Now: Nineteen Seventy-Two                                                                                   

 

Assassin From Space     Comic story, published 1970                              Doctor: 3

Illustrated ?and written by John Canning.

Informed guess Takes place in London; after The Arkwood Experiments as published.

The Multi-Mobile   Comic story, published 1970                                     Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT

Written by Roger Noel Cook.

Takes place in the UK; after The Arkwood Experiments as published.

The Ambassadors of Death    TV story, broadcast 1970      Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Liz, with Mars (informative mention)

Written by David Whitaker, script edited by Terrance Dicks, with additional material by Malcolm Hulke.

informed guess Takes place mostly in the UK; after Doctor Who and the Silurians.

Things That Doctor Who Writers Who Want To Set Things In “The Present” Should Find Difficult To Ignore. Though Quite Likely They’ll Just Pile More Stuff In.

THE UK MOUNTS A SERIES OF MISSIONS TO MARS.

Rise of the Dominator       Novel, published 2019                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the Travers family, the Dominators, Grace technology, with Winston Churchill (glimpse)

Written by Robert Mammone.

Takes place in London, concurrently with The Ambassadors of Death.

UNRECONCILED UNIT DATING

Candy Jar Books’s attempted patch for UNIT chronology has this story self-dating as 1973 and 1979 CE, which, in a funny sort of way, makes it easier to assert that it’s actually 1972 CE as well. There’s not much I can do about its being dated late November, though.

Sir Winston Churchill is a Tellurian born in 1874 CE.

The Highgate Horror    Comic story, published 2015                              Doctor: 12

Featuring Clara

Written by Mark Wright.

Informative guess Takes place in Highgate Cemetery; self-dated 1972 CE, and six months before The Pestilent Heart. Light clothes are worn, and at night, so it can’t be too early.

Highgate is a district of London.

A Home From Home     Audio short story, released 2014                       Doctor: 3

Featuring Benton, UNIT, Liz

Written by Nick Wallace.

Takes place in Scotland. Liz has been with UNIT for six months.

The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back    Short story, published 1994                                                              Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Liz

Written by Vanessa Bishop.

informed guess Takes place in rural England, “months” after Doctor Who and the Silurians.

UNRECONCILED UNIT DATING

This is self-dated summer 1969 CE, but I can only fit it in spring 1972.

The Unzal Incursion   Audio drama, released 2021                     Doctor: 3

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Liz

Written by Mark Wright

Takes place in the UK, shortly before Inferno.

The Last Post    Audio Drama, released 2012                                       Doctor: 3

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Liz, with Winston Churchill (informative mention)

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK, ending immediately before Inferno.

Inferno   TV story, broadcast 1970                    Doctor: 3 and Unbound (glimpse)

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Liz, the British Republic, the Primords

Written by Don Houghton, script edited by Terrance Dicks.

Takes place in regional England; after The Ambassadors of Death as broadcast.

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In the British Republic, either they don’t know how to use desk calendars or it’s late July; but it can’t be late July in this continuum without contradicting The Scales of Injustice. Gary Russell has put more work into this than the Letts/Dicks production team, so I’m reluctantly going with him.

The Primords are Tellurians metamorphosed by contact with material from the Earth’s core. In Interference, it is established that Earth was formed around a gateway to the realm of the Yssgaroth; the implication of The Book of the War is that this material from their realm has caused the Tellurians to become Malakh, the servants of the Yssgaroth, like vampires and werewolves.

Cancer: Still Lives   Short story, published 2002                                     Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Liz, the British Republic

Written by Ian Potter.

Takes place on the site of Inferno and shortly after it.

UNRECONCILED UNIT DATING

Still got the July thing.

Ashes of the Inferno      Short story, published 2016                              Doctor: 0

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the British Republic, with the Master (informative mention)

Takes place on the site of Inferno, immediately after. Once again, I am assuming the

Soviet scientist Kashchei is the Master.

UNRECONCILED UNIT DATES

This is dated “five years” after The Schizoid Earth, but I can only make it three years. It’s been a very busy three years.

The Eye of the Giant Novel, published 1996                               Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Liz, Yates, with C19 (informative mention)

Written by Christopher Bulis.

Takes place in London and the Pacific; “a few weeks” before The Scales of Injustice.

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1934 is given as thirty-seven years previously; I make it thirty-eight.

C19 was a UK government agency responsible for allocating funds to UNIT, and probably the Counter Measures Group.

Binary   Audio Drama, released 2012                                                       Doctor: 3

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Liz

Written by Eddie Robson.

Takes place in the UK, plausibly after The Eye of the Giant: Liz is beginning her long goodbye from UNIT.

The Arrival   Short story, published 2019                                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, with the Dominators (glimpse)

Written by Tim Gambrell.

Takes place on Dartmoor and in Bristol; dated by authorial intent a little after Binary.

The Enemy from Nowhere   Comic story, published 1972                     Doctor:3

featuring the Zerons, with UNIT (informative mention)

Takes place in Cornwall and New York, NY, and above the Earth. The Doctor’s telegram is dated May 1972 CE, and I can’t really see a reason to argue with this.

The Zerons are a spacefaring race capable of rapid, willed metamorphosis and the sort of technology one would expect of interstellar travellers: it is difficult to say more of them than that, other than that they don’t take kindly to having missiles fired at them, and who does?

Things That Doctor Who Writers Who Want To Set Things In “The Present” Should Find Difficult To Ignore. Though Quite Likely They’ll Just Pile More Stuff In.

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UN DEBATES AN ULTIMATUM FROM EXTRATERRESTRIAL INVADERS.

The Scales of Injustice  Novel, published 1996                        Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Liz, Yates, the Earth Reptiles, C19, Kate, and Tobias Vaughan (g)

Written by Gary Russell.

informed guess Takes place in London, Kent, off the Kent coast and in the Cheviots; self-dated eight months after Spearhead From Space. Liz evidently does not go through with her decision to leave UNIT for several more months.

UNRECONCILED UNIT DATES

Gary Russell characteristically places these events eight months after October and in March, so that its dating is impossible to reconcile with itself. On the other hand, he might reasonably argue that it was Virgin’s job to employ an editor to keep an eye on this stuff. Also, if Kate Lethbridge-Stewart was born after The Web of Fear, she cannot be five, although that is, in fairness, a logical interpretation of a “four year” gap between The Web of Fear and The Invasion. It can be accommodated if Kate is a daughter that Fiona had before meeting Lethbridge-Stewart, and he is too much of a gentleman ever to mention that Kate isn’t his biological daughter. Anyway, I’m going with June. 

The Cheviots were a range of hills lying in southeast Scotland and across the border in Northumberland, the northernmost county of England, lying on its east coast.

Blue Boxes   Audio short story, released 2020                                          Doctor: 3

Featuring Benton, UNIT, Liz

Written by Erin Horakova.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK, after The Ambassadors of Death.

The Devil Goblins from Neptune  Novel, published 1997

                                                                                          Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Liz, Yates, Control, with Ian (informative mention)

Written by Martin Day and Keith Topping.

Takes place in the European and Asian USSR, New York, NY, Northampton, London, Cambridge, East Germany, Switzerland, Oregon, Wiltshire, Australia and Nevada; self-dated July. Yates has got the promotion to captain promised in The Scales of Injustice.

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Martin Day and Keith Topping place these events firmly, one might say obsessive-compulsively, in 1970 and “thirteen months” after Spearhead From Space. The Brigadier recalls reporting to Geneva about the events of Inferno “eight months” previously, but I expect he means eight weeks. He’s been having a very stressful time for four and a half years now.

Things That Doctor Who Writers Who Want To Set Things In “The Present” Should Find Difficult To Ignore. Though Quite Likely They’ll Just Pile More Stuff In.

A HUGE AIR-BATTLE AGAINST ALIENS TAKES PLACE OVER THE ROCKIES.

Control is a probably non-Tellurian humanoid who held high office in the US Central Intelligence Agency from 1972 to the mid 2020s CE, apparently without aging.

Northampton was the county seat of Northamptonshire, a landlocked county lying north of Buckinghamshire and west of Cambridgeshire.

Oregon was a constituent state of the USA, lying on the west coast, north of California and northwest of Nevada.

Neptune was a gas giant, the seventh planet from the Sun in the Solar System.

Zeron Invasion   Comic story, published 1973                                          Doctor:3

featuring the Zerons

Written by Dennis Hooper.

Takes place in London; not long before Countdown to TV Action. The Zeron seen in The Enemy From Nowhere transforms itself from a large biped to a lot of floaty spheres. If the species is that metamorphic, there is no reason to suppose these are not the same Zerons just because they appear as segmented and exoskeletal in the single panel of this story featuring them.

Things That Doctor Who Writers Who Want To Set Things In “The Present” Should Find Difficult To Ignore. Though Quite Likely They’ll Just Pile More Stuff In.

THE EARTH’S POPULATION ARE HYPNOTISED BY THE ZERONS INTO MISSING A DAY.

Countdown to TV Action   Short story, published 2000                                    Doctor:3

featuring the Kleptons

Written by Gary Russell.

Takes place on the Devon coast; self-dated July 1972 CE. Placed by BBC Books immediately before Deadly Choice.

The Kleptons are a fungoid, spacefaring species, resembling bipedal amphibians as a result of parallel evolution, I should imagine.

Deadly Choice  Comic story, published 1973                                             Doctor:3

Written by Dennis Hooper.

Takes place in the UK and the Himalayas; as published.

The Himalayas, Earth’s largest range of mountains, were to be found in central Asia, caused by the tectonic impact between the Indian sub-continent and Asia itself.

Things That Doctor Who Writers Who Want To Set Things In “The Present” Should Find Difficult To Ignore. Though Quite Likely They’ll Just Pile More Stuff In.

ALL THE WORLD’S LEADING SCIENTISTS ARE HYPNOTISED AND A PLANELOAD ARE KIDNAPPED.

Soldiers from Zolta     Illustrated short story, published 1970                Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Liz, with Mars, the Moon (informative mention)

Written by the World Distributors 1971 Annual crew.

informed guess Takes place in London and elsewhere; after The Ambassadors of Death and before Country of the Blind; the weather is “hot”.

Things That Doctor Who Writers Who Want To Set Things In “The Present” Should Find Difficult To Ignore. Though Quite Likely They’ll Just Pile More Stuff In.

THE WORLD IS SEIZED WITH DEBATE OVER WHETHER THERE SHOULD BE FURTHER CONTACT WITH THE ZOLTANS, DISCOVERED ON MARS.

The Master and Margarita     Novella, published 2020          Doctor: 3 (glimpse)

Featuring the Master, UNIT, the Earth Reptiles

Written by Matthew Sweet.

Informed guess Takes place in the USSR; self-dated “the seventies”.

Insect     Comic story, published 1970                                                         Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT

Written by Roger Noel Cook.

informed guess Takes place in the West Country; after The Multi Mobile as published.

The West Country was, idiomatically, the southwest of England, broadly a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bristol Channel.

The Blame Game     Audio short story, released 2016                              Doctor: 3

Written by Ian Atkins.

Featuring Mortimus, Liz, with the Time Lords, the Time Agency (informative mention)

informed guess Takes place in the UK, “months” after Spearhead From Space.

Mortimus is a Time Lord, a contemporary of the Doctor.

The Time Agency is a time-active organisation of the late fifth and early sixth millennia, employing humanoids, probably of Tellurian descent.

The Metal Eaters  Comic story, published 1970                                        Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Liz

Illustrated ?and written by John Canning.

informed guess Takes place in the UK; as published.

Tee Time       Charity short story, published 2001                                       Doctor: 0

featuring Tobias Vaughan

Written by Trina L Short.

informed guess Takes place in the UK, concluding a year after The Invasion.

The Fishmen of Carpantha     Comic story, published 1970                  Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Liz, ? the Earth Reptiles

Illustrated ?and written by John Canning.

informed guess Takes place in and off the coast of the UK; after The Metal Eaters as published. Cetaceans are mammals that have evolved a similarity to fish: I suggest it simplifies matters if the Fishmen of Carpantha are Earth Reptiles who have also evolved a similarity to fish. Although remaining bipedal, obviously.

 

Angela Carter’s 1972 novel The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman features a phantasmagoric, reality-altering war that might well be the Second War in Heaven, or a front of it. As is not unusual, it is not really possible to decide which antagonist in this novel – “reality” and “the fulfilment of desire” – might map onto the Great Houses and which onto The Enemy.

 

The Science of Magic     Short story, published 2009                              Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Liz

Written by Michael Rees.

informed guess Takes place in the UK, after Inferno and before Country of the Blind.

Invaders Invisible       Illustrated short story, published 1970                Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Liz

Written by the World Distributors 1971 Annual crew.

informed guess Takes place in the UK; after Soldiers From Zolta as published.

The Rocks from Venus     Comic story, published 1970                          Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Liz, with Venus, the USA (informative mention)

Written by Alan Fennel.

informed guess Takes place in Scotland; after The Fishmen of Carpantha as published.

The Dark Planet      Illustrated short story, published 1970                     Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Liz

Written by the World Distributors 1971 Annual crew.

Takes place in the UK; after Invaders Invisible as published.

Steelfist    Comic story, published 1972                                                      Doctor: 3

Written by Dennis Hooper.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK, presumably before Ride to Nowhere, as the Doctor is unaware of transmat technology on Earth. It is splendid that the flamboyant but enigmatic villain Arnie Babbs escapes for a sequel that never happened so that we never find out more about him. I would point out however that his brilliance, his presumable penchant for disguise, his obscure goals and his ambivalent relationship with the Doctor (who has no idea who he is) are all compatible with his being Sabbath,

The Pestilent Heart    Comic story, published 2016                                Doctor: 12

Written by Mark Wright.

informed guess Takes place in Brixton, a district of London; self-dated six months after

The Highgate Horror.

 

The 2012 film Dark Shadows features vampires and a werewolf, seems not obviously incompatible with Doctor Who narrative and is set in the summer of 1972.

 

Anti-Element   Short story, published 2011                                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Senor 105

Written by Julio Angel Ortiz.

Informed guess Takes place in Mexico and the inter-dimensional void, after Are You Loathsome Tonight? as published.

Caverns of Horror      Illustrated short story, published 1970                 Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Liz

Written by the World Distributors 1971 Annual crew.

Takes place under the UK; after The Dark Planet as published.

Moving In   Comic story, published 2016                                                   Doctor: 12

Written by Mark Wright.

Takes place in Brixton, shortly after The Pestilent Heart.

Bloodsport   Comic story, published 2016                                                 Doctor: 12

Written by Mark Wright.

Takes place in London, shortly after Moving In.

Walls of Confinement    Audio short story, released 2011                      Doctor: 3

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart

Written by Lawrence Conquest.

Informed guess Takes place in the London, during the Doctor’s exile.

The Blood Woods   Audio drama, released 2021                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, River Song, UNIT, Liz

Written by Lizbeth Miles.

Takes place in the English countryside, between Spearhead From Space and Terror of the

Suburbs.

Terror of the Suburbs   Audio drama, released 2021                   Doctor: 0

Featuring River Song, UNIT, Liz

Written by James Kettle.

Takes place in the Sahara Desert, before Never Alone.      

Never Alone   Audio drama, released 2021                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring River Song, UNIT, Liz

Written by Helen Goldwyn.

Takes place in the UK, before Rivers of Light.

Rivers of Light   Audio drama, released 2021                               Doctor: 3

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the Master, River Song, UNIT, Liz

Written by Lisa McMullin.

Takes place in Yorkshire. The Doctor has been away from UNIT, alarmingly from my point

of view, for “several months”, but I have to ascribe this to hyperbole, how long can you

send the Doctor away on a wild goose chase anyway? He‘s not stupid. The Master is

arrested by the Time Lords at the end of this story, so I assume that it is some

considerable time before Prisoners of the Sun on his timeline.

The Blue Tooth   Audio Drama, released 2007                                   Doctor: 3

featuring the Cybermen, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Liz, Yates

Written by Nigel Fairs.

informed guess Takes place in Cambridgeshire, about a year after Liz has joined UNIT.

Cambridgeshire, the landlocked County of Cambridge, lay to the north of Hertfordshire and Essex and the west of Suffolk and Norfolk.

The White Dragon    Comic story, published 2020                                  Doctor: 13

Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz

Written by Scott Gray.

Informed guess Takes place in Hong Kong; self-dated 1972 CE.

Hong Kong was an island metropolis off the south coast of China, at this point held, together with an enclave on the mainland, by the UK government on a lease from the Chinese government.

Reconnaissance       Illustrated short story, published 1993                     Doctor: 3

featuring the Master, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Liz, Yates

Written by Terrance Dicks.

informed guess Takes place in UNIT HQ and London, shortly before Country of the Blind.

A Universe Called Fred      Illustrated short story, published 1970        Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Liz

Written by the World Distributors 1971 Annual crew.

informed guess Takes place in UNIT HQ, after Caverns of Horror as published.

The Man in the Moon      Comic story, published 2008                          Doctor: 10

featuring Donna

Written by Nev Fountain.

informed guess Takes place on the Moon; the Doctor mentions the Apollo landings, which took place between June 1969 and December 1972 CE. It appears that much of the material of the Moon has been accumulated by Chevron’s spaceship while he has spent a billion and a half years in dispute with parking attendant robots.

Country of the Blind     Illustrated short story, published 1992              Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Liz, Yates, with Venus (informative mention)

Written by Paul Cornell.

informed guess Takes place at UNIT HQ; after several threats (Prisoners of the Sun, The Scales of Injustice, The Devil Goblins of Neptune, Reconnaissance) Liz finally leaves UNIT. This starts the second phase of the Doctor’s time as scientific adviser to UNIT. The Doctor thinks he has never learned Venusian Aikido, despite having studied Venusian martial arts in By The Time I Get To Venus. This could be the result of more than one Time Lord interference with his memory, or could just be the subtler point that Aikido was simply not one of the techniques he was taught.

Levitation    Comic story, published 1970                                                  Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, with Mars (informative mention)

Written by Roger Noel Cook

Takes place in UNIT HQ, after The Rocks From Venus as published. Also, the Doctor learning levitation follows on nicely from his reflective mood in Country of the Blind.

The Robot    Comic story, published 1970                                                  Doctor: 3

Illustrated ?and written by John Canning.

informed guess Takes place in regional England, after Levitation as published.

The Rings of Ikiria  Audio Drama, released 2012                              Doctor: 3

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Yates

Written by Richard Dinnick.

informed guess Takes place on Sark, implicitly between Country of the Blind and Terror of the Autons.

Sark was an island of the Channel Islands, an archipelago lying in the English Channel off the coast of France, and at this point a largely Anglophone possession of the British monarchy.

Trial of Fire    Comic story, published 1970                                                Doctor: 3

featuring Earth Inorganics

Written by Alan Fennell.

informed guess Takes place in and under Wiltshire, London, Africa and Antarctica, after The Robot as published.

For obvious reasons, I don’t think that the Fire People can be a carbon-based lifeform, and assume they are one of a number of manifestations of inorganic sentient life on Earth, possibly, like the Sentience, a manifestation of the awareness of the Sou(Ou)Shi that imbued the Earth three billion years previously (Venusian Lullaby).

Taken for Granted   Audio short story, released 2018                     Doctor: 3 (informative mention)

Featuring Benton, UNIT, Jo

Written by Ian Hidewell.

informed guess Takes place in the UK, not long before Terror of the Autons.

Jo Grant is a Tellurian born in 1951 CE.

Ride to Nowhere      Comic story, published 1972                                    Doctor: 3

Illustrated ?and written by Frank Langford.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.

Terror of the Autons     TV story, broadcast 1971                      Doctor: 3

featuring the Master, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, The Nestene Consciousness, Yates, Jo and the Time Lords (glimpse)

Written by Robert Holmes, script edited by Terrance Dicks.

Takes place in regional England; as broadcast. Jo joins UNIT, starting the third phase of the Doctor’s tenure as UNIT scientific adviser.

The Autons   Fictional Document, published 1992                                    Doctor: 3

featuring the Master, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, the Nestene Consciousness

Written by Adrian Rigelsford.

Purportedly written after Terror of the Autons.

Glyph     Short story, published 2011                                                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Senor 105

Written by Joe Curreri.

Informed guess Takes place in Mexico, after Anti-element as published.

Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon   Novelisation, published 1974        Doctor: 3

featuring the Master, Jo, and the Time Lords, Lethbridge-Stewart (g)

Adapted by Malcolm Hulke from his own script, edited by Terrance Dicks.

The earlier sections take place in UNIT HQ, before any of Jo’s other adventures, apart, obviously, from Terror of the Autons. For the Master, this clearly takes place after The Mind of Evil as his TARDIS is again functional, but I conclude that the High Council have overridden the protocols that customarily keep Time Lords “in sequence”. Jo leaves linear time, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.          

War in the Abyss    Illustrated short story, published 1972                      Doctor: 3

featuring UNIT, Jo, the Earth Inorganics

Written by the World Distributors 1973 Annual crew.

informed guess Takes place in Antarctica, soon after Terror of the Autons.

Things That Doctor Who Writers Who Want To Set Things In “The Present” Should Find Difficult To Ignore. Though Quite Likely They’ll Just Pile More Stuff In.

THE EARTH MOVES CLOSER TO THE SUN. AND DOESN’T MOVE BACK AGAIN, AS FAR AS I CAN SEE.

Deadly Reunion    Novel, published 2003                                    Doctor: 3

featuring the Master, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Yates, Jo, the Olympians, and the Players (informative mention)

Written by Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks.

The earlier sections, taking place as it would appear in 1951 CE, take place in the islands off Greece and at one point in Albania. The later sections take place in regional England, not long after Terror of the Autons.

UNRECONCILED UNIT DATING

I can’t really make this fit in September; I can just about manage November.

The Gods of Olympus, who I shall describe going forward as the Olympians, are humanoids with the sort of telekinetic powers consistent with being the actual pantheon of ancient Greece. They claim to have posed as gods and not to be able to remember their actual origins.

Albania was a republic on the west coast of the Balkan Peninsula, northwest of Greece.

The Players are a group of humanoid immortals, of obscure origins but related to the Gods of Olympus.

UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce   Short story, published 2004     Doctor: 3

featuring the Master, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Yates, Jo

Written by Terrance Dicks.

Takes place at UNIT HQ, soon after Terror of the Autons (at Christmas).

Be Forgot     Comic story, published 2016                                                  Doctor: 12

Written by Mark Wright.

Takes place in Brixton; self-dated the Christmas after Bloodsport.

Do You Dream in Colour?    Short story, published 2007                      Doctor: 0

featuring Polly, Ben

Written by Gary Russell.

Takes place near and on Lindisfarne; self-dated Christmas, six years after The Faceless Ones.

Lindisfarne was an island off the northeast coast of England, administratively part of Northumberland.

The Mind of Evil    TV story, broadcast 1971                                 Doctor: 3

featuring the Master, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Yates, Jo, with Continental Europe, China, the USA (informative mention)

informed guess Takes place in the UK, after UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce.

 

                                                                                                                                   

Total Stories Considered               299  

Proportion Written By Women   9%                                          

 

Top Docs

3                 64 stories   New number one!

2                 28 stories  

1                 19 stories

7                 14 stories           

11               10 stories  

10               9 stories     Climber!

8                 8 stories    

4                 7 stories             

6                 6 stories             

12               6 stories     Climber!

Unbound   6 stories             

5                 3 stories             

13               3 stories     Climber!

9                 2 stories    

         

         

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

Alastair and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                                 118 stories          New number one!

London                                                                96 stories

UNIT                                                                    63 stories   Climber!

Regional England                                               57 stories   Climber!    

The Travers family                                            48 stories  

North America                                                   46 stories  

Liz                                                                        41 stories   Climber!    

Benton                                                                25 stories   New entry!

The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group        23 stories

Scotland                                                              23 stories   Climber!    

Christmas                                                            19 stories  

Senor 105                                                           16 stories   Climber!

Jamie                                                                   16 stories           

Yates                                                                   15 stories   New entry!

Continental Europe                                           15 stories   Climber!

The Time Lords                                                  14 stories   Climber!    

Iris Wildthyme                                                   13 stories

The Great Intelligence                                      12 stories  

The Moon                                                           11 stories Climber!    

Barbara and Ian                                                 11 stories

        

Top Decades

The Teens                                                           158 stories

The Noughties                                                    44 stories

The Seventies                                                    34 stories   Climber!    

The Sixties                                                          22 stories  

The Nineties                                                       19 stories

The Twenties                                                     22 stories  

The Eighties                                                        1 story

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          30 stories

2018                                                          23 stories  

1970                                                          23 stories   Climber!    

2015                                                          19 stories  

2011                                                          17 stories   Climber!

2013                                                          17 stories

2019                                                          16 stories   Climber!

2012                                                          14 stories  

2021                                                          13 stories

2017                                                          11 stories  

2020                                                          8 stories     Climber!

1968                                                          7 stories    

2009                                                          7 stories    

2010                                                          6 stories     Climber!   

2014                                                          6 stories     Climber!

1972                                                          5 stories =  New entry!

2000                                                          5 stories =  Climber!     

2001                                                          5 stories =

2005                                                          5 stories = 

2007                                                          5 stories =  Re-entry!

2004                                                          5 stories =  New entry!

 

                  

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                  152

Proportion of Female Writers                         14%        

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                          12 stories   New Number 0ne!

Andy Frankham-Allen                             11 stories  

? John Canning                                         9 stories     Climber!

Mark Wright                                             9 stories     Climber!

1971 crew                                                 8 stories     New entry!

Roger Noel Cook                                      7 stories     Climber!

Justin Richards                                         7 stories

Eddie Robson                                            7 stories

John Dorney                                             6 stories    

David Whitaker                                        6 stories     Climber!    

Andrew Cartmel                                      5 stories

Matt Fitton                                               5 stories    

Malcolm Hulke                                         5 stories     Climber!

John Peel                                                  5 stories     Climber!

Cody Schell                                               5 stories    

Sharon Bidwell                                         4 stories     Climber!    

Christopher Cooper                                 4 stories    

Simon Guerrier                                        4 stories

Dennis Hooper                                         4 stories     New entry!

Jonathon Morris                                      4 stories