Then: The Chronarchy and The Doctor's Timeline: The Doctor’s Seventh Incarnation
(Say, fifty-six years. In Vampire Science,
the Doctor says he was a thousand and nine years old at his seventh
regeneration. One thousand and nine minus nine hundred and fifty-three is
fifty-six.)
Doctor Who - Time and the Rani Novelisation of a TV Story, published 1988 Doctor: 7
featuring
the Rani, Mel
Adapted by Pip and Jane Baker from their own script,
edited by Andrew Cartmel.
As broadcast. The Doctor regenerates for a sixth
time. The Rani shoots down the TARDIS with a handgun, apparently.
Why Though? Charity
short story, published 2018 Doctor: 7, I suggest
Written by Ira Lightman.
The Useful Pile Illustrated short story, published 1992 Doctor:
7
Written by Kate Orman.
Takes place in the TARDIS, immediately after Doctor Who – Time and the Rani.
Unregenerate! Audio drama, released 2005 Doctor:
7
featuring
the Time Lords, Mel, with London
(informative mention)
Written by David A McKintee.
informed guess Takes place mostly in a
Gallifreyan structure; Mel is aboard the TARDIS.
Doctor Who - Paradise Towers Novelisation of a TV Story, published 1988 Doctor:
7
featuring
Mel
Adapted by Stephen Wyatt from his own script, edited
by Andrew Cartmel.
As broadcast.
Doctor Who - Delta and the Bannermen Novelisation of a TV Story, published 1989 Doctor:
7
featuring
Mel
Adapted by Malcolm Kohll from his own script, edited
by Andrew Cartmel.
As broadcast. Takes place principally in Wales.
Doctor Who - Dragonfire Novelisation of a TV Story, published 1989 Doctor: 7
featuring
Glitz, Mel, Ace
Adapted by Ian Briggs from his own script, edited
Andrew Cartmel.
As broadcast. Mel leaves the TARDIS; Ace boards it.
Echo Short story, published 2004 Doctor: 7
featuring
Ace, the Vampires
Written by Lance Parkin.
Takes place in the TARDIS, soon after Ace has
boarded it. I’m assuming that the figure in the mirror as a vampire, and it is
the same figure who appeared in The Exiles.
Doctor Who - The Happiness Patrol Novelisation of a TV Story, published 1990 Doctor: 7
featuring
Ace, the Kandyman
Adapted by Graeme Curry from his own script, edited
by Andrew Cartmel.
As broadcast.
The Kandyman is a bipedal robot from Terra
Alpha in, I suggest, the early second myriad, made at least partly of
sugar-derived products.
uPVC Short story, published
1999 Doctors: 2, 7
featuring
Jamie, Zoe, Ace
Written by Paul Farnsworth.
informed guess: Takes place in the
TARDIS; Ace is aboard it.
Doctor Who - Silver Nemesis Novelisation of a TV Story, published 1989 Doctor: 7
featuring
the Cybermen, Ace
Adapted by Kevin Clarke from his own script, edited
by Andrew Cartmel.
As broadcast. Takes place in regional England.
Gold-headed arrows fired at the TARDIS stick, though they can be pulled out.
Doctor Who - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Novelisation of a TV Story,
published 1989 Doctor:
7
featuring
Mags, Ace
Adapted by Steven Wyatt from his own script, edited
by Andrew Cartmel.
As broadcast. A junk-mail satellite can materialise
inside the TARDIS.
Doctor Who - Battlefield Novelisation of a TV Story, published 1991
Doctors:
7, with Unbound
featuring
Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, the Matter of
Britain, Ace
Adapted by Marc Platt from a script by Ben
Aaronovitch, edited by Andrew Cartmel
As broadcast. Takes place in regional England.
Nineveh! Comic story, published 1989 Doctor:
7
Featuring the Time Lords
Written by John Tomlinson.
Takes place at a TARDIS
graveyard. Ace has left the TARDIS. One might
speculate that the Watcher of Nineveh, a Time Lord legend who comes for TT
capsules and their pilots at the end of the pilot’s last incarnation, is an
agent of the Enemy, or even Lolita.
Doctor Who - Ghost Light Novelisation of a TV Story,
published 1990 Doctor: 7
featuring
Ace
Adapted by Marc Platt from his own script, edited by
Andrew Cartmel.
As broadcast. Takes place in Perivale: the opening
chapter is set in 1983 CE, when Perivale is in London; the rest of it in 1883
CE, when it is in regional England. Ace has reboarded the TARDIS.
Drabble in the TARDIS Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor:
7
featuring
Ace
Written by Nathan Cooke.
informed guess Takes place in the TARDIS,
when the Doctor is beginning to set tests for Ace.
Contract Kill Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 7
featuring
Ace
Written by M R Morgan.
Informed guess Takes place in the TARDIS.
Party Animals Comic story, published 1991 Doctors: 7, U, and 4,6 (glimpse)
featuring
the Daemons, Ace, with the Daleks, the
Cybermen, the Master, the Ice Warriors, the Quarks, the Earth Reptiles, the
Ogrons, an Alpha Centauran, the Draconians, possibly the Vogans (possibly the
Mekon), the Sontarans, the Wirrrn, Dr.Asimoff, the Free Fall Warriors, Daak,
the Beep of All the Meeps, Shayde, Death’s
Head, the Kandyman (glimpse), and the Time Lords, the Rani (informative mention)
Written by Gary Russell.
Informed guess Takes place in Maruthea,
at the centre of the Space-Time Vortex.
The Mekon is Dan Dare’s archenemy, who bares
an astonishing resemblance to a Vogan, including his mode of transport,
although he is of course a Venusian Treen.
Dr Ivan Asimoff is a
hexapodic fiction writer from the planet Sigma, in the early ninth millennium.
The Free Fall Warriors are three bipeds of
indeterminate origin and an android, originally military space pilots,
subsequently professional racing and display pilots, from the early ninth
millennium.
Abslom Daak is a humanoid of presumably
Tellurian extraction, from the twenty-sixth century.
The Chameleon Factor Comic story, published 1991 Doctors: 7, and 2(glimpse)
featuring
Ace, and Polly, Ben, the Osirans, the
Mandragora Helix (glimpse)
Written by Paul Cornell.
Informed guess Takes place in the TARDIS.
The console and console room have been redesigned.
Doctor Who - Survival Novelisation of a TV Story,
published 1990 Doctor: 7
featuring
the Master, Ace
Adapted by Rona Munro from her own script, edited by
Andrew Cartmel.
As broadcast. Takes place in London.
The Runes of Fenric Short story, published 2013 Doctor:
7
Featuring the Time Lords, the Daleks, the Cybermen,
the Master, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Davros, the Matter of Britain, the Rani,
Glitz, Mel, Ace, the Counter Measures Group, the Kandyman, the Haemovores
Written by James Goss and Steve Tribe.
We may assume that River Song obtains this material while researching
up to this point on the Doctor’s timeline. I am further assuming that the Haemovores
are a form of Mal'akh-influenced metamorphs: the effect that faith has on them pretty
well clinches it, I suggest.
Initial Paragraphs From a Draft Letter to My Oldest Companion
Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor:
plausibly 7
Written
by Peter Anghelides.
Takes place aboard the TARDIS.
Seven to One Audio short story, released 2011 Doctors:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Featuring Susan, Jamie, Jo, Romana, Nyssa, Peri, Ace
(informative mention)
Written by Simon Paul Miller.
Informed guess Takes place in Grey Space;
extradimensionally, we may assume. Ace is travelling in the TARDIS.
Brown’s Study Charity
drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 7
featuring
Peri (informative mention)
Written by Paul Harrington.
informed guess Takes place aboard the
TARDIS, after the Doctor’s sixth regeneration.
Nightshade Audio dramatization, released 2016 Doctor: 7
Featuring Ace
Adapted by Kyle C Szikora,
from a novel by Mark Gatiss.
Takes place after Doctor Who – Survival as published, in regional England. The notorious disconnection between the end of Nightshade, in which the Doctor betrays Ace, and the beginning of Love and War, in which they seem to be fine, emboldens me to place the early Ace and the Seventh Doctor Big Finish audio dramas between them. Going into Love and War, Ace is expecting to see Hex again in a day or two, rather than, in my estimation, over twenty years.
Cat Litter Comic
story, published 1992 Doctor:
7
featuring
Ace
Written by Marc Platt.
Takes place aboard the TARDIS, before, I suggest, The Reaping.
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast Short story, published 2005 Doctor: 7
featuring
Ace, Hex
Written by Dan Abnett.
Takes place aboard the
TARDIS and in the Vortex. Hex has boarded the TARDIS.
Love and War Audio dramatization,
released 2012 Doctor: 7
Featuring Ace,
Benny
Adapted by Jacqueline Rayner
from a novel by Paul Cornell.
Hex has left the TARDIS. Benny
boards it, Ace leaves it.
The Highest
Science Audio dramatization,
released 2014 Doctor: 7
Featuring the
Chellonians, Benny
Adapted by Jacqueline Rayner
from a novel by Gareth Roberts.
Takes place after Love and War, as originally published.
Clean Up Time Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 7
featuring Ace
Written by Gary Russell.
Takes place aboard the
TARDIS; plausibly soon after Deceit,
when Ace reboards the TARDIS after three years.
Theatre of War Audio dramatization, released 2015 Doctor: 7
Featuring Braxiatel,
Ace, Benny
Adapted by Justin Richards
from his own novel.
Takes place after Ace has
rejoined the TARDIS.
All-Consuming
Fire Audio dramatization,
released 2015 Doctor:
7
Featuring Ace,
Benny, Sherlock Holmes
Adapted by Guy Adams from a
novel by Andy Lane.
Takes place after Theatre of War, as originally published, in London, Asia, North America and at sea.
The Last Word Comic story, published 2001 Doctor:
7
featuring Ace,
Benny
Written by Gareth Roberts.
Takes place aboard the
TARDIS, sometime after White Darkness, from the way the Doctor is dressed. I don’t think
we need entertain the possibility that what the Doctor is writing about actually
happened.
Questions Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor:
Arguably 7
Written by Eric Pringle.
Takes place indeterminately, arguably
about now.
Original Sin Audio dramatization, released 2016 Doctor:
7
Featuring Benny,
Roz, Chris
Adapted by John Dorney from a
novel by Andy Lane.
Takes place after All Consuming Fire as published. Ace has left the TARDIS, Roz and Chris board it.
Past Time Catching Charity sort story, published 1999 Doctor:
7
featuring Benny,
Chris, with Ace (informative mention)
Written by Dave Stone.
Takes place partly and
perhaps entirely aboard the TARDIS. Ace has left the TARDIS, and Chris, and
therefore Roz, has boarded it.
Cold Fusion Audio dramatization,
released 2016 Doctors: 5, 7
Featuring the
Time Lords, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, Roz, Chris
Adapted by
Lance Parkin from his own novel.
Takes
place after Original Sin. Benny has left the TARDIS.
Damaged Goods Audio dramatization,
released 2015 Doctor: 7
Featuring Roz, Chris, Torchwood, with the Time Lords,
the Vampires (informative mention)
Adapted by Jonathan Morris from a novel by Russell T Davies.
Implicitly takes place after Cold Fusion, and in London, as the original novel
certainly does not.
The Five O’Clock Shadow Verse,
published 2005 Doctor: Unbound
Written by Nev Fountain.
Informed guess Takes place presumably in
the Doctor’s mind; plausibly the mind of his seventh incarnation.
Just Who Is the Doctor?, Sonnet - The Room With No Doors, Nursery Verse For a Loomling
Charity verse,
published 2001 Doctor:
7
Written by Jennifer Tifft.
Informed guess Relevant at this point.
Lungbarrow Novel, published 1997 Doctors:
7, with 1 (glimpse)
featuring
the Time Lords, Leela, K9I, K9II,
Romana, Ace, Chris, with Susan (glimpse)
Written by Marc Platt
Takes place on Gallifrey. Roz is dead and Chris
leaves the TARDIS. Leela is still alive - and fertile - after two and a half
centuries, owing - presumably -
to the Elixir of Karn. As she first became pregnant in Scorpio: Jealous, Possessive, who knows how many
Gallifreyan-Tellurian hybrids she has produced in the ensuing score or more of
decades.
The Who Interviews Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Written by Paul Cornell.
Here is as good a place as any.
Doctor Who - The Curse of Fenric Novelisation of a TV Story,
published 1990 Doctor: 7
featuring
Ace, the Haemovores
Adapted by Ian Briggs from his own script, edited
by Andrew Cartmel.
At some stage, Ace starts travelling in the TARDIS
again, after it has been redesigned in the way seen in Doctor Who. The closing scene in this
novelisation, taking place some sixteen years after Ace settled in Paris, seems
a likely occasion, especially as the Doctor seems a bit concerned about her
becoming her own ancestress. Takes place in regional England, continental
Europe and at sea.
Gods and
Monsters Audio
drama, released 2012 Doctor:
7
Featuring Ace, the Haemovores,
Hex, Sally, Lysandra
Written by Mike Maddox and Alan Barnes.
Takes place in an intra-dimensional realm. Hex
has reboarded the TARDIS.
Klein’s Story Audio drama, released 2010 Doctors: 7, with Unbound 8
Featuring Klein, with Germany, Cambridge (informative mention)
Written by John
Ainsworth and Lee Mansfield.
The Two Masters Audio drama, released 2016 Doctor: 7
Featuring the Time Lords, the Master, the Rocket Men
Written by John Dorney.
The Arches Charity short story, published
2001 Doctor:
7
featuring the
Time Lords, Mortimus, the Ogrons, with Iris Wildthyme (glimpse), and the
Master, the Rani (informative mention)
Written by Cavan Scott and
Mark Wright.
Informed guess Takes place on Asteroid
K-8741. The Doctor is travelling alone, plausibly after Klein’s Story. Mortimus has apparently
been released by Artemis, which is very lucky for him. Perhaps, as a being
whose perception of time is geometric rather than linear, Artemis held Mortimus
captive for as long he held her captive.
24 Carat Webcast, released 2021
Doctor: 7
featuring Mel
Written by Pete McTigue.
This Is My Life Verse,
published 2003 Doctor:
7
Written by William Keith.
Takes place in the Doctor’s head, ending during Doctor Who.
Total Stories Considered 2524
Proportion Written By Women 11%
Top Docs
3 258 stories
4 243 stories
7 210 stories Climber!
10 167 stories
5 151 stories
6 143 stories
2 138 stories Climber!
11 138 stories
1 124 stories
8 122 stories
12 76 stories
Unbound 41 stories
9 35 stories
13 33 stories
War 5 stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
London 608 stories
Regional England 474 stories
UNIT 385
stories
Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart
family 377 stories
Wales 241
stories
North America 232 stories
Torchwood 228
stories
The Time Lords 217 stories
Captain Jack 179
stories
Sarah Jane 178
stories
The Master, including Missy 143 stories
Ace 125
stories Climber!
Christmas 123 stories
Continental Europe 123 stories Climber!
Jo 120 stories
The K9s 118
stories
Benton 114
stories
The Daleks and Davros 104
stories
Iris Wildthyme 103
stories
At sea 98
stories
Top Decades
The Teens 1019 stories
The Noughties 648 stories
The Nineties 260 stories
The Twenties 203
stories
The Seventies 176
stories
The Eighties 169
stories
The Sixties 49 stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 155 stories
2008 129
stories
2020 125 stories
2018 122 stories Climber!
2017 121
stories
2019 107
stories
2015 106
stories Climber!
2011 105 stories
2009 101
stories
2010 93
stories
2013 87 stories
2001 79
stories
2021 77
stories
2007 75
stories
2012 66 stories
2006 64
stories
1993 59
stories Climber!
2014 54
stories
2005 53 stories
2004 51
stories
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
linking material writers) 748
Proportion of Female Writers 16%
Top Twenty Writers
Terrance Dicks 110 stories
Russell T Davies 87
stories
James Goss 66
stories
Paul Magrs 62
stories
Robert Holmes 45
stories
Justin Richards 40 stories Climber!
Eric Saward 40
stories
Steven Moffat 38
stories
Gareth Roberts 37
stories
Eddie Robson 35 stories
Andrew Cartmel 34 stories Climber!
? John Canning 33
stories
John Dorney 30 stories Climber!
Joseph Lidster 30
stories
Steve Lyons 29
stories
Jonathan Morris 29 stories Climber!
David Whitaker 29
stories
James Hornby 28
stories
Matt Fitton 27
stories
Gary Russell 27
stories
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