Then: The Chronarchy and the Doctor’s Timeline: The Doctor’s First Incarnation
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four hundred and forty-nine years. The Doctor describes himself as about four
hundred and fifty in The Tomb of the Cybermen. He has been travelling
continuously with Polly and Ben, then Jamie between his regeneration in The
Tenth Planet and that story. I am assuming that these three Tellurians age
in the same way as the actors playing them, and place the Doctor’s regeneration
a year before this.)
Out of the Mouths Charity drabble,
published 1993 Doctor: 1
featuring
the Time Lords
Written by Chris Boucher.
Takes place on Gallifrey, if, as I am assuming, the
child in the story is the Doctor. A loomed Gallifreyan has an adult body: I am
assuming that “child” (and indeed “time tot”) generally means in this context a
very recently loomed Gallifreyan.
At the Academy Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 1
featuring
the Time Lords
Written by Simon Christopher Jones.
Takes place on Gallifrey: the Doctor’s entry into the
Academy. He is almost recognised as the Other.
“Past”, “Present”,
“Future”, “Oblique” and “Absolute” Fictional documents, published 1999 Doctor: 0
Featuring The Time Lords
Written
by Lawrence Miles.
These
effectively provide a linking story for the charity anthology Perfect Timing
2. I was tempted to list them all separately to boost Miles’s story count,
but they’re not really long enough. Although as usual Miles packs a dizzying
amount of information into a small number of words with laugh-out-loud wit. One
of his websites had a quote about him from the actor Julian Glover, “probably
some sort of genius”. He also reported with gleeful masochism how Glover had
once described him as a prick. I’m unable to offer an opinion on that, but as
for “probably some sort of genius”, it is the opinion of this chronology that
there is no “probably” about it. I assume that something similar to these
documents were read by the Doctor when he was about five years and two months.
It probably wasn’t precisely these, as they are published for the Arcalian
Chapter, while the Doctor is of course a Prydonian.
Report on
Term’s Work Fictional document, published 2013 Doctor: 1
Featuring the
Time Lords, with the Master, the Rani (informative mention)
Written by James Goss and
Steve Tribe.
Takes place on Gallifrey, purportedly written by Borusa, in the
comparatively early days of the Doctor’s education.
Extract from an Address to the Time Lord Academy by its Regulator, Scombos
Charity
drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 1
featuring
the Time Lords
Written by Colin Baker.
Takes place on Gallifrey: high jinks at the
academy.
Backdating from Lungbarrow, at the age of one hundred
and thirty-one, the Doctor is a Scrutationary Archivist.
Backdating from The Pirate Planet, at the age of two hundred
and thirty-six, the Doctor makes his first journey in the TARDIS, as detailed
in Where Were You?
Newtons Sleep Prelude: The Return of the
King Short story,
published 2008 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Time Lords, the Vampires
Written by Daniel O’Mahoney.
Takes place on southern Gallifrey, some four
years before Warmonger according to The Book of the War. I am assuming Thecla’s oracle is a
surgically disarmed cat person.
Warmonger Novel, published 2002 Doctor: 5
featuring
the Time Lords, the Cybermen, the Ice
Warriors, the Ogrons, the Draconians, the Sontarans, Peri
Written by Terrance Dicks.
Takes place around Gallifrey. The Sontarans are contemporaneous:
the other aliens must be from colonies set up by the Time Lords in their own
remote pasts. Backdating from The Book of the War, the Doctor is two hundred and eighty-seven at the
fall of Morbius/The Imperator Presidency (and witnesses Morbius’s supposed
execution (The
Brain of Morbius)).
Daring Initiation Short story, published 2018 Doctor:
0
Featuring Faction Paradox
Written by Jacob
Black.
Flashback Comic story, published 1992 Doctors: 1, 7
featuring
the Time Lords, Magnus, Benny
Written by Warwick Gray.
Takes place on or near Gallifrey. Magnus has
already regenerated. He never forgives the Doctor, his fellow former Deca
member, for this incident. Both have clearly attained high rank.
One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes Illustrated short story, published 2020 Doctor: 1 (informative mention)
Featuring the Time Lords
Written by Neil
Gaiman.
Takes place
partly on Gallifrey before the Doctor’s departure from it.
Escape Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan
Written by David Inwood.
Takes place in the TARDIS. The Doctor and Susan
leave Gallifrey in it. Backdating from Lungbarrow, the Doctor is three
hundred and thirty-three.
The Three Paths Short story, published 2006 Doctor: 1
featuring
the Time Lords, and Steven, Polly, Ben
(informative mention)
Written by Ian Potter.
Takes place on Gallifrey. The TARDIS returns to
Gallifrey simultaneously with its departure.
The Exiles Short
story, published 2003
Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan, the Vampires
Written by Lance Parkin.
Takes place in the TARDIS, shortly after Escape.
Before the Beginning Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan
Written by Brian Ameringen.
Takes place in the TARDIS, shortly after The Exiles. Susan names the TT
capsule in which she and the Doctor are absconding the TARDIS, an acronym for
Time And Relative Dimension In Space.
Darkness Before Me Charity short story, published 1999 Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan (informative mention)
Written by Jim Campbell.
Takes place in the TARDIS, after Before the Beginning and before Doctor Who and An Unearthly
Child.
While it is easy to imagine the Doctor travelling
in time and space for eleven decades before Doctor Who and An Unearthly Child, I’m not sure it is to
imagine Susan doing the same. Marco Polo
implies that she is in Tellurian terms no older than she appears, and even
allowing for a decade or two on that, she doesn’t have her grandfather’s air of
great lived experience to temper her superhuman academic knowledge. It is
implied that the Doctor could navigate the TARDIS a great deal better before Doctor Who and An Unearthly
Child than he could
for some time afterwards. I suggest that, with regard to her personal safety,
he left her in what he knew, or thought he knew, to be a safe location and left
to travel. And I can find corroborative evidence! In First Meetings, we learn that the Doctor
stayed fifty years on the planet Hyspero in the company of an entity recognised
as kin by Iris Wildthyme, named Allison. That a version of this story was later
published with “Allison” replaced by “Susan” I shall obviously ignore.
In Byzantium!,
we also learn that the Doctor has been piloting the TARDIS for sixty years,
which would contradict Lungbarrow,
but not if it means that he has been piloting it that long since recovering his
mojo on Hyspero. So, backdating from Byzantium!
and First Meetings, I suggest the Doctor is
three hundred and thirty-seven when he is plunged into depression by his
humiliation on Hyspero, and three hundred and eighty-seven when, with the
assistance of Iris Wildthyme, she informs us, he resumes his career as a mysterious
traveller in time and space.
Who Is Doctor Who? (Illustrated short story, published 1966 Doctor: 1
Written by David Whitaker and Dennis
Spooner.
Informed guess Implicitly takes place
before Doctor
Who and An Unearthly Child.
Celestial Intervention: A Gallifreyan Noir Illustrated short story, published Doctor: 1 (informative mention)
Featuring the Time Lords, the Master, the Rani
Written by Dave
Rudden.
Informed guess Takes place on Gallifrey, some time after The Three Paths.
How the Monk Got His Habit Short
story, published 2020 Doctor:
0
Featuring Mortimus
Written by Peter
Harness.
The Equations of Doctor Who (Illustrated short story, published 1966 Doctor: 1
Written by David Whitaker and Dennis
Spooner.
Informed guess Implicitly takes place
before Doctor
Who and An Unearthly Child
and after Who
Is Doctor Who? as
published.
Quinnis Audio drama, released 2010 Doctor:
1
Featuring Susan
Written by Marc
Platt.
Doctor Who and An Unearthly Child Novelisation, published 1981 Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan, Barbara, Ian
Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Anthony Coburn, edited by David Whitaker.
Barbara and Ian board the TARDIS. Susan refuses to
be parted from them, so the Doctor dematrialises the TARDIS, kidnapping them.
Takes place partly in Shoreditch.
The Daleks TV
story, broadcast 1964
Doctor: 1
featuring
the Daleks, Susan, Barbara, Ian
Written by Terry Nation, script edited by David
Whitaker.
As broadcast. The Doctor states, not very
convincingly, actually, that he has no knowledge of the Daleks or Skaro.
Doctor Who - The Edge of Destruction Novelisation, published 1988 Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan, Barbara, Ian
Adapted by Nigel Robinson from a script by David
Whitaker.
As broadcast. The TARDIS warns the Doctor, Susan,
Barbara and Ian of approaching disaster. They realise they must learn to trust
each other.
Doctor Who - Marco Polo Novelisation, published 1985
Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan, Barbara, Ian
Adapted by John Lucarotti, from his own script,
edited by David Whitaker.
As broadcast. The TARDIS suffers a near total
breakdown, which the Doctor repairs. Takes place in Asia.
In-Between Times Comic story, published 2018 Doctor: 1
Featuring Susan, Barbara Ian
Written by Paul Cornell.
Takes place in the TARDIS, of which Barbara and Ian are being given
their “first proper tour”.
Nothing at the End of the Lane Short
story, published 2000 Doctor: 1
featuring
Barbara, Ian, and Susan (glimpse)
Written by Daniel O’Mahoney.
Takes place mostly in Barbara’s head, as she
recalls and dreams about events leading up to her departure in the TARDIS. Most
of it occurs in a remembered/dreamt London.
Farewell, Great Macedon Audio adaptation of an unproduced TV script, released 2010 Doctor:
1
Featuring Susan, Barbara, Ian
Adapted by Nigel
Robinson from a script by Moris Farhi.
The Masters of Luxor Audio
adaptation of an unproduced TV script, released 2012 Doctor: 1
Featuring Susan, Barbara, Ian
Adapted by Nigel
Robinson from a script by Anthony Coburn.
Doctor Who and The Keys of Marinus Novelisation, published 1980 Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan, Barbara, Ian, the Voord
Adapted by Philip Hinchcliffe from a script by Terry
Nation, edited by David Whitaker.
As broadcast. Arbitan is able to keep the Doctor,
Susan, Barbara and Ian out of the TARDIS with a force-field.
Doctor Who - The Aztecs Novelisation, published 1984 Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan, Barbara, Ian
Adapted by John Lucarotti from his own script,
edited by David Whitaker.
As
broadcast. Takes place in North America.
Doctor Who - The Sensorites Novelisation, published 1987 Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan, the Sensorites, Barbara, Ian
Adapted by Nigel Robinson from a script by Peter R
Newman, edited by David Whitaker.
As broadcast. The Sensorites have the technology to
remove the TARDIS lock, keeping the Doctor out.
Doctor Who - The Reign of Terror Novelisation, published 1987 Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan, Barbara, Ian
Adapted by Ian Marter from a script by Dennis
Spooner, edited by David Whitaker.
As broadcast. After a further row, the Doctor is
reconciled with Barbara and Ian. Takes place in continental Europe.
Doctor Who - Planet of Giants Novelisation, published 1990 Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan, Barbara, Ian
Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Louis
Marks, edited by David Whitaker.
As broadcast. The TARDIS materialises far too
small, owing to the doors opening in mid-flight. I don’t know how oxygenation
and gravity and so on is supposed to work in these circumstances.
Doctor Who and the The Dalek Invasion of
Earth Novelisation, published 1977 Doctor: 1
featuring
the Daleks, Susan, Barbara, Ian
Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Terry
Nation, edited by David Whitaker.
As broadcast. Susan leaves the TARDIS. Takes place
in London and Bedfordshire.
Doctor Who - The Rescue Novelisation, published 1988 Doctor: 1
featuring
Barbara, Ian, Vicki
Adapted by Ian Marter from a script by David
Whitaker.
As broadcast. Vicki boards the TARDIS.
Doctor Who and The Zarbi Novelisation, published 1965 Doctor: 1
featuring
Vortis, Barbara, Ian, Vicki
Adapted by Bill Strutton from his own script, edited
by Dennis Spooner.
As broadcast. The TARDIS is captured by the Animus
and its doors forced open.
Vortis is an artificial planet
created in the Isop galaxy and capable of travelling through space, sometimes
at many times the speed of light. It is inhabited by sentient bipedal winged insects
called Menoptra, who periodically have trouble with their principal
domesticated livestock, the hexapedal Zarbi.
Doctor Who and The Crusaders Novelisation, published 1966 Doctor: 1
featuring
Barbara, Ian, Vicki, the Plantagenet
dynasty
Adapted by David Whitaker from his own script,
edited by Dennis Spooner.
As broadcast. Takes place in Asia.
The Plantagenet dynasty was a royal house of
England, occupying the throne of England from the accession of Henry II in 1154 CE to the ostensible death of Richard III in 1485 CE.
Doctor Who - The Space Museum Novelisation, published 1987 Doctor: 1
featuring
Barbara, Ian, Vicki, the Moroks, with
the Daleks (glimpse)
Adapted by Glyn Jones from his own script, edited by
Dennis Spooner.
As broadcast. The TARDIS ‘jumps a time-track’
causing its inhabitants to see some of their future and change it.
Journey Out of Terror Illustrated
short story, published 2019 Doctor: 1
Featuring Barbara, Ian, with the Daleks, Vicki (informative mention)
Written by Simon
Guerrier.
Doctor Who - The Time Meddler Novelisation, published 1988 Doctor: 1
featuring
Vicki, Steven, Mortimus
Adapted by Nigel Robinson from a script by Dennis
Spooner, edited by Donald Tosh.
As broadcast. Barbara
and Ian have left the TARDIS and Steven boards it. The Doctor meets fellow
former Deca member Mortimus. Takes place in regional England.
Significant Others Charity
short story, published 2016 Doctor:
1
Featuring Theo Possible, Vicki, Steven, Rose
Written by Blair
Bidmead.
Takes place in
the Fourth Universe, which turns out to be the location of Pete’s World.
Doctor Who - Galaxy Four Novelisation, published 1986
Doctor: 1
featuring
Vicki, Steven
Adapted by William Emms from his own script, edited
by Donald Tosh.
As broadcast.
Doctor Who - The Daleks’ Masterplan:
Mission to the Unknown
Novelisation, published 1989 Doctor: 1
featuring
the Daleks, Steven, Katarina, Sara
Adapted by John
Peel from a script by Terry Nation and Dennis Spooner, edited by Donald Tosh.
As broadcast. Vicki has left the TARDIS, and
Katarina boards it. And dies. Sara boards the TARDIS. Takes place partly in
Asia.
Doctor Who - The Daleks’ Masterplan: The
Mutation of Time
Novelisation,
published 1989 Doctor: 1
featuring
the Daleks, Steven, Mortimus, Sara
Adapted by John
Peel from a script by Terry Nation and Dennis Spooner, edited by Donald Tosh.
As broadcast. Sara dies. The Doctor is able to use
the directional unit from Mortimus’s TT capsule, but it burns out in returning
the TARDIS to Kembel. Takes place partly in regional England, North America and
Africa. And at Christmas.
Doctor Who - The Ark Novelisation, published 1987 Doctor: 1
featuring
Steven, Dodo, the Monoids
Adapted by Paul Erickson from a script by him and Lesley
Scott, edited by Gerry Davis.
As broadcast. Dodo has boarded the TARDIS.
The Celestial Toymaker TV story, broadcast 1966 Doctor: 1
featuring
Steven, Dodo, the Toymaker
Written by Brian Hayles, script edited by Gerry
Davis.
As broadcast. The TARDIS is captured and opened by
the Toymaker; The Doctor can only save himself, Steven and Dodo by exercising
his wits.
Doctor Who - The Celestial Toymaker Novelisation, published 1986 Doctor: 1
featuring
Steven, Dodo, the Toymaker
Adapted by Gerry Davis and Alison Bingeman, from a
story by Brian Hayles.
Another telling of the events of The Celestial Toymaker. Takes place in the TARDIS
and in the Toymaker’s Realm, which is implicitly outside the Universal
timestream.
Murder in the Dark Short
story, published 2017 Doctor: 1
Featuring Steven, Dodo, the Toymaker
Written by
Jacqueline Rayner.
Takes place in
the Toymaker’s Realm, after The Celestial Toymaker .
Doctor Who - The Savages Novelisation, published 1986 Doctor: 1
featuring
Steven, Dodo
Adapted by Ian Stuart Black from his own script,
edited by Gerry Davis.
As broadcast. Steven leaves the TARDIS.
Doctor Who - The War Machines Novelisation, published 1989 Doctor: 1
featuring
Dodo, Polly, Ben, and Ian (informative
mention)
Adapted by Ian Stuart Black from his own script,
edited by Gerry Davis.
As broadcast. Dodo leaves the TARDIS; Polly and Ben
board it. The Doctor telepathically feels the presence of evil: the proximity
of, as it turns out, WOTAN, the Chameleons (The Faceless Ones), the Daleks (The Evil of the Daleks) and Igrix (The Love Invasion), might well do it if
anything would. Takes place in London.
Doctor Who - The Smugglers Novelisation, published 1988 Doctor: 1
featuring Polly, Ben
Adapted
by Terrance Dicks from a script by Brian Hayles, edited by Gerry Davis.
As broadcast. Takes place in regional England.
Falling Audio story, released 2017 Doctor:
1
Featuring Polly, Ben
Written by Jonathan
Barnes.
Takes place
aboard the TARDIS, shortly before Doctor Who and The Tenth Planet.
Doctor Who and The Tenth Planet Novelisation, published 1976 Doctors: 1, with 2 (glimpse)
featuring
the Cybermen, Polly, Ben.
Adapted by Gerry Davis, from his script written with
Kit Pedler.
As broadcast. The Doctor regenerates. Takes place
in Antarctica.
Know Your Enemy - Madame Kovarian’s Documents Relating to the Doctor (Up To His First Regeneration)
Short
story, published 2013 Doctor:
1
Written by James
Goss and Steve Tribe.
We may assume that River Song assembles this material from up to this point in the Doctor’s timeline.
The Mechanoids
are sentient robots, developed by Tellurians for planetary colonisation.
Total Stories Considered 2257
Proportion Written By Women 11%
Top Docs
3 224 stories
10 166 stories
4 164 stories
7 158 stories
11 137 stories
8 119 stories
1 110 stories Climber!
5 108 stories
6 103 stories
2 85 stories
12 75 stories
Unbound 38 stories
9 34 stories
13 32 stories
War 4 stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
London 588 stories
Regional England 440 stories
UNIT 358
stories
Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart
family 350 stories
Wales 239
stories
North America 228 stories Climber!
Torchwood 228
stories
Captain Jack 179
stories
Sarah Jane 144
stories
The Time Lords 140 stories
Christmas 122 stories
Continental Europe 112 stories
The Master, including Missy 110
stories
Jo 101 stories
Iris Wildthyme 101
stories
Ace 98
stories
Benton 95
stories
At sea 86
stories
The Daleks and Davros 85
stories Climber!
Amy and Rory 82
stories
Top Decades
The Teens 963 stories
The Noughties 618 stories
The Nineties 215 stories
The Twenties 201
stories
The Seventies 123
stories
The Eighties 95
stories
The Sixties 42 stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 150 stories
2008 128
stories
2020 124 stories
2018 116 stories Climber!
2017 116
stories
2011 103 stories
2009 99
stories
2015 97
stories
2019 97
stories Climber!
2010 88
stories
2013 81 stories
2021 76
stories
2007 74
stories
2001 72
stories
2006 64
stories
2012 62 stories
2014 50
stories
2005 49 stories
2004 48
stories
1999 45
stories
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
linking material writers) 690
Proportion of Female Writers 16%
Top Twenty Writers
Russell T Davies 86
stories
Paul Magrs 60
stories
James Goss 57
stories
Terrance Dicks 42
stories
Justin Richards 39 stories Climber!
Steven Moffat 38
stories
Eddie Robson 33 stories
Gareth Roberts 31
stories
? John Canning 30
stories
Joseph Lidster 30
stories
Steve Lyons 29
stories
James Hornby 28
stories
Jonathan Morris 28 stories
Matt Fitton 26
stories
David Whitaker 25
stories Re-entry!
Guy Adams 23
stories
Andrew Cartmel 23 stories
John Dorney 23 stories
Christopher Cooper 22
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