Now: Nineteen Ninety-Four
Instruments of Darkness Novel, published 2001 Doctor: 6
featuring
C19, Jeremy, Evelyn, Mel
Written
by Gary Russell.
Takes
place in Los Angeles Ca., Oxford and elsewhere in regional England, Madagascar,
London, Paris and the Micronesian archipelago; ends self-datedly January, 1994
CE.
Madagascar was a republic occupying a large island off the coast
of Africa, south of the equator.
Micronesia was an archipelago of the west Pacific, lying west of
Hawaii.
The Beast Inside Illustrated short story, published 1994 Doctor: 4
featuring
Romana
Written
by Daniel Blythe.
contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK, dated winter.
Rennigan’s Record Illustrated short
story, published 1993 Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan, Barbara, Ian
Written
by David Whitaker.
Takes
place on Mars; self-dated February 1994.
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.
MANNED
MISSIONS TO MARS FIND THAT THE ATMOSPHERE IS BREATHABLE.
Invasion of the Cat People Novel, published 1995 Doctor: 2
featuring
Polly, Ben
Written
by Gary Russell.
Takes
place in Cumbria, southwest Asia and Australia; principally self-dated July
1994 CE.
The Zero Imperative Video Drama, released 1994 Doctor: 0
featuring
Liz, PROBE
Written
by Mark Gatiss.
contemporary to release Takes place in the UK, concluding in August.
The
Preternatural Research Bureau (PROBE) was an agency of the UK Ministry
of Defence.
Warlock’s Cross Audio Drama, released 2018 Doctor: 7
Featuring UNIT, Klein
Written by
Steve Lyons.
informed guess Takes place in the UK; self-dated 1994 CE.
Pain Management Illustrated short story, published 2019 Doctor: 12
Featuring Missy, Nardole, Bill
Written by
Beverley Sanford.
Informed guess Takes
place in San Francisco, Ca; self-dated 1994 CE.
Missy is a female incarnation of the Master, but even if she were male there is distinct sense that her agenda is as different to that of the Master’s other incarnations as the War Doctor’s is to the other Doctors’, and perhaps as wor Iris’s is to the other incarnations of Iris Wildthyme.
Nardole is a humanoid, possibly of Tellurian
descent, apparently from the early sixth millennium.
Bill Potts is a Tellurian born around 1991 CE.
Pulp Cutaway Charity short story, published 1999 Doctor: 7
featuring
the Rani
Written
by David A McIntee.
Informed guess Takes
place in Los Angeles, Ca.; Pulp Fiction,
into the narrative of which this story is inserted, was released in 1994 CE.
Down to Earth Illustrated short story, published 1994 Doctor: 4
featuring
Liz
Written
by David Jackson.
contemporary to publication Takes place in London.
Gimme Shelter Short story, published 2013 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written by
Eddie Robson.
Takes
place in rural England, self-dated November 1994 CE.
The Land of the Dead Audio Drama, released 2000 Doctor: 5
featuring
Nyssa
Written
by Stephen Cole.
Informed guess Takes
place in Alaska; self-dated 1994 CE.
Alaska
was a constituent state of the USA, occupying a peninsula and its coastal
islands in the northwest of North America. The Arctic Ocean lay to the north,
the Bering Straits to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the south and Canada to
the east.
Total Stories Considered 789
Proportion Written By Women 8%
Top Docs
3 200 stories
4 91 stories
7 65 stories
2 55 stories
5 47 stories
6 43 stories
1 34 stories
8 27 stories
11 22 stories
10 15 stories
12 15 stories Climber!
Unbound 13 stories
9 5 stories
13 4 stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
Alastair and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 240 stories
London 197 stories
UNIT 194
stories
Regional England 185 stories
North America 98 stories
Benton 88
stories
Jo 86 stories
Yates 64
stories
Sarah Jane 62
stories
The Master, including Missy 59
stories
Liz 56
stories
The Travers family 54
stories
The Time Lords 52 stories
At sea 52
stories
Continental Europe 52 stories Climber!
Ace 46
stories
Scotland 41
stories
Christmas 40 stories
The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group 39
stories
The K9s 34
stories
Top Decades
The Teens 301 stories
The Noughties 139 stories
The Seventies 120
stories
The Nineties 105 stories
The Eighties 51
stories
The Twenties 41
stories
The Sixties 32 stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 48 stories
2019 39
stories
2018 37 stories
2017 34
stories
2013 34 stories Climber!
2015 33 stories
2001 29
stories
2011 28 stories
2012 28 stories
1993 27
stories
1970 24
stories
2021 21
stories
1973 20 stories
2008 19
stories
2020 19 stories
1972 18
stories
1992 15
stories
1974 14
stories
2005 14 stories
2009 14
stories
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
linking material writers) 331
Proportion of Female Writers 13%
Top Twenty Writers
Terrance Dicks 31
stories
? John Canning 30
stories
Paul Magrs 20
stories
Eric Saward 16
stories
Anonymous Polystyle Writers 15 stories
Andy Frankham-Allen 16 stories
Eddie Robson 15 stories Climber!
John Dorney 13 stories
Paul Cornell 11
stories
Simon Guerrier 11 stories
Robert Holmes 11
stories
Andrew Cartmel 10 stories
Malcolm Hulke 10
stories
Jonathan Morris 10 stories
Gary Russell 10
stories Climber!
Mark Wright 10 stories
Roger Noel Cook 9 stories
Steve Lyons 9
stories Climber!
Justin Richards 9 stories
Dennis Hooper 8
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1971 Annual crew 8 stories=
1973 Annual crew 8 stories=
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