Now: Twenty-Fifteen

 

The Girl Who Went Up In Smoke   Short story, published 2015                       Doctor: 0


Featuring Iris Wildthyme


Written by Greg Maughan.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in the Faroe Islands, in the North Atlantic.



In the Forest Of The Night   TV story, broadcast 2014                              Doctor: 12


Featuring Clara, with Missy (glimpse)


Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, script supervised by Steven Moffat.


Informed guess Takes place in London; before Dark Water and Death in Heaven.



Brenda and Effie: Many Happy Returns   Short story, published 2017           Doctor: 0


Featuring Brenda


Written by Tony Jones.


Informed guess Takes place in Whitby, self-dated February, “fifty years” after 1964 or 1965

CE.



The Pictures of Josephine Day   Comic story, published 2015                          Doctor: 8


Featuring Josie


Written by George Mann.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in Wales.

Josephine Day, known as Josie, is a golem or eidolon, being a painting made at the time of

the Vast and Bountiful Human Empire, given three-dimensional form and animated by the

personality of its subject, Lady Josephine.


The Eternal Dogfight and The Infinite Astronaut   Comic story, published 2015                                                                                                                                                                        Doctor: 11

Featuring Alice, John Jones, ARC


Written by Rob Williams.


Informed guess Takes place in Hackney, a district of London, and elsewhere in the Solar

System; self-dated 2015 CE.

John Jones is a Tellurian, born, we may assume given that he is an analogue of David Bowie,

in 1947 CE.

The Autonomous Reasoning Center, known as ARC, is a free-living polyp of The Entity, a vast

telepathic being of unknown origin to be found in space at a time of Tellurian interstellar

travel.



Dark Water and Death in Heaven   TV story, broadcast 2014     Doctor: 12


Featuring the Cybermen, Missy, UNIT, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Clara


Written by Steven Moffat.


Informed guess Takes place in London, not long after In the Forest of the Night. The

chronology of Stephen Moffat’s early 21st century is nearly as incoherent as his characters’

emotional lives, but the Doctor’s surprise at being made President of the World puts it

before The Hyperion Empire.



Fear is a Superpower  Webcast, released 2020                                                    Doctor: 12


Featuring the Cybermen, Clara


Written by James Peaty.


Takes place during Dark Water and Death in Heaven.



Kronos Vad’s History of the Earth Vol. 36,379   Audio drama, released 2015                                                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme


Written by David Llewellyn.


Takes place in London; self-dated 2015 CE.



She Came From Another World   Online short story, released 2021             Doctor: 0


featuring PROBE


Written by James Wylder.


Takes place in regional England, after A Worthy Successor.



Crystal Ball   Audio short story, released 2015                                                       Doctor: 7


Featuring Ace


Written by Rob Nisbet.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK, other than in Brighton or Perivale.



Double Date   Comic story, published 2015                                                           Doctor: 11


Featuring River Song, Amy, Rory


Written by Marc Ellerby.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.



The Lunar Strangers   Comic story, published 1994                                            Doctor: 5

featuring Tegan, Turlogh

Written by Gareth Roberts.

Takes place on the Moon; self-dated June 2015 CE.


Project: Nirvana   Audio drama, released 2012                                               Doctor: 7


Featuring the Forge, Sally, Lysandra


Written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright.


Informed guess Takes place in Romania; self-dated 2015 CE.



Selfie   Comic story, published 2015                                                                         Doctor: 12


Featuring Clara


Written by George Mann and Cavan Scott.


Takes place in San Diego, Ca.; presumably in July 2015 CE.



The Girl Who Stole the Stars   Short story, published 2015                               Doctor: 7


featuring Ace, Allen Road, Raine


Written by Andrew Cartmel.


contemporary to publication Takes place in Kent.



The Hyperion Empire   Comic story, published 2015                                          Doctor: 12


Featuring UNIT, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Clara


Written by Robbie Morrison.


Informed guess Takes place in the Lake District, London and elsewhere; self-dated summer

2015 CE.



Comeback of the Scorchies   Audio drama, released 2015                                Doctor: 0


Featuring Iris Wildthyme, the Scorchies


Written by James Goss.


Informed guess Takes place in Margate; self-dated 2015 CE, presumably summer.



Houses of Cards   Short story, published 2018                                                     Doctor: 0


Featuring Faction Paradox, the War in Heaven


Written by Lisa Sarah Good, with introductory material by Simon Bucher-Jones.


Takes place in Philadelphia, Pa. Historically, the HitchBot was vandalised at the end of July

2015 CE.



Bat Out of Hull   Audio drama, released 2015                                                  Doctor: 0


Featuring Brenda


Written by Paul Magrs.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in Robin Hood Bay, on the coast of Yorkshire.


A Brief History of the Lethbridge-Stewarts   Fictional Document, published 2015  Doctor: 0

Featuring the Lethbridge-Stewart family

Written by Andy-Frankham-Allan.


The Eye of Ashaya   Comic story, published 2013                                                 Doctor: 11


featuring Lady Christina, Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory


Written by Andy Diggle.


Informed guess Takes place largely in the Ashaya Nebula, “a couple” of years after 2013 CE;

also on Majorca, a Spanish possession in the Mediterranean.



The End of the Line   Audio drama, released 2015                                        Doctor: 6


Featuring the Master, the Valeyard, Constance


Written by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris.


Contemporary to release Takes place on and outside a British train.


The Beast of Stalingrad   Audio adaptation, released 2021                    Doctor: 0

featuring Erimem

Adapted from his novel by Iain McLaughlin.

Takes place in London and Stalingrad, the later sections dated summer 2015 CE.


Our Tune   Short story, published 2013                                                                      Doctor: 0


Featuring Iris Wildthyme


Written by Ross Douglas.


Takes place in the UK and on Iapetus; self-dated mid-August 2015 CE.



The Comfort of the Good   Comic story, published 2015                                    Doctor: 11


Featuring Alice, John Jones, ARC


Written by Al Ewing and Rob Williams.


Informed guess Takes place in London; principally self-dated 2015 CE, also in Rome.



Looking for a Friend   Audio drama, released 2015                                            Doctor: 0


Featuring Iris Wildthyme


Written by Paul Magrs.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in Soho and Bloomsbury, another district of

London.



Summer Wholiday   Comic story, published 2015                                                Doctor: 11


Featuring River Song, Amy, Rory, with the Earth Reptiles, the Ood


Written by Marc Ellerby.


Contemporary to publication Takes place variously, but pivotally in the UK at the end of

August.



Spirit in the Tomb                                                                                                      Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Claire Bartlett.


Informed guess Takes place in Erimem’s head, while she is asleep; self-dated 2015 CE.



Bow Ties For Goal Posts   Comic story, published 2015                                      Doctor: 11


Featuring Rory


Written by Marc Ellerby.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in Leadworth, during the football season, possibly

early in the football season.



Spicy Tea and Sympathy   Audio drama, released 2015                              Doctor: 0


Featuring Brenda, the Smudgelings


Written by Paul Magrs.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in Whitby, Yorks.



Clara Oswald And The School of Death   Comic story, published 2016          Doctor: 12


Featuring UNIT, the Earth Reptiles, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Clara


Written by Robbie Morrison.


Takes place in Scotland; self-dated September 2015 CE.



The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon Inversion                              

                                                                                    TV story, broadcast 2015           Doctor: 12

Featuring UNIT, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, the Zygons, Clara


Written by Peter Harness and Steven Moffat.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in London, New Mexico and central Asia.



The Vaults of Osiris   Audio drama, released 2015                                        Doctor: 7


Featuring the Osirians, Ace, Benny


Written by Justin Richards.


Informed guess Takes place in Egypt and Switzerland; the later sections self-dated 2015 CE.



The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web   Audio drama, released 2009                                                        Doctor: 8

Featuring the Giant Spiders, Lucie, the Headhunter


Written by Eddie Robson.


Takes place in Buckinghamshire and London; self-dated November 2015 CE.



The Partying of the Ways   Comic story, published 2015                                    Doctor: 12


Featuring the Zygons, the Ood, Clara


Written by Colin Bell.


Takes place in the TARDIS; self-dated November 2015 CE.



Onesies   Short story, published 2015                                                                     Doctor: 0


Featuring Iris Wildthyme


Written by Steve Palace.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in a version of Yorkshire. Strictly speaking,

Samhain and its costume shop were destroyed in March 2005 (Self-Possessed), but onesies and a

character who is clearly a version of Walter White from Breaking Bad strongly suggest a

decade later. I have decided that where Iris Wildthyme is concerned, culture takes

precedence over meaning.



Face the Raven   TV story, broadcast 2015                                                       Doctor: 12


Featuring Clara, Ashildr, with the Cybermen, the Ice Warriors, the Earth

Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Ood, the Judoon (glimpse)


Written by Sarah Dollard, script supervised by Steven Moffat.


Contemporary to broadcast Takes place in London.


Desperately Seeking Santa   Audio drama, released 2015                         Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Dorian Gray

Written by Tim Leng.

Takes place in the UK; self-dated December 2015 CE.


My Dad, the Doctor   Web short story, published 2015                                       Doctor: 12


Written by Jamie Mathieson.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.



Big Bang Generation   Novel, published 2015                                         Doctor: 12


Featuring the Pakhars, Benny, with the Killorans, Stacy, Ssard (glimpse)


Written by Gary Russell.


Takes place variously, including in London, Turkey and Sydney, NSW; self-dated late

December 2015 CE.

The Killorans are a species of spacefaring mammalian bipeds.

The Pakhar are a species of spacefaring rodentine bipeds.


All Through the House   Audio drama, released 2015                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Dorian Gray

Written by Alan Flanagan.

Takes place in London; self-dated Christmas Eve, 2015 CE.


In Search of Doctor X   Short story, published 2015                                            Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Beth Jones.


Takes place in London; self-dated Christmas 2015 CE. It seems unlikely that there should

be a popular TV series called Doctor X in 1964, an another unrelated one called Professor

X in 1976 (No Future). I assume that at some point in between, X got academic tenure.



Last Christmas   TV story, broadcast 2014                                                        Doctor: 12


Featuring Clara


Written by Steven Moffat.


Informed guess Takes place in London and possibly in the Arctic; some time after Dark Water

and Death in Heaven; implicitly on Christmas Eve.



The Caves of Erith Audio short story, released 2015                                            Doctor: 8


Featuring Lucie


Written by Alice Cavender.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in and near Bristol; self-dated Christmas.


Haunted   Web short story, published 2015                                               Doctor: 12

Written by Joseph Lidster.

Takes place in the UK; self-dated Christmas 2015 CE.


Brenda Has Risen From the Grave   Audio drama, released 2015         Doctor: 0

Featuring Brenda, the Smudgelings

Written by Paul Magrs.

Contemporary to release Takes place in Whitby, Yorks.


Alone in the Dark   Short story, published 2015                                                   Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Beth Jones.


Takes place presumably in London; after In Search of Doctor X as published.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               1766

Proportion Written By Women   10%                                        

 

Top Docs

3                 221 stories

4                 147 stories

7                 138 stories

10               134 stories         

11               123 stories         

8                 98 stories  

6                 92 stories  

5                 85 stories  

2                 78 stories  

1                 54 stories

12               40 stories   Climber!    

Unbound   32 stories  

9                 22 stories                     

13               5 stories

War            1 story      

         

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                470 stories         

Regional England                                               372 stories

UNIT                                                                    312 stories

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                       307 stories

North America                                                   189 stories

Torchwood                                                         183 stories  

Wales                                                                  172 stories  

Captain Jack                                                       146 stories

Sarah Jane                                                          138 stories

Jo                                                                          97 stories  

Continental Europe                                           96 stories           

Christmas                                                            93 stories   Climber!    

Iris Wildthyme                                                   93 stories   Climber!    

Benton                                                                93 stories           

Ace                                                                      87 stories           

The Master, including Missy                            87 stories                     

The Time Lords                                                  79 stories  

At sea                                                                  78 stories  

Yates                                                                    74 stories  

Amy and Rory                                                    74 stories   Re-entry!

 

         

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           690 stories

The Noughties                                                    589 stories                   

The Nineties                                                       191 stories

The Seventies                                                    120 stories         

The Twenties                                                     86 stories  

The Eighties                                                        57 stories  

The Sixties                                                          33 stories  

 

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2008                                                          126 stories

2011                                                          100 stories

2009                                                          96 stories  

2010                                                          83 stories  

2015                                                          83 stories   Climber!    

2013                                                          75 stories   Climber!

2007                                                           72 stories  

2001                                                          68 stories  

2016                                                          67 stories  

2018                                                          63 stories  

2006                                                          62 stories  

2012                                                          59 stories           

2019                                                          53 stories  

2014                                                          48 stories   Climber!

2017                                                          48 stories   Climber!    

2005                                                          47 stories  

2020                                                          46 stories   Climber!

1999                                                          42 stories           

2004                                                          42 stories

2021                                                          40 stories

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                                574

Proportion of Female Writers                         16%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Russell T Davies                                       84 stories  

Paul Magrs                                                53 stories  

James Goss                                               44 stories  

Terrance Dicks                                          36 stories  

Justin Richards                                         32 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        31 stories   Climber!

Eddie Robson                                            31 stories   Climber!

? John Canning                                         30 stories  

Joseph Lidster                                          29 stories  

Steve Lyons                                               27 stories  

Steven Moffat                                          27 stories   Climber!

Jonathan Morris                                      24 stories  

Andrew Cartmel                                      22 stories            

Gary Russell                                              22 stories  

Trevor Baxendale                                     20 stories  

Andy Frankham-Allen                             20 stories

Christopher Cooper                                 19 stories  

Paul Cornell                                              19 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                        19 stories  

Mark Wright                                             19 stories 

         

         

 

 

 

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