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** This idea gets somewhat subverted in the Expanded Universe when various incarnations of the Doctor and the Master end up having encounters with each other out-of-sequence at various points, but this can be handwaved away in-narrative as most of these occur when the characters are dealing with higher-dimensional forces that disrupt the usual rule of time travel, such as the Gods of Ragnarok or the Ravenous.
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* "[[https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=35255 Aliens of London]]" features the survivors of ''Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth'' facing the return of the 456 with the aid of the Tenth Doctor. While Alice initially thinks of the Doctor as just another alien playing with humanity, Gwen convinces Alice that the Doctor isn’t like that by showing Alice video footage of the Doctor’s “future” death as he stops his people destroying the universe and sacrifices himself to save an old man (“[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]”), which has already happened for Earth even though this version of the Doctor hasn’t experienced those events yet.
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** The 8th Doctor saving Charlotte Pollard from her death on the R101 causes a paradox, meaning anti-time starts infecting the Universe, causing odd things with history to happen during the Eighth Doctor audio stories leading up to "Zagreus". For example, Shakespeare has disappeared from history (which is explained in "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho032TheTimeOfTheDaleks The Time of the Daleks]]") and Benjamin Franklin was President. Finally, in "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho033Neverland Neverland]]", Charley helps save the Web of Time, meaning that the paradox and anti-time infection become part of the Web of Time. To complicate matters further, she later travels with the ''Sixth'' Doctor, even though she shouldn't be alive at his point in the Doctor's timestream.
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** The 8th Doctor saving Charlotte Pollard from her death on the R101 causes a paradox, meaning anti-time starts infecting the Universe, causing odd things with history to happen during the Eighth Doctor audio stories leading up to "Zagreus". For example, Shakespeare has disappeared from history (which is explained in "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho032TheTimeOfTheDaleks The Time of the Daleks]]") and Benjamin Franklin was President. Finally, in "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho033Neverland Neverland]]", Charley helps save the Web of Time, meaning that the paradox and anti-time infection become part of the Web of Time. To complicate matters further, she later travels with events lead to Charley believing that the Eighth Doctor has been killed shortly before she is rescued by the ''Sixth'' Doctor, leaving her trying to avoid giving away too much about his future even though she shouldn't be alive at his point in knows the Eighth Doctor didn't recognise her when they met for the first time. [[spoiler:This matter is resolved when other parties agree to edit the Sixth Doctor's timestream.memory so that Charley's name and face are replaced with someone else, as well as giving the replacement companion a different departure]].
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* [[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle "The Giggle"]] features [[spoiler:the Fourteenth Doctor undergoing a "bi-generation", where the Fifteenth Doctor exists simultaneously with his predecessor rather than Fourteen changing into him directly. Available evidence suggests that Fifteen has been essentially pulled from a point in the Doctor's future where, after Fourteen's rest and semi-retirement with the Nobles, Fourteen regenerates into Fifteen, allowing the latter to benefit from his "rehabilitation" while simultaneously existing alongside the former. This is similar to Clara Oswald's fate after "Hell Bent", where while she is destined to die in "Face the Raven", she has all the time in the universe to travel before she has to fulfil her destiny]].
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* [[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle "The Giggle"]] features the Celestial Toymaker returning to the prime universe while the Doctor and Donna are away for just a couple of days, during which time he's managed to somehow implement a century-spanning long game, challenge and best the various heavy hitters of the Whoniverse (he trapped the Master's essence in a gold tooth and claims to have defeated the Guardians and God), take the time to play Yahtzee with the Doctor's personal history, and run a Toy Shop in the middle of SOHO on the side for shits and giggles. This can be justified given his alien nature and, more importantly, Reality Warper abilities. On a more personal note, the crisis concludes with [[spoiler:the Fourteenth Doctor undergoing a "bi-generation", where the Fifteenth Doctor exists simultaneously with his predecessor rather than Fourteen changing into him directly. Available evidence suggests that Fifteen has been essentially pulled from a point in the Doctor's future where, after Fourteen's rest and semi-retirement with the Nobles, Fourteen regenerates into Fifteen, allowing the latter to benefit from his "rehabilitation" while simultaneously existing alongside the former. This is similar to Clara Oswald's fate after "Hell Bent", where while she is destined to die in "Face the Raven", she has all the time in the universe to travel before she has to fulfil her destiny]].
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* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E3Orphan55 "Orphan 55"]]: The Doctor's speech at the end about how [[spoiler:Orphan 55 is only one potential future for the Earth out of many]] relies on the Multiverse theory of time travel (every action creates a new timeline). Apart from the Tenth Doctor's explanation about the existence of parallel universes in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E12ArmyOfGhosts "Army of Ghosts"]], the show has ''never'' explicitly used this in all of its great timey-wimey history. It is possible, however, [[spoiler:that the Doctor was just saying that in order to cheer up her companions...]] (In addition, [[spoiler:the Doctor has encountered various conflicting and incompatible futures of humanity and the Earth,]] so this wouldn't exactly be the first time the show's done something like this.)
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* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E3Orphan55 "Orphan 55"]]: The Doctor's speech at the end about how [[spoiler:Orphan 55 is only one potential future for the Earth out of many]] relies on the Multiverse theory of time travel (every action creates a new timeline). Apart from the Tenth Doctor's explanation about the existence of parallel universes in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E12ArmyOfGhosts "Army of Ghosts"]], the show has ''never'' explicitly used this in all of its great timey-wimey history. It is possible, however, [[spoiler:that the Doctor was just saying that in order to cheer up her companions...]] (In addition, [[spoiler:the Doctor has encountered various conflicting and incompatible futures of humanity and the Earth,]] so this wouldn't exactly be the first time the show's done something like this.)this).
* [[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle "The Giggle"]] features [[spoiler:the Fourteenth Doctor undergoing a "bi-generation", where the Fifteenth Doctor exists simultaneously with his predecessor rather than Fourteen changing into him directly. Available evidence suggests that Fifteen has been essentially pulled from a point in the Doctor's future where, after Fourteen's rest and semi-retirement with the Nobles, Fourteen regenerates into Fifteen, allowing the latter to benefit from his "rehabilitation" while simultaneously existing alongside the former. This is similar to Clara Oswald's fate after "Hell Bent", where while she is destined to die in "Face the Raven", she has all the time in the universe to travel before she has to fulfil her destiny]].
* [[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle "The Giggle"]] features [[spoiler:the Fourteenth Doctor undergoing a "bi-generation", where the Fifteenth Doctor exists simultaneously with his predecessor rather than Fourteen changing into him directly. Available evidence suggests that Fifteen has been essentially pulled from a point in the Doctor's future where, after Fourteen's rest and semi-retirement with the Nobles, Fourteen regenerates into Fifteen, allowing the latter to benefit from his "rehabilitation" while simultaneously existing alongside the former. This is similar to Clara Oswald's fate after "Hell Bent", where while she is destined to die in "Face the Raven", she has all the time in the universe to travel before she has to fulfil her destiny]].
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** "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho040Jubilee Jubilee]]" involves the Doctor going into a parallel universe, but about a hundred years after it has diverged, with the Sixth Doctor experiencing FlashSideways and remembering being in a Dalek war a hundred years ago. Then the Doctor ends up accidentally causing the war a hundred years ago in the past that created that [[ForWantOfANail divergent timeline]], only it's actually happening then as well, because the Doctor's presence caused the timelines to merge, somehow. Then the Dalek survivor of the war a century ago [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks the invasion fleet into suicide]], which unmakes the alternate universe and resets the timeline. It makes a lot more emotional sense than it makes logical sense (a sentence which just summarizes the whole darn show).
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** "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho040Jubilee Jubilee]]" involves the Doctor going into a parallel universe, but about a hundred years after it has diverged, with the Sixth Doctor experiencing FlashSideways and remembering being in a Dalek war a hundred years ago. Then the Doctor ends up accidentally causing the war a hundred years ago in the past that created that [[ForWantOfANail [[AlternateTimeline divergent timeline]], only it's actually happening then as well, because the Doctor's presence caused the timelines to merge, somehow. Then the Dalek survivor of the war a century ago [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks the invasion fleet into suicide]], which unmakes the alternate universe and resets the timeline. It makes a lot more emotional sense than it makes logical sense (a sentence which just summarizes the whole darn show).
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* The novels have an equally insane version, in which the Eighth Doctor (infected by [[TheVirus Faction Paradox biodata]]) ends up interfering slightly in the life of the Third Doctor, [[TemporalParadox leading to him regenerating on the wrong planet and being infected by Faction Paradox biodata]]. Of course, Literature/FactionParadox live and breathe this trope (as well as TemporalParadox) at the best of times. It's their [[PlanetOfHats hat]].
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* The novels have an equally insane version, in which the Eighth Doctor (infected by [[TheVirus Faction Paradox biodata]]) ends up interfering slightly in the life of the Third Doctor, [[TemporalParadox leading to him regenerating on the wrong planet and being infected by Faction Paradox biodata]]. Of course, Literature/FactionParadox Franchise/FactionParadox live and breathe this trope (as well as TemporalParadox) at the best of times. It's their [[PlanetOfHats hat]].
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** "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTEAS6E2DaughterOfTheGods Daughter of the Gods]]" opens with Jamie and Zoe accidentally interfering with the TARDIS's flight path so that it collides with its own past self, causing two TARDISes to crash-land on the planet Urbania. When the Second Doctor and his companions explore the planet, they discover that the First Doctor has been on Urbania for three months with Steven Taylor and Katarina, as the ship was diverted from its "destined" trip to Kembel when the two TARDISes collided, with the result that the Daleks have completed the Time Destructor without the First Doctor's interference. Despite the First Doctor's history having been changed, the Second Doctor still remembers the original course of events, explicitly telling Katarina at one point that while she has known his previous self for three months from his perspective he barely knew her for a day. Ultimately, the only way to stop the Daleks is for [[spoiler:the Second Doctor to repair his TARDIS using the new dematerialisation circuit assembled by the First Doctor over the last three months, performing a tricky manoeuvre that erases everything that happened since the TARDISes almost collided, with only the Second Doctor demonstrating a vague recollection of what just happened once the timeline has returned to normal]].
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** "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTEAS6E2DaughterOfTheGods Daughter of the Gods]]" opens with Jamie and Zoe accidentally interfering with the TARDIS's flight path so that it collides with its own past self, causing two TARDISes [=TARDISes=] to crash-land on the planet Urbania. When the Second Doctor and his companions explore the planet, they discover that the First Doctor has been on Urbania for three months with Steven Taylor and Katarina, as the ship was diverted from its "destined" trip to Kembel when the two TARDISes [=TARDISes=] collided, with the result that the Daleks have completed the Time Destructor without the First Doctor's interference. Despite the First Doctor's history having been changed, the Second Doctor still remembers the original course of events, explicitly telling Katarina at one point that while she has known his previous self for three months from his perspective he barely knew her for a day. Ultimately, the only way to stop the Daleks is for [[spoiler:the Second Doctor to repair his TARDIS using the new dematerialisation circuit assembled by the First Doctor over the last three months, performing a tricky manoeuvre that erases everything that happened since the TARDISes [=TARDISes=] almost collided, with only the Second Doctor demonstrating a vague recollection of what just happened once the timeline has returned to normal]].
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** "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoTEAS6E2DaughterOfTheGods Daughter of the Gods]]" opens with Jamie and Zoe accidentally interfering with the TARDIS's flight path so that it collides with its own past self, causing two TARDISes to crash-land on the planet Urbania. When the Second Doctor and his companions explore the planet, they discover that the First Doctor has been on Urbania for three months with Steven Taylor and Katarina, as the ship was diverted from its "destined" trip to Kembel when the two TARDISes collided, with the result that the Daleks have completed the Time Destructor without the First Doctor's interference. Despite the First Doctor's history having been changed, the Second Doctor still remembers the original course of events, explicitly telling Katarina at one point that while she has known his previous self for three months from his perspective he barely knew her for a day. Ultimately, the only way to stop the Daleks is for [[spoiler:the Second Doctor to repair his TARDIS using the new dematerialisation circuit assembled by the First Doctor over the last three months, performing a tricky manoeuvre that erases everything that happened since the TARDISes almost collided, with only the Second Doctor demonstrating a vague recollection of what just happened once the timeline has returned to normal]].
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* On its own, "Literature/ContinuityErrors" is a ''relatively'' straightforward SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong story. In context, however, it's part of ''Decalog 3: Consequences'', an intricately multibraided StableTimeLoop where we follow a single chain of events that is affected by multiple Doctors in no particular sequence. So within this story, we see Andrea's personal history alter in "real time" as the Doctor changes things in the past, and when he first arrives on New Alexandria, these alterations hadn't happened because he hadn't gone back and done them yet. But the next story, "Timevault" by Ben Jacques, reveals that, much earlier in his personal timeline, the Doctor visited a future that only exists because of those changes.
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* Paul Gadzikowski’s ‘The Father’ trilogy sees the Fifth and Eighth Doctors meet the Time Lord who would become the Doctor’s father before he’s even ‘conceived’ the Doctor, the Doctor subsequently arranging for his infant self to receive a good childhood. “[[http://www.iglou.com/members/scarfman/m1.htm Transformations]]” sees the Fifth Doctor take [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Admiral Kirk and others]] back in time to investigate Saavik’s origin after she’s identified as half-Time Lord (and thus learn that Saavik is the Doctor’s half-sister), “[[http://www.iglou.com/members/scarfman/ocb1.htm One Child Born]]” ends with the Doctor leaving his infant self to be raised by [[Series/LoisAndClark Lois Lane and Clark Kent]] so that he gets a suitable moral upbringing, and “[[http://www.iglou.com/members/scarfman/p1.htm Posterity]]” has the Eighth Doctor learn that his human DNA came from samples taken from [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]] (making her [[CrossoverRelatives the Doctor's mother]]).
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* Paul Gadzikowski’s ‘The Father’ trilogy sees the Fifth and Eighth Doctors meet the Time Lord who would become the Doctor’s father before he’s even ‘conceived’ the Doctor, the Doctor subsequently arranging for his infant self to receive a good childhood. “[[http://www.iglou.com/members/scarfman/m1.“[[http://scarfman.iglouhost.com/m1.htm Transformations]]” sees the Fifth Doctor take [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Admiral Kirk and others]] back in time to investigate Saavik’s origin after she’s identified as half-Time Lord (and thus learn that Saavik is the Doctor’s half-sister), “[[http://www.iglou.com/members/scarfman/ocb1.“[[http://scarfman.iglouhost.com/ocb1.htm One Child Born]]” ends with the Doctor leaving his infant self to be raised by [[Series/LoisAndClark Lois Lane and Clark Kent]] so that he gets a suitable moral upbringing, and “[[http://www.iglou.com/members/scarfman/p1.“[[http://scarfman.iglouhost.com/p1.htm Posterity]]” has the Eighth Doctor learn that his human DNA came from samples taken from [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]] (making her [[CrossoverRelatives the Doctor's mother]]).mother]]).
** On a wider scale, on top of the above, the fic "[[http://scarfman.iglouhost.com/og1.htm Historical Revision]]" reveals that [[spoiler:the time of Starfleet is the time of the early Time Lords, so Rassilon is still a young man in Kirk's era]].
** On a wider scale, on top of the above, the fic "[[http://scarfman.iglouhost.com/og1.htm Historical Revision]]" reveals that [[spoiler:the time of Starfleet is the time of the early Time Lords, so Rassilon is still a young man in Kirk's era]].
