Fourth Doctor

This page chronicles the adventures of the **Fourth Doctor** as played by Tom Baker 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

### Travels with Sarah Jane & Harry

* **TV: *Planet of the Spiders***

* **TV: *Robot***

* **TV: *The Ark in Space***

* **TV: *The Sontaran Experiment***

* **TV: *Genesis of the Daleks***

* NOVEL: *A Device of Death*

* SHORT: *The Last Thing You Ever See*

* **TV: *Revenge of the Cybermen***

* SHORT: *Nanomorphosis*

* SHORT: *The Heat-Seekers*

The Doctor, Sarah and Harry are on their way back to Earth.

* COMIC: *Black Destiny*

The Doctor, Sarah and Harry are sidetracked on their way to Scotland.

* COMIC: *The Dragons of Prague*

Set not too long after *Nanomorphosis*.

* AUDIO: *#HarrySullivan*

The Doctor, Sarah and Harry are aiming for Scotland.

* NOVEL: *The Return of Robin Hood*

The Doctor, Sarah and Harry are on their way to Scotland and have been travelling together for a few months.

* NOVEL: *Wolfsbane*

Set between *Revenge of the Cybermen* and *Terror of the Zygons*. The Doctor, Sarah and Harry successfully arrive in Scotland.

* SHORT: *Toil and Trouble*

The Doctor, Sarah and Harry successfully arrive in Scotland.

* **TV: *Terror of the Zygons***

### Travels with Sarah Jane

* **TV: *Planet of Evil***

* SHORT: *The Republican's Story*

* NOVEL: *Managra*

* SHORT: *Rights*

* **TV: *The Pyramids of Mars***

* **TV: *The Android Invasion***

* NOVEL: *Scratchman*

* **TV: *The Brain of Morbius***

* NOVEL: *Evolution*

The recent events of *The Brain of Morbius* are referenced.

* SHORT: *Sarah Jane and the Temple of Eyes*

Sarah Jane was recently temporarily blinded during the events of *The Brain of Morbius*.

* **TV: *The Seeds of Doom***

* AUDIO: *Doctor Who and the Pescatons*

* NOVEL: *System Shock*

* SHORT: *The Duke of Dominoes*

* SHORT: *Scarab of Death*

* SHORT: *Old Flames*

* SHORT: *All Done with Mirrors*

* SHORT: *Categorical Imperative*

* SHORT: *Observer Effect*

* SHORT: *UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass*

* SHORT: *Autaia Pipipi Pia*

* SHORT: *Conscription*

* SHORT: *Blessed are the Peacemakers*

* AUDIO: *Chain Reaction*

* AUDIO: *The Wondrous Box*

* SHORT: *The Lost Generation*

* AUDIO: *Collector's Item*

* AUDIO: *Deleted Scenes*

* **TV: *The Masque of Mandragora***

* SHORT: *The Android Maker of Calderon IV*

The Doctor is using the secondary console room, setting this after *The Masque of Mandragora*.

* SHORT: *Eternity*

The Doctor is using the secondary console room, setting this after *The Masque of Mandragora*.

* SHORT: *Hello Goodbye*

The Doctor and Sarah are called back to UNIT by the Brigadier, and the Doctor finally cuts ties with UNIT. They are using the secondary console room.

* **TV: *The Hand of Fear***

### Solo travels (I)

* **TV: *The Deadly Assassin***

* AUDIO: *Out of Time*

* AUDIO: *Blood of the Time Lords*

* AUDIO: *The Ravencliff Witch*

* AUDIO: *Only Connect*

* AUDIO: *Night of the Vashta Nerada*

* AUDIO: *Someone I Once Knew*

* AUDIO: *Genetics of the Daleks*

* AUDIO: *The Dreams of Avarice*

* AUDIO: *Shellshock*

* AUDIO: *Peake Season*

### Travels with Harry & Naomi

* AUDIO: *The Storm of the Sea Devils*

* AUDIO: *Worlds Beyond*

* AUDIO: *Matryoshka*

* AUDIO: *The Caged Assassin*

* AUDIO: *Metamorphosis*

* AUDIO: *The Face in the Storm*

* AUDIO: *Dominant Species*

### Travels with Leela (I)

* **TV: *The Face of Evil***

The Doctor is joined in the TARDIS by Leela of the Sevateem after defeating the false God Xoanon.

* **TV: *The Robots of Death***

Set directly after *The Face of Evil*, with the Doctor explaining to Leela why the TARDIS is bigger on the inside.

* AUDIO: *The Revisionists*

Set directly after *The Robots of Death*. Leela has been travelling with the Doctor for a few days.

* PROSE: *Last Man Running*

* PROSE: *Corpse Marker*

* PROSE: *Psi-ence Fiction*

* PROSE: *Drift*

* PROSE: *Match of the Day*

* AUDIO: *Death Dealer*

* AUDIO: *The Child*

Leela has seen little more than her homeworld and sees snow for the first time, suggesting a setting early in their travels together.

* AUDIO: *The Ghost Trap*

Leela has been with the Doctor for a few weeks.

* AUDIO: *Black Dog*

Leela is still new to travelling in the TARDIS, but has come to view the Doctor as part of her tribe.

* AUDIO: *Dumb Waiter*

Leela has brown eyes, setting this before *Horror of Glam Rock*. She describes the Doctor as bearing the face of the evil one, suggesting a setting early in their travels together.

* **TV: *The Talons of Weng Chiang***

* AUDIO: *Destination: Nerva*

Set directly after *The Talons of Weng Chiang* as it begins with the Doctor and Leela reciting the closing lines of that story and leaving the 1890s. The Doctor decides to begin educating Leela.

* AUDIO: *The Renaissance Man*

The Doctor decides to take Leela to the Morovanian museum to further her education, setting this after *Destination: Nerva*. Leela bemoans the idea of visiting Earth again and recalls seeing dogs in London.

* AUDIO: *Wrath of the Iceni*

The Doctor and Leela have just visited the Morovanian museum, setting this directly after *The Renaissance Man*. To continue Leela's education, the Doctor takes her on a trip to the past to see her ancestors and they meet Boudicca. The Doctor decides to take a break from educating Leela and proposes a trip to the 21st century for some rest and relaxation, leading directly into *Energy of the Daleks*.

* AUDIO: *Energy of the Daleks*

The Doctor and Leela visit the 21st century and Leela wears era appropriate training. Leela encounters Daleks for the first time.

* AUDIO: *Trail of the White Worm*

Leela encounters the Master for the first time. Ending leads directly into *The Oseidon Adventure*.

* AUDIO: *The Oseidon Adventure*

* AUDIO: *Night of the Stormcrow*

* AUDIO: *The King of Sontar*

* AUDIO: *White Ghosts*

* AUDIO: *The Crooked Man*

* AUDIO: *The Evil One*

Leela recalls her previous encounter with the Master in *The Oseidon Adventure*.

* AUDIO: *Last of the Colophon*

* AUDIO: *Destroy the Infinite*

* AUDIO: *The Abandoned*

* AUDIO: *Zygon Hunt*

* AUDIO: *The Ghosts of Gralstead*

* AUDIO: *The Devil's Armada*

* AUDIO: *The Genesis Chamber*

* AUDIO: *The Helm of Awe*

* AUDIO: *The God of Phantoms*

* AUDIO: *Collision Course*

* AUDIO: *The World Traders*

* AUDIO: *The Day of the Comet*

* AUDIO: *The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook*

* AUDIO: *The Primeval Design*

* AUDIO: *The Tivolian Who Knew Too Much*

### Travels with Leela & Margaret

* AUDIO: *Ice Heist*

* AUDIO: *Antillia the Lost*

* AUDIO: *The Wizard of Time*

* AUDIO: *The Friendly Invasion*

* AUDIO: *Stone Cold*

* AUDIO: *The Ghost of Margaret*

### Travels with Leela (II)

* **TV: *The Horror of Fang Rock***

* AUDIO: *The Foe from the Future*

* AUDIO: *The Valley of Death*

* AUDIO: *The Child*

* AUDIO: *A Ghost of Alchemy*

* AUDIO: *The Catalyst*

* AUDIO: *Empathy Games*

### Travels with Leela & K9 Mark I

* **TV: *The Invisible Enemy***

* **TV: *Image of the Fendahl***

* **TV: *The Sunmakers***

* SHORT: *The Roots of Evil*

Leela recalls the events of *The Sun Makers*

* **TV: *Underworld***

* AUDIO: *The Exxilons*

* AUDIO: *The Darkness of Glass*

* AUDIO: *Requiem for the Rocket Men*

* AUDIO: *Death Match*

* AUDIO: *Suburban Hell*

* AUDIO: *The Cloisters of Terror*

* AUDIO: *The Fate of Krelos / Return to Telos*

* AUDIO: *The Sons of Kaldor*

* AUDIO: *The Crowmarsh Experiment*

* AUDIO: *The Mind Runners / The Demon Rises*

* AUDIO: *The Shadow of London*

* AUDIO: *The Bad Penny*

* AUDIO: *Kill the Doctor! / The Age of Sutekh*

* AUDIO: *The Shadow of the Sun*

* AUDIO: *The Dalek Protocol*

* AUDIO: *The Time Vampire*

* **TV: *The Invasion of Time***

### Travels with Ann & K9 Mark II

* AUDIO: *The Sinestran Kill*

* AUDIO: *Planet of the Drashigs*

* AUDIO: *The Enchantress of Numbers*

* AUDIO: *The False Guardian*

* AUDIO: *Time's Assassin*

* AUDIO: *Fever Island*

* AUDIO: *The Perfect Prisoners*

### Travels with Romana I and K9 Mark II

* **TV: *The Ribos Operation***

After activating K9's dog whistle, suggesting a setting shortly after *The Perfect Prisoners*, the Doctor is sent on a mission to collect the six pieces to the Key to Time by the White Guardian. The Time Lords send academy student Romana to accompany him on his quest. They find the first segment of the key on the planet Ribos.

* PROSE: *Tomb of Valdemar*

Romana is studying the first segment of the Key to Time. The Doctor is still unsure of having her in the TARDIS, although concedes that she handled herself well on their previous adventure on Ribos in *The Ribos Operation*.

* **TV: *The Pirate Planet***

Set the morning after *The Ribos Operation*, with the Doctor sealing the first segment away. The Doctor and Romana discover the second segment in the form of the shrunken planet Calufrax.

* **TV: *The Stones of Blood***

Set directly after *The Pirate Planet*, with the Doctor and Romana recovering the second segment from the time vortex. They track the third segment to Earth which Romana is visiting for the first time and they encounter the Ogri.

* PROSE: *The Shadow of Weng-Chiang*

The Doctor and Romana have just left Earth after recovering the third segment to the Key to Time, setting this directly after *The Stones of Blood*.

* PROSE: *Heart of TARDIS*

Set between *The Stones of Blood* and *The Androids of Tara*, according to the back cover.

* AUDIO: *Ferril's Folly*

Set between *The Stones of Blood* and *The Androids of Tara*. The Doctor and Romana are searching for the fourth segment of the Key to Time.

* **TV: *The Androids of Tara***

Romana is concerned with the Doctor's lack of urgency towards recovering the Key to Time. They find the fourth segment on Tara.

* SHORT: *The Glarn Strategy*

The Doctor and Romana are searching for the fifth segment of the Key to Time, setting this between *The Androids of Tara* and *The Power of Kroll*.

* **TV: *The Power of Kroll***

The Doctor and Romana recover the fifth segment of the Key to Time.

* **TV: *The Armageddon Factor***

The Doctor and Romana recover the sixth and final segment of the Key to Time. The Doctor installs a randomiser into the TARDIS controls and he and Romana go on the run from the Black Guardian.

* AUDIO: *The Auntie Matter*

* AUDIO: *The Sands of Life / War Against the Laan*

* AUDIO: *The Justice of Jalxar*

* AUDIO: *Phantoms of the Deep*

* AUDIO: *The Dalek Contract / The Final Phase*

### Travels with Romana II and K9 Mark II (I)

* **TV: *Destiny of the Daleks***

* AUDIO: *The Old Rogue*

The Doctor decides to take Romana to Paris, suggesting a setting directly before *City of Death*.

* **TV: *City of Death***

* COMIC: *The Forgotten*

The Doctor and Romana have recently visited Paris, suggesting a setting shortly after *City of Death*.

* **TV: *The Creature from the Pit***

* PROSE: *The Romance of Crime*

Set between *The Creature from the Pit* and *The Nightmare of Eden*.

* PROSE: *The English Way of Death*

Set directly after *The Romance of Crime*.

* **TV: *The Nightmare of Eden***

* **TV: *The Horns of Nimon***

* **TV: *Shada***

* **TV: *The Five Doctors***

* AUDIO: *Wave of Destruction*

* AUDIO: *The Labyrinth of Buda Castle*

* AUDIO: *The Paradox Planet / Legacy of Death*

* AUDIO: *The Gallery of Ghouls*

* AUDIO: *The Trouble with Drax*

* AUDIO: *The Pursuit of History / Casualties of Time*

* AUDIO: *The Doomsday Contract*

### Travels with Romana II & K9 Mark II (II)

* SHORT: *I Was a Monster!!!*

* SHORT: *Insider Dealing*

* AUDIO: *Luna Romana*

* AUDIO: *The Beast of Kravenos*

* AUDIO: *The Eternal Battle*

* AUDIO: *The Silent Scream*

* AUDIO: *Dethras*

* AUDIO: *The Haunting of Malkin Place*

* AUDIO: *Subterranea*

* AUDIO: *The Movellan Grave*

* **TV: *The Leisure Hive***

* AUDIO: *The Skin of the Sleek / The Thief Who Stole Time*

* **TV: *Meglos***

### Travels with Romana II, K9 Mark II & Adric

* **TV: *Full Circle***

* **TV: *State of Decay***

* SHORT: *Pathfinders*

Romana recalls that their previous trip in the TARDIS was to the vampire planet, setting this directly after *State of Decay*.

* SHORT: *O, Darkness*

* AUDIO: *The Invasion of E-Space*

* AUDIO: *A Full Life*

Adric recalls the events of *O, Darkness* and *The Invasion of E-Space*.

* AUDIO: *Purgatory 12*

* AUDIO: *Chase the Night*

* AUDIO: *The Planet of Witches*

* AUDIO: *The Quest of the Engineer*

* **TV: *Warrior's Gate***

### Travels with Adric

* AUDIO: *Message from the Dead*

* SHORT: *Planet of the Elves*

* **TV: *The Keeper of Traken***

* AUDIO: *Watchers*

* SHORT: *Mauritz*

* AUDIO: *Erasure*

* **TV: *Logopolis***

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