Then: The Chronarchy and the Doctor’s Timeline: The Doctor’s Second Incarnation
(Say, two hundred and seventy-three years. The
Doctor’s age is given as seven hundred and twenty-five in Doctor Who and The
Green Death. I date this as July 1974. The Doctor’s exile began, I
calculate, in October 1971, immediately after his second regeneration. It
continued to early 1974, and for the remaining six months he seems to have been
scrupulously preserving Jo’s timeline, so I suggest he was about seven hundred
and twenty-two at the time of his second regeneration. Seven hundred and
twenty-two minus four hundred and forty-nine is two hundred and seventy-three.)
Birth Pains Charity short story, published 1998 Doctors: 1, 2
featuring
Polly, Ben
Written by Damon Cavalchini.
Takes place during Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet, mostly in the Doctor’s
head.
Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks Novelisation, published 1993 Doctor: 2
featuring
the Daleks, Polly, Ben, with the
Cybermen, UNIT, Sarah Jane (glimpse)
Adapted by John Peel from a script by David
Whitaker, edited by Gerry Davis.
As broadcast. I suspect that John Peel intends
“Lieutenant Benton” in the 1990s to be John Benton, but I think it unlikely
that a middle-aged Warrant Officer Class One would accept a “promotion” to lieutenant, with the
attendant pay cut, and there is no evidence for it elsewhere in the narrative.
Takes place partly in Antarctica.
Phoenix in the TARDIS Illustrated
short story, published 1966 Doctor: 2
featuring
Polly, Ben
Written by the World Distributors Annual 1968 crew.
Takes place some time between Doctor Who – The Power of the
Daleks and Doctor Who – The Highlanders, in, presumably, the
TARDIS.
Doctor Who - The Highlanders Novelisation, published 1984 Doctor: 2
featuring
Polly, Ben, Jamie
Adapted by Gerry Davis from a script by him and
Elwyn Jones.
As broadcast. Jamie boards the TARDIS. Takes place
in Scotland.
Doctor Who - The Underwater Menace Novelisation, published 1988 Doctor: 2
featuring
Atlantis, Polly, Ben, Jamie
Adapted by Nigel Robinson from a script by Geoffrey
Orme, edited by Gerry Davis.
As broadcast. Takes place in the Atlantic.
Doctor Who and The Cybermen Novelisation, published 1975 Doctor: 2
featuring
the Cybermen, Polly, Ben, Jamie
Adapted by Gerry Davis, from a script by him and Kit
Pedler.
As broadcast.
Takes place on the Moon.
Doctor Who - The Macra Terror Novelisation, published 1987 Doctor:
2
featuring
Polly, Ben, Jamie, the Macra
Adapted by Ian Stuart Black from his own script, edited
by Gerry Davis.
As broadcast.
Something at the Door Illustrated short story, published 2017 Doctor: 2
Featuring Polly, Ben, Jamie
Written by Mike
Tucker.
Doctor Who - The Faceless Ones Novelisation, published 1987 Doctor: 2
featuring
Polly, Ben, Jamie
Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by David
Ellis and Malcolm Hulke, edited by Gerry Davis.
As broadcast. Polly and Ben leave the TARDIS. Takes
place in regional England.
Doctor Who and The Tomb of the Cybermen Novelisation, published 1978 Doctor: 2
featuring
the Cybermen, Jamie, Victoria
Adapted by Gerry Davis from a script by himself and
Kit Pedler, edited by Victor Pemberton.
As broadcast. Victoria has boarded the TARDIS. The Doctor gives his age
as about four hundred and fifty.
The Celestial Toyshop Illustrated short story, published 1968 Doctor:
2
featuring
Jamie, Victoria
Written by the World Distributors Annual 1969 Crew.
Informed guess Jamie and Victoria are
aboard the TARDIS; takes place implicitly outside the universal timestream.
It’s a shame that the authorship of this story is unknown, as it is the first
example of Doctor Who in prose that can be presented without embarrassment as
literature.
Doctor Who and The Abominable Snowmen Novelisation, published 1974 Doctor: 2
featuring
Jamie, Victoria, Edward Travers, the
Great Intelligence
Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Mervyn
Haisman and Henry Lincoln, edited by Peter Bryant.
As broadcast. Takes place in Asia.
Doctor Who and The Ice Warriors Novelisation, published 1976 Doctor: 2
featuring
Jamie, Victoria, the Ice Warriors
Adapted by Brian Hayles from his own script, edited
by Peter Bryant.
As broadcast.
Doctor Who and The Enemy of the World Novelisation, published 1981 Doctor: 2
featuring
Jamie, Victoria
Adapted by Ian Marter from a script by David
Whitaker, edited by Peter Bryant.
As broadcast. Takes place in Australia and
continental Europe.
Doctor Who and The Web of Fear Novelisation, published 1976 Doctor: 2
featuring
Jamie, Victoria, the Travers family, the
Great Intelligence, Lethbridge-Stewart
Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Mervyn
Haisman and Henry Lincoln, edited by Derrick Sherwin.
As
broadcast. The Great Intelligence locates the TARDIS in space-time and nearly
captures it. Takes place mostly in London.
Doctor Who - Fury From the Deep Novelisation, published 1986 Doctor: 2
featuring
Jamie, Victoria
Adapted by Victor Pemberton from his own script,
edited by Derrick Sherwin.
As broadcast. Victoria leaves the TARDIS. Takes
place partly at sea.
Doctor Who - The Wheel in Space Novelisation, published 1988 Doctor: 2
featuring
the Cybermen, Jamie, Zoe
Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by David
Whitaker, edited by Derrick Sherwin.
As broadcast. Zoe boards the TARDIS.
Dream a Little Dream for Me Illustrated short story, published 1992 Doctors: 2, 7
featuring
Zoe, with Polly and Ben (informative mention)
Written by Nigel Robinson.
Takes place between Doctor Who – The Wheel in Space and Doctor Who – The Dominators, presumably in Zoe’s head.
Undercurrents Short story, published 2005 Doctor: 2
featuring
Jamie, Zoe
Written by Gary Merchant.
Informed guess: Jamie and Zoe are aboard
the TARDIS; Zoe is not used to being wrong. Takes place in the TARDIS and the
Vortex.
Doctor Who - The Dominators Novelisation, published 1984 Doctor: 2
featuring
Jamie, Zoe, the Dominators, the Quarks
Adapted by Ian Marter from a script by Mervyn
Haisman and Henry Lincoln, edited by Derrick Sherwin.
As broadcast.
The Mind Robber TV story, broadcast 1968 Doctor:
2
featuring
Jamie, Zoe, the Land of Fiction
Written by Peter Ling, script edited by Derrick
Sherwin.
As broadcast; immediately after Doctor Who – The Dominators. The TARDIS flees from the
Universe and ends up in the Land of Fiction; when the Doctor defeats its
controllers, he is presumably able to pilot it back to the Universe.
Doctor Who - The Invasion Novelisation, published 1985 Doctor:
2
featuring
the Cybermen, Jamie, Lethbridge-Stewart,
Zoe, UNIT, Tobias Vaughan, Benton
Adapted by Ian Marter from a script by Derrick
Sherwin, edited by Terrance Dicks.
As broadcast. The TARDIS materialises invisibly.
Takes place in London and regional England.
The Queen of Time Audio adaptation of an unproduced TV script, released 2013 Doctor:
2
Featuring Jamie, Zoe
Adapted by Catherine
Harvey from a story by Brian Hayles.
Takes place in
Hecuba’s realm.
Doctor Who - The Krotons Novelisation, published 1985 Doctor:
2
featuring
Jamie, Zoe, the Krotons
Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Robert
Holmes, edited by Derrick Sherwin.
As broadcast.
Doctor Who - The Seeds of Death Novelisation, published 1986 Doctor: 2
featuring
Jamie, the Ice Warriors, Zoe
Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Brian
Hayles, edited by Derrick Sherwin.
As broadcast. Takes place partly on the Moon.
The Room With All The Doors Short
story, published 2015 Doctor: 2
Written by James Goss.
Takes place
indeterminately; just after, or possibly during Doctor Who – The Seeds of Death.
Land of the Blind Comic story, published 1995 Doctor:
2
featuring
Jamie, Zoe
Written by Scott Gray.
Informed guess: Jamie and Zoe are aboard
the TARDIS; takes place in the Vortex.
Revolver Charity short story, published
2001 Doctor:
2
featuring
Jamie, Zoe
Written by Simon John Gerard.
Informed guess Jamie and Zoe are aboard
the TARDIS, where it takes place. I am unable to make sense of Missing Pieces’s own placing of it after The War Games.
Leo: Constant Companion Short story, published 2002 Doctor:
2
featuring
Jamie, Zoe
Written by Simon A Forward.
Informed guess:
Jamie and Zoe
are aboard the TARDIS; takes place over several otherwise unrecorded TARDIS journeys
and in a location implicitly outside the universal timestream.
Doctor Who - The Space Pirates Novelisation, published 1990 Doctor: 2
featuring
Jamie, Zoe
Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Robert
Holmes, edited by Derrick Sherwin.
As broadcast.
A Thousand and One Doors Illustrated short story, published 1969 Doctor:
2
featuring
Jamie, Zoe
Written by the World Distributors Annual 1970 crew.
Informed guess Jamie and Zoe are aboard
the TARDIS; takes place in another universe.
Daughter of the Gods Audio drama, released 2019 Doctors:
1, 2
Featuring Unbound Daleks, Unbound Steven,
Unbound Katarina, Jamie, Zoe
Written by David K Barnes.
The War Games TV story, broadcast 1969 Doctor:
2
featuring
The Time Lords, the Wargamers, Jamie,
Zoe, with continental Europe, North America (informative mention)
Written by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke.
Jamie and Zoe leave the TARDIS; the Doctor is
apprehended, tried and sentenced to forcible regeneration and exile to Earth by
the Time Lords. As “Space In Dimension Relative And Time” doesn’t really mean
anything, I assume that it’s a coincidence that SIDRAT, the name given to the
TT capsules that Magnus provides for the Wargamers, is an anagram of TARDIS. Going
by the appearance of Jamie, I assume that the Doctor is about four hundred and
fifty-two at this point.
The Wargamers are spacefaring humanoids. One
assumes they are of non-Tellurian descent, but via Magnus they have access to time
travel, so it’s not impossible.
The Trial of Doctor Who Fictional document, published 1972 Doctor: 2
featuring
the Time Lords
Written by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke.
implicitly takes place during The War Games.
The Runaway Hi-Fi Charity
short story, originally posted online 2012 Doctor:
0
Featuring the Time Lords, Iris Wildthyme, with Steven (informative mention)
Written by Paul
Magrs.
Doctor Who - The Two Doctors Novelisation, published 1985
Doctors:
2, 6
featuring
Jamie, the Sontarans, Peri, and the Time
Lords (glimpse)
Adapted by Robert Holmes from his own script, edited
by Eric Saward.
Takes place after The War Games. It is established in World Game that the Time Lords retain
the Doctor as a covert agent before enacting his sentence, also retrieving
Jamie to assist him. From Fraser Hines’s appearance, I suggest they took him
from around 1762 CE, sixteen years after returning him to the Highlands. Takes
place partly in continental Europe.
Save Yourself Illustrated
short story, published 2019 Doctor: 2
Featuring the Time Lords, the Wargamers
Written by
Terrance Dicks.
Father Time Comic story, published 1969 Doctor: 2
featuring
Jamie and implicitly the elemental Time
Illustrated ?and written by John Canning.
As published; takes place implicitly outside the
universal timeline. By this time the Doctor has once again absconded in the
TARDIS, escaping the Time Lords. There is no evidence as to how long he had
spent in their service, or how long he remained free before being once more
apprehended shortly before his second regeneration. The waters are further
muddied by the fact that the Time Lords retained another iteration of him to
use as an agent (At the Beach).
My suggestion is that his escape, however effected, entailed leaving Jamie in
late 1960s Scotland, whence he retrieved him some time before this story (Invasion of the Quarks).
The Champion Comic story, published 1969 Doctor: 2
featuring
the Cybermen
Illustrated ?and written by John Canning.
As published; takes place implicitly outside the universal
timeline. Jamie has left the TARDIS.
A Tale from a TV Comic Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor:
2
featuring
the Time Lords (informative mention)
Written by J.Jeremy Bentham.
The Doctor regenerates for a second time. Takes place
in the TARDIS.
Featuring the Time Lords, the Daleks, the Cybermen,
Polly, Ben, Jamie, Victoria, the Great Intelligence, the Ice Warriors,
Lethbridge-Stewart, Zoe, the Quarks, UNIT, Tobias Vaughan, Benton, the Krotons,
the Wargamers
Written by James Goss and Steve Tribe.
We may assume that River Song assembles this material up to this point
in the Doctor’s timeline.
Total Stories Considered 2298
Proportion Written By Women 11%
Top Docs
3 224 stories
10 166 stories
4 164 stories
7 159 stories
11 137 stories
2 125 stories Climber!
8 119 stories
1 112 stories
5 108 stories
6 104 stories
12 75 stories
Unbound 38 stories
9 34 stories
13 32 stories
War 4 stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
London 590 stories
Regional England 442 stories
UNIT 361
stories
Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart
family 353 stories
Wales 239
stories
North America 229 stories
Torchwood 228
stories
Captain Jack 179
stories
The Time Lords 147 stories Climber!
Sarah Jane 145
stories
Christmas 122 stories
Continental Europe 115 stories
The Master, including Missy 110
stories
Iris Wildthyme 102
stories
Jo 101 stories
Ace 98
stories
Benton 97
stories
The Daleks and Davros 88
stories Climber!
At sea 88
stories
Amy and Rory 82
stories
Top Decades
The Teens 970 stories
The Noughties 621 stories
The Nineties 221 stories
The Twenties 201
stories
The Seventies 129
stories
The Eighties 107
stories
The Sixties 49 stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 150 stories
2008 128
stories
2020 124 stories
2017 117
stories Climber!
2018 116 stories
2011 103 stories
2009 99
stories
2019 99
stories Climber!
2015 98
stories
2010 88
stories
2013 83 stories
2021 76
stories
2007 74
stories
2001 73
stories
2006 64
stories
2012 63 stories
2005 50 stories
2014 50
stories
2004 48
stories
1999 45
stories
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
linking material writers) 697
Proportion of Female Writers 16%
Top Twenty Writers
Russell T Davies 86
stories
Paul Magrs 61
stories
James Goss 59
stories
Terrance Dicks 53
stories
Justin Richards 39 stories
Steven Moffat 38
stories
Eddie Robson 33 stories
? John Canning 32
stories
Gareth Roberts 31
stories
Joseph Lidster 30
stories
Steve Lyons 29
stories
James Hornby 28
stories
Jonathan Morris 28 stories
David Whitaker 28
stories Climber!
Matt Fitton 26
stories
Guy Adams 23
stories
Andrew Cartmel 23 stories
John Dorney 23 stories
Christopher Cooper 22
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Andy Frankham-Allen 22
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Scott Gray 22
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Simon Guerrier 22
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Gary Russell 22
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