Now: Two Thousand and Five                                                                    

 

Too Rich For My Blood   Short story, published 2005                            Doctor: 7

featuring Benny, Chris

Written by Rebecca Levene.

contemporary to publication Takes place in Las Vegas, Na.


After Midnight   Short story, published 2005                                           Doctor: 8

featuring Charley, C’rizz

Written by Andy Russell.

contemporary to publication Takes place in Bath, Somerset.

C’rizz is a broadly humanoid Eutermusan from the Divergent Universe, where he lived without the dimension known as time and consequently without anything describable as a birth date.


Before Midnight   Short story, published 2005                                        Doctor: 8

featuring Charley, C’rizz

Written by Rebecca Levene.

Takes on the Sanmarus Institute, between galaxies, concurrently with After Midnight.

 

Hilary Mantel's 2005 novel, Beyond Black intersects Doctor Who both in being the story of a medium, who communicates with N-Forms and makes a living from sad people doing so, and being an epically seedy panorama of the London suburbs spawled lethargically either side of the M25; perhaps the reality that the unkindnesses at the edge of the Eleven Day Empire reflect.


Rose   TV story, broadcast 2005                                                                 Doctor: 9

Featuring the Nestene Consciousness, Rose, Mickey, Jackie

Written by Russell T Davies

Takes place in London; dated March 2005 CE in Aliens of London. Rose leaves linear time, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.


Revenge of the Nestene   Short story, published 2020                           Doctor: 0

Featuring the Nestene Consciousness

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in London, immediately after Rose.


Self Possessed   Short story, published 2015                                             Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme, with Unbound Time Lords, Unbound Daleks (glimpse)

Written by Ian Potter

Takes place in a version of Yorkshire; self-dated late March 2005 CE.


One Rule   Audio drama, released 2015                                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood, with UNIT, the Nestene Consciousness, Captain Jack (informative mention)

Written by Joseph Lidster.

Takes place in Cardiff; self-dated March 2005 CE, and three weeks after Rose.


The Sooner the Better   Short story, published 2005                              Doctor: 4

featuring Leela

Written by Ian Farrington.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Most Horrid   Short story, published 2005                                                Doctor: 0

featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Justin Richards.

Takes place in the UK; self-dated fifty years after 1955 CE.


Grounded Illustrated short story, published 2019                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring the Nestene Consciousness (informative mention)

Written by Una McCormack.

Informed guess Takes place in London; ending not long after Rose.


Waiting for Jeremy   Short story, published 2005                                   Doctor: 1

featuring Steven

Written by Richard Salter.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK; self-dated 2005 CE.


The Midwife and the Alien   Short story, published 2020                     Doctor: 13

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, Lucy Wilson

Written by Tim Gambrell.

Takes place in south London; self-dated early June 2005 CE.

Lucy Wilson is a Tellurian born in 2005 CE, a granddaughter of Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart.


The Gallifrey Chronicles   Novel, published 2005                   Doctor: 8

Featuring the Time Lords, the remembered Fitz, Trix, with the Daleks, the Master, K9 II, Anji (glimpse), and Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Sam, Faction Paradox (informative mention)

Written by Lance Parkin.

Takes place variously, including in the Pennines, Manhattan, London and Guinea-Bissau; self-dated June 2005 CE.

Guinea-Bissau was a republic on the north Atlantic coast of Africa.

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 VORE OVERRUN THE EARTH, VERY NOTICABLY.


The Young Lions   Audio short story, released 2015                                 Doctor: 8

Featuring Lucie

Written by Alice Cavender.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK; self-dated 2005 CE.


This Thing Of Ours   Self-published Web short story, posted 2005         Doctor: 0

Featuring Faction Paradox, the War in Heaven

Written by Lawrence Burton.

Informed guess Takes place principally in Trenton; self-dated 2005 CE.

Trenton was the state capital of New Jersey, a constituent state of the USA lying on its east coast, south of New York and east of Pennsylvania.


A Life in the Day   Short story, published 2005                                        Doctor: 5

featuring Peri

Written by Xanna Eve Chown.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK, evidently in summer, during the cricket season.


Mr.Nobody  Comic story, published 2005                                                 Doctor: 9

Featuring Rose

Written by Scott Gray.

Informed guess Takes place in and above Peckham, a district of London; self-dated twenty-six years after 1979 CE.


The Mancunian Candidate   Short story, published 2005                     Doctor: 0

featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Lance Parkin.

contemporary to publication Takes place in Manchester and Dazzlaria.


Fiction Paradox   Charity short story, published 2001                              Doctor: 6        

featuring the Time Lords, Mel, with Faction Paradox (glimpse)

Written by Damon Cavalchini.

Takes place in the UK; self-dated August, 2005 CE


The Flood   Comic story, published 2005                                                   Doctor: 8

Featuring the Cybermen, Destrii. with Izzy (glimpse)

Written by Scott Gray.

Contemporary to publication Takes place mostly in and above London, evidently during the
summer, “a few years” after The Fall, and implicitly dated in 2005 CE in Hunters of the
Burning Stone.

Destriianatos, known as Destrii, was born a humanoid on Oblivion at an incalculable time,
and has subsequently been turned into a bipedal amphibian.


The Last Martian   Short story, published 2014                                        Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Rachel Churcher.

Takes place on a version of Mars; self-dated the beginning of September, 2005 CE.

 

Revolver (2005) suggests a development of Pi’s idea of manipulating the underlying mathematics of reality, and refines it with the application of the process to ones own personality and decision-making. One may suppose that the characters of Zach and Avi are agents in the Second War in Heaven, or perhaps they have liberated themselves from being agents in it.

 

Scientific Adviser   Short story, published 1999                                       Doctor: 2

featuring the Cybermen, and Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT (informative mention)

Written by Ian Atkins.

informed guess Takes place in the UK; self-dated some decades after The Invasion.


Red Dawn   Audio drama, released 2000                                            Doctor: 5

featuring the Ice Warriors, Peri

Written by Justin Richards.

informed guess Takes place on Mars; dated 2005 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.

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.

ANOTHER MARS LANDING


New Girl   Audio drama, released 2017                                         Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by Joseph Lidster.

informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2005 CE, some months after Rose and soon before Through the Ruins.


Through the Ruins   Audio drama, released 2017                        Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by Jenny T Colgan.

Takes place in London, before Christmas.


Suspicious Minds   Short story, published 2016                                       Doctor: 11

Featuring The Nestene Conciousness, River Song

Written by Jacqueline Rayner.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated the mid 2000s CE.


Uprising     Audio drama, released 2017                                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by Matt Fitton.

Takes place in London, a month after Through the Ruins.


What I Did On My Christmas Holidays By Sally Sparrow                                                                                                    Illustrated short story, published 2005                     Doctor: 9

Featuring the Sontarans (informative mention)

Written by Steven Moffat.

Takes place in Devon; self-dated December 2005 CE.


The Gift   Short story, published 2005                                                        Doctor: 1

featuring Susan, Lethbridge-Stewart

Written by Robert Dick.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK; self-dated Christmas Eve.


Attack of the Graske   Web video game, posted 2005                            Doctor: 10

Featuring the Graske, with the Raxacoricofallapatorians (glimpse), and Rose (informative mention)

Written by Gareth Roberts.

Contemporary to publication Takes place variously, but centrally in the UK at Christmas.

The Graske are a species of spacefaring bipeds, as are the Raxacoricofallapatorians.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               1065

Proportion Written By Women   9%                                          

 

Top Docs

3                 212 stories

4                 119 stories

7                 109 stories

8                 71 stories   Climber!

5                 69 stories  

2                 64 stories  

6                 62 stories           

1                 43 stories

Unbound   28 stories  

11               27 stories  

10               21 stories  

12               15 stories            

9                 10 stories

13               5 stories    

         

         

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

 

Alastair, Kate and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                                                               277 stories

London                                                                276 stories         

Regional England                                               259 stories Climber!

UNIT                                                                    238 stories

North America                                                   132 stories

Jo                                                                         92 stories  

Benton                                                                91 stories           

Sarah Jane                                                          89 stories           

The Master, including Missy                            73 stories                     

Ace                                                                      70 stories  

Continental Europe                                           67 stories           

The Time Lords                                                  66 stories   Climber!

Yates                                                                   65 stories  

Liz                                                                        62 stories  

The Travers family                                            60 stories

At sea                                                                  59 stories  

Christmas                                                            56 stories   Climber!

Scotland                                                              54 stories

Iris Wildthyme                                                   53 stories   Climber!

The K9s                                                               53 stories           

 

 

 

 

         

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           346 stories

The Noughties                                                    284 stories

The Nineties                                                       178 stories

The Seventies                                                    120 stories         

The Eighties                                                        54 stories  

The Twenties                                                     51 stories  

The Sixties                                                          32 stories  

 

 

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2001                                                          68 stories  

2016                                                          53 stories

2018                                                          46 stories

2015                                                          41 stories

2019                                                          43 stories

1999                                                          40 stories   Climber!             

2013                                                          40 stories  

2017                                                          39 stories   Climber!

2005                                                          38 stories Climber!

2004                                                          36 stories           

1993                                                          32 stories  

2011                                                          29 stories           

2012                                                          29 stories           

2003                                                          28 stories  

2020                                                          26 stories  

2021                                                          25 stories

1970                                                          24 stories

2000                                                          24 stories

2002                                                          24 stories  

1973                                                          20 stories  

 

 

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                                424

Proportion of Female Writers                         14%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                          34 stories  

? John Canning                                         30 stories  

Paul Magrs                                                27 stories  

Andy Frankham-Allen                             18 stories            

Justin Richards                                         16 stories   Climber!    

Eric Saward                                               16 stories  

Anonymous Polystyle Writers               15 stories  

John Dorney                                             15 stories  

Steve Lyons                                               15 stories  

Eddie Robson                                            15 stories            

Andrew Cartmel                                      14 stories  

Paul Cornell                                              14 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                        14 stories  

Gary Russell                                              12 stories                     

Robert Holmes                                         11 stories  

David A McIntee                                      11 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                      11 stories  

Mark Wright                                             12 stories                     

David Bishop                                            10 stories=

Scott Gray                                                 10 stories= New entry!

Malcolm Hulke                                         10 stories=

         

 

 

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