Now: Nineteen Ninety-Three
Sound Effects Charity Drabble, published 1993 Doctor: Unbound
Written
by David B.Wake.
contemporary to publication
Curriculum Vitae Short story, published 2003 Doctor: 7
featuring
Polly, and Ace (informative mention)
Written by Simon Guerrier.
Takes place in Soho; self-dated February 1993 CE.
The 1994 werewolf film Wolf is set on and about a super perigee moon on March 8th, which
would be 1993.
A Mystery Solved? Charity Drabble, published 1993 Doctor: Unbound 7
Written
by Steven Jenkins.
Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK. A regeneration on from The Deal (illustrated short story), the
Doctor is still creating crop circles to fool the Vervallachanoonen that all is
well with Earth’s environment.
Blood Heat Novel, published 1993 Doctor: 7, with Unbound 3
featuring
Unbound Lethbridge-Stewart, Unbound
UNIT, Unbound Benton, Unbound Liz, Unbound Earth Reptiles, Unbound Jo, Unbound
Harry, Ace, Benny, with Mortimus, the Chronovores (glimpse)
Written
by Jim Mortimore.
Informed guess Takes place on an alternative
in and near Bristol, Derbyshire, London, Scotland, Africa and the Indian Ocean
on an alternative Earth; self-dated 1993 CE.
Peter Ackroyd's novel The House of Doctor Dee (1993) could be taken as an account of N-forms, as well as of London as a geomantic locus. Also, John Dee, alias Jared Khan (Birthright) is a figure who crops up quite frequently in Doctor Who narrative.
Is That a TARDIS In
Your Pocket...? Charity Drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 0
Featuring
an Unbound TARDIS
Written
by John Freeman.
Contemporary to publication.
Cathedral Heart Illustrated
short story, published 1992 Doctor: 7
featuring
Ace
Written
by Paul Cornell.
Informed guess Takes place in Cheldon
Bonniface, Norfolk; probably spring 1993 CE.
Time & Time Again Comic story, published 1993 Doctors: 7, and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (glimpse)
featuring
Grace Technology, Ace, Benny, and the
Time Lords, the Daleks, Susan, the Cybermen, Jamie, the Ice Warriors, Zoe, the
Earth Reptiles, the Draconians, the Sontarans, the Zygons, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan,
the Tereleptils, Frobisher (glimpse)
Written
by Paul Cornell.
Informed guess Takes place variously,
including in London and rural England, pivotally self-dated 1993 CE. In their
respective final panels, the Black and White Guardians bear the faces of the
Valyard and the Doctor’s first incarnation, but I cannot suggest how much to
read into that.
The
Tereleptils are spacefaring bipedal
species of reptilian, or possibly piscine, appearance.
Frobisher is a shape-shifting Whifferdill from the early ninth
millennium, possibly born, if that’s what happens to Whifferdills, in the late
eighth, depending, obviously, on his actually unguagable age.
Victory Charity Drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 0
featuring
Unbound Daleks, Unbound Davros
Written
by Martin Pollard.
contemporary to publication Takes place on an alternative Earth.
Set Piece: Prelude Illustrated short story, published 1995 Doctor: 7
featuring
Ace (informative mention)
Written
by Kate Orman.
informed guess Takes place in Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales. In Set Piece, the Doctor and Ace visit the
café in July 1993 CE; at this point it has been in existence for only a week.
Latent Image Short story, published 2019 Doctor: 0
featuring Lethbridge-Stewart,
with Grace technology (informative mention)
Written by James Middleditch.
Takes place in Glasgow;
self-dated 1993 CE.
Final Genesis Comic story, published 1993 Doctors: 7, and Unbound 3 (informative mention)
featuring
Unbound UNIT, Unbound Earth Reptiles,
Ace, Benny, and Unbound Lethbridge-Stewart (informative mention)
Written
by Scott Gray (as Warwick Gray).
contemporary to publication Takes place in an alternative UK; self-dated “over
twenty years” since Doctor Who and the
Silurians. Frost, a colonel here, has achieved promotion more quickly than
in our reality, where she was only a major at the end of The Mark of Mandragora.
The
werewolf film Ginger Snaps was
released in 2000. However, it takes place on and around a full moon on October
30th: the most recent year before its release in which this happened
would have been 1993.
An Apocalyptic Digital
Mistake Charity Drabble, published 1993 Doctor: Unbound
Written
by Robert Howe.
Contemporary to publication Takes place in an alternative Solar System.
‘I Am The Doctor’ Charity Drabble, published 1993 Doctors: U (several incarnations)
Written
by Justin Richards.
Contemporary to publication No clues at all, really.
Dimensions In Time TV Story, broadcast 1993 Doctors: Unbound 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
featuring
Unbound Time Lords, Unbound Susan, Unbound
Cybermen, Unbound Victoria, Unbound Lethbridge-Stewart, Unbound Liz, Unbound
Earth Reptiles, Unbound Yates, Unbound Ogrons, Unbound Sarah Jane, Unbound
Leela, Unbound K9, Unbound Romana, Unbound Nyssa, Unbound Peri, Unbound Mel, Unbound
Ace, and a probably real Rani
Written
by John Nathan-Turner and David Roden.
informed guess Takes place on the set of a television programme in
London; self-dated 1993 CE.
Ushas
the Rani is a Time Lord, an exact
contemporary of the Doctor, loomed (I assume) in the same year.
Storm in a Tikka Short story, published 2000 Doctor: Unbound 7
Featuring
Unbound K9, Unbound Ace
Written by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry.
Takes place in Walford, a fictional district of London, just
after Dimensions
in Time.
Conundrum Novel, published 1994 Doctor: 7
featuring
the Land of Fiction, Ace, Benny, with Unbound
Gillian, Unbound John, the Unbound Kleptons, the Unbound Trods, Mortimus, the
Chronovores (glimpse), and the Time Lords (informative mention)
Written
by Steve Lyons.
Takes
place in the Land of Fiction; self-dated November 1993 CE.
The
Trods are self-propelled Artificial
Intelligences developed on the planet Trodos.
The
Land of Fiction is pocket universe
created by the Gods of Ragnarok, although it has apparently always been part of
the Gallifreyan Matrix (Happy Endings);
perhaps the Gods made it out of a bit of the Matrix, and perhaps the Matrix
Lords let them, for reasons of their own.
The Heart-Ache and the
Thousand Natural Shocks Charity Drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 0
featuring
Harry
Written
by Elizabeth Halliday.
contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.
Goth Opera Novel, published 1994 Doctor: 5
featuring
Time Lords, Vampires, Romana, Nyssa,
Tegan, and Grace Technology, Glitz (glimpse)
Written
by Paul Cornell.
Takes
place in Tasmania and, principally, in and around Manchester; self-dated
November 1993 CE.
Sabalom
Glitz is a humanoid, possibly of
Tellurian descent, born in the fourth myriad CE, or perhaps the late third if
he’s a lot older than he looks.
Tasmania
was a constituent state of the Commonwealth of Australia, principally occupying
an island off the continent’s southeast coast.
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.
DAY
BECOMES NIGHT FOR SEVERAL HOURS, TWICE, AND THE CROWD AT A PACKED OLD TRAFFORD
STADIUM IS MASSACRED AND DISINTEGRATES.
Conundrum: Prelude Illustrated
short story, published 1993 Doctor: Unbound 7
featuring
Unbound Gillian, Unbound John, the Land
of Fiction
Takes
place in the Land of Fiction; self-dated Christmas 1993 CE.
Total Stories Considered 739
Proportion Written By Women 8%
Top Docs
3 196 stories
4 91 stories
7 63 stories Climber!
2 53 stories
5 46 stories
6 42 stories
1 33 stories
8 27 stories
11 22 stories
10 15 stories
12 14 stories
Unbound 13 stories
9 5 stories
13 4 stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
Alastair and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 240 stories
London 195 stories Climber!
UNIT 193
stories
Regional England 182 stories
North America 94 stories
Benton 88
stories
Jo 86 stories
Yates 64
stories
Sarah Jane 62
stories
The Master 58
stories
The Travers family 54
stories
The Time Lords 52 stories Climber!
At sea 52
stories
Continental Europe 51 stories
Ace 45
stories Climber!
Christmas 41 stories Climber!
Scotland 41
stories
The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group 39
stories
The K9s 34
stories
Top Decades
The Teens 300 stories
The Noughties 137 stories
The Seventies 120
stories
The Nineties 99 stories
The Eighties 51
stories
The Twenties 41
stories
The Sixties 32 stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 48 stories
2019 38
stories
2018 36 stories
2017 34
stories
2015 33 stories
2013 33 stories
2001 28
stories
2011 28 stories
2012 28 stories
1993 26
stories Climber!
1970 24
stories
2021 21
stories
1973 20 stories
2008 19
stories
2020 19 stories
1972 18
stories
1992 15
stories Climber!
1974 14
stories
2005 14 stories
2009 14
stories
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
linking material writers) 332
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 14 stories
John Dorney 13 stories
Paul Cornell 11
stories Climber!
Simon Guerrier 11 stories Climber!
Robert Holmes 11
stories
Andrew Cartmel 10 stories
Malcolm Hulke 10
stories
Jonathan Morris 10 stories
Mark Wright 10
stories
Roger Noel Cook 9 stories
Justin Richards 9 stories Climber!
Dennis Hooper 8
stories=
Steve Lyons 8
stories= Re-entry!
Gary Russell 8
stories=
1971 Annual crew 8 stories=
1973 Annual crew 8 stories=
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