Ninth Doctor

This page chronicles the adventures of the **Ninth Doctor** as played by Christopher Eccleston in the order in which he experienced them. Therefore the following timeline should not be seen as an accurate reading/listening order as some stories may have framing devices which take place later in another character's life.

The timeline is primarily derived from facts from within *Doctor Who* media, however authorial intent is taken into account as well. Occasionally, assumptions or speculations may be made where insufficient information is available, however these will always be marked as such for full transparency.

Most BBC licensed *Doctor Who* content is counted on this timeline, including but not limited to the TV series itself, Big Finish Productions, BBC Books and Virgin Books material. However, intentionally parodic content such as the Dr Men books, various Titan Comics backups and Doctor Whoah! should not be added to this particular chronology. Likewise, fanfiction and charity publications will also be avoided.

## Key

* **TV**: Television story
* **WC**: Online video story
* **AUDIO**: Audio drama, audio short story, or audio novel
* **COMIC**: Comic story
* **NOVEL**: Novel
* **NOVELLA**: Novella
* **SHORT**: Short written story
* **FEATURE**: A feature or featurette which doesn't explicitly tell a story

## Limiting Factors

### Early life

* *TV: **The Day of the Doctor***

The Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation. In the novelisation, he smashes every mirror in the TARDIS to avoid seeing his own face.

* AUDIO: *The Oncoming Storm*

The Doctor keeps to the shadows and is reluctant to get involved in human affairs, however Hetty Warner convinces him to help. He is using his blue tipped sonic screwdriver and is angry following the end of the Time War.

* AUDIO: *Human Conflict*

The Doctor is weary from his people's conflict.

* AUDIO: *Battle Scars*

The Doctor gains a liking for the phrase "fantastic" from Connie Daniels and is using his blue tipped sonic screwdriver. Connie reignites his desire to help make the universe a better place wherever he can.

* SHORT: *A Day to Yourselves*

The Doctor recalls the recent events of *The Day of the Doctor*. His future incarnations hijack every distress call he attempts to answer, as a way of giving him a break following the end of the Time War. He is using his blue tipped sonic screwdriver and feels lonely without a travelling companion. The mirrors in the TARDIS are still smashed.

### Solo travels (I)

* SHORT: *What I Did On My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow*

* NOVEL: *The Albino's Dancer*

* SHORT: *The Lost Diaries of Winston Spencer Churchill*

* SHORT: *Double Falsehood*

* SHORT: *The Hungry Night*

* SHORT: *Little Rose Riding Hood*

* SHORT: *The Patchwork Pierrot*

* AUDIO: *I Was Churchill's Double*

* WC: *Doctors Assemble!*

### Travels with Nova

* AUDIO: *Sphere of Influence*

* AUDIO: *Cataclysm*

* AUDIO: *Food Fight*

### Drawn to Scotland

* AUDIO: *Girl, Deconstructed*

* AUDIO: *Fright Motif*

* AUDIO: *Planet of the End*

* AUDIO: *The Hunting Season*

* AUDIO: *The Curse of Lady Macbeth*

* AUDIO: *Monsters in Metropolis*

* AUDIO: *Fond Farewell*

* AUDIO: *Way of the Burryman*

* AUDIO: *The Forth Generation*

### Solo Travels (II)

* AUDIO: *Salvation Nine*

* AUDIO: *Last of the Zetacene*

* AUDIO: *Break the Ice*

* AUDIO: *Station to Station*

* AUDIO: *The False Dimitry*

* AUDIO: *Auld Lang Syne*

* AUDIO: *The Seas of Titan*

* AUDIO: *Lay Down Your Arms*

* AUDIO: *Flatpack*

* AUDIO: *The Colour of Terror*

* AUDIO: *The Blooming Menace*

### Travels with Callen & Doyle

* AUDIO: *Red Darkness*

* AUDIO: *The Green Gift*

### Solo Travels (III)

* AUDIO: *Northern Lights*

* AUDIO: *The Beautiful Game*

* AUDIO: *Below There*

* AUDIO: *The Butler Did It*

* AUDIO: *Run*

### Travels with Rose (I)

* **TV: *Rose***

The Doctor meets Rose Tyler while thwarting a nestene invasion and invites her to travel with him.

* NOVEL: *The Beast of Babylon*

Set during *Rose*, when the Doctor leaves after being rejected by Rose only to return moments later.

* **TV: *The End of the World***

The Doctor takes Rose on her first trip in the TARDIS, to the future setting this directly after *Rose*.

* **TV: *The Unquiet Dead***

The Doctor takes Rose on her first trip to the past.

* **TV: *Aliens of London / World War Three***

The Doctor returns Rose home for the first time since she left.

* COMIC: *The Forgotten*

* AUDIO: *The Window on the Moor*

Rose is used to being stuck in alien prisons, setting this after *The Monster's Inside*.

* AUDIO: *The Ashes of Eternity*

Set between World War Three and Dalek. (DWM 569) Rose knows little about the Doctor and has yet to talk to him about the Time War in any depth.

### Travels with Rose & Adam

* **TV: *Dalek***

The Doctor encounters a Dalek for the first time since the end of the Time War. Rose invites Adam Mitchell to join the TARDIS despite the Doctor's protests.

* AUDIO: *The Other Side*

Adam takes his first trip in the TARDIS and the Doctor decides to let him stay. They decide to take their next trip into the future, suggesting this leads directly into *The Long Game*.

* **TV: *The Long Game***

The Doctor and Rose take Adam Mitchell on a trip to the future, but when he takes advantage of future technology the Doctor leaves Adam back home.

### Travels with Rose (II)

* **TV: *Father's Day***

Rose learns about the dangers of meddling with history after an encounter with her father on the day he died.

* COMIC: *The Love Invasion*

* COMIC: *Art Attack*

* COMIC: *The Cruel Sea*

* COMIC: *A Groatsworth of Wit*

The Doctor and Rose recall their big row about time, setting this after *Father's Day*.

* COMIC: *Death to the Doctor!*

* COMIC: *Mystery Date*

The Doctor and Rose are reunited with Adam Mitchell, setting this after *The Long Game*. The Doctor is scared of Jackie, suggesting they still have an antagonistic relationship. Adam kidnaps Rose, leading directly into *Endgame*.

* COMIC: *Endgame*

The Doctor rescues Rose from Adam and the Master with the help of his other incarnations.

* SHORT: *The Red Bicycle*

The Doctor begins dabbling with changing history after thinking on the events of *Father's Day*. He leaves Rose a red bicycle for Christmas as a child after she told him she always wanted one but Jackie couldn’t afford it in the present.

### Time Lord Victorious

* COMIC: *Monstrous Beauty*

* PROSE: *The Knight, the Fool and the Dead*

* COMIC: *Tales from the Dark Times*

* PROSE: *All Flesh is Grass*

### Travels with Rose & Jack (I)

* **TV: *The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances***

Captain Jack Harkness joins the Doctor and Rose on their travels.

* PROSE: *The Deviant Strain*

The Doctor is still abrasive towards Jack, suggesting a setting shortly after *The Doctor Dances*.

* PROSE: *Only Human*

Jack visits the 21st century with the Doctor and Rose for the first time and the Doctor is still abrasive towards him.

* COMIC: *Weapons of Past Destruction*

 Jack tells the Unon that he has only just met the Doctor and Rose, setting this shortly after The Doctor Dances.

* COMIC: *Hacked*

Set soon after Weapons of Past Destruction, according to the introduction of Doctormania.

* COMIC: *Supremacy of the Cybermen*

The Doctor and Rose bring Jack to the 21st century, setting this after Only Human.

* COMIC: *Doctormania*

According to the introduction, some time has passed since Weapons of Past Destruction, and the Doctor refers to the events of Hacked. After dealing with Slist Fayflut Marteveerthon Slitheen's impersonation of him, the Doctor is called to San Francisco by Mickey Smith, leading directly into The Transformed.

* COMIC: *The Transformed*

The Doctor helps Mickey deal with a gargoyle mutation caused by a wormhole, but one gargoyle that Rose befriended goes through the wormhole, leading into Official Secrets.

### Travels with Rose, Jack & Tara

* COMIC: *Official Secrets*

The Doctor, Rose and Jack travels back to the 70s or 80s where they meet the Brigadier, Benton and Harry Sullivan. They also meet UNIT medic Tara Mishra who stows away in the TARDIS.

* COMIC: *Slaver's Song*

Set directly after *Official Secrets* with the Doctor discovering Tara Mishra stowed away in the TARDIS. Jack leaves them after discovering a dark secret from his past. The Doctor is arrested for Tara's murder.

* COMIC: *Sin Eaters*

* COMIC: *The Slist Show Christmas Special!*

* COMIC: *Secret Agent Man*

* COMIC: *The Bidding War*

* COMIC: *The Lost Dimension*

### Travels with Rose & Jack (II)

* AUDIO: *R&J*

The scene featuring the Doctor chronologically takes place prior to the scene set during *Boom Town*.

* **TV: *Boom Town***

The Doctor, Rose and Jack are now a solid team who get along well, suggesting some time have passed since *The Doctor Dances*. They intend to take the egg of Margaret Slitheen back to Raxacoricofallapatorious next.

* PROSE: *The Stealers of Dreams*

Rose and Jackie speak about the events of *Boom Town* over the phone.

* AUDIO: *Night of the Whisper*

Rose recalls visiting Raxacoricofallapatorious, setting this after *Boom Town*.

* COMIC: *Return of the Volsci*

The Doctor, Rose and Jack visit Kyoto, Japan in 1336, setting this directly before *Bad Wolf*.

* **TV: *Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways***

The Doctor regenerates into his next incarnation and Jack is left behind at the gamestation.

Next: Tenth Doctor

## Upcoming

* COMIC: Titan Doctor Who special (7 June)
* AUDIO: The Ninth Doctor Adventures Series 2: 2.1 (August)
* AUDIO: The Ninth Doctor Adventures Series 2: 2.2 (August)
* AUDIO: The Ninth Doctor Adventures Series 2: 2.3 (August)
* AUDIO: The Ninth Doctor Adventures Series 2: 3.1 (November)
* AUDIO: The Ninth Doctor Adventures Series 2: 3.2 (November)
* AUDIO: The Ninth Doctor Adventures Series 2: 3.3 (November)
* AUDIO: The Ninth Doctor Adventures Series 2: 4.1 (February)
* AUDIO: The Ninth Doctor Adventures Series 2: 4.2 (February)
* AUDIO: The Ninth Doctor Adventures Series 2: 4.3 (February)