Here is ‘Mel’s Timeline’.
I’ve referred to
- ‘The History of the Doctor’ website – http://www.doctorwhoreviews.altervista.org/Index.html
and
- The Eyespider ‘Doctor Who’ site index – http://eyespider.org.uk/drwho/compleat.html
to help me put this version of the timeline together.
I’ve included all the TV stories, audios; books and short stories into this list for now.
The (TV) and (Audio) stories are highlighted in PURPLE.
The (Book) stories are to remain un-highlighted for now.
The short stories are highlighted in PURPLE and/or ITALICS; and are CENTRED.
The stories with links to reviews by me on my blog are highlighted in BOLD and PURPLE.
Regarding the (Book) stories, I’ve identified each of them as follows in the KEY below.
KEY
*VNA – Virgin New Adventures
*VMA – Virgin Missing Adventures
*PDA – Past Doctor Adventures
Regarding the (Audio) stories, I’ve identified each of them as follows in the KEY below.
KEY
**BFAD – Big Finish Audio Drama
**BFAB – Big Finish Audio Book
**PAB – Puffin Audio Book
Regarding the short stories, I’ve identified each of them as follows with abbreviations.
- (ST) – Short Trip (either Big Finish or BBC)
- (DWM) – ‘Doctor Who Magazine’
- (VD) – Virgin Decalog
- (YB) – Yearbook
- (PT2) – Perfect Timing 2
- (DVW) – Divergent Wordsmiths
Please feel free to ask questions about this timeline, as I intend to revisit this and add new stories to the list as time goes on.
I’ve divided the timeline into 5 phases with 2 divergent timelines
1. Mel with the Sixth Doctor (1)
2. Mel with the Sixth Doctor and Hebe
3. Mel with the Sixth Doctor (2)
4. Mel with the Seventh Doctor
MEL’S DIVERGENT TIMELINE 1
4A. Mel after ‘Dragonfire’ (1)
MEL’S DIVERGENT TIMELINE 2
4B. Mel after ‘Dragonfire’ (2)
MEL’S DIVERGENT TIMELINE 3
4C. Mel with the Seventh Doctor with Ace
5. Mel after the Doctor
1. Mel with the Sixth Doctor
Mel B’s (Pre-Doctor) meeting with the Sixth Doctor in ‘The Wrong Doctors’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
- Business Unusual (Book) – PDA*
‘The Deal’ (YB)
‘A Wee Deoch an..?’ (DWM)
‘A Tourist Invasion’ (YB)
‘Fegovy’ (VD)
- Millennial Rites (Book) – VMA*
The ‘Terror of the Vervoids’ story from ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’ (TV) takes place here.
‘The Ultimate Foe’ story from ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’ (TV) takes place here.
‘Prologue: The Sixth Doctor’ from ‘Supremacy of the Cybermen’ (Comic) takes place here.
‘He Jests At Scars’ (Audio) – BFAD** occurs in an alternative timeline with the Valeyard and Melanie Bush.
Mel A’s (Post-Trial) appearance in ‘The Wrong Doctors’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here after ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’ (TV).
- The Quantum Archangel (Book) – PDA*
- The One Doctor (Audio) – BFAD**
‘The Man Who Wouldn’t Give Up’ (ST)
‘Mortal Thoughts’ (ST)
- The Juggernauts (Audio) – BFAD**
‘Curtain Call’ (ST)
The Sixth Doctor and Mel’s appearance in ‘Old Boys’ (ST) takes place here.
‘The Best Joke I Ever Told’ (ST)
- Catch-1782 (Audio) – BFAD**
‘Sold Out’ (ST)
- Instruments of Darkness (Book) – PDA*
- Thicker Than Water (Audio) – BFAD**
- The Wishing Beast (Audio) – BFAD**
- The Vanity Box (Audio) – BFAD**
- Spaceport Fear (Audio) – BFAD**
- The Seeds of War (Audio) – BFAD**
‘Intuition’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Fairy Tale of New New York’ (Penguin/Audio) – PAB**
‘The Eyes Have It’ (ST)
‘Dr Cadabra’ (ST)
‘Change Management’ (ST)
‘Mel-evolent’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Loud and Proud’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
- The Queen of Clocks (Audio) – BFAD**
The Sixth Doctor and Mel’s appearance in ‘Nameless’ (PT2) takes place here.
- The Death of Peladon (Audio) – BFAD**
- The Doctor and His Amazing Technicolour Nightmare Coat (Audio) – BFAB**
- Mind of the Hodiac (Audio) – BFAD**
The Sixth Doctor and Mel’s appearance in ‘The Exaltation’ from ‘The Quin Dilemma’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
The Sixth Doctor and Mel’s appearance in ‘The Firstborn’ from ‘The Quin Dilemma’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
‘The Carol Singer’ (DVW)
‘Kerensa’s Surprising Lagomorphs’ (DVW)
The Sixth Doctor and Mel’s appearance in ‘The Time Lord All Tattered and Torn’ (DVW) takes place here.
The Sixth Doctor and Mel’s appearance in ‘The Trials of a Time Lord’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
2. Mel with the Sixth Doctor and Hebe
- The Rotting Deep (Audio) – BFAD**
- The Tides of the Moon (Audio) – BFAD**
- The Dream Nexus (Audio) – BFAB**
- Maelstrom (Audio) – BFAD**
- The Mindless Ones (Audio) – BFAB**
- Reverse Engineering (Audio) – BFAB**
- Chronomancer (Audio) – BFAB**
- Broadway Belongs to Me! (Audio) – BFAB**
- Purification (Audio) – BFAB**
- Time-Burst (Audio) – BFAB**
- Girl in a Bubble (Audio) – BFAB**
- The Corruptions (Audio) – BFAB**
- The Wrong Side of History (Audio) – BFAB**
3. Mel with the Sixth Doctor (2)
‘The Choice’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) takes place here.
‘Endgame’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) takes place here.
- Time’s Champion (Book)
- Spiral Scratch (Book) – PDA*
‘The Brink of Death’ from ‘The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
4. Mel with the Seventh Doctor
- Time and the Rani (TV)
- Unregenerate! (Audio) – BFAD**
‘Daisy Chain’ (ST)
- Red (Audio) – BFAD**
- Paradise Towers (TV)
’24 Crawford Road’ (ST)
- Bang-Bang-a-Boom! (Audio) – BFAD**
‘The Invertebrates of Doom’ (ST)
- Flip-Flop (Audio) – BFAD**
- We Are The Daleks (Audio) – BFAD**
- The Warehouse (Audio) – BFAD**
- Terror of the Sontarans (Audio) – BFAD**
The flashback scene of the Seventh Doctor and Mel brokering peace on Prosper during ‘Maker of Demons’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
- Bad Day in Tinseltown (Audio) – BFAD**
- Delta and the Bannermen (TV)
- Plastic Millennium (Comic)
‘The Devil’s Footprints’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Special Weapons’ (ST)
‘Driftwood’ (ST)
‘Pulling Strings’ (YB)
- The Fires of Vulcan (Audio) – BFAD**
‘Uranus’ (ST)
‘Have You Tried Turning It Off and Then Back On Again?’ (ST)
- The Ribos Inheritance (Audio) – BFAD**
- Dragonfire (TV)
N.B. This is where things get complicated. The timeline diverges into alternative timelines according to ‘At Childhood’s End’ (Book/Audio) – BB*/BAB**. The alternative timelines shall be referred to as ‘MEL’S DIVERGENT TIMELINES’. These are subject to change.
MEL’S DIVERGENT TIMELINE 1
4A. Mel after ‘Dragonfire’ (1)
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- Head Games (Book) – VNA*
- Just War (Book) – VNA*
MEL’S DIVERGENT TIMELINE 2
4B. Mel after ‘Dragonfire’ (2)
MEL’S DIVERGENT TIMELINE 3
4C. Mel with the Seventh Doctor and Ace
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- A Life of Crime (Audio) – BFAD**
- Fiesta of the Damned (Audio) – BFAD**
- Maker of Demons (Audio) – BFAD**
- The High Price of Parking (Audio) – BFAD**
- The Blood Furnace (Audio) – BFAD**
- The Silurian Candidate (Audio) – BFAD**
- Red Planets (Audio) – BFAD**
- The Dispossessed (Audio) – BFAD**
- The Quantum Possibility Engine (Audio) – BFAD**
- A Life of Crime (Audio) – BFAD**
5. Mel after the Doctor
Mel’s cameo in ‘The Thirteen+ Doctors’ takes place here.
- The Last Day (Audio) – BFAD**
The ’24 Carat’ Season 24 Blu-ray trailer takes place here.
Mel’s cameo in ‘The Power of the Doctor’ (TV) takes place here.
- The Giggle (TV)
- The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death (TV)
- Wish World/The Reality War (TV)
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