Benny’s Timeline

Here is ‘Benny’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 audios; books, graphic novel/comics and short stories into this list for now.

The (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
*NSA – New Series Adventures
*BFB – Big Finish Books

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

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

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

• (ST) – Short Trip (either Big Finish or BBC)
• (BS) – ‘Bernice Summerfield’ short stories
• (DWM) – ‘Doctor Who Magazine’
• (VD) – Virgin Decalog
• (AIL) – Adventures In Lockdown
• (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 15 phases
1. Benny’s Early Career
2. Benny with the Seventh Doctor (1)
3. Benny with the Seventh Doctor and Ace (1)
4. Benny with the Seventh Doctor and Ace (2)
5. Benny with the Seventh Doctor (2)
6. Benny with the Seventh Doctor, Chris and Roz
7. Benny after the Seventh Doctor
8. Benny with the Eighth Doctor (1)
9. Benny after ‘The Dying Days’
10. Benny with the Eighth Doctor (2)
11. Benny after ‘The Company of Friends: Benny’s Story’
12. Benny on Gallifrey
13. Benny after Gallifrey
14. Benny with the Seventh Doctor and Ace (3)
15. Benny with the Unbound Third Doctor

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1. Benny’s Early Career

• Genius Loci (BS) (Book) – BFB*

The events for the young Benny in ‘Ever After Happy’ (BS) (Audio) – BFAD** take place here.

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2. Benny with the Seventh Doctor (1)

• Love and War (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**
• Transit (Book) – VNA*
• The Highest Science (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**
• The Pit (Book) – VNA*
• Pureblood (Comic)
• Flashback (Comic)
• Emperor of the Daleks (Comic)
• Younger & Wiser (Comic)

‘A Time & A Place’ (DWM)
‘Continuity Errors’ (VD)
‘How You Get There’ (ST)

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3. Benny with the Seventh Doctor and Ace (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)
• 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)

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4. Benny with the Seventh Doctor and Ace (2)

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

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5. Benny with the Seventh Doctor (2)

• Infinite Requiem (Book) – VNA*

‘Of the Mermaid and Jupiter’ (ST)
‘The Trials of Tara’ (VD)
‘Larkspur’ (ST)

• Sanctuary (Book) – VNA*
• Human Nature (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BAB**
• Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code (Audio) – BFAB**

‘The Hesitation Deviation’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

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6. Benny with the Seventh Doctor, Chris and Roz

• Original Sin (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**
• Sky Pirates! (Book) – VNA*
• Zamper (Book) – VNA*
• Toy Soldiers (Book) – VNA*
• Head Games (Book) – VNA*
• The Also People (Book) – VNA*
• Shakedown (Book/Film/Audio) – VNA*+BAB**

‘Too Rich for My Blood’ (ST)
‘Past Time Catching’ (PT2)

• Just War (Book) – VNA*
• Warchild (Book) – VNA*
• Sleepy (Book) – VNA*
• Death and Diplomacy (Book) – VNA*
• Happy Endings (Book) – VNA* 

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7. Benny after the Seventh Doctor

• Return of the Living Dad (Book) – VNA*
• Eternity Weeps (Book) – VNA*

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8. Benny with the Eighth Doctor (1)

• The Dying Days (Book) – VNA*

‘Worm’ (PT)
‘The Ravages of Time’ (PT)

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9. Benny after ‘The Dying Days’

The events for the older Benny in ‘Ever After Happy’ (BS) (Audio) – BFAD** take place here.
‘The Judgement of Solomon’ (VD)

• Oh No It Isn’t (BS) (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**
• Beyond The Sun (BS) (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**
• Walking to Babylon (BS) (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**
• Birthright (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Just War (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Making Myths (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Closure (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Dragon’s Wrath (BS) (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD**

• The Grel Invasion of Earth’ (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

‘Sad Professor’ (PT)

• Ship of Fools (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• Down (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• Deadfall (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• Ghost Devices (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• Mean Streets (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• Tempest (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• Oblivion (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• The Medusa Effect (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• Dry Pilgrimage (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• The Sword of Forever (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• Another Girl, Another Planet (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• Beige Planet Mars (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• Where Angels Fear (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• The Mary Sue Extrusion (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• Tears of the Oracle (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• Return to the Fractured Planet (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• The Joy Device (BS) (Book) – VNA*
• Twilight of the Gods (BS) (Book) – VNA*

‘A Question of Identity’ (BS)
‘Steal from the World’ (BS)
‘The Light that Never Dies’ (BS)
‘Heart of Glass’ (BS)
‘The Monster and the Archaeologists’ (BS)
‘Step Back in Time’ (BS)
‘Christmas Spirit’ (BS)
‘The Door into Bedlam’ (BS)
‘The Least Important Man’ (BS/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Digging Up the Past’ (BS)
‘The Dead Men Diaries’ (BS)

• The Doomsday Manuscript (BS) (Book/Audio) – BFB*+BFAB**
• The Secret of Cassandra (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Gods of the Underworld (BS) (Book/Audio) – BFB*+BFAB**
• The Squire’s Crystal (BS) (Book/Audio) – BFB*+BFAB**
• The Stone’s Lament (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Extinction Event (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Infernal Nexus (BS) (Book/Audio) – BFB*+BFAB**
• The Skymines of Karthos (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Glass Prison (BS) (Book/Audio) – BFB**BFAB**
• The Plague Herds of Excelis (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Greatest Shop In The Galaxy (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Green-Eyed Monsters (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Dance of the Dead (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

‘The Shape of the Hole’ (BS)
‘Kill the Mouse!’ (BS)
‘Solar Max and the Seven-Handed Snake-Mother’ (BS/Audio) – BFAB**
‘A Mutual Friend’ (BS/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Alien Planets and You’ (BS)
‘Something Broken’ (BS)
‘The Collection’ (BS)
‘Setting Stone’ (BS)
‘Time’s Team’ (BS)
‘Beedlemania’ (BS)
‘The All-Seeing Eye’ (BS)
‘And Then Again’ (BS/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Cuckoo’ (BS)
‘A la Recherche du Temps Perdu’ (BS)
‘Squadborronfell’ (BS)
‘Taken by the Muses’ (BS)
‘The Spartacus Syndrome’ (BS)
‘Might’ (BS)
‘Paydirt’ (BS)
‘Dear Friend’ (BS)

• The Mirror Effect (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Bellotron Incident (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Draconian Rage (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Poison Seas (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

‘The Fall’ (BS)
‘Careless Talk’ (BS)
‘The Birthday Party’ (BS)
‘Five Dimensional Thinking’ (BS)
‘Meanwhile…’ (BS)
‘The Price of Everything’ (BS)
‘Hit’ (BS)
‘The Garden of Whispers’ (BS)
‘The Crystal Flower’ (BS)
‘Midrash’ (BS)
‘Fear of Corners’ (BS)
‘The Traitors’ (BS)
‘Paths Not Taken’ (BS)
‘Every Picture Tells a Story’ (BS)
‘Fluid Prejudice’ (BS)
‘Suffer the Children’ (BS)
‘Drinking with the Enemy’ (BS)
‘Passing Storms’ (BS)
‘Speaking Out’ (BS)
‘The Peter Principle’ (BS)
‘A Bell Ringing in an Empty Sky’ (BS)
‘Lockdown Conversations’ (BS)

• Death and the Daleks (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Big Hunt (BS) (Book) – BFB*
• Braxiatel in Love (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Grel Escape (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

‘Misplaced Spring’ (BS/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Welcome to the Machine’ (BS)
‘Final Draft’ (BS)
‘Against Gardens’ (BS)
‘A Summer Affair’ (BS)
‘Denial’ (BS)
‘Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants’ (BS)
‘The Blame of the Nose’ (BS)
‘Reparation’ (BS)
‘Nothing up my Sleeve’ (BS)
‘Buried Alive’ (BS)
‘There Never Need be Longing in your Eyes’ (BS)
‘Mentioning the War’ (BS)
‘Fragments’ (BS)

• The Bone of Contention (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Relics of Jegg-Sau (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

‘Zardoz Break’ (BS)
‘The Purpura Pawn’ (BS)
‘On Trial’ (BS)

• Silver Lining (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Masquerade of Death (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Tree of Life (BS) (Book) – BFB*
• The Heart’s Desire (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Kingdom of the Blind (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Lost Museum (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

‘Inappropriate Laughter’ (BS)
‘Siege Mentality’ (BS)
‘Dead Mice’ (BS)
‘Acts of Senseless Devotion’ (BS)
‘Walking Backwards for Christmas’ (BS/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Match of the Deity’ (BS)’
‘Night of the Living Martian’ (BS)
‘The God Gene’ (BS)
‘Writing in Green’ (BS)
‘Showing Initiative’ (BS)
‘A Murderous Desire’ (BS)
‘Back and There Again’ (BS)
‘One of my Turns’ (BS)
‘The Ice Garden’ (BS)
‘Family Man’ (BS)
‘After Life’ (BS)
‘Parallel Lives’ (BS)
‘The Serpent’s Tooth’ (BS)
‘Hiding Places’ (BS)
‘Jason and the Pirates’ (BS)

• The Goddess Quandary (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Crystal of Cantus (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Tartarus Gate (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Timeless Passages (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Worst Thing In The World (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

‘Work In Progress’ (BS)
‘The Tears Of Laughter’ (BS)
‘Perspectives’ (BS)
‘Outside the Wall’ (BS)
‘Key’ (BS)
‘The Inconstant Gallery’ (BS)
‘Cabinets Of Curiosities’ (BS)
‘Anightintheninthage’ (BS)
‘Grey’s Anatomy’ (BS)
‘The Tree That Was’ (BS)
‘The Two-Level Effect’ (BS)
‘Let There Be Stars’ (BS)
‘Sleeptalking’ (BS)
‘False Security’ (BS)
‘The Painting On The Stair’ (BS)
‘Cost For A Collection’ (BS)
‘Lock’ (BS)
‘Mother’s Ruin’ (BS)
‘Future Relations’ (BS)

• Summer of Love (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Oracle of Delphi (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

‘The Ship of Painted Shadows’ (BS)
‘Cheating the Reaper’ (BS)
‘The Soul’s Prism’ (BS)

• The Empire State (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Tub Full of Cats (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Judas Gift (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Two Jasons (BS) (Book) – BFB*
• Freedom of Information (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

‘All Mimsy Were the Borogroves’ (BS)
‘The Loyal Left Hand’ (BS)
‘Nursery Politics’ (BS)
Benny’s off-audio appearance in ‘The 100 Days of the Doctor’ from ‘100’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• The End of the World (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Final Amendment (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

‘Biology Lesson on Mal Oreille’ (BS)
‘The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam’ (BS/Audio) – BFAB**
‘The Tunnels To Heaven’ (BS)
‘Benny and Louise’ (BS)
‘Charged’ (BS)
‘Prime Five’ (BS)
‘Home’ (BS)
‘The Slight Façade’ (BS)
‘Bernice Summerfield and the Library of Books’ (BS/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Postcards From the Edge of Reason’ (BS)
‘Blood On The Tracks’ (BS)
‘Thirty Love’ (BS)

• The Wake (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Beyond the Sea (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Adolescence of Time (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Diet of Worms (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Every Dark Thought (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

‘The Badblood Diaries’ (BS)
‘Possum Kingdom’ (BS)
‘Predating the Predators’ (BS)

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10. Benny with the Eighth Doctor (2)

• The Company of Friends: Benny’s Story (Audio) – BFAD**

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11. Benny after ‘The Company of Friends: Benny’s Story’

• Glory Days (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

…Be Forgot (ST)

• Absence (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Venus Mantrap (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Secret Origins (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Dead and Buried (BS) (Film)

‘A Game of Soldiers’ (BS)
‘Cooker Island’ (BS)
‘A Gallery of Pigeons’ (BS)
‘The Firing Squad’ (BS)
‘You Shouldn’t Have’ (BS)
‘The Illuminated Man’ (BS)
‘Redacted’ (BS)
‘The Song of Old Man Bunyip’ (BS)
‘Turn the Light On’ (BS)

• Resurrecting the Past (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

‘Don’t Do Something, Just Sit There’ (BS)
‘Winging It’ (BS)
‘In the Ledgers of Madness’ (BS)
‘Six Impossible Things’ (BS)
‘The War of Art’ (BS)
‘The Better Part of Valour’ (BS)
‘Digital Dreams’ (BS)
‘The Empire Variations’ (BS)
‘Past Caring’ (BS)
‘The Propaganda War’ (BS)
‘Excalibur of Mars’ (BS)
‘The End Times’ (BS)

• Escaping The Future (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Year Zero (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Dead Man’s Switch (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

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12. Benny on Gallifrey

• Disassembled (G) (Audio) – BFAD**

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13. Benny after Gallifrey

• Epoch (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

1. The Kraken’s Lament
2. The Temple of Questions
3. Private Enemy No. 1
4. Judgement Day

• Road Trip (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Brand Management

‘Empress of the Drahvins’ (BS) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place between ‘Brand Managment’ and ‘Bad Habits’ from ‘Road Trip’ (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**.

2. Bad Habits
3. Paradise Frost

• The Weather on Versimmon (BS) (Book) – BFB*
• Legion (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Vesuvius Falling
2. Shades of Gray
3. Everybody Loves Irving

• The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis (BS) (Book) – BFB*
• Many Happy Returns (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Filthy Lucre (BS) (Book) – BFB*
• New Frontiers (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

1. A Handful of Dust
2. HMS Surprise
3. The Curse of Fenman

• Missing Persons (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Big Dig
2. The Revenant’s Carnival
3. The Brimstone Kid
4. The Winning Side
5. In Living Memory

• Adorable Illusion (BS) (Book) – BFB*

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14. Benny with the Seventh Doctor and Ace (3)

• The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (Audio) – BFAD**

1. The Revolution
2. Good Night, Sweet Ladies
3. Random Ghosts
4. The Lights of Skaro

‘The Lady from Callisto Rhys’ (V) and ‘The Phantom Wreck’ (BS) from ‘The Worlds of Big Finish’ (Audio) – BFAD** take place here.

• Big Bang Generation (Book/Audio) – NSA*+BAB**
• 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

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15. Benny with the Unbound Third Doctor

• The Unbound Universe (Audio) – BFAD**

1. The Library In The Body
2. Planet X
3. The Very Dark Thing
4. The Emporium At The End

• True Stories (BS) (Book/Audio) – BFB*+BFAB**

1. Hue and Cry
2. Never The Way
3. Fast Contact
4. Futureproof
5. Stockholm From Home
6. Bliss

‘The Future of Peladon’
The Unbound Third Doctor and Benny’s cameo in ‘The Thirteen+ Doctors’ takes place here.

• Ruler of the Universe (Audio) – BFAD**

1. The City And The Clock
2. Asking For A Friend
3. Truant
4. The True Saviour Of The Universe

• The Angel of History (BS) (Audio) – BFAD**
• In Time (BS) (Book/Audio) – BFB*+BFAB**

1. Oh No, Not Again
2. The Bunny’s Curse
3. The Seventh Fanfic
4. Benny and the Grieving Man
5. Wurm Noir
6. Legacy Presence 
7. The Death of Hope 
8. Old Ruins

‘Lies in Ruins’ from ‘The Legacy of Time’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
Benny’s appearance in ‘Collision Course’ from ‘The Legacy of Time’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• Buried Memories (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Pride of the Lampian
2. Clear History
3. Dead and Breakfast
4. Burrowed Time

‘Shadow of a Doubt’ (Webcast/AIL)

• Lost in Translation (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Have I Told You Lately?
2. The Undying Truth
3. Inertia
4. Gallifrey

• Blood and Steel (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Willkommen
2. Wulf
3. Übermensch
4. Auf Wiedersehen

• The Last Day (Audio) – BFAD**

‘Ancient History’ from ‘Buried Threats’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

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