Now: Twenty-Thirteen

 

Up the Hill Backwards   Short story, published 2012                                          Doctor: 0


Featuring Iris Wildthyme


Written by Nick Campbell.


Informed guess Takes place variously, pivotally in Berlin, self-dated fifteen years after 1998

CE.


Pet Panic Comic story, published 2013                                                                   Doctor: 11

Featuring Decky Flamboon

Written by Glenn Dakin.

Informed guess Takes place partly in Dubai; self-dated 2013 CE.

Dubai was a coastal city of The United Arab Emirates, a monarchy of southwest Asia lying on the northeast coast of the Arabian peninsula, east of Saudi Arabia.



Spore   Short story, published 2013                                                                         Doctor: 8


Featuring UNIT, with the Time Lords (informative mention)


Written by Alex Scarrow.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in Nevada.



Mix Her Own Adventure   Short story, published 2013                                      Doctor: 0


Featuring Iris Wildthyme


Written by Patrick Magee.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Love Is In The Air Comic story, published 2013                                                    Doctor: 11

Featuring Decky Flamboon

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Takes place on Earth; self-dated February 2013 CE.


La Santa Muerte   Short story, published 2013                                                      Doctor: 0


Featuring Faction Paradox


Written by Daniel Ribot.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in Mexico.


Colossus of the Colosseum   Comic story, published 2013                                 Doctor: 11

Featuring Decky Flamboon

Written by Craig Donaghy.


Takes place on Phwillite, presumably not long before The Tail of Decky Flamboon.



Driving Miss Wells   Audio drama, released 2019                                         Doctor: 0


Featuring Captain Jack


Written by James Goss.


Informed guess Takes place in Newport Pagnall Services area in Buckinghamshire, and

elsewhere in the UK, long enough after The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End that Trinity Wells

has published a widely known book describing its events. There seems to be a gap in her

newscasting career between The Forgotten Army (2010 CE), and Revolutions of Terror (2014

CE as I assume). I am inserting this story into that gap.



Eldrad Must Die!   Audio drama, released 2013                                        Doctor: 5


featuring Nyssa, Tegan, Turlogh


Written by Marc Platt.


Informed guess Takes place in Cornwall, Wales and the Arctic Ocean, also on Kastria; self-

dated 2013 CE.



The Tail of Decky Flamboon   Comic story, published 2013                              Doctor: 11


Featuring Decky Flamboon


Written by Craig Donaghy.


Contemporary to publication Takes place on Sirus, presumably not too long after Meteorite

Meeting.



Scream in Blue   Short story, published 2013                                                        Doctor: 0


Featuring Iris Wildthyme


Written by Dave Hoskin.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


The Bells of Saint John   TV story, broadcast 2013                                       Doctor: 11

Featuring the Great Intelligence, Clara, with UNIT (glimpse) and Amy, a Clara iteration (informative mention)

Written by Steven Moffat.

Contemporary to publication Takes place variously, but pivotally in London, self-dated 2013 CE.


Iris at the Oche   Audio drama, released 2013                                                 Doctor: 0


Featuring Iris Wildthyme


Written by Mark Wright.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in Kent.



The Egg Hunt   Comic story, published 2013                                                         Doctor: 11


Written by James Hill.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK; self-dated Easter.


The Name of the Doctor   TV story, broadcast 2013                                               

                                            Doctors: 11, with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, War, 9 and 10 (glimpse)

Featuring the Time Lords, the Great Intelligence, River Song, the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang, iterations of Clara, Clara, with Susan (glimpse)

Written by Steven Moffat.

Takes place on Gallifrey, and Trenzalore, and in Glasgow and Clerkenwell, a district of London; the later periods self-dated April 2013 CE.


Teacher’s Pet   Comic story, published 2013                                                          Doctor: 11


featuring Clara


Written by Christopher Cooper.


contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.

 


Clearly I will find it difficult to ignore a film called Enemy (2013), particularly as it involves doppelgangers, a photograph moving through time, and giant metaphorical spiders.

 


Buzz!   Comic story, published 2010                                                                        Doctor: 11


Featuring Amy*, Rory


Written by Oli Smith.


Informed guess Takes place in Kenya; self-dated 2013 CE.


Kenya was a republic on the east coast of Africa.



Sandblasted   Comic story, published 2013                                                            Doctor: 11


Featuring Clara


Written by Steve Lyons.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in the Sahara, a desert occupying most of northern

Africa.



Gumfight   Comic story, published 2013                                                                 Doctor: 11


Featuring Clara


Written by Glenn Dakin.


Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2013 CE.



Dos Hombres – A Fable   Short story, published 2013                                         Doctor: 0


Featuring Faction Paradox


Written by Kelly Hale.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in Cape Cod, Ma.; self-dated August.



Dragon Attack   Comic story, published 2013                                                        Doctor: 11


Featuring Clara


Written by James Hill.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in and above London; self-dated summer.



Normality   Short story, published 2015                                                                 Doctor: 11


Featuring Coal Hill School, Clara


Written by Gary Russell.


Takes place in Shoreditch, between The Name of the Doctor and 2014 CE. One would expect

Clara’s new job as a teacher to start at the beginning of the academic year.



Hunters of the Burning Stone   Comic story, published 2013                           Doctor: 11

Featuring Barbara, Ian, Annabel Lake


Written by Scott Gray.


Informed guess Takes place on and above Earth and on Cornucopia; mostly self-dated 2013

CE.

 


Coherence (2013) features multiple timestreams overlapping each other, which is the sort of

thing that can be assimilated into Doctor Who narrative in general principle.

 


Shipwrecked   Comic story, published 2013                                                           Doctor: 11


Featuring Clara


Written by Steve Lyons.


Contemporary to publication Takes place on the sea bed of Earth.



The Fifty-Year Delay   Illustrated short story, published 2013                             Doctor: 11


Written by Jason Loborik.


Contemporary to publication Takes place under London.


War Wounds   Audio drama, released 2020                                                    Doctor: 12

Written by Mark Wright.

Arbitrary placement Takes place partly in Coal Hill School in 2014 CE, but mostly on an unnamed planet.


Autonomy Novel, published 2009                                                                   Doctor: 10


Featuring the Nestene Consciousness, with UNIT (informative mention)


Written by Daniel Blythe.


Informed guess Takes place in the UK; self-dated 2013 CE.



Samsara   Short story, published 2013                                                                    Doctor: 0


Featuring Iris Wildthyme


Written by James Manly-Buser.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in India.



The Time Machine   Audio drama, released 2013                                         

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


Featuring Susan, Ian, Jamie, Lethbridge-Stewart, Zoe, UNIT, Yates, Romana,

Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, Peri, Ace, Charley, Rose, Captain Jack, Time Agents, Donna

(informative mention)


Written by Matt Fitton.


Takes place in Oxford; self-dated November 2013 CE.



The Train in Vain and the Junk Mail Messiah  Web comic, posted 2013      Doctor: 0


featuring Theo Possible


Written by Blair Bidmead.


contemporary to posting Takes place partly in Walthamstow. Autumn is plausible, as Theo is

well wrapped up at his record stall. At the time of posting, this is still a fragment, ending in

mid-chase, but this is  less of a problem with the magnificently chaotic character of Theo

Possible than it would be with anyone else.



Night Light   Comic story, published 2013                                                              Doctor: 11


Featuring Clara


Written by Jason Loborik.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.



The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who   Comic story, published 2013                     Doctor: 11


featuring the Cybermen, with Tom Baker (informative mention)


Written by Paul Cornell.


contemporary to publication Takes place on an alternative Earth.



Squatter’s Rights   Short story, published 2013                                                    Doctor: 0


Featuring, very implicitly to say the least, Faction Paradox


Written by Juliet Kemp.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in London.



The Holly and The Ivy   Comic story, published 2013                                          Doctor: 11


Featuring Clara


Written by Simon Guerrier.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in London; self-dated December.



Mrs Frimbly’s Festive Diary   Web short story, published 2013            Doctor: Unbound


Featuring Unbound K9, with Yates (informative mention)


Written by Paul Magrs.


Conremporary to publication Takes place in Hexford or Happenstance Village, at any rate

in regional England, ending on Christmas Day.



Last Christmas   Short story, published 2004                                                       Doctor: 7

Written by Simon Guerrier, introduction, if introduction it is, written by Paul Cornell.

Informed guess Takes place in a city in the UK, perhaps, from the preceding page in Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury, in sight of the Wiltshire Downs; self-dated Christmas between ninety and a hundred years after 1918 CE.

 

  

 

Total Stories Considered               1673

Proportion Written By Women   10%                                        

 

Top Docs

3                 219 stories

4                 144 stories

7                 132 stories

10               132 stories         

11               107 stories          Climber!    

8                 93 stories  

6                 86 stories  

5                 83 stories  

2                 77 stories  

1                 53 stories

Unbound   32 stories  

9                 21 stories                     

12               17 stories            

13               5 stories

War            1 story      

         

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                417 stories         

Regional England                                               353 stories

UNIT                                                                    318 stories

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                       301 stories

North America                                                   183 stories Climber!

Torchwood                                                         183 stories  

Wales                                                                  171 stories  

Captain Jack                                                       146 stories

Sarah Jane                                                          137 stories

Jo                                                                         97 stories  

Benton                                                                93 stories           

Continental Europe                                           91 stories   Climber!    

Christmas                                                            87 stories  

Iris Wildthyme                                                   86 stories  

Ace                                                                      83 stories           

The Master, including Missy                            82 stories                     

The Time Lords                                                  79 stories  

At sea                                                                  75 stories  

The K9s                                                               73 stories

Yates                                                                   71 stories   Climber!    

         

 

         

         

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           606 stories

The Noughties                                                    587 stories                   

The Nineties                                                       189 stories

The Seventies                                                    120 stories         

The Sixties                                                          74 stories  

The Eighties                                                        57 stories  

The Twenties                                                     40 stories  

 

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2008                                                          126 stories

2011                                                          99 stories  

2009                                                          95 stories  

2010                                                          82 stories  

2007                                                           72 stories  

2013                                                          72 stories   Climber!

2001                                                          68 stories  

2016                                                          65 stories  

2006                                                          62 stories  

2018                                                          62 stories  

2019                                                          62 stories   Climber!    

2012                                                          57 stories           

2015                                                          48 stories   Climber!    

2005                                                          47 stories  

2017                                                          47 stories           

2020                                                          45 stories   Climber!    

1999                                                          42 stories           

2004                                                          41 stories   Climber!    

2021                                                          36 stories

1993                                                          33 stories  

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                                553

Proportion of Female Writers                         16%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Russell T Davies                                       84 stories  

Paul Magrs                                                45 stories  

Terrance Dicks                                          36 stories  

James Goss                                               36 stories   Climber!    

? John Canning                                         30 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        29 stories  

Joseph Lidster                                          28 stories  

Justin Richards                                         28 stories  

Eddie Robson                                            28 stories  

Steve Lyons                                               27 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                      22 stories  

Trevor Baxendale                                     20 stories  

Andrew Cartmel                                      20 stories                      

Steven Moffat                                          20 stories   Climber!

Gary Russell                                              20 stories   Climber!    

Paul Cornell                                              19 stories   Climber!

Andy Frankham-Allen                             19 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                        19 stories   Climber!

Christopher Cooper                                 18 stories   Climber!

Mark Wright                                             18 stories   Re-entry!

         

 

 

 

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