Now: Twenty-Eleven

 

First Foot First Comic story, published 2010                                                         Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Writtne by Christopher Cooper.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Edinburgh; self-dated New Year’s Eve and Day.


Last Chance   Audio story, released 2018                                                           Doctor: 10

Featuring Lady Christina

Written by Guy Adams.

Informed guess Takes place in Africa, some time between Planet of the Dead and The Eye of Ashaya.


There and Back Again   Short story, published 2011                                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Senor 105, with Iris Wildthyme, the Manleigh Halt Irregulars, Theo Possible (informative mention)

Written by Niamh Petit.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on Earth. Bradbury describes the time travel device as looking like an old-fashioned VHS remote, suggesting his time is contemporaneous with publication, and that Senor 105 has already travelled into the future when we first encounter him.


Heart of Stone   Novella, published in 2011                                                       Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory, with the Moon (informative mention)

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Rory’s Story   Comic story, published 2011                                                             Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Oli Smith.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.

 

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night   Comic story, published 2011         Doctor: 11

featuring Amy

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK; self-dated 2011 CE.


Enter Wildthyme   Novel, published in 2011                                              Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme, Simon, Vince Cosmos

Written by Paul Magrs.

Informed guess Takes place variously, including Kensington, a district of London, and Darlington, in 2011 CE.


Earworm   Comic story, published 2011                                                                  Doctor: 11

Featuring  Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Jason Arnopp.

Informed guess Takes place in Leeds; self-dated 2011 CE.


The Forbidden Time   Audio drama, released 2011                                       Doctor: 2

Featuring Polly, Ben, Jamie

Written by David Lock.

Informed guess Takes place in versions of London; self-dated 2011 CE


Chain Reaction   Audio short story, released 2011                                                Doctor: 4  

Featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Darren Goldsmith.

Contemporary to release Takes place in the UK.


Sky   TV story, broadcast 2011                                                                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Phil Ford, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing and one would assume outside West London; self-dated 2011 CE and probably not during the Miracle Day event.


Power of the Mykuootni   Comic story, published 2011                                      Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Eddie Robson.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in North-West of England.


The Crimes of Thomas Brewster   Audio drama, released 2011    Doctor: 6

Featuring Thomas, Evelyn, Flip

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Contemporary to release Takes place in London and on Symbios.


Sound Bytes   Comic story, published 2011                                                             Doctor: 11

featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Steve Lyons.

contemporary to publication Takes place in London.


Nightmare at Lavender Lawns   Short story, published 2019                           Doctor: 0


Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart


Written by Bedwyr Gullidge.


Takes place in the UK; described as the last time Lethbridge-Stewart defeats an alien menace.


Sock Pig   Audio short story, released 2011                                                             Doctor: 5

Written by Sharon Cobb and Iain Keiller.

Contemporary to release Takes place in the UK.


The Riparian Ripper Audio short story, released 2011                                        Doctor: 7

Featuring Ace

Written by Andrew Cartmel.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the USA.


The Curse of Clyde Langer   TV story, broadcast 2011                                Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Phil Ford, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing; self-dated “almost a month” after Sky.


Technophobia   Audio drama, released 2016                                                   Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Matt Fitton.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2011 CE.


Amser Gwyllt   Short story, published 2011                                                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Steffan Alun.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Aberystwyth, a town in Wales.


The New World   TV story, broadcast 2011                                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood, with UNIT (informative mention)

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in Wales, Virginia and Kentucky; self-dated March, 2011 CE.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky was a landlocked constituent state of the USA, lying south of Illinois and Indiana, west of Virginia, north of Tennessee and east of Missouri.


Rendition   TV story, broadcast 2011                                                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Doris Egan, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place above the Atlantic, immediately after The New World.


Dead of Night   TV story, broadcast 2011                                                           Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Jane Espenson, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in Wales, Washington DC and Georgia, not long after Rendition.

Georgia was a constituent state of the USA, lying on the east coast, south of Tennessee and north of Florida.


Gramps   Short story, published 2011                                                                      Doctor: 0

Featuring Faction Paradox

Written by Jonathan Dennis.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Florida. We are told that Grandfather Paradox removed himself from history: becoming a cat would certainly be a way of doing that.


Escape to L.A.   TV story, broadcast 2011                                                           Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Jim Gray and John Shiban, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in Cardiff, Los Angeles, Ca. and Washington DC, not long after Dead of Night.


Lucy Wilson Short story, published 2017                                                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, Lucy

Written by Shaun Collins.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK; self-dated 2011 CE.


The Categories of Life   TV story, broadcast 2011                                         Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Jane Espenson, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in Wales and California, not long after Escape to LA.


The Middle Men   TV story, broadcast 2011                                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by John Shiban, script supervised by Russell T Davies

Informed guess Takes place in Wales and California, not long after The Categories of Life.


Up All Night   TV story, broadcast 2011                                                                  Doctor: 0

Written by Tom McRae, script supervised by Steven Moffat.

Takes place in Colchester, shortly before Closing Time.


Closing Time   TV story, broadcast 2011                                                            Doctor: 11

Featuring the Cybermen, with River Song, Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory, the Silents (glimpse)        

Written by Gareth Roberts, script supervised by Steven Moffat.

Takes place in Colchester; self-dated April, 2011 CE. None of the Tellurians mention being in the Miracle Day phenomenon, but it would explain why nobody is much bothered by the disappearance of the Cyber-converted.


Flight Into Hull   Audio short story, released 2018                               Doctor: Unbound 10

Featuring Jackie

Written by Joseph Lidster.

Informed guess Takes place on Pete’s World, some time after The Siege of Big Ben.


The Wedding of River Song TV story, broadcast 2011                               Doctor: 11

Featuring River Song, Amy, Rory, an Amy ganger, the Silents, with Unbound Daleks, Unbound Earth Reptiles, Unbound Winston Churchill

Written by Steven Moffat.

Takes place variously but pivotally in Utah in April 2011 CE.


Immortal Sins   TV story, broadcast 2011                                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Jane Espenson, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in Wales, California, and New York, NY; not long after The Middle Men.


The Big Crunch   Short story, published 2011                                                        Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Jim Mortimore.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the Earth’s interior, at a time when post-modernism is becoming a concern of popular culture.


End of the Road   TV story, broadcast 2011                                                      Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Ryan Scott and Jane Espenson, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in Wales and Virginia, not long after Immortal Sins.


The House of Lights   Comic story, published 2011                                              Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy, Rory

Written by Kieran Grant.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK; self-dated July. No Tellurians die in the course of the story, so there is nothing to prevent it taking place during the Miracle Day phenomenom.


Night Terrors   TV story, broadcast 2011                                                           Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy, Rory

Written by Mark Gatiss, script supervised by Steven Moffat.

Contemporary to broadcast Takes place in the UK. There are no Tellurian casualties in this story, so it can take place during the Miracle Day phenomenon.


The God Complex TV story, broadcast 2011                                                    Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy, Rory, with the Daleks, the Nimons, the Weeping Angels (informative mention)                

Written by Toby Whithouse, script supervised by Steven Moffat.

Informed guess Takes place on a space ship dedicated to capital punishment. Lucy Hayward and the others seem to be contemporary Tellurians and there doesn’t seem to be any temporal technology involved, so it seems to be contemporary with broadcast.


Extinction Event   Comic story, published 2011                                                    Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory, Professor Saurian

Written by Steve Lyons.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on a volcanic island on Earth. As no contemporary Tellurians appear in this story, there is no difficulty placing it after The New World, during the Miracle Day phenomenon.

Professor Saurian is an extraterrestrial of unknown origin, a horned reptilian biped.


The Hexford Invasion   Audio drama, released 2011                  Doctor: 4, Unbound 2

Featuring UNIT, Yates, Mrs Wibbsey

Takes place in Hexford; self-dated August 2011 CE. Anything that happens in a Paul Magrs story is going to be so weird that occurring during the Miracle Day phenomenon will make no material difference.


The Gathering   TV story, broadcast 2011                                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by John Fay, script edited by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in Wales, Scotland, Virginia, Shanghai (a city in China) and Buenos Aires, two months after End of the Road and shortly before the end of the Miracle Day phenomenon, which can be dated by the record of Charlotte’s telephone call in The Blood Line as September 2011 CE.


The Devil Wears Panda   Short story, published 2011                                         Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Cody Quijano-Schell.

Takes place in New York, NY, during New York Fashion Week 2011 CE. The September Fashion Week was the first one to be streamed live, which fits in with the Jackalopes’ plan for world domination.


Ferril’s Folly   Audio drama, released 2011                                                        Doctor: 4

Featuring Romana, with K9 II (informative mention)

Written by Peter Anghelides.

Contemporary to release Takes place in Norfolk.


Touched By An Angel   Novel, published 2011                                        Doctor: 11

Featuring the Weeping Angels, Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Takes place in Coventry, a city in the West Midlands, London and Rome; the latest date is October 2011 CE.


Children of Steel Audio story, released 2011                                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Martin Day.

Informed guess Takes place in London and elsewhere in the UK, some time after Sky, and presumably not during the Miracle Day phenomenon.


Now or Thereabouts   Short story, published 2011       

                                          Doctors:  Unbound 8, Unbound 9, Unbound (informative mention)

Featuring Faction Paradox, Kelsey

Written by Blair Bidmead.

Contemporary to publication Takes place mostly in London.


Dark Side Audio drama, released 2015                                                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Nick Campbell.

Informed guess Takes place on the Moon; after the 1950s CE, on the possibly erroneous assumption that ghosts must postdate the lives of the people whose ghosts they are.


Sky Scraper   Comic story, published 2010                                                             Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Informed guess Takes place in Manchester; self-dated 2011 CE.


The Way Through the Woods   Novel, published 2011                    Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Una McCormack.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the Lake District, concluding in late October.


Attack the Block
is a 2011 film describing a minor extraterrestrial incursion on Guy Fawkes Night, broadly compatible with Doctor Who narrative.


The Old Rogue   Audio short story, released 2011                     Doctors: 4, with 2 (glimpse)

Featuring K9 II, Romana, with Jamie (glimpse)

Written by John Grindrod.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Catford, a district of London.


Scary Monsters    Novel, published 2018                                                    Doctor: 0

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, Anne Travers, UNIT, Adrienne Kramer, Grace technology

Written by Simon A Forward.

Takes place in London and Moscow, the later sections dated November 2011 CE.


Hunter’s Moon   Novel, published 2011                                                       Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Paul Finch.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in London, on Leisure Platform 9 and Gorgoror.


Dinosaurs in New York!   Comic story, published 2011                                       Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory, Professor Saurian

Written by Steve Lyons.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in New York, NY; after Extinction Event.


To Cut a Blade of Grass   Audio short story, released 2011                                 Doctor: 6

Featuring Peri

Written by Cindy Garland.

Contemporary to release Takes place in the UK.


Judgement Day   Audio story, released 2011                                                    Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Scott Gray.

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing; after Children of Steel as released.


Trapped in the Pages of History    Comic story, published 2011                 Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the Bodleian Library, in Oxford.


Down to Earth   Comic story, published 2011                                                        Doctor: 11

Written by Matthew Dow Smith.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Survivors in Space    Audio drama, released 2011                                           Doctor: 4

featuring Yates, Mrs Wibbsey, with Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT (informed mention)

Written by Paul Magrs.

Takes place on the Rebel Moon and Hexford.; self-dated three months after The Hexford Invasion.


Dawn of the Living Bread   Comic story, published 2011                                    Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Quantum Heresy   Audio short story, released 2011                                            Doctor: 8

Written by Avril Naude.

Contemporary to release Takes place eventually on Earth.


The Man Who Never Was   TV story, broadcast 2011                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, with UNIT, K9 IV (informative mention)

Gareth Roberts, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in Ealing. Luke is home from Oxford, so I’m guessing it is for the Christmas holidays.


The Lock-In   Short story, published 2016                                                             Doctor: 0

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart

Written by Sarah Groenewegen.

Takes place in the UK, concluding in December 2011 CE.


Acceptance, and then Understanding   Short story, published 2018              Doctor: 0

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, with Lucy Wilson (informative mention)

Written by Andy Frankham-Allen.

Takes place in the UK; self-dated December 2011 CE, and after The Lock-In.


For the Girl Who Has Everything   Illustrated short story, published 2020     Doctor: 0

Featuring the Sontarans, UNIT, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart

Written by Dave Rudden.

Takes place beneath London; self-dated Christmas Eve 2011 CE.


Silent Knight   Comic story, published 2011                                                          Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy, Rory (informative mention)

Written by Tony Lee.

Contemporary to publication Takes place mostly at the North Pole, at Christmas time.


Wait Until Morning   Comic story, published 2011                                              Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Eddie Robson.

Takes place in the UK; self-dated Christmas Day, 2011 CE.


Total Stories Considered               1593

Proportion Written By Women   10%                                        

 

Top Docs

3                 216 stories

4                 139 stories

7                 127 stories

10               127 stories         

8                 90 stories  

6                 83 stories  

5                 80 stories  

2                 73 stories  

11               72 stories            Climber!    

1                 48 stories

Unbound   31 stories  

9                 18 stories            Climber!    

12               16 stories            

13               5 stories    

         

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                412 stories         

Regional England                                               340 stories

UNIT                                                                    311 stories

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                       299 stories

Torchwood                                                         176 stories  

North America                                                   166 stories

Wales                                                                  165 stories  

Captain Jack                                                       139 stories Climber! 

Sarah Jane                                                          135 stories

Jo                                                                         95 stories  

Benton                                                                91 stories           

Continental Europe                                           87 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            82 stories  

Christmas                                                            81 stories   Climber!

Ace                                                                       81 stories   Climber!    

Iris Wildthyme                                                   80 stories   Climber!

At sea                                                                  73 stories   Climber!    

The Time Lords                                                  72 stories  

The K9s                                                               72 stories   Climber!    

Yates                                                                   71 stories  

 

         

 

 

 

         

Top Decades

 

The Noughties                                                   576 stories                   

The Teens                                                           541 stories

The Nineties                                                       189 stories

The Seventies                                                    120 stories         

The Twenties                                                     77 stories  

The Eighties                                                        57 stories  

The Sixties                                                          33 stories  

 

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2008                                                          124 stories

2009                                                          94 stories  

2011                                                          93 stories   Climber!    

2010                                                          81 stories  

2007                                                           70 stories  

2001                                                          68 stories  

2016                                                          65 stories  

2018                                                          62 stories

2019                                                          61 stories  

2006                                                          60 stories  

2005                                                          46 stories

2015                                                          46 stories

2017                                                          46 stories   Climber!    

1999                                                          42 stories           

2020                                                          41 stories

2013                                                          40 stories

2004                                                          39 stories  

2021                                                           36 stories

1993                                                          33 stories  

2012                                                          33 stories                     

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                                536

Proportion of Female Writers                         17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Russell T Davies                                       81 stories  

Paul Magrs                                                43 stories  

Terrance Dicks                                          36 stories  

? John Canning                                         30 stories  

James Goss                                               34 stories  

Justin Richards                                         28 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        28 stories   Climber!

Joseph Lidster                                          27 stories  

Eddie Robson                                            26 stories  

Steve Lyons                                               23 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                      21 stories   Climber!

Trevor Baxendale                                     20 stories  

Andrew Cartmel                                      20 stories                      

Andy Frankham-Allen                            19 stories   Climber!

Steven Moffat                                          18 stories   New entry!         

Gary Russell                                              18 stories  

Stephen Cole                                            17 stories  

John Dorney                                             17 stories  

Christopher Cooper                                 16 stories   =  Re-entry!

Paul Cornell                                              16 stories   =

Simon Guerrier                                        16 stories   =

Eric Saward                                               16 stories   =

 

 

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