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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[1001 Nights (audio story)|1001 Nights]]''
  
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[1001 Nights (audio story)|1001 Nights]]''
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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (audio story)|1963: Fanfare for the Common Men]]''
  
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (audio story)|1963: Fanfare for the Common Men]]''

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This page lists appearances of the Fifth 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[statement unclear]. 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, Doc Oho's Book Reviews, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks Databank, Whopix, the Big Finish forum, The Whoniverse and The Divergent Universe forum. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Limiting factors

Companions

Stories with Adric, Nyssa and Tegan travelling together must take place before TV: Earthshock, while any story with just Nyssa must be between TV: Time-Flight and TV: Arc of Infinity.

Any story with just Nyssa and Tegan must take place after Tegan's return in TV: Arc of Infinity and before TV: Mawdryn Undead. Any stories where they are accompanied by Marc must take place after AUDIO: Tartarus.

Any story where Tegan and Turlough are travelling with a young Nyssa of Traken must take place between TV: Mawdryn Undead and TV: Terminus. Whereas stories where they are travelling with an older Nyssa must take place after TV: Enlightenment and between AUDIO: Cobwebs and AUDIO: The Entropy Plague.

Any story with just Tegan and Turlough must take place between TV: Terminus and TV: Resurrection of the Daleks. Any story with just Turlough must take place between TV: Resurrection of the Daleks and before TV: Planet of Fire. Any story where they are accompanied by Kamelion must take place between TV: The King's Demons and TV: Planet of Fire.

Stories with Peri Brown must occur after TV: Planet of Fire, while any story where Erimem accompanies them must take place between AUDIO: The Eye of the Scorpion and AUDIO: The Bride of Peladon.

Any story where the Doctor is travelling alone can be placed between AUDIO: Autumn and AUDIO: Renaissance of the Daleks, AUDIO: The Waters of Amsterdam and AUDIO: The Elite, AUDIO: And You Will Obey Me and AUDIO: The King of Terror, and AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard and AUDIO: Son of the Dragon, as well as after AUDIO: Conversion.

Costume

The Fifth Doctor wore two distinct costumes, with the first debuting with him in TV: Castrovalva until it was ruined in TV: Warriors of the Deep and outright replaced in TV: The Awakening.

Sonic screwdriver

After his sonic screwdriver was destroyed in TV: The Visitation, the Doctor elects not to replace it, setting any story where it utilizes the device as happening before The Visitation.

Timeline

Early adventures

The Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation.
Set immediately after Logopolis, with the Doctor's regeneration still settling.
Set during Castrovalva: Part 1, when the Doctor is resting in the Zero Room before the Master interferes with the TARDIS navigational systems.
Set two days after Logopolis, and shortly after Castrovalva. The Doctor promises to get Tegan back to Heathrow.
Set three days after Logopolis. The Doctor is still recovering from his recent regeneration.
The Doctor is still in need of the Zero Room, implying he is still recovering from his recent regeneration, and still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation.
Tegan is not concerned using the Doctor's dream-manipulating machine, setting this before Kinda.
The Doctor has recently regenerated, and Tegan is still upset about his failure to return her to Heathrow, setting this before Divided Loyalties.
The Doctor still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation.
The Doctor appears to be travelling alone, but still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation.
The Doctor still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation.

Attempts to return to Heathrow

The Doctor begins trying to get the TARDIS to Heathrow Airport to return Tegan to her job as an air hostess. Nyssa collapses after a showdown with Monarch.
Following directly on from Four to Doomsday, Nyssa recuperates in the TARDIS throughout the crew's stay on Deva Loka. The Doctor meets the Mara for the first time and it possesses Tegan until driven out.
Authorial intent places this between Kinda and The Visitation.[source needed] The Doctor is out for a night stroll on his own, and he still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation.
Set almost immediately after Kinda, with the Doctor reprimanding Adric for his actions, and Tegan still haunted by her possession. The Doctor's sonic screwdriver is destroyed by the Terileptil leader, and the Doctor's defeat of them accidentally starts the Great Fire of London
The TARDIS has just escaped the Great Fire of London, setting this immediately after The Visitation. The Doctor avoids landing the TARDIS on a planet because he believes it would lead to another adventure, and instead allows the TARDIS to float in space. Tegan decides that she wants to remain with the TARDIS crew, and suggests that they take a holiday.
Nyssa refers to the events of Kinda and is unsure if the Master is still alive, setting this before Smoke and Mirrors.
The Doctor is still trying to get to Heathrow Airport.
The Doctor is still trying to get to Heathrow Airport, and Tegan is doubtful he will land there anytime soon. Nyssa begins to suspect that Tegan doesn't want to leave. The Doctor has recently lost his sonic screwdriver, setting this shortly after The Visitation.
After her plan to trick Adric into piloting the TARDIS fails, Tegan gives up on the TARDIS's ability to get her back to Heathrow, and she and Adric believe the Master is dead, setting this before Smoke and Mirrors.
The Doctor has recently lost his sonic screwdriver, setting this shortly after The Visitation. Harry Houdini is the first historical figure that Tegan has met since beginning her travels with the Doctor, and this is the Doctor's first encounter with the Master since Castrovalva. Nyssa believes Tegan is beginning to enjoy her travels, something Tegan implies is correct.
Tegan, after some hesitation, admits to Adric that she has begun to enjoy travelling in the TARDIS. She recalls her brief piloting of the TARDIS from Four to Doomsday.
The Doctor tries to get to Heathrow Airport, but Tegan has lost interest. Nyssa's psychic potential from Kinda is reference.

Final adventures with Adric

Nyssa refers to the events of The Visitation as having "just happened", and Tegan reminds the Doctor of her newfound willingness to stay aboard the TARDIS for a while, setting this soon after Divided Loyalties.
Set during Black Orchid: Part 1.
The Doctor has started reading the Black Orchid book, and Tegan reminds him that she doesn't want to go back to Heathrow anymore, suggesting a setting shortly after Black Orchid.
Set sometime after The Visitation, with the Doctor looking for components to build a new sonic screwdriver.
Adric, Nyssa and Tegan are kidnapped Adam Mitchell, leading directly into Endgame.
The Doctor joins with his other incarnations to rescue his friends from Adam and the Tremas Master, and assists the other Doctors in saving their companions as well.
No explanations are given about the absence of Nyssa and Tegan.
No explanations are given about the absence of Nyssa and Tegan.
Though they do not appear, the Doctor is currently travelling with Adric and Tegan.
The Dar Traders predict that Adric's death is coming soon, setting this shortly before Earthshock.
Set immediately before Earthshock, with the Doctor and Adric upset with each other, and the gestalt mourning the upcoming loss of Adric.
While stopping the Cybermen from destroying the Earth, Adric dies in a spaceship explosion that triggers the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Set immediately after Earthshock, with the TARDIS crew grieving for Adric, and Tegan failing to convince the Doctor to change history and save him. While trying to go to the Great Exhibition, the TARDIS lands at Heathrow Airport, where, after a battle with the Master, Tegan is left behind by the Doctor and Nyssa, due to both of them believing that Tegan wanted to remain on Earth.

Lone travels with Nyssa

The Doctor is travelling with Nyssa, though she waits in the TARDIS for the duration of this adventure. The Doctor chooses not to share the fate of several teenage boys with Nyssa, as she is still mourning the death of Adric, setting this shortly after Earthshock
The Doctor is still mourning Adric's death, setting this shortly after Earthshock.
Set shortly after Time-Flight. Nyssa still has her latent psychic powers and has often thought about asking the Doctor to take her to Traken at an earlier point in its history, setting this before Primeval.
The Doctor has recently lost Adric and Tegan, setting this shortly after Time-Flight.
Nyssa recalls Tegan recently returning to Heathrow Airport after Adric's death, setting this shortly after Time-Flight.
Nyssa knows very little of the history of Earth, and suggests they look up Tegan once they're back on Earth.
Nyssa refers to the Doctor's recent regeneration.
Tegan has recently departed the TARDIS, setting this shortly after Time-Flight.
Nyssa mentions the recent events from The Land of the Dead.
Nyssa refers to the events of The Land of the Dead.
Several weeks have passed since Kinda. Nyssa has recently shown psychic sensitivity, setting this shortly after Time-Flight.
Nyssa mentions visiting Alaska, as she did in The Land of the Dead.
Nyssa recalls the events of Spare Parts.
Nyssa recalls visiting Heathrow Airport, and deeply misses Tegan, setting this a while after Time-Flight.
Having found things difficult recently, Nyssa attempts to propose that she and the Doctor separate for a while, though the Doctor convinces her that they should take a holiday instead.
The Doctor and Nyssa relax on Saturn, with Nyssa relieved that they're finally taking a break. Nyssa becomes upset by the Doctor's lack of empathy for the Saturnites.
The Doctor and Nyssa spend three weeks in Stockbridge.

The Stockbridge ordeal

While Nyssa is undertaking a solo expedition to 13th century Rhodes, the Doctor goes on some solo adventures. (AUDIO: Renaissance of the Daleks)
The Doctor is playing cricket in 1980s Stockbridge when he meets Sir Justin of Wells. He also encounters Shayde for the first time.
The Doctor is depicted in his first outfit.
Set shortly after The Tides of Time. Still in Stockbridge, the Doctor meets Maxwell Edison for the first time and takes him on a trip in the TARDIS.
The Doctor learns that he accidentally brought an elemental back to Stockbridge during the events of Stars Fell on Stockbridge. He is put on trial by the Time Lords, but ultimately released.
The Doctor is recuperating on an island in the South Pacific following his trial on Gallifrey during The Stockbridge Horror. He meets a Japanese soldier named Fuji, who is soon killed by Gus Goodman.
Set immediately after Lunar Lagoon, with Gus joining the Doctor on his travels. The Doctor has not learnt how to swim, setting this before Warriors of the Deep.
Gus is killed by the the Moderator, who was aiming for the Doctor on the orders of Josiah W. Dogbolter.

Traveling alone

The Doctor recalls his visit to the school in Long Term as occurring "not long ago". He is also still bitter about Adric's untimely death.
The Doctor is depicted in his first outfit.
The events of The Visitation are mentioned.
The Doctor recalls his trip to Heathrow, setting this after Time-Flight.

Temporary companions

The Doctor claims that his visit to Heathrow Airport in Time-Flight was "not [too] long ago".
The Doctor spends eighteen months trying to return a woman to Earth. Nyssa and Tegan are mentioned as former companions of the Doctor.
The Doctor is in his first outfit.
The Doctor is depicted in his first outfit.
The Doctor is depicted in his first outfit.
The Doctor is depicted in his first outfit. The Doctor hasn't seen Steven since The Savages, setting this before The Five Companions.
The Doctor is depicted in his first outfit. After an encounter with the Racnoss, the Doctor decides to return a Time Lord combatant, Alayna, to Gallifrey.

Troubles with Thomas Brewster

The Doctor and Nyssa reunite and resume traveling together.
Set immediately after Renaissance of the Daleks.
The Doctor is separated from Nyssa by a time breach and spends twelve months in London searching for her, while only a few hours pass from her perspective. Thomas Brewster steals the TARDIS, leaving the Doctor and Nyssa stranded in 1867 London.
Five months have passed since the Doctor and Nyssa became stranded on Earth in The Haunting of Thomas Brewster. Brewster is guided back to the Doctor and Nyssa by a mysterious voice in the TARDIS, and they allow Brewster to travel with them.
Set shortly after The Boy That Time Forgot, with the Doctor and Nyssa recovering the parts of the TARDIS that Brewster sold.
Brewster leaves the Doctor and Nyssa's company, staying in 2008 London.

Continued travels with Nyssa

The Doctor mentions Sir Justin of Wells from The Tides of Time.
Follows directly on from Castle of Fear.
Nyssa is still thinking about her happy childhood on Traken, as she was The Demons of Red Lodge.
The Doctor refers to the events of The Demons of Red Lodge.
Nyssa mentions the prisons of Folly from Doing Time.
Nyssa recounts the events of My Brother's Keeper, The Interplanetarian, and Smuggling Tales.
After the TARDIS door is left open due to a malfunctioning latch, Hannah Bartholemew stows aboard the TARDIS as it takes off.
The Doctor finds out about Hannah stowing aboard the TARDIS, setting this immediately after Moonflesh.
On the SORDIDE Delta space station, Hannah is left in a robot-like state after being purged of all emotions. She decides to stay on the station instead of going with the Doctor.
The Doctor is in his first outfit, and traveling with an unidentified companion, presumably Nyssa.
The Doctor and Nyssa are captured by the Daleks, and transported to Mojax, where numerous duplicates of them are created, leading directly into Dalek Soul.
It has been five years since the Daleks captured the Doctor and Nyssa on Traxana.

Returning to Amsterdam

During a scuffle with Omega in Amsterdam, the Doctor and Nyssa are reunited with Tegan, who rejoins them in the TARDIS.
Set during Arc of Infinity: Part 3, when the Doctor is floating in the Matrix.
Set directly between Arc of Infinity and Omega.
On behalf of the Time Lords, the Doctor is clearing up after the events of Arc of Infinity.
The Doctor is attempting to return to Amsterdam to pick up Nyssa and Tegan. He considers making the journey back to 1983 more of a "round trip", setting this early in these solo travels.
At some point, the Doctor is joined by Brooke, who is an assassin sent after him by Madame Kovarian. (AUDIO: The Furies) The Doctor has numerous adventures with Brooke without finding out. (AUDIO: A Requiem for the Doctor)
The Doctor and Brooke are joined by River Song in their travels.
The Doctor reacts with curiosity when he hears River use the phrase "timey-wimey", suggesting this is set before Time Crash.
The Doctor has his memory of Brooke and River erased by River's hallucinogenic lipstick. The Doctor is shot with regeneration inhibitors by Brooke, and dies.
Brooke II uses River's vortex manipulator to prevent her past incarnation from killing the Doctor by tricking her into killing Andrew Edwardson in his place, saving the Doctor. River mentions that the Doctor is on his way back to Amsterdam, and he agrees to drop O off at a galactic trading centre on his way.
The Doctor is in his first outfit, and has no sonic screwdriver, setting this after The Visitation. He has started using the phrase "wibbly wobbly, timey wimey", setting this after Fallen Angels as well.
The Doctor is still trying to return to Amsterdam. He does not react to Jenny's use of the phrase "timey-wimey", suggesting this is set after Time Crash.

Renewed voyages with Tegan

The Doctor returns to Amsterdam for Nyssa and Tegan thirty seconds after he left, saying that he had to run a "quick errand" for the Time Lords, as depicted in Omega.
The Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa have just left Amsterdam, setting this immediately after The Waters of Amsterdam. Tegan asks the Doctor to take her to Brisbane to recover from their adventure on Florana, leading directly into Hexagora.
Tegan is having dreams of snakes, setting this before Snakedance. The opening scene places these events the day after Tegan re-joined the TARDIS crew in Arc of Infinity, with the Doctor checking to see if the Time Lords have installed a tracking device on his TARDIS.
The Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa holiday in Brisbane for several days to recover from the events of The Elite.
References are made to the recent events of The Elite and Hexagora.
Tegan returns to Heathrow Airport to meet a friend, suggesting that she has been back with the Doctor for a while. In fact, the Doctor Who Annual 1983 stories features the Doctor traveling with Nyssa and Tegan without Adric, but with Tegan still dressed as an air stewardess. Presumably, as hinted in The Elite, she is wearing her old suit due to her inability to find other clothes.
The TARDIS crew go to the Necropolitan to visit a memorial to Adric.
The Doctor and Tegan are having an old argument about Adric's death and the Doctor's refusal to go back in time and save him.
Tegan mentions being in Amsterdam and is still wearing the same clothes from when she was there, setting this after Arc of Infinity. Preventing Adric's death is still being discussed by Tegan and the Doctor.
Back cover sets this between Arc of Infinity and Snakedance. Both Nyssa and Tegan are still thinking about Adric's death.
Tegan is sceptical that a dream could manifest itself physically, setting this before Snakedance.
The writer's notes place this between Arc of Infinity and Snakedance.
The last time Tegan saw the Doctor climbed something of great height was in Logopolis.

Discovering dinosaurs

The Doctor, Tegan, and Nyssa are in good spirits, setting this recently after Tegan's return in Arc of Infinity.
Set immediately after Great Snakes!.
Set the same day as Great Snakes! and Crocs!.
Set immediately after Gators.
Set immediately after Woolly Mammoth.
Set immediately after On Safari.
Set immediately after Elephant Dance.
Set immediately after The Loch Ness Monster.

Marc joins the crew

Tegan and Nyssa can't remember the last time that the Doctor mentioned Adric, with Nyssa concluding that he is struggling to come to terms with his death. Marc joins the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa after being freed from slavery by Cicero.
Marc has only just joined the TARDIS crew. He sees outer space and sliding doors for the first time.
Marc is partially cyber-converted by the Cybermen, and the Doctor vows not to allow them to take another friend from him after Adric, leading directly into Conversion.
The Doctor manages to save Marc's mind from cyber-conversion. He drops Tegan, Nyssa and Marc off on Callana to recover from recent events. He decides that he should take a break from his companions for a while, so that he can have a chance to think.

Time apart from companions

The Doctor appears to be travelling alone and visits Cicero to ensure that he doesn't include their adventure together in his letters. The Doctor alludes to something bad happening to Marc, presumably his near cyber-conversion.. (AUDIO: Tartarus)

Old foes return again

The Doctor allows one of his companions to read out the coordinates for their next destination, leading directly into Snakedance.
After reading out the coordinates for their next destination while under the influence of the Mara, Tegan causes the TARDIS to land on the planet Manussa.
Tegan is still recovering from her possession by the Mara, setting this immediately after Snakedance. The Doctor has not seen the Master since Time-Flight.
The Doctor helps in the saving of Gallifrey on the last day of the Last Great Time War, and, in the novelisation, has a tea party with his other incarnations in the Under Gallery as a celebration. Despite wearing his second outfit, the Doctor is currently travelling with Nyssa and Tegan. (DWM 475)
Tegan and Nyssa visit Manchester, setting this after their very first visit to Manchester in Goth Opera.
Tegan is still worried about the Mara returning, setting this shortly after Snakedance. Under orders from the Black Guardian, Turlough joins the Doctor in his travels so he may kill him for the Black Guardian.
Turlough has only just joined the TARDIS crew, setting this immediately after Mawdryn Undead.
Turlough is shown his bedroom in the TARDIS, and is greatly disliked and distrusted by Tegan, setting this shortly after Mawdryn Undead. Nyssa decides to stay on Terminus to help treat the Lazar victims.
Tegan still doesn't trust Turlough, even believing him capable of murder.
Turlough, with the Doctor's encouragement, defies the Black Guardian and is able to escape his agreement with him. Turlough decides that he wants to go home.
Set just after Enlightenment.
Turlough has an underlying fear that the Black Guardian will punish him for siding with the Doctor, though his relationship with Tegan appears to be amicable.

Nyssa returns

Set two days after Nyssa initially left the TARDIS in Terminus.
Ending leads directly into The Cradle of the Snake.
Tegan mentions the Mara being purged from her system, setting this shortly after The Cradle of the Snake.
Nyssa's appearance is reverted to that of her younger self at the time that she left the TARDIS crew.
The Doctor refers to Nyssa's recent rejuvenation from The Emerald Tiger.
Authorial intent places this between The Jupiter Conjunction and The Butcher of Brisbane.[source needed]
Turlough refers to Dr. Sa Yy Findecker from The Butcher of Brisbane.
Drawn off-course, the TARDIS passes through a CVE into E-Space, trapping the Doctor and his companions there.
As she is dying from Entropy, Nyssa chooses to stay in E-Space to power a portal back to N-Space for the TARDIS.

Joined by Kamelion

Tegan wonders if the TARDIS has fallen into a trap set by the Black Guardian. The Doctor takes Kamelion with him in the TARDIS after liberating him from the Master, and sets the TARDIS coordinates for the Eye of Orion.
The Doctor is trying to reach the Eye of Orion, setting this shortly after The King's Demons.
Tegan is still susceptible to the control of the Mara. Though he stays aboard, Kamelion is keen to leave the TARDIS with his fellow crew-members, but ends up being controlled by the Mara from Tegan's subconscious.
Set a few days after The King's Demons. The TARDIS is heavily damaged. Kamelion is influenced by a strong mind and endangers his fellow travellers. He decides that he cannot be trusted and elects to remain within the TARDIS indefinitely.
Kamelion has only recently joined the TARDIS crew, and Tegan does not yet trust him. The Doctor and Kamelion make repairs on the TARDIS console, including a refitting, setting this shortly before The Five Doctors. Kamelion does not fear leaving the TARDIS.
The Doctor has recovered from the back injury he received in Devil in the Mist. Kamelion begins to believe that he is a liability and should no longer travel with the Doctor. The TARDIS team decide to take a trip to New York, leading into Power Game.
Rather than New York, the TARDIS instead arrives in York. The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough spend three weeks searching for Kamelion after he goes missing. Kamelion receives a signal from his home planet.
Set immediately after Power Game. The TARDIS follows the signal to Kamelion's homeworld of Mekalion. The TARDIS console is destroyed, and Kamelion decides that he cannot be trusted and elect to remain within the TARDIS until his mental resistance is stronger. The TARDIS materialises on the Eye of Orion, leading directly into The Five Doctors.

Reminders of the past

The Doctor brings Tegan and Turlough to the Eye of Orion, as he had promised to do at the conclusion of The King's Demons. The TARDIS has a brand new console.
Set during The Five Doctors, after the Doctor used the Master's transmat recall device to escape the Cybermen.
Set immediately after The Five Doctors, with the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough returning to the Eye of Orion to resume their holiday.
Set the day after The Five Doctors. Kamelion is put inside a cupboard made from off-cuts of the TARDIS in order to protect him from mental signals.
The TARDIS console has recently been rebuilt, setting this shortly after The Five Doctors.
Tegan hasn't seen the Master since The Five Doctors, setting this before Birth of a Renegade.
The original Big Finish website placed this between The Five Doctors and Warriors of the Deep.[1] The Doctor is in his first outfit, and Tegan and Turlough are trapped in the TARDIS.
Set several weeks after The Five Doctors and before Warriors of the Deep.[2] The TARDIS has had troubles since leaving the Death Zone.
The Doctor is depicted in his first outfit, and Turlough is well adjusted to life in the TARDIS.
The Doctor is depicted in his first outfit.
Turlough has changed his mind about going home, deciding to stay with the Doctor and Tegan.
The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough decide to take a break in order to recover from the events on Sea Base 4, setting this immediately after Warriors of the Deep. The Doctor is wearing his first outfit, which is ruined by a Xaranti, leading the Doctor to hope he has a spare outfit in the TARDIS. Tegan decides that she wants to visit her grandfather, setting this shortly before The Awakening.

Companionless travels

While Tegan and Turlough remain in Little Hodcombe, the Doctor slips away to answer a distress call, and then travels on his own for a while. (AUDIO: And You Will Obey Me)
The Doctor received the Reborn Master's distress signal while in Little Hodcombe, setting this immediately after The Awakening. He makes plans to pick up Tegan and Turlough.
The Doctor is depicted in his first outfit.
The Doctor is depicted with his second outfit.
The Doctor is illustrated in his second outfit, and is piloting the TARDIS with its The Five Doctors design.

Final adventures with Tegan

The Doctor spends a month trying to return Will Chandler home to 1643. (PROSE: The King of Terror) They are accompanied by Jane Hampden on their adventures. (PROSE: The Hollow Men) Tegan and Turlough spend three weeks in Little Hodcombe while the Doctor is away. (PROSE: The King of Terror)
According to the back cover, this is set between The Awakening and Frontios. The Doctor has recently spent a month returning Will to 1643.
The Doctor attends the third test at Headingley in 1981 with Tegan and Turlough.
The cloister bell starts ringing, leading into The Assassin's Story.
The Web of Time is threatened when Margaret Thatcher is assassinated during her first year as Prime Minister, explaining why the TARDIS cloister bell was ringing in Last Minute Shopping.
The Doctor is depicted in his second outfit.
The Doctor and Tegan leave Turlough behind on Frontios while they take the Gravis to Kolkokron.
While attempting to transport the Gravis to Kolkokron, the TARDIS lands on Artaris. Tegan and the Doctor get into an argument about landing in the wrong place, prompting the Doctor to send Tegan to wait in the TARDIS for the whole of his adventure with Iris Wildthyme.
The Doctor and Tegan take the Gravis to Kolkokron. Twelve hours have passed since they left Frontios.
Set immediately after the Doctor and Tegan leave the Gravis on Kolkokron.
Set shortly after Life after Queth. The Doctor takes a detour from returning to Frontios.
The Doctor and Tegan go back in time to kill a dictator as a baby. However, the Doctor is unable to go through with the act and leaves.
The Doctor and Tegan were on their way back to Frontios after dropping off the Gravis when they were summoned to Gallifrey.
The Doctor and Tegan attend the coronation of Elizabeth II. Tegan is wearing her air hostess uniform, and the Doctor is depicted with his second outfit.
The Doctor and Tegan return to Frontios for Turlough, and get caught in a time corridor upon leaving with him. (TV: Frontios)
The time corridor land the Doctor into a confrontation with Davros and the Renegade Daleks. Tired of all the death and violence she has witnessed, Tegan decides to remain on Earth, causing the Doctor to rethink his lifestyle.

Lone travels with Turlough

Tegan has only just left and the Doctor is checking to ensure that the Gravis did no lasting damage to the TARDIS in Frontios, setting this shortly after Resurrection of the Daleks.
Weeks have passed since Lords of the Storm, and the Doctor is still upset about Tegan's departure.
Turlough can operate the TARDIS accurately enough to move it forward in time by six months.
The Doctor is aided by a red-haired young man, presumably Turlough.
Turlough returns to his home planet, and the Doctor destroys Kamelion at the robot's request. Peri Brown joins the Doctor in his travels aboard the TARDIS.

Early travels with Peri

The Doctor asks Peri to stay in the TARDIS library when he believes that the destination they've arrived at is an unsuitable place for him to start showing her the wonders of the universe, setting this immediately after Planet of Fire. After seeing her still in the company of his next incarnation, the Doctor realises that he will regenerate soon.
Peri has only just joined the Doctor and is still trying to figure out if she wants to stay with him. A few days have passed since leaving Sarn, setting this shortly after Planet of Fire. The Doctor expresses a desire to watch Les Misérables. The Doctor decides to attempt a trip to Headingley Stadium In 1981 again, leading directly into Black and White.
It has been three days since the TARDIS left Sarn, and Peri recalls spending two days on N'Tia in the interim. After visiting Headingley Stadium together, the Doctor takes Peri shopping in London to recover from her recent encounter with the N'Tians in Light at the End of the Tunnel. The Doctor and Peri watch Les Misérables.
It has only been a few days since the events of Planet of Fire. The Doctor gives his age as 850-years-old.
Peri is unfamiliar with the Ice Warriors, setting this before Red Dawn.
The Doctor encounters the Master for the first time since Planet of Fire, which occurred a week ago for the Doctor and Peri. Peri recalls visiting Mars in Red Dawn and Gelsandor in The Ultimate Treasure.
Peri has been travelling with the Doctor for two weeks and mentions her shopping trip in Black and White. Peri's only other experience of time travel was her trip to Regent Street in 1981.
The Doctor and Peri's previous trip was to Wembley Stadium in 1935, setting this immediately after The Church of Football.
Peri hasn't been time-travelling for long and is just getting used to the Doctor and the TARDIS. However, she is beginning to view the TARDIS as home. She is nineteen-years-old.

Second quest for the Key to Time

The Doctor has been intentionally separated from Peri until the Key to Time is found. He recalls the events of Red Dawn. The Doctor and Amy are ambushed by the Black Guardian, leading directly into The Destroyer of Delights.
The Doctor destroys the Key to Time in the Chaos Pool, and then makes plans to return to Peri.

Erimem joins the duo

The Doctor gives Peri a tour of the TARDIS. Erimem joins the TARDIS crew, with a cat she had adopted. The Doctor claims to have been to Egypt before but not recently, suggesting a setting before Never Seen Cairo.
Erimem names her recently adopted cat Antranak.
Set after The Tides of Time, as the Doctor recognises Shayde. Also set between The Church and the Crown and Nekromanteia, as Antranak appears and has already been named.
Antranak sacrifices his life saving the planet Talderun.
Set between Nekromanteia and The Axis of Insanity. Peri has heard the Doctor use the alias "John Smith" before. Erimem's hair is starting to grow longer. The Doctor leaves Peri and Erimem behind to run an errand and when he returns around ten seconds later from his companions' perspective, his hair is significantly longer.
The Doctor, Peri and Erimem spend several weeks in London.
Erimem does not have a TARDIS key, and Peri begins teaching her English.
Peri refers to their recent adventure in The Axis of Insanity. Erimem's ability to cope with time travel and her burgeoning relationship with Peri is explored.
Erimem has taken to wearing a key around her neck, and is still recovering from the events of The Roof of the World. Peri has only recently started travelling with the Doctor.

Unfinished business

The Doctor leaves Peri and Erimem in 1966 Monte Carlo to recover the Veiled Leopard. (AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard)
The Doctor appears to be travelling alone and encounters Tegan in 1987 Australia, setting this after Resurrection of the Daleks. The Doctor is depicted in his second costume and the events of Snakedance are referenced.
The Doctor appears to be travelling alone.
The Doctor appears to be travelling alone.
The Doctor appears to be travelling alone.
The Doctor appears to be travelling alone, and meets with Sarah Jane Smith, setting this after The Five Doctors.
The Doctor appears to be travelling alone.
The Doctor is depicted in his second outfit and appears to be travelling alone.
The Doctor attempts to visit the Ice Caves of Shabadabadon but ends up arriving at the Gogglebox. He decides to solve the mystery of energy spikes appearing across time, originating in 1980s Baltimore before returning to Peri and Erimem. During his investigation, he is reunited with Tegan Jovanka in 2006 Brisbane.
The Doctor returns to Monte Carlo for Peri and Erimem.

Final adventures with Erimem

The Doctor attends the inauguration of the three-bodied lustrousness of the Vix with Peri and Erimem.
Erimem is reasonably proficient in written English.
The Doctor recalls the events of Blood and Hope.
Erimem leaves the Doctor and Peri.

Final travels

Set shortly after Erimem's departure.
Peri has been traveling with the Doctor for months now, and has her own TARDIS key.
The Doctor and Peri are separated from each other for a year, during which time Peri becomes a guerrilla fighter on the planet Sylvana.
The Doctor and Peri return to the setting of an adventure they had a month previously.
In an alternate timeline created by Rassilon and the Cybermen, the Doctor is forced to land the TARDIS on a Cyberman occupied Skaro.
The Doctor and Peri attempt to flee from the Cybermen following their arrival on Skaro.
Ending leads directly into The Caves of Androzani.
Poisoned by spectrox toxaemia, the Doctor regenerates into his next incarnation after ensuring that Peri is cured of the poisoning.
Set during the Doctor's regeneration in The Caves of Androzani: Part 4.

Currently unplaced

These entries are placed here due to being part of an ongoing storyline that has yet to offer sufficient enough evidence to be placed in a specific part of this Doctor's timeline.

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Awaiting placement

These entries are placed here until evidence presents itself that provides a clue as to where they happen in relation to other entries. Some of these are part of ongoing storylines that could present evidence towards the end of the plot.

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20000305044754/http://www.doctorwho.co.uk/bf-1.htm
  2. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-ringpullworld-481
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