Vicki Pallister

This page chronicles the adventures of **Vicki Pallister** as played by Maureen O'Brien in the order in which she 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

### Vicki's age

Vicki's age is not discussed in many stories, however she is 14 in *Byzantium*, which is set immediately after she first joined in TARDIS, and the novelisation of *The Myth Makers* has her leaving the TARDIS at age 17.

## Timeline

### Crash of the UK-201

* c. 2493 - AUDIO: *The Crash of the UK-201*

Vicki's future self materialises in the body of her younger self and stops the UK-201 from crashing on Dido and lives on Astra to over 170 years old. After fixing the timeline with the help of Steven, Vicki awakes on Astra as her father is going to the meeting where he and the rest of the crew are killed by Bennett. As she gets up to return to the TARDIS with Steven, Vicki sees her younger self sleeping. Set a few months before *The Rescue*.

* c. 2493 - **TV: *The Rescue***

After living as a captive under Bennett for months, Vicki joins the Doctor, Barbara and Steven in the TARDIS. She and her father originally sett off for Astra in the year 2493.

### Travels with the Doctor, Barbara & Ian

NOTE: *There are two accounts of the events between The Rescue and The Romans.*

* SHORT: *Romans Cutaway* (1)

* NOVEL: *Byzantium!* (2)

* **TV: *The Romans***

NOTE: *There are two accounts of the events between The Romans and The Web Planet.*

* NOVEL: *The Eleventh Tiger* (1)

* AUDIO: *Starborn* (2)

* **TV: *The Web Planet***

* AUDIO: *The Dark Planet*

* AUDIO: *The Fifth Traveller*

* SHORT: *White Man's Burden* (cameo)

* AUDIO: *1963*

* AUDIO: *The Rocket Men*

* COMIC: *Unnatural Selection*

* COMIC: *The Choice* (cameo)

* COMIC: *Endgame* (cameo)

* **TV: *The Crusade***

* **TV: *The Space Museum***

* NOVEL: *The Plotters*

* AUDIO: *The Sleeping City*

* AUDIO: *The Unwinding World*

* SHORT: *All I Want for Christmas*

* AUDIO: *Daybreak*

* AUDIO: *The Doctor's Tale*

* SHORT: *Every Day*

* **TV: *The Chase***

### Travels with the Doctor & Steven

* **TV: *The Time Meddler***

The Doctor and Vicki find Steven aboard the TARDIS and they take their first adventure together in 1066 Northumberland, meeting the Monk.

* AUDIO: *The Suffering*

Steven mutters that his last meal was in 1066, and is still getting used to time travel etiquette and in narration references often to the Doctor's saving him on Mechanus, setting this shortly after *The Time Meddler*, though he is already used to the Doctor's secretive behaviour. Steven learns of Vicki's rescue from Astra for the first time.

* COMIC: *Are You Listening?*

* AUDIO: *The Founding Fathers*

Steven recalls the events of *The Suffering*, and implies that he has not been to London since then.

* AUDIO: *Frostfire*

The crew visits London during the 1814 frost fair. Vicki mentions that Steven has only recently joined the TARDIS crew.

* (REFERENCE) - PROSE: *The Empire of Glass*

The TARDIS crew spends a few days in 15th century Spain.

* TV: *The Three Doctors*

The Doctor is abducted by the Time Lords to help his subsequent two incarnations in the Omega Crisis, but becomes trapped in a time eddy.

* NOVEL: *The Empire of Glass*

Set immediately after *The Three Doctors*, with the Doctor materialising back in the console room hours after being Time Scooped holding an invitation to Venice in 1609, where he meets Irving Braxiatel, whom the Doctor discovers delivered the message to him shortly before the Time Lords erased his memory of the Omega Crisis. The Doctor, Steven and Vicki help Braxiatel rescue his Armageddon Convention, which involves a brief visit to Hampton Court Palace, before departing once again. Steven is still a relatively new addition to the crew, although he has already done a significant amount of travelling. Upon their arrival in Venice, neither Steven nor Vicki have a TARDIS key, due to a lack of trustworthiness on Steven's part, but as they depart, he resolves to give Steven a key soon.

* AUDIO: *Upstairs*

Steven is well-aware of faults in the TARDIS and the Doctor alludes to the events of Frostfire, telling him that not everywhere the TARDIS arrives can be a fun fair.

* AUDIO: *The Bounty of Ceres*

The TARDIS lands on Ceres in a time before both Steven's and Vicki's time. The Doctor uses the the component he stole from the Monk's TARDIS in *The Time Meddler* to expand the inside of the TARDIS beyond the small number of rooms that had been accessible prior to this point.

* AUDIO: *Fields of Terror*

The crew visit the Vendée region of France during the French revolution in the 1790s.

* AUDIO: *The Dalek Occupation of Winter*

The crew visit the human colony planet of Winter. Steven has only recently joined the Doctor and Vicki on their travels, setting this shortly after The Time Meddler. He has an intense hatred for Daleks, suggesting a setting after *Across the Darkened City*.

* AUDIO: *An Ideal World*

Set directly after *The Dalek Occupation of Winter*. The crew encounter a group of humans attempting to colonise the planet T19.

* AUDIO: *Entanglement*

Set directly after *An Ideal World*. During a visit to Cambridge, the Doctor mentions that he "thinks [he] has a friend who lives in one of the less distinguished colleges", a reference to Chronotis. The Doctor's first meeting with Chronotis is in *Cambridge Previsited*, where he is aware of his presence there without having met him before.

* AUDIO: *The Crash of the UK-201*

A TARDIS malfunction sends Vicki back into her past where she creates a new timeline where she never crashed on Dido. The Doctor sends Steven to correct the timeline.

* SHORT: *Corridors of Power*

* SHORT: *The Schoolboy's Story*

The TARDIS crew visit early 21st century Indiana, with this being Vicki's first visit to "Ancient America" since The Chase. Vicki is used to defusing tension between Steven and the Doctor. The TARDIS detects a time anomaly, using a device set up by the Doctor following the events of The Time Meddler. In Indiana, they encounter a young man called Robert, who recounts to them the time he travelled with them in the TARDIS at the age of eight. Using the time anomaly as guidance, the Doctor claims to be able to travel directly to Robert's childhood. Whether he does or not, the eight-year-old Robert joins the TARDIS crew briefly, having numerous travels including a visit Ancient Rome. The Doctor then uses the fast return switch to return Robert home, with Steven giving Robert HIFI.

* SHORT: *Mars*

The crew visit Mars in the early human colonial period. Vicki has been travelling for a long time and is no longer a child.

* SHORT: *The Long Step Backward*

The crew visit Prague in 2348.

* SHORT: *Snowman in Manhattan*

The crew visit New York City in 2007 and 2008. Alan Wood describes Vicki as being in her late teens.

* SHORT: *The Power Supply*

The TARDIS arrives on the human colony Ca-Mon Green, many years into both Steven and Vicki's futures.

* AUDIO: *The Secret History*

The Monk replaces the Doctor with his fifth incarnation, who has an adventure in 6th century Europe with Steven and Vicki before being switched back. They have not encountered the Monk since *The Time Meddler*.

* AUDIO: *The Light at the End*

Steven and Vicki briefly encounter an apparition of Charlotte Pollard.

* AUDIO: *Etheria*

* AUDIO: *The Ravelli Conspiracy*

The crew meet Machiavelli and the de Medici family in 1514 Florence.

* (FRAME) - AUDIO: *The Suffering*

After reading a book given to her by the Doctor on the 20th century feminist movement, Vicki decides she and Steven record a telling of their visit England in 1912. After they tell the story, Vicki decides to give Steven a haircut, leading to the events of *Galaxy 4*

* **TV: *Galaxy 4***

The TARDIS crew encounter the Drahvins, Rill and Chumblies on a planet about to explode. After escaping the planet, Vicki sprains her ankle, leading into *The Myth Makers*. They also observe the planet Kembel for the first time on the scanner.

* SHORT: *Planet of the Bunnoids*

Vicki doesn't appear to have any ankle-related problems, but nevertheless the Doctor mentions the Chumblies, setting this between *Galaxy 4* and *The Mythmakers*.

* **TV: *The Myth Makers***

The travellers arrive at the siege of Troy in circa the 13th century BC. Vicki's injured ankle is mentioned but appears not to be too badly hurt. After the city is sacked, Vicki stays in Troy to found a new city with Troilus and Aeneas. Meanwhile Katarina joins the TARDIS in her place as Steven is badly injured by a Trojan soldier.

### Living on ancient Earth

* 1164 BCE - (FRAME) - AUDIO: *Frostfire*

Vicki is now living in Carthage with Troilus and her two children, with Aeneas apparently having gone off to found Rome.

* 11XX BCE - (REFERENCE) - NOVEL: *The Myth Makers*

Some time after *The Myth Makers* a "middle-aged" Vicki is implied to be living in Rome in Aeneas and Troilus, having spent some time in Carthage before then.

* 11XX BCE - WC: *The Storyteller*

Vicki tells stories of her TARDIS adventures to a girl who seems to be her granddaughter.