Now: Two Thousand and Ten

 

Dead-line   Comic story, published 2010                                        Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather

Written by Christopher Cooper.

informed guess Takes place in Edinburgh; self-dated 2010 CE.


Code of the Krillitane    Novella, published in 2010             Doctor: 10

Featuring the Krillitanes

Written by Justin Richards.

informed guess Takes place on the outskirts of London; self-dated 2010 CE.


Panda on Ice   Short story, published 2010                                    Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Richard Salter.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Toronto, a city of Canada; self-dated winter.


The House of the Dead   Audio drama, broadcast 2011       Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Takes place in Cardiff, shortly before the conclusion of Children of the Earth.


The Age of Ice   Comic story, published 2009                               Doctor: 10

Featuring UNIT, the Skith, Majenta

Written by Dan McDaid.

informed guess Takes place in Sydney, New South Wales; self-dated summer (in the southern hemisphere), 2010 CE.

The Skith are a bipedal spacefaring race of apparently crystal form, though it cannot be said whether their material is inorganic in Tellurian terms.


A Choice of Houses preceded by Briefing M   Short story, published 2018                                                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring the Second War in Heaven, with Faction Paradox (glimpse), and the Malakh (informative mention)

Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.

Takes place on Jersey; self-dated Lent, 2010 CE.

Jersey was the largest of the Channel Islands, located off the north coast of France but politically part of the UK.


Children of Earth   TV story, broadcast 2009                    Doctor: 0

Featuring UNIT, Captain Jack, Torchwood

Written by Russell T Davies, John Fay and James Moran.

Takes place in Cardiff, London and Sussex; ends self-datedly six months after September 2009 CE.


Kangs for the Memories!!! Or, Guess Whos Coming to Dinner!                                                                           Comic story, published 1990                                 Doctor: 0

featuring Death’s Head

Written by Walter Simonson.

Takes place partly in Andromeda; self-dated some twenty years after 1990 CE.


Death and Diplomacy   Novel, published in 1996          Doctor: 7     

featuring Benny, Roz, Chris, with the Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Dave Stone.

Takes place in the Dagellan Cluster; self-dated about fifteen years after 1996 CE.

Why I Respectfully Disagree With Lance Parkin

The most likely reason that the Doctor organises the wedding of Benny and Jason in 2010 CE, seems to me that the events of Death and Diplomacy take place then.


Happy Endings   Novel, published in 1996                          Doctors: 7, Unbound

featuring the Time Lords, the Master, the Ice Warriors, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton,

the Earth Reptiles, Yates, Romana, the Pakhars, Ace, the Timewyrm, Benny, Kadiatu,

Sherlock Holmes, Roz, Chris, with Braxiatel, the Land of Fiction, the Alpha Centaurans,

Death, the Worldsphere (glimpse)

Written by Paul Cornell, with contributions from John Peel, Terrance Dicks, Nigel Robinson, Marc Platt, Andrew Cartmel, Andrew Hunt, Mark Gatiss, Ben Aaronovitch, Gareth Roberts, Neil Penswick, Peter Darvill-Evans, Andy Lane, David McIntee, Christopher Bulis, David Banks, Daniel Blythe, Kate Orman, Steve Lyons, Gary Russell, Justin Richards, Simon Messingham, Daniel O’Mahoney, Dave Stone, Paul Leonard, Lance Parkin.

Takes place in Cheldon Bonniface, Norfolk; self-dated April 2010 CE.

The Pakhars are a species of spacefaring mammalian bipeds.

Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart is an engineered Tellurian born (?) in the late twenty-first century CE and adopted into the Lethbridge-Stewart family.

Sherlock Holmes is a Tellurian born in 1854 CE (His Last Bow), although he seems not to have gone to college until his mid-twenties (The Adventure of the Gloria Scott, A Study in Scarlet).

The Alpha Centaurans are a species of spacefaring hermaphroditic monocular hexapods.


Attack of the Space Leeches   Comic story, published 2010       Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Oli Smith.

Takes place in London; self-dated April 2010 CE.


First Born   Novel, published in 2011                                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood, with Captain Jack (glimpse)

Written by James Goss.

Takes place in Rawbone, Wales; self-dated 2010 CE.


The Stray   Comic story, published 2010                                             Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Eddie Robson.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.

 

Byzantium, released in 2013 but set in 2010, is a vampire film broadly compatible with Doctor Who narrative.

 

A Stain of Red in the Sand Audio short story, released 2010     Doctor: 2

Featuring Zoe

Written by David A McEwan.

Contemporary to release Takes place in the UK.


Blood of the Cybermen   Video Game, released 2010         Doctor: 11

Featuring the Cybermen, Amy, with UNIT (informative mention)

Written by Phil Ford.

Takes place in the Arctic; self-dated May, 2010 CE.


Day Trip   Short story, published 2019                                      Doctor: 0

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart

Written by Alan Darlington.

Takes place in and above the UK, implicitly on the day of a VE Day commemoration, plausibly the sixty-fifth anniversary in 2010 CE.


The Lodger   TV story, broadcast 2010                                       Doctor: 11    

Featuring Amy, Craig, with the Silents (glimpse)

Written by Gareth Roberts, script supervised by Steven Moffat.

Contemporary to broadcast Takes place in Colchester, a town in Essex.


Claws of the Macra   Gamebook, published in 2010               Doctor: 11

Featuring the Macra, UNIT, Amy

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on Earth. 


The Forgotten Army   Novel, published in 2010              Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy, with UNIT (informative mention)

Written by Brian Minchin.

Takes place in New York, NY; self-dated June 2010 CE.


The Story Eater   Short story, published 2010                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Richard Wright.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in New Delhi; self-dated June.


The Men Who Sold the World   Novel, published in 2011               Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood, with Captain Jack (informative mention)

Written by Guy Adams.

Informed guess Takes place in the USA, Cardiff and the Caribbean, nine months after September 2009 CE.


The Eleventh Hour   TV story, broadcast 2010                       Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy, Rory

Written by Steven Moffat.

Takes place in Leadworth, a village in Gloucestershire; the latest period dated June 2010 CE in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone.


The Pandorica Opens   TV story, broadcast 2010                 Doctor: 11

Featuring the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Nestene Consciousness, River Song, WinstonChurchill, Amy, Rory, with the Earth Reptiles, the Draconians, the Sontarans, the Zygons, the Tereleptils, the Chellonians, the Raxacoricofallapatorians, the Sycorax, the Judoon (glimpse), and the Silents (informative mention)

Written by Steven Moffat. 

Takes place variously, but pivotally in Leadworth; self-dated June 2010 CE and shortly after The Eleventh Hour.


The Last Doctor   Charity short story, published 2016                  Doctor: Unbound

Featuring Unbound Master

Written by Paul Cornell.

Informed guess Takes place in a version of the Universe in which it is dissipating in a non-linearly chronological way. This might be a consequence of the events of The Pandorica Opens.


The Big Bang   TV story, broadcast 2010                                   Doctor: 11

Featuring the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Nestene Consciousness, River Song,  Amy, Rory, with the Earth Reptiles, the Draconians, the Sontarans, the Zygons, the Tereleptils, the Chellonians, the Raxacorricofallapatorians, the Sycorax, the Judoon (glimpse), and the Silents (informative mention)

Written by Steven Moffat.

Takes place in London and pivotally in Leadworth, after The Pandorica Opens.


Time Flies   Comic story, published 2008                                      Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Takes place in the UK; Donna describes it as “the middle of next year”.


Certificate of Destruction   Short story, published 2006           Doctor: Unbound 6    

Featuring William/Isaac

Written by Andrew Cartmel.

Informed guess Takes place in southwest London, during the early twenty-first century CE. England have just failed to win the World Cup and there seems to be a recession. Some of the events of this story are, or should be, negated by DS Al Fine. The alien intelligences controlling dogs and cats are, respectively, vermiform and arachnid: this dichotomy between “snakes” and “spiders” may make this an action of the Second War in Heaven, as I shall explain later.


The Golden Ones   Comic story, published 2010                          Doctor: 11

featuring UNIT, Axos, Amy, Chiyoko, with Martha (informative mention)

Written by Jonathan Morris.

contemporary to publication Takes place in Tokyo.

Chiyoko is a humanoid time-traveller, self-organised extra-temporally from several templates including Tellurian and TT Capsule.

 

Uncle Boonmee, Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) slips ambiguously into Doctor Who narrative in the general area of N-forms and Mal'akh, in the form of a were-monkey, a were-catfish and possibly a were-buffalo.

 

Most Haunted   Comic story, published 2010                               Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Steve Lyons.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


The Nightmare Man   TV story, broadcast 2010                    Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, K9IV, with the Raxacorricofallapatorians (glimpse)

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

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing, before the beginning of the academic year in 2010 CE.


In the Can   Comic story, published 2010                                       Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Eddie Robson.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


The Vault of Secrets   TV story, broadcast 2010                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, with the Ice Warriors, the Judoon (informative mention)

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

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing, after The Nightmare Man as broadcast.


Apollo 23   Novel, published in 2010                                          Doctor: 11

featuring Amy, with UNIT, Control, Torchwood (informative mention)

Written by Justin Richards.

contemporary to publication Takes place in London and Texas and on the Moon.


Death of the Doctor   TV story, broadcast 2010                           Doctor: 11

Featuring UNIT, Jo, Sarah Jane, the Graske, with Barbara, Ian, Polly, Ben, Lethbridge-Stewart, Liz, Tegan, Ace, Amy, Rory (informative mention)

Written by Russell T Davies.

contemporary to publication Takes place in Ealing and North Wales; after The Vault of Secrets as broadcast.


Police and Shreeves   Audio short story, released 2010              Doctor: 7

Featuring Ace, with Lethbridge-Stewart (informative mention)

Written by Adam Smith.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


The Trick   Comic story, published 2010                                         Doctor: 11  

Featuring Amy

Written by Oli Smith.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Texas; self-dated Hallowe’en.


The Night After Hallowe’een    Web short story, released 2010 Doctor: 11

Written by Mark B Oliver.

Contemporary to release Takes place in the UK; self-dated the night after Hallowe’een.


The Siege of Big Ben   Audio short story, released 2018              Doctor: Unbound 10

Featuring Unbound UNIT, Jackie

Written by Joseph Lidster.

Takes place in the London of Pete’s World, some months after The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End.


Annabel Regina Short story, published 2010                                Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by George Mann.

Contemporary to publication Very probably takes place in or near Darlington.


The Empty Planet TV story, broadcast 2010                           Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

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

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing, after Death of the Doctor, as broadcast.


The Big Blue Box   Comic story, published 2010                           Doctor: 10

Written by Matthew Dow Smith.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on Earth and in space.


The Little Bighorn Casino   Short story, published 2010           Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Kelly Hale.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Montana.

Montana is a landlocked constituent state of the USA, lying south of the Canadian border.


Lost in Time   TV story, broadcast 2010                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane

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

Takes place variously, but pivotally in Ealing, after The Empty Planet as broadcast; self-dated November 2010 CE.


Pencil Pusher   Comic story, published 2010                                 Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


How To Play Four-dimensional Chinese Checkers, And Win                                                                                                        Short story, published 2010               Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Lawrence Conquest.

contemporary to publication Takes place in China.


Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith   TV story, broadcast 2010     Doctor: 0

Featuring Sarah Jane, K9 IV

Written by Clayton Hickman and Gareth Roberts, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing, after Lost in Time as broadcast.


Situation Vacant Audio drama, broadcast 2010                      Doctor: 8    

Featuring the Vampires, Tamsin, with the Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Eddie Robson.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in London.

Tamsin Drew is a Tellurian. From the age of the actress playing her, Niky Wardley, at the time of recording, I estimate her birthdate as 1974 CE.


Old Friend   Comic story, published 2010                                      Doctor: 10

Featuring Emily

Written by Tony Lee.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on Earth.


Iris Wildthyme and the Colonic in Space   Short story, published 2010                                                                                                                                                              Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright.

Contemporary to publication Takes place on an island off the coast of Thailand.


Running Out of Time   Audio short story, released 2010            Doctor: 8

Written by Dorothy Koomson.

Contemporary to release Takes place in Worthing, West Sussex.


Snowfall   Web novella, released 2010                                        Doctor: 11

Featuring the Vampires, Amy or possibly a ganger Amy, Rory

Written by Gavin Collinson and Mark B Oliver.

Contemporary to publication Takes place variously, including in South America and London, but the framing action seems to be Old Year’s Night.

 

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               1521

Proportion Written By Women   10%                                        

 

Top Docs

3                 216 stories

4                 134 stories

7                 126 stories

10               124 stories         

8                 88 stories  

6                 81 stories  

5                 79 stories  

2                 70 stories  

11               49 stories            Climber!    

1                 48 stories

Unbound   30 stories  

9                 17 stories

12               16 stories            

13               5 stories    

         

         

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                397 stories         

Regional England                                               327 stories

UNIT                                                                    306 stories

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                                               292 stories

Torchwood                                                         166 stories  

North America                                                   157 stories

Wales                                                                  146 stories  

Sarah Jane                                                          129 stories

Captain Jack                                                       129 stories  

Jo                                                                         95 stories  

Benton                                                                93 stories           

Continental Europe                                           85 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            82 stories                     

Ace                                                                      80 stories   Climber!    

Christmas                                                            77 stories  

Iris Wildthyme                                                   73 stories   Climber!

The Time Lords                                                  71 stories  

At sea                                                                  71 stories  

Yates                                                                   69 stories  

The K9s                                                               69 stories            

        

          

Top Decades

 

The Noughties                                                    576 stories                   

The Teens                                                           475 stories

The Nineties                                                       189 stories

The Seventies                                                    120 stories         

The Eighties                                                        57 stories  

The Twenties                                                     76 stories  

The Sixties                                                          33 stories  

 

  

And Top Twenty Years

 

2008                                                          124 stories

2009                                                          94 stories  

2010                                                          78 stories   Climber!

2007                                                           70 stories  

2001                                                          68 stories  

2016                                                          63 stories  

2006                                                          60 stories  

2019                                                          60 stories  

2018                                                          58 stories  

2005                                                          46 stories

2015                                                          45 stories

2017                                                          45 stories  

1999                                                          42 stories           

2004                                                          40 stories  

2011                                                          40 stories  

2013                                                          40 stories  

2020                                                          40 stories  

2021                                                          36 stories

1993                                                          33 stories  

2012                                                          33 stories                     

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                                523

Proportion of Female Writers                         16%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Russell T Davies                                       69 stories  

Paul Magrs                                                40 stories  

Terrance Dicks                                          36 stories  

James Goss                                               33 stories  

? John Canning                                         30 stories  

Justin Richards                                         28 stories   Climber!

Joseph Lidster                                          26 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        26 stories   Climber!

Eddie Robson                                            24 stories  

Steve Lyons                                               20 stories  

Trevor Baxendale                                     19 stories   Climber!

Andrew Cartmel                                      19 stories                      

Andy Frankham-Allen                             18 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                      18 stories   Climber!    

Gary Russell                                              18 stories   Climber!    

Stephen Cole                                            17 stories  

John Dorney                                             17 stories  

Paul Cornell                                              16 stories   Climber!

Simon Guerrier                                        16 stories  

Eric Saward                                               16 stories  

 

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