Now: Nineteen Ninety-Nine
Nameless Charity short story,
published 1999 Doctors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
featuring Susan, Jamie
Written by
David Bickley.
Takes place in
the UK; the latest event is self-dated March 1999 CE.
Flashpoint Short story, published 2004 Doctor: 5
featuring UNIT, Liz, and Turlogh (glimpse)
Written by Matt
Grady.
Takes place in
Rome; self-dated April 1999 CE.
The Giving
Invasion Charity short
story, published 1999 Doctor: 4
featuring K9 II
Written by Paul Leonard.
contemporary to publication
Takes place in the UK.
Hot Ice Short story, published
1999 Doctor: 5
featuring Peri
Written by Christopher Bulis.
contemporary to publication
Takes place in Surbiton, a district of London.
Safe in the Knowledge Charity short story, published 1999 Doctor:
7
Written by Mark Phippen.
Contemporary to publication Takes
place in the UK.
Homeland Audio
drama, released 1999 Doctor: 0
Featuring UNIT, the Zygons
Written by Paul
Dearing.
Contemporary to
publication Takes place in the UK and Columbia.
Colombia was a republic of northwest South America, lying southeast of Panama.
Cause and Effect Charity short story, published 1999 Doctor: 8
featuring Sam (informative mention)
Written by Rebecca Dowgiert.
contemporary to publication Takes
place in London.
Mysterious
Ways Charity short story, published 1999 Doctor: Unbound
Featuring the Matter of Britain
Written by Jay Eales.
contemporary to publication Takes place on an alternative
Earth, possibly the one in Morgaine’s continuum.
Fangrrl Life Charity short story, published 1999 Doctor:
8
Featuring the Second War in Heaven, with UNIT, Iris Wildthyme, Benny, Grace, Sam,
Stacey, Izzy, Fitz or the Remembered Fitz (informative mention).
Written by Philip Pascoe.
Contemporary to publication Takes
place in Perth, Western Australia; possibly in the Obverse. The TARDIS is not
only anthropomorphised but liberated into Sapphic sensuality. Sadly, it is
narratively necessary for her to abandon it from a sense of moral duty and
rejoin the Doctor in resolving the Second War in Heaven. Helen Fayle, the
co-editor of Perfect Timing 2, has said that if you think the published version
was near the knuckle, you should have seen the original submission.
The Suns of Caresh Novel, published 2002 Doctor:
3
featuring the Time Lords, Jo, and UNIT (glimpse)
Written by Paul
Saint.
Takes place in
the UK and on Caresh; self-dated July 1999 CE.
Dolores Smith
and the Birthday Bear Short
story, published 2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris
Wildthyme
Written by Kara Dennison.
Takes place in a version of
Yorkshire, self-dated early July, 1999 CE. All is not right, even in this
relatively straightforward version of Samhain, as it has snowed in July
throughout the nineties.
The King of Terror Novel, published 2000 Doctor:
5
featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Control, Tegan, Turlough, and the Daleks, the
Cybermen, the Zygons, Benton, Jo (informative mention)
Written by
Keith Topping.
Takes place in
Sussex, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Las Vegas but principally Los Angeles, Ca, self-dated
July 1999 CE.
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.
THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN IS DESTROYED BY AN
ALIEN SPACESHIP AND THE WORLD SPENDS SOME FOUR DAYS WATCHING A SPACE BATTLE
BETWEEN ALIENS IN ORBIT, ACCOMPANIED BY JOLLY PARTIES.
The Root of All Evil Audio drama, released 1999 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Krynoids
Written by Lance
Parkin.
Contemporary to
release Takes place in Yorkshire; sunset is about
21.30 hours, so mid July.
Dominion Novel,
published 1999 Doctor: 8
Featuring UNIT, C19, Sam, Fitz
Written by Nick Walters.
Takes place in Sweden; self-dated July 1999
CE.
Sweden was a coastal monarchy
of Europe, lying to the east of Norway.
Cheeky Things Charity short story, published 1998 Doctor: 7, plausibly
featuring Tegan
Written by Erin Tumilty.
informed guess
Takes place on Earth, probably Australia; plausibly, shortly before Chain Male.
Chain Male Charity short story, published 1998 Doctor: 7
featuring Tegan, with Barbara, Ian, Sarah Jane (informative mention)
Written by
Keith Topping.
Takes place in
Wiltshire; self-dated 1999, evidently summer. It is not obvious why the son of
Barbara and Ian should have grown up in poverty in Newcastle: my guess is
left-wing posturing by Barbara.
Totem Short story, published 1999 Doctors: 8, with 7 (glimpse)
Written by Stephen Cole, as Tara Samms.
Contemporary to publication Takes
place on an island where Spanish is spoken, ending in summer.
The film The Sixth Sense (1999) is a ghost story assimilable in Doctor Who narrative, I think, as an examination of N-forms.
The Danger Men Novel,
published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring Anne Travers,
Lethbridge-Stewart, with UNIT, Grace technology (informative
mention)
Written by Nick Walters.
CE.
Johannesburg was a city of South Africa, a republic occupying the southernmost region of
Africa, a peninsula dividing the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
The Eternity
Contract Short story,
published 1999 Doctor: 5
featuring Nyssa
Written by
Steve Lyons.
informed guess Takes
place in the UK, broadly; self-dated 1999 CE.
Warlords of Utopia Novel,
published 2004 Doctor: 0
featuring Chris, Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven
Written by
Lance Parkin.
informed guess Takes
place on up to two thousand alternative Earths on the other “side” of the
“Great Divide”. We may assume that one of them, possibly Roma D, features in The Iron Legion. They
could also include the alternative Earths described in Philip K Dick’s 1962
novel The Man In The High Castle, the 2015-19 TV series adapted from it,
Robert Harris’s 1992 novel Fatherland, Len Deighton’s 1978 novel SS-GB,
C J Sansom’s 2012 novel Dominion, the 2011 film Resistance and
the TV series An Englishman’s Castle (1978) and The Plot Against
America (2020). I have no suggestion for the sex-obsessed Roma LXIX (nice).
The villa of Scriptor’s family is the island of Manhattan. Concludes in the
Amazon Basin; self-dated MMDCCLII ARC, which would be 1999 CE. I am assuming
that Herr Abschrifft is an iteration of the Great Houses’ Army of One, i.e.
Chris. The malignant abomination that hunts the Great House fugitives says it
is not working for The Enemy although it has an evident interest in the course
of The War: I suggest it is a manifestation of the Celestis.
Touching
Indigo Charity short
story, published 1999 Doctor: Unbound
Written by Rebecca J Anderson.
Contemporary to publication Takes
place in Canada.
Auton 2: Sentinel Video drama, released 1998 Doctor: 0
featuring UNIT, the Nestene Consciousness
Written by Nicholas Briggs.
informed guess Takes
place in the UK, two and a half years after Auton.
Return of the
Spiders Short story,
published 1999 Doctor:
4
featuring the Giant Spiders, K9 II, Romana
Written by Gareth Roberts.
contemporary to publication Takes
place in High Wycombe, a town of Buckinghamshire.
Auton 3: Awakening Video drama, released 1999 Doctor: 0
featuring UNIT, the Nestene Consciousness
Written by Arthur Wallis and Paul Ebbs.
informed guess Takes
place in the UK, shortly after Auton 2: Sentinel.
The Taking of Planet 5 Novel, published 1999 Doctor: 8
Featuring the Second War in Heaven, the remembered Fitz, Compassion, ?Theo
Possible, with UNIT, the Earth Reptiles, the Fendahl (informative mention)
Written by Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham,
Takes place principally in Antarctica;
partly self-dated October 1999 CE. At the end of the story, having saved the
Universe from catastrophe and annihilated Mictlan, Agent One and the Hermit,
two slaves of the Celestis, walk free and apparently out of Doctor Who
continuity. We may suppose, however, that they are well-versed in the skills
required to travel in the fourth and fifth dimensions, and that they might
blame the Time Lords’ complacent misuse of power for their time in, very nearly
literally, hell. (The Celestis are an extreme case of the Time Lords). I
suggest that one of them goes on to become Theo Possible: ‘Theo’, suggesting
divine providence, in acknowledgement of the fraudulent godhead of the Celestis,
and ‘possibility’ being what the Celestis stole from him and what he
subsequently regained. My money is on Agent One: the hermit was a Time Lord
himself, originally. Agent One was bred into servitude and Possible’s bitter
class resentment is a better fit.
The Two Brigadiers Short story, published 2017 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart,
the Travers family
Written
by Jonathan Macho.
Informed guess Takes place in Wales; self-dated three years
after Battlefield.
Please Shut
the Gate Short story,
published 2000 Doctor: 2
featuring Jamie, Zoe
Written by Stephen
Lock.
Takes place on
Mars; self-dated December 1999 CE.
A Cup of
Coffee Charity short
story, published 1999 Doctor: 5
featuring Tegan, Turlogh
Written by Daniel Ben-Zvi.
contemporary to publication Takes
place in the UK; self-dated December.
Black Snow Charity
short story, published 1999 Doctor:
7
featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, Ace
Written by David
Bishop.
Takes place on
Exmoor, an unpopulated, hilly area of Devon; self-dated December 23rd
1999 CE.
Darkness,
Falling, Distractions and The Mark of Mandragora Comic story. Published 1991 Doctor: 7, and 4 (glimpse)
featuring UNIT, the Mandragora Helix, Ace, and
Lethbridge-Stewart (glimpse)
Written by Dan Abnett.
informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated at the end of the
twentieth century and after Battlefield; plausibly just before Brief Encounters and just after Black Snow.
The Mandragora Helix is a mysterious telekinetic agency to which
the Earth becomes vulnerable “when the stars are in the correct alignment”. I
suggest this is consistent with its being a particularly Lovecraftian horror, a
malign,
sentient geometry! In
this story it claims to have been old when this universe was created, which I suppose
would be true of a geometry.
Brief Encounter Illustrated short story, published 1991 Doctor:
7
featuring Ian, with Barbara (glimpse), and Ace (informative mention)
Written by
David Bishop.
Takes place in
Greenwich, a district of London; self-dated the last day of 1999 CE.
Goodbye/Piccadilly/Hello/Heatdeath
Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 7
featuring Ace
Written
by Peter Darvill-Evans.
informed guess Takes place, presumably, in London; plausibly
just after Brief Encounter.
Total Stories Considered 887
Proportion Written By Women 8%
Top Docs
3 208
stories
4 106
stories
7 88
stories
2 60
stories
5 55 stories
6 47
stories
8 43 stories
1 37
stories
11 25
stories
Unbound 19 stories
10 15
stories
12 15
stories
9 6 stories
13 4 stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
Alastair, Kate and the
Lethbridge-Stewart family 257
stories
London 223
stories
Regional England 219 stories
UNIT 216
stories
North America 105
stories
Jo 92 stories
Benton 91
stories
Sarah Jane 75
stories
The Master, including Missy 66 stories
Yates 65
stories
Liz 61
stories
The Time Lords 58 stories
Continental Europe 58
stories Climber!
The Travers family 58
stories
Ace 58
stories Climber!
At sea 55
stories
Christmas 49
stories
The K9s 46
stories
Iris Wildthyme 41
stories
Scotland 41
stories
Top Decades
The Teens 316
stories
The Nineties 164
stories
The Noughties 160
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 38
stories
2001 36
stories
2013 36
stories
2015 36 stories Climber!
2017 36
stories Climber!
1999 34
stories Climber!
1993 31
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
1995 15
stories=
1999 15
stories=
2005 15 stories=
2009 15
stories=
Total Writers (including showrunners,
script editors, anthology linking material writers) 357
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
Paul Cornell 11
stories
Simon Guerrier 11
stories
Robert Holmes 11
stories
Gary Russell 11
stories
Malcolm Hulke 10
stories
Steve Lyons 10
stories Climber!
David A McIntee 10 stories
Jonathan Morris 10 stories
Mark Wright 10
stories
Roger Noel Cook 9 stories
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