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What order do events occur in Doctor Who, from River Song's perspective?


We've been told that River Song and the Doctor are living their lives in opposite directions (the first time the Doctor meets River is the last time River sees the Doctor, for instance).


While this is generally true, there are at least some exceptions:



In A Good Man Goes To War, Rory fetches River immediately after she returns from ice skating with the Doctor. Since it's unlikely that the Doctor's next appearance with River will be skating, it's a safe assumption that the two timelines are out of sync.




That said, what order do events in Doctor Who happen, from River's perspective?



Answer



The Doctor Who Confidential episode When Time Froze (broadcast with The Wedding of River Song), included a segment River Song: Her Story with Alex Kingston as River Song narrating her appearances that had been broadcast up to that point.


The sequence did not include events that had only been mentioned in passing (Jim the Fish, etc) and subsequent episodes.


The following list is a summary of that segment in the order presented with subsequent episodes added in their applicable position.



  • A good man goes to war (Birth) 6x07

  • The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon (As the little girl) 6x01-02

  • Let's Kill Hitler 6x08


  • Closing Time 6x12

  • Wedding of River Song (Bulk of episode) 6x13

    • The Impossible Astronaut also shows the scene with River in the spacesuit 6x01



  • A good man goes to war (As adult River) 6x07

  • The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon (As adult River) 6x01-02

  • Pandorica opens/Big Bang 5x12-13

  • The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone 5x04-05


  • Wedding of River Song (Garden scene) 6x13

  • The Angels Take Manhattan* 7x05

  • The Husbands of River Song

  • Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead 4x08-09

  • The Name of the Doctor**


*In The Angels Take Manhattan, River reveals she had been released from prison and had become a professor.


**In The Name of the Doctor, River states that she had died and was saved in the library.


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