Now: Nineteen Ninety-One
Time On a Vine Illustrated short story, published 1991
Doctor: 5
Written
by Steve Gallagher as John Lydecker.
Contemporary to publication Features a woman taken from and returned to
contemporary Earth.
Powerstone Illustrated
short story, published 1982 Doctor: 0
featuring
Sarah Jane, K9 III
Written
by Mike Wilde.
informed guess Takes place in and near Moreton Harwood; several years
after K9 & Co.: A Girl’s Best Friend,
as Brendan is, from the illustration, muscular and bearded.
Seaside Rendezvous
Comic story, published 1991 Doctor:
7
featuring
Ace
Written
by Paul Cornell.
contemporary to publication Takes place in the Irish Sea and principally at Blackpool;
clearly the summer.
Missing, Part One: Business As Usual Short story, published 1999 Doctor: 0
featuring
Mel
Written
by Gary Russell.
Takes
place in Brighton; self-dated July, 1991 CE.
The Double Life of Veronique (1991) follows the fate of two identical women whose lives are mysteriously linked. Doctor Who narrative offers rather a lot of coincidental identicality (The Massacre, The Androids of Tara, Black Orchid) even before we get on to all the characters in different stories played by the same actor. This films embraces the metaphysicality of physical replication, implicit in its use in Doctor Who.
The Deal Illustrated short story, published 1991 Doctor:
6
featuring
Mel
Written
by Colin Baker.
contemporary to publication Takes place on Vertipax and in the UK, where it is
evidently summer.
The Blood Furnace
Audio drama, released 2017 Doctor: 7
Featuring Mel, Ace
Written by Eddie Robson.
Informed guess Takes place in Merseyside; self-dated 1991
CE.
Merseyside was a metropolitan county on the northwest
coast of England, southwest of Lancashire and northwest of Cheshire.
A Renegade’s Manifesto Charity short
story, published 2001 Doctor: 6
featuring
Peri
Written
by Angela P Wade.
informed guess Takes place in the USA; self-dated the late 20th
century CE.
Harry Sullivan’s War Novel, published 1986 Doctor: 0
featuring Harry,
with Lethbridge-Stewart, Sarah Jane (glimpse)
Written by Ian Marter.
informed guess Takes place in Scotland, London and Paris; self-dated
October, ten years after Harry left UNIT. Harry was still on UNIT’s books in UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass,
which I date as Christmas 1980 CE.
Total Stories Considered 745
Proportion Written By Women 8%
Top Docs
3 195 stories
4 87 stories
2 51 stories
7 46 stories
5 42 stories
6 36 stories
1 30 stories
8 27 stories
11 21 stories
10 15 stories
12 14 stories
Unbound 10 stories
9 5 stories
13 4 stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
Alastair and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 235 stories
UNIT 189
stories
London 184 stories
Regional England 176 stories
North America 94 stories
Jo 86 stories
Benton 86
stories
Yates 63
stories
Sarah Jane 58
stories Climber!
The Master 58
stories
The Travers family 54
stories
Liz 52
stories
At sea 51
stories
Continental Europe 50 stories
The Time Lords 47 stories
Christmas 40 stories
The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group 39
stories
Scotland 38
stories
Ace 33
stories Climber!
Iris Wildthyme 31 stories
Top Decades
The Teens 293 stories
The Noughties 134 stories
The Seventies 120
stories
The Nineties 76 stories
The Eighties 50
stories
The Twenties 40
stories
The Sixties 32 stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 48 stories
2019 36
stories
2018 35 stories
2017 34
stories Climber!
2015 33 stories
2013 32 stories
2001 28
stories Climber!
2011 27 stories
2012 27 stories
1970 24
stories
2021 21
stories
1973 20 stories
1972 18
stories
2008 18
stories
2020 18 stories
1974 14
stories
1993 14
stories
2005 14 stories
2009 14
stories
2004 13
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2007 13
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Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
linking material writers) 319
Proportion of Female Writers 13%
Top Twenty Writers
? John Canning 30
stories
Terrance Dicks 29
stories
Paul Magrs 20
stories
Andy Frankham-Allen 16 stories
Eric Saward 16
stories
Anonymous Polystyle Writers 15 stories
Eddie Robson 14 stories Climber!
John Dorney 13 stories
Robert Holmes 11
stories
Andrew Cartmel 10 stories
Simon Guerrier 10 stories
Malcolm Hulke 10
stories
Jonathan Morris 10 stories
Mark Wright 10
stories
Roger Noel Cook 9 stories
Dennis Hooper 8
stories
Justin Richards 8 stories
Gary Russell 8
stories Climber!
1971 Annual crew 8 stories
1973 Annual crew 8 stories
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