Now: Nineteen Sixty Four
Threshold Audio
Drama, released 2012 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Counter-Measures Group
Written by
Paul Finch.
The Door To A
Winter Long Ago Comic story, published 2013 Doctor: 11
Featuring Clara
Written by Jason Loborik.
Takes place on Parliament Hill, a district of London; the earlier
sections dated January 1964 CE.
The 1964 film Children of the Damned has a certain aesthetic compatibility
with Doctor Who: it leaves unresolved the question of whether its hyperintelligent,
telekinetic children are aliens or super-advanced Tellurians (which would raise
the question of who had super-advanced them). Like other narratives to which I
will be drawing attention, its events and atmosphere suggest the Second War in
Heaven, though it is impossible to say which ‘side’ these children would be on.
Artificial Intelligence Audio Drama, released 2012 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Counter-Measures Group
Written by
Matt Fitton.
Takes
place in London, some time after Threshold.
Gangland Comic story, released 2015 Doctor: 12
Featuring the Time Lords, the
Judoon, Clara, with Ice Warriors, Earth Reptiles, Sontarans, Zygons, Hath, the
Vigil
Written by Robbie Morrison.
(informed guess) Takes place on Janizzar and in Las Vegas, Na.; the later
section self-dated 1964 CE.
The Judoon are space-travelling rhinoform bipeds originating on
the planet Judoonia.
The Ice Warriors are space-travelling reptilian bipeds originating on
the planet Mars.
The Earth Reptiles are reptilian bipeds originating on the planet Earth,
by my estimation in the Cretaceous era.
The Sontarans are a space-travelling race of green or grey bipeds,
not readily comparable to any Tellurian life. Their earliest recorded location
is the Sontaran Warburg, as the contemporaries of the pre-Chronarchical
Gallifreyans (Cat’s Cradle: Time’s
Crucible), which would be some three billion years before the Common Era, I
believe.
The Zygons are a space-travelling race of bipeds, again not
obviously analogous to any Tellurian species, but giving the general impression
that they evolved stuck up something. They originated on the planet Zygor.
The Hath are space-travelling piscine bipeds of unknown origin.
The Vigil are space-travelling bipeds who might just be
humanoids wearing elaborate enclosing headpieces. All seven of these species
were allied with the Time Lords, which suggests a prediliction towards
bipedality on their part, and might be an example of their unconscious bias
shaping the universe.
Las Vegas was a city of Nevada, at this time a landlocked constituent state of the USA.
The Lord of Misrule Audio Drama, released 2013 Doctor: 0
Featuring Dorian Gray
Written by Simon Barnard.
Takes place in the UK; self-dated 1964 CE. Historically, hysteria over
violence between Mods and Rockers peaked in May of that year.
Dorian Gray is a Tellurian born in 1862 CE and granted immortality
by mysterious forces. As he seems to be of ambiguous fictionality, it may be
that he has been touched in some way by the Second War in Heaven.
Wave of Destruction Audio Drama, released 2016 Doctor: 4
Featuring the Vardans, K9 II,
Romana
Written by Justin Richards.
Takes place in London; self-dated June 1964 CE.
The Vardans are space-travelling non-Tellurian humanoids, being
contemporaries of the Time Lords, and thus having been around for a very long
time by this point.
Romanadvoratrelundar, known as Romana,
is a Time Lord, born (which we are given to understand is unusual for Time
Lords), by her own account, some six hundred and twenty years after the
Doctor’s looming.
The Reesinger Process Audio Drama, released 2014 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Counter-Measures
Group
Written by Justin Richards.
Takes place in London, shortly before the general election of October
1964 CE.
The Zargathon Menace Charity
short story, published 1998 Doctor: 4
featuring K9
II, Romana, Tom Baker, and Ian (glimpse)
Written by Jonathan Morris.
Takes place mainly in the BBC Television Centre, Wood
Lane, in London; the principal action is self-dated Autumn, 1964 CE.
Tom Baker is a Tellurian born in 1934 CE.
The Pelage Project Audio Drama, released 2012 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Counter-Measures
Group, with Venus (informative mention)
Written by Ian Potter.
Takes place in London and Pelage, a new town on the English coast;
self-datedly soon after the general election.
Venus was at this point the second planet of the Solar System out from the
Sun (Earth is of course the third).
State of Emergency Audio Drama, released 2012 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Counter-Measures
Group
Written by Justin Richards.
Takes place in London and Starnforth, a village about fifty kilometres
outside London, soon after The Pelage
Project.
A Long Night Short story, published 2003 Doctor: 1
featuring Barbara
Written by Alison Lawson.
Takes place partly in London; self-dated November,
1964 CE.
A Story for Christmas Comic story, published 1966 Doctor: 1
featuring Gillian,
John, Santa Claus
No writers were credited for the comic stories
featuring the first Doctor in TV Comic,
but it’s very noticeable that each of the three artists who worked on it,
illustrated a series of stories distinctly different in tone to the other two.
It was not uncommon for British comics illustrators to write their own
narrative at this time, and it is a hypothesis that fits these differences in
tone. The stories drawn, as this one is, by Bill Mevin, who also edited TV Comic, are playful and rambling,
giving him plenty of opportunities for comic grotesques. (You wouldn’t quite
want to catch this Santa Claus emerging from your fireplace).
Takes place in the domain of Santa Claus, the
Christmas before The Man Who (Nearly) Killed
Christmas.
Gillian and John
are, presumably, Tellurians, who believe themselves, and may be, the Doctor’s
grandchildren. I assume they would have been born in the mid-1950s CE.
Total Stories Considered 22
Proportion Written By Women 18%
Top Docs
1 4 stories Climber!
7 4 stories
4 3 stories Climber!
11 2 stories Climber!
2 1 story
3 1 story
5 1 story
6 1 story
8 1 story
9 1 story
12 1 story
Top Fourteen Recurring Elements
London 16 stories
The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group 8
stories
Barbara and Ian 5 stories
Coal Hill School 3 stories
The K9s 3 stories
Clara 3 stories
North America 2 stories
Regional England 2 stories
The Time Lords 2 stories
Susan 2 stories
The Daleks and Davros 2 stories
Christmas 2 stories
Romana 2 stories
Ace 2 stories
Top Decades
The Teens 14 stories
The Noughties 3 stories
The Sixties 2 stories
The Nineties 2 stories
And Top Years
2012 4 stories
2013 3 stories
2015 2 stories
2016 2 stories
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
editors) 20
Proportion of Female Writers 20%
Top Writers
Justin Richards 3 stories
Andrew Cartmel 2 stories
John Dorney 2 stories
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