7. The Seventh Doctor's Timeline

Credit for that placement goes to E.G. Wolverson over at History of the Doctor. He explains himself here: A Thousand Tiny Wings

Ah, in that case The Prisoner's Dilemma should be moved elsewhere.

I noticed after listening to The Four Doctors again that the Seventh Doctor doesn't recognize his Eighth incarnation when the four of them are together by the end of the story. In light of this detail I'd be tempted to move The Four Doctors to somewhere before The Shadow of the Scourge since in that story he's well aware of the Eighth Doctor's appearance. It would have to be during a time when he's traveling alone of course.

I've had second thoughts about the placement of the first Klein trilogy. In keeping with the production codes I've moved them back into Seven's "solo years" after Lungbarrow. I've also sandwiched The Prisoner's Dilemna between the first two volumes of Benny's new adventures.The Seventh Doctors Timeline.pdf (122.8 KB)

After reading the DiscContinuity page for Excelis Decays, I've become convinced that the story should be placed directly before The Settling to account for the TARDIS console room taking on it's "TV Movie" appearance.  

Also, I've been thinking about the placement of UNIT: Dominion. Apparently Nick Briggs said somewhere that it's meant to take place near the end of Seven's life, but just what he means by that statement is open to interpretation: Does he mean that Dominion is set fairly close to the TV Movie, or more generally in that period of time where the Doctor's normally traveling by himself? Being that I like the idea of Seven being alone for that long period of time leading up to his regeneration, as the Eighth Doctor claimed in The Resurrection of Mars (the second Klein trilogy being an exception to this), I'm tempted to move UNIT: Dominion to just after the New Benny Adventures and prior to his long solo outings. I've made all the adjustments here: The Seventh Doctors Timeline.pdf (122.78 KB) 

I very much disagree on placing Dimensions in Time as a dream. It's a rather vague reference, and I don't believe in the idea of stories trying to remove other stories from continuity.

In addition, there's almost no room between Survival and Timewyrm: Genesys. There's a few excursions at most. The first thing that Ace remembers after the Doctor restores her memories is Survival, and she still is feeling some of the effects of the cheetah virus. I would only place Citadel of Dreams between the two. The Algebra of Ice needs to be moved way back - between Fenric and Survival, with the very last few chapters being a flashforward - at the end, the Seventh Doctor and Ace visit Ethan again. Seven says it's been more than twenty months, from their perspective, since they last met. He mentions his last adventure as taking place both on the Moon and in his own mind - so this part is definitely just after Timewyrm: Revelation.

So my post-Survival timeline, with explanations, is:

Citadel of Dreams
Timewyrm tetralogy
The Algebra of Ice - last few chapters
The Hollow Men - The Doctor has a note for himself saying to leave a settee for his past self to land on in Perivale, so after Survival. Weirdly enough, though, the back cover says it's between Fenric and Survival. Which makes no sense.
Atom Bomb Blues
Shockwave
Teenage Kicks
Fellow Travellers
That untitled Brief Encounter that has Ian and Barbara
Darkness, Falling
The Mark of Mandragora
The Raine Lost Stories
The Girl Who Stole the Stars
Dimensions in Time
Storm in a Tikka
Search Out Space - Storm in a Tikka links the two, and makes explicit that there's no room for any adventures in between. These have to be together.
Dalek Attack - One of the early video games. This one also has the Second and Fourth Doctors.
Some of the Seven and Ace stuff from various anthologies
Legacy - A mobile game that's surprisingly complicated.
The BBV Professor/Dominie and Ace/Alice audios.
Under Pressure
Party Animals
Connections - This is an interesting one. It's actually spread out over the twelve issues of The Incomplete Death's Head, and serves as the framing device for the reprints. It starts off running concurrently with Seven and Ace at the party during Party Animals, with the story taking place elsewhere on Maruthea. Then after the events of Party Animals concludes, Seven shows up and helps the two iterations of Death's Head beat Hob. Afterwards, it's implied that Seven takes the unconscious Death's Head I to the Transformers universe, enlarges him...and then Death's Head lives through all that. Or maybe he took Death's Head I to the Transformers universe already. I don't know.
The Chameleon Factor
Seaside Rendezvous
The Good Soldier
A Glitch in Time
Evening's Empire
That one Brief Encounter where Seven and Ace meet Duggan
The Grief
Forever Fallen
Stop the Pigeon
The Fearmonger

Afterwards, there's a story arc across Perry and Tucker's stuff. It has to be in the order of Illegal Alien - Matrix - Storm Harvest - The Genocide Machine - Prime Time - Heritage - Loving the Alien. There's no room for stories between any of the ones in this arc.

Afterwards, the main range Seven and Ace stuff, from Dust Breeding to The Rapture, then Hex, then Mel.

Afterwards, this is when we get back to the New Adventures, with Mel leaving again in a yet to be announced story and then the Cat's Cradle arc onwards comes after Mel. Putting Hex and Mel here helps explain nicely why Ace acts so differently in the Cat's Cradle arc to how she acted in the Timewyrm arc.

Having just listened to Original Sin I noticed something odd. The sound effects for the TARDIS control room are those of the TV Movie TARDIS used in the Eighth Doctor audios and in the Seven/Ace/Hex stories starting with The Settling. The Seventh Doctor novel adaptations set earlier in time chronologically (Nightshade, Love and War, The Highest Science, Theatre of War, and All-Consuming Fire in that order) have the control room in it's ClassicWho configuration based on the sound effects used in most of those releases. Until now I had assumed, based on the sounds of the control room and the fact that Damaged Goods didn't feature any scenes inside the TARDIS, that all of the Seventh Doctor releases in the Novel Adaptations range could fit in the pre-Hex period of the timeline, but Original Sin contradicts this placement with the TARDIS in it's pseudo-Victorian "desktop theme," which would suggest a placement after the current run of Seven releases in the Monthly Range. Given the tight continuity of the VNAs I'm having trouble reconciling this discrepancy. Could this simply be a continuity error on part of BF?

Has anyone reading this listened to Cold Fusion? I haven't got around to it yet but if there are any scenes set in Seven's TARDIS, and the control room is distinctly TV Movie (the sound of the doors opening/closing is a big giveaway), then we've got quite a mess on our hands!

Having searched through The Harvest again just now, the TARDIS definitely has that ClassicWho "hum" sound. I couldn't find a moment of the doors opening/closing, mind you, but it sounds pretty clear based on the relative lack of echo that the control room is not in a transitional stage as it were. I'm beginning to think the sound effects in Original Sin might have just been a gaffe since, if what you said about The Behemoth is true, it wouldn't be the first time BF has made that kind of error. Hopefully Cold Fusion can shed some light on whether the choice of sound was deliberate or not.