Then: The Chronarchy and the Doctor’s Timeline: The Doctor’s Third Incarnation

(Say, twenty-four years. The Doctor tells Sarah Jane that he is seven hundred and fifty in Pyramids of Mars, which in her timeline is explicitly 1980. I believe he has been keeping her broadly within her timeline in their journeys in the TARDIS, though perhaps less so than he did with Jo. For her, his third regeneration was, in my estimation, four years earlier in 1976, so I would place his age at that time as seven hundred and forty-six. Seven hundred and forty-six minus seven hundred and twenty-two equals twenty-four.)

 

Doctor Who and The Auton Invasion   Novelisation, published 1974                                                                         Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Liz, the Nestene Consciousness, the Time Lords (glimpse)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Robert Holmes.

Takes place immediately after the Doctor’s second regeneration. The Doctor becomes UNIT’s scientific advisor, with Liz as his assistant. Takes place in regional England and London.


Doctor Who - The Ambassadors of Death   Novelisation, published 1987                                                                 Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Liz, with Mars (informative mention)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by David Whitaker.

As broadcast. Takes place in regional England.


Doctor Who - Inferno   Novelisation, published 1984                       Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Liz, the Primords, the British Republic

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Don Houghton.

As broadcast. The TARDIS console slips into a parallel timeline. Takes place in regional England.


Prisoners of the Sun   Short story, published 1994                                  Doctor: 3

featuring the Time Lords, UNIT, Benton, Liz, Yates, with the Master (informative mention)

Written by Tim Robins.

informed guess: The Doctor does not recognise Mike Yates, although there is a certain forgetability to him. Much of this takes place in a subsequently negated timeline; but the Solarian invasion and its defeat remain ‘real’ on Gallifrey. The action on Gallifrey leads into Doctor Who – Terror of the Autons. The oxbow timeline features a flooded London, consisting of only the upper storeys of high rise buildings, similar to that featured in J G Ballard’s 1965 novel The Drowned World. Tim Robbins gives us an appropriate pastiche of Ballard’s emotionally remote prose: the title may be a call out to his novel Empire of the Sun.


Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons   Novelisation, published 1975                                                                 Doctor: 3

featuring the Master, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, the Nestene Consciousness, Yates, Jo, with the Time Lords (glimpse)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. Liz has resigned from UNIT and Jo is appointed the Doctors assistant.


Doctor Who - The Mind of Evil   Novelisation, published 1985  Doctor: 3

featuring the Master, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Yates, Jo

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Don Houghton.

As broadcast.


Doctor Who and The Claws of Axos   Novelisation, published 1977                                                                                Doctor: 3

featuring the Master, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Yates, Jo, Axos

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Bob Baker and Dave Martin.

As broadcast. Takes place in regional England.


Court Report on the Doomsday Weapon   Fictional document, published 1972                                                           Doctor: 3

featuring the Time Lords, with the Master, Jo (informative mention)

Written by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke.

Takes place, for the Master at least, after Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos.


Doctor Who and The Daemons   Novelisation, published 1974 Doctor: 3

featuring the Master, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Yates, Jo, the Daemons

Adapted by Barry Letts from a script by himself and Robert Sloman.

As broadcast. Takes place in regional England.


Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks   Novelisation, published 1974                                                                    Doctor: 3

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Louis Marks.

featuring the Daleks, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Yates, Jo, the Ogrons

As broadcast. Takes place in regional England.


Doctor Who and The Curse of Peladon   Novelisation, published 1975                                                                     Doctor: 3

featuring the Ice Warriors, Jo, the Alpha Centaurans, with the Time Lords (informative mention)

Adapted by Brian Hayles from his own script, edited by Terrance Dicks.

As broadcast.


Court Report on Peladon   Fictional document, published 1972          Doctor: 3

featuring the Time Lords, with the Ice Warriors, Jo, the Alpha Centaurans (informative mention)

Written by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke.

A summary of the events of Doctor Who and the Curse of Peladon.


Doctor Who and The Sea Devils   Novelisation, published 1974    Doctor: 3

featuring the Master, the Earth Reptiles, Jo

Adapted by Malcolm Hulke from his own script, edited by Terrance Dicks.

As broadcast. Takes place in regional England and at sea.


Doctor Who and The Mutants   Novelisation, published 1977    Doctor: 3

featuring Jo, and the Time Lords (informative mention)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Bob Baker and Dave Martin.

As broadcast.


Future Imperfect   Illustrated short story, published 1991                        Doctor: 2

featuring the Time Lords, with the Land of Fiction (informative mention)

Written by Marc Platt.

Takes place largely, I suggest, in the Doctor’s head, leading into (for him) The Three Doctors. The implication here is that the Doctor is timescooped by the Time Lords of his future from the Land of Fiction during or just after The Mind Robber, but this won’t really do. At that point the Doctor had not met Benton, and would have no reason to think him a corporal. Rather, I would suggest that he is timescooped while working for the Time Lords after World Game and the psychic affects of this process cause him to have a flashback to The Mind Robber, prompted by the remarkable similarity between Gulliver and Goth. Actually, I suggest that his return to his own timestream at the end of The Three Doctors is something that he is able to take control of, which enables him to escape the Time Lords for a second time. And that his location when timescooped was Scotland in the late 1960s, whence he had been sent with Jamie (Invasion of the Quarks), possibly to deal with the Quarks.


The Three Doctors   TV story, broadcast 1973                             Doctors: 1, 2, 3

featuring the Time Lords, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Jo, Omega

Written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, script-edited by Terrance Dicks.

Takes place on Gallifrey, in the TARDIS and in Omega’s realm around the singularity formed presumably by the Star Death of Qqabba; also in regional England. As broadcast. The Time Lords revoke the Doctor’s exile and restore his memories. The console room has been redesigned.


Tea for 2   Charity drabble, published 1993                                                   Doctors: 2, 3

Written by Vanessa Bishop (as Ness Bishop).

Takes place in the TARDIS, during The Three Doctors.


Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters   Novelisation, published 1977                                                              Doctor: 3

featuring Jo, the Time Lords (informative mention)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. Takes place partly at sea.


Doctor Who and The Space War   Novelisation, published 1976      Doctor: 3

featuring the Master, Jo, the Ogrons, the Draconians, with the Daleks (glimpse)

Adapted by Malcolm Hulke from his own script, edited by Terrance Dicks.

As broadcast.


Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks   Novelisation, published 1976                                                              Doctor: 3

featuring the Daleks, Jo, with the Time Lords (informative mention)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Terry Nation.

As broadcast.


The Battle Within   Illustrated short story, published 1974                      Doctor: 3

featuring Jo

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1975 crew.

informed guess Jo is aboard the TARDIS, where it takes place. I assume the Doctor’s condition is a result of the events in /Carpenter/Butterfly/Baronet.


The Green Death   Novelisation, published  1975                                Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Yates, Jo

Adapted by Malcolm Hulke from a script by Robert Sloman, edited by Terrance Dicks.

As broadcast; Jo leaves UNIT. Takes place almost entirely in Wales. The Doctor is described as being seven hundred and twenty-five.


Downtime   Novelisation of video drama, published 1996           Doctors: 2, 3 (glimpse)

featuring Victoria, Edward Travers, the Great Intelligence, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Kate, Sarah Jane, K9 III, and Jamie (glimpse)

Adapted by Marc Platt from his own script.

Takes place for the Doctor between Doctor Who and the Green Death and Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion, in Asia, regional England and London.


Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion   Novelisation, published 1976

                                                                                                Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Yates, Sarah Jane, with the Planagenet dynasty (informative mention)

Adapted by Malcolm Hulke from his own script, edited by Terrance Dicks.

As broadcast. Sarah Jane has started travelling aboard the TARDIS. Takes place in London.


The Paradise of Death   Novelisation of an audio drama, published 1994                                                             Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, Sarah Jane, Jeremy, with Yates (informative mention)

Adapted by Barry Letts from his own story.

Takes place between Doctor Who and The Dinosaur Invasion and Doctor Who – Death to the Daleks; partly in London.


Doctor Who - Death to the Daleks   Novelisation, published 1978       Doctor: 3

featuring the Daleks, Sarah Jane

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Terry Nation.

As broadcast. The City of the Exxilons drains most operating power from the TARDIS.


The Ghosts of N-Space   Audio adaptation of a novel, broadcast 1996 Doctor: 3

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, Sarah Jane, Jeremy

Adapted from his own story by Barry Letts.

Takes place after Doctor Who – Death to the Daleks, but before Sarah Jane starts travelling regularly with the Doctor, on an island in the Mediterranean.


Doctor Who and The Monster of Peladon   Novelisation, published 1980                                                           Doctor: 3

featuring the Ice Warriors, the Alpha Centaurans, Sarah Jane

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Brian Hayles.

As broadcast.


The Loneliness of the Long Distance Time Traveller 
Illustrated short story, published 2014                                                         Doctor: 3

Written by Joanne Harris.

Takes place indeterminately, during the decade that the Doctor spent travelling in the TARDIS suffering from radiation sickness prior to his third regeneration (Love and War), during Planet of the Spiders.

Know Your Enemy - Madame Kovarian’s Documents Relating to the Doctor (Between His Second and Third Regenerations) Fictional document, published 2013               Doctor: 3

Featuring the Time Lords, the Daleks, the Master, the Ice Warriors, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Liz, the Nestene Consciousness, the Earth Reptiles, the British Republic, Yates, Jo, Axos, the Daemons, the Ogrons, the Alpha Centaurans, Atlantis, the Chronovores, Omega, the Draconians, Sarah Jane, the Sontarans, the Giant Spiders

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               2328

Proportion Written By Women   11%                                        

 

Top Docs

3                 252 stories

10               166 stories

4                 164 stories

7                 159 stories

11               137 stories         

2                 129 stories

8                 119 stories

1                 113 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                                                                595 stories         

Regional England                                               451 stories

UNIT                                                                    376 stories

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                   368 stories

Wales                                                                  240 stories

North America                                                   229 stories   

Torchwood                                                         228 stories  

Captain Jack                                                       179 stories

The Time Lords                                                  159 stories  

Sarah Jane                                                          152 stories

Christmas                                                            122 stories

The Master, including Missy                            119 stories   Climber!

Jo                                                                         118 stories  Climber!  

Continental Europe                                           115 stories

Benton                                                                109 stories   Climber!

Iris Wildthyme                                                   102 stories

Ace                                                                      98 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                     93 stories   

At sea                                                                  91 stories  

Yates                                                                    88 stories   Re-entry!  

 

 

Top Decades

The Teens                                                           972 stories

The Noughties                                                    621 stories                   

The Nineties                                                       227 stories

The Twenties                                                     201 stories

The Seventies                                                    147 stories         

The Eighties                                                      111 stories

The Sixties                                                          49 stories  

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          150 stories

2008                                                          128 stories

2020                                                          124 stories         

2017                                                           117 stories  

2018                                                          116 stories   

2011                                                          103 stories

2009                                                          99 stories  

2019                                                          99 stories    

2015                                                          98 stories  

2010                                                          88 stories  

2013                                                          84 stories  

2021                                                          76 stories  

2007                                                          74 stories

2001                                                          73 stories  

2006                                                          64 stories  

2012                                                          63 stories           

2005                                                          51 stories   Climber!

2014                                                          50 stories  

2004                                                          48 stories  

1999                                                          45 stories  

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                               699

Proportion of Female Writers                         16%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Russell T Davies                                       86 stories  

Terrance Dicks                                         73 stories   Climber!    

Paul Magrs                                                61 stories  

James Goss                                               60 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  

David Whitaker                                        29 stories   Climber!

James Hornby                                           28 stories

Jonathan Morris                                      28 stories            

Matt Fitton                                                26 stories  

Guy Adams                                               23 stories  

Andrew Cartmel                                      23 stories  

John Dorney                                             23 stories  

Christopher Cooper                                 22 stories=

Andy Frankham-Allen                            22 stories=

Scott Gray                                                 22 stories=

Simon Guerrier                                        22 stories= 

Gary Russell                                              22 stories=

 

 

 

 

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