Now:
Nineteen Sixty Nine
The Web of Time Audio Drama,
released 2019 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Great Intelligence, River Song
Written by
John Dorney.
Takes
place in London, immediately before The
Web of Fear.
The Ambush! Illustrated short story, published 2015 Doctor: 2
Featuring the Great Intelligence, Lethbridge-Stewart
Written by Andy Frankham-Allen.
The Web of Fear TV
story, broadcast 1968 Doctor: 2
featuring Jamie, Victoria, the Great Intelligence,
Lethbridge-Stewart, The Travers Family
Written by Mervyn
Haisman and Henry Lincoln, script edited by Derrick Sherwin.
Takes place in and
under London.
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.
CENTRAL LONDON AND MUCH
OF THE UNDERGROUND SYSTEM IS COVERED WITH A LETHAL FOG.
Fear of the Web Novel, published 2018 Doctor: 2 (glimpse}
Featuring the Great Intelligence, The Travers Family, the Rutan with Lethbridge-
Stewart, Grace Technology (glimpse)
Written by Alyson Leeds.
Takes place in London, ending
simultaneously with The Web of Fear.
An Ordinary Man Novel, published 2020 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Great Intelligence, the Lethbridge-Stewart family, the Travers
family, Grace Technology
Written by Andy Frankham-Allen and Tim
Gambrell.
Father Figure Short story, published 2006 Doctor: 2
featuring
Victoria, and the Daleks, Jamie (im)
Written
by Steve Lyons.
Takes
place in London, immediately after The
Web of Fear.
Forever Dreaming Comic story, published 2011 Doctor: 11
Featuring Amy
Written by Jonathan Morris.
The Zombies Comic story, published 1967 Doctor: 2
featuring Gillian, John
Written by Roger Noel
Cook.
Takes place in London;
self-dated 1969 CE.
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.
CENTRAL
LONDON - AT LEAST - IS OCCUPIED BY THE ZAGBORS WHO HYPNOTISE THE POPULATION.
The Forgotten
Son Novel, published 2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the Great Intelligence, the Travers family
Written by Andy Frankham-Allen.
Takes place in London, Cornwall and
Buckinghamshire; self-dated March 1969 CE.
Buckinghamshire, the landlocked County of Buckingham, lay
west of Greater London.
Featuring Unbound Lethbridge-Stewart, unbound Great Intelligence, unbound Travers
family
Written by Norma Ashley.
Takes place in the London of an alternative reality, simultaneously with The Forgotten Son.
The Contented Mind Short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart
Written by Wink Taylor.
Takes place in England, towards the end of
The Forgotten Son.
The Poppet
Short story, published 2017 Doctor: 0
Featuring Olive Hawthorne
Written by Jan Edwards.
Informed guess Takes place in Devil’s End, after The Cat Who Walked Through Walls as published, but before The Daemons.Devil’s End was a village in Wiltshire, a landlocked English county east of Somerset.
The Impossible Astronaut TV story, broadcast 2011 Doctor: 11
Featuring River Song, the ganger Amy, Rory, the Silents
Written by Steven Moffat
Takes place partly in Washington D.C., Utah and Florida; mostly self-dated April 1969 CE.
The Silents are a time-travelling bipedal species, engineered by the Church of the Papal Mainframe by at least the early sixth millennium CE.Utah was a landlocked constituent state of the USA, lying
east of Nevada.
One Cold Step Short story, published 2015 Doctor: 0
Written by David A.McIntee and Andy Frankham-Allen.
Featuring The Travers family, with UNIT (informative mention)
Takes place in the North Atlantic;
self-date April 1969 CE
The Schizoid Earth Novel,
published 2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the British Republic, with the Master, as we may reasonably surmise (glimpse)
Written by David A.McIntee.
Takes place pivotally in Deepdene, Suffolk;
self-dated April 1969 CE.
Suffolk was a county on the east coast of
England, north of Essex.
The Slakken Cat Comic story, published 2009 Doctor: 10
Featuring Heather
Written by Craig Donaghy.
Informed guess Takes place on Earth; self-dated 1969 CE.
Revolution Man Novel,
published 1999 Doctor: 8
Featuring Sam, Fitz
Written by Paul Leonard.
The Vale of Kashmir was at this time split between and disputed by Pakistan and India,
two republics on the south coast of Asia, the largest of Earth’s seven continents and
home to some sixty percent of its population. It lay mostly in the northern hemisphere,
separated from Europe to the west by the Ural mountains, and North America to the
east by the Pacific Ocean, though to the north both continents extended peninsulas
towards each other so that they were separated only by the Bering Straits, joining the
Pacific to the Arctic Ocean. Australia lay to its southeast, on the other side of the
Indonesian Archipelago.
Rome was the capital city of Italy, a republic of southern Europe, mainly situated on a
peninsula extending southward into the Mediterranean Sea and lying south of
Switzerland and southeast of France.
Tibet was a landlocked former monarchy of Asia, lying north of India, at this point forcibly
incorporated into China.
China was a republic on the east coast of Asia, the world’s second-largest nation and its
most populous. Sichuan was a landlocked province of it, north and east of Tibet.
Ramsgate was a port on the east coast of Kent.
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.
QUITE PROBABLY NOTHING, AS THE DOCTOR’S USE OF OM-TSOR ENABLES HIM
TO RETCON CAUSALITY TO A MASSIVE DEGREE.
The Cult of the Grinning Man Illustrated
short story, published 2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart
Written by Tom Dexter.
Fang Rock.
Llandudno was a town on the north coast of Wales, a peninsula extending into the Irish
Sea from the west coast of Albion. Administratively, it was a region of England
geographically, historically, linguistically and culturally it was a constituent nation of the
UK.
Beast of Fang Rock Novel,
published 2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the Travers family, the Rutan, with the Counter Measures Group (informative mention)
Written by Andy Frankham-Allen, from a
story by Terrance Dicks.
Who Killed Toby Kinsella? it is established that Air Vice-Marshall Gilmore is officially
dead at this time. Still, in the Doctor Who continuum, the authorities seem to
be a swarm of agencies keeping secrets from each other. It is perhaps not
dissimilar to real life in that regard.
The Rutan are an amorphous, space travelling, biologically colonial, occasionally
crystalline species, originally from Ruta III. They were locked in interstellar combat with
the Sontarans for a very long time: various durations have been asserted for the conflict,
but in Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible we learn that the two species were in dispute when
the Gallifreyans became the Time Lords, upwards of three billion years previously. We
may reasonably view the Sontaro-Rutan War as a spacefaring species in itself, its
antagonists two different modes of its existence, as more conventional species have two
sexes. How after all would a colonial species develop a warrior-braggart culture other
than by conscious or unconscious imitation of the Sontarans? As the Sontarans lost
some of their sense of individuality, so the Rutan seem, bizarrely, to have acquired
some.
The Dogs of War Illustrated
short story, published 2015
Doctors: 2, 7
(informative mention)
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the Counter Measures Group, the Great Intelligence, the Travers family
Written by Andy-Frankham Allen.
Takes place in London; self-dated three
days after Beast of Fang Rock.
Senor 105 Contra El Bigote de Perdicion Short
story, published 2011 Doctor: 0
Featuring Senor 105
Written by Lawrence Burton.
Contra Los Monstruos del Fiesta and The Gulf.
Mutually Assured Domination Novel,
published 2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the Travers family, the Quarks and the Dominators
Written by Nick Walters.
Takes place on Dartmoor; self-dated June
1969 CE.
southwestern English peninsula, east of Cornwall.
The Time Wrestlers Charity
short story, published 2016 Doctor: 6
Featuring Senor 105, Peri, the War in Heaven, with the Time Lords, Faction
Paradox (informative mention)
Written by Lawrence Burton.
Bigote de Perdicion, a scene from which features in Against Nature, to which this is a
sequel.
The Planet of Giants TV story, broadcast 1964 Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan, Barbara, Ian
Written
by Louis Marks, script edited by David Whitaker.
Takes
place in England, just before House of
Giants.
House of Giants Short story, published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the Travers Family
Written by Rick Cross.
Takes place in England very soon after Mutually Assured Domination.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:
Century: Paint it Black
Doctor: 2 (glimpse)
Comic story, published 2011
Featuring Vampires
Written by Alan Moore.
attention possibly caught by the sound of Thunderbird Two flying overhead.
Blue Moon Illustrated short story, published 2009 Doctor: 10
Featuring Torchwood
Written by Oli Smith.
Takes place in Houston, Tx., and on the
Moon; self-dated July 1969 CE.
brief to defend its possessions from extraterrestrial threat, with a particular emphasis
on acquiring offworld hardware.
One Small Step... Short story, published 2004 Doctor: 2
featuring
Jamie, Zoe, with the Moon (informative
mention)
Written
by Nicholas Briggs.
Takes
place on the Isle of Wight; self-dated July 1969 CE, pivotally at the same time
as Blue Moon.
The
Isle of Wight was an island off the
south coast of Albion.
The Black Eggs of Khufu Illustrated
short story, published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart
Written by Tom Dexter.
Takes place in Cairo, during Moon Blink.
The metropolis of Cairo was the capital of Egypt, a republic in Africa, a
continent of Earth lying athwart the equator and home to about thirteen percent of the
Earth’s population. Nation and continent were connected to Asia to the northeast by
the Isthmus of Suez. The continent was separated from Europe to the north by the
Mediterranean Sea and Australia to the east by the Indian Ocean.
Moon Blink Novel,
published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the Travers family, the Rutan, with the USA, Mars, the
Dominators (informative mention)
Written by Sadie Miller.
after the Moon landings.
Edinburgh was the capital city of Scotland.
The Band of Evil Illustrated
short story, published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart
Written by Roger J Simmonds and Shaun
Russell.
Takes place in Wembley; self-dated August
1969 CE.
Death of the Author Short story, published 2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written by Paul Dale Smith
Informed guess Takes place partly in Las Vegas, Na., implicitly at a time when Elvis and Priscilla Presley were present. Elvis’s first residency there was August 1969 CE: Priscilla left him in February 1972 CE, so I’m guessing that Iris would have wanted to meet them as far from that unpleasantness as possible. Takes place otherwise in Yorkshire.The Showstoppers Novel,
published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the Travers family, with the USA (informative
mention)
Written by Jonathan Cooper.
Takes place in the UK, including London
and Edinburgh; self-dated August 1969 CE.
Visiting
Hours Short story,
published 2005 Doctor: 2
featuring
Jamie, with Zoe (informative mention)
Written
by Eddie Robson.
informed guess Takes place in the UK in the late sixties CE; 1969 is
the year this crew appeared in the programme.
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Short story, published 2019 Doctor:
0
Featuring Lethbridge- Stewart, Anne
Travers
Written by James Connarty.
Takes place at Dolerite Base, and in
international waters off the coast of the UK, between
The Showstoppers and The Grandfather Infestation.
Exodus from Venus Short story, published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Venus
Written by John Peel.
Takes pace immediately before The Grandfather Infestation.
The Grandfather Infestation Novel,
published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the Travers family
Written by John Peel.
Takes place in and around the North Sea and in Edinburgh; self-dated September 1969 CE.
Dr. First Illustrated short story, published 2017 Doctor: 1
Featuring Susan, the Cybermen
Written by Adam Hargreaves.
The Cybermen are cybernetically augmented humanoids: an integral part of the
process, which is generally involuntarily, is the removal of emotions considered to be
weak and unnecessary. This predictably causes Cybermen to be structurally and
systemically psychotic, with a deranged conviction of their own logicality. In World
Enough and Time, the Doctor suggests it is a condition to which humans are endemically
prone, which may remind you of vampirism, but Cybermen on Earth at this time almost
certainly originate on Mondas, described Earth’s twin planet in The Tenth Planet, which
was knocked out of orbit a very long time previously, and now, what going up
necessarily coming down, was hurtling back towards the inner Solar System.
The Runaway Bomb
Short story, published 2017 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart
Written by Nick Walters.
Takes place in Snowdonia; self-dated September 1969 CE, and after The Grandfather Infestation.
Snowdonia was a mountainous area of northern Wales.
A Little Help From My Friends Comic
story, published 2020
Doctors: 10, 13
Featuring the Nestene Consciousness, Martha, the Weeping Angels, Graham, Ryan,
Yaz
Written by Jody Houser.
Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 1969 CE.
plastic. You may be disappointed to learn that it is not and never was a Great Old One,
but was according to the Doctor (All Consuming Fire) the progeny of one, originally
hailing from the planet Polymos.
Martha Jones is a Tellurian, born in 1984 CE.
Graham O’Brien is a Tellurian born in the late
1950s CE.
Ryan Sinclair is a Tellurian born in about 1999
CE.
Yasmin Khan, known as Yaz, is a Tellurian born in 1999 CE.
Test Flight Comic
story, published 1969 Doctor: 2
featuring
the Cybermen
Written
by ?John Canning.
contemporary to publication Takes place in and above the USA. Knight’s rank of
Commander indicates that he is an officer of the USNAF rather than the USAAF.
Whisper Audio Drama, released 2019 Doctor: 8
Featuring Liv, Helen, the Eleven
Written by Matt
Fitton.
Arbitrary placement (As I have explained, there are
a substantial number of stories
offering no evidence of when they should be dated in relation to anything else.
I am assuming that some of these stories, although taking place a long way from
Earth, are happening contemporaneously. This is one such randomly selected
story). Takes place at the Still Foundation.
The Eleven is a Time Lord of the First
Restoration. As the First Restoration seems to have lasted less than two
thousand years altogether, and the Eleven had got through seven regenerations
already when first encountered, I’m guessing that he was a Time Lord of the
original Chronarchy, restored from the Matrix back-up in the Doctor’s head (The Gallifrey Chronicles).
The Last Duty Illustrated short story, published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the
Travers family
Written by Christopher Bryant.
Takes place on the coast of Yorkshire, self-dated October 1969 CE.
Times Squared Novel,
published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the Travers family, the Great Intelligence,
Adrienne Kramer
Written by Rick Cross.
Takes place in New York, NY; self-dated October 1969 CE.
Adrienne Kramer is a Tellurian born, from her rank as Lieutenant in this story, in the mid to late 1940s CE.The Lost Skin Novella, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring The Travers family, with Lethbridge-Stewart (informative mention)
Written by Andy Frankham-Allen.
Takes place in northern Scotland,
simultaneously with Times Squared.
Eve of the Fomorians Short story, published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring The Travers family
Written by Robert Mammone.
Takes place in the UK; self-dated Hallowe’en,
1969 CE.
Elementary, My Dear Sheila Novella,
published 2010 Doctor: 0
Featuring Senor 105, Iris Wildthyme
Written by Cody Schell.
Takes place in Mexico; self-dated early
November 1969 CE.
Summertime Blues Short story, published 2019 Doctor: 0
featuring Lethbridge-Stewart,
Anne Travers
Written by Alexander
Whittam.
Takes place at Dolerite Base, self-dated
early November 1969 CE.
In the Sixties Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor: Unbound
featuring
a Cyberman, Iris Wildthyme, Jamie
Written
by Paul Magrs.
Takes
place in London; self-dated November 1969 CE.
Blood of Atlantis Novel, published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the Travers family, Atlantis
Written by
Simon A Forward.
Takes
place on and near Santorini; self-dated November 1969 CE.
Atlantis is a civilisation that largely vanished a long time before the Common
Era
peninsula and numerous islands around it.
The Wishing Bazaar Short story, published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart
Written by Sharon Bidwell.
Takes place in London; self-dated November
1969, after Blood of Atlantis.
Mind of Stone Novel,
published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the Travers family
Written by Iain McLaughlin.
Takes place in London and Egypt;
self-dated December 1969 CE.
The Fright Before Christmas Illustrated
short story, published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart
Written by Tom Dexter.
Takes place in London; self-dated Christmas Eve, 1969 CE.
Interesting Times Short story, published 2008 Doctor: 3
featuring
Sarah Jane
Written
by Eddie Robson.
Takes
place in Saigon; self-dated Christmas Eve, 1969 CE.
Saigon
was the capital of the Republic of Vietnam,
a nation on the east coast of the Southeast Asian peninsula.
The Feast of Evans Short story,
published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart
(informative Mention)
Written by Simon A Forward.
Takes place in Llanfairfach, a town in south Wales, concluding on
Christmas Day 1969 CE.
Home for Christmas Short story, published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, the
Travers family
Written by the Candy Jar collective.
Takes place in the Edinburgh, ending on Boxing Day, 1969 CE.
Slouching Towards Det-Sen Short story,
published 2017 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Travers family,
with the Great Intelligence (informative mention)
Written by Shaun Collins.
Takes place in Tibet; self-dated December 1969 CE, ending two days after
Boxing Day.
Total Stories Considered 160
Proportion Written By Women 9%
Top Docs
2 21 stories New number one!
1 17 stories
7 12 stories
8 7 stories Climber!
11 7 stories Climber!
4 6 stories
10 6 stories Climber!
6 5 stories
Unbound 5 stories
5 3 stories
3 2 stories Climber!
9 2 stories
13 2 stories Climber!
12 1 story
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
London 68 stories
Lethbridge-Stewart 37 stories Climber!
Regional England 27 stories Climber!
North America 26 stories
The Travers family 26
stories new entry!
The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group 23
stories
Christmas 12 stories Climber!
Iris Wildthyme 11 stories
Jamie 11 stories Climber!
Barbara and Ian 10 stories
The Great Intelligence 10
stories new entry!
Susan 9 stories
Continental Europe 9 stories
Scotland 8
stories new entry!
The Time Lords 8 stories
Ace 7 stories
Steven 6 stories
The Malakh, the werewolves and the vampires 6 stories
The Moon 5
stories new entry!
Senor 105 5
stories new entry!
Gillian and John 5 stories
Top Decades
The Teens 98 stories
The Noughties 30 stories
The Sixties 16 stories
The Nineties 9 stories
The Twenties 6
stories
The Eighties 1
story
And Top Twenty Years
2016 21 stories New number one!
2015 17 stories
2013 14 stories
2018 10 stories
2011 8 stories Climber!
2019 7
stories Climber!
2012 6 stories
2014 6 stories
2005 5 stories
2009 5
stories Climber!
1968 4
stories Climber!
2000 4
stories
2017 4
stories Climber!
2020 4 stories Climber!
1965 3 stories
1966 3 stories
1967 3 stories
1999 3
stories
2003 3 stories
2004 3 stories
2006 3
stories
2010 3
stories
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
editors) 110
Proportion of Female Writers 13%
Top Twenty Writers
Justin Richards 7 stories
Andy Frankham-Allen 7 stories New entry!
John Dorney 6 stories
Andrew Cartmel 5 stories
Matt Fitton 5 stories
Eddie Robson 5 stories Climber!
David Whitaker 5 stories
Jonathon Morris 4 stories
Tom Dexter 3
stories New entry!
Simon Guerrier 3 stories
Steve Lyons 3 stories
Paul Magrs 3
stories Climber!
David A McIntee 3
stories New entry!
Ken Bentley 2 stories =
Colin Brake 2 stories =
Simon Bucher-Jones 2 stories =
Gerry Davis 2 stories =
Richard Dungworth 2 stories =
James Goss 2 stories =
Terry Nation 2 stories =
Marc Platt 2 stories =
Cavan Scott 2 stories =
Milton Subotsky 2 stories =
Mark Wright 2 stories =
1969 Crew 2 stories =
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