


 * AUDIO: The Dispossessed
 * Mel delivers the TARDIS to Josiah W. Dogbolter, leading directly into The Quantum Possibility Engine.


 * AUDIO: The Quantum Possibility Engine
 * Ace meets Narvin for the first time and learns about the Celestial Intervention Agency.


 * Ace eventually returns to Gallifrey and becomes part of the CIA, (AUDIO: Enemy Lines)

Gallifrey

 * AUDIO: Dominion


 * AUDIO:  Intervention Earth
 * Ace and Narvin are executed by the Time Lords


 * AUDIO:  Enemy Lines
 * Braxiatel changes history, but Ace and Narvin are once again killed, this time by the Watchmaker. Romana II and Leela then change history once again and the pair of them are saved.


 * AUDIO: Soldier Obscura
 * Ace is abandoned on Earth with her mind wiped by Braxiatel.


 * According to Narvin, Ace's timeline became so blurred and contradictory all the way back to her departure from the Doctor, that he could not trace her. Both he and Romana suspected that this was due to the intervention of Irving Braxiatel. (AUDIO: Assassins)

Back on Earth

 * PROSE: Girls' Night In
 * Set in the 1990s, Ace is described as being in her late teens, is carrying her rucksack and baseball bat, and responds to an ad intended for former companions of the Doctor.


 * AUDIO: An Alien Werewolf in London
 * Set in the early 1990s. Ace is living on Earth and has a Space-time telegraph to contact the Doctor with.


 * AUDIO: Dark Universe
 * Twenty years have passed since Ace last saw the Doctor. She is currently running A Charitable Earth and is a Professor of Sociology. She parts on bitter terms with the Doctor after showing disgust at his manipulations and the Time Lords' actions.


 * AUDIO: In Remembrance
 * Set in 2016. Ace recalls the events of Soldier Obscura, and is running A Charitable Earth. She knows that her memories of her time on Gallifrey have been tampered with, but is sure that she was involved in the Last Great Time War.


 * WC: The Promise
 * A Charitable Earth is fully established at this point. Ace and the Seventh Doctor reunite.


 * PROSE: At Childhood's End
 * Set in 2020 and Ace is fifty years old. She encounters the Thirteenth Doctor and the two finally make peace with each other.


 * AUDIO: The Red List
 * Ace meets St John Colchester and doesn’t trust Torchwood as an organisation. Authorial intent places this in early 2022.


 * AUDIO: Death in Venice
 * Ace is reunited with Mr Colchester, setting this after The Red List.


 * AUDIO: Quantum of Axos
 * Ace encounters the Tenth Doctor and comments on the fact that he's not Scottish again, referencing her encounter with the Thirteenth Doctor in At Childhood's End. The Doctor gifts her K9 Mark II and it is suggested that they will seek out K9 Mark IV as well. Despite the events of In Remembrance, Ace has no memory of Gallifrey or the Time War. Authorial intent places this specifically between At Childhood's End and before Farewell, Sarah Jane.


 * WC: Farewell, Sarah Jane
 * Ace attends the funeral of Sarah Jane Smith. She adopts K9 Mark IV. She looks back fondly on an adventure she had with the Doctor, suggesting a setting after At Childhood's End.

Possible death

 * COMIC: Ground Zero
 * The Doctor is older looking and is travelling with Ace, who has her young appearance from the television series. Ace is killed and the TARDIS's white interior is damaged, with the intent being that it is about to change into the Victorian parlour interior seen in Doctor Who. Any placement for this story will be contentious because of Ace's apparent death, though it is revealed in Sometime Never... that the Council of Eight were attempting to eliminate the Doctor's past companions, but they were thwarted by the Eighth Doctor, resulting in the restoration of multiple timelines and free will to the Universe.

Currently Unplaced

 * PROSE: Pass It On
 * TV: Untitled