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.
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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