The Ninth Doctor’s Timeline

Here is ‘The Ninth Doctor’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; short trips and the Puffin e-book ‘The Beast of Babylon’ into this list for now.

The (TV) and (Audio) stories are highlighted in BOLD and RED.

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

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

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

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

KEY
*NSA – New Series Adventures

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

KEY
**BAB – BBC Audio Book
**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.

• (TCY) – ‘The Churchill Years’
• (TLOCJ) – ‘The Lives of Captain Jack

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

• (AIL) – Adventures In Lockdown
• (ST) – Short Trip (either Big Finish or BBC)
• (SS) – ‘The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who’
• (DW-W) – Doctor Who Website
• (DVW) – Divergent Wordsmiths

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 3 phases
1. The Ninth Doctor Alone
2. The Ninth Doctor with Rose
3. The Ninth Doctor with Rose and Captain Jack

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1. The Ninth Doctor Alone

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The Ninth Doctor’s appearance in ‘Doctor Who and the Time War’ (AIL) takes place here (possibly in another timeline).

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The Ninth Doctor begins directly after the War Doctor’s regeneration in ‘The Day of the Doctor’ (TV) according to the TV story and the Target novelization/audiobook.
The Ninth Doctor’s appearance in ‘The Station of Possibilities’ (DVW) takes place here.
‘Battle Scars’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
The Ninth Doctor’s flashback appearance in ‘The Promise’ (Comic) takes place here.

• The Oncoming Storm (TCY) (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Bleeding Heart (Audio) – BFAB**

‘The Patchwork Pierrot’ (Puffin/Audio) – PAB**
‘Her Own Bootstraps’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘The Hungry Night’ (SS)

• Human Conflict (TCY) (Audio) – BFAB**
• I Was Churchill’s Double (TCY) (Audio) – BFAB**
• Ravagers (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Sphere of Freedom
2. Cataclysm
3. Food Fight

• Respond to All Calls (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Girl, Deconstructed
2. Fright Motif
3. Planet of the End

• Lost Warriors (Audio) – BFAD**

1. The Hunting Season
2. The Curse of Lady Macbeth
3. Monsters in Metropolis

• Old Friends (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Fond Farewell
2. Way of the Burryman
3. The Forth Generation

• Back to Earth (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Station to Station
2. The False Dimitry
3. Auld Lang Syne

• Into the Stars (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Salvation Nine
2. Last of the Zetacene
3. Break the Ice

• Hidden Depths (Audio) – BFAD**

1. The Seas of Titan
2. Lay Down Your Arms
3. Flatpack

• Shades of Fear (Audio) – BFAD**

1. The Colour of Terror
2. The Blooming Menace
3. Red Darkness

• Pioneers (Audio) – BFAD**

1. The Green Gift
2. Northern Lights
3. The Beautiful Game

• Travel in Hope (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Below There
2. The Butler Did It
3. Run

• Buried Threats (Audio) – BFAD**

1. A Theatre of Cruelty
2. The Running Men
3. Ancient History

• TBA – BFAD**

1. TBA
2. TBA
3. TBA

‘The Sin Eaters’ (DVW)

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2. The Ninth Doctor with Rose

• Rose (TV)

The Ninth Doctor’s cameo in ‘The Day of the Doctor’ (TV) takes place during the final scene of ‘Rose’ (TV).
‘The Beast of Babylon’ (Puffin/Audio) – PAB** takes place during the final scene of ‘Rose’ (TV).

• The End of the World (TV)
• The Unquiet Dead (TV)

The Ninth Doctor and Rose’s appearance in ‘The Forgotten’ (Comic) takes place here.

• Aliens of London/World War Three (TV)
• The Clockwise Man (Book/Audio) – NSA*+BAB**
• The Monsters Inside (Book/Audio) – NSA*+BAB**
• Winner Takes All (Book/Audio) – NSA*+BAB**
• The Window on the Moor (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Ashes of Eternity (Audio) – BAB**
• Dalek (TV)
• The Other Side (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Long Game (TV)

The last scene featuring the Ninth Doctor and a brief appearance of Rose in ‘Her Own Bootstraps’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.

• The Love Invasion (Comic)
• Art Attack (Comic)
• The Cruel Sea (Comic)
• Mr Nobody (Comic)
• A Groatsworth of Wit (Comic)

‘What I Did On My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow’ (Annual)
‘The Red Bicycle’ (Penguin/Audio) – PAB**
‘The Lichyrwick Abomination’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
The flashback scene featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose from ‘Death to the Doctor!’ (Comic) takes place here.

• Father’s Day (TV)

The Ninth Doctor and Rose’s appearance in ‘The Thirteen+ Doctors’ takes place here.
‘Doctor vs Doctor’ (Annual)
‘The Masks of Makassar’ (Annual)
‘Mr Nobody’ (Annual Comic)
‘Pitter-patter’ (Annual)
The Ninth Doctor and Rose’s appearance in ‘Four Doctors’ (Comic) takes place here.
‘Mystery Date’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) takes place here.
‘Endgame’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) takes place here.
The Ninth Doctor and Rose’s appearance in ‘Where’s The Doctor’ (Annual Comic) takes place here.

• Retail Therapy (Audio) – BFAB**

The Ninth Doctor and Rose’s cameo in ‘The Prime Factor’ takes place here.
‘Rose and the Snow Window’ (Book/Audio) – BB*/BAB**
The Ninth Doctor and Rose’s interlude in ‘The Knight, the Fool and the Dead’ (TLV) (Book) – NSA* takes place before ‘Monstrous Beauty’ (TLV) (Comic).

• Monstrous Beauty (TLV) (Comic)

The Ninth Doctor’s appearance at the end of ‘The Knight, the Fool and the Dead’ (TLV) (Book) – NSA* takes place before ‘All Flesh is Grass’ (TLV) (Book) – NSA*.
The Ninth Doctor’s appearance in ‘All Flesh is Grass’ (TLV) (Book) – NSA* takes place during ‘Monstrous Beauty’ (Comic).

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3. The Ninth Doctor with Rose and Captain Jack

• The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances (TV)

The Ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack’s appearance in ‘Supremacy of the Cybermen’ (Comic) takes place here.

• The Deviant Strain (Book/Audio) – NSA*+BAB**
• Only Human (Book/Audio) – NSA*+BAB**
• Weapons of Past Destruction (Comic)

The Ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack’s appearance in ‘Supremacy of the Cybermen’ (Comic) takes place here.

• Doctormania (Comic)
• The Transformed (Comic)
• Official Secrets (Comic)
• Slaver’s Song (Comic)
• Sin-Eaters (Comic)
• Secret Agent Man (Comic)
• The Bidding War (Comic)

The Ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack’s appearance in ‘The Lost Dimension’ (Comic) takes place here.

• Boom Town (TV)

The Captain Jack and River scene from ‘R&J’ (TLOCJ) (Audio) – BFAD** where River attempts to assassinate the Ninth Doctor takes place here during the events of ‘Boom Town’ (TV).

• Night of the Whisper (DOTD) (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Child of Death (Z)

The Ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack’s cameo in ‘The Horror of Time’ (Z) takes place during ‘The Child of Death’ (Z).

• The Stealers of Dreams (Book/Audio) – NSA*+BAB**

‘Return of the Volsci’ from ‘The Many Lives of Doctor Who’ (Comic) takes place here.

• Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways (TV)

The Ninth Doctor’s cameo in ‘The Name of the Doctor’ (TV) takes place during ‘Bad Wolf’/’The Parting of the Ways’ (TV).

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