Now: Two Thousand and Two                                                                   

 

Test of Nerve      Audio drama, released 2002                                     Doctor: 0

featuring Sarah Jane

Written by David Bishop.

Informed Guess Takes place in Wiltshire and London, some weeks after The Tao Connection.


The Ratings War     Audio drama, released 2002                                     Doctor: 6

featuring the Beep of All the Meeps

Written by Steve Lyons.

Informed Guess Takes place in the UK; dated 2002 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.


Curse of the Bog Women   Charity short story, published 2016             Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Barry Hutchison.

Informed guess Takes place in rural Scotland. The Doctor dates it as “the early twenty-first
century” but it must be very early if Alvin King is Elvis Presley, or just might plausibly be him.
Presley would have turned sixty-five with the century: King is employed as a postman.


Death Comes to Time   Webcast, posted 2002                    Doctor: Unbound 7

featuring Unbound Time Lords, Unbound Vampires, Unbound Lethbridge-Stewart, Unbound Ace

Written by Colin Meek.

contemporary to posting Takes place on Earth, Santine and Alpha Canis.


And…Cut!   Short story, published 2021                                                  Doctor: 0


featuring Lethbridge-Stewart


Written by Robert Kilmister.


Takes place near Hastings. Lethbridge-Stewart is a bit old to be a safety inspector: I’m

guessing this is the sort of undercover mission he is engaged on in Minuet in Hell and so quite

near chronologically.


The Glorious Dead   Comic story, published 2000                                   Doctor: 8           

Featuring the Master, Kroton, Izzy

Written by Scott Gray.

Informed guess Concludes in London, some time after The Fallen.

Kroton is a Cyberman whose conditioning has failed, causing him to develop emotional subjectivity and a code of ethics. There are no clues as to when he might have been born as a humanoid, other than the fact that ‘Kroton’ is probably an old Mondasian name, meaning that it could have been millennia before the Common Era.


Ghost Town   Audio drama, released 2002                                           Doctor: 0

featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Robert Laight.

Takes place in Romania; self-dated May, 2002 CE.

Romania was a Republic on the east coast of the Balkan peninsula, lying east of Hungary on the Black Sea.


Doctor-Patient Relationship   Charity short story, published 1998      Doctor: 8

Featuring Grace

Written by Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum.

Takes place mainly in San Francisco, Ca.; concluding self-datedly in early summer 2002

CE.


The Fearmonger   Audio drama, released 2000                            Doctor: 7

featuring Ace, with C19 (informative mention)

Written by Jonathan Blum.

Informed guess Takes place in London; dated 2002 CE by Parkin in Ahistory. One of the year’s university holidays is taking place.


Fearmonger Redux (Extract)   Charity short story, published 2018      Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose

Written by Jonathan Blum.

Takes place in an alternative version of the events of The Fearmonger that featured Ten

and Rose rather than Seven and Ace.


Mirror, Signal, Manouevre   Audio drama, released 2002            Doctor: 0

featuring Sarah Jane, with K9 III (informative mention)

Written by Peter Anghelides.

Informed guess Takes place principally in the Lakshadweep Islands, in the Indian Ocean, not long after Ghost Town. It is hinted that the equipment stolen from Sarah Jane is K9 III, but she still has him in School Reunion several years later. Of course, if you leave K9 operational, locked up somewhere for further analysis next day, it’s quite likely that he won’t be there when you come back, which wouldn’t be an embarrassment that Hilda Winters would share with her prisoner.


The Grey Man of the Mountain   Audio drama, released 2020     Doctor: 7

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, Ace

Written by L M Myles.

Informed guess Takes place in the Highlands of Scotland; self-dated the early twenty-first
century.


X-Men: Chaos Engine: Magneto      Novel, published 2002                                                                            Doctor: 7 (glimpse)

Written by Steven A Roman.                                                 

Contemporary to publication Takes place in alternative realities.


Capricorn: ‘I Was A Monster!!!’   Short story, published 2002              Doctor: 4

featuring the Vampires, Romana

Written by Joseph Lidster.

Takes place in Dublin; self-dated summer 2002 CE.


X-Men: Chaos Engine: Red Skull   Novel, published 2002                                                                                                                                                                      Doctor: 4 (glimpse)

Written by Steven A Roman.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in alternative realities.


Came to Believe   Short story, published 2005                                         Doctor: 0

featuring Iris Wildthyme, with London (informative mention)

Written by Craig Hinton.

informed guess Takes place in the UK; published in 2005 CE, the main action takes place two years earlier, plus however long it takes from starting to write what is evidently a well-written book to signing copies to promote its publication. Though in the 21st century, in October.


Pisces: The Stabber   Short story, published 2002                                   Doctor: 6

featuring Peri

Written by Alison Lawson.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the Scottish Borders; self-dated October.


Fishy Business   Charity short story, published 1999                                  

                                                                Doctor: Unbound 8 (informative mention)

Featuring Unbound Benny, the War in Heaven, with Allen Road, the Grel (informative
mention)

Written by Lance Parkin.

Takes place in Danny the Fish’s headquarters; for Mr Saldaamir, just before Unnatural
History.


Unnatural History   Novel, published 1999                      Doctor: 8

Featuring the Time Lords, Faction Paradox, Sam, Fitz, with the Daleks, UNIT, Grace,Adrienne Kramer (informative mention)

Written by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman

Takes place in London and mostly San Francisco, CA; self-dated November 2002 CE. It is
possible that Joyce is an agent of the Enemy. At this stage, the Doctor has so riddled Dalek
history with contradictions and paradoxes that it has collapsed, removing them from fifth
dimensional causality. Remarkably, of course, they later manage to come back from this.


A Mutual Friend Short story, published 2002                                  Doctor: 0

featuring Sarah Jane, Benny, with Braxiatel (informative mention)

Written by Terrance Dicks.

contemporary to publication Takes place in a branch of Starbucks.


Drift   Novel, published 2002                                                            Doctor: 4

featuring Leela

Written by Simon A Forward.

contemporary to publication Takes place in New Hampshire; self-dated December.

New Hampshire was a constituent state on the east coast of the USA, north of Massachusetts, southwest of Maine and south of Canada.


In 2 Minds   Audio drama, released 2002                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring the Rutan

Written by Iain Hepburn

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Edinburgh, in the winter after 9/11.


Mr Dogberry’s Christmas   Short story, published 2013                Doctor: 0

Featuring the Manleigh Halt Irregulars

Written by Philip Craggs.

Informed guess Takes place in or near Manchester; self-dated a Christmas Day in thetwenty-first century. I am assuming that Manleigh Halt police station, like Ace’s TimeVigilante kit, doesn’t have a temporal range beyond the early twenty-first century.

 

  

Total Stories Considered               973  

Proportion Written By Women   9%                                          

 

Top Docs

3                 210 stories

4                 116 stories

7                 102 stories

5                 63 stories  

2                 62 stories  

8                 58 stories  

6                 53 stories           

1                 38 stories

Unbound   26 stories  

11               26 stories  

10               18 stories  

12               15 stories            

9                 6 stories    

13               4 stories    

         

         

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

Alastair, Kate and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                                                                265 stories

London                                                                250 stories

Regional England                                               235 stories         

UNIT                                                                    227 stories

North America                                                   120 stories

Benton                                                                91 stories

Jo                                                                         91 stories  

Sarah Jane                                                          84 stories           

The Master, including Missy                            69 stories           

Yates                                                                   65 stories  

Ace                                                                      65 stories   Climber!

Continental Europe                                           63 stories  

The Time Lords                                                  62 stories  

Liz                                                                        62 stories

At sea                                                                  59 stories  

The Travers family                                            59 stories  

The K9s                                                               51 stories           

Christmas                                                            49 stories  

Scotland                                                              47 stories

Iris Wildthyme                                                   46 stories            

 

 

 

         

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           330 stories

The Noughties                                                    218 stories

The Nineties                                                       174 stories

The Seventies                                                    120 stories         

The Eighties                                                        53 stories  

The Twenties                                                     46 stories

The Sixties                                                          32 stories  

         

 

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2001                                                          64 stories  

2016                                                          52 stories

2018                                                          42 stories   Climber!

2013                                                          40 stories  

2019                                                          40 stories  

1999                                                          38 stories           

2015                                                          36 stories  

2017                                                          36 stories  

1993                                                          31 stories  

2011                                                          29 stories           

2012                                                          29 stories           

1970                                                          24 stories

2002                                                          24 stories   New entry!

2020                                                          23 stories  

2021                                                          23 stories

2000                                                          22 stories   Climber!    

1973                                                          20 stories  

2008                                                          20 stories

1998                                                          19 stories  

1972                                                          18 stories=

1992                                                          18 stories=                   

2009                                                          18 stories=

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                                394

Proportion of Female Writers                         13%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                          34 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

Steve Lyons                                               13 stories   Climber!    

Simon Guerrier                                        12 stories  

Paul Cornell                                              11 stories  

Robert Holmes                                         11 stories  

David A McIntee                                      11 stories  

Gary Russell                                              11 stories           

Mark Wright                                             11 stories  

Malcolm Hulke                                         10 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                      10 stories  

Roger Noel Cook                                      9 stories=

Kate Orman                                              9 stories=   New entry!         

 

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