Now: Twenty-Twelve

 

Attack of the Snowmen Web short story, published 2011                                   Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy, Rory (informative mention)

Written by Mark B Oliver.

Takes place in the UK, in Winter, probably after the new year, and a year after Snowfall.

The Dragons of Prague   Short story, published 2007                                        Doctor: 4

featuring Sarah Jane, Harry

Written by Todd McCaffrey.

Informed guess Takes place in Prague; self-dated 2012 CE.

Dark Universe   Audio drama, released 2020                                              Doctor: 7

Featuring the Time Lords, Ace, the Eleven

Written by Guy Adams.

Informed guess Takes place partly in Brazil, where it is twenty years since this iteration of Ace has seen the Doctor, which I cautiously suggest was in An Alien Werewolf in London.

The Home Store   Comic story, published 2012                                                    Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy Ganger, Rory

Written by Eddie Robson.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK and on Burnasta.

Tales From the Vault   Audio drama, released 2011                          Doctors: 1, 2, 3, 4

Featuring UNIT, with Steven, Zoe, Jo, Romana (glimpse) and South Africa, Dodo, Jamie (informative mention)

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Informed guess Takes place beneath The Angel of the North, a year after The Crimes of Thomas Brewster.

Cold Comfort Comic story, published 2012                                                           Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Steve Lyons.

Informed guess Takes place in Los Angeles, Ca.; self-dated February 2012 CE.

Sticks and Stones   Comic story, published 2012                                                  Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Scott Gray.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in London.

The Blood Line   TV story, broadcast 2011                                                        Doctor: 0

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

Written by Russell T Davies and Jane Espenson.

Informed guess Takes place in Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Wales, California and Virginia, ending some months after the end of the Miracle Day phenomenon.

The Punch and Judy Trap   Comic story, published 2012                                   Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.

The Picture of Loretta Delphine   Audio drama, released 2013             Doctor: 0

Featuring Dorian Gray

Written by Gary Russell.

Informed guess Takes place in Florida; self-dated 2012 CE.

Web of Lies   Web comic, published 2011                                                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Jane Espenson and Ryan Scott.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, Chernobyl and Los Angeles, Ca.; the later section ending after The Blood Line.

The Infinite Today   Audio short story, released 2020                                        Doctor: 11

Featuring Jo

Written by Sharon Bidwell.

Informed guess Takes place at Gatwick Airport; self-dated 2012 CE.

Army of One   Audio story, released 2012                                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by Ian Edgington

Informed guess Takes place in Washington DC, soon after The Blood Line.

Power Play Audio drama, released 2012                                                         Doctor: 6

Featuring Victoria, Peri

Written by Gary Hopkins.

Contemporary to release Takes place in the UK. Victoria is over sixty.

Fallout   Audio story, released 2012                                                                      Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by David Llewellyn.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Army of One as released.

The Shadows of Avalon   Novel, published in 2000                          Doctor: 8

Featuring the Time Lords, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Romana, the Matter of Britain, Compassion, the remembered Fitz, with the Earth Reptiles, the Worldsphere, the Second War In Heaven (informative mention).

Written by Paul Cornell.

Takes place in Wiltshire and Avalon; self-dated July 2012 CE. It is convenient for this chronology that this, rejuvenated, iteration of the Brigadier largely disappears from the world only seven months after the non-rejuvenated dies in Acceptance, then Understanding. Although we’re not out of the woods yet.

The Cornucopia Caper   Comic story, published 2012                                         Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory, Annabel Lake

Written by Scott Gray.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Cornucopia, not long before Hunters of the Burning Stone.

Good As Gold   Video drama, released 2012                                                          Doctor: 11

Featuring the Weeping Angels, Amy, with London (informative mention)

Written by the pupils of Ashdene School.

Takes place in the TARDIS, before Fear Her.

The Time Museum   Audio drama, released 2012        Doctor: 1 (informative mention)

Featuring Ian, with Susan, Barbara

Written by James Goss.

Contemporary to release Takes place partly in Ian’s head.

Sven and the Scarf   Webcast, broadcast 2020                                                    Doctor: 0

Featuring the Daleks (informative mention)

Written by Andrew Ireland.

Informed guess Takes place beneath Utah, some time before Dalek.

666 Charing Cross Road   Novel, published 2012                          Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires

Written by Paul Magrs

Takes place in London and New York.

Fear Her: Tardisode   Video drama, released 2006                                             Doctor: 0

Written by Gareth Roberts.

Takes place in east London, shortly before Fear Her.

Fear Her TV story, broadcast 2006                                                                      Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose

Written by Matthew Graham, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in east London; self-dated July 2012 CE.

The Ragged School   Short story, published 2017                                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Brenda, with ?Turlogh (glimpse), and Iris Wildthyme (informative mention)

Written by Matt Bright.

Takes place in Whitby and the North York Moors. 1942 CE was “seventy” years previously. The Ragged School is soon to be reopened: one may speculate that this story is set in the school summer holidays, with the reopening due at the beginning of the academic year in September. The Mr Turlogh in this story has a tail, but there is not enough information about Trions to rule this out as something that might be true of Vislor Turlogh.

The One Place   Short story, published 2015                                                         Doctor: 0

Featuring Erimem

Written by Claire Bartlett.

Informed guess Takes place in London, principally self-dated 2012 CE.

Red Skies   Audio story, released 2012                                                                Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, with Torchwood (informative mention)

Written by Joseph Lidster.

Informed guess Takes place on Cotter Paluni’s World; after Fallout as released.

Meteorite Meeting   Comic story, published 2012                                                Doctor: 11

Featuring Decky Flamboon

Written by Craig Donaghy, Decky Flamboon designed and named by Mitchell Collett.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on Earth.

Decky Flamboon is a Brancheerian shapeshifter and space-traveller, of unknown birthdate, his default form being a bipedal reptilian analogue. In this story he leaves linear time, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.

Magic of the Angels   Novella, published in 2012                                           Doctor: 11

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

Written by Jacqueline Rayner.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated summer, 2012 CE.

Midwinter Murders Audio drama, released 2012                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by George Mann.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Warwickshire.

Warwickshire was the landlocked County of Warwick, lying east of the West Midlands, west of Northamptonshire and north of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.

In-Fez-Station   Comic story, published 2012                                                        Doctor: 11

Written by Len Wein.

Featuring the Raxacoricofallapatorians, Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Morocco, with glimpses of Washington DC, Rome, London and China.

Mightier Than the Sword  Short story, published 2011                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Faction Paradox

Written by Jay Eales.

Informed guess Takes place in Norfolk; ends four years after Jim Sheldrake’s previously published story, in 2008 CE.

Mr Invincible   Audio story, released 2012                                                        Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Mark Morris.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; after Red Skies.

Pond Life   Video drama, released 2012                                                                 Doctor: 11

featuring the Ood, Amy, Rory, with the Sontarans (informative mention)

Written by Chris Chibnall.

contemporary to release Takes place in London, ending self-datedly in September.

Exodus Code   Novel, published in 2012                                                        Doctor: 0

Featuring The Mandragora Helix, Captain Jack, Torchwood, with Sarah Jane (informative mention)

Written by John and Carole E Barrowman.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Peru and Cardiff, some time after the Miracle Day phenomenon.

Nightmare on the Boulevard Comic story, published 2008                              Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Brendan Sheppard.

Informed guess Takes place in Los Angeles, Ca; self-dated 2012 CE.

The Runaway Bogey   Comic story, published 2012                                             Doctor: 11

Featuring Decky Flamboon

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Leeds.

Running Away With You   Audio drama, released 2013                              Doctor: 0

Featuring Dorian Gray

Written by Scott Handcock.

Informed guess Takes place in Kew, a district of London; self-dated 2012 CE.

Ghost Train   Comic story, published 2012                                                             Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Steve Lyons.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on, we may assume, Earth.

Dalek   TV story, broadcast 2005                                                                           Doctor: 9

Featuring the Daleks, Rose, with the Cybermen, the Raxacorricofallapatorians (glimpse),

and The Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Robert Shearman, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place beneath Utah; self-dated 2012 CE.

 

Vamps (2012) is a vampire film broadly compatible with Doctor Who narrative, given that Doctor Who narrative is sometimes silly.

 

Frozen Time Audio drama, released 2007                                                    Doctor: 7

featuring the Ice Warriors, with the Earth Reptiles (informative mention)

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place in Antarctica; self-dated 2012 CE, probably summer). Although millions of years have, strictly speaking, passed for the Doctor and the TARDIS by the end of this story, they haven’t for Gallifrey next time he interacts with it. Perhaps the TARDIS, registering that his mind is no longer working, goes into stasis, or indeed, temporal orbit.

 

Upstream Color, released in January 2013, is a plausible manifestation of The Enemy on Earth: what I particularly like about it from this point of view is that while it displays The Enemy’s characteristic confluence of anatomical and semantic horror, there is a distinct suggestion that the phenomenon that the protagonists of the film experience is not actively hostile to them, but only harms them in passing, as one would expect if Tellurians are essentially bystanders in the Second War In Heaven. In the end, the protagonists have come to a modus vivendi with the alien life passing through them.

 

On the Cards   Comic story, published 2012                                                          Doctor: 11

Featuring Decky Flamboon

Written by Eddie Robson.

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

Conscription   Short story, published 2008                                                          Doctor: 4

featuring Sarah Jane

Written by William Potter.

Takes place in Papua New Guinea; self-dated Christmas, 2012 CE.

Papua New Guinea was a monarchy occupying the eastern end of the island of New Guinea, lying north of Australia. It shared its monarch with the UK.

The Zentrabot Invasion   Comic story, published 2012                                       Doctor: 11

Written by Jason Loborik.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on and above Earth; self-dated Christmas.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               1636

Proportion Written By Women   10%                                        

 

Top Docs

3                 217 stories

4                 142 stories

7                 129 stories

10               129 stories         

8                 91 stories  

11               88 stories            Climber!    

6                 84 stories  

5                 80 stories  

2                 74 stories  

1                 51 stories

Unbound   31 stories  

9                 19 stories            Climber!    

12               16 stories            

13               5 stories    

         

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                424 stories         

Regional England                                               347 stories

UNIT                                                                    314 stories

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                       300 stories

Torchwood                                                         183 stories  

North America                                                   180 stories

Wales                                                                  170 stories  

Captain Jack                                                       144 stories

Sarah Jane                                                          138 stories

Jo                                                                         97 stories  

Benton                                                                93 stories           

Continental Europe                                           90 stories  

Christmas                                                            84 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            82 stories           

Ace                                                                      82 stories  

Iris Wildthyme                                                   81 stories   Climber!

The Time Lords                                                  76 stories  

At sea                                                                  74 stories  

The K9s                                                               72 stories  

Yates                                                                   71 stories  

 

         

 

 

 

         

Top Decades

 

The Noughties                                                    584 stories                   

The Teens                                                           573 stories

The Nineties                                                       189 stories

The Seventies                                                    120 stories         

The Twenties                                                     80 stories  

The Eighties                                                        57 stories  

The Sixties                                                          33 stories  

 

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2008                                                          126 stories

2011                                                          99 stories   Climber!

2009                                                          94 stories  

2010                                                          81 stories  

2007                                                           72 stories  

2001                                                          68 stories  

2016                                                          65 stories  

2006                                                          62 stories  

2018                                                          62 stories  

2019                                                          61 stories  

2012                                                          56 stories   Climber!             

2005                                                          47 stories   Climber!

2015                                                          47 stories   Climber!

2017                                                          47 stories   Climber!    

2020                                                          44 stories   Climber!

1999                                                          42 stories           

2013                                                          42 stories   Climber!

2004                                                          40 stories  

2021                                                          36 stories

1993                                                          33 stories  

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                                546

Proportion of Female Writers                         16%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Russell T Davies                                       84 stories  

Paul Magrs                                                44 stories  

Terrance Dicks                                          36 stories  

James Goss                                               35 stories   Climber!    

? John Canning                                         30 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        29 stories   Climber!

Joseph Lidster                                          28 stories   Climber!    

Justin Richards                                         28 stories  

Eddie Robson                                            28 stories   Climber!    

Steve Lyons                                               25 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                      22 stories  

Trevor Baxendale                                     20 stories  

Andrew Cartmel                                      20 stories                      

Andy Frankham-Allen                             19 stories           

Gary Russell                                              19 stories  

Steven Moffat                                          18 stories           

Stephen Cole                                            17 stories   =

Paul Cornell                                              17 stories   = Climber!

Christopher Cooper                                 17 stories   = Climber!

John Dorney                                             17 stories   =

Simon Guerrier                                        17 stories   = climber!