Now: Twenty-Fourteen

 

Pay the Piper Comic story, published 2014                                                           Doctor: 11


Featuring Annabel Lake, Clara


Written by Scott Gray.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in the Obsidian Mainframe, not long, we may

assume, after Hunters of the Burning Stone.



Blank Canvas   Audio drama, released 2014                                                     Doctor: 0


Featuring Dorian Gray


Written by James Goss.


Informed guess Takes place in Mayfair, a district of London; self-dated 2014 CE.

 


A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014), a vampire movie set in Iran, is broadly compatible

with Doctor Who narrative.

 


The Sentinels of the New Dawn Audio drama, released 2011                 Doctor: 3


Featuring Liz, with UNIT (informative mention)


Written by Paul Finch.


Informed guess Takes place in Cambridge, partly self-dated 2014 CE.



The Blood of Azrael   Comic story, published 2014                                              Doctor: 11


Featuring Annabel Lake, Clara


Written by Scott Gray.


Contemporary to publication. Takes place on Cornucopia and in the Halion Nebula, after Pay

the Piper.



Intuition   Audio short story, released 2014                                                           Doctor: 6


Featuring Mel


Written by Rob Nisbet.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in Switzerland.



The Needle   Audio drama, released 2014                                                          Doctor: 0


Featuring Dorian Gray


Written by David Llewellyn.


Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2014 CE, and after Blank Canvas.



A Tangled Web   Comic story, published 2014                                                      Doctor: 11


Featuring Clara


Written by James Hill.


Contemporary to publication Takes place on Earth.



The Crawling Terror Novel, published 2014                                           Doctor: 12


featuring Clara


Written by Mike Tucker.


Takes place in Wiltshire; self-dated March 2014 CE.



T-Shirt Terror   Comic story, published 2014                                                        Doctor: 11


Featuring Clara


Written by Eddie Robson.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in London.



Mastermind Audio drama, released 2013                                                          Doctor: 0


Featuring UNIT, the Master, with Egypt (informative mention)


Written by Jonathan Morris.


Informed guess Takes place beneath Gateshead; probably a couple of years after Tales From

the Vault, as recorded.

Gateshead was a city in Tyne and Wear, a metropolitan county on the east coast of England,

lying south of Northumberland and north of County Durham.



Universally Known   Comic story, published 2014                                               Doctor: 11


Featuring Clara


Written by Eddie Robson.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in New York, NY.



We Are Everywhere   Audio drama, released 2014                                       Doctor: 0


Featuring Dorian Gray


Written by Roy Gill.


Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2014 CE, and after The Needle.



Lucky Heather   Comic story, published 2010                                                       Doctor: 10


Featuring Heather, Wolfie


Written by Christopher Cooper.


Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2014 CE.

 


Season Three of Twin Peaks takes place twenty-five years after the first two seasons, and if

anything has even more of an Enemy vibe.

 


A Long Way Down   Comic story, published 2014                                                 Doctor: 11


Featuring Clara


Written by Richard Cookson.


Contemporary to publication Takes place on Earth.



Echoes   Audio drama, released 2014                                                                   Doctor: 0


Featuring Dorian Gray


Written by Gary Russell.


Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2014 CE, and after We Are Everywhere.



Academic Notes   Short story, released 2014                                                        Doctor: 6


Featuring the William Shakespeare Thing


Written by up to James Goss, Jonathan Morris, Julian Richards, Justin Richards and Matthew

Sweet.


Contemporary to publication Takes place online.



Road Rage   Comic story, published 2014                                                            Doctor: 12


Featuring Clara


Written by Craig Donaghy.


Contemporary to publication Takes place on Earth.



When to Die   Video drama, released 2015                                                        Doctor: 0


Featuring Liz, PROBE


Written by Bill Baggs.

Takes place in London; self-dated 2014 CE and before First Entry.


Pond Life   Comic story, published 2014                                                             Doctor: 11


Featuring River Song, Amy, Rory


Written by Marc Ellerby.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in London.



Night of the Stormcrow   Audio drama, released 2012                                Doctor: 4


Featuring Leela


Written by Marc Platt.


Takes place in the Pacific Ocean; self-dated early June 2014 CE.



The Broken Clock   Audio drama, released 2019                                            Doctor: 0


Featuring Missy


Written by Nev Fountain.


Takes place in New York, NY; self-dated June 2014 CE.


First Entry   Online drama, released 2021                                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Liz, PROBE

Written by James Hornby, with Lucy Woods-Ives.

Takes place in London; self-dated late June, 2014 CE


A Worthy Successor   Online short story, released 2021                              Doctor: 0


featuring PROBE, the Cyberons, the Ockorans, with Liz (informative mention)


Written by James Hornby and James Wylder.


Takes place in London and northeast England, the later sections self-dated June 2014 CE.



After Life   Comic story, published 2014                                                                 Doctor: 11


Featuring Alice, with UNIT (glimpse)


Written by Al Ewing and Rob Williams.


Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2014 CE. Parliament is sitting.

Alice Obiefune is a Tellurian born in 1974 CE or not long after. In this story she leaves linear

time, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.



Pandora Audio drama, released 2014                                                                  Doctor: 0


Featuring Dorian Gray


Written by Xanna Eve Chown.


Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2014 CE, and after Echoes.



Warlock   Novel, published 1995                                                                       Doctor: 7

featuring Ace, Allen Road, Benny, ?Victoria

Informed guess Takes place in London, New York and Kent; dated Autumn 2014 CE by Parkin in Ahistory. Once again I am suggesting that Mrs Woodcott is Victoria.

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.

CANTERBURY CATHEDERAL IS BLOWN UP.


Unexpected Enemy in Bagging Area   Comic story, published 2014                Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Marc Ellerby.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.

 

The Signal is a 2014 film about , it transpires, extra-terrestrial incursion on earth, consistent with the sort of contemporary interstellar civilisation seen in Voyage of the Damned, for example.

 

The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time Audio drama, released 2014                                            Doctor: 6

Featuring Peri


Written by Nev Fountain.


Contemporary to release Takes place in the UK.


The Secret Lives of Monsters Fictional document, published 2014

Doctors: 12, with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, (informative mention)

Featuring the Daleks. The Cybermen, the Sontarans, the Great Intelligence, the Ice Warriors, the Nestene Consciousness, the Earth Reptiles, Jeremy, the Zygons, the Raxacoricofallapatorians, the Krillitanes, the Ood, the Judoon, the Weeping Angels, the Silence (informative mention)

Written by Justin Richards.

Published contemporaneously.


The Monsters of Coal Hill School   Comic story, published 2014                     Doctor: 12

Featuring Coal Hill School, Clara

Written by Moray Laing.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on an unnamed planet, contemporaneously with Clara’s timeline.

 

Under the Skin released in 2014 concerns a very much smaller alien incursion to the one in The Signal.

 

The Caretaker   TV story, broadcast 2014                                                         Doctor: 12

Featuring Coal Hill School, Clara, with Missy (glimpse)

Written by Gareth Roberts and Steven Moffat.

Informed guess Takes place principally in Shoreditch. Courtney’s mother talks of speaking to 
Danny “last year”. It is unlikely that it is yet 2015 CE in Clara’s timeline, but it could well be 
after the school summer holidays, making Courtney’s mother’s remark an idiomatic 
reference to “last academic year”.


The Board Games  Comic story, published 2015                                                  Doctor: 12

Featuring Clara

Written by Colin Bell.

Informed guess Takes place in Shoreditch, probably after The Caretaker.


Second Sight   Audio drama, released 2014                                                       Doctor: 6


Featuring the Time Lords, Yates, Leela, Romana, with UNIT, Jago, Litefoot (informative mention)


Written by Nick Wallace and Justin Richards.


Informed guess Takes place in the UK and Peru; self-dated 2014 CE.



Heart and Soul   Audio drama, released 2014                                                  Doctor: 0


Featuring the Vampires, Dorian Gray


Written by Cavan Scott.


Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2014 CE, and after Pandora.


Flatline   TV story, broadcast 2014                                                                       Doctor: 12

Featuring Clara, with Missy (glimpse)

Written by Jamie Mathieson, script supervised by Steven Moffat.

Informed guess Takes place in Bristol, some weeks after The Caretaker in Clara’s timeline.


Iris: Chess-Mistress of Mars   Short story, released 2014                                  Doctor: 0


Featuring Iris Wildthyme


Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.


Informed guess Takes place on Mars; self-dated 2014 CE.



Displacement Activity   Audio drama, released 2014                                  Doctor: 0


Featuring the Vampires, Dorian Gray


Written by Scott Handcock.


Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2014 CE, and after Heart and Soul.



The Darkest Hour   Audio drama, released 2014                                           Doctor: 0


Featuring the Vampires, Dorian Gray


Written by Scott Handcock.


Takes place in London, immediately after Displacement Activity.


More Than Meets The Eye   Comic story, published 2014                                  Doctor: 12

Featuring Clara

Written by Richard Cookson.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in London.


The Crooked Man   Audio drama, released 2014                                            Doctor: 4


Featuring the Land of Fiction, Leela


Written by John Dorney.


Contemporary to publication Takes place on the English coast.



The Fractures   Comic story, published 2014                                                         Doctor: 12


Featuring Clara, UNIT, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, with Coal Hill School (informative mention)


Written by Robbie Morrison.


Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2014 CE.



Late Night Shopping   Audio short story, released 2014                                     Doctor: 8


Featuring Lucie


Written by Matt Fitton.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.



Grumpy Auld Men   Web short story, posted 2014                                              Doctor: 12


Featuring Theo Possible


Written by Blair Bidmead.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK, shortly before Christmas.



Behind You   Web short story, posted 2014                                                          Doctor: 12


Written by Mark Williams.


Takes place in the UK; the later sections self-dated Christmas, 2014 CE.

 

  

Total Stories Considered               1719

Proportion Written By Women   10%                                        

 

Top Docs

3                 221 stories

4                 147 stories

7                 134 stories

10               134 stories         

11               117 stories         

8                 95 stories  

6                 91 stories  

5                 84 stories  

2                 78 stories  

1                 54 stories

Unbound   32 stories  

12               28 stories   Climber!    

9                 22 stories                     

13               5 stories

War            1 story      

         

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                453 stories         

Regional England                                               360 stories

UNIT                                                                    309 stories

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                       302 stories

North America                                                   186 stories

Torchwood                                                         183 stories  

Wales                                                                  171 stories  

Captain Jack                                                       146 stories

Sarah Jane                                                          138 stories

Jo                                                                         97 stories  

Benton                                                                93 stories  

Continental Europe                                           92 stories           

Christmas                                                            89 stories  

Iris Wildthyme                                                   87 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            85 stories

Ace                                                                      84 stories           

The Time Lords                                                  78 stories  

At sea                                                                  76 stories  

Yates                                                                   74 stories   Climber!    

The K9s                                                               73 stories  

  

 

       

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           650 stories

New number 1!

The Noughties                                                    587 stories                   

The Nineties                                                       189 stories

The Seventies                                                    120 stories         

The Twenties                                                     83 stories

The Eighties                                                        57 stories  

The Sixties                                                          33 stories  

 

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2008                                                          126 stories

2011                                                          100 stories

2009                                                          95 stories  

2010                                                          83 stories  

2013                                                          73 stories   Climber!

2007                                                           72 stories  

2001                                                          68 stories  

2016                                                          65 stories  

2019                                                          63 stories  

2006                                                          62 stories  

2018                                                          62 stories

2012                                                          58 stories           

2015                                                          50 stories           

2005                                                          47 stories  

2017                                                          47 stories           

2014                                                          45 stories   Re-entry!

2020                                                          45 stories  

1999                                                          42 stories           

2004                                                          41 stories           

2021                                                          38 stories

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                                562

Proportion of Female Writers                         16%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Russell T Davies                                       84 stories  

Paul Magrs                                                45 stories  

James Goss                                               38 stories  

Terrance Dicks                                          36 stories  

Justin Richards                                         31 stories   Climber!

? John Canning                                         30 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        30 stories   Climber!    

Eddie Robson                                            30 stories   Climber!    

Joseph Lidster                                          28 stories  

Steve Lyons                                               27 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                      24 stories  

Steven Moffat                                          22 stories   Climber!

Andrew Cartmel                                      21 stories   Climber!              

Gary Russell                                              21 stories   Climber!    

Trevor Baxendale                                     20 stories  

Christopher Cooper                                 19 stories   Climber!

Paul Cornell                                              19 stories  

Andy Frankham-Allen                             19 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                        19 stories  

John Dorney                                             18 stories= Climber!

Mark Wright                                             18 stories = 

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