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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 generally assumed, much like their TV story counterparts, that each novel, comic or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in, although the audio stories that use the Peter Howell theme are often set before audio stories the Dominic Glynn theme. 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 Databanks, Whopix, the Big Finish forums, 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

Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just Peri Brown, specifically when Peri is young and more nervous, must take place between The Twin Dilemma and before Peri takes a leave of absence from the TARDIS at some point before The Shape Shifter. Any stories that feature a more mature and confident Peri traveling alone with the Doctor must take place between The World Shapers and Mindwarp. Any stories that feature Peri after she was left on Thoros Beta must follow The Widow's Assassin.

Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just Frobisher must take place between The Shape Shifter and Kane's Story or between The Maltese Penguin and The Age of Chaos.

Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with Charlotte Pollard must take place between The Condemned and Patient Zero, while any stories featuring Mila must take place between Patient Zero and Blue Forgotten Planet.

Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with the Land of Fiction recreation of Jamie McCrimmon must take place between City of Spires and Legend of the Cybermen.

Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just Flip Jackson must take place between The Curse of Davros and Scavenger.

Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just Constance Clarke must take place between Criss-Cross and Absolute Power, while any story with her and Flip must follow Quicksilver.

Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with Mel Bush must take place after Business Unusual and before his regeneration in the beginning of Time and the Rani.

Timeline

Dark beginnings

The Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation.
Set immediately after The Caves of Androzani, with the Doctor suffering severe bouts of post-regeneration trauma, such as mood swings and deliriousness.
In the past couple of days, the Doctor has recovered from his regeneration, but is still haunted by "the bleakness of Jaconda", setting this shortly after The Twin Dilemma. The Doctor begins carrying a sonic lance. The chameleon circuit within the Doctor's TARDIS is rendered operational, though only briefly.
The Doctor is still tinkering with the chameleon circuit, but is convinced to stop by Peri after the TARDIS rapidly shifts between an improbable array of forms.
The Doctor is still tinkering with the TARDIS's systems, setting this shortly after Attack of the Cybermen. Visiting Varos to complete the TARDIS's repairs, the Doctor encounters Sil the Mentor for the first time.
The Doctor has just left Varos, setting this immediately after Vengeance on Varos. Peri still feels discomfort around the Doctor, although no longer believes that he is unhinged or trying to kill her.
Peri's most recent traumatic memories include being momentarily transformed into an avian hybrid during Vengeance on Varos.
Set after Vengeance on Varos, with the Doctor still carrying out repairs on the TARDIS. The Doctor is still running in the zeiton-7 ore and claims that the TARDIS needs to be recalibrated. Peri receives a scar on Dorsill.
Set shortly after Vengeance on Varos, since the Doctor refers to the acquisition of zeiton-7 ore as only the first step in repairing the TARDIS. He recalibrates the TARDIS, setting this shortly after Grave Matter.
Set after Grave Matter, with the Skin Deep process removing Peri's scar. Also set after Moon Graffiti, as the Doctor is still "fiddling around" with the zeiton-7 ore he acquired in Vengeance on Varos.
The Doctor and Peri are very abrasive to each other, setting this during early Season 22.
The Doctor and Peri foil the invasion attempt of the telepathic worms. (PROSE: Old Boys)
The Doctor and Peri are arguing, setting this early in their travels.
Peri is still shaken by the Doctor's regeneration, although some time has passed and Peri feels as though the Doctor has been distant since settling into his new body. Peri decides she wants to leave the TARDIS, but appears to reconsider after being told about Susan Foreman by the Doctor.
According to the back cover, this is set between Vengeance on Varos and Mark of the Rani. A subjective month has passed since Vengeance on Varos, with Peri recalling the Doctor's resigned attitude towards the TARDIS stalling. Peri sees the Doctor genuinely happy and cheerful for the first time since his regeneration.
The Doctor convinces an RWR Mark II android to deactivate itself by pointing out it has no purpose.
During a battle with the Tremas Master, the Doctor is confronted by the Rani for the first time since he left Gallifrey. Peri wonders if the TARDIS is still malfunctioning, which the Doctor dismisses, claiming to have put "a lot of work" into fixing it.
The Doctor and Peri have just left Killingworth, setting this immediately after The Mark of the Rani.
Peri claims she hasn't eaten since visiting the Industrial Revolution, setting this shortly after The Mark of the Rani.
According to the back cover, this book is set between The Mark of the Rani and The Two Doctors. Peri complains about the punishment dome from Vengeance on Varos.
Set before The Two Doctors, as the Doctor is depicted eating meat.
The Doctor is still acting rude towards people, and Peri is apologising for his behavior, setting this early in their travels.
In an act of self-preservation, a wounded Doctor is forced to kill Shockeye with his bare hands to prevent the Androgum from hunting him down. After the ordeal, the Doctor resolves to begin a vegetarian diet.
In an artificial scenario, the Doctor kills an innocent tramp, though protests that he would never commit such an act in real life. Peri is feeling homesick.
The Doctor and Peri go back in time to kill a dictator as a baby. However, the Doctor is unable to go through with the act and leaves.
After struggling with his violent tendencies, the Doctor decides to change his ways.

Mellowing out

The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
Peri recognises the Second Doctor on sight, setting this after The Two Doctors. The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
The Doctor attempts to take Peri home for a visit, but lands several years too early. The Doctor is a vegetarian, setting this after The Two Doctors. Peri is wrestling with the decision of whether or not to leave the Doctor, but ultimately decides that she belongs by his side.
Set between The Two Doctors and Timelash.[1] Peri is attending a botany symposium on the other side of the galaxy while the Doctor answers his summons from Willis.
Enjoying a vegetarian lasagne while Peri visits some friends, the Doctor meets Becky, who teaches him to dance.
The Doctor is travelling alone and is "tying up loose ends" in regards to his encounters with the Mara. He acquires a new Sonic lance, noting that an "encounter in the sewers did it for the last one", setting this after Attack of the Cybermen and before any other story where the Doctor is seen using a sonic lance.
The Doctor and Peri encounter the Master, setting this after Mark of the Rani.
During Doctor Who Annual 1985, the Doctor and Peri are well acquainted with one another, but there's still a lot of bickering between them, setting this after the Blue Box. The Doctor is also depicted wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
The Doctor and Peri encounter the Master, setting this after The Mark of the Rani.
Peri recalls her last encounter with the Rani being in The Mark of the Rani, setting this before State of Change. The Doctor uses a Sonic lance, setting this after The Terrible Manussa.
Peri hasn't had the chance to relax in a while. According to her, the Doctor hasn't been to 12th century Earth since his regeneration.
Peri mentions that she has recently been to Karfel, setting this shortly after Timelash.
Set between Timelash and Revelation of the Daleks.[2] Peri believes that she's been travelling with the Doctor for "a couple of years".
Peri recalls the events of Vengeance on Varos.
It has been a while since the Doctor disconnected the TARDIS' chameleon circuit following the unsuccessful attempts to repair it in Attack of the Cybermen.
Peri refers to her encounter with H. G. Wells on Karfel from Timelash. The Doctor is depicted wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22. Peri and the Doctor are still bickering, but with an understanding of playfulness to it. Peri speaks of her mother in the present-tense, setting this before The Reaping.
Peri is wearing the clothes she wore in Attack of the Cybermen, and she and the Doctor are sarcastic towards each other, however it is more good natured than in their early travels together.
The Doctor claims to be 900-years-old. After dealing with Davros, the Doctor decides to take Peri to Blackpool, potentially leading into The Nightmare Fair.
The Doctor still has the broken watch from Revelation of the Daleks.
Set a week after Revelation of the Daleks. Peri has had the pocket watch she broke repaired.
Peri recalls the events of The Ruins of Heaven.
Peri recalls the events of Revelation of the Daleks. She and the Doctor are still bickering, but are more friendly with each other, with the Doctor going to great lengths to retrieve a present for her, due to it being Peri's birthday. The Doctor buys a new pocket watch in Paris.
The Doctor still has the entry visa for heaven and has a working pocket watch, setting this after The Ruins of Heaven.
Authorial intent places this between Revelation of the Daleks and The Trial of a Time Lord.[3]
The Doctor and Peri arrive in Blackpool, though by accident, setting this after Revelation of the Daleks.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
Follows directly on from Mission to Magnus, with Peri suggesting that the TARDIS' navigation was tampered with by Sil and Rana Zanduthia.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
The Doctor and Peri both refer to the events of The Hollows of Time. The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22. The Doctor and Peri consider the events of The Mark of the Rani to be a recent happening. The Doctor also claims that the Elizabethan era is the earliest point in Earth's history that Peri has visited during her travels in the TARDIS, despite evidence to the contrary.
The Doctor refers to his regeneration as having been recent. Peri mentions the Daleks, setting this after Revelation of the Daleks.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22. Peri wants to visit her mother and her stepfather to let them know that she is all right after she left them in Lanzarote to travel with the Doctor, setting this before The Reaping. She also refers to the events of Point of Entry.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the blue cravat he wore throughout Season 22. He and Peri encounter the Rani, setting this after Something Borrowed. The Doctor and Peri are still bickering, but in a friendlier manner.
The Doctor and Peri attend the coronation of Elizabeth II. The Doctor is depicted wearing his clothes from Season 22.
During Doctor Who Annual 1986, the Doctor is depicted wearing the clothes he wore in throughout Season 22.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
According to the back cover, this is set between Revelation of the Daleks and The Trial of a Time Lord. The Doctor and Peri are getting along, and Peri feels as though the TARDIS has begun to feel like home in recent months.
The Doctor suggests that the microbes infected the TARDIS some time ago after he experimented with changing its appearance, setting this after Attack of the Cybermen. The Doctor and Peri have a close relationship and the Doctor visits an old friend who recognises his current incarnation.
The Doctor is depicted wearing the clothes he wore in Mindwarp, but Peri has her short hairstyle.
Peri mentions the Rassilon Imprimatur, setting this after The Two Doctors, and the Doctor talks of Davros to her, suggesting this story is also set after Revelation of the Daleks.
The Doctor and Peri are getting along.
Set after Whispers of Terror. The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
Set between Revelation of the Daleks and The Trial of a Time Lord, and after ...ish.[4] While only four months have passed on Earth since Peri disappeared in Lanzarote, to her it seems closer to years. Peri leaves the Doctor to live with her mother again, but the Doctor immediately goes back to get her after learning her mother was murdered.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing a red cravat.
The Doctor and Peri get along with each other, setting this later in their travels together.
Set between Revelation of the Daleks and The Trial of a Time Lord.[5] Both of Peri's parents are deceased, setting this after The Reaping. The Doctor and Peri are getting along.
The Doctor is depicted wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22, and he and Peri have a more mellow dynamic between them.

Temporary association with Joe

While the Doctor helps Colonel Crichton in Derbyshire, Peri is left alone in 1980s London. She visits Top of the Pops and meets Joe Carnaby. Peri develops a romantic relationship with him, and he subsequently joins the Doctor and Peri in the TARDIS. (AUDIO: I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day)
This is Joe's third trip in the TARDIS, and the Doctor is still adjusting to his presence. Peri is insistent that the Doctor shares every detail of his plans with her.
Peri has travelled with the Doctor for a long time. Her DNA has been altered by all the alien possessions she's endured.
The Doctor has landed in the 59th century for the third time in a row, and Peri is still recovering from the events of The Baby Awakes. Joe asks Peri to leave the Doctor to live in the 59th century with him. Ending leads directly into Brightly Shone The Moon That Night.
Joe is revealed to be a Were Lord and has been manipulating the TARDIS's course since he arrived. He is killed by Peri, who is reunited with her children from The Baby Awakes.

Travelling alone

After leaving Peri in 1985 New York City, the Doctor starts traveling on his own. (COMIC: Kane's Story)
The Doctor has a more mellow demeanour than he exhibited in his early lifetime, but still thinks highly of himself and his reputation.
The Doctor is willing to work with the Time Lords, setting this before The Trial of a Time Lord.
Implied to be set before The Shape Shifter, with he Doctor confused as to why penguins would be looking for "a friend of theirs" in his TARDIS.
The Doctor is wearing his technicolour coat and has a rather jolly demeanour. He spends a great deal of time recounting stories of his adventures on other worlds to Clio, before presenting her with a cloth cat.
Originally intended for the Sixth Doctor's Magazine tenure. The Doctor is on Gallifrey, answering a summons from an old friend, without question, implying a setting before The Trial of a Time Lord.

Meeting Frobisher

The Doctor is confronted by Whifferdill private investigator Avan Tarklu, who brings him to Josiah W. Dogbolter for a bounty. However, after the two agree to split the money and escape, Tarklu decides to remain aboard the TARDIS as the Doctor's companion.
Avan Tarklu decides to settle on the form of a penguin, and to go by the name "Frobisher", as it sounds British enough for the Doctor to like. He and the Doctor are then assigned by the cosmic being known as Voyager to find Astrolabus, a renegade Time Lord who has stolen important star-charts.
The Doctor leaves the money he and Frobisher stole from Intra-Venus, Inc. in The Shape Shifter with Ivan Asimoff. Frobisher is kidnapped by Astrolabus, leading directly into Once Upon a Time Lord.
The Doctor saves Frobisher from Astrolabus, who is then killed by Voyager, ending his threat and freeing the Doctor from Voyager's services.

The return of Peri

The Doctor retrieves Peri from 1985 New York City.
The Doctor and Frobisher are traveling with a short-haired Peri, and Frobisher can shapeshift, setting this before Exodus. On the advice of a future Doctor, Frobisher tricks Adam Mitchell into kidnapping him instead of Peri, setting up the climax of Endgame. However, the real Peri is later captured by Adam, as she appears as his prisoner in The Choice.
The Doctor joins with his other incarnations to rescue Peri from Adam and the Tremas Master, and assists the other Doctors in saving their companions as well.
Frobisher becomes ill-stricken with mono-morphia, trapping him in the form of a penguin.
Although she is mentioned several times, Peri is absent from this story, as she is enjoying a baseball game at the Dodger's Stadium in 1985.
Peri begins wearing the hairstyle and outfit that she would wear in The Mysterious Planet.
Frobisher is beginning to recover from the mono-morphia in his system.
Set "a couple of years" after The Two Doctors.
Sometime after witnessing Jamie's demise, Frobisher decides to leave the TARDIS to become a detective, leaving the Doctor and Peri to travel onwards alone. (AUDIO: The Maltese Penguin)
Peri is depicted with the hairstyle she had during The Mysterious Planet.
The Doctor and Peri see visions of Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, and Draconians.
Though she is absent, the Doctor is currently traveling with Peri and last encountered Davros in Revelation of the Daleks. In Emperor of the Daleks, the Doctor remarks that he got the Dalekanium wire from Frobisher.
Peri is described as having the hairstyle she sported in The Mysterious Planet.
Set before The Trial of a Time Lord.[6] Peri has encountered the Daleks before, setting this after Revelation of the Daleks, and is depicted with the hairstyle she had in The Mysterious Planet.
The Doctor and Peri land on the planet Ravolox, and discover that it is a devastated Earth, relocated two light-years away from its proper position.
The Doctor and Peri have a much friendlier relationship, setting this late in their travels.
The Doctor tells Peri of his pity for the Cybermen, setting this late in their travels.
The Doctor is described as wearing the clothes he wore in Mindwarp.
The Doctor is depicted wearing the clothes he wore in Mindwarp.
On Thoros Beta, the Doctor is forcibly separated from Peri when the Time Lords overtake his mind, guide him back to his TARDIS and have him depart from Thoros Beta to stand trial, leading directly into The Trial of a Time Lord.

Trial

After learning that he was deposed as Lord President for neglecting his duties, the Doctor is forced to stand trial against the Time Lords on Space Station Zenobia. Representing himself against his prosecutor, the Valeyard, the Doctor observes the events of The Mysterious Planet, Mindwarp & Terror of the Vervoids via the Matrix, and suffers an emotional blow when he witnesses Peri's apparent death on Thoros Beta.
Set during The Trial of a Time Lord, between Mindwarp and Terror of the Vervoids. The Doctor sees Evelyn Smythe when taking a glimpse into his future, and recalls an undocumented encounter with Charlotte Pollard.
Set immediately after the Terror of the Vervoids section, and features a Sixth Doctor from an alternative timeline.
The Master arrives at the trial as a surprise witness, and reveals to the Doctor that the Time Lords are responsible for the Ravolox conspiracy, and that his trial is a farce put on to discredit him. Providing Melanie Bush and Sabalom Glitz as witnesses to the Doctor's innocence, the Master also lets slip that the Valeyard is a future personification of the Doctor using the trial for his own agenda. After foiling the plots of his various adversaries, the Doctor learns from Inquisitor Darkel that Peri has survived to become the Warrior Queen of the Krontep, and departs Space Station Zenobia with Melanie.
In an alternate timeline created by Rassilon and the Cybermen, the Doctor and Melanie find the Matrix compromised by the Cybermen during The Ultimate Foe.
The Doctor brings Melanie to Pease Pottage, believing that she can reunite with "her Doctor" there, despite her protests that she had left him on Oxyveguramosa. The Doctor meets a future version of himself in the process, who recommends that he take a trip to Sheffield Hallam University.
The Doctor returns Melanie to Oxyveguramosa as promised, reuniting her with his future self.

Pessimistic about his future

Set immediately after The Ultimate Foe, according to the back cover. The Doctor spends several months as a recluse on Torrok in order to avoid meeting Melanie Bush, as he fears meeting her will put him on the path to becoming the Valeyard. However, the Time Lords manipulate him into saving Earth from Krllxk. After he helps the Doctor defeat a giant robot dinosaur in New Tokyo, Grant Markham joins the Doctor as his companion.
Grant takes his first trip in the TARDIS. By the end of this adventure the Doctor offers Grant full companionship.
A man resembling Grant is known to have been removed from history by the Doctor. (PROSE: Repercussions...)
The Doctor is still hurt by the recent events of The Trial of a Time Lord.
Set shortly after the Doctor's trial, with a much wearier Doctor, whose love for life has diminished somewhat. Though an adventure with Iris Wildthyme gets him out of his funk, he's still nevertheless a very lonely man by the end of it.
The Doctor is still portrayed as a recluse.
In despair at becoming the Valeyard, the Doctor goes into isolation long enough to grow a goatee beard. After the Fates tell him that becoming the Valeyard is but one possible timeline, the Doctor decides to resume his travels, his desire to roam the universe restored.

Optimistic travels

The Celestial Toymaker refers to the events of Timelash and Revelation of the Daleks. The Toymaker watched the Doctor for years, waiting for a time the Doctor was travelling alone to spring his trap. Frobisher is among the Celestial Toymaker's dolls, setting this at least after The Shape Shifter.
The Doctor is wearing the waistcoat and cravat from The Trial of a Time Lord.
The Carrionites use the name "Valeyard" to taunt the Doctor, but he insists that the Valeyard is only a potential future for him. The Doctor owns a signed copy of a book written by George Litefoot.
The Doctor is wearing his Technicolor coat and embroidered mourning cloak.
The Doctor is traveling alone, has not yet worn his blue coat, and feels regret for an outburst.
On a visit to Baspral, the Doctor prevents a Seer from drowning a young boy. (PROSE: The Inquisitor's Story)
The Doctor is unaware of the details of Peri's fate, but it is established that a considerable amount of time has passed since the Doctor was forced to leave her on Thoros Beta, and he resolves to start looking for her, after a brief time of recuperation.
In his search for her, the Doctor discovers that multiple versions of Peri Brown exist.
The Doctor contemplates visiting a version of Peri who rules Krontep, but decides she is too busy.
The Doctor is wearing his Technicolor coat.
The Doctor has been travelling alone for a while, but still greatly regrets the loss of Peri. He is depicted wearing his yellow cravat.

Travelling with an historian

The Doctor meets history lecturer Evelyn Smythe at Sheffield Hallam University. After she helps him save her family history, Evelyn insists on joining the Doctor on his travels, and the Doctor accepts her company.
The Doctor has recently had a cold, caused by falling into the Thames in The Marian Conspiracy. From the Doctor's perspective, this is the first time that he has met the Brigadier during his sixth incarnation.
Evelyn was in the TARDIS while the Doctor was at the Kurgon Wonder, as revealed in Instruments of Darkness.
The events of The Sirens of Time are referenced. The Doctor is aware that his status as Lord President has been revoked, and Evelyn encounters the Daleks for the first time.
The Doctor switches his Technicolor frock coat for a blue coat. All stories with the Doctor wearing this coat must take place after this.
The Doctor and Evelyn have just left the Clutch, setting this immediately after The Sandman.
Evelyn is familiar with the Daleks, and recalls being on board a Dalek spaceship, setting this after Jubilee. The Doctor's need to warn her to play along with their out-of-sequence meeting with Newton suggests this takes place early in her travels.
Sequel story to Project: Twilight. The tension between the Doctor and Evelyn on the death of Cassandra Schofield leads directly into Arrangements for War.
The Doctor recalls meeting his successor during The Sirens of Time. Evelyn tells Rossiter about the recent events from Doctor Who and The Pirates and Project Lazarus.
The Doctor has his first confrontation with Dr. Robert Knox.
Evelyn refers to her encounter with Dr. Robert Knox from Medicinal Purposes and the Doctor wears his technicolour coat.
The Doctor hasn't had a sonic screwdriver since his fifth incarnation.
Evelyn has witnessed the Doctor falling into the River Thames twice before, setting this after Project: Twilight.
The Doctor, wearing his Technicolor coat and traveling with Evelyn, prevents Edward Grainger being falsely accused of treason in 1957. (PROSE: Old Boys)
The Doctor and Evelyn join Bernice Summerfield's archaeological expedition. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)
The Doctor and Evelyn spend a day flying kites. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)
Evelyn refers to her encounters with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from My Own Private Wolfgang.
The Doctor spends one hundred years travelling in the TARDIS with Evelyn, Jacob, Mary, and Peter Williams, while they recover from being frozen in time. Once they are unfrozen, the Doctor and Evelyn return the Williams family home.
Evelyn is familiar with Gallifreyan politics, setting this after The Apocalypse Element. The Sixth Doctor once believed that his life would be "short, but sweet".
Evelyn has made a habit of jumping from trains, setting this after The Nowhere Place.
The first of the Doctor's thirteen Technicolor coats are destroyed in an explosion. Evelyn refers to the time she and the Doctor had to swim the Thames in Project: Twilight. The Doctor meets Flip Jackson and Jared Ramon on Symbios after a London tube train slips through a temporal fissure, and has his first meeting with DI Patricia Menzies. Thomas Brewster, in a desperate attempt to return to his own time, sneaks into the TARDIS and holds the Doctor and Evelyn at gunpoint, leading directly into The Feast of Axos.
The Doctor and Evelyn manage to disarm Brewster, and the Doctor refuses to return Brewster home, as using his future knowledge would cause chaos and anarchy. Brewster demands that the Doctor takes him back to his own time, leading into Industrial Evolution.
Brewster is returned to Victorian Lancashire by the Doctor and Evelyn, however they stick around for several weeks to investigate the brass mill.
The Doctor is wearing his blue coat.
On a return trip to Világ, Evelyn leaves the Doctor to marry Justice Rossiter. The Doctor reacts badly to the news and refuses to give a proper goodbye. (AUDIO: Thicker Than Water)

Old acquaintances

The Doctor visits Frobisher, three weeks after being dropped off from Frobisher's perspective, to ask if he's grown tired of playing detectives and wants to return to the TARDIS. His feelings hurt, Frobisher declines the offer.
The Doctor loses another blue coat during the Tangiwai Disaster.
Evelyn Smythe has recently left the TARDIS, with the Doctor finishing the final slice of her sponge cake and absentmindedly talking to her when he is admiring its taste. The Doctor vows to resume wearing his Technicolor coat when he travels with Mel in the future after a time remnant of her is killed.
The Doctor visits Frobisher a second time, but he once again declines to return to the TARDIS as he is busy with an ongoing investigation.
The Doctor is melancholy following the recent departure of a companion, presumably Evelyn. He offers Linda Grainger a trip in the TARDIS, but she declines. The Doctor is wearing his Technicolor coat.
The Doctor notes that he is celebrating Christmas on his own for the first time in a while, presumably setting this shortly after the departure of a companion.
The Doctor gives an uncomfortable pause when asked if he is traveling alone, and is noted by Claire Aldwych to have "a kind of sorrow about him". The Sixth Doctor and the Brigadier are already familiar with each other, setting this after The Spectre of Lanyon Moor.
Sequel story to The Trial of a Time Lord, and the first time the Doctor has faced the Valeyard since The Ultimate Foe.
The Doctor returns to ask Frobisher if he wants to travel with him again. This time, Frobisher accepts the offer.
The Doctor is still sedate and mistrusting after his trial.
Set after The Maltese Penguin, with the Doctor, excited about seeing the universe again, looking to find out what happened to Peri on Thoros Beta. He and Frobisher then visit a version of Peri who has lived a long life as Queen of Krontep.
Frobisher and the Doctor eventually part ways again, with Frobisher not traveling with him again until his next incarnation. (COMIC: A Cold Day in Hell!)
On a return trip to Baspral, the Doctor is informed of the repercussions of his previous trip.
Whilst defeating an Auton invasion, the Doctor takes the time to teach a teenage Becky how to dance. For him, it has been eighty years since he last saw her.
The Doctor checks up on Mary Barton. He is wearing his Technicolor coat and is sensitive about his weight.

Adventures that were wiped from history

The Doctor meets William in a fishing shop, and invites him to go fishing. After competing in a fishing contest, the Doctor and William decide to travel together.
In order to stop Flora Millrace embarking on her murder spree, the Eighth Doctor prevents his sixth incarnation from meeting William.

New friends

While on the trail of "the Darkness", the Doctor is saved from a mugging by Will Hoffman and Emily Chaudhry. Aided by UNIT, the Doctor stops the Darkness and agrees to take Emily and Will home via the TARDIS, leading directly into Incongruous Details.
En route to UNIT HQ, the Doctor gets side-tracked by a distress signal. They decide to take a trip to the 1950s in order to locate some missing records, leading directly into Defining Patterns.
It is still Will's first day working for UNIT and he has taken two trips in the TARDIS. The Doctor returns Emily and Will home after a run in with Agent Ronnie Tillyard in 1957.
The Doctor helps Horlak and his Silurian tribe quarantine themselves on an island in the Pacific Ocean. (COMIC: The Lost Dimension)
The Doctor tangles with a Logovore, but is unable to defeat it, and has his memories of Edward Grainger taken. (PROSE: Death Sentences)
The Doctor rescues Jason from the guillotine during French Revolution, and he becomes his companion. (AUDIO: The Ultimate Adventure)
While stopping the Cybermen from kidnapping a US Envoy from the Number 10 nightclub, the Doctor and Jason meet Crystal, who helps them combat the Dalek Emperor and then joins them in the TARDIS with Zog, a slave from Deneb IV she had befriended. The Doctor possesses a sonic screwdriver, and Peri and Evelyn are mentioned as former companions of his.
Zog stops traveling with the Doctor, Jason and Crystal. (AUDIO: Beyond the Ultimate Adventure)

The companion from the future

Charley Pollard enters the TARDIS, having expected someone else to be inside. Ending leads directly into The Condemned.
The Doctor is wearing his blue coat and was travelling alone before reluctantly taking Charley on as his companion. The Doctor has his second encounter with DI Menzies, though it is their first time together from her perspective.
Charley has only recently joined the Doctor on his travels.
The Doctor has yet to meet Sigmund Freud.
Charley refers to the fictional highwaymen from The Doomwood Curse and the Marxist Daleks from Brotherhood of the Daleks.
The Doctor and Charley have been travelling together for weeks.
Set immediately after The Avenues of Possibility. The Doctor and Charley decide to investigate the source of the temporal distortions.
The Doctor and Charley encounter the Krotons. Following this encounter, the Doctor decides to take Charley to breakfast, leading directly into The Raincloud Man.
Set immediately after Return of the Krotons, with the Doctor and Charley having breakfast at a cafe, and Charley noting that they made it to their intended destination on the first attempt.
After she contracts a virus, the Doctor puts Charley in the Zero Room while he tries to locate the source of the virus, and thus a cure. After taking many years searching for a cure, the Doctor traces the virus to the Amethyst Viral Containment Station. While he confronts the Daleks, Charley awakens from her coma and is replaced in existence by Mila.
While under the guise of Charley, Mila has already been travelling with the Doctor for some time before she is killed. In order to preserve future events, Charley has the Viyrans edit the Doctor's memory so that his memories of his time with her are replaced with the memory of Mila, as well as a more peaceful departure for her in place of her death.

The Land of Fiction

Arriving in Scotland, the Doctor is reunited with an amnesiac Jamie McCrimmon and, after an adventure during the Battle of Culloden, Jamie accepts the Doctor's offer to travel with him.
The Doctor has recently defeated the Red Caps in Scotland, setting this immediately after City of Spires.
Jamie refers to his recent encounter with the Kelpie from Night's Black Agents. Ending leads directly into Legend of the Cybermen.
The Doctor and Jamie discover that they have been in the Land of Fiction all along, and that Jamie is a fictional character created by Zoe Heriot, the new Master of the Land, as a mystery for the Doctor to solve, while Zoe uses them to combat an invasion by the Cybermen. After their adventure, Jamie decides to remain in the Land, while the Doctor returns Zoe to the Space Station W3, saddened at the fact that she would once again fall under the Time Lords' conditioning and lose all memory of him.

Living in Victorian London

The Doctor crash lands in Victorian London due to the temporal experiments performed by Professor Elliot Payne, causing him to become stranded. (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers)
Using the alias "Professor Claudius Dark", the Doctor attempts to convince Johnny Skipton of Payne's intentions.
"Professor Dark" tells Ellie Higson that he is enquiring after Henry Gordon Jago and Professor George Litefoot.
The Doctor employs the services of an electric supplier to fix the TARDIS. (AUDIO: Chronoclasm) He is later forced to sink the TARDIS into the Thames embankment to stop Mr Kempston and Mr. Hardwick from stealing it. (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers)
The Doctor invites Jago and Litefoot to meet with him, but chooses not to reveal his identity, raising their suspicion.
"Professor Dark" warns Jago and Litefoot of the approaching Sandmen, and suggests to Leela that she take them to Brighton.
"Professor Dark" gives Jago, Litefoot and Leela tickets to Oscar Wilde's new show.
The Doctor saves Jago and Litefoot from a train trapped in a time loop, and reveals his true identity to them.
Having retrieved his TARDIS, the Doctor offers Jago and Litefoot the chance to travel with him, which they accept.

Voyages with Jago and Litefoot

Jago and Litefoot take their first trip in the TARDIS. Ending leads directly into Voyage to the New World.
The Doctor leaves Jago and Litefoot at the Red Tavern, but in the 1960s instead of the 1890s.

Travelling with Flip Jackson

Forced to switch bodies with Davros to save the Battle of Waterloo, the Doctor is assisted by Flip Jackson, and, when he gets his body back, Flip decides to travel with the Doctor.
In regards to Flip, the Doctor says he wasn't expecting to take on a new companion so soon, suggesting that he has only just parted ways with a previous companion.
The Doctor explains the concept of regeneration to Flip, and has recently started wearing his Technicolor coat around Flip, setting this before Antidote to Oblivion. The Doctor recalls the events of The Red House.
Ending leads directly into Cortex Fire.
The Doctor tells Flip that multiple versions of Peri exist, and that he wants to find out for sure what happened to her and reunite, setting this after Peri and the Piscon Paradox.
Flip reminds the Doctor that he promised her a return to trip to Tranquility from Antidote to Oblivion.
Flip reminds the Doctor that he promised her a return to trip to Tranquility from Antidote to Oblivion and the Doctor is still pining for Peri. Flip becomes separated from the Doctor in orbit around 2071 Earth.
The Doctor is able to save Flip and return her to 2012 Earth. (AUDIO: The Widow's Assassin)

Reunited with Peri

After he finds her on Krontep, the Doctor spends roughly ten years working to free Peri from a mind parasite, and she re-joins him as his companion. He mentions saving Flip after Scavenger, which was his previous adventure.
Set shortly after The Widow's Assassin, with Peri noting that the Doctor and her are having a "fresh start" with their travels after being reunited. The Doctor recalls his adventures with Jamie McCrimmon and Rob Roy MacGregor, setting this after Legend of the Cybermen.

Companionless travels

The Doctor is travelling alone, and is reunited with Harry Houdini. An Estrati takes the form of Peri Brown from the Doctor's recent memory. The Doctor comments on how he keeps having to say goodbye to Peri, suggesting a post-The Widow's Assassin setting.
Late-Victorian Britain is one of the Doctor's favourite times and places, suggesting that he has spent an exceeded amount of time there in the past.
The Doctor is travelling alone, and has been championing the cause of Malean mutants for some time. Pursued by Myklos, he is accompanying a pair of mutants to the Sanctuary on Bukol, and unintentionally gets his first incarnation involved when he is hospitalised.
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.
The Doctor refers to Jago and Litefoot as good friends. The Doctor is aware that Romana is president of Gallifrey, setting this after The Apocalypse Element.
Set after Stage Fright. The Doctor has visited Victorian England, particularly around the time that Jago and Litefoot active as internal investigators, so many times that it has caught the attention of the Decayed Master.

Early adventures with Mrs. Constance Clarke

The Doctor is joined in his travels by Bletchley Park WREN Constance Clarke, who wants to be taken back to her duties once she decides to finish travelling.
The Doctor recognises the Rani from The Rani Elite.
The Doctor and Constance have been traveling with each other for quite a while, with Constance stating that the TARDIS is always getting them lost.
Constance knows about the TARDIS translation circuits, which she found out about in Shield of the Jotunn.
The Doctor mentions the "terraforming geo-machines" from Shield of the Jötunn.
Constance has only taken a few trips with the Doctor. She decides to return to Bletchley, leading directly into Quicksilver.

Rejoined by Flip

The Doctor is reunited with Flip in 1948 Vienna.

Temporary companions

The Doctor comments about tackling the legal system when he was "a younger man", implying that this takes place some years after The Trial of a Time Lord.
The Doctor meets River Song while investigating Golden Futures. Ending leads directly into The Eye of the Storm.
The Doctor and River defeat the Sperovores with the aid of the Seventh Doctor.
The Doctor is reunited with Jago and Litefoot. He uses the alias "Claudius Dark", setting this after Voyage to the New World.
The Doctor rescues space pilot Mathew Sharpe in 2715, and decides to take him on a trip in the TARDIS. On some extended trips, the Doctor and Mathew face Quarks, Mermodons and a Chronosaurus. (AUDIO: The Lure of the Nomad)
The Doctor is depicted wearing the clothes he wore in Mindwarp and makes reference to carrot juice. He has been travelling with Mathew for a while now and was preparing to return him to his own time when they arrived on the Nomad. Upon discovering that Mathew is a Myriad that had sought him out deliberately to ensure his mission, he promptly abandons him for his deception.
The Doctor investigates flooding in the Thames Tunnel with Isambard Kingdom Brunel, whom he meets for the first time. However, he had already met Marc Brunel in a previous incarnation.
The Doctor fights the Cybermen with the aid of UNIT, and meets Daniel Hopkins for the first time since The Helliax Rift. He invites Riva into the TARDIS for a trip back to her home planet.
The Doctor investigates Hellion with Inspector Yrsa Kristjansdottir.
Traveling alone, and having been injured to the point of regenerative collapse by Zor, the Doctor is healed by Jack Harkness and saved from having to regenerate.
During an adventure on Balavar IV, the Doctor meets Bernice Summerfield, and is recruited into assisting several of his other incarnations in the defeat of Sirens of Time.
Feeling his end drawing near, the Doctor tells the elderly Rebecca that he no longer has any friends or associates to share his adventures with, and that he is lonely.

History takes its course

After a period of avoiding Melanie Bush out of fear that travelling with her would lead him on the path to becoming the Valeyard, the Doctor decides to bow down to destiny and accept her as his companion when circumstances lead him to Pease Pottage and Mel helps him defeat a Nestene invasion with the Brigadier.
The Doctor claims to be 991-years-old.
The Doctor and Mel defeat the Rainbow. (PROSE: Old Boys)
The Doctor is also depicted wearing the clothes he wore in Terror of the Vervoids, and Mel knows how to fly the TARDIS.
According to the CD booklet, this audio is set after The One Doctor. Mel encounters the Daleks for the first time and spends two months separated from the Doctor on Lethe.
Mel has been travelling with the Doctor for a few months, and is able to make sense of future programming code on a human spaceship. She also encounters the Chelonians for the first time.
According to the CD booklet, this audio is set after The Juggernauts. Mel spends six months at Hallam Hall, though she is amnesiac during this period and does not recall much of what happened in recent months.
Mel knows the Daleks, and feels she needs to brush up on her knowledge of future technology after finding herself unable to make sense of Dalek technology.
According to the CD booklet, this audio is set after Catch-1782. Second depiction of Mel meeting with Evelyn, and Evelyn's life after traveling aboard the TARDIS. Mel calls the Doctor out on his attitude and egotistical demeanour.
Mel enrolls the Doctor in an anger management class in Pease Pottage, setting this during the time she was helping him to improve himself.
The Doctor and Mel encounter the Wishing Beast for the first time. Mel asks the Doctor to take her somewhere fabulous, leading directly into The Vanity Box.
The Doctor and Mel arrive in the 1960s, and encounter the Wishing Beast for a second time.
Set immediately after The Vanity Box. Although the Doctor is depicted wearing his blue coat on the CD cover, he is described in the story itself as wearing his Technicolored coat.
Mel is still trying to get the Doctor to exercise, setting this before Instruments of Darkness.
The Doctor is on a diet at Mel's insistence, setting this before Instruments of Darkness.

The final adventures

Mel and the Doctor are aiming for New Year's Eve 1999, setting this immediately before Millennial Rites.
The Doctor and Mel haven't encountered the Vervoids yet, setting this before Terror of the Vervoids. Mel believes she has been travelling with the Doctor for a couple of years, and has been taught how to operate the TARDIS by the Doctor. The Doctor is still following Mel's exercise regime.
The Doctor and Mel encounter the Vervoids on the Hyperion III.
The Doctor and Mel take a trip to Oxyveguramosa, but the Doctor remains within the TARDIS tinkering with a computer program developed by Mel. After Mel returns from being Mel is taken by the Tremas Master to give testimony at the Doctor's trial, it becomes clear that the Doctor wasn't aware of her absence.
Mel has been travelling with the Doctor for years and recalls the recent events of Millennial Rites which also depicted her last visit to Earth, while the Doctor recalls the events of Terror of the Vervoids. Mel has met Daleks, the Tremas Master and the Valeyard, setting this after The Juggernauts and The Ultimate Foe.
First depiction of Mel meeting with Evelyn, and Evelyn's life after traveling aboard the TARDIS. Mel guesses that she has been travelling with the Doctor for about a year, but finds it difficult to keep track of time in the TARDIS, most likely due to her extended time away from the Doctor in The Juggernauts and Catch-1782. The events of Terror of the Vervoids and The Quantum Archangel are referenced, and Mel mentions the Daleks and Chelonians. The Doctor's exercise bike is now in mothballs and covered by a dustsheet, suggesting that the Doctor has given up on the exercise regime devised by Mel. Mel's hair is significantly shorter than it was when she joined the Doctor, and she plans to grow it again.
Diamond Sharp references the Doctor's role in Terror of the Vervoids.
The Doctor recommends avoiding the work of agronomist Sarah Lasky, suggesting a post-Terror of the Vervoids setting.

Preparing for the end

Set shortly before Spiral Scratch, with the Doctor and Mel having just visited Caliban. The Doctor is reluctant to talk about the experience and Mel's current whereabouts goes unmentioned, although the Doctor doesn't think it would be a good idea to introduce Agatha Ellis to her at this time. The Doctor is given a glimpse of his future by Godfrey.
The Doctor discovers that he will die within two days' time.
The Doctor knows his end is drawing near, and makes it a priority to clear up any unfinished business he has.

Death

Shortly after Millennial Rites, and according to Head Games, the Doctor is influenced to kill himself by echoes of his next incarnation. With the HADS deactivated, the TARDIS is attacked by the First Rani, and the Doctor suffers a fatal head injury in the attack.
In the second depiction of his regeneration, the TARDIS is attacked by the Rani while the Doctor is suffering from chronon energy starvation after his confrontation with the Lamprey, and he bangs his head, fatally injuring himself.
In the third depiction of his regeneration, the Doctor is exposed to focused beams of a radiation lethal to Time Lords as a consequence of the Rani's attack on the TARDIS, due to a future version of himself sending him a message on how to defeat the Valeyard's master plan with his death.
The Doctor completes his regeneration into his next incarnation.

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.

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.
The Doctor and Peri have a strained relationship, but come to an understanding after the Doctor opens up to her. Peri hasn’t visited home for a very long time.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-davros-214
  2. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-year-of-the-pig-256
  3. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-cryptobiosis-454
  4. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-reaping-252
  5. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/vortex/pdf/124
  6. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/vortex/pdf/124
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