Now:
Nineteen Eighty-Three
Anti-Matter
with Fries Illustrated
short story, published 1993 Doctor: 7
featuring
Omega, Ace
Written
by Gareth Roberts.
Takes
place in the TARDIS and London, shortly before Arc of Infinity. Wonderfully, the seventh Doctor and Ace are
playing what is no doubt ferociously competitive table-tennis, the ideal way to
satisfy their neurotic need to be intense and non-committal with each other at
the same time.
Arc of Infinity TV
story, broadcast 1983 Doctor: 5
featuring
the Time Lords, Omega, Nyssa, Tegan
Written
by Johnny Byrne, script edited by Eric Saward.
Takes
place in Amsterdam and on Gallifrey; dated January 1983 in The Burning Prince.
Boys Don’t Cry Short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
featuring Lethbridge-Stewart
Written by Sean Alexander.
Takes place at Brendon
School. Lethbridge-Stewart has been serving under the “current”
headmaster for three years,
so no earlier than 1981; but he still thinks of his move to
Brendon as recent. He has
lost his long-held ability to console the bereaved, so I’m placing it
between the traumatic event
of 1977 CE and its resolution in 1983 CE, both seen in Mawdryn
Undead.
Doctor Who Quiz Book of Magic Game Book,
published 1983 Doctor: 5
featuring
Nyssa, Tegan, with Venus (glimpse)
Written
by Michael Holt.
contemporary to publication Takes place all over.
Night Flight to
Nowhere Illustrated
short story, published 1982 Doctor: 5
featuring
the Master, Nyssa, Tegan
Written
by the World Distributors 1983 Annual crew.
informed guess Takes place in the air; presumably soon after Arc of Infinity.
The
nexus of body horror and communications in Videodrome,
released in February 1983, once again suggests a manifestation of The Enemy.
Also, there is conflict centred on it: the Spectacular Optic Corporation could
be a front for The Enemy, and Bianca O’Blivion and her father agents of the
Great Houses. Or of course, vice versa: these things can be difficult to
determine in espionage.
Tweaker Short story, published 2008 Doctor: 5
featuring
Nyssa
Written
by Dan Abnett.
informed guess Takes place in the UK; New Romanticism is going out of
fashion.
Rat Trap Audio Drama, released 2011 Doctor: 5
Featuring Nyssa, Tegan, Turlogh, with UNIT (informative mention)
Written by Tony Lee.
Hound of Hell Illustrated short story,
published 1982 Doctor:
0
featuring
Sarah Jane, K9 III
Written
by Mike Wilde.
informed guess Takes place in Bodmin Marsh (on/near Bodmin Moor in Cornwall?);
self-dated Midsummer. There is a full moon, and from the appearance of Brendan,
it is not long after K9 & Co.: A
Girl’s Best Friend. The full moon fell on the day after Midsummer in 1983
CE.
Doctor Who - Mawdryn Undead Novelisation,
published 1984 Doctor: 5
featuring
Lethbridge-Stewart, Grace technology,
Nyssa, Tegan, Turlogh, and the Time Lords, UNIT, Benton (informative mention)
Adapted
by Peter Grimwade from his own script, edited by Eric Saward.
Takes
place at Brendon School and in space; the later sections self-dated 1983 CE. It
is in these sections that Turlogh leaves linear time, being aboard the TARDIS
when it dematerialises.
City of Devils Comic story, published 1992 Doctor: 0
featuring
the Earth Reptiles, Sarah Jane, K9 III
Written
by Gary Russell.
Takes
place in and under Egypt; self-dated summer 1983 CE.
Fail Safe Charity
drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 2
Written by
Kate Orman.
Takes
place on Earth, probably the USA. Anyway, the Doctor averts a nuclear war; self-dated
1983 CE.
The Haunting of Gabriel Chase Novel, published 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart,
Anne Travers, with Ace (glimpse)
Written by Andrew Allen.
Takes place in Perivale,
the later sections self-dated 1983 CE, and after Doctor Who –
Mawdryn Undead.
The Stockbridge Horror Comic
story, published 1983 Doctor:
5
featuring
the Time Lords, Shayde
Written
by Steve Parkhouse.
contemporary to publication Takes place in Stockbridge, in the TARDIS and on
Gallifrey.
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
FOSSIL OF A POLICE BOX IS FOUND IN CAMBRIAN ROCK AND UNACCOUNTABLY DISAPPEARS
SHORTLY AFTERWARDS.
The Hunger (1983) is a vampire film broadly compatible with
Doctor Who narrative.
Cold War TV story, broadcast 2013 Doctor: 11
Featuring the Ice Warriors, Clara
Written by
Mark Gatiss, script supervised by Steven Moffat.
Takes
place in the Arctic Ocean, self-dated 1983 CE.
Fungus Illustrated short story,
published 1983 Doctor: 5
Written
by the World Distributors 1984 Annual crew.
Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.
Doctor Who - The Five Doctors Novelisation, published 1983
Doctors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
featuring
the Time Lords, Susan, the Master, the
Cybermen, Lethbridge-Stewart, Sarah Jane, Tegan, Turlogh, a Raston Warrior
Robot, with the Daleks, UNIT, Romana, K9 111 (glimpse)
Adapted
by Terrance Dicks from his own script, edited by Eric Saward.
Informed guess Takes place on the Eye of Orion, on Gallifrey and in
the UK; dated 1983 CE by Parkin in Ahistory,
and as we may suppose, in November.
Raston Warrior Robots are faceless anti-personnel androids of exceptional
efficacy, employed by those with access to them for security or entertainment.
Action in Exile Comic story, published 1969 Doctor: 2
Illustrated
?and written by John Canning.
Informed guess Takes place in the UK, partly in London. The Doctor is
stranded on Earth without his TARDIS, still on the run from the High Council
following his trial in The War Games.
I’m guessing that after Doctor Who – The
Five Doctors, he accompanies Lethbridge-Stewart to the UNIT reunion and
returns to find that the Celestial Intervention Agency, who have kept tabs on
him, have taken the TARDIS to give the High Council the opportunity of catching
him, as they suppose, by their own efforts. The Doctor’s exile as chronicled in
TV Comic I thus have beginning in
November 1983 CE.
Return of the Living Dad Novel, published 1996 Doctor: 7
featuring
Benny, Roz, Chris, the Ogrons, with the
Tzun (glimpse), and the Daleks, the Vardans, UNIT, the Nestene Consciousness, the
Earth Reptiles, C19, the Osirians, Ace, Death (informative mention)
Takes place mostly in Little Caldwell,
Berkshire; self-dated December 1983 CE.
Roslyn Inyathi Forrester, known as Roz, is a Tellurian, although probably born
on Io, orbiting Jupiter, in 2935 CE.
The Tzun
are a species of spacefaring bipeds, the appearance of one of their allomorphs
inspiring the “grays” of UFO mythology.
Death is variously described as an
Eternal, a child of drunken gods, a goddess herself, a dream of the Time Lords,
or obscurely, the child of Jasmine Hutchings and Ricky McIlveen in the early
twenty-first century, but I think it’s probably helpful to think of Death as
just, you know, death. In his seventh incarnation, the Doctor has one of his
fiercely non-sexual but nonetheless creepily intense relationships with her.
Total Stories Considered 624
Proportion Written By Women 8%
Top Docs
3 194 stories
4 78 stories
2 37 stories
7 27 stories
5 26 stories Climber!
1 24 stories
8 18 stories
11 16 stories
10 14 stories
12 14 stories
6 13 stories
Unbound 9 stories
13 4 stories
9 3 stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
Alastair and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 223 stories
UNIT 177
stories
London 153 stories
Regional England 143 stories
Jo 83 stories
Benton 83
stories
North America 71 stories
Yates 62
stories
The Master 53
stories
The Travers family 52
stories
Sarah Jane 51
stories Climber!
Liz 51
stories
At sea 46
stories Climber!
The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group 39
stories
Continental Europe 39 stories Climber!
Scotland 38
stories
The Time Lords 34 stories
Christmas 31 stories
Iris Wildthyme 27 stories
The K9s 21
stories
Top Decades
The Teens 261 stories
The Seventies 120
stories
The Noughties 103 stories
The Nineties 55 stories
The Twenties 38
stories
The Sixties 25 stories
The Eighties 22
stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 46 stories
2015 31 stories
2017 30
stories
2013 30 stories
2019 30
stories
2018 29 stories
1970 24
stories
2012 22 stories
2011 21 stories Climber!
1973 20 stories
2001 20
stories
2021 19
stories
1972 18
stories
2020 18 stories
1974 14
stories
1993 13 stories Climber!
2008 13
stories Climber!
2007 12
stories
2009 12
stories
2010 12
stories
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
linking material writers) 268
Proportion of Female Writers 12%
Top Twenty Writers
Terrance Dicks 28
stories
? John Canning 26
stories
Paul Magrs 18
stories
Anonymous Polystyle Writers 15 stories
John Dorney 13 stories
Andy Frankham-Allen 13 stories
Robert Holmes 10 stories
Malcolm Hulke 10
stories
Mark Wright 10
stories
Simon Guerrier 9 stories
Eddie Robson 9 stories
Eric Saward 9
stories Climber!
Dennis Hooper 8
stories
Justin Richards 8 stories
1971 Annual crew 8 stories
1973 Annual crew 8 stories
Roger Noel Cook 7 stories
Guy Adams 6
stories=
Matt Fitton 6
stories=
Steve Lyons 6
stories=
David A McIntee 6 stories=
Jonathan Morris 6 stories=
John Peel 6
stories=
Cody Schell 6
stories=
David Whitaker 6 stories=
1974 Annual crew 6 stories=
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