Then: The Early First Millennium

 

The Doctor’s Cross Word   Short story, published 2008            Doctor: 4

Written by J J Secker.

Takes place on and above Judea, on the east coast of the Mediterranean; self-dated 1 CE.


Running With Caesars   Short story, published 2011                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Geoffrey Hammell.

Takes place in Rome and Germany, just after the death of the emperor Augustus in 14 CE.


Empire of the Daleks   Comic story, published 2017                   Doctor: 0

Featuring the Daleks

Written by Mark Wright.

Takes place in Rome; self-dated 37 CE.


The Relics of Time   Audio drama, released 2011                   Doctor: 4

featuring Yates, Mrs Wibbsey

Written by Paul Magrs.

Takes place near the British south coast; the earlier sections self-dated 46 CE.


The Wrath of the Iceni   Audio drama, released 2012         Doctor: 4

Featuring Leela

Written by John Dorney.

Takes place in southern Britain. Historically, the Iceni attack on Camulodunam took place in 60 CE.


The Fall of the Druids   Short story, published 2009                  Doctor: 5

featuring Tegan, Turlogh, Kamelion

Written by David N Smith.

Takes place in northwest Wales and on Anglesey; Suetonius’s campaign against the Druids took place in 61 CE.


Good Queen, Bad Queen, I Queen, You Queen   Short story, published 2008    Doctor: 4

featuring the Time Lords, K9 II, Romana

Written by Terri Osborne.

Takes place in southern Britain. Historically, Boudicca died in 61 CE.


Romans Cutaway   Short story, published 1999                           Doctor: 1

featuring Barbara, Ian, Vicki

Written by David A McIntee.

Takes place in Italy, immediately before The Romans.


Byzantium!   Novel, published 2001                                         Doctor: 1

featuring Barbara, Ian, Vicki

Written by Keith Topping.

Takes place near and in Byzantium, a city on the east coast of the Balkan peninsula, across the Bosporus strait from Anatolia; also immediately before The Romans on a timeline alternative to Romans Cutaway.


The Romans   TV story, broadcast 1965                                  Doctor: 1

featuring Barbara, Ian, Vicki

Written by Dennis Spooner.

Takes place in Italy. Historically, the Great Fire of Rome took place in 64 CE.


The Anti-Hero   Short story, published 2014                                 Doctor: 2

Featuring Jamie, Zoe

Written by Stella Duffy.

Informed guess Takes place in Alexandria, some time before Hero’s death in 70 CE.


The Last Days   Short story, published 1998                                  Doctor: 1

featuring Susan, Barbara, Ian

Written by Evan Pritchard.

Takes place in Judea. Historically, the citadel of Massala fell in 70 CE.


The Fires of Vulcan   Audio drama, released 2000         Doctor: 7

featuring UNIT, Mel

Written by Steve Lyons.

Takes place mainly in Pompeii, a city on the west coast of Italy, simultaneously with The Fires of Pompeii.


The Fires of Pompeii   TV story, broadcast 2008                 Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by James Moran, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in and around Pompeii; historically, the city was buried by volcanic eruption in 79 CE.


The Eaters of Light   TV story, broadcast 2017                       Doctor: 12

Featuring Missy, Nardole, Bill

Written by Rona Munro, script supervised by Steven Moffat.

Informed guess Takes place in Aberdeen; self-dated the second century CE.


Pericles   Short story, published 2014                     Doctor: 4 (informative mention)

Featuring the William Shakespeare thing, Romana

Written by James Goss, Jonathan Morris, Justin Richards, Julian Richards and Matthew Sweet.

Informed guess Pericles, Prince of Tyre, at least partly written by William Shakespeare, survives only in a corrupt form, probably written from memory after its first run, so it is not surprising that this passage was lost. The source material was the various versions of Apollonius of Antioch, probably dating from the second century CE. I shall assume that the events related here took place in and near Anitioch, then.


Gladiator   Audio drama, released 2021                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Rory

Written by David Llewellyn.

Takes place in an alternative timeline, in Rome, dated 118 CE in The Pandorica Opens.


The Stone Rose  Novel, published 2006                              Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose, Mickey, Jackie

Written by Jacqueline Rayner.

Takes place principally in and around Rome; self-dated 120 CE. Also in early 21st century London.


The Unwilling Assassin   Audio drama, released 2021      Doctor: 0

Featuring Rory

Written by Sarah Ward.

Takes place in an alternative Rome, not long after Gladiator.


I, Rorius    Audio drama, released 2021                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Rory

Written by Jacqueline Rayner.

Takes place in an alternative Rome, not long after The Unwilling Assassin.


The Spear of Destiny   Short story, published 2013                     Doctor: 3

Featuring the Master, Jo, with Lethbridge-Stewart (glimpse)

Written by Marcus Sedgwick.

Takes place partly in Sweden; self-dated 141 CE. Also in contemporary London.


The Not-so-sinister Sponge   Short story, published 2000        Doctor: 4

featuring Romana

Written by Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman.

Arbitrary placement Takes place a long way from Earth.


Silver Mosquitoes   Short story, published 2015                          Doctor: 12

Featuring Clara

Written by Lizbeth Myles.

Takes place in Germany, during the interregnum of Ulpia Severina; historically 275 CE.


Seasons of Fear   Audio drama, released 2002                   Doctor: 8

featuring the Nimons, Charley, with the Time Lords (glimpse)

Written by Paul Cornell and Caroline Symcox.

The latest events in an unnegated timeline take place in Britain; self-dated 305 CE. Also, equivocally, in Singapore.


Conversion   Comic story, published 2015                                     Doctor: 11

Featuring the Cybermen, Alice, John Jones, Arc

Written by Rob Williams.

Takes place mainly in Rome; self-dated 312 CE.


The Council of Nicaea   Audio drama, released 2005  Doctor: 5

featuring Peri, Erimem

Written by Caroline Symcox.

Takes place in Nicaea, a city of northwest Anatolia; historically dated May 325 CE


The Library of Alexandria   Audio drama, released 2013  Doctor: 1

featuring Susan, Barbara, Ian, the Mim

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Takes place in Alexandria; during Hypatia’s time in the city, between 400 and 415 CE.


The Prodigal Sun   Short story, published 2005                           Doctor: 4

featuring Leela

Written by Matthew Griffiths.

Informed guess Takes place in Britain, many years after the Romans have left.


Combat Magicks   Novel, published 2018                          Doctor: 13

Featuring Bradley, Ryan, Yaz

Written by Stephen Cole.

Takes place near Chalons, in what would later be France; self-dated 451 CE.


Legends of Camelot   Novel, published 2021               Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Jacqueline Rayner.

Takes place in a version of Britain, during the reign of King Arthur.


The Adventures of Strax & The Time Shark 9   Comic story, published 2017     Doctor: 0

Featuring the Sontarans, the Matter of Britain

Written by an anonymous Panini UK writer.

Informed guess Takes place in a version of Britain, in the early part of King Arthur’s reign


The Creation of Camelot   Illustrated short story, published 1983  Doctor: 5

featuring the Master, the Matter of Britain, Tegan

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1984 crew.

Informed guess Takes place in a version of Britain, in the early part of King Arthur’s reign.


Random History   Comic story, published 2011                            Doctor: 11

Featuring the Matter of Britain, Amy, Rory

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Takes place variously in England and continental Europe, but finally in a version of England, in the reign of King Arthur.


Foule Deethe   Charity short story in verse, published 2001       Doctor: Unbound

featuring the Matter of Britain, Unbound Abslom Daak

Written by Nick Lancaster.

Informed guess Takes place in a version of Britain, during the reign of King Arthur.


One Fateful Knight   Short story, published 2008                       Doctor: 8

Featuring the Matter of Britain

Written by Peter David.

Informed guess Takes place in a version of Britain, ending some time after Foule Deethe.


Helicon Prime   Audio drama, released 2007                          Doctor: 2

Featuring Jamie

Written by Jake Elliott.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Helicon Prime. Also, in the Scottish Highlands.


Black and White   Audio drama, released 2012                 Doctor: 7

Featuring Ace, Hex, Lysandra, Sally

Written by Matt Fitton.

Informed guess Takes place pivotally in Denmark; self-dated the fifth century CE. Also, in London.


Goths and Robbers   Short story, published 2008                       Doctor: 5

featuring Nyssa, Tegan

Written by Diane Duane.

Takes place in Byzantium and Ravenna, a city on the northeast coast of Italy; the later sections self-dated 493 CE.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               3163

Proportion Written By Women   11%                                        

 

Top Docs

4                 290 stories                   

3                 280 stories

7                 247 stories         

8                 221 stories                   

10               216 stories

11               202 stories         

5                 194 stories                   

1                 173 stories          Climber!

6                 171 stories         

2                 168 stories         

12               101 stories

Unbound   82 stories  

9                 56 stories  

13               49 stories           

War            45 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                643 stories         

Regional England                                               503 stories

UNIT                                                                    402 stories

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                       393 stories

The Time Lords                                                  392 stories  

Wales                                                                  245 stories

North America                                                   240 stories   

Torchwood                                                         233 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                     209 stories   

Sarah Jane                                                          207 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            203 stories   

Captain Jack                                                       188 stories

Continental Europe                                           183 stories  

The K9s                                                               159 stories  

Romana                                                               153 stories  

Ace                                                                      150 stories  

Jo                                                                         134 stories   

Christmas                                                            131 stories   

Iris Wildthyme                                                   117 stories   

Benton                                                                116 stories =

Amy and Rory                                                    116 stories= Re-entry!

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           1317 stories

The Noughties                                                    791 stories                   

The Nineties                                                       318 stories

The Twenties                                                     276 stories

The Seventies                                                    197 stories         

The Eighties                                                        192 stories

The Sixties                                                          72 stories  

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          194 stories

2018                                                          171 stories 

2017                                                           161 stories

2020                                                          158 stories

2008                                                          152 stories  

2015                                                          144 stories 

2021                                                          137 stories   Climber!  

2019                                                          134 stories  

2011                                                          127 stories  

2013                                                          122 stories   

2009                                                          116 stories

2010                                                          111 stories

2001                                                          101 stories

2007                                                          94 stories

2012                                                          77 stories  

2014                                                          75 stories

1993                                                          74 stories  

2006                                                          74 stories  Climber!    

2005                                                          71 stories           

2004                                                          65 stories     

  

 

         

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                  892

Proportion of Female Writers           16%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                          116 stories  

Russell T Davies                                       105 stories

James Goss                                               85 stories           

Paul Magrs                                                69 stories  

Steven Moffat                                          60 stories           

Justin Richards                                         53 stories                     

John Dorney                                             46 stories                     

Robert Holmes                                         45 stories           

Matt Fitton                                               44 stories   Climber!    

Gareth Roberts                                        44 stories   Climber!

Eric Saward                                               43 stories  

Eddie Robson                                            42 stories                     

Gary Russell                                              40 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                      38 stories  

Andrew Cartmel                                      36 stories  

Alan Barnes                                              35 stories  

? John Canning                                         35 stories  

Steve Lyons                                               35 stories   Climber!    

David Llewellyn                                       34 stories   Climber!    

Guy Adams                                               33 stories=

David Whitaker                                        33 stories=

         

 

 

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