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.
summer, “a few years” after The Fall, and implicitly dated in 2005 CE in Hunters of the
Burning Stone.
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
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Scott Gray 10
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Malcolm Hulke 10
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