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

(Say, thirty-five years. Helpfully, in The Ribos Operation we learn that the Doctor’s age is seven hundred and fifty-nine and Romana’s is one hundred and thirty-nine. By the time of The Leisure Hive, Romana is a hundred and fifty, making the Doctor at least seven hundred and seventy, although we know from Timeslip and Light Fantastic that the Doctor spent some time away from Romana and may be older. Time Lords certainly don’t age at the same rate as Tellurians, and Alzarians may well not either (they certainly heal more quickly), so we can glean nothing from the appearance of Romana or Adric. All I can say is that it doesn’t feel as if much time passes between The Leisure Hive and Logopolis, although the last Fourth Doctor comic stories in the Doctor Who Monthly indicate pretty clearly that he was again travelling without Romana. I’m therefore tentatively putting the Doctor’s age at his fourth regeneration as seven hundred and eighty-one. Seven hundred and eighty-one minus seven hundred and forty-six is thirty-five.)

 

Doctor Who and The Giant Robot   Novelisation, published 1975   Doctor : 4

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Sarah Jane, Harry

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from his own script, edited by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. The Doctor has regenerated for a third time. Harry boards the TARDIS.

Junior Doctor Who and the Giant Robot   Short story adaptation, published 1979                                                                                                                                                             Doctor : 4

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Sarah Jane, Harry

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from his own script, edited by Robert Holmes.

A version of the events of Doctor Who and The Giant Robot.

Doctor Who and The Ark in Space   Novelisation, published 1977  Doctor : 4

featuring Sarah Jane, Harry, the Wirrrn

Adapted by Ian Marter from a script by Robert Holmes, from an idea by John Lucarotti.

As broadcast. The TARDIS console has been redesigned.

The Wirrrn are a spacefaring insectoid species. Some quirk of evolution causes them to wear their six limbs like a straggly bow-tie while apparently shuffling about on the bottom of their abdomens. In fairness, they seem to spend much of their time in zero-G, where they have no weight to take with any part of their anatomy. I am using Ian Marter’s spelling because of course I am.

Doctor Who and The Sontaran Experiment  Novelisation, published 1978                                                         Doctor : 4

featuring the Sontarans, Sarah Jane, Harry

Adapted by Ian Marter from a script by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, edited by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. Takes place on the site of London.

Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks  Novelisation, published 1976                                                         Doctor : 4

featuring the Daleks, Sarah Jane, Harry, Davros, and the Time Lords (glimpse)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Terry Nation, edited by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. The Time Lords try to use the Doctor to prevent the Daleks from happening, but he chooses not to.

Doctor Who – The Revenge of the Cybermen

Novelisation, published 1976                                                                         Doctor : 4

featuring the Cybermen, the Vogans, Sarah Jane, Harry, with the Time Lords (informative mention)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Gerry Davis, edited by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. The Time Lords send the TARDIS to meet the Doctor, suggesting that his defeat of the Cybermen is what they wanted to achieve.

Return of the Daleks   Comic story, published 1975                                Doctor : 4

featuring the Time Lords, the Daleks, Sarah Jane

Written by Martin Asbury.

Informed guess Takes place in space. Harry is not travelling in the TARDIS, so for the Doctor and presumably the Time Lords, this takes place after Doctor Who – The Revenge of the Cybermen. These are time-active Daleks, so their location in time is unrelated to their location in Dalek history. The Time Lords are located on the planet Jewel: this may be a less or more formal name for Gallifrey, like Scotland and Caledonia.

Toil and Trouble   Illustrated short story, published 2017                       Doctor : 4

Featuring Sarah Jane, Harry, the Carrionites

Written by Richard Dungworth.

Takes place aboard the TARDIS, immediately before Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster.

Doctor Who and The Loch Ness Monster   Novelisation, published 1976                                                                 Doctor : 4

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Sarah Jane, Harry, the Zygons

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Robert Banks Stewart, edited by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. Harry stops travelling in the TARDIS. Tales place at sea, in Scotland and in London.

Doctor Who - The Planet of Evil   Novelisation, published 1977                                                                                    Doctor : 4

featuring Sarah Jane

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Louis Marks, edited by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast.

Knitworld   Charity short story, published 1999                                          Doctor : 4

featuring the Master, Sarah Jane

Written by Stephen Marley.

Informed guess: Sarah Jane is in the TARDIS, in which it takes place.

Doctor Who and The Android Invasion   Novelisation, published 1978                                                                    Doctor : 4

featuring UNIT, Benton, Sarah Jane, Harry

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Terry Nation, edited by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. Takes place partly in regional England.

The Brain of Morbius   TV story, broadcast 1976                       Doctor : 4

featuring Sarah Jane, the Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Terrance Dicks and Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. I assume it takes place contemporaneously with the Time Lords, because there is no suggestion that Solon has time travel and in any case it is contemporary Gallifreyan society that Morbius will be interested in.

Doctor Who and The Brain of Morbius   Novelisation, published 1977                                                                     Doctor : 4

featuring Sarah Jane, the Time Lords (informative mention)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by him and Robert Holmes.

As broadcast.

Junior Doctor Who and The Brain of Morbius   Short story adaptation, published 1980                                                   Doctor : 4

featuring Sarah Jane, the Time Lords (informative mention)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by him and Robert Holmes.

As broadcast.

Doctor Who and The Pescatons   Audio drama, released 1976                                                                                       Doctor : 4

featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Victor Pemberton.

Informed guess Takes place in London and regional England.

Doctor Who and The Seeds of Doom   Novelisation, published 1977                                                                          Doctor : 4

featuring UNIT, Sarah Jane, the Krynoids

Adapted by Philip Hinchcliffe from a script by Robert Banks Stewart, edited by Robert Holmes

As broadcast. Takes place in London, regional England and Antarctica.

Doctor Who and The Masque of Mandragora   Novelisation, published 1977                                                        Doctor : 4

featuring Sarah Jane, the Mandragora Helix

Adapted by Philip Hinchcliffe from a script by Louis Marks, edited by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. The Doctor starts using the wooden-panelled control room of the TARDIS. Takes place mostly in continental Europe.

Eternity   Short story, published 2003                                                          Doctor : 4

featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Jonathan Blum.

Informed guess: Takes place aboard the TARDIS; Sarah Jane is aboard and the Doctor is using the wooden-panelled control room.

Doctor Who and The Hand of Fear   Novelisation, published 1979                                                                              Doctor : 4

featuring Sarah Jane

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a story by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, edited by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. Sarah Jane leaves the TARDIS.

The Deadly Assassin   TV story, broadcast 1976                          Doctor : 4

featuring the Time Lords, the Master

Written by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. The Doctor is by default elected Lord President of the High Council. There is a suggestion here that the Chronarchy is by this time two million years old, and this fits other evidence quite well. In Lungbarrow, it is stated that Quences lived about seven thousand years, and there is no suggestion that his life was abnormally long or short. He is the four hundred and twenty-second Kithriarch of Lungbarrow: assuming he and his predecessors ascended to the position about a third of the way through their lives, this gives us about two million years. In The Gallifrey Chronicles it is stated that there have been one hundred and fifty-three thousand, eight hundred and forty-six Time Lords altogether, meaning they have been loomed at a rate of about one every thirteen years, suggesting there are under five hundred and fifty at any time; but are all fifty of Lungbarrow’s cousins actual Time Lords? Are most of them? There have been just over four hundred Presidents, suggesting an average term of five thousand years. Actually, perhaps Quences was unusually short-lived: an average lifespan of thirty-thousand makes all these figures more comfortable.

Doctor Who and The Deadly Assassin   Novelisation, published 1977                                                                        Doctor : 4

featuring the Time Lords, the Master

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. Takes place on Gallifrey.

Double Trouble   Comic story, published  1976                                         Doctor : 4

featuring the Time Lords

Written by John Canning.

informed guess: The Doctor is alone; takes place partly on contemporary Gallifrey

Master of the Blackhole   Illustrated short story, published 1977          Doctor : 4

Written by a Polystyle staff writer.

Informed guess: The Doctor is alone; takes place in the TARDIS’s woodwn-panelled control room.

Doctor Who and The Iron Legion   Audio dramatization of a comic story, released 2019                                                                        Doctor : 4

Featuring Stockbridge, with Lethbridge-Stewart (informative mention)

Adapted by Alan Barnes from a story by Pat Mills and John Wagner.

Informed guess The Doctor is alone. Takes place in regional England and a version of Continental Europe.

Doctor Who and The Face of Evil   Novelisation, published 1978   Doctor : 4

featuring Leela

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Chris Boucher, edited by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. Leela boards the TARDIS.

Doctor Who and The Robots of Death   Novelisation, published 1979                                                                        Doctor : 4

featuring Leela, Kaldor

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Chris Boucher, edited by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. Kaldor was a planet colonised by Tellurians.

Doctor Who and The Talons of Weng Chiang    Novelisation, published 1977                                                          Doctor : 4

featuring Leela, Jago and Litefoot, the Peking Homunculus

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. Takes place in London.

The Peking Homunculus is a robot constructed in the fifty-first century, incorporating the cerebellum of a pig.

The Abandoned   Audio drama, released 2014                                   Doctor : 4

Featuring The Time Lords, Leela

Written by Nigel Fairs and Louise Jameson.

Takes place near The Still Point, between Doctor Who and The Talons of Weng Chiang and The Horror of Fang Rock.

Doctor Who and The Horror of Fang Rock   Novelisation, published 1978                                                               Doctor : 4

featuring Leela, the Rutan

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by himself, edited by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. Takes place at sea.

Doctor Who and The Invisible Enemy   Novelisation, published 1979                                                                          Doctor : 4

featuring Leela, K9 I

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, edited by Robert Holmes.

As broadcast. K9 I boards the TARDIS. The Doctor starts using the old, though slightly redesigned, console room. Takes place in the outer Solar System.

Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl                                                           Novelisation, published 1979   Doctor : 4

featuring Leela, the Fendahl, with the Time Lords, Mars, the Outer Solar System, K9 I (informative mention)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Chris Boucher, edited by Robert Holmes and Anthony Read.

As broadcast. Takes place in regional England.

Doctor Who and The Sunmakers   Novelisation, published 1982                                                                                    Doctor : 4

featuring Leela, K9 I

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Robert Holmes, edited by Anthony Read.

As broadcast. Takes place, once again, in the Outer Solar System.

The Invasion of Time   TV story, broadcast 1978                       Doctor : 4

featuring the Time Lords, the Sontarans, Leela, K9 I, the Vardans, and K9 II (glimpse)

Written by Graham Williams and Anthony Read.

As broadcast. The Vardans and Sontarans invade Gallifrey.

Doctor Who and The Invasion of Time   TV story, broadcast 1980                                                                             Doctor : 4

featuring the Time Lords, the Sontarans, Leela, K9 I, the Vardans, and K9 II (glimpse)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Graham Wiliams and Anthony Read.

Takes place on Gallifrey.  Leela and K9 One settle on Gallifrey; the Doctor starts to construct K9 Two.

An Easy Mistake to Make   Charity drabble, published 1993                   Doctor : 0

featuring the Time Lords, Leela

Written by Andy Lane.

Takes place on Gallifrey immediately after The Invasion of Time. Leela is sentenced to death, but from later stories the sentence is evidently not carried out. Perhaps K9 One negotiates on her behalf, offering to become their agent.

K9’s Finest Hour   Comic story, published 1979                                         Doctor : 4

featuring K9 II, ?the Vardans, and the Sontarans (informative mention)

Written by Steve Moore.

Informed guess: The Doctor is travelling with K9. The Sontarans pursuing the Doctor may be contempraneous with the ones who invaded Gallifrey (and the humanoids working for them may be Vardans, particularly as they seem skilled in sub-atomic beam technology).

Affirmative!   Illustrated short story, published 1991                                  Doctor : 7

featuring K9 I, and Leela (glimpse), and the Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Daniel Read.

Informed guess: Takes place on Gallifrey; just after Leela’s wedding and before K9 I has begun acting as an agent for the Time Lords, so the Doctor is going back into his past.

The Fear   Short story, published 2003                                                       Doctor : 4

featuring K9 II

Written by Alexander Leithes.

informed guess: the Doctor is travelling alone with K9; takes place in the TARDIS.

Doctor Who and The Ribos Operation   Novelisation, published 1979                                                                  Doctor :  4

featuring K9 II, Grace technology, Romana

Adapted by Ian Marter from a script by Robert Holmes, edited by Anthony Read.

As broadcast. The Doctor is commissioned by the White Guardian to assemble the Key to Time; Romana boards the TARDIS. The Doctor acquires the first segment of the Key to Time.

Doctor Who - The Pirate Planet   Novelisation, published 2017                                                                        Doctor :  4

Featuring K9 II, Grace technology, Romana

Adapted by James Goss from a script by Douglas Adams, edited by James Goss.

As broadcast. The Doctor acquires the second segment of the Key to Time.

Doctor Who and The Stones of Blood   Novelisation, published 1980                                                                      Doctor :  4

featuring K9 II, Grace technology, Romana

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by David Fisher, edited by Anthony Read.

As broadcast. The Doctor acquires the third segment of the Key to Time. Takes place in regional England.

K9 and the Time Trap   Illustrated short story, published 1980                                                                                                                                                                                              Doctor : 0

featuring the Time Lords, K9 I, ?Omega

Written by Dave Martin.

informed guess: K9 One, working for the Time Lords, confronts Omegon in a contemporary Gallifreyan time frame. Omegon’s story is identical to Omega’s, so we may conclude that Omegon is Omega. Or perhaps a version of Omega from another timeline: if there are several of these, it might explain his persistent habit of returning from the dead.

Doctor Who and The Androids of Tara   Novelisation, published 1980                                                                  Doctor : 4

featuring K9 II, Grace technology, Romana

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by David Fisher, edited by Anthony Read.

As broadcast. The Doctor acquires the fourth segment of the Key to Time.

Doctor Who and The Power of Kroll   Novelisation, published 1980                                                                       Doctor : 4

featuring Grace technology, Romana, and K9 II (informative mention)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Robert Holmes, edited by Anthony Read.

As broadcast. The Doctor acquires the fifth segment of the Key to Time.

Doctor Who and The Armageddon Factor   Novelisation, published 1980                                                           Doctor : 4

featuring K9 II, Grace technology, Romana, the Time Lords

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, edited by Anthony Read.

As broadcast. The Doctor assembles the Key to Time and fits the randomiser to the TARDIS. The Black Guardian swears vengeance on him.

Time, Love and TARDIS   Illustrated short story, published 1992     Doctor : ?4

featuring the Time Lords

Written by Ron Plath.

informed guess: The Doctor is not described, but Four was commissioned by the Time Lords before X-Rani and the Ugly Mutants, which takes place between Doctor Who and The Armageddon Factor and Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks.

Doctor Who and The Star Beast   Audio dramatization, released 2019                                                            Doctor : 4

Featuring UNIT, Sharon, the Beep of All the Meeps, with K9 II, Romana (informative mention)

Adapted by Alan Barnes from a comic story by Pat Mills and John Wagner.

The Doctor has left Romana, and in this version of events it would appear K9, and is travelling alone. Sharon boards the TARDIS. Takes place in regional England.

Readacross   Charity drabble, published 1993                                           Doctor : 4

featuring K9 II, and Romana (informative mention)

Written by Jim Mortimore.

Informed guess: This glimpse of K9 malfunctioning fits quite well just before Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks. Sharon has left the TARDIS and K9 and Romana have reboarded it.

Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks  Novelisation, published 1979                                                              Doctor : 4

featuring the Daleks, Davros, K9 II, Romana, the Movellans

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Terry Nation, edited by Douglas Adams.

As broadcast.

The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe   Short story, published 2003             Doctor : 4

featuring Romana, K9 II (informative mention)

Written by Mark Michalowski.

Takes place during and after Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks, aboard the TARDIS. Romana regenerates.

Shortly After Armageddon: On Being Replaced by Princess Astra and Being Cast Hither by Unknown Forces   Charity drabble, published 1993                              Doctor : 0

featuring Romana

Written by Michael E P Stevens.

After Romana’s regeneration, probably just after, in her mind.

The Romance of Crime   Audio dramatization, released 2015 Doctor : 4

Featuring the Ogrons, K9 II, Romana, Menlove Stokes

Adapted by John Dorney from a novel by Gareth Roberts.

As placed by Virgin Publishing.

Menlove Ereward Stokes is a humanoid of presumably Tellurian descent, evidently born in the late twenty-fourth century CE.

The English Way of Death   Audio dramatization, released 2015  Doctor : 4

Featuring K9 II, Romana

Adapted by John Dorney from a novel by Gareth Roberts.

As placed by Virgin Publishing. Takes place in London and regional England.

Doctor Who and The Creature From the Pit   Novelisation, published 1981   Doctor : 4

featuring K9 II, Romana

Adapted by David Fisher from his own script, edited by Douglas Adams.

As broadcast.

Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden   Novelisation, published 1980                                                                      Doctor : 4

featuring K9 II, Romana

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Bob Baker, edited by Douglas Adams.

As broadcast.

K9 and the Zeta Rescue   Illustrated short story, published 1980           Doctor : 0

featuring the Time Lords, K9 I

Written by Dave Martin.

Informed guess: K9 Mark One is working for the Time Lords, as published. I see no reason not to place this in a contemporary Gallifreyan time frame.

Doctor Who and The Horns of Nimon   Novelisation, published 1980                                                                         Doctor : 4

featuring K9 II, Romana

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Anthony Read, edited by Douglas Adams.

As broadcast.

Dinner Conversation   Charity short story, published 2001                    Doctor : 4

featuring Romana

Written by Charles Daniels.

informed guess: takes place not long after Romana’s regeneration, in the TARDIS.

Doctor Who - Shada   Novelisation, published 2012                  Doctor : 4

Featuring the Time Lords, K9 II, Romana, Skagra

Adapted by Gareth Roberts from a script by Douglas Adams.

As was intended to be broadcast. Takes place partly in regional England.

The Trouble With Drax   Audio drama, released 2016                    Doctor : 4

Featuring the Time Lords, K9 II, Romana

Written by John Dorney.

Takes place before The Well Mannered War.

The Well Mannered War   Audio dramatization, released 2015         Doctor : 4

Featuring the Chellonians, K9 II, Grace technology, Romana, Menlove Stokes

Adapted by John Dorney from a novel by Gareth Roberts.

Informed guess Takes place between Doctor Who – Shada and The Leisure Hive.

Doctors Assemble   Webcast, posted 2020       

                                                                               Doctors : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, War, 10, 11, 12, 13

Featuring Sarah Jane, K9 II, Romana (informative mention)

Written by James Goss.

Takes place in the TARDIS. The Doctor is currently travelling without K9 II or Romana.

The Leisure Hive   TV Story, broadcast 1980                              Doctor : 4

featuring K9 II, Romana

Written by David Fisher, script edited by Christopher H Bidmead.

As broadcast. The Doctor dismantles the TARDIS randomizer. Takes place briefly in regional England. I am placing the TV story here as the novelisation has some interesting detail of the late twenty-third century.

Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen   Novelisation, published 2018     Doctor : 4

Featuring the Time Lords, K9 II, Romana, with Grace technology (informative mention)

Adapted by James Goss from an unproduced story by Douglas Adams.

Takes place variously, but pivotally on Gallifrey. And briefly in London.

Doctor Who - Meglos   Novelisation, published 1983                       Doctor : 4

featuring K9 II, Romana, with the Time Lords (informative mention)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch, edited by Christopher H Bidmead.

As broadcast. Romana is summoned to Gallifrey by the Time Lords.

Full Circle   TV Story, broadcast 1980                                                 Doctor : 4

featuring K9 II, Romana, Adric, with the Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Andrew Smith, script edited by Christopher H Bidmead.

As broadcast. The TARDIS enters E-space and Adric boards the TARDIS.

A Boy’s Tale   Short story, published 2003                                                 Doctor : 4

featuring Adric, K9 II (informative mention)

Written by Gary Russell.

Adric recounts events before Doctor Who – Full Circle.

Doctor Who - Full Circle   Novelisation, published 1982                Doctor : 4

featuring K9 II, Romana, Adric

Adapted by Andrew Smith from his own script, edited by Christopher H Bidmead.

Takes place on Alzarius. The TARDIS scanners show contemporary Gallifrey, so despite taking place in E-Space, this is in some sense contempraneous with Gallifrey.

Doctor Who and the State of Decay   Novelisation, published 1982 Doctor : 4

Featuring the Vampires, K9 II, Romana, Adric, with the Time Lords (informative mention)

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from his own script, edited by Christopher H Bidmead.

As broadcast.

Doctor Who and Warriors’ Gate   Novelisation, published 1982                                                                                    Doctor : 4

featuring K9 II, Romana, Adric

Adapted by Steven Gallagher (writing as John Lydecker) from his own script, edited by Christopher H Bidmead.

As broadcast. K9 II and Romana leave the TARDIS, which leaves E-space.

Doctor Who and The Keeper of Traken   Novelisation, published 1982                                                                   Doctor : 4

featuring the Master, Adric, Nyssa

Adapted by Terrance Dicks from a script by Johnny Byrne, edited by Christopher H Bidmead.

As broadcast. The Master takes over the body of Tremas.

K9 and Co.   Novelisation, published 1987                                             Doctor : 0

featuring Sarah Jane, K9 III

Adapted by Terence Dudley from his own script, edited by Eric Saward and Anthony Root.    

Takes place , for K9 III, after the Doctor has built it (after Doctor Who and The Keeper of Traken) and before Doctor Who - Logopolis. Takes place in regional England.

Doctor Who - Logopolis   Novelisation, published 1982                 Doctor : 4

featuring the Master, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan

Adapted by Christopher H Bidmead from his own script.

As broadcast. Nyssa and Tegan board the TARDIS. The Doctor regenerates for a fourth time. Takes place partly in regional England.

 

 

Total Stories Considered               2401

Proportion Written By Women   11%                                        

 

Top Docs

3                 253 stories

4                 232 stories           Climber!

10               167 stories

7                 161 stories

11               138 stories         

2                 130 stories

8                 120 stories

1                 114 stories

5                 109 stories         

6                 105 stories

12               76 stories  

Unbound   38 stories  

9                 35 stories  

13               33 stories

War            5 stories    

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                601 stories         

Regional England                                               462 stories

UNIT                                                                    382 stories

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                      372 stories

Wales                                                                  240 stories

North America                                                   230 stories   

Torchwood                                                         228 stories  

The Time Lords                                                  183 stories   Climber!

Captain Jack                                                       179 stories

Sarah Jane                                                          174 stories

The Master, including Missy                           124 stories   Climber!

Christmas                                                            122 stories

Jo                                                                         118 stories         

Continental Europe                                           118 stories   Climber!  

The K9s                                                               115 stories  Re-entry!

Benton                                                                113 stories  

Iris Wildthyme                                                   102 stories

Ace                                                                      98 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                     96 stories   

At sea                                                                  93 stories  

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           983 stories

The Noughties                                                    626 stories                   

The Nineties                                                       233 stories

The Twenties                                                     202 stories

The Seventies                                                    176 stories         

The Eighties                                                        132 stories

The Sixties                                                          49 stories  

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          151 stories

2008                                                          128 stories

2020                                                          125 stories         

2017                                                           119 stories  

2018                                                          117 stories   

2011                                                          103 stories

2015                                                          101 stories   Climber! 

2019                                                          101 stories   Climber!    

2009                                                          99 stories  

2010                                                          88 stories  

2013                                                          84 stories  

2021                                                          76 stories  

2007                                                          74 stories

2001                                                          74 stories   Climber!    

2006                                                          64 stories  

2012                                                          64 stories   Climber!             

2014                                                          52 stories   Climber!    

2005                                                          51 stories  

2004                                                          48 stories  

1993                                                          45 stories=  Re-entry!

1999                                                          45 stories=

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                                707

Proportion of Female Writers                         16%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                         103 stories   New number one!

Russell T Davies                                       86 stories  

James Goss                                               63 stories   Climber!    

Paul Magrs                                                61 stories  

Robert Holmes                                         42 stories   Re-entry!

Justin Richards                                         39 stories  

Steven Moffat                                          38 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        35 stories   Climber!

? John Canning                                         33 stories Climber!

Eddie Robson                                            33 stories  

Joseph Lidster                                          30 stories  

Steve Lyons                                               29 stories  

David Whitaker                                        29 stories  

James Hornby                                           28 stories

Jonathan Morris                                      28 stories            

John Dorney                                             27 stories   Climber!

Matt Fitton                                                26 stories  

Guy Adams                                               23 stories  

Andrew Cartmel                                      23 stories  

Gary Russell                                              23 stories   Climber!