Now:
Nineteen Eighty-Seven
Mondas Passing Short story, published 1998 Doctor: 0
featuring
Polly, Ben
Written
by Paul Grice.
Takes
place in the UK; self-dated January 1987 CE.
The Rise and Fall of Senor 105 Novella, published 2019 Doctor: 1
(glimpse)
Featuring Senor 105, Theo Possible, Ancient Venus,
the Cybermen, with the Time Lords (informative mention)
Written by
Blair Bidmead.
Takes
place variously, but pivotally in Andalusia in Spain, ending shortly after The Tenth Planet.
Wartime Video Drama, released 1987 Doctor: 0
featuring
UNIT, Benton, with Lethbridge-Stewart on
rerelease in 1997.
Written
by Andy Lane and Helen Stirling.
contemporary to release Takes place near Bolton, Lancs.
A Tale of Monsters Charity short
story, published 2001 Doctor: 6
featuring
Izzy
Written
by David Bickley.
informed guess Takes place in western Surrey. The astute reader will
notice that I am assuming that Isobel (aged seven or eight) is a young Izzy,
which would place this story at about this time. This requires the further
assumption that a) Izzy has a younger step-brother and b) the family moved from
near Guildford to Stockbridge. Being imprisoned in their house by the most
repulsive aliens the Doctor has ever seen might plausibly make them want to do
this.
The
space-faring species in The Annotation
Autopsy of Agent A who have their history retroactively colonised by The
Enemy are, I think, the Predators introduced in the film Predator (1987).
Hunters Comic story, published 1987 Doctor: 0
Featuring Death’s Head
Written by
Simon Furman.
informed guess Takes place in a version of Oregon, self-dated 1987 CE and published in the
UK version of the Transformers comic in June.
Death’s Head is a bipedal cyborg of extracontinual,
possibly extrauniversal, origin in the realm of Styrakos.
The Wrong Doctors Audio Drama, released 2013 Doctor: 6
Featuring Mel
Written by
Matt Fitton.
informed guess Takes place in Pease Pottage, Sussex; self-dated 1987 CE.
The Lost Boys (1987) is a vampire movie broadly
compatible with Doctor Who narrative.
Encounter at Burnt
Snake Flats Illustrated
short story, published 1992 Doctor: 5
featuring
Tegan
Written
by Marc Platt.
informed guess Takes place in Queensland, Australia; self-dated three
years after Tegan’s departure from the TARDIS in Resurrection of the Daleks.
Damaged Goods Novel, published 1996 Doctors: 7, with 8 (glimpse)
featuring
Roz, Chris, with UNIT, Harry (glimpse),
and the Time Lords, the Vampires (informative mention)
Written
by Russell T Davies.
Takes
place in the USA, Colombia, and principally a city in northwest England;
self-dated July 1987 CE.
Colombia
was a republic in the northwest of South America, southeast of the Isthmus of
Panama.
Burning Daylight Short story, published 2018
Doctor: 0
featuring Lethbridge-Stewart
Written by Paul Chase.
Takes place in London and elsewhere in the UK. Lethbridge-Stewart, a Brigadier of “middle
years”, is doing odd jobs for the government.
We Are The Daleks Audio Drama, released 2015 Doctor: 7
Featuring the Daleks, Mel
Written by Jonathan Morris.
Takes place in London and Bradford, also on Skaro and Callico Nine;
self-dated October 1987 CE.
Bradford was a city in Yorkshire.
Near Dark (1987) is a vampire film broadly compatible with
Doctor Who narrative.
Tilting at Windmills Short story, published 2012 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Manleigh Halt Irregulars
Written by Nick Mellish.
Takes place in Lewes, Sussex; self-dated a
month after the Great Storm of October 1987 CE.
Evitability Short story,
published 2008 Doctor:
7
featuring
Ace
Written by Andrew K Purvis.
Takes place near Alice Springs, in the Northern
Territory of Australia; self-dated 1987 CE.
Oracle of the Supermarket Audio Drama, released 2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written by Roy Gill.
Informed guess Takes place in the UK; self-dated the twentieth
century. 45 rpm jukebox singles are being sold off, we infer, cheaply.
Father’s Day TV story, broadcast 2005 Doctor: 9
Featuring Rose, Jackie, with Mickey (glimpse)
Written by
Paul Cornell, script supervised by Russell T Davies.
Takes
place in London; self-dated November 1987 CE.
Jackie Tyler is a Tellurian, born in 1967 CE,
the mother of Rose.
Michael
Smith, known as Mickey, is a
Tellurian, born around 1983 CE.
Teenage Kicks Illustrated short story, published 1990 Doctor:
7
featuring
Ace, with Iris Wildthyme (merest hint)
Written
by Paul Cornell.
informed guess Takes place in London, probably Putney; self-dated
winter, two days before Fenric moved Ace to Iceworld, causing her to leave
linear time, which is dated 1987 CE by Parkin in Ahistory, shortly after she saw Withnail
and I. This may reasonably be regarded as the prelude to the New
Adventures, taking Doctor Who prose in directions it had not previously gone.
Merry Christmas, Mr Nixon Short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring 10,000 Dawns
Written by James Wylder
Informed guess Takes place in the USA, self-dated
Christmas Eve. At least some of Richard
Nixon’s grandchildren, born 1978-84 CE,
are of an age for Santa Claus.
Be Good For Goodness’s Sake Short story, published 2005 Doctor: 8
featuring
Charley (informative mention)
Written
by Samantha Baker.
Takes
place in Sherman, Ill.; self-dated Christmas Eve, 1987 CE.
Doctor Who - The Romans Novelisation of TV Story, published 1987 Doctor:
1
featuring
Barbara, Ian, Vicki
Adapted
by Donald Cotton from a script by Dennis Spooner.
Takes
place in Italy in the first century CE, but the historian Tacitus recommends
that the documents it collects are not published until 1987 CE, and Target
Books appear to have complied. The framing narrative takes place some six
decades after the main action, so it is not surprising that Ascaris is now
considered a third-class legionary, apparently working on Hadrian’s Wall in his
nineties.
Total Stories Considered 703
Proportion Written By Women 8%
Top Docs
3 194 stories
4 83 stories
2 48 stories
5 40 stories
7 33 stories
6 30 stories
1 29 stories
8 25 stories
11 18 stories
10 15 stories
12 14 stories
Unbound 9 stories
9 5 stories Climber!
13 4 stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
Alastair and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 229 stories
UNIT 185
stories
London 174 stories
Regional England 162 stories
North America 89 stories Climber!
Benton 86
stories Climber!
Jo 84 stories
Yates 63
stories
The Master 55
stories
Sarah Jane 54
stories
The Travers family 53
stories
Liz 51
stories
At sea 49
stories
Continental Europe 44 stories
The Time Lords 43 stories Climber!
The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group 39
stories
Scotland 38
stories
Christmas 37 stories
Iris Wildthyme 30 stories
Tegan 28
stories
Top Decades
The Teens 284 stories
The Noughties 125 stories
The Seventies 120
stories
The Nineties 64 stories
The Eighties 40
stories
The Twenties 40
stories
The Sixties 30 stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 47 stories
2019 35
stories Climber!
2015 33 stories Climber!
2017 33
stories
2018 33 stories
2013 32 stories
2011 26 stories
2001 25
stories Climber!
1970 24
stories
2012 24 stories
2021 21
stories
1973 20 stories
1972 18
stories
2020 18 stories
2008 16
stories
1974 14
stories
1993 13
stories
2004 13
stories
2007 13
stories
2009 13
stories
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
linking material writers) 302
Proportion of Female Writers 12%
Top Twenty Writers
? John Canning 29
stories
Terrance Dicks 28
stories
Paul Magrs 20
stories
Eric Saward 16
stories
Anonymous Polystyle Writers 15 stories
John Dorney 13 stories
Andy Frankham-Allen 13 stories
Eddie Robson 13 stories
Robert Holmes 11
stories
Simon Guerrier 10 stories
Malcolm Hulke 10
stories
Mark Wright 10
stories
Jonathan Morris 9 stories Climber!
Roger Noel Cook 8 stories
Dennis Hooper 8
stories
Justin Richards 8 stories
1971 Annual crew 8 stories
1973 Annual crew 8 stories
Matt Fitton 7
stories Climber!
Guy Adams 6
stories=
Paul Cornell 6
stories= New entry!
Steve Lyons 6
stories=
David A McIntee 6 stories=
Gary Russell 6
stories=
John Peel
6 stories=
Cody Schell 6
stories=
David Whitaker 6 stories=
1974 Annual crew 6 stories=
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