Now: Two Thousand and Nine

 

Happy New Year   Illustrated short story, published 2010                        Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Sarah Pinborough.

Takes place in Cardiff, at New Year. Regardless of anything else, this is the only one available, really.


From Out of the Rain   TV story, broadcast 2008                            Doctor: 0

featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Peter J Hammond, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Something Borrowed.


The Lost Boy   TV story, broadcast 2007                                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, K9 IV, the Raxacoricofallapatorians, with UNIT (glimpse)

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

Takes place in West London; five months after Invasion of the Bane.


The Great Rain Robbery   Comic story, published 2009                        Doctor: 10

featuring Heather

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in and above Edinburgh; effectively self-dated January 2009 CE.


Ma and Par   Web comic, posted 2010                                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Oli Smith.

informed guess Takes place outside Cardiff, “early in the new year”.


The Genius Trap   Comic story, published 2009                                       Doctor: 10

featuring Heather, Wolfie, with UNIT (glimpse)

Written by Steve Lyons.

Takes place in Edinburgh, self-datedly “a few days” after The Great Rain Robbery.


Escape to Penhaxico   Web comic, posted 2008                                     Doctor: 10

Featuring Captain Jack, Martha

Written by Brian Minchin.

Takes place on Earth and Penhaxico 2; self-dated two months after Voyage of the Damned.


A Gamble with Wildthyme   Short story, published 2009                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Steve Lyons.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Scunthorpe.


Adrift   TV story, broadcast 2008                                                              Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

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

Informed guess Takes place in and near Cardiff; after From Out of the Rain as broadcast.


Iris Wildthyme and the Unholy Ghost   Short story, published 2009            Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Ian Potter.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Phoenix   Short story, published 2009                                                       Doctor: 8

Written by James Goss.                                              

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.                                                               


The Return of the Vostok   Web comic, posted 2009                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Brian Minchin.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; self-dated March.


Iris Wildthyme and the Unhappy Medium   Short story, published 2009    Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme, with the Forge (informative mention)

Written by Mark Wright and Cavan Scott.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Monster   Short story, published 2008                                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Joseph Lidster.

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


Corpse Day   Audio drama, released 2017                                             Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; after Adrift.


Believe   Audio drama, released 2018                                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Guy Adams.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff and London, after Adrift.


Partners in Crime   TV story, broadcast 2008                                    Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna, Wilf, with Rose (glimpse)

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in London, a few days before The Sontaran Strategem and The Poison Sky.


The Day the Earth Was Sold and The King of the Earth      Comic story, published 2009                                              Doctor: 10

Written by Kieran Grant and Neil Corry.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in and above London.


The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky TV story, broadcast 2008                                       Doctor: 10

Featuring UNIT, the Sontarans, Donna, Martha, Wilf, with Rose (glimpse) and Lethbridge-Stewart (informative mention)

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

Takes place in London and elsewhere; dated April 2009 CE in Beautiful Chaos.


Prequel: Donna Noble: Kidnapped   Audio drama, released 2020                                                                                                                                              Doctor: 10 (informative mention)

Featuring Donna, with Wilf (informative mention)

Written presumably by John Dorney and Matt Fitton.

Informed guess Takes place in Chiswick, a district of London, after The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky and before Beautiful Chaos.


Out of This World   Audio drama, released 2020                              Doctor: 0

Featuring Donna                                                                     

Written by Jacqueline Rayner.

Informed guess Takes place in Chiswick, the day after Prequel: Donna Noble: Kidnapped.


The Hope   Audio drama, released 2019                                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in north Wales, after Corpse Day.


Favourite Star   Short story, published 2009                                            Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Zoe (informative mention)

Written by Ian Farrington.

contemporary to publication Takes place in London.


The Chiswick Cuckoos   Audio drama, released 2020         Doctor: 10 (glimpse)

Featuring Donna, UNIT

Written by Matt Fitton.

Informed guess Takes place in Chiswick, a month after Out of This World.


The Three Monkeys    Audio drama, released 2019                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Corpse Day and before Fragments and Exit Wounds.


Beautiful Chaos   Novel, published in 2008                                    Doctor: 10

Featuring The Mandragora Helix, Donna, Wilf

Written by Gary Russell.

Takes place in London, Essex, the USA and Italy, after The Sontaran Strategem and The Poison Sky; self-dated May.


Gooseberry   Audio drama, released 2021                                    Doctor: 0

featuring Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Takes place in Cardiff, between Corpse Day and Fragments.


Bing Bong   Illustrated short story, published 2008                                  Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman.

Informed guess Takes place in London, between Partners in Crime and The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End.


Fragments and Exit Wounds   TV story, broadcast 2008    Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood, with UNIT (glimpse)

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

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; self-dated “twenty-one months” after Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, although it must actually be closer to nineteen.


Hear No Evil   Comic story, published 2009                                              Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather

Written by Steve Lyons.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in London.


In the Blood   Novel, published in 2016                                             Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna, Wilf, Gully

Written by Jenny T Colgan.

Takes place in London, Seoul and Brazil, presumably between Beautiful Chaos and Turn Left.

Seoul was the capital of South Korea, a republic of northeast Asia occupying the southern end of the Korean peninsula.


Wild Pastures   Audio drama, released 2018                                        Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna, Wilf (informative mention)

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK, after The Sontaran Strategem and The Poison Sky.


Framed Short story, published 2009                                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Mark Michalowski.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Mr.Heart’s Gallery. No doubt this is technically
outside space and time, but Iris is such a cultural phenomenon that it makes sense to place
what happens to her at the time of publication in the absence of other clues. London is
reproduced in the gallery.


No Place   Audio drama, released 2019                                                    Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna, Wilf

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Chiswick; self-dated 2009 CE, and after Wild Pastures as released.


Turn Left   TV story, broadcast 2008                                                       Doctor: 10

Featuring UNIT, Rose, Donna, Wilf, with Sarah Jane, the Sontarans, Captain Jack Harkness, Torchwood, Martha (informative mention)

Written by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in versions of London and Leeds, ending during the events of The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End.


A Better World   Online short story, released 2020                           Doctor: 0

Featuring Astrolabus, Donna, with Rose (glimpse)

Written by Aristide Twain.

Takes place on Shan Shen and Earth, in parallel with Turn Left.


The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End   TV story, broadcast 2008          Doctor: 10

Featuring the Daleks, UNIT, Sarah Jane, Davros, Rose, Mickey, Captain Jack, Torchwood, K9 IV, Donna, Martha, Wilf

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in London, New York and Germany, after Beautiful Chaos and Turn Left, and Fragments and Exit Wounds.


The Flight of the Giurgeax   Comic story, published 2009                    Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather, Wolfie, with Austria (informative mention)

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


The House at the End of the World and The End   Comic story, published 2009   Doctor: 10

Written Stephen Cole.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on and at the location of Earth.


The Three Companions   Audio drama, release completed in 2011    Doctors: 2, 3

Featuring Polly, Ben, Jamie, Lethbridge-Stewart, Thomas

Written by Marc Platt.

Informed guess Takes place in London and elsewhere; the capital of the UK has been temporarily moved to Birmingham because of flooding: possibly during The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End? It is forty-three years since 1966 CE


Expectant  Audio drama, released 2019                                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood, with UNIT (glimpse)

Written by Xanna Eve Chown.

Informed guess Takes place in south Wales, soon after Fragments and Exit Wounds.


The Rising Tide   Comic story, published 2009                                        Doctor: 10     

Written by Eddie Robson.

Featuring Heather, Wolfie

Contemporary to publication Takes place on the coast of the UK.


The Planet of the Dead   TV story, broadcast 2009                         Doctor: 10

Featuring UNIT, Lady Christina

Written by Russell T Davies and Gareth Roberts.

Takes place in London and on San Helios; self-dated Easter, but after The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End, and therefore after Beautiful Chaos. This means that thanks to the inimitable Gary Russell, in 2009 CE Easter fell a couple of months after it usually does. Perhaps the Battle of the Medusa Cascade was held to have interrupted and delayed the Lunar calendar, but you can see I’m clutching at straws here.

Lady Christina de Souza is a Tellurian: Michelle Ryan, who plays her, was born in 1984 CE.


Brain Train   Comic story, published 2009                                                Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather, Wolfie

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in south-east England.


The Sin Eaters   Audio story, released 2009                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Brian Minchin.

Takes place in and near Cardiff, self-dated 2009 CE, at a Bank Holiday, but before Risk Assessment. I’m guessing the Whitsun Bank Holiday.


The Last Sontaran   TV story, broadcast 2008                                    Doctor: 0

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

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

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing and near the Berkshire/ Buckinghamshire border, starting not long after The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky and ending six weeks later.


torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor   Audio drama, released 2017   Doctor: 0

featuring Torchwood

Written by Scott Handcock.

Informed guess Takes place online and in London, concluding implicitly some months after Tosh’s death.


Just the Ticket   Short story, published 2009                                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Phil Craggs.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Who By Fire   Illustrated short story, published 2009                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Andy Lane.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Fragments and Exit Wounds.


Inner Darkness   Audio drama, released 2015                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Dorian Gray

Written by Mark B Oliver.

Informed guess Takes place in Iceland; self-dated 2009 CE.


Lost Souls   Audio drama, broadcast 2008                                             Doctor: 0   

Featuring UNIT, Captain Jack, Torchwood, Martha

Written by Joseph Lidster.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff and on the Franco-Swiss border, soon after Fragments and Exit Wounds. In this timeline, the CERN Large Hadron Collider was evidently switched on some nine months after our own.


Captain Jack and the Selkie   Illustrated short story, published 2009       Doctor: 0                       

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Carole E Barrowman and John Barrowman.

Informed guess Takes place in Scotland, about the same time as Who By Fire as published.


The Day of the Clown   TV story, broadcast 2008                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Phil Ford.

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing, self-dated October. This is the first time Sarah Jane meets Rani, yet they are well acquainted by Wraith World, dated September2009 CE. As this clearly takes place after Maria moves out of Bannerman Road after The Last Sontaran, I am forced to disregard the reference to October; perhaps it can be put down to an Enfolded Time effect from Candy Jar books.  


Apocalypse Slough   Short story, published 2009                                    Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Mark Morris.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Slough, Berkshire.


Gordian   Illustrated short story, published 2009                                      Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Steven Savile.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Captain Jack and the Selkie as published.


The Man Who Dreamed of Stars   Illustrated short story, published 2009                                                                                                                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Brian Minchin.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Gordian as published.


Secrets of the Stars   TV story, broadcast 2008                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

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

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing, after The Day of the Clown.

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.

ELEVEN TWELFTHS OF THE EARTH’S POPULATION IS BRIEFLY HYPNOTISED.


Death Disco   Comic story, published 2008                                               Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Alan Barnes.

Informed guess Takes place partly in Birmingham; self-dated 2009 CE.


Almost Perfect   Novel, published in 2008                                      Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, soon after Fragments and Exit Wounds.


Foot Soldiers   Comic story, published 2009                                             Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather, Wolfie

Written by Eddie Robson.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


The Mark of the Beserker   TV story, broadcast 2008                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

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

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing, Washington DC and the coast of the UK, after Secrets of the Stars.


Closing Time   Illustrated short story, published 2009                             Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Andy Lane.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, concluding after The Man Who Dreamed of Stars as published.


The Last Voyage of Osiris   Illustrated short story, published 2009      Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Closing Time as published.


The Ghost House   Audio story, released 2008                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Stephen Cole.

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing, after The Day of the Clown.


Stakes on a Plane   Illustrated short story, published 2009                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by James Moran.

Informed guess Takes place after The Last Voyage of Osiris, as published.


In the Shadows   Audio story, released 2009                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Joseph Lidster.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; the later periods not long after Fragments and Exit Wounds.


Peri and the Piscon Paradox   Audio drama, released 2011 Doctors: 5, 6

Featuring Peri, with the Time Lords, Romana (informative mention)

Written by Nev Fountain.

Informed guess Takes place in Los Angeles, Ca.; self-dated 2009 CE.


I May Be Some Time   Illustrated short story, published 2009                Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by David Llewellyn.

Informed guess Takes place after Stakes on a Plane, as published.


The Keep Killing Andy   Illustrated short story, published 2009           Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; after I May Be Some Time as published.


Broken   Comic story, published 2009                                                        Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood                11

Written by Gary Russell and Nick Abadzis.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; around the time of They Keep Killing Andy, as published.


The Time Capsule   Audio story, released 2008                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Peter Anghelides.

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing; dated a year after Invasion of the Bane and after The Ghost House as released.


Flotsam and Jetsam   Illustrated short story, published 2009                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Kate Orman.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, about the same time as They Keep Killing Andy.


The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith   TV story, broadcast 2008        Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, with the Graske (glimpse)

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

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing and Hertfordshire, after The Mark of the Beserker as broadcast.


Photo Finish   Illustrated short story, published 2010                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Mark Morris.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Flotsam and Jetsam as published.


The Ball and Chain Gang   Comic story, published 2009                       Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Edinburgh. An Edinburgh University summer ball would probably take place in July.


Fated to Pretend   Illustrated short story, published 2010                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Brian Minchin.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, at about the same time as Photo Finish.


The Avenues of Possibility   Audio drama, released 2019             Doctor: 6

Featuring Charley

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Informed guess Takes place in London and Manchester; the latest sections self-dated July 2009 CE.


Asylum   Audio drama, broadcast 2009                                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Anita Sullivan.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, between Fragments and Exit Wounds and Children of the Earth.


Postcards From the Rift   Illustrated short story, published 2010          Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Guy Adams.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Fated to Pretend as published.


Into the Silence Novel, published in 2009                                      Doctor: 0      10

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Sarah Pinborough.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, before Children of the Earth and after Almost Perfect as published.


Reflections   Illustrated short story, published 2010                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Juliet E McKenna.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, at about the same time as Postcards From the Rift.


Bay of the Dead   Novel, published in 2009                                    Doctor: 0

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

Written by Mark Morris.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Into the Silence.


The Package   Illustrated short story, published 2010                                Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Reflections as published.


The House That Jack Built Novel, published in 2009            Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Guy Adams.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Bay of the Dead.


Ashes to Ashes   Illustrated short story, published 2010                           Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Sandra Shennan.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, at about the same time as The Package.


The Eternal Summer   Audio drama, released 2009                  Doctor: 5

Featuring Nyssa, with the Rutan (informative mention)

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Informed guess Takes place in Stockbridge; ending self-datedly in early August 2009 CE.


The Pictures of Emptiness Novella, published in 2009                 Doctor: 10

Written by Jacqueline Rayner.

Contemporary to publication Takes place partly in London.


Enemy of the Bane   TV story, broadcast 2008                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Sarah Jane, the Sontarans, the Bane

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

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing, after The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith as broadcast.


Rift-Raff   Illustrated short story, published 2010                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Lynn Johnston.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, at about the same time as The Package.


Risk Assessment Novel, published in 2009                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Queen Victoria, Captain Jack, Torchwood, with the Daleks, the Ice Warriors, UNIT, Martha (informative mention)

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after The House That Jack Built.        

Victoria, of Great Britain and Ireland by the Grace of God Queen, Defender of the Faith and Empress of India, of the House of Hanover and by marriage of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, is a Tellurian born in 1819 CE.


Lockdown   Illustrated short story, published 2010                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Lisa Moran.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, at about the same time as The Package.


Rare Earth   Illustrated short story, published 2010                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Kate Orman.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff at about the same time as The Package.


The Undertaker’s Gift   Novel, published in 2009                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Risk Assessment.


The End of the Rainbow   Illustrated short story, published 2009        Doctor: 10

Written by Jacqueline Rayner.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Prisoner of the Judoon   TV story, broadcast 2009                         Doctor: 0

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

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

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing; some time after Enemy of the Bane.


…And Not a Drop to Drink   Short story, published 2009                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Steven Wickham.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Scotland.


Golden Age   Audio drama, broadcast 2009                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Delhi, capital city of India, after Asylum as broadcast.


Everything’s True   Illustrated short story, published 2010                      Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Guy Adams.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Rare Earth.


Perfect Day   Short story, published 2021                                              Doctor: 0


featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, Lucy Wilson


Written by Susan Brand.


Takes place in South Wales. Lucy, born in June 2005 CE, is four.


Consequences   Narrative story anthology, published 2009           Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by James Moran, Joseph Lidster, Andrew Cartmel, Sarah Pinborough and David Llewellyn.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, concluding after Golden Age.


The Turning of the Tide   Illustrated short story, published 2019    Doctor: 10 (Unbound)

Featuring Rose

Written by Jenny T Colgan.

Informed guess Takes place on Pete’s World; self-dated two years after Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.


The Secret of Crow Island   Illustrated short story, published 2010       Doctor: 0    

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by David Llewellyn.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, at about the same time as Rare Earth.


The Mad Woman in the Attic   TV story, broadcast 2009            Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, K9 IV

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

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing and Sussex, after Prisoner of the Judoon as broadcast.


The Sontaran Games   Novella, published in 2009                           Doctor: 10

Featuring the Sontarans, the Rutan

Written by Jacqueline Rayner.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Department X   Audio story, released 2011                                      Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after The Sin Eaters as released.


Somebody Else’s Problem   Comic story, published 2010                      Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, at about the same time as Rare Earth.


The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: Watch It Come Down      Comic story, published 2012                                                                       Doctors: 1, 11 (glimpse)

Featuring Vampires

Written by Alan Moore.

Informed guess Takes place in London and elsewhere in the UK, and briefly in Africa; self-dated 2009 CE. Kevin O’Neill gives the Doctor another wordless cameo appearance, this time in two incarnations. They both look knowing and not dissatisfied with how things are going.


Red-Handed   Illustrated short story, published 2010                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Kate Orman.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Somebody Else’s Problem as published.


Hell House   Comic story, published 2010                                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Roger Gibson.

Informed guess Takes place in and near Cardiff, around the same time as Red-Handed.


The Dead Line   Audio drama, broadcast 2009                                    Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Phil Ford.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Golden Age as broadcast.


Cultural Firsts   Illustrated short story, published 2010                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Richard Stokes.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, around the same time as Red Handed.


The Party in Room Four   Short story, published 2009                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme             

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Contemporary to publication Takes place near Salisbury, a city in Wiltshire, and quite near the A303; self-dated summer.


The Devil and Miss Carew   Audio drama, broadcast 2011             Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Rupert Laight.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; after The Dead Line as broadcast.


Submission   Audio drama, broadcast 2011                                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Ryan Scott.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, on the Severn Bridge, Tokyo and in the Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean, after The Devil and Miss Carew as broadcast.


The Mind’s Eye   Illustrated short story, published 2010                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, around the same time as Red Handed.


Silver-Tongued Liars   Short story, released 2020                           Doctor: 0

Featuring Liz, the Cyberons, PROBE

Written by James Wylder.

Takes place in London and Philadelphia, the later sections dated 2009 CE.


Outbreak Stage One – Incubation: Know   Audio drama, released 2016                                                                                                                                                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Guy Adams.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; self-dated 2009 CE


Outbreak Stage Two – Prodromal: Love   Audio drama, released 2016                                                                                                                                                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Emma Reeves.

Takes place in Cardiff, immediately after Outbreak Stage One -Incubation: Know.


Outbreak Stage Three – Invasion: Kill   Audio drama, released 2016                                                                                                                                                                        Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by A K Benedict.

Takes place in Cardiff, immediately after Outbreak Stage Two -Prodromal: Love.


Ghost Train   Audio story, released 2011                                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Department X as released.


Wraith World   Audio story, released 2010                                           Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright.

Takes place in London; self-dated September, 2009.


We All Go Through   Illustrated short story, published 2010                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by James Goss and Steve Tribe.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after The Mind’s Eye.


Dissected   Audio drama, released 2020                                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring UNIT, Torchwood, Martha            

Written by Tim Foley.

Informed guess Takes place in Hereford. A Christmas party is described as having taken place since Tosh and Owen’s deaths, but nobody is remembering things very clearly this evening.


The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith   TV story, broadcast 2009 Doctor: 10

Featuring Sarah Jane, K9 IV

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

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing and Buckinghamshire, after The Mad Woman in the Attic as broadcast.


Rhys & Ianto’s Excellent Barbecue   Audio drama, released 2020       Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by Tim Foley.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, after Dissected.


Shrouded   Comic story, published 2010                                                    Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Gareth David-Lloyd.

Takes place in Cardiff, concluding in September or early October 2009 CE.


Coffee   Audio drama, released 2021                                              Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by James Goss

Takes place in Cardiff, ending after Shrouded.


Long Time Dead   Novel, published in 2011                                    Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood, with Captain Jack (informative mention)

Written by Sarah Pinborough.

Takes place in Cardiff; self-dated October 2009 CE.


Don’t Step On the Grass   Comic story, published 2010                         Doctor: 10

Featuring UNIT, Martha, Emily, Matthew

Written by Tony Lee.

Takes place in Greewich; self-dated shortly after September 2009 CE.

Emily Winter is a Tellurian, born in the early 1900s CE.

Matthew Finnegan is a Tellurian, born around 1900 CE.


The Deviant Strain   Novel, published in 2005                             Doctor: 9

Featuring Rose, Captain Jack

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place on the north coast of Russia; self-dated twenty years after the end of the Cold War.


This Hollywood Life   Charity short story, published 1999                      Doctor: 8

Featuring Fitz or the Remembered Fitz, with Grace (informative mention)

Written by Jonathan Dennis.

Informed guess Takes place in Hollywood, Ca; self-dated 2009 CE.


Shadows of the Time Before   Short story, published 2009                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Matt Kimpton.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on the coast of Cornwall


Blue Forgotten Planet   Audio drama, released 2009                     Doctor: 6

Featuring Charley, the Viyrans

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on Earth, in a negated timeline. I’m assuming that the time the Doctor winds Earth back to is contemporaneous with the CD’s release.         


Monster Hunt   Web comic story, released 2009                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, the Judoon

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Contemporary to release Takes place in Ealing and in space.


The Guardian of Murcher   Comic story, published 2009                      Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Edinburgh and on the Murcher Moon.


The Eternity Trap   TV story, broadcast 2009                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

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

Informed guess Takes place in the English countryside, after The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith as broadcast.


Scared Stiff   Illustrated short story, published 2009                                Doctor: 10

Featuring the Gelth

Written by Mark Gatiss.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Cheltenham, a town of Gloucestershire; self-dated Hallowe’en.


Vortex Butterflies   Comic story, published 2017           Doctors: 10, 12, with 3, 4 (glimpse)

Featuring Sarah Jane, the Osirians, Gabby, Cindy, Noobis

Written by Nick Abadzis.

Informed guess Takes place variously but pivotally in Willesden, self-dated 2009 CE and after Sarah Jane’s wedding.

Gabriella Fernanda Lucia Gonzalez, know as Gabby, is a Tellurian born in the mid-1990s CE.

Cindy Wu is a Tellurian born in the mid-1990s CE.

Anubis, known as Noobis, is an Osiran, his age incalculable but certainly at large around 5000 BCE.


Only Living Girls   Short story, published 2009                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme, Fitz?

Written by Stephen Cole.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK. Mr Cole would have us believe that the character in this story called Fritz is in point of fact Fitz.


The White Wolf   Audio story, released 2009                                      Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Gary Russell.

Informed guess Takes place in Dorset; self-dated November, before Deadly Download as released.


The Brigadier Rides Again Short story, published 2018                      Doctor: 0


featuring Lethbridge-Stewart


Written by Ross Hastings.


Takes place in the UK. Lethbridge-Stewart is living in a nursing home.


Mona Lisa’s Revenge   TV story, broadcast 2009                             Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, with K9 IV (informative mention)

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

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing and central London, after The Eternity Trap as broadcast.


The Genuine Article   Online animation, released 2021                     Doctor: 10

Written by Dominic G Martin.

Takes place in Cardiff; self-dated 2009 CE.


Deadly Download   Audio story, released 2009                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Jason Arnopp.

Takes place in Ealing, in late November.


Ghosts of the Northern Line Comic story, published 2009                  Doctor: 10    

Featuring Majenta

Written by Dan McDaid.

Informed guess Takes place beneath North London; self-dated late 2009 CE.

Majenta Price is a Vessican, of unknown birthdate, humanoid but not obviously of Tellurian ancestry, being green and pointy-eared.


Brenda’s B&B   Short story, published 2009                                             Doctor: 0

Featuring Brenda, with the Vampires, Iris Wildthyme (informative mention)

Written by Paul Magrs.

Takes place in Whitby; self-dated early December 2009 CE.


The Advent of Fear   Web based short story, released 2009                   Doctor: 10

Written by Mark B Oliver.

Contemporary to release Takes place in the UK; self-dated mid-December.


The Gift TV story, broadcast 2009                                                           Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, K9 IV, the Raxacoricofallapatorians

Written by Rupert Laight, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing and Antarctica, after Mona Lisa’s Revenge as broadcast.


The Stockbridge Child Comic story, published 2009                             Doctor: 10

Featuring Majenta, with UNIT, Torchwood (informative mention)

Written by Dan McDaid.

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


The Doctor on My Shoulder   Web based short story, released 2009  Doctor: 10

Written by Daniel Roth.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK; near Christmas, but in term-time.


The Shadow People Audio story, released 2009                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Scott Handcock.

Contemporary to release Takes place in Ealing and Snowdonia, after Prisoner of the Judoon as released. Not sure I’d organise a school trip to Snowdonia in December, but there we are.


A Merry Little Christmas   Comic story, published 2009                       Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather

Written by Eddie Robson.

Takes place in Stillmuir, Scotland; self-dated Christmas 2009 CE.


Planet of the Elves   Short story, published 2009                                    Doctor: 4

featuring Adric

Written by John Binns.

contemporary to publication Takes place partly at the North Pole, at Christmas.


The Stuff of Nightmares   Audio drama, released 2009                 Doctor: 4

Featuring Yates, Mrs.Wibbsey, the Hornets, with UNIT (informative mention)

Written by Paul Magrs.

Takes place in Sussex; self-dated Christmas Eve, 2009 CE.


Hive of Horror   Audio drama, released 2009                                     Doctor: 4

Featuring Yates, Mrs Wibbsey, the Hornets, with UNIT, K9II (informative mention)

Written by Paul Magrs.

Takes place in Sussex, immediately after The Stuff of Nightmares.              10


The End of Time TV story, broadcast 2009            Doctors: 10, with 11 (glimpse)

Featuring the Time Lords, the Master, the Ood, Donna, Wilf, with the Daleks, UNIT, the Sontarans, Sarah Jane, Rose, Mickey, the Raxacoricofallapatorians, Captain Jack, the Sycorax, Martha, the Judoon (glimpse)

Written by Russell T Davies, with a scene by Steven Moffat.

Takes place in London and elsewhere; self-dated Christmas Day, 2009 CE.


Frosty the Snowdemon Comic story, published 2008                            Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Takes place in the UK; the Doctor tells Donna it is “next Christmas”.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               1474

Proportion Written By Women   10%                                        

 

Top Docs

3                 216 stories

4                 134 stories

7                 123 stories

10               117 stories           Climber!

8                 86 stories  

6                 80 stories  

5                 79 stories  

2                 69 stories  

1                 48 stories

11               30 stories            Climber!    

Unbound   28 stories  

9                 17 stories

12               16 stories            

13               5 stories    

         

         

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                383 stories         

Regional England                                               319 stories

UNIT                                                                    298 stories   Climber!

Alastair, Kate and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                                                               288 stories

Torchwood                                                         161 stories   Climber!

North America                                                   151 stories

Wales                                                                  150 stories   Climber!

Captain Jack                                                       125 stories   Climber!

Sarah Jane                                                          123 stories

Jo                                                                         94 stories  

Benton                                                                92 stories           

Continental Europe                                           85 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            80 stories                     

Ace                                                                      77 stories

Christmas                                                            76 stories   Climber!

The Time Lords                                                  70 stories  

At sea                                                                  69 stories  

Yates                                                                   68 stories

Iris Wildthyme                                                   67 stories   Climber!

The K9s                                                               67 stories  

         

 

 

 

         

Top Decades

 

The Noughties                                                    572 stories                   

The Teens                                                           430 stories

The Nineties                                                       186 stories

The Seventies                                                    120 stories         

The Twenties                                                     76 stories   Climber!

The Eighties                                                        57 stories  

The Sixties                                                          33 stories  

 

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2008                                                           123 stories

2009                                                          92 stories   Re-entry!

2007                                                           70 stories  

2001                                                          68 stories  

2016                                                          62 stories   Climber!

2006                                                          59 stories  

2019                                                          59 stories   Climber!

2018                                                          56 stories  

2005                                                          46 stories

2015                                                          45 stories

2017                                                          45 stories   Climber!    

1999                                                          42 stories           

2004                                                          40 stories  

2010                                                          40 stories   Re-entry!

2013                                                          40 stories  

2020                                                          40 stories   Climber!

2011                                                          37 stories   Climber!

2021                                                          36 stories

1993                                                          33 stories  

2012                                                          33 stories   Climber!             

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                                513

Proportion of Female Writers                         16%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Russell T Davies                                       62 stories  

Paul Magrs                                                40 stories   Climber!

Terrance Dicks                                          35 stories  

James Goss                                               31 stories   Re-entry!

? John Canning                                         30 stories  

Justin Richards                                         25 stories  

Joseph Lidster                                          24 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        22 stories   Climber!

Eddie Robson                                            21 stories  

Andy Frankham-Allen                             18 stories

Steve Lyons                                               18 stories   Climber!

Andrew Cartmel                                      17 stories                      

Stephen Cole                                            17 stories   Climber!

John Dorney                                             17 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                      17 stories   Climber!    

Gary Russell                                              17 stories   Climber!    

Trevor Baxendale                                     16 stories   Climber!

Simon Guerrier                                        16 stories   Climber!

Eric Saward                                               16 stories  

Anonymous Polystyle Writers               15 stories=

Paul Cornell                                              15 stories=

         

 

         

         

         

 

 

 

 

 

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