Now: Two Thousand and One                                                                    

 

The Killing of a Flash Boy   Charity short story, published 2001            Doctor: 8

Featuring the Time Lords, UNIT, Fitz or the remembered Fitz, with Sam (informative mention)

Written by Jonathan Dennis.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK and San Francisco, Ca; beginning with a ‘long weekend’ in winter and concluding over a week later, so in January.

The Top of the Tree   Audio drama, released 2018                            Doctor: 11

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in the Tree.

A Time to Choose   Charity short story, published 2001                           Doctor: 0

featuring Romana

Written by Olivia James.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.

Escape Velocity Novel, published 2001                 Doctor: 8 (the amnesiac sequence)

Featuring Control, the remembered Fitz, Anji, with Compassion (glimpse), and the Daleks, the Ice Warriors, UNIT, the Sontarans, the Rutan, the Chellonians, Allen Road (informative mention)

Written by Colin Brake.

Takes place in the USA, Oxfordshire, London and mainly in Brussels; self-dated February 2001 CE. Anji leaves linear time, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.

The Chellonians are a spacefaring species of cyborg shelled reptiles.

Dead Men’s Place   Charity short story, published 2001                           Doctor: 5

featuring Grace Technology, Tegan, and Turlogh (informative mention)

Written by Martin Day.

contemporary to publication Takes place probably in the UK; self-dated winter.

Irresistible Force Charity short story, published 2001                              Doctor: 5

featuring Tegan, Turlogh (informative mention)

Written by Rebecca Anderson as R J Anderson.

contemporary to publication Takes place in Waterloo, Canada.

Outside Forces   Charity short story, published 2001                                Doctor: 8

Featuring Compassion, with Victoria, the remembered Fitz (glimpse)

Written by Greg McElhatton.

Contemporary to publication Takes place mainly in Hawaii.

Potential   Short story, published 2008                                                     Doctor: 3

Written by Stephen Dunn.

Informed guess Takes place pivotally in the UK, there is a mention of Austin Powers by a schoolboy who would probably be unaware of popular culture from more than a few years earlier.

Act of Kindness    Charity short story, published 2001                              Doctor: 5

featuring Turlogh

Written by Doris Speed-Keller.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the Sudan.

The Sudan was a landlocked republic of Africa, lying south of Egypt.

A Whisper of Light   Charity short story, published 2001                         Doctor: 7

Written by Matt Marshall.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in an Anglophone city on Earth; self-dated summer.

Oblivion Lurks Near the Coffee Machine   Charity short story, published 2001                                                                                                                                                                  Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II, Romana

Written by Sietel Singh Gill.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.

Hall of Me   Charity short story, published 2001     Doctors: Several Unbound, principally 4

Written by Mike Collins.

Takes place indeterminately, twenty years after Logopolis.

The Wee Man   Charity short story, published 2001                                   Doctor: 7

featuring the Cybermen

Written by Iain Hepburn.

contemporary to publication Takes place in Glasgow.

Caught in Margate – The Itching   Charity short story, published 2001                                                                                                         Doctor: Unbound 8

Featuring Unbound Fitz, with Unbound Compassion

Written by Matt Marshall.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Margate, a town on the coast of Kent.

On the Town   Charity short story, published 2001                                    Doctor: 4

featuring Leela, K9 I

Written by John Peel.

contemporary to publication Takes place in New York, NY.

Cabinet of Changes   Charity short story, published 2001                                                                                                                                   Doctors: Unbound 8, Unbound other

Featuring Iris Wildthyme, Unbound Sarah Jane, Unbound K9, Unbound Romana, Unbound Fitz, Unbound Compassion, with Unbound Lethbridge-Stewart, Unbound Leela, Unbound Benny, Unbound Chris, Unbound Anji (glimpse)

Written by Philip Purser-Hallard.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the Obverse.

True Colours   Charity short story, published 2001                                   Doctor: Unbound

Featuring Unbound Time Lords, Unbound Daleks

Written by Steven Kitson.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on an alternative Earth.

 

Dog Soldiers is a Doctor Who narrative-compatible werewolf film released in 2002, but the international football match featured on the newspaper in its closing shot took place at the beginning of September in the previous year.

 

In the Frame   Charity short story, published 2001                                    Doctor: 7

featuring Ace

Written by Steve Lyons.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.

Psi-ence Fiction   Novel, published 2001                                        Doctor: 4

featuring Leela

Written by Chris Boucher.

contemporary to publication Takes place on the University of East Wessex campus; self-dated September.

Raymond’s Room   Charity short story, published 2001                           Doctor: 5

featuring Nyssa, Tegan

Written by Keith R A DeCandido.

contemporary to publication Takes place in Key West, Fla.                                                

Animal     Audio drama, released 2011                                                    Doctor: 7

Featuring UNIT, Ace, Raine, the Metatraxi

Written by Andrew Cartmel.

Takes place in the UK; self-dated Fresher’s Week, 2001 CE.

Tuesday   Audio story, released 2018                                                          Doctor: 8

Featuring Harry

Written by Tony Jones.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2001 CE.

Shadows Cast   Charity short story, published 2001                                  Doctor: 8

Written by Mike Morris.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.

Comeback   Audio drama, released 2002                                               Doctor: 0

featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Terrance Dicks.

Informed guess Takes place largely in Wiltshire, some months before Ghost Town.

Out of the Shadows   Charity short story, published 2001                       Doctor: Unbound

Featuring the Ogrons (informative mention)

Written by Dave Whittam.

Contemporary to publication Takes place variously, including Northern Ireland, Rhyl (a town on the north coast of Wales), Cambridge, Lancashire, London, Mongolia and the Amazon Basin.

Mongolia was a landlocked republic, lying north of China.

The Amazon was a river of northeast South America, emptying into the Atlantic.

 

Dagon, a 2001 Spanish language riff on H P Lovecraft's stories Dagon and The Shadow Over Innsmouth, works well enough as an account of what an accidentally revived maritime Earth Reptile might get up to with a few decades to get mad and decadent.

 

Bell, Book and Candle   Charity short story, published 2001                  Doctor: Unbound

featuring the Matter of Britain

Written by Jay Eales.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK, in an alternative timeline.

Thorns   Charity short story, published 2001                                         Doctors: 8, Unbound

Featuring the Matter of Britain

Written by Helen Fayle.

Contemporary to publication Concludes in a hospital ward, probably in the UK.

The TAO Connection   Audio drama, released 2002                        Doctor: 0

featuring C19, Sarah Jane

Written by Barry Letts.

Informed guess Takes place in Wiltshire, Yorkshire and London, some weeks after Comeback.

Cracks in the Pavement (aka Subterranean Homesick Alien)   Charity short story, published                         2001                                                                                                  Doctor: 7

Written by Robert Parker.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Devon and elsewhere in the UK, ending in November.

 

In the film Intacto (2001), luck is treated as an objective quality that can be possessed, given or taken. This seems profoundly at odds with a causal account of reality: as big a fan of Larry Niven as I have always been, he loses me in Ringworld with a character who is very lucky because she has been bred for luck. The idea of selecting for qualities rests on the essentially random nature of reality. In Doctor Who narrative, however, we have a means of accommodating this discrepancy: The Enemy are defined by the incompatibility of their reality with that of the Great Houses: the objective Web of Time that we are used to living in. I don’t think any of the characters in this film are agents in the Second War in Heaven: I think they have stumbled across an intrusion of Enemy reality and are seeking to exploit it for their own ends.

                                               

Project: Twilight   Audio drama, released 2001                                  Doctor: 6        

featuring the Vampires, Evelyn

Written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright.

Takes place in London; dated November 2001 CE in Project Valhalla.

The Fallen   Comic story, published 1999                                                   Doctor: 8

featuring the Master, Grace, Izzy

Written by Scott Gray.

Takes place in south London; self-dated November 2001 CE.

 

In The Fallen, Izzy refers to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), a film made before she was born but set in her future. The gag is that the Doctor is entirely unfamiliar, as he might well be if it represented action in the Second War in Heaven, subsequently annulled but accommodated as fiction, like Sherlock Holmes or, going in the opposite direction, Dracula. Any of several Wartime powers could have been responsible for the black monolith that, it would appear, influenced Tellurian technology so that there was a flourishing Lunar colony by the end of the twentieth century.

 

Head Games Novel, published 1995                                                   Doctor: 7

featuring the Land of Fiction, Mel, Ace, Benny, Roz, Chris, with Unbound Gillian, Unbound John, UNIT (glimpse), and the Unbound the Trods, Lethbridge-Stewart, Glitz, Kadiatu (informative mention)

Written by Steve Lyons.

Informed guess Takes place on and near Detrios, Arcalis, Avalone, and on Earth, notably London and Sydney; mostly self-dated 2001 CE.

A Tale of Two Teachers Charity short story, published 2001                                                                                                                                                                                       Doctors: Unbound, and Unbound

featuring Unbound Barbara, Unbound Ian

Written by Paul Castle.

contemporary to publication Takes place in London.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               948  

Proportion Written By Women   8%                                          

 

Top Docs

3                 210 stories

4                 113 stories

7                 98 stories  

5                 63 stories   Climber!

2                 62 stories  

8                 54 stories   Climber!    

6                 51 stories

1                 38 stories

Unbound   26 stories   Climber!

11               26 stories  

10               16 stories  

12               15 stories            

9                 6 stories    

13               4 stories    

         

         

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

Alastair, Kate and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                                                               262 stories

London                                                                244 stories

Regional England                                               232 stories         

UNIT                                                                    226 stories

North America                                                   116 stories

Benton                                                                91 stories           

Jo                                                                         91 stories  

Sarah Jane                                                          80 stories           

The Master, including Missy                            65 stories   Climber!    

Yates                                                                   65 stories  

Continental Europe                                           62 stories  

Liz                                                                        62 stories  

Ace                                                                      62 stories   Climber!

The Time Lords                                                  60 stories  

The Travers family                                            59 stories

At sea                                                                  58 stories  

The K9s                                                               50 stories   Climber!    

Christmas                                                            48 stories  

Iris Wildthyme                                                   45 stories   Climber!

Scotland                                                              43 stories

 

 

 

         

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           325 stories

The Noughties                                                    203 stories

The Nineties                                                       171 stories

The Seventies                                                    120 stories         

The Eighties                                                        53 stories  

The Twenties                                                     44 stories  

The Sixties                                                          32 stories  

 

 

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2001                                                          64 stories   New Number 1!

2016                                                          51 stories

2018                                                          41 stories  

2019                                                          40 stories  

2013                                                          39 stories  

1999                                                          36 stories   Climber!    

2015                                                          36 stories  

2017                                                          36 stories  

1993                                                          31 stories  

2011                                                          29 stories   Climber!    

2012                                                          29 stories           

1970                                                          24 stories

2020                                                          22 stories  

2021                                                          22 stories

1973                                                          20 stories  

2000                                                          20 stories  

2008                                                          20 stories   Climber!

1972                                                          18 stories=

1992                                                          18 stories=                   

1998                                                          18 stories=

2009                                                          18 stories=

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                                393

Proportion of Female Writers                         13%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                          33 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  

Justin Richards                                         14 stories                     

Andrew Cartmel                                      13 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                        12 stories   Climber!

Steve Lyons                                               12 stories   Climber!    

Paul Cornell                                              11 stories  

Robert Holmes                                         11 stories  

David A McIntee                                      11 stories  

Gary Russell                                              11 stories           

Mark Wright                                             11  stories  Climber!    

Malcolm Hulke                                         10 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                      10 stories  

Roger Noel Cook                                      9 stories