Late Nineteen Sixty-Three
(from November 23rd
to December 31st)
An Unearthly Child (Pilot Episode) TV Story, made
1963 Doctor: Unbound 1
featuring an unbound Susan, an unbound Barbara, an unbound Ian, Coal Hill School
Written
by Anthony Coburn, script editor David Whitaker.
Takes
place in Shoreditch, a district of the metropolis of London, simultaneously
with the first episode of 100,000 BC
in an alternative timeline.
Susan
Foreman, also known as Arkytior (Roses)
and Larn (Birth of a Renegade), is a
Time Lord from Gallifrey, the evidence suggesting that she was born at the
birth of the Chronarchy (Lungbarrow),
by my estimation some two million years before the Doctor’s native time.
Barbara Wright
is a Tellurian born in or near 1936 CE (taking her O levels in 1952 CE). Ian Chesterton is a Tellurian of about
Barbara’s age; old enough, in any case to have done his national service during
the previous decade. During this story Barbara and Ian first leave linear time,
being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.
London,
originally a settlement on the Thames downstream from its confluence with the
Fleet, at the end of the tide’s reach and a useful inland port, was a city to
which the Doctor returns an inordinate number of times. By this time, it was
spread across many square kilometres on both banks of the Thames, and was an
administrative county of England in its own right. Faction Paradox know there
is a deep connection between ritual, narrative and time travel, and London is a
city permeated by ritual and narrative: Charles Dickens, Peter Ackroyd, Michael
Moorcock, Iain Sinclair, and our own Ben Aaronovitch are just a few of the
authors drawn into its web, but it sprawls enigmatically in the dreams of most
people who have visited it. For almost a millennium it has been the capital of
England, the monarchy that occupies most of the British Isles and houses most
of their population.
Coal Hill School, a secondary school, which in the British education
system teaches pupils between the ages of twelve and sixteen or eighteen, was a
specific location in London to which the Doctor chronically returns.
Playtime Illustrated short story, published 1992 Doctor: None
featuring
Sarah Jane
Written
by Vanessa Bishop.
Takes
place in Shoreditch, a district of London in which Coal Hill School was located,
during An Unearthly Child.
Sarah Jane Smith is a Tellurian born in 1951 CE.
Shroud of Sorrow Original novel, published 2013 Doctor: 11, with 2, 3, 6, 7, 9 (glimpse)
Featuring Clara, with Lethbridge-Stewart (informative
mention)
Written by
Tommy Donbavand.
Takes
place mainly in Dallas, Tx; self-dated November 23rd 1963 CE.
Clara Oswald is a Tellurian born in 1986 CE.
Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart is a Tellurian born
in 1929 CE.
North America was one of the seven continents existing
on Earth at the start of the Common Era, lying in the northern hemisphere, and,
again, the Doctor shows a marked tendency to return there. At this point about
six or seven percent of Tellurians lived there. Texas lay on the Gulf of
Mexico, and was a constituent state of the United States of America, the
republic occupying the continent’s central band at this time and home to most
of its population.
Those Left Behind Short
story, published 2008 Doctor: 4
featuring
Coal Hill School, with Susan, Barbara, Ian, K9 II (informative mention)
Written
by Violet Addison.
Takes
place in Shoreditch, immediately after An
Unearthly Child.
K9 mark
II is a self-propelled artificial
intelligence, apparently gendered male for cultural reasons. The Doctor
constructed him presumably in the TARDIS, and therefore outside linear time, in
imitation of K9 mark I, a Tellurian artefact of the late fifth millennium.
Remembrance of the Daleks TV story, broadcast 1988 Doctor: 7
featuring
the Daleks, Davros, Ace, the
Counter-Measures Group
Written
by Ben Aaronovitch, script editor Andrew Cartmel.
Takes
place in Shoreditch, a day or two after Barbara and Ian’s departure.
The Daleks are armoured cyborgs originating on the planet Skaro.
They have developed time-travel technology, and the Doctor describes these
Daleks as having come from a thousand years in the future, though I suggest
their original destination is the fourth myriad CE.
Davros is
a humanoid Kaled from Skaro, who supervised the genetic engineering that shaped
the Daleks’ psychology, and the mechanical engineering that shaped their travel
and military technology. I put his birth in the late first millennium CE.
Dorothy
McShane, or Gale, known as Ace, is a
Tellurian born in 1970 CE.
The
Intrusion Counter-Measures Group is
a secret agency of the British government formed in the early 1960s CE to
investigate and contain threats beyond the realm of known scientific knowledge.
It employs scientists and personnel of the Royal Air Force Regiment.
The Slyther of Shoreditch Illustrated short story,
published 2019 Doctor: 7
Featuring the Time Lords, the Daleks, the Counter-Measures Group
Written by Mike Tucker.
featuring Ace, the Counter-Measures Group
Written by John Dorney.
Takes place in London; self-dated November
1963, after Remembrance of the Daleks.
The Red Lady
Audio Drama, released 2015 Doctor: 8
Featuring Liv, Helen
Written by John Dorney.
(Informed guess) Takes place in London; self-dated 1963 CE.
Winter for the Adept Audio Drama, released 2000 Doctor:
5
featuring
Nyssa
Written
by Andrew Cartmel.
Takes
place in Switzerland; self-dated December, 1963 CE.
Nyssa
is a non-Tellurian humanoid of the Traken Union. By my estimation she was born,
if that is what happens to Trakenites, a long while before the Common Era, but
more of that eventually.
Switzerland was at this time a landlocked republic of Europe, another of the Earth’s seven
continents at the start of the Common Era, also in the northern hemisphere,
separated from North America by the Atlantic Ocean, to its west. At this point,
about thirteen percent of Tellurians lived there. Geographically and
geologically, it was more a sub-continental peninsular of Asia, like Arabia or
India, but its inhabitants had stumbled into the Industrial Revolution ahead of
everyone else and claimed continental status for themselves.
The
Doctor suspects he is in the presence of “a genuine haunting”; the unquiet
spirits of the deceased were more or less established as a feature of Doctor Who
narrative a few years before this in Barry Letts’s novel The Ghosts of
N-Space. Perhaps understandably, it has not much been used, but it is there
if required.
All I Want for Christmas Illustrated short story,
published 2016 Doctor: 1
Featuring Barbara, Ian, Vicki
Written by Jacqueline Rayner.
Takes place ostensibly in the UK and self-dated Christmas Eve, 1963 CE.
Vicki Pallister is a Tellurian or humanoid of Tellurian descent, born in the late twenty-fourth century CE.The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, often
shortened to the UK, was at this
time the federal monarchy occupying most of the British Isles, an archipelago
off the north-west coast of continental Europe.
Total Stories Considered 10
Proportion Written By Women 30%
Top Docs
7 4 stories
1 2 stories
2 1 story
3 1 story
4 1 story
5 1 story
6 1 story
8 1 story
9 1 story
11 1 story
Top Seven Recurring Elements
London 7 stories
Coal Hill School 3 stories
Barbara and Ian 3 stories
The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group 3
stories
Susan 2 stories
The Daleks and Davros 2 stories
Ace 2 stories
Top Decade
The Teens 5 stories
And Top Year
2013 2 stories
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
editors) 10
Proportion of Female Writers 30%
Top Writers
Andrew Cartmel 2 stories
John Dorney 2 stories
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