Now: Nineteen Ninety-Eight
What Does it Profit a
Man? Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor: Unbound 3
featuring
Unbound Lethbridge-Stewart, an Unbound
Master, Unbound Earth Reptiles
Written
by Arfie Mansfield.
Contemporary to publication Takes place in a parallel reality.
Goodbye Rembrandt Charity short
story, published 1999 Doctor: 4
featuring
K9 II, Romana
Written
by David J Howe.
informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 1998 CE.
System Shock Novel, published 1995 Doctor: 4
featuring
Sarah Jane, Harry, the Voracians, with
UNIT (informative mention)
Written
by Justin Richards.
informed guess Takes place in London and Wiltshire; self-dated 1998
CE.
The
Voracians are spacefaring cyborgs,
originally reptilian, from the planet Vorella.
Should Have Been
Dancing Charity short story, published 2001 Doctors: Unbound 4, and Unbound 3 (informative mention)
featuring
Sarah Jane, and Jo (informative mention)
Written
by Paul Magrs.
informed guess Takes place in the Doctor’s head, plausibly not long
before Sarah’s Hurt.
Sarah’s Hurt Charity
drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 7
featuring
Sarah Jane
Written
by Andrew W Donkin and Graham S Brand.
informed guess Takes place in London, some time after Sarah Jane has
first met the Doctor’s seventh incarnation in Bullet Time.
Train-Flight Comic story, published 1990 Doctor: 7
featuring
Sarah Jane, with K9 III, Ace (informative
mention)
Written
by Andrew W Donkin and Graham S Brand.
informed guess Takes place in and above London, immediately after Sarah’s Hurt.
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.
LOTS
OF LONDON BUSES AND THEIR OCCUPANTS DISAPPEAR FOREVER, WHILE A TRAIN AND ITS
OCCUPANTS DISAPPEAR FROM A TUNNEL AND REAPPEAR ON THE STEPS OF THE ALBERT HALL.
Could It Be Magic? Novel, published 1998 Doctor: 0
Featuring
Iris Wildthyme
Written
by Paul Magrs.
Contemporary to publication Takes place in Northern England; possibly the Obverse.
What Guns Do Charity short
story, published 2001 Doctor: Unbound 7
Written
by Dale Smith.
Informed guess Takes place in the UK, in an alternative timeline, not
long before publication.
Dog Days of Summer Short
story, published 2013 Doctor:
?Unbound
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written by
Roy Gill.
Takes
place in the UK outside London, ending self-datedly in summer 1998 CE. A
reference to a thesis suggests to me that Andrew’s mother is an unbound
incarnation of the Doctor. An alternative identity for her is another
incarnation of Iris, possibly one expressing her jealousy of the Doctor by obtaining
a doctorate herself.
The film Pi (1998), with contesting parties
seeking to exploit the mathematical nature of reality, feels like a possible
manifestation of the Second War in Heaven.
Mother’s Little Helper Short
story, published 1998 Doctor: 2
Written
by Matthew Jones.
Contemporary to publication Takes place at the English seaside.
Absent Friends Audio Drama, released 2016 Doctor:
8
Featuring Liv, Helen
Written by
John Dorney.
Takes
place in and not far outside London; self-dated August 1998 CE.
Blade, a vampire film of 1998, is not incompatible with Doctor Who narrative.
Going Home Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor: 6
featuring
Peri, Anji
Written
by Colin Brake.
Informed guess Takes place in Boston; self-dated an autumn in the
late twentieth century CE. Anji, b.1973, was going out with Dave when her
five-years younger brother went to University (1996 CE?) and by this time, her
relationship with him is stable enough to survive her being away for a year in
Boston.
Boston
was a port and major city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a constituent state on the northern Atlantic
seaboard of the USA, west of the state of New York.
Human Remains Audio
Drama, released 2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring Dorian Gray
Written by
James Goss.
Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 1998 CE.
The Aurelius Gambit Charity short
story, published 1998 Doctor: 0
featuring
Sarah Jane, K9 III, with the Master,
UNIT (informative mention)
Written
by Helen Fayle.
contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.
Option Lock Novel, published 1998 Doctor: 8
featuring
Sam
Written
by Justin Richards.
Takes
place in London and rural England, North America and central Asia, and in
orbit; dated 1998 CE by the Doctor, mostly a month before snowfall in the UK.
Meet Joe Black (1998) features the seventh Doctor's occasional sparring partner, Death.
The Bells of Saint John: SA Prequel Webcast, posted 2013 Doctor: 11
Featuring Clara
Written by Steven Moffat.
The Red Bicycle Illustrated short story, published 2016 Doctor: 9
Featuring Rose (informative mention)
Written by
Gary Russell.
Takes
place partly in London; self-dated Christmas Eve, 1998 CE.
Better Watch Out,
Better Take Care Short story, published 2000 Doctor: 4
featuring
Romana, and Lethbridge-Stewart (informative
mention)
Written
by Steve Burford.
informed guess Takes place in the UK; self-dated a Christmas Eve
after Lethbridge-Stewart has married Doris.
Total Stories Considered 855
Proportion Written By Women 8%
Top Docs
3 206 stories
4 103 stories
7 81 stories
2 58 stories
5 49 stories
6 47 stories
8 38 stories Climber!
1 36 stories
11 25 stories
Unbound 17 stories Climber!
10 15 stories
12 15 stories
9 6 stories
13 4 stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
Alastair, Kate and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 253 stories
London 219 stories
Regional England 213 stories Climber!
UNIT 208
stories
North America 102 stories
Jo 90 stories
Benton 87
stories
Sarah Jane 74
stories
The Master, including Missy 66
stories
Yates 65
stories
Liz 60
stories
The Time Lords 57 stories
The Travers family 56
stories
Continental Europe 54 stories
At sea 54
stories
Ace 54
stories Climber!
Christmas 47 stories
The K9s 44
stories Climber!
Scotland 41
stories
Iris Wildthyme 40
stories New Entry!
Top Decades
The Teens 314 stories
The Noughties 155 stories
The Nineties 140
stories
The Seventies 120 stories
The Eighties 53
stories
The Twenties 42
stories
The Sixties 32 stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 50 stories
2019 40
stories
2018
37 stories
2001 36
stories Climber!
2013 36 stories Climber!
2015 35 stories Climber!
2017 35
stories
1993 30
stories
2012 29 stories
2011 28 stories
1970 24
stories
2021 22
stories
1973 20 stories
2020 20 stories
2008 19
stories
1972 18
stories
1992 18
stories
1999 16
stories
1995 15
stories= Re-entry!
1999 15
stories= New entry!
2005 15 stories=
2009 15
stories=
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
linking material writers) 355
Proportion of Female Writers 13%
Top Twenty Writers
Terrance Dicks 32
stories
? John Canning 30
stories
Paul Magrs 25
stories
Andy Frankham-Allen 16 stories
Eric Saward 16
stories
Anonymous Polystyle Writers 15 stories
Eddie Robson 15 stories
John Dorney 14 stories
Andrew Cartmel 12 stories
Justin Richards 12 stories Climber!
Paul Cornell 11
stories
Simon Guerrier 11 stories
Robert Holmes 11
stories
Gary Russell 11
stories Climber!
Malcolm Hulke 10
stories
David A McIntee 10 stories
Jonathan Morris 10 stories
Mark Wright 10
stories
Roger Noel Cook 9 stories
Steve Lyons 9
stories
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