Then: Hominid Prehistory

 

(Approximately the twelve million years before the Common Era)

 

Sweet Dreamer   Charity drabble, published 1993                          Doctor: Unbound

Written by Stephen Gallagher.

Arbitrary placement Might take place anywhere, with any incarnation of the Doctor.

The Judgement of Isskar   Audio drama, released 2009       Doctor: 5

featuring the Ice Warriors, Grace technology, with the Cybermen (informative mention)

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Informed guess Takes place on Mars and Safeplace, some time between How Do You Kill Death and Descendence and Ascendence.

The Sentinel   Comic story, published 1989                                   Doctor: 7

Written by John Tomlinson.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth in its Cenozoic Era. The Seneschal claims to have shaped human development: it is possible he is being manipulated without his awareness by the Fendahl. His acquisition of Time Lord DNA from the Doctor may result in the development of The Enemy, or indeed, the Grace.

Neptune   Short story, published 2005                                             Doctor: 3

featuring Sarah Jane, with Jeremy (glimpse)

Written by Richard Dinnick.

Informed guess Takes place on Neptune, the Doctor says “millions of years” BCE, but not so long as to leave no remains by the late 21st century.

Sedna   Short story, published 2005                                                  Doctor: 3

featuring Jeremy

Written by Andy Frankham-Allen (as Andrew Frankham).

Takes place on Sedna, concurrently and just after Neptune.

Creatures of Beauty   Audio drama, released 2003        Doctor: 5

featuring Nyssa

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

arbitrary placement Takes place on and around the planet of the Velm. The Doctor has previously met a Koteem, but doesn’t remember it well.

Infinity   Short story, published 2020                                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Chris, 10,000 Dawns

Written by Matthew Sychantha.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the 513 Train.

O, Darkness   Short story, published 2003                                      Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II, Romana, Adric

Written by John Binns.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in E-Space.

After the Revolution   Comic story, published 1974                    Doctor: 3

featuring Jo

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1975 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Freedonia, a planet inhabited by non-humanoid bipeds.

The Elite   Audio dramatization of an unmade TV story, released 2011       Doctor: 5

Featuring the Daleks, Nyssa, Tegan

Adapted by John Dorney from a script by Barbara Clegg.

Informed guess Takes place on Florana, clearly a long time before The Hungry Bomb. The Dalek has been travelling through time, so there is no need to link it to any specific period of Dalek history.

The Aftermath   Short story, published 2020                                 Doctor: Unbound

Featuring Chris

Written by Hunter O’Connell.

Arbitrary placement Takes place variously.

Descendence and Ascendence   Comic story, published 1996  Doctor: 8

featuring the Ice Warriors, Stacy, Ssard

Written by Gary Russell.

Informed guess Takes place on Mars, during an early, “interesting”, period of Ice Warrior history.

Ssard is an Ice Warrior hatched long before the Common Era. He leaves linear time in this story, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.

Genocide   Novel, published 1997                                             Doctor: 8

featuring Jo, Sam, with UNIT, Benton (glimpse)

Written by Paul Leonard.

Takes place mostly in the Great Rift Valley in Africa, although briefly in California and Hackney; mostly self-dated 2,569,878 BCE.

The Enlightenment of Ly-Chee the Wise   Comic story, published 1989   Doctor: 7

Written by Simon Jowett.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Tora.

The Spoilers   Comic story, published 1973                                    Doctor: 3

featuring the Time Lords

Written by Dick O’Neill.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Raffar and Farraf, inhabited by humanoids who are in contact with the Time Lords. (The Fars have taken their fashions, military hardware design and facial hair from the Lokans in Don Lawrence’s artwork in The Trigan Empire strip in Look and Learn (1965-82), for which I can offer no explanation, but artist Gerry Haylock might).

Pursued by the Trods   Comic story, published 1968                  Doctor: 2

featuring Gillian, John, the Trods

Written by an anonymous Polystyle writer.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth amongst mammoths.

The Jeopardy of Solar Proximity   Illustrated short story, published 2017   Doctor: 0

Featuring the Daleks, the Ice Warriors

Written by Richard Dinnick.

Informed guess Takes place in the Samox-Demox stellar system. We know that Skaldak’s use of Dalek time travel technology takes him to Antarctica in 3000 BCE, from Cold War, but that does not help date this story. On the other hand, the Doctor clearly knows his history, but does not speculate why he should be in his own past, suggesting that Skaldak travels into the future. These, then, would be time active Daleks: it is possible that Skaldak’s fleet, unbeknown to itself, is engaging in the Last Great Time War.

The Doctor’s Journal – Entry 15234/C-4   Illustrated short story, published 2016     Doctor: 12

Written anonymously.

Informed guess Takes place on Sigma; self-dated half a million years before the eighty-second century CE.

Famine on Planet X   Illustrated short story, published 1978      Doctor: 4

featuring Leela

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1979 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on, er, Planet X, which has been visited by the same ancient interstellar travellers as Leela’s homeworld.

100,000 BC   TV story, broadcast 1963                                       Doctor: 1

featuring Susan, Barbara, Ian

Written by Anthony Coburn, script edited by David Whitaker.

Takes place on Earth, the first episode in and near Coal Hill School; mostly dated by title.

We Can’t Stop What’s Coming   Illustrated short story, published 2019       Doctor: 8

Featuring the remembered Fitz, Trix

Written by Stephen Cole.

Informed guess Takes place variously, but at the end someone identified as a Neanderthal, which I take to be a specifically Tellurian identity, is returned to their “proper time and place.”

Snow Globe   Comic story, published 2010                                     Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Informed guess Takes place near the site of Birmingham, at the time of the Neanderthals, during a glaciation.

The Dark Husband   Audio drama, released 2008         Doctor: 7

featuring Ace, Hex

Written by David Quantick.

Informed guess Takes place on Tuin; a reference to the Worldshaper programme suggests not too far in time from The World Shapers. For a glib explanation of Wagner on the soundtrack, see the Doctor’s remarks in Beltempest on the atemporality of opera.

Observation   Short story, published 2004                                     Doctor: 5

featuring Turlough

Written by Ian Farrington.

Takes place in Spain or France; self-dated “about 40,000” BCE.

The Terrible Manussa   Illustrated short story, published 2017  Doctor: 6

Featuring the Time Lords, the Mara

Written by Richard Dinnick.

Informed guess Takes place on partly on Grey-Eye, one would imagine some two thousand, two hundred Manussan years, probably not too different to Tellurian years, before The Cradle of the Snake.

Only Human   Novel, published 2005                                  Doctor: 9

Featuring Rose, Captain Jack

Written by Gareth Roberts.

Takes place in Bromley, an area eventually in southeast Greater London, partly in 29,185 BCE.

Once Upon a Time Machine   Short story, published 2009     Doctor: 3

Featuring Jo, with Lethbridge-Stewart (informative mention)

Written by Stephen Dunn.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet inhabited by humanoids.

The Doctor and the Dragon   Charity short story, published 2001    Doctors: 7, Unbound

Written by Bradley McGrath.

Informed guess Takes place in Erendor. In Fate Healer, the Doctor says that the Andraks came to Earth “centuries” previously: it certainly seems to have been before history. If Erendor is on Earth, then all trace of its civilisation could have been obliterated by the last peak of glacial activity, around 16,000 CE. It is implied that humankind is sharing the planet with dwarves, elves and orcs (a word invented by J.R.R. Tolkien), but the Unbound incarnation of the Doctor who is narrating the story is not obviously reliable in many respects.

Follow the Phantoms   Illustrated short story, published 1968  Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Victoria

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1969 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Cloud Seven, possibly in the dark dimensions of Galaxy ‘G’, if these are the events referred to in Death to Mufl.

The Cradle of the Snake   Audio drama, released 2010        Doctor: 5

Featuring Nyssa, Tegan, the Mara, Turlough

Written by Marc Platt.

Informed guess Takes place on Manussa; self-dated one thousand, two hundred and eleven Manussan years before Snakedance.

Gnome Guard   Comic story, published 2013                                 Doctor: 11

Featuring Clara

Written by Glenn Dakin.

Abitrary placement Takes place on Iros.

Medicine Man   Comic story, published 2016                                Doctor: 10

Featuring Gabby

Written by Nick Abadzis.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth, self-dated the Pleistocene Era, and after Observation.

Primeval   Audio drama, released 2001                                    Doctor: 5

featuring Nyssa

Written by Lance Parkin.

Informed guess Takes place in the Traken Union, the Doctor says “three thousand years” before its destruction, which puts it, prima facie, just before 1000 BCE. However, I don’t think there is any reason to suppose that Nyssa comes from 1981 CE (see The Keeper of Traken), so either the entropy released into the universe by the fall of Logopolis spread four-dimensionally, so that Metulla Orionsis was taken out some time before 1981 CE (the TARDIS’s representation of the entropy’s effect is certainly a two-dimensional representation of three dimensions: why not four? Nyssa would probably be quite capable of reading and interpreting it), OR “three thousand years” is a translation error and the Doctor said, oh, I don’t know, thirty thousand years. In support of the latter theory, he says at the end of this story that Traken will be safe for “many thousands of years”. I contend that three isn’t many.

Snakedance   TV story, broadcast 1983                                     Doctor: 5

featuring Nyssa, Tegan, the Mara

Written by Christopher Bailey, script edited by Eric Saward.

Informed guess Takes place on Manussa; I’m guessing that the Mara in Tegan’s mind is roused by Kwundaar in Primeval, and that she takes the TARDIS to a time very soon after that story.

Defiance of the New Bloods   Illustrated short story, published 2017   Doctor: 0

Featuring the Sontarans, and the Rutan (glimpse)

Written by Richard Dinnick.

Informed guess Takes place in Sontaran space. This story essentially gives an account for the change in appearance of Sontarans between the classic and new series of Doctor Who. In Lords of the Storm, differences in Sontaran appearance are ascribed to membership of clans, but this can broadly be accommodated as an account of clan origin.

The Deep   Audio short story, released 2010                                  Doctor: 5

Featuring Nyssa

Written by Ally Kennen.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth, after the evolution of whales, with Tellurians not in evidence.

Reprogramme   Comic story, published 2013                                Doctor: 11

Featuring Clara

Written by Rik Hoskin.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the planet of the Gohbels.

Urania, the Muse of Astronomy: The Astronomer’s Apprentice   Short story, published 2003                                                                                      Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Victoria

Written by Simon A Forward.

Takes place in the Traken Union, before Logopolis obviously.

The Keeper of Traken   TV story, broadcast 1981        Doctor: 4

featuring the Master, Adric, Nyssa

Written by Johnny Byrne, script edited by Christopher H Bidmead.

Informed guess Takes place in the Traken Union. Because very few people who write Doctor Who think in more than four dimensions, it is generally assumed that Traken is destroyed in Logopolis just after Nyssa left it. This would only be true if The Keeper of Traken happened to take place in 1981 CE, which would actually be an enormous coincidence. True, Nyssa is very glum and never returns to Traken, but I assume this is an existential thing. Either that, or she doesn’t think in more than four dimensions either, and the Doctor never thinks to disabuse her. Which is potentially tragic. In the meantime, The Keeper of Traken clearly takes place before Logopolis; I’m guessing it’s here.

The Fellowship of Quan   Illustrated short story, published 1985          Doctor: 6

featuring the Master, Peri

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1986 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet inhabited by humanoids, presumably not Tuven III.

The Web Planet   TV story, broadcast 1965                        Doctor: 1

featuring Vortis, Barbara, Ian, Vicki

Written by Bill Strutton, script edited by Dennis Spooner.

Informed guess Takes place on Vortis, before The Lost Ones.

The Naked Flame   Comic story, published 1994                          Doctor: 4

featuring Vortis, Sarah Jane

Written by Warwick Gray.

Informed guess Takes place on Vortis, after The Web Planet.

Twilight of the Gods   Novel, published 1996                Doctor: 2

featuring Vortis, Jamie, Victoria

Written by Christopher Bulis.                                    

Informed guess Takes place on Vortis, “thousands of moons” after The Web Planet.

Doctor Who Discovers Prehistoric Animals   Illustrated short story, published 1977                                                                                                          Doctor: 4

Written by Fred Newman.

Informed guess The latest animals listed are Holocenic.

Return to the Web Planet   Audio drama, released 2007          Doctor: 5

featuring Vortis, Nyssa

Written by Daniel O’Mahony.

Informed guess Takes place on Vortis; implicitly dated ten generations after The Web Planet.

The Ripple Effect   Short story, published 2013                            Doctor: 7

Featuring Ace, with Unbound Time Lords, Unbound Daleks.

Written by Malorie Blackman.

Informed guess Takes place partially in the Temporal Plexus, far enough before Genesis of the Daleks that events are hugely altered by the consequences, before being negated.

The Odds Against   Audio drama, released 2019                   Doctor: 8

Featuring the Time Lords, Liv, Helen, the Eleven

Written by John Dorney.

Arbitrary placement Takes place at a Time Lord outpost.

Only a Matter of Time   Illustrated short story, published 1967             Doctor: 2

featuring Polly, Ben

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1968 crew.

Informed guess Takes place aboard a migration fleet from the Arcturus system, heading for the Solar System, unaware of its inhabitants. I’d say this places it sometime in prehistory.

World Enough and Time   TV story, broadcast 2017          Doctor: 12

Featuring the Cybermen, the Master, Missy, Nardole, Bill

Written by Steven Moffat.

Informed guess Takes place on a Mondasian interstellar craft, I propose before Genesis of the Cybermen.

Alit in Underland   Short story, published 2018                           Doctor: 0

Featuring the Cybermen, the Master, Missy

Written by Richard Dinnick.

Takes place on the Mondasian interstellar craft, immediately after World Enough and Time.

The Doctor Falls   TV story, broadcast 2017                           Doctors: 12, 1 (glimpse)

Featuring the Cybermen, the Master, Missy, Nardole, Bill

Written by Steven Moffat.

Takes place on the Mondasian interstellar craft, immediately after Alit in Underland.

Genesis of the Cybermen   Synopsis of an unproduced TV story, published 1988     Doctor: ?1

featuring the Cybermen

Summarised by Adrian Rigelsford from a story by Gerry Davis.

informed guess Takes place on Mondas, before almost anything else involving the Cybermen. If The Ugly Underneath takes place about 8000 BCE, it is reasonable to assume that this takes place in about 18,000 BCE. I assume that for the Doctor this takes place before The Tenth Planet as the name “Mondas” only rings a vague bell with him.

The Lost Ones   Illustrated short story, published 1965                Doctor: 1

featuring Vortis, Atlantis

Written by David Whitaker and Dennis Spooner.

Informed guess Takes place on Vortis, presumably after Twilight of the Gods, when the planet becomes pilotable, and during or just after the first Atlantean civilisation.

Spare Parts   Audio drama, released 2002                             Doctor: 5

featuring the Cybermen, Nyssa

Written by Marc Platt.

Takes place on Mondas, which is now in the outer Solar System, a few decades after Genesis of the Cybermen.

The Aqua-City   Comic story, published 1978                                Doctor: 4

featuring Atlantis, Leela

Written by John Canning.

Informed guess Seems to take place on an extrasolar Atlantean colony, some time after The Lost Ones.

The Keys of Marinus   TV story, broadcast 1964             Doctor: 1

featuring Susan, the Voord, Barbara, Ian

Written by Terry Nation, script edited by David Whitaker.

Informed guess Takes place on the island and planet of Marinus, before The World Shapers, and presumably after Spare Parts.

Always Let the Conscience Be Your Guide   Charity short story, published 1998     Doctor: 0

featuring the Voord

Written by Mark Clapham and Jim Smith.

Informed guess Takes place on Marinus, soon after The Keys of Marinus. It transpires that the matt black covering of the Voord is a sentient substance from offworld: could it be a form of the Cold, featured in Interference? Could there thus be a connection between the Voord and the Yssgaroth?

The Niceness   Short story, published 2009                    Doctor: 1 (informative mention)

Featuring Iris Wildthyme, Benny

Written by Jacqueline Rayner and Orna Petit.

Informed guess The main action takes place on what is almost certainly Marinus, a few years after The Keys of Marinus.

Domain of the Voord   Audio drama, released 2014     Doctor: 1

Featuring Susan, the Voord, Barbara, Ian

Written by Andrew Smith.

Informed guess Takes place on Hydra; self-dated a hundred years after The Keys of Marinus.

Doctor Who and the Daleks (I)   Illustrated short story, published 1964     Doctor: 1

featuring the Daleks, the Voord

Written Anonymously.

informed guess Takes place on Marinus, in South America and in space in between, including the outer Solar System. The story starts some time after The Keys of Marinus, though thanks to the Doctor’s knowledge of the secret of Ultkron travel, it concludes some time after The Dalek Invasion of Earth. These will be, of course, time-travelling Daleks in the first place.

Before the Legend   Illustrated short story, published 1974         Doctor: 3

featuring Atlantis, Jo

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1975 crew.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth during the fall of the first Atlantean civilisation, presumably at the instigation of the (offstage) Daemons. I assume that the extraterrestrial humanoid Lanteans are descendants of the Sylvanian Mondasians who left for Earth in Genesis of the Cybermen. Jim Mortimore in Moments of Passing ascribes the fall of Atlantean civilisation to the Younger Dryas Impact in about 10,900 BCE. Again, it’s not difficult to imagine Azal initiating the Younger Dryas Impact.

Short-Change   Comic story, published 2015                                 Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Marc Ellerby.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth, partly during what the Doctor describes as the dawn of human civilisation. A figure of 10¹⁰ BCE is bandied about, which is over twice as long as the planet has existed. I propose dropping six orders of magnitude and dating it at about 10,000 BCE.

The World Shapers   Comic story, published 1987                       Doctor: 6

featuring the Time Lords, the Cybermen, the Voord, Jamie, Peri, Frobisher

Written by Grant Morrison.

Informed guess Takes place on Marinus/Mondas, after The Keys of Marinus; also, briefly, in the Highlands of Scotland. True, the Doctor says in The Doctor Falls that the Cybermen have arisen on Planet 14, Marinus and Mondas, but Planet 14 and Marinus are established here as the same place, so I am assuming that Mondas is as well, and the Doctor is making a private joke. There is however no reason why the Cybermen of World Enough and Time, Genesis of the Cybermen and even Spare Parts should not have evolved from the Voord separately. Having suggested a connection between the Voord and the Yssgaroth, I go on to suggest a consequent connection between the Cybermen and the Yssgaroth, possibly accounting for the Cybermen’s Qliphothic quality, noted by Elizabeth Sandifer in the TARDIS Eruditorum. In Doctor Who and The Keys of Marinus Philip Hinchcliffe describes Marinus as having three suns: these may be rationalised as artificial constructs designed to keep the planet’s surface habitable as it travels away from Sol.

The Dead Heart   Comic story, published 1994                             Doctor: 0

featuring the Cybermen, the Earth Reptiles

Written by Alan Barnes.

Informed guess Takes place on Mondas; after The World Shapers. It is unclear whether the Lizard Kings are descended from Earth Reptiles from Earth, or whether they are the product of parallel evolution on Earth and Mondas. In any case, Kho’dja’s account of Mondas leaving its orbit when Earth acquired the Moon seems to be unconnected with the departure of Mondas from the inner Solar System in Genesis of the Cybermen.

The Flesh Unbound   Comic story, published 1995                      Doctor: 0

featuring the Cybermen, and the Earth Reptiles (informative mention)

Written by Alan Barnes.

informed guess Takes place on Mondas; some time after The Dead Heart.

The Black Sky   Comic story, published 1995                                 Doctor: 0

featuring the Cybermen

Written by Alan Barnes.

Informed guess Takes place on Mondas; some time after The Flesh Unbound.

The Hungry Sea   Comic story, published 1995                             Doctor: 0        

featuring the Cybermen, the Earth Reptiles

Written by Alan Barnes.

Informed guess Takes place on Mondas; immediately after The Black Sky.

The Dark Flame   Comic story, published 1995                             Doctor: 0        

featuring the Cybermen, the Earth Reptiles

Written by Alan Barnes.

Informed guess Takes place on Mondas; immediately after The Hungry Sea.

The Future Perfect   Comic story, published 1995                       Doctor: 0

featuring the Cybermen, the Earth Reptiles

Written by Alan Barnes.

Informed guess Takes place on Mondas; immediately after The Dark Flame.

On the Web Planet   Comic story, published 1965                       Doctor: 1

featuring Vortis, Gillian, John

Illustrated ?and written by Neville Main.

Informed guess Takes place on Vortis, some time after The Web Planet.

The Doctor Who Dinosaur Book   Illustrated short story, published 1976                                                                                                                               Doctor: 4

Written by Terrance Dicks.

Informed guess The most recent of the Doctor’s visits to the past features hominid Tellurians hunting mastodons (native to North America). The two species co-existed for less than five thousand years before the mastodons’ extinction (probably not a coincidence), about 9000 BCE.

First Meetings   Short story, published 2010                                Doctor: 1

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Stuart Douglas.

Informed guess Takes place on Hysepero, at a time presumably not too distant from The Scarlet Empress. In one published version of this story “Alison” is Susan, but I think there is enough evidence elsewhere to discount the possibility that Susan was actually a three-hundred year old sexual predator who grew up with Iris Wildthyme somewhere other than on Gallifrey. It is interesting that Iris describes the Doctor as being from a) a different civilisation to her own and b) from an earlier ‘universe’ than her own, both of which I take as corroborating my hypothesis that she is a ghost of the Celestis. That she remembers Alison suggests that this enigmatic woman is another echo of Mictlan, and that the Doctor met her after “parking” Susan at a safe location, from where he collected her again shortly before Quinnis.

The Ugly Underneath   Comic story, published 1996                  Doctor: 0

featuring the Cybermen

Written by Alan Barnes.

Informed guess Takes place on Mondas; self-dated two thousand years after The Future Perfect. Mondas reaches the aphelion of its extended orbit, and begins once again to fall towards the Sun. The Cybercontroller in Iceberg is ten thousand years old: this story implies that the Cybermen are remade at this point from scratch from their machinery, so I’ll assume that this takes place in about 8000 BCE.

Doctor Who Discovers Early Man   Illustrated short story, published 1977    Doctor: 4

Written by Fred Newman.

Informed guess The latest examples of prehistoric hominids listed lived at about this time.

Wildthyme Beyond   Novel, published 2012                   Doctor: 0

featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Paul Magrs.

Informed guess Takes place partly on Hyspero, during the dynasty of the Scarlet Empresses. I’m placing it before The Scarlet Empress, and in the spirit of Paul Magrs I am doing it without explanation.

The Heat-Seekers   Illustrated short story, published 1986          Doctor: 4

featuring Sarah Jane, Harry

Written by Andrew Lowes.

Informed guess Takes place on and under the prehistoric Dead Sea, a saltwater lake near the Mediterranean coast of Asia .

The Scarlet Empress   Novel, published 1998                Doctor: 8

Featuring Iris Wildthyme, Sam, with the Time Lords, the Daleks, Vortis, the Cybermen, the Mechanoids, the Ice Warriors, the Quarks, the Earth Reptiles, the Ogrons, the Draconians, the Chellonians, the Giant Spiders, the Zygons, Kroton the Cyberman, Tegan, Turlogh (informative mention)

Written by Paul Magrs.

Takes place on Hyspero, eight thousand years before 1968 CE (Femme Fatale), according to Iris, not the most of reliable of sources. Ice Warriors have interstellar travel at this time, and so do Draconians. The Daleks that the Four fight must have been time travellers, which is plausible enough.

Ozymandias   Audio drama, released 2009                              Doctor: 0

Featuring the Osirians, Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven

Written by Lawrence Miles.

Takes place on Mars, just before The Judgement of Sutekh.

The Judgement of Sutekh   Audio drama, released 2009  Doctor: 0

Featuring the Osirians, Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven

Written by Lawrence Miles.

Takes place on Mars and in Egypt and Italy, seven thousand years before Pyramids of Mars.

The Enigma of Sisterhood   Illustrated short story, published 2017      Doctor: 0

Featuring the Osirians

Written by Richard Dinnick.

Takes place above Zuliter, concluding sometime after The Judgement of Sutekh.

Wandering Stars   Short story, published 2014                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme, with Mars (informative mention)

Written by Ian Potter.

Informed guess Takes place principally on Mount Olympos, before, it is safe to say, history.

Loop the Loup   Illustrated short story, published 1993               Doctor: 2

featuring Werewolves

Written by Marc Platt.

Takes place in the Alps about 3320 BCE.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               3058

Proportion Written By Women   11%                                        

 

Top Docs

4                 280 stories          New number one!      

3                 278 stories

7                 239 stories         

8                 214 stories                   

10               208 stories

11               191 stories         

5                 185 stories                   

6                 167 stories         

2                 163 stories         

1                 156 stories         

12               97 stories  

Unbound   80 stories  

9                 55 stories  

13               47 stories           

War            45 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                639 stories         

Regional England                                               493 stories

UNIT                                                                    400 stories

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                   391 stories

The Time Lords                                                  385 stories  

Wales                                                                  244 stories

North America                                                   240 stories   

Torchwood                                                         233 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                     207 stories    Climber!  

Sarah Jane                                                          206 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            196 stories   

Captain Jack                                                       188 stories

The K9s                                                               158 stories  

Romana                                                               149 stories  

Ace                                                                      144 stories  

Continental Europe                                           140 stories  

Jo                                                                         132 stories    Climber! 

Christmas                                                            129 stories   

Benton                                                                116 stories  

Iris Wildthyme                                                   115 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           1273 stories

The Noughties                                                    754 stories                   

The Nineties                                                       307 stories

The Twenties                                                     271 stories

The Seventies                                                    196 stories         

The Eighties                                                      189 stories

The Sixties                                                          68 stories  

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          189 stories

2018                                                          166 stories  Climber!  

2017                                                           157 stories

2020                                                          157 stories   

2008                                                          142 stories  

2015                                                          140 stories 

2021                                                          133 stories   

2019                                                          130 stories  

2011                                                          123 stories  

2013                                                          118 stories   

2009                                                          113 stories

2010                                                          108 stories

2001                                                          98 stories  

2007                                                          90 stories

2006                                                          72 stories     

1993                                                          71 stories   Climber!

2012                                                          71 stories           

2014                                                          70 stories  

2005                                                          66 stories   Climber!    

2004                                                          65 stories     

  

 

         

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                  872

Proportion of Female Writers            16%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                          115 stories  

Russell T Davies                                       104 stories

James Goss                                               82 stories           

Paul Magrs                                                68 stories  

Steven Moffat                                          59 stories           

Justin Richards                                         50 stories                     

John Dorney                                             45 stories   Climber!             

Robert Holmes                                         45 stories            

Eric Saward                                               43 stories   Climber!

Matt Fitton                                               42 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        42 stories   Climber!

Eddie Robson                                            41 stories                     

Gary Russell                                              40 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                      36 stories  

? John Canning                                         35 stories   Climber!

Andrew Cartmel                                      35 stories

Alan Barnes                                              34 stories   New entry!

Guy Adams                                               33 stories  

David Llewellyn                                       32 stories=          

Steve Lyons                                               32 stories=

David Whitaker                                        32 stories= Re-entry!