Now: Twenty-Sixteen

 

New Year, New Who   Comic story, published 2015                                 Doctor: 11

Featuring River Song, Amy, Rory

Written by Marc Ellerby.

Informed guess Takes place in Leadworth, at the New Year, and after Bow Ties for Goal
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as published.


And You Will Obey Me   Audio drama, released 2016              Doctor: 5

Featuring the Master

Written by Alan Barnes.

Informed guess Takes place in Hexford, the later sections self-dated 2016 CE.


Who Killed Kennedy: Epilogue   Short story, published 2016           Doctor: 12


Featuring Dodo


Written by David Bishop.


Takes place in the UK, ending shortly after December 2015. You might regard the 1996 and 
2016 editions of Who Killed Kennedy as separate stories and, if a real glutton for punishment, read them both.


Time Spill on Aisle 5   Comic story, published 2016                                Doctor: 11

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Ood, the Judoon

Written by Marc Ellerby.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


A Matter of Life and Death   Comic story, published 2016  Doctors: 8, with 12 (glimpse)

Featuring Josie, Clara

Written by George Mann.

Contemporary to publication Takes place partly in Wales, self-dated February.


The Bogeyman Charity short story, published 2016                                  Doctor: 6


Featuring Peri


Written by Andrew Hickey.


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



Crystal Balls and Clackers   Short story, published 2017                        Doctor: 0


Featuring Brenda


Written by Neil O’Brien.


Takes place in Whitby; self-dated late February 2016 CE.



Forgotten Lives   Audio drama, released 2015                                     Doctor: 0


Featuring Captain Jack, Torchwood


Written by Emma Reeves.


Takes place in North Wales; self-dated four years after the Miracle Day phenomenon.



Echoes   Short story, published 2016                                                           Doctor: 0


Featuring the Ice Warriors, Erimem


Written by Iain McLaughlin.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in Erimem’s head, presumably while she is asleep

in the Habitat. I am assuming that the crew of The Sword of Azar are Martian, particularly as

they are serving the, or a, Federation.



The Palace   Charity short story, released 2016                                         Doctor: 9


Featuring Rose


Written by Philip Marsh.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in a construct that has left Earth, but we may

assume that Rose entered it on contemporary Earth.


Smashed Audio drama, released 2019                                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Wales, implicitly shortly after Forgotten Lives.


Devil’s End   Comic story, published 2018                                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Olive Hawthorne

Written by James Hudnall.         

Informed guess Takes place in Devil’s End; self-dated “fifty years” (approximately) after The Daemons.


Vampire of the Mind   Audio drama, released 2016                   Doctor: 6

Featuring the Master, with UNIT (glimpse)                                                 

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place off the coast of southern England; self-dated 2016 CE.


Shock Horror   Comic story, published 2016                                             Doctor: 12

Written by Tommy Donbavand.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK and on Antagonista; self-dated 2016 CE.


More Than This Audio drama, released 2016                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by Guy Adams.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff, “ten years” after Day One, but implicitly before Ghost Mission.


The Girl With the Glass Face   Short story, published 2016                   Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Jim Mortimore.


Informed guess Takes place in London, after Echoes and before Tom’s Story: Part Two as

published.


The Faceless Two   Comic story, published 2016                                      Doctor: 12

Featuring Clara

Written by Colin Bell.

Informed guess Effectively, a prelude to The Fourth Wall.


The Fourth Wall   Comic story, published 2016                                        Doctor: 12

Featuring Clara

Written by Robbie Morrison.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in London.


Ghost Mission   Audio drama, released 2016                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Cardiff; self-dated 2016 CE.


The Wishing Well Witch   Comic story, published 2016                         Doctor: 10

featuring Gabby, Cindy, with the Osirians (informative mention)

Written by Nick Abadzis.

contemporary to publication Takes place in England.


Robo Rampage   Comic story, published 2016                                          Doctor: 12

Featuring UNIT

Written by Robbie Morrison.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2016 CE.

TTDWWWWTSTITPSFDTI A GIANT ROBOT PUSHES THE LONDON EYE INTO

THE THAMES.


Tom’s Story: Part Two   Short story, published 2016                           Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Iain McLaughlin.


Informed guess Takes place in the Cayman Islands, in the western Caribbean Sea, after The

Girl With the Glass Face. as published.


A Gamble With Time   Short story, published 2016                                 Doctor: 11


Featuring River Song


Written by Steve Lyons.


Takes place in London; self-dated early July 2016 CE.        



Moments of Passing   Online short story, published 2016                       Doctor: 0


Featuring Atlantis, Erimem


Written by James Mortimore.


Informed guess Takes place in London, concluding in a heatwave in the second half of

Erimem’s second year there. The third week of July 2016 CE fits the bill.


The Long Con   Comic story, published 2016                                         Doctors: 10, 11, 12

Featuring Gabby, Cindy, Alice

Written by Andrew James.

Takes place in Parthia in southwest Asia, Philadelphia and ending at a comics convention, presumably at San Diego, Ca,; self-dated 2016 CE, presumably July.


Ever After   Audio drama, released 2016                                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Dorian Gray

Written by Scott Handcock.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 2016 CE.


Cold   Illustrated short story, published 2009                                             Doctor: 10


featuring the Ice Warriors, Donna


Written by Mark Gatiss.


Informed guess Takes place in a mountainous region within the Arctic Circle; self-dated

ninety-eight years after 1918 CE.


The Transformed   Comic story, published 2016                                      Doctor: 9

Featuring Rose, Mickey, Captain Jack, Martha

Written by Cavan Scott.

Takes place in San Francisco, Ca.; self-dated August, 2016 CE.


The Adventures of Strax & The Time Shark 4 Comic story, published 2016   Doctor: 0

Featuring the Sontarans

Written by Grant Perkins.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth; self-dated summer, 2016 CE.


The Stockbridge Showdown   Comic story, published 2016                  Doctor: 12

Featuring Sharon, Stockbridge, Intra-Venus, Frobisher, Izzy, Destrii, Majenta, with Chiyoko

(informative mention)

Written by Scott Gray.

Takes place partly in Stockbridge; self-dated Autumn 2016 CE.
The Intra-Venus Corporation was an interstellar business concern flouring in the 82nd century CE, owned by Josiah W Dogbolter, and later his daughter Berakka.


Sweetie   Charity short story, released 2016                                               Doctor: 4


Featuring Leela, K9 I


Written by Sarah Hadley.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in a hospital in the USA.


The Eighth Piece and The Doomsday Chronometer                                                  

                                                  Audio drama, released 2016                          Doctor: 8

Featuring River Song, Liv, Helen, the Eight

Written by Matt Fitton.

Informed guess Takes place in Prague, London and principally in Rome; self-dated 2016 CE.

The Eight is an earlier incarnation of the Eleven.


The Ox Bow Train   Charity short story, published 2016                          Doctor: 2   


Featuring Polly, Ben


Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.


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



Tomorrow’s Fish and Chips Short story, published 2016                      Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem (informative mention)


Written by Iain McLaughlin.


Informed guess Takes place in London, after Tom’s Story Part Two as published.


The Honourable Burger   Comic story, published 2016                         Doctor: 10

Featuring the Sontarans

Written by Rachael Smith.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Wales.


For Tonight We Might Die   TV Story, broadcast 2016                   Doctor: 12


Featuring Coal Hill School


Written by Patrick Ness.


Takes place in Shoreditch, ending self-datedly in mid-October 2016 CE.



Yes, Missy   Illustrated short story, published 2016                                    Doctor: 0


Featuring UNIT, Missy, with the Daemons (informative mention)


Written by Paul Lang.


Takes place near Devil’s End, ending self-datedly in late October 2016 CE.


Sweet Nothings   Audio drama, released 2020                                    Doctor: 0

Featuring Coal Hill School

Written by Michael Dennis.


Takes place in Shoreditch, after For Tonight We Might Die before The Coach With the Dragon

Tattoo.



The Coach With The Dragon Tattoo   TV Story, broadcast 2016          Doctor: 0


Featuring Coal Hill School


Written by Patrick Ness.


Takes place in Shoreditch, ending self-datedly in late October 2016 CE.


Revolutions of Terror   Comic story, published 2014                              Doctor: 10

Featuring Gabby, Cindy

Written by Nick Abadzis.

Takes place in Brooklyn, New York, NY; self-dated the end of October, shortly before Echo.


The Creeper   Audio drama, released 2020                                           Doctor: 0

Featuring Coal Hill School

Written by Lizzie Hopley.

Takes place in Shoreditch at the Hallowe’en after For Tonight We Might Die.


Echo   Comic story, published 2015                                                             Doctor: 10

Featuring Gabby, Cindy

Written by Robbie Morrison.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Brooklyn, New York, NY; shortly after Revolutions of Terror, and self-dated November.


Family   Short story, published 2016                                                           Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Iain McLaughlin. 


Informed guess Takes place in London, after Tomorrow’s Fish and Chips as published. 



Joyride   Novel, published 2016                                                              Doctor: 0


Featuring Coal Hill School, with UNIT (glimpse)


Written by Guy Adams.


Takes place in Shoreditch, after The Coach With the Dragon Tattoo.


The Room   Audio drama, released 2017                                                Doctor: 0

Featuring Grace technology

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet inhabited by humanoids.


The Channel Hoppers   Charity short story, published 2016                  Doctors: 5, 12


Featuring Tegan, Turlogh


Written by Daniel Blythe.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK, the majority of it self-dated 2016 CE.



Time Welcomes Responsible Travellers   Short story, published 2016   Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Iain McLaughlin.


Informed guess Takes place in London, after Family as published.



Nightvisiting   TV Story, broadcast 2016                                               Doctor: 0


Featuring Coal Hill School


Written by Patrick Ness.


Takes place in Shoreditch, ending self-datedly in early November 2016 CE.


The Slitheen Diet Plan   Comic story, published 2016                            Doctor: 10

Featuring the Raxacorricofallapatorians

Written by Rachael Smith.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK. (My name for the untitled story in issue

2 15 of Titan Comics Tenth Doctor series.)


The Stone House   Novel, published 2016                                     Doctor: 0


Featuring Coal Hill School


Written by A K Benedict


Takes place in Syria, Turkey, in the Mediterranean, in Calais and London, after Nightvisiting

and before Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart.

Syria was republic on the Mediterranean coast of west Asia.

Turkey was an Asian republic lying north of Syria, occupying the Anatolian peninsula

between the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and a coastal enclave in Europe, bordering

Greece.

Calais was a port of northwest France, lying on the English Channel.


Now You Know…    Audio drama, released 2018                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Coal Hill School

Written by Tim Leng.


Takes place in Shoreditch, after The Stone House.


Catfish   Audio drama, released 2020                                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Coal Hill School

Written by Kate Thorman.

Takes place in Shoreditch, after Nightvisiting.


The Soer’s Ditch   Audio drama, released 2020                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Coal Hill School       

Written by Carl Rowens.

Takes place in Shoreditch, after Nightvisiting and before Tell Me You Love Me.


Playing House   Comic story, published 2016                                           Doctor: 12

Featuring Hattie

Written by George Mann.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK.


Tell Me You Love Me   Audio drama, released 2018                         Doctor: 0

Featuring Coal Hill School

Written by Scott Handcock.

Takes place in Shoreditch, after Nightvisiting.


In Remembrance   Audio drama, released 2018                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Coal Hill School, the Daleks, Ace

Written by Guy Adams.

Takes place in Shoreditch, after Now You Know…and before Detained.


The Fountain of Forever, Spiral Staircase and Sins of the Father                         Comic story, published 2015                                                           Doctor: 10

Featuring the Osirans, Gabby, Cindy

Written by Nick Abadzis.

Takes place in and above New York, NY.; after Echo and self-dated November.


Life Experience Audio drama, released 2018                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Coal Hill School

Written by Jenny Colgan.

Takes place in London, after The Soer’s Ditch.


Cindy, Cleo and the Magic Sketchbook   Comic story, published 2015                                                                                               Doctor: 10 (informative mention)

Featuring Captain Jack, Cindy, with the Osirians (informative mention)

Written by Nick Abadzis.

Takes place in Brooklyn, New York, NY.; very soon after The Fountain of Forever, Spiral Staircase and Sins of the Father.


Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart   TV Story, broadcast 2016               Doctor: 0


Featuring Coal Hill School


Written by Patrick Ness.


Takes place in Shoreditch, ending self-datedly in mid-November 2016 CE.



Brave-ish Heart   TV Story, broadcast 2016                                         Doctor: 0


Featuring Coal Hill School


Written by Patrick Ness.


Takes place in Shoreditch, ending self-datedly in mid-November 2016 CE.



Last Respects   Short story, published 2016                                              Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Julianne Todd.


Informed guess Takes place in London; after Time Welcomes Responsible Travellers as

published.



What She Does Next Will Astound You Novel, published 2016   Doctor: 0


Featuring Coal Hill School

Written by James Goss.           

Takes place in Shoreditch, concluding after Brave-ish Heart.


Arrr… Short story, published 2016                                                               Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Claire Bartlett.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in London.


Gifted   Audio drama, released 2018                                                         Doctor: 0

Featuring Coal Hill School

Written by Roy Gill.

Takes place in London, after Brave-ish Heart.


Everybody Loves Reagan   Audio drama, released 2018                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Coal Hill School

Written by Tim Foley.

Takes place in Shoreditch, before Mock.


The Dead Ringer   Comic story, published 2016                                       Doctor: 10

Featuring the Weeping Angels

Written by Rachael Smith.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in London .


Mock   Audio drama, released 2020                                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Coal Hill School

Written by Alfie Shaw.

Takes place in Shoreditch, before The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did Next.


Arena of Fear Comic story, published 2016                                               Doctor: 10

Featuring the Tereleptils, Captain Jack, Gabby, Cindy

Written by Nick Abadzis.

Takes place partly in New York, NY; shortly after Cindy, Cleo and the Magic Sketchbook.


Detained   TV Story, broadcast 2016                                                        Doctor: 0


Featuring Coal Hill School


Written by Patrick Ness.


Takes place in Shoreditch, ending self-datedly in November 2016 CE.



The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did   TV Story, broadcast 2016                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Coal Hill School


Written by Patrick Ness.


Takes place in London, simultaneously with Detained.



Lonely This Christmas   Short story, published 2016                              Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem (informative mention)


Written by Iain McLaughlin.


Takes place in London, before Night Work.



Night Work   Short story, published 2016                                                  Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Daniel McGachey.


Takes place in London; self-dated December 2016 CE.


Queen of Rhodia   Audio drama, released 2020                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Coal Hill School         

Written by Blair Mowat.

Takes place in Shoreditch, concluding at the beginning of The Lost.


The Lost   TV Story, broadcast 2016                                                         Doctor: 0


Featuring Coal Hill School, the Weeping Angels


Written by Patrick Ness.


Takes place in Shoreditch, ending self-datedly in December 2016 CE.


Pet Shop of the Cybermen Comic story, published 2016                       Doctor: 10

Featuring the Cybermen, Rose

Written by Rachael Smith.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK. (My name for the untitled story in issue 2 17 of Titan Comics Tenth Doctor series.)


Damn You, Bing Crosby   Short story, published 2016                           Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Iain McLaughlin.


Takes place in London; self-dated December 2016 CE and after Night Work.



The Grotto   Illustrated short story, published 2016                                  Doctor: 7


Featuring Ace


Written by Mike Tucker.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in Macy’s department store in New York, NY; self-

dated the holiday season.



Last Christmas   Short story, published 2016                                            Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Iain McLaughlin.


Takes place in London; self-dated Christmas 2016 CE and after Damn You, Bing Crosby.



Ghost of Christmas Past   Illustrated short story, published 2016         Doctor: 8


Featuring Susan, with the Time Lords (informative mention)


Written by Scott Handcock.


Takes place in Temporal Orbit around Earth; self-dated Christmas Eve, 2016 CE.



The Stars Our Contamination   Short story, published 2007               Doctor: 6

featuring Peri

Written by Steven Saville.

informative guess Takes place in New York, NY; some two thousand years into the Common Era, and at Christmas.


The King of the Cats   Audio drama, released 2016                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Tom Baker

Written by Paul Magrs.

Contemporary to publication Takes place in Happenstance, a village in Sussex; self-dated Christmas.


Cliff Richard Saves the World   Short story, published 2016                 Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Claire Bartlett.


Takes place in London; self-dated Christmas 2016 CE and after Last Christmas.



Loose Wire   Illustrated short story, published 2016                                  Doctor: 10


Written by Richard Dungworth.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in the UK, at Christmas.   



I Saw Three Ships   Short story, published 2016                                       Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Iain McLaughlin.


Takes place in London; self-dated Christmas 2016 CE and after Cliff Richard Saves the World.



The Return of Doctor Mysterio   TV Story, broadcast 2016        Doctor: 12


Featuring Nardole, with UNIT (informative mention)


Written by Steven Moffat.


Contemporary to publication Takes place in New York, NY, at Christmas.



A Bleak Midwinter   Short story, published 2016                                     Doctor: 0


Featuring Erimem


Written by Iain McLaughlin.


Takes place in London; self-dated Christmas 2016 CE and after I Saw Three Ships.


Who, Who, Who, Merry Christmas   Comic story, published 2016      Doctor: 11

Featuring River Song, Amy, Rory

Written by Marc Ellerby.

Informed guess Takes place in Leadworth, at Christmas, after New Year, New Who as published.   

 

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               1754

Proportion Written By Women   10%                                        

 

Top Docs

3                 221 stories

4                 148 stories

10               147 stories Climber!

7                 139 stories

11               128 stories         

8                 101 stories

6                 95 stories  

5                 87 stories  

2                 79 stories  

1                 54 stories

12               52 stories            

Unbound   32 stories  

9                 24 stories                     

13               5 stories

War            1 story      

         

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                512 stories         

Regional England                                               381 stories

UNIT                                                                    315 stories

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

North America                                                   200 stories

Torchwood                                                         186 stories  

Wales                                                                  178 stories  

Captain Jack                                                       150 stories

Sarah Jane                                                          138 stories

Christmas                                                            105 stories Climber!

Continental Europe                                           98 stories   Climber!    

Jo                                                                         97 stories  

Iris Wildthyme                                                   93 stories  

Benton                                                                93 stories           

The Master, including Missy                            90 stories  

Ace                                                                      89 stories           

At sea                                                                  81 stories   Climber!

The Time Lords                                                  80 stories  

Amy and Rory                                                    76 stories   Climber!

Yates                                                                   74 stories  

 

         

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           771 stories

The Noughties                                                    591 stories                   

The Nineties                                                       191 stories

The Seventies                                                    120 stories         

The Twenties                                                     92 stories  

The Eighties                                                        57 stories  

The Sixties                                                          33 stories  

 

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          132 stories New number 1!

2008                                                          126 stories

2011                                                          100 stories

2009                                                          97 stories  

2015                                                          88 stories   Climber!    

2010                                                          83 stories  

2013                                                          75 stories  

2007                                                           73 stories  

2018                                                          69 stories

2001                                                          68 stories  

2019                                                          64 stories

2006                                                          62 stories  

2012                                                          59 stories           

2020                                                          52 stories   Climber!

2017                                                          50 stories   Climber!              

2014                                                          49 stories  

2005                                                          47 stories  

1999                                                          42 stories           

2004                                                          42 stories

2021                                                          40 stories

 

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                                586

Proportion of Female Writers                         16%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Russell T Davies                                       84 stories  

Paul Magrs                                                48 stories  

James Goss                                               37 stories   Climber!    

Terrance Dicks                                          36 stories  

Justin Richards                                         33 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        31 stories  

Eddie Robson                                            31 stories  

? John Canning                                         30 stories  

Joseph Lidster                                          29 stories  

Steve Lyons                                               28 stories  

Steven Moffat                                          28 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                      24 stories  

Andrew Cartmel                                      22 stories            

Gary Russell                                              22 stories  

Trevor Baxendale                                     20 stories  

Andy Frankham-Allen                            20 stories

Simon Guerrier                                        20 stories   Climber!

Guy Adams                                               19 stories  =Re-entry!

Christopher Cooper                                 19 stories   =       

Paul Cornell                                              19 stories   =

Mark Wright                                             19 stories =

 

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