Now: Two Thousand and Eight                                                                  

Snowman in Manhattan   Short story, published 2007                          Doctor: 1

featuring Vicki, Steven

Written by John Binns.

Takes place in New York NY; ending self-datedly in early January 2008 CE.


The Legacy of Unicron   Comic story, published 1988                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Death’s Head

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place on Junk; dated January in a version of 2008 CE.


Combat   TV story, broadcast 2006                                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Noel Clarke, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Out of Time.


Second Chances   Short story, published 2008                                         Doctor: 8

featuring Charley

Written by Bernard O’Toole.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Zygon: When Being You Just Isn’t Enough     Video story, released 2008                                                                                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring the Zygons

Written by Lance Parkin, Jonathan Blum and Bill Baggs.

Contemporary to release Takes place in the UK.


Blooms of Doom!   Comic story, published 2008                                     Doctor: 10

Written by Kieran Grant.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Croydon.


Speech Day   Short story, published 2009                                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring the Master

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK; some time before The Sound of Drums.


The Condemned   Audio drama, released 2008                                 Doctor: 6

featuring Charley

Written by Eddie Robson.

Takes place in Manchester; self-dated February 2008 CE.


Ravens   Comic story, published 1992                                                          Doctor: 7

featuring Allen Road

Written by Andrew Cartmel.

informed guess Takes place partly in Kent and Japan; mostly self-dated the winter before Cat’s Cradle: Warhead.


End of Days   TV story, broadcast 2007                                                  Doctor: 0

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

Written by Chris Chibnall, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in Cardiff; self-dated February 2008 CE.


Dinner and a Show   Audio drama, released 2020                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood                                               

Written by Gareth David-Lloyd.

Takes place in Cardiff; self-dated mid-February 2008 CE.


Child’s Play   Short story, published 2008                                                 Doctor: 4

featuring Romana

Written by L M Myles.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


The Horror of Howling Hill   Game book, published 2008          Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha

Written by Jonathan Green.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Dead London   Audio drama, released 2008                                        Doctor: 8

Featuring Lucie

Written by Pat Mills.

Contemporary to release Takes place in London; self-dated variously, but centrally in 2008 CE.


Every Dog Has Its Day   Comic story, published 2008                            Doctor: 10

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Relativity Short story, published 2008                                                       Doctor: 7

featuring Ace

Written by Michael Montoure.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Wildthyme at Large   Audio drama, released 2005                           Doctor: 0

featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Paul Magrs.

Takes place in London and ‘the Greenwood’; Sherwood Forest as we may assume. It is “almost ten years” since Tom stopped travelling with Iris in the late 1990s CE: he boarded her time machine in 2000 CE, so she evidently left him before he boarded, which is not implausible. It is also not long before The Devil in Ms Wildthyme.


Sea-Rah   Comic story, published 2008                                                      Doctor: 10

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on Earth and Kerun Za.


Lease of Life   Audio drama, released 2021                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by Aaron Lamont.

Takes place in Cardiff, after End of Days but some time before Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.


Smith and Jones     TV story, broadcast 2007                                       Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha, the Judoon         

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in London and on the Moon, twelve hours before The Lazarus Experiment. There was much controversy online during Series Three over whether Russell T Davies was being racist in suggesting that the Doctor had been in love with Rose but was not in love with Martha, suggesting she was second best: is it, the online asked, ‘cos she is Black? It is not for me to say whether Davies was being racist here, though I think I am entitled to ask, if the Doctor had been in love with Rose, what would have been stopping him from saying so? I think it far more likely that he developed an excess of sentimental non-sexual affection towards her while rather basking in the fact that she had fallen in love with him: the inarticulable emotion he struggled with was not love but guilt. What I did notice, however, is something I saw none of those vociferous about racism mentioning: that after Micky in Rose and Donna’s fiancé in The Runaway Bride, Martha’s dad represented Davies’s third comically feckless and unsatisfactory boyfriend/husband of Afro-Caribbean ethnicity in two years. Once would be happenstance, three times strikes me as a racialist trope. Anyway, in this story Martha leaves linear time, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.


The Lazarus Experiment   TV story, broadcast 2007                      Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha

Written by Stephen Greenhorn, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in London, two days before The Sound of Drums.


The Great Mordillo   Comic story, published 2008                                 Doctor: 10

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Vienna.


The Final Star   Short story, published 2008                                             Doctor: 6

featuring Evelyn

Written by Chris Wing.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


The Sound of Drums   TV story, broadcast 2007                              Doctor: 10

Featuring the Master, Captain Jack, Martha, with the Time Lords (glimpse), and UNIT, Torchwood (informative mention)

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in London and Brighton, soon after a general election. The Story of Martha confirms the date as the May after The Runaway Bride, while The Secret Lives of Monsters gives it as early June. However, in the latter, Justin Richards is posing as a sensationalist journalist, and cites Who Killed Kennedy by James Stevens, whose dating is all over the place.


The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy Illustrated short story, published 2017                                             Doctor: 5 (glimpse)

Featuring the Master, Missy, with Adric, Nyssa, Tegan (glimpse)

Written by Richard Dinnick.

For the Master and Lucy, takes place in London between The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords, although for an earlier incarnation of the Master it takes place on Fortress Island.


The Story of Martha   Narrative story anthology, published 2008                                                                                                                                             Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha, with the Master, Captain Jack (glimpse), and Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, North and South America, Africa, Asia (informative mention)

Written by Dan Abnett, David Roden, Steve Lockley, Paul Lewis, Robert Shearman and Simon Jowett.

Takes place in London, France, Turkey, and Japan, in the Year That Never Was (confirmed as May 2008 to May 2009 CE).

Turkey was republic of west Asia and southeast Europe, mostly located on the peninsula of Anatolia with the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean to the south, and separated from Europe by the Sea of Mamara and the Turkish Straits. The far northwest of the country occupied an enclave on the east coast of the Balkan peninsula.


The Last Diner   Audio drama, released 2021                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Martha

Written by James Goss.

Takes place in the USA during the Year That Never Was, after The Story of Martha.       


Silver Medal   Audio drama, released 2021                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Martha

Written by Tim Foley.

Takes place in Nevada during the Year That Never Was, after The Last Diner.


Deceived   Audio drama, released 2021                                         Doctor: 0

Featuring Martha

Written by Matt Fitton.

Takes place in Las Vegas during the Year That Never Was, after Silver Medal.


Last of the Time Lords   TV story, broadcast 2007                          Doctor: 10

Featuring the Master, Captain Jack, Martha           

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place on Earth, after The Story of Martha. Time is wound back to May 2008 CE.


The Man on the Phone   Short story, published 2008                            Doctor: 5

Written by Mark Smith.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang   TV story, broadcast 2008                              Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood, with the Time Agency (informative mention)

Written by Chris Chibnall, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in Cardiff; takes place shortly after Last of the Time Lords.


The Black Sea, Sting of the Serpent, Attack of the Rats and The Zantraan Invasion   Comic story, published 2008                                                                                      Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Jason Loborik.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Whitby, Arizona and Paris.


Time Reaver   Audio drama, released 2016                                           Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna, Gully

Written by Jenny T Colgan.

Takes place on Calibris; self-dated the end of May 2008 CE.

Gully is an octopoid space traveller.


Mad Martha   Web story, posted 2008                                                       Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna, with Martha (informative mention)

Written by Joseph Lidster.

Contemporary to publication Takes place partly in Scunthorpe, a town in Lincolnshire.


Lonely   Short story, published 2008                                                          Doctor: 8

Written by Richard Wright.

Contemporary to publication Takes place online.


Sleeper   TV story, broadcast 2008                                                           Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by James Moran, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in Cardiff; after Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang as broadcast.


The Legacy of Torchwood One!    Comic story, published 2008           Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Simon Furman.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang but before Reset.


The Conspiracy   Audio drama, released 2015                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by David Llewellyn.

Takes place in Cardiff; self-dated 2008 CE, and dated after Sleeper by Tim Bradley on the Torchwood Timeline.


Fall to Earth   Audio drama, released 2015                                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood, with Captain Jack (informative mention)

Written by James Goss.

Takes in and above Turkey; self-dated 2008 CE, and soon after The Conspiracy.


Uncanny Valley   Audio drama, released 2016                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood                         

Written by David Llewellyn.

Takes place in Wales, France, New York and Minneapolis; concluding self-datedly in 2008 CE, and dated after Fall to Earth by Tim Bradley on the Torchwood Timeline.


One Card for the Curious   Short story, published 2008                        Doctor: 7

featuring Ace

Written by Xanna Eve Chown.

contemporary to publication Takes place on the coast of the UK; evidently in summer.


Something in the Water Novel, published 2008                     Doctor: 0

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

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Takes place in Cardiff; after Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang but before To the Last Man.


The Monster in the Wardrobe   Short story, published 2008               Doctor: 4

featuring Romana

Written by James C McFetridge.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


The Hollow Men   Novel, published 1998                                         Doctor: 7

featuring Ace

Written by Keith Topping and Martin Day.

informed guess Takes place in Hexen Bridge, in southwestern England; self-dated a June in the early 21st century CE. The 17th of June was a Tuesday in 2008 CE. Shanks, who is about forty, listened to New Order and The Fall at school.


Suns and Mothers   Short story, published 2008                                     Doctor: 8

Written by Einar Olgiersson.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


To The Last Man   TV story, broadcast 2008                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Helen Raynor, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in Cardiff; after Sleeper as broadcast. The only Friday 20th in 2008 CE was in June.


The Continuity Cap   Comic story, published 2008                                 Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Everyone Says Hello Audio story, released 2008                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Dan Abnett.

Contemporary to release Takes place in Cardiff; after To the Last Man as released.


Mend Me   Short story, published 2010                                                      Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Sarah Pinborough.

informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; self-dated early July 2008 CE. Rhys knows about Torchwood, but I don’t think Meat can occur this early in the year, so I’m assuming he is slipped some retcon after this story.


The Endless Night Audio drama, released 2019                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Rose                                                           

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Informed guess Takes place on Pete’s World and another parallel Earth. Rose remembers the events of The Christmas Invasion as “a couple of years” ago.


Loose Change   Short story, published 2008                                             Doctor: 6

Written by Steven Saville.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Music of the Spheres   TV story, broadcast 2008                                    Doctor: 10

Featuring the Graske

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place partly in the Albert Hall, in London; self-dated July, 2008 CE.


Taking the Cure   Short story, published 2008                                         Doctor: 6

featuring Peri

Written by Matthew James.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Cuddlesome   Audio drama, released 2008                                              Doctor: 5

Written by Nigel Fairs.

Contemporary to release Takes place in Brighton.


Zone 10 Audio drama, released 2016                                                        Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by David Llewellyn.

Informed guess Takes place in Russia (though it is not clear whether European or Asian Russia); self-dated 2008 CE, and placed between Everyone Says Hello and Meat by Tim Bradley in the Torchwood Timeline.

Russia was a republic of eastern Europe and northern Asia, occupying most of the territory of the former USSR, and following it as the largest nation on Earth; lying east of Finland and north of China and Mongolia.


A Perfect World   Audio drama, released 2008                                        Doctor: 5

featuring Nyssa, Thomas

Written by Jonathan Morris.

contemporary to publication Takes place in London.

Thomas Brewster is a Tellurian, born in 1846 or 1847 CE.


Once Upon a Time Illustrated short story, published 2008                    Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Justin Richards.

Contemporary to publication Takes place partly in the UK.


Serenity   Audio drama, released 2019                                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by James Moran.

Informed guess Takes place in south Wales, at least “some weeks” after Sleeper. I assume Jack and Ianto have been commuting into work while living in Serenity Plaza, as there isn’t really the time available for them to have taken some weeks off work in the middle of 2008.


Fuel   Web story, posted 2008                                                                      Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by James Moran.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in London.


Meat   TV story, broadcast 2008                                                                Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood                         

Written by Catherine Tregenna, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after To the Last Man as broadcast.

 

Twilight (2008) and its sequels include vampire and werewolf lore compatible with Doctor Who narrative

 

Unplugged   Illustrated short story, published 2010                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by James Moran.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, placed after Meat by Andrew Kearley in Eyespider.


Adam   TV story, broadcast 2008                                                              Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Catherine Tregenna, script edited by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Meat as broadcast and self-dated 2008 CE.


The Flood   Audio drama, released 2019                                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Rose

Written by Lisa McMullin.

Informed guess Takes place on a parallel Earth, shortly after The Endless Night.


Trace Memory Novel, published 2008                                             Doctor: 0

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

Written by David Llewellyn.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; pivotally in 2008 CE, after Something in the Water as published and placed after Adam by Andrew Kearley in Eyespider.


£436   Short story, published 2008                                                               Doctor: 6

featuring Peri

Written by Nick May.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Invasion of the Bane   TV story, broadcast 2007                              Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, the Bane, Kelsey, with K9IV (glimpse)

Written by Gareth Roberts and Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing, a district of London; self-dated over a year and a half since School Reunion, and probably during the school summer holidays.

The Bane are a species of spacefaring cephalopods.

Kelsey Hooper is a Tellurian born around 1995 CE.


Rift War!   Comic story, published 2008                                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Simon Furman.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, between Meat and Reset.


The Twilight Streets   Novel, published 2008                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Gary Russell.

Takes place in Cardiff; self-dated twenty-three months after Boom Town and “the beginning of Autumn”.


Jetsam   Comic story, published 2008                                                         Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Brian Williamson.

Informed guess Takes place in and near Cardiff, placed after The Twilight Streets by Andrew Kearley in Eyespider.

iNtRUsioNs   Short story, published 2008                                                  Doctor: 1

Written by Dave Hoskin.                    

contemporary to publication Takes place in Australia (the location of Pentridge Prison).


Revenge of the Slitheen   TV story, broadcast 2008                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, the Raxacorricofallapatorians, with UNIT (informative mention)

Written by Gareth Roberts, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in Ealing; a week after Invasion of the Bane and at the beginning of the Academic year.


Harm’s Way   Illustrated short story, published 2008                               Doctor: 0

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

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Informed guess Takes place in and around Cardiff, after Meat and before Reset, and placed after Jetsam by Andrew Kearley in Eyespider.


Black Water   Short story, published 2008                                                Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Steven Saville.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, between Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang and Exit Wounds and placed after Harm’s Way by Andrew Kearley in Eyespider.


The Devil in Ms.Wildthyme   Audio drama, released 2005          Doctor: 0

featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Stephen Cole.

Informed guess Takes place in London and elsewhere in the UK; self-dated thirty years after 1978 CE.   


Reset   TV story, broadcast 2008                                                               Doctor: 0

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

Written by J C Wilsher, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; after Adam as broadcast.


Time Shear   Short story, published 2008                                                  Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II

Written by Steven Alexander.

contemporary to publication Takes place in London.


Dead Man Walking   TV story, broadcast 2008                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Death, Captain Jack, Torchwood, Martha

Written by Mat Jones, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in Cardiff, some hours after Reset.


Running on Empty  Short story, published 2008                                    Doctor: 7

Written by J R Loflin.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on Earth.


A Day in the Death   TV story, broadcast 2008                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood, Martha

Written by Joseph Lidster, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in Cardiff, three days after Dead Man Walking.


Ghost Machines   Audio drama, released 2019                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Rose

Written by A K Benedict.

Informed guess Takes place on a parallel Earth, shortly after The Flood.


Stanley   Short story, published 2008                                                         Doctor: 4

featuring Leela

Written by Lizzie Hopley.

contemporary to publication Takes place in London.                                  


Rift War: Funhouse   Comic story, published 2008                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Simon Furman.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; ending at least six weeks after Rift War!.


Eye of the Gorgon   TV story, broadcast 2007                                    Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, with the Sontarans (informative mention)

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

Informed guess Takes place in and near Ealing; after Revenge of the Slitheen as broadcast.


Insider Dealing   Short story, published 2008                                          Doctor: 4

featuring Romana

Written by Dann Chinn.

contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Warriors of Kudlak   TV story, broadcast 2007                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, with UNIT (informative mention)

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

Takes place in Ealing and in orbit; after Eye of the Gorgon as broadcast.


The Andrew Invasion   Short story, published 2008                               Doctor: 0

Written by John Callaghan.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


The Last Party On Earth   Audio drama, released 2019                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Rose

Written by Matt Fitton.

Informed guess Takes place on a parallel Earth, shortly after Ghost Machines.


Rift War: Dino Crisis   Comic story, published 2008                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Ian Edgington.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Rift War: Funhouse.


Stolen Days   Short story, published 2008                                                 Doctor: 7

Written by Arnold T Blumberg.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on Earth.


Cat’s Cradle: Warhead   Novel, published 1992                         Doctor: 7

featuring Ace, Allen Road, with ?Victoria       

informed guess Takes place in the USA, Turkey and London, ending self-datedly in October, in the early 21st century CE. I think there is a reasonable chance Miss David is Victoria living under an assumed identity following the events of Downtime twelve years previously. And when the New Adventures came out, I thought it possible that Mrs Woodcott – a chemist specialising in psychotropic drugs, who is working for the British government in War Child and who evidently knows the Doctor – might be Jo, having become a drugs engineer during her marriage to Cliff Jones. Twenty-first century appearances of Jo however are not really compatible with this suggestion…but could Victoria be Mrs Woodcott as well as Miss David? Her father brought her up to have a thorough scientific education, her assumed identities could well be guarded by the British state in return for favours, and the two characters do not appear together, Mrs Woodcott appearing in this novel only during Justine’s hallucinatory dreams. Moreover, Mrs Woodcott has some psychic abilities, which could well have been caused by Victoria’s long association with the Great Intelligence in Downtime.

WHY I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE WITH LANCE PARKIN

The cops ask the Young Republican waitress if she thinks the President is damned, implying he is new and not a Republican. True, they call him “Chuck” rather than “Barack”, but this is presumably a private joke.


Rift War: Dark Times Comic story, published 2008                                Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Paul Grist.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; partly after Rift War: Dino Crisis.


Brave New Town   Audio drama, released 2008                                 Doctor: 8

Featuring the Nestene Consciousness, Lucie

Written by Jonathan Clements.

Takes place in Uzbekistan; self-dated October 2008.

Uzbekistan was a landlocked republic of central Asia, emerging from the dissolution of the USSR.


Clean-up on Aisle Two   Short story, published 2008                             Doctor: 7

Written by James Swallow.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the USA, off Route 45.           


The Glittering Storm   Audio story, released 2007                           Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Stephen Cole.

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing and Hounslow, a nearby district of London, after Revenge of the Slitheen.


Rift War: Circles   Comic story, published 2008                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Informed guess Written by Paul Grist.

Takes place in and near Cardiff; the later section after Rift War: Dark Times.


Forever Autumn   Novel, published 2007                                      Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha

Written by Mark Morris.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in New England; self-dated the end of October, three years after 2005 CE.


Requiem   Short story, published 2010                                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Takes place in Cardiff; self-dated the end of October 2008 CE.


Pack Animals Novel, published 2008                                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Peter Anghelides.

Takes place in Cardiff; after A Day in the Death and before Something Borrowed, and ending self-datedly in early November.


The Thirteenth Stone   Audio story, released 2007                         Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane                                                 

Written by Justin Richards.

Takes place in the UK, after The Glittering Storm as released.


Mrs Acres   Short story, published 2008                                                    Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by David Llewellyn.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, placed after Pack Animals by Andrew Kearley in Eyespider.


The Beauty of Our Weapons   Short story, published 2008                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Andy Lane.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, placed after Mrs Acres by Andrew Kearley in Eyespider.


Project: Lazarus   Audio drama, released 2003                                   Doctors: 6, 7

featuring the Vampires, Evelyn, the Forge

Written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright.

Informed guess Takes place in Norway and beneath Dartmoor; ends four years after November 2004 CE.


The Book of Jahi   Illustrated short story, published 2008                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by David Llewellyn.

Informed guess Takes place in and near Cardiff, between A Day in the Death and Exit Wounds and placed before Something Borrowed by Andrew Kearley in Eyespider .


Something Borrowed   TV story, broadcast 2008                             Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

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

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; after A Day in the Death and “some months” after Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.


Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?   TV story, broadcast 2007          Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, the Graske

Written by Gareth Roberts, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing; after Warriors of Kudlak as broadcast


Plant Life   Short story, published 2008                                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, as Gwen returns to work after her honeymoon, which lasted ten days according to SkyPoint.


The Widow’s Curse   Comic story, published 2008                                  Doctor: 10

Featuring the Sycorax, Donna

Written by Rob Davis.

Informed guess Takes place in the Caribbean; self-dated “two years” after The Christmas Invasion.


SkyPoint    Novel, published 2008                                                        Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Phil Ford.                                                     

Takes place in Cardiff; self-dated a fortnight after Something Borrowed, and two months after Reset. Tosh says it is September, but English isn’t her first language, and I am assuming she meant November.


Lares Domestici   Short story, published 2008                                        Doctor: 2

Written by Anna Bratton.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Rift War: The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Enemy of My Enemy                                                                                                Comic story, published 2008                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Ian Edgington.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; at least three weeks after Rift War: Circles.


The Raincloud Man   Audio drama, released 2008                        Doctor: 6

featuring Charley

Written by Eddie Robson.

Takes place in Manchester and Rio de Janeiro, a coastal city of Brazil; self-dated the December after The Condemned.

Brazil was the largestand most populous state of South America, a republic lying on its east coast, southeast of Colombia, east of Peru and northwest of Argentina.


The Dreadful Flap   Short story, published 2009                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Iris Wildthyme

Written by Paul Magrs.

Takes place in Darlington and Whitby; the later sections self-dated December 2008 CE.


Rift War: The Calm Before the Storm   Comic story, published 2008             Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Paul Grist.

Takes place in Cardiff, after Rift War: The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Enemy of My Enemy.


The Giant’s Ring   Comic story, published 2008                                      Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Jason Loborik.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on Kovlax and Earth.


Death in Blackpool   Audio drama, released 2009                            Doctor: 8

Featuring the Zygons, Lucie

Written by Alan Barnes.

Takes place in Blackpool; self-dated Christmas 2008 CE.


Voyage of the Damned   TV story, broadcast 2007                          Doctor: 10

Featuring Wilf (glimpse)

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place above the Earth and briefly in London; self-dated the Christmas after The Runaway Bride.

Wilfred Mott, known as Wilf, is a Tellurian born in about 1929 CE, and the maternal grandfather of Donna.


White on White Short story, published 2008                                           Doctor: 1

featuring Steven

Written by Kate Orman

Takes place in Antarctica; self-dated December 2008 CE.


The Puplet   Illustrated short story, published 2008                                 Doctor: 10

Written by Gary Russell.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK; ends self-datedly in late December.

 

 

Total Stories Considered               1317

Proportion Written By Women   9%                                          

 

Top Docs

3                 214 stories

4                 130 stories

7                 123 stories

8                 84 stories  

5                 77 stories  

6                 77 stories  

10               76 stories   Climber!

2                 67 stories  

1                 47 stories

11               28 stories  

Unbound   28 stories  

9                 16 stories

12               15 stories            

13               5 stories    

         

         

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                338 stories         

Regional England                                               295 stories

Alastair, Kate and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                                                               283 stories

UNIT                                                                    258 stories

North America                                                   145 stories

Sarah Jane                                                          99 stories   Climber!

Jo                                                                         94 stories  

Benton                                                                91 stories           

Torchwood                                                         91 stories   New entry!

Wales                                                                  83 stories   New entry!

Continental Europe                                           80 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            79 stories                     

Ace                                                                      77 stories           

Christmas                                                            70 stories  

The Time Lords                                                  68 stories  

At sea                                                                  67 stories   Climber!    

Yates                                                                   66 stories  

Liz                                                                        62 stories

Captain Jack                                                       62 stories   New entry!

The Travers Family                                            60 stories=

The K9s                                                               60 stories=

 

 

 

 

         

Top Decades

 

The Noughties                                                    475 stories                   

The Teens                                                           383 stories

The Nineties                                                       185 stories

The Seventies                                                    120 stories         

The Twenties                                                     64 stories  

The Eighties                                                        57 stories  

The Sixties                                                          33 stories  

 

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2008                                            97 stories   Re-entry and new number 1!

2007                                                          69 stories   Climber!

2001                                                          68 stories  

2006                                                          59 stories  

2016                                                          58 stories

2019                                                          54 stories   Climber!

2018                                                          53 stories  

2005                                                          45 stories

2015                                                          44 stories

2017                                                          42 stories  

1999                                                          41 stories           

2004                                                          40 stories  

2013                                                          40 stories  

1993                                                          33 stories  

2012                                                          32 stories           

2020                                                          32 stories  

2021                                                          32 stories

2011                                                          30 stories           

2003                                                          29 stories  

1970                                                          24 stories =

2000                                                          24 stories =

2002                                                          24 stories =

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                                491

Proportion of Female Writers                         15%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Russell T Davies                                       40 stories   New number 1!

Paul Magrs                                                37 stories   Climber!

Terrance Dicks                                          35 stories  

? John Canning                                         30 stories  

Justin Richards                                         24 stories  

Andy Frankham-Allen                             18  stories 

Joseph Lidster                                          18 stories   Climber!

Eddie Robson                                            18 stories   Climber!    

Gareth Roberts                                        17 stories   Climber!

Andrew Cartmel                                      16 stories   Climber!              

John Dorney                                             16 stories  

Eric Saward                                               16 stories  

Anonymous Polystyle Writers               15 stories  

Paul Cornell                                              15 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                        15 stories

Steve Lyons                                               15 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                      15 stories   Climber!    

Gary Russell                                              14 stories   Climber!             

Trevor Baxendale                                     13 stories= New entry!

Stephen Cole                                            13 stories=

James Goss                                               13 stories=

 

 

 

 

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