Now:
Nineteen Seventy-Seven
Death Flower Comic story, published 1975 Doctor: 4
featuring
Sarah Jane, with UNIT (informative
mention)
Written
by a writer employed by Polystyle
Takes
place in Wiltshire; self-dated early in the new year after the Doctor’s third
regeneration.
The Helm of Awe Audio Drama,
released 2017 Doctor: 4
Featuring Leela, with
Lethbridge-Stewart (informative mention)
Written by Marc Platt from a story by Philip Hinchcliffe.
Takes place in Shetland; self-dated January 1977 CE. By this time,
Lethbridge-Stewart will be teaching at Brendon. Still, if the Doctor gives you
a space-time telegraph, no doubt you regard it as your property rather than your
employer’s, and take it with you to your next job.
Shetland was an archipelago lying considerably to the north of Albion,
politically at this time part of Scotland.
The Fire Feeders Comic story, published 1977 Doctor: 4
Illustrated
?and written by John Canning.
Contemporary to publication Takes place in southern England.
Eraserhead, released in March 1977, with its Man in the Planet and
its melding of body horror and its postmodern meaning-as-embodiment of horror,
seems a very plausible example of a manifestation of The Enemy, as suggested by
The Annotation Autopsy of Agent A,
and other narrative in The Book of the
Enemy.
The Orb Comic story, published 1977 Doctor: 4
featuring
Leela
Illustrated
?and written by John Canning.
contemporary to publication Takes place on and above Earth.
Mawdryn Undead TV story, broadcast 1983 Doctor: 5
featuring
Lethbridge-Stewart, Grace technology,
Nyssa, Tegan, Turlogh and the Time Lords, UNIT, Benton (informative mention)
Written
by Peter Grimwade, script edited by Eric Saward.
Takes
place in the UK (I have found no firm evidence that Brendon School is in
England rather than Wales, Scotland, Man or the Channel Islands; the earlier
sections self-dated June 1977 CE.
The Cloisters of Terror Audio
Drama, released 2015 Doctor: 4
Featuring Leela, K9 I, with Lethbridge-Stewart,
Liz, South America (im)
Written by Jonathan Morris.
Informed guess Takes place in Oxford; self-dated 1977 CE. Liz is now
working on a moonbase project. Lethbridge- Stewart has been teaching maths at Brendon
for the first half of the year and then suffered a major nervous breakdown, so
I think the assertion that he’s investigating stuff in South America is
Ministry of Defence disinformation.
Image of the Fendahl TV story, broadcast 1977 Doctor:
4
featuring
Leela, the Fendahl, and the Time Lords,
K9 I (informative mention)
Written
by Chris Boucher, script edited by Robert Holmes and Anthony Read.
Takes
place in rural England and approaching the outer Solar System; self-dated the
end of July, and dated 1977 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.
K9
mark I is a self-propelled
artificial intelligence, apparently gendered male for cultural reasons. It was
built in Tellurian space at the end of the fiftieth century CE, incorporating
elements, it would appear, of K9 IV (Tautology).
The
Fendahl is a form of anti-life, some
of its vectors being humanoid. It has indeed influenced Tellurian evolution for
twelve million years so that Tellurians will serve that purpose: from one
viewpoint, it might be considered a disease of Tellurians, like being of the
Malakh, or a Cyberman.
An
Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium Audio Drama,
released 2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme,
werewolves
Written by Scott Handcock.
Takes place in Antwerp and in northern England in 1977 CE.
Antwerp was a city in Belgium, a
monarchy on the northwest coast of Europe, southwest of the Netherlands, west
of Germany and northeast of France.
That’s All Right, Mama Short story, published 2019 Doctors: 13,
with 10, 11, 12
Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz
Written by
Paul Magrs.
Takes
place in Memphis, Te; pivotally in August 1977 CE.
Memphis was a city in Tennessee, a landlocked constituent state of the USA, southwest of
Virginia.
The Fugitive Illustrated short story,
published 1976 Doctor: 0
featuring
the Daleks, with Venus (informative
mention)
Written
by or under the aegis of Terry Nation.
Takes
place in the UK; self-dated 1977 CE. The humanoid Venusian who appears from the
future is likely a Tellurian-descended inhabitant of a terraformed Venus, whose
ancestors have presumably lived there long enough to develop distinctive
genetic characteristics.
Rabid
(1977) is about not conventional vampires as such, but what appears to be a
form of vampirism, fitting in well enough with Doctor Who narrative.
The Android Invasion TV story, broadcast 1975 Doctor:
4
featuring
UNIT, Benton, Sarah Jane, Harry
Written
by Terry Nation, script edited by Robert Holmes.
informed guess Takes place on Oseidon and in rural England, during a
summer before The Oseidon Adventure.
This pretty much implies that Sarah Jane is meeting her UNIT colleagues “out of
order”, but, yes, actually, why not? Benton has evidently been recalled to
active service from the car dealership mentioned in Mawdryn Undead. That blow he receives looks potentially fatal, nice
to know that it wasn’t.
Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game Comic story, published 2003 Doctor: 8
Written by Gareth Roberts.
Takes place in Delchester, an English town clearly some way
from London; self-dated 1977 CE. Most of the story takes place towards the end
of the football season, and it concludes six months later.
The Devil’s Mouth Comic story, published 1977 Doctor: 4
featuring
Leela
Illustrated
?and written by John Canning.
contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.
The Hollow King Audio Drama, released 2019 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Counter Measures
Group
Written by Ian Potter.
Informed guess Takes place in rural England; self-dated the 1970s CE,
after Night of the Intelligence.
The Foe From the Future Audio Drama, released 2012 Doctor: 4
Featuring Leela
Adapted by John Dorney, from a script by Robert Banks Stewart.
Informed guess Takes place in Staffham, Devon; self-dated
1977 CE.
Total Stories Considered 510
Proportion Written By Women 7%
Top Docs
3 193 stories
2 32 stories
4 26 stories Climber!
1 21 stories
7 20 stories
8 14 stories
10 12 stories
11 12 stories
12 12 stories
6 9 stories
Unbound 9 stories
5 8 stories
13 4 stories
9 2 stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
Alastair and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 187 stories
UNIT 157
stories
London 137 stories
Regional England 116 stories
Jo 83 stories
Benton 77
stories
North America 65 stories
Yates 61
stories
Liz 50
stories
The Master 45
stories
The Travers family 50
stories
At sea 39
stories
The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group 37
stories
Continental Europe 29 stories
The Time Lords 26 stories
Iris Wildthyme 25 stories Climber!
Christmas 25 stories
Sarah Jane 25 stories Climber!
Scotland 30
stories
Senor 105 19
stories
Top Decades
The Teens 227 stories
The Seventies 98
stories
The Noughties 78 stories
The Nineties 47 stories
The Sixties 24 stories
The Twenties 33
stories
The Eighties 3
stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 42 stories
2015 28 stories Climber!
2013 27 stories
2017 25
stories Climber!
1970 24
stories
2018 27 stories
1973 20 stories
2011 19 stories
1972 18
stories
2012 18 stories Climber!
2021 17
stories
2001 16
stories
2019 25
stories Climber!
2020 15 stories
1974 14
stories
1993 10
stories
2007 10
stories
1971 9 stories
2005 9 stories
2009 9
stories
2010 9
stories
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
linking material writers) 223
Proportion of Female Writers 11%
Top Twenty Writers
Terrance Dicks 26
stories
? John Canning 15
stories
Anonymous Polystyle Writers 14 stories
Paul Magrs 14
stories Climber!
Andy Frankham-Allen 12 stories
John Dorney 11 stories
Malcolm Hulke 10
stories
Mark Wright 10
stories
Simon Guerrier 8 stories
Dennis Hooper 8
stories
Justin Richards 8 stories
Eddie Robson 8 stories
1971 Annual crew 8 stories
1973 Annual crew 8 stories
Roger Noel Cook 7 stories
Guy Adams 6
stories=
Robert Holmes 6
stories= New entry!
David A McIntee 6 stories=
John Peel 6
stories=
Cody Schell 6
stories=
David Whitaker 6 stories=
1974 Annual crew 6 stories=
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