Now:
Nineteen Eighty-Six
Time Wake Illustrated
short story, published 1985 Doctor: 6
featuring
Peri
Written
by the World Distributors 1986 Annual crew.
Takes
place in London; self-dated January 1986 CE (and 1720 CE).
Mind Over Matter Charity short
story, published 2001 Doctor: 4
featuring
Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton and
Sarah Jane (informative mention)
Written by
David J Howe.
Informed guess Takes
place in Sussex; after Robot and “some
years” after The Mind of Evil.
The Ashes of Eternity Audio story, released 2021 Doctor: 9
Featuring Rose
Written by Neil Bushnell.
Takes place in Northumberland; self-dated
1986.
Pass it On Short story, published 2009 Doctors: 2, 6
featuring
Ace
Written
by Simon Guerrier.
informed guess Takes place in London, culminating in 1986 CE.
Kept Safe and Sound Short story, published 2003 Doctor: 0
Featuring
K9, probably K9 II
Written
by Paul Magrs.
informed guess Takes place in the UK; self-dated summer, ten years or
more after Invasion of the Dinosaurs.
K9 I was either destroyed in Imperiatrix,
or went on to become K9 I Mark 2; K9 III was destroyed in School Reunion; K9 IV was preserved by Sarah Jane’s (adoptive?)
descendants until the 50th century CE (Tautology), so this is probably K9 II, somehow abandoned on Earth,
I speculate, as a survivor of the Last Great Time War.
The Way Forwards Audio short story, released 2011 Doctor: 2
Featuring Victoria
Written by
Steven Case.
Informed guess Takes
place in the USA; self-dated 1986 CE, presumably summer.
Vigil Audio short story, published 1998 Doctor: 6
featuring
Peri
Written
by Michael Collier.
informed guess Takes place in Hastings, a coastal town of Sussex;
about a couple of years after Planet of
Fire as Peri’s college contemporaries are unsurprised by her appearance.
The Shroud of Azaroth Illustrated
short story, published 1982 Doctor: 0
featuring
Sarah Jane, K9 III
Written
by Mike Wilde.
informed guess Takes place in the UK, sometime after K9 & Co.: A Girl’s Best Friend.
Pure History Short story, published 2019
Doctor: 0
Featuring Anne
Travers, with Grace technology (informative mention)
Written by
George Ivanoff.
Takes
place in Melbourne, a city on the south coast of Australia, and capital of the
state of
Victoria;
self-dated 1986 CE, at the beginning of the Academic year.
Loud and Proud Audio short story, released 2019 Doctor: 6
Featuring Mel
Written by
Andrew Allen.
Takes
place in Pease Pottage, Sussex; self-dated September 1986 CE. This means that
Mel is in technical danger of meeting her earlier self, but presumably they’ve
got that covered.
Peter S Beagle's 1986 novel The Folk of the Air pivotally features a character whom it gradually emerges is a goddess, plausibly an amnesiac Olympian.
Old Boys Short story, published 2006 Doctor: 6
featuring
Edward Grainger, Peri, Mel, Evelyn
Written
by Steve Parsons and Andrew Stirling-Brown.
Takes
place in Hong Kong and London; the later section self-dated September 1986 CE.
Doctor
Evelyn Smythe is a Tellurian. There
are remarkably few clues to her birth date, but as she is a senior academic in
2000 CE, I’d a hazard a guess at some time in the 1940s CE.
The Heart That Lives Alone Audio Drama, released 2011 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Vampires, Dorian
Gray
Written by Scott Handcock.
Informed guess Takes place in Whitby; self-dated 1986 CE.
The Fly (1986) of course features teleportation technology entirely compatible with Doctor Who narrative: The Seeds of Death, Ride to Nowhere et al.
The Day Before They Came Audio drama, released 2021 Doctor: 11
Written by Daniel Blythe
Takes place on the English coast; self-dated
November 1986 CE.
The Tenth Planet
TV story, broadcast 1966 Doctors: 1, with 2 (glimpse)
featuring
the Cybermen, Polly, Ben, with Geneva
(glimpse), and the USA (informative mention)
Written
by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis.
Takes
place in Antarctica; self-dated December 1986 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.
THERE
ARE MAJOR LANDINGS BY CYBERMEN, WHO COLLAPSE WHEN MONDAS DISINTEGRATES NOT FAR
FROM THE EARTH.
Letting Go Charity short
story, published 2001 Doctors: 1, with 2 (glimpse)
Featuring
Polly, Ben
Written
by Jim Catapano.
Takes
place in Antarctica; during The Tenth
Planet.
Total Stories Considered 686
Proportion Written By Women 8%
Top Docs
3 194 stories
4 83 stories
2 48 stories
5 39 stories
7 29 stories
6 28 stories Climber!
1 27 stories
8 23 stories
11 20 stories
10 15 stories
12 14 stories
Unbound 9 stories
9 4 stories Climber!
13 4 stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
Alastair and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 227 stories
UNIT 183
stories
London 170 stories
Regional England 156 stories
North America 85 stories Climber!
Benton 85
stories Climber!
Jo 84 stories
Yates 63
stories
The Master 55
stories Climber!
Sarah Jane 54
stories Climber!
The Travers family 53
stories Climber!
Liz 51
stories
At sea 49
stories
Continental Europe 42 stories Climber!
The Time Lords 41 stories
The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group 39
stories
Scotland 38
stories
Christmas 34 stories
Iris Wildthyme 28 stories=
The K9s 28
stories= Re-entry!
Top Decades
The Teens 278 stories
The Noughties 121 stories Climber!
The Seventies 120
stories
The Nineties 60 stories
The Twenties 40
stories
The Eighties 37
stories
The Sixties 30 stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 47 stories
2019 34
stories Climber!
2017 33
stories
2015 31 stories
2013 31 stories
2018 31 stories
2011 26 stories Climber!
1970 24
stories
2001 24
stories Climber!
2012 23 stories
2021 21
stories
1973 20 stories
1972 18
stories
2020 18 stories
2008 15
stories
1974 14
stories
1993 13
stories
2004 13
stories
2007 13 stories
2009 12
stories=
2010 12
stories=
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
linking material writers) 293
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 Climber!
Malcolm Hulke 10
stories
Mark Wright 10
stories
Roger Noel Cook 8 stories
Dennis Hooper 8
stories
Jonathan Morris 8 stories
Justin Richards 8 stories
1971 Annual crew 8 stories
1973 Annual crew 8 stories
Guy Adams 6
stories=
Matt Fitton 6
stories=
Steve Lyons 6
stories=
David A McIntee 6 stories=
John Peel 6
stories=
Gary Russell 6
stories=
Cody Schell 6
stories=
David Whitaker 6 stories=
1974 Annual crew 6 stories=
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