Dodo Chaplet

This page chronicles the adventures of **Dodo Chaplet** as played by Jackie Lane 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

## Timeline

### Living on Earth in the 1960s (I)

* NOVEL: *Salvation* (Chapters 1-2)

Set 23-27 March 1965, Dodo (who is 16) is fed up with her life on Earth and longs for adventure. While checking up on an elderly man on her road called Neville Albert Miller, she finds he has been killed by an alien being and becomes trapped, which traps her in the house out of fear she would warn the authorities. Eventually she escapes and runs for the nearest police box, leading into *Bell of Doom*.

### Travels with the Doctor and Steven

* **TV: *The Massacre: Bell of Doom***

Dodo Chaplet enters the Doctor's TARDIS thinking it is a police box, claiming that a small boy had been hurt. The Doctor's companion, Steven Taylor, then returns to the TARDIS and tells the Doctor to dematerialise immediately, as a pair of policemen are approaching the TARDIS, to which the Doctor obliges. Dodo seems very nonchalant about the whole time and space travelling thing, even appearing to relish the chance of leaving Earth behind for good. While *Salvation* places this in March 1965, *The Man in the Velvet Mask* sets it in 1966.

* NOVEL: *Salvation* (From chapter 3)

Following on from *The Massacre*, the TARDIS lands in New York City on 27 March 1965 having not travelled in time from its previous landing in Wimbledon Common, which the Doctor notes as being unusual. The Doctor, Steven and Dodo work alongside the US army and several other locals to defeat an alien incursion, before the Doctor gives Dodo an official offer to become a part of the TARDIS team, which she gladly accepts. They finally depart the city on 1 April.

* **TV: *The Ark***

The Doctor, Steven and Dodo arrive on a human colony ship from the 57th segment of time, around 10 million years after Dodo's time. Dodo is still very new to the TARDIS, and the way Steven talks to her implies that this is her first trip in the TARDIS. In the meantime, she has changed into an outfit from the Crusades she found in the TARDIS wardrobe. A short while after departing the *Ark*, Dodo changs into a new trendy 60s outfit. The Doctor then vanishes, declaring that they are under attack, leading into *The Celestial Toymaker*.

* **TV: *The Celestial Toymaker***

The Doctor, Steven and Dodo face off against the Toymaker in the Celestial Toyroom. The Doctor recalls a previous encounter with the Toymaker. After defeating him, the Doctor tries a sweet Dodo had acquired from the Toyroom which causes a toothache, leading into *The Gunfighters*.

* **TV: *The Gunfighters***

The Doctor gets his tooth extracted by Doc Holliday, before the three get embroiled in the Gunfight of the O.K. Corral.

* SHORT: *Murder in the Dark*

The trio encounter the Toymaker again, with the *The Celestial Toymaker* being mere "days ago" and *The Ark* and *The Gunfighters* described as "recent".

* AUDIO: *Mother Russia*

The TARDIS lands in Russia in 1812 during Napoleon's invasion of the empire. The Doctor suggests they could take a holiday there, with Steven drily remarking that they'd just had one in Tombstone, setting this shortly after *The Gunfighters*. They spend around six months in Russia in total before departing.

* AUDIO: *Return of the Rocket Men*

In narration, Steven mentions visits to the far future, the Toymaker's realm, the old west, and the many months they spent in Russia in *Mother Russia*, but that they are now "back to [their] old ways again". Dodo gives Steven a diary from 1967 for his birthday, saying that it's from "next year" for her, presumably accounting for the long amount of time she spent in Russia and other intervening adventures since they left New York in April 1965.

* SHORT: *The Golden Door*

The trio are going on a holiday to Bikol after Dodo and Steven insisted on going on a holiday. The Doctor learns of his involvement in the events at Snowcap in *The Tenth Planet*

* SHORT: *64 Carlysle Street*

In London 1909, the Doctor, Steven and Dodo track down the criminal Roztoq, who had escaped Quinnus in the Fourth Universe after the Doctor and Susan's visit there in *Quinnis*. Dodo claims to have not worked for months before she takes a temporary job at 64 Carlysle Street as part of the investigation.

* NOVEL: *Bunker Soldiers*

The Doctor, Steven and Dodo spend months in the city of Kiev leading up to the 1240 siege at the hands of the Mongol Empire. Despite this, the inner leaflet of the book places the story between *The Massacre* and *The Ark*, a placement which seems unlikely.

* (FLASHBACK) - COMIC: *Death to the Doctor!*

The trio defeat Questor in the Living Jungle of Tropicalus.

* (RECORDING) - AUDIO: *Tales from the Vault*

The Doctor, Steven and Dodo encounter Kali Karash in South Africa 1900, an alien which can enter the mind of any living being and even animate inanimate objects. In a wax cylinder recording, Steven records an account of the events and a warning for the future after they lose track of which item Kali Karash is inhabiting.

* AUDIO: *The War to End All Wars*

The Doctor and company land on the planet Comfort and become embroiled in their never-ending war against themselves. With Steven and Dodo working hard at ending the war politically, eventually the Doctor manages to expose the system and end the war for good. Afterwards, the three leave the planet shortly after, with Steven feeling guilty for not staying to help out. Consequently, he decides that next time he wants to make a lasting difference, he will have to stay and commit his life to it, which suggests that the next place he has such an opportunity will be *The Savages*.

* (REFERENCE) - SHORT: *The Dream*

Told as a short play by William Shakespeare, who claims that it had come to him as a dream, the Doctor encounters Sontarans and Rutans on the planet Vortis. He mentions Steven and Dodo, wondering where he left them, though they do not appear.

* AUDIO: *This Sporting Life*

The Doctor manages to land the TARDIS in London as Dodo had requested, arriving in March 1966. When Dodo asks if he got the day wrong, Steven laughs, saying he'd be surprised if even the century was right.

* AUDIO: *The Secrets of Det-Sen*

The Doctor, Steven and Dodo land in the Tibetan Himalayas. The Doctor meets Padmasambhava and visits Det-Sen Monastery, taking with him the monastery's Holy Ghanta which is instructed to return in 50 years. While it is suggested that the events of *The Ark* are recent ("Don't want you getting sick again, not after what happened last time."), Dodo appears to have been aboard the TARDIS a long time already ("Oh dear child, how little you know of me after all this time together" and "The Doctor's been awful kind to me and I've seen an awful lot"). Dodo thinks Steven will be leaving the TARDIS soon, and she also wants to find a permanent home for herself, but doesn't want to leave the Doctor travelling alone.

* (EPILOGUE) - **TV: *The Gunfighters***

The TARDIS lands on a planet which the Doctor declares to be in the future. On the scanner they observe a figure in animal skins and with a club, leading into *The Savages*.

* **TV: *The Savages***

The three arrive on an unnamed planet ruled by the so-called "Elders" and "Savages". After they help remove the system which repressed the Savages, Steven is chosen to be the new leader of the planet and he decides to stay behind.

### Travels with the Doctor

* NOVEL: *The Man in the Velvet Mask*

The Doctor and Dodo land in Paris in 1804, soon discovering that it is an alternate timeline, specifically one created as an experiment created by the extra-temporal beings known as the Pageant. Steven is mentioned for the first time since his "recent" departure, and the Doctor knows that he is going to regenerate soon, being in an incredibly frail condition for most of the story. Despite this, Dodo notices that he gains some strength during their time separated in Paris, but noting that this is a "temporary renewal" which "wouldn't last". The Doctor recalls that he'd first released his time is near during the events of *The Celestial Toymaker*, later recalling that he'd felt this "first change... brewing months ago", and that he'd fought against it. The two spend three days separated in Paris, during which time Dodo forms an intimate relationship with an actor going by the name of "Dalville". Dodo has resented the Doctor for leaving Steven behind, but she eventually comes to understand his reasoning. She believes she will be leaving the TARDIS soon.

* SHORT: *Tarnished Image*

The Doctor and Dodo visit the human colony planet Tarron in approximately the year 10 million, 1000 years after the Earth's destruction in the first segment of *The Ark*. They spend a little over two weeks exposing the mysterious Azmec Corporation, also known as the Kephra, whom the Doctor claims to have met before. In this account, Dodo hasn't been travelling with the Doctor for long and his dismissive attitude to casual violence is beginning to worry her.

* SHORT: *There are Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden*

The pair visit an unnamed planet infested with a beautiful crystalline parasite. Dodo wonders if she's cut out for adventuring, noting that it's not the first time she's thought this. The Doctor is described as frail. She doesn't get on very well with the Doctor in this story, although notes that she's usually more tolerable of his behaviour.

* (REFERENCE) - AUDIO: *The Yes Men*

The Doctor and Dodo visit the Earth colony of New Houston and avert a Mim invasion with the help of Meg Carvossa. Meg is invited to join the TARDIS, but upon seeing its interior she runs away.

* AUDIO: *The Horror at Bletchington Station*

The Doctor and Dodo arrive at Bletchington in England, where a new railway station is under construction. The Doctor is very hesitant is confronting an ancient unmanned Gallifreyan timeship, but ends up sending it back to Gallifrey, realising that all of his companions he's had so far have changed him. Dodo, meanwhile, wonders if all their travels have exacerbated her thrill-seeking nature. Steven has recently left the TARDIS, setting this shortly after *The Savages*. However the Doctor and Dodo have had several adventures since then.

* AUDIO: *The Outlaws*

The Doctor and Dodo visit in Lincoln in 1216 and encounter the Hound Monk for the first time, with the Doctor and Monk both recalling their previous encounters. Dodo claims not to have ridden a horse before, while the Doctor hasn't ridden one in "quite some time". They discuss Steven's departure in *The Savages*, setting this after *The Man in the Velvet Mask*.

* AUDIO: *The Miniaturist*

The duo visit Coulton Salt Mine in North Yorkshire on 30 July 2019 and meet an interdimensional being known as a Pertucaion.

* AUDIO: *The Demon Song*

The Doctor and Dodo visit Camden Town in the early 2020s.

* AUDIO: *The Incherton Incident*

The TARDIS collides with another vessel in the time vortex, which turns out to have been "Sanderson", a member of the Galactic Ecology Enforcement Council attempting to accost the Doctor for his supposed future crimes against the galaxy. The ship crashes in Incherton some time before the TARDIS materialises there. After tricking Sanderson into being consumed by the residual blowback energies from the TARDIS, which had resulted from the collision, the two return to the TARDIS only for the Doctor to mysteriously vanish, presumably leading into whatever comes next.

* 12-16 July 1966 - **TV: *The War Machines***

The Doctor and Dodo land in London on 12 July 1966 and battle the computer WOTAN. There they all encounter and befriend Polly Wright and Ben Jackson. After becoming hypnotised by WOTAN, Dodo ends up going to the country to recover. WOTAN Is eventually defeated on the 16th, with the Doctor slipping away from the Post Office Tower without anyone noticing. Later, Ben and Polly tell the Doctor that Dodo has decided to stay in London.