Ace’s Timeline

Here is ‘Ace’s Timeline’.

I’ve referred to

• ‘The History of the Doctor’ website – http://www.doctorwhoreviews.altervista.org/Index.html

and

• The Eyespider ‘Doctor Who’ site index – http://eyespider.org.uk/drwho/compleat.html

to help me put this version of the timeline together.

I’ve included all the TV stories, audios; books; graphic novel/comics and the Puffin e-book ‘The Ripple Effect’ into this list for now.

The (TV) and (Audio) stories are highlighted in PURPLE.

The (Book) stories are to remain un-highlighted for now.

The short stories are highlighted in PURPLE and/or ITALICS; and are CENTRED.

The stories with links to reviews by me on my blog are highlighted in BOLD and PURPLE.

Regarding the (Book) stories, I’ve identified each of them as follows in the KEY below.

KEY
*VNA – Virgin New Adventures
*PDA – Past Doctor Adventures
*BB – BBC Books

Regarding the (Audio) stories, I’ve identified each of them as follows in the KEY below.

KEY
**BAD – BBC Audio Drama
**BAB – BBC Audio Book
**BFAD – Big Finish Audio Drama
**BFAB – Big Finish Audio Book
**PAB – Puffin Audio Book

Here is a list of abbreviations for some of the (Audio) stories and what they mean.

• (CL) – ‘Class’

Regarding the short stories, I’ve identified each of them as follows with abbreviations.

• (ST) – Short Trip (either Big Finish or BBC)
• (SS) – ‘The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who’
• (DWM) – ‘Doctor Who Magazine’
• (VD) – Virgin Decalog
• (YB) – Yearbook
• (PT) – Perfect Timing
• (PT2) – Perfect Timing 2

Please feel free to ask questions about this timeline, as I intend to revisit this and add new stories to the list as time goes on.

I’ve divided the timeline into 6 phases with 3 divergent timelines
1. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (1)
2. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (2)
3. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Raine Creevy
4. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (3)
5. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (4)

ACE’S DIVERGENT TIMELINE 1
5A. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (4)

ACE’S DIVERGENT TIMELINE 2
5B. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (4)
6B. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Benny (1)
7B. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Benny (2)
8B. Ace after ‘Set Piece’

ACE’S DIVERGENT TIMELINE 3
5C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (4)
6C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Hex (1)
7C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor, Hex, Lysandra and Sally
8C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Hex (2)
9C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (4)
10C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Mel
11C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (5)
12C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Benny (1)
13C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Benny (2)
14C. Ace on Gallifrey (1)
15C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Benny (3)
16C. Ace on Gallifrey (2)

6. Ace on Earth

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1. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (1)

‘Ace of Hearts’ (ST) takes place during Ace’s childhood when she’s a baby and is called Dorothy.

• Dragonfire (TV)

The Seventh Doctor and Ace’s appearance in ‘The Forgotten’ (Comic) occurs here.

• Remembrance of the Daleks (TV)

‘In the Community’ (DWM)

• The Happiness Patrol (TV)

The Seventh Doctor and Ace’s appearance in ‘uPVC’ (ST) takes place here.
The Seventh Doctor and Ace’s appearance in ‘Categorical Imperative’ (ST) takes place here.

• Silver Nemesis (TV)

‘Echo’ (ST)
‘The Best of Days’ (ST)

• The Greatest Show In The Galaxy (TV)

‘It’s Only a Game’ (YB)

• Shockwave (DOTD) (Audio) – BFAB**

‘The Living Image’ (Penguin/Audio) – PAB**
‘The Grotto’ (Penguin/Audio) – PAB**

• 1963: The Assassination Games (Audio) – BFAD**

The Seventh Doctor and Ace’s appearance in ‘The Light at the End’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
‘Dark Convoy’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Washington Burns’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Doctors and Dragons’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Ante Bellum’ (ST)
‘The Ghost’s Story’ (ST)
‘A Yuletide Tale’ (ST)
‘Evitability’ (ST)

• Hill of Beans (Comic)

The Seventh Doctor and Ace’s appearance in ‘Where’s The Doctor’ (Annual Comic) takes place here.
The Doctor leaves Ace on Earth during the Cretaceous Period.

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2. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (2)

The Doctor picks up Ace from the Cretaceous Period.
‘The Split Infinitive’ from ‘The Legacy of Time’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• Operation Volcano (Comic)
• The Algebra of Ice (Book) – PDA*

‘Prologue: The Seventh Doctor’ from ‘Supremacy of the Cybermen’ (Comic) takes place here.

• Battlefield (TV)

‘Instead of You’ (ST)

• Relative Dementias (Book) – PDA*
• Ghost Light (TV)

The Seventh Doctor and Ace’s appearance in ‘The Colony of Lies’ (Book) – PDA* takes place here.

• The Curse of Fenric (TV)
• The Hollow Men (Book) – PDA*
• Survival (TV)

Ace and the Seventh Doctor’s appearance in ‘The Robots of Lonmar’ take place here.

• The Game of Delta (Z)

The Seventh Doctor and Ace’s cameo in ‘The Horror of Time’ (Z) takes place during ‘The Game of Delta’ (Z).
The Seventh Doctor and Ace’s appearance in ‘The Thirteen+ Doctors’ takes place here.
The Seventh Doctor, Ace and K-9 Mk III’s appearance in ‘Search Out Space’ (TV) from the ‘Search Out Science’ TV documentary takes place here.

• Timewyrm: Genesys (Book) – VNA*
• Timewyrm: Exodus (Book) – VNA*
• Timewyrm: Apocalypse (Book) – VNA*
• Timewyrm: Revelation (Book) – VNA*

‘The Ripple Effect’ (Puffin/Audio) – PAB**
‘Cat and Mouse’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) takes place here.
‘The Choice’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) takes place here.
‘Endgame’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) takes place here.
‘Police and Shreeves’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Critical Mass’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘The Riparian Ripper’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘The Shadow Trader’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Crystal Ball’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘The Time and Tide’ (ST)
‘Anti-Matter with Fries’ (DWM)
‘The Shrine of Sorrows’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

• The Haunting of Bryck Place (Audio) – BFAB**

‘Stop the Pigeon’ (ST/Audio) – BAB**
‘Dead Woman Walking’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

• Frozen Worlds (Audio) – BFAB**
• Independence Day (Book) – PDA*

‘Hymn of the City (ST)
‘Fable Fusion’ (ST)
‘But Once a Year’ (ST)
‘One Card for the Curious’ (ST)
‘Relativity’ (ST)
‘Forever Fallen’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Crossing The Rubicon’ from ‘The Many Lives of Doctor Who’ (Comic) takes place here.
‘Teenage Kicks!’ (DWM)
‘School Tie’ (DWM)

• Fellow Travellers (Comic)
• Darkness Falling (Comic)
• Distractions (Comic)
• The Mark of Mandragora (Comic)
• Party Animals (Comic)
  

‘Duggan’ (DWM)
‘One Minute Fourteen Seconds’ (DWM)
‘Monsters’ (ST)
‘Cathedral Heart’ (DWM)
‘Metamorphosis’ (YB/Comic)

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3. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Raine Creevy

• Thin Ice (Audio) – BFAD**
  
• Crime of the Century (Audio) – BFAD**
  
• Animal (Audio) – BFAD**
  
• Earth Aid (Audio) – BFAD**

‘The Girl Who Stole The Stars’ (SS)

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4. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (3)

‘Inmate 280’ (ST)
‘Meridians’ (ST)

• The Fearmonger (Audio) – BFAD**
  
• The Genocide Machine (Audio) – BFAD**
• Illegal Alien (Book/Audio) – PDA*+BAB**
• Matrix (Book) – PDA*
• Storm Harvest (Book) – PDA*

‘Three Steps to the Left’ (DWM)
‘Storm in a Tikka’ (ST)

• Prime Time (Book) – PDA*
• Heritage (Book) – PDA*
• Loving the Alien (Book) – PDA*

‘Seance, or Smoking is Highly Addictive, Don’t Start’ (ST)

• Atom Bomb Blues (Book) – PDA*

‘Private Investigations’ (ST)
‘Sunday Afternoon, AD 848,988’ (ST)
‘Closing the Account’ (ST)

• The Grey Man of the Mountain (Audio) – BFAD**

‘Second Hand’ (PT)
‘Black Snow’ (PT2)

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5. The Seventh Doctor with Ace (4)

The Seventh Doctor and Ace’s appearance in ‘At Childhood’s End’ (Book/Audio)  – BB*/BAB** takes place here.

N.B. This is where things get complicated. The timeline diverges into alternative timelines according to ‘At Childhood’s End’ (Book/Audio)  – BB*/BAB**. The alternative timelines shall be referred to as ‘ACE’S DIVERGENT TIMELINES’. These are subject to change.

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ACE’S DIVERGENT TIMELINE 1
5A. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (4)

• • Ground Zero (Comic)

Ace dies.

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ACE’S DIVERGENT TIMELINE 2
5B. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (4)

• • Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible (Book) – VNA*
  • Cat’s Cradle: Warhead (Book) – VNA*
  • Cat’s Cradle: Witch Mark (Book) – VNA*
  • The Chameleon Factor (Comic)
  • The Good Soldier (Comic)
  • A Glitch in Time (Comic)
  • Seaside Rendezvous (Comic)
  • Evening’s Empire (Comic)
  • The Grief (Comic)
  • Ravens (Comic)
  • Memorial (Comic)
  • Cat Litter (Comic)
  • Under Pressure (Comic)
  • Nightshade (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**

‘The Devil Like a Bear’ (ST)
‘Last Rites’ (ST)
‘A Rose by Any Other Name’ (ST)

• • Love and War (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**

6B. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Benny (1)

• • Deceit (Book) – VNA*
  • Lucifer Rising (Book) – VNA*
  • White Darkness (Book) – VNA*
  • Shadowmind (Book) – VNA*
  • Final Genesis (Comic)
  • Time & Time Again (Comic)
  • Cuckoo (Comic)
  • Uninvited Guest (Comic)
  • The Last Word (Comic)

The prelude to ‘Birthright’ (Book) – VNA* takes place here.

• • Birthright (Book) – VNA*
  • Iceberg (Book) – VNA*
  • Blood Heat (Book) – VNA*
  • The Dimension Riders (Book) – VNA*
  • The Left-Handed Hummingbird (Book) – VNA*
  • Conundrum (Book) – VNA*
  • No Future (Book) – VNA*
  • Tragedy Day (Book) – VNA*

‘Question Mark Pyjamas’ (VD)
‘Cold War’ (ST)

• • Legacy (Book) – VNA*
    
  • Theatre of War (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**
  • All-Consuming Fire (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**
  • The Shadow of the Scourge (Audio) – BFAD**
    

‘Virgin Lands’ (ST)

7B. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Benny (2)

‘Citadel of Dreams’ (Novella)

• • The Dark Flame (Audio) – BFAD**

‘The Big Blue Box’ from ‘The Eighth of March’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
Ace and Benny’s appearance in ‘The Last Emperor’ (ST) takes place here.

• • Blood Harvest (Book) – VNA*
  • Strange England (Book) – VNA*
  • First Frontier (Book) – VNA*

‘Dimensions in Time’ (TV) occurs as a dream/nightmare for the Doctor in ‘First Frontier’ (Book) – VNA*.

• • St Anthony’s Fire (Book) – VNA*
  • Falls the Shadow (Book) – VNA*
  • Parasite (Book) – VNA*
  • Warlock (Book) – VNA*
  • Set Piece (Book) – VNA*

8B. Ace after ‘Set Piece’

Ace as Dorothee in Paris 1887 according to ‘The Curse of Fenric’ novelization/audiobook takes place here.

• • Head Games (Book) – VNA*
  • Happy Endings (Book) – VNA*
  • Lungbarrow (Book) – VNA*
  • The Prisoner’s Dilemma (Audio) – BFAB**

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ACE’S DIVERGENT TIMELINE 3
5C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (4)

• • Dust Breeding (Audio) – BFAD**
    
  • Colditz (Audio) – BFAD**
    
  • The Rapture (Audio) – BFAD**

6C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Hex (1)

• • The Harvest (Audio) – BFAD**
    

‘These Things Take Time’ (ST)

• • Dreamtime (Audio) – BFAD**
    

‘Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast’ (ST)
The Seventh Doctor; Ace and Hex’s appearance in ‘The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac’ (ST) takes place here.

• • LIVE 34 (Audio) – BFAD**
    

‘Presence’ (ST)

• • Night Thoughts (Audio) – BFAD**

Ace and Hex’s appearance in ‘The Veiled Leopard’ (Audio) – BFAD** take place here.

• • The Settling (Audio) – BFAD**
  • No Man’s Land (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Nocturne (Audio) – BFAD**
    

‘The Report’ (ST)
The Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex’s off-audio appearance in ‘The 100 Days of the Doctor’ from ‘100’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• • The Dark Husband (Audio) – BFAD**
    
  • Forty-Five (Audio) – BFAD**
    

1. False Gods
2. Order of Simplicity
3. Casualties of War
4. The Word Lord

• • Shadow Planet (Audio) – BFAD**
  • World Apart (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Muse of Fire (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Flying Dutchman (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Displaced (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Magic Mousetrap (Audio) – BFAD**
    
  • Enemy of the Daleks (Audio) – BFAD**
    
  • The Angel of Scutari (Audio) – BFAD**
    
  • Project: Destiny (Audio) – BFAD**
    
  • A Death in the Family (Audio) – BFAD**

‘Natalie’s Diary’ (ST)

• • Lurkers at Sunlight’s Edge (Audio) – BFAD**

7C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor, Hex, Lysandra and Sally

• • Protect and Survive (Audio) – BFAD**
    
  • Black and White (Audio) – BFAD**
    
  • Gods and Monsters (Audio) – BFAD**

8C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Hex (2)

• • Afterlife (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Revenge of the Swarm (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Mask of Tragedy (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Signs and Wonders (Audio) – BFAD**

9C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (4)

• • You Are The Doctor and Other Stories (Audio) – BFAD**

1. You Are The Doctor
2. Come Die With Me
3. The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel
4. Dead to the World

‘The Space Car’
‘The Five Doctors At Christmas: The Seventh Doctor’s Story’
The Seventh Doctor and Ace’s appearance in ‘The Five Doctors At Christmas: The Five Doctors’ Story’ takes place here.
The Seventh Doctor and Ace’s cameo in ‘The Prime Factor’ takes place here.

10C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Mel

• • A Life of Crime (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Fiesta of the Damned (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Maker of Demons (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The High Price of Parking (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Blood Furnace (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Silurian Candidate (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Red Planets (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Dispossessed (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Quantum Possibility Engine (Audio) – BFAD**

11C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor (2)

• • Nightshade (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**
  • Love and War (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**

12C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Benny (1)

• • Theatre of War (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**
  • All-Consuming Fire (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**
  • The Shadow of the Scourge (Audio) – BFAD**
    

13C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Benny (2)

• • The Dark Flame (Audio) – BFAD**

‘The Big Blue Box’ from ‘The Eighth of March’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

14C. Ace on Gallifrey (1)

• • The Prisoner’s Dilemma (Audio) – BFAB**
  • Death Comes To Time (Audio) – BAD**

Ace undergoes Time Lord training in Gallifrey’s future by this point.

• • An Alien Werewolf in London (Audio) – BFAD**

Ace’s cameo in ‘U.N.I.T. Dominion’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

15C. Ace with the Seventh Doctor and Benny (3)

‘Random Ghosts’ and ‘The Lights of Skaro from ‘The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield’ (Audio) – BFAD** take place here.

• • The Triumph of Suketh (Audio) – BFAD**

1. The Pyramid of Suketh
2. The Vaults of Osiris
3. The Eye of Horus
4. The Tears of Isis

16C. Ace on Gallifrey (2)

• • Intervention Earth (G) (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Enemy Lines (G) (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Celestial Intervention (G) (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Soldier Obscura (G) (Audio) – BFAD**

President Ace’s appearance in ‘The Last Day’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

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Ace parts ways with the Seventh Doctor to set up A Charitable Earth according to ‘At Childhood’s End’ (Book/Audio)  – BB*/BAB** .

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6. Ace on Earth

Ace raises money through her company ‘A Charitable Earth’ according to ‘Death of the Doctor’ (SJA) (TV).

• In Remembrance (CL) (Audio) – BFAD**

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Dark Universe (Audio) – BFAD** takes place in alternative timeline.
Ace meets the Thirteenth Doctor, Graham, Ryan and Yaz in ‘At Childhood’s End’ (Book/Audio) – BB*/BAB** in an alternative timeline.

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• The Red List (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Power of the Doctor (TV)
• Quantum of Axos (Audio) – BFAD**
• Death In Venice (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

‘The Promise’ Season 26 Blu-ray trailer featuring Ace takes place here.
Ace’s appearance in ‘Farewell, Sarah Jane’ (SJA) (Webcast) takes place here.
The Seventh Doctor and Ace’s appearance in ‘The Curse of Fenric’ episode of ‘Tales of the TARDIS’ (TV) takes place here.
Ace’s appearance in ‘The Last Day’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• Sabotage (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

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