Then: The Sixteenth Century
Prelude to Against Nature Web short story, posted 2013 Doctor:
0
Featuring Faction
Paradox
Written by
Lawrence Burton.
Takes
place in Mexico, a few years before Against Nature.
To Kill a Nandi Bear Short
story, published 2004 Doctor: 4
featuring
Sarah Jane, Harry
Written by Paul Williams.
The Doctor says their location will be Nyasaland,
an area of east Africa, in four centuries’ time.
Two Monks, One Mistress Audio drama, released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring
Missy, Mortimus
Written
by James Kettle.
Takes
place in Tuscany, a region of northwest Italy, surrounding Florence; self-dated
1506 CE.
Against Nature Novel,
published 2013 Doctor:
0
Featuring The Second War in Heaven, with Senor 105,
Faction Paradox (glimpse)
Written by Lawrence Burton.
Takes place variously, but pivotally in Mexico, self-dated 1506 CE.
Eye of the Beholder Charity
short story, published 2001 Doctor: 8
Featuring
Sam (informative mention)
Written by Tom and Alryssa Kelly.
Takes place mainly in Florence;
self-dated 1507 CE.
Nothing Lasts Forever Short story, published 2011 Doctor:
0
Featuring Faction Paradox
Written by David
N Smith and Violet Addison.
Takes place principally
in London; self-dated 1509 CE.
Nobody’s Gift Short story, published 2005 Doctor: 7
Written by Kate Orman.
Takes place in Tenochitlan, Mexico; self-dated thirty years
after 1480 CE.
Fallen Angels Audio drama, released 2016 Doctor: 5
Featuring the Weeping Angels
Written by Phil Mulryne.
Takes place in Rome; the earlier sections self-dated 1511 CE.
Generation Gap Short story, published 2008 Doctor:
3
Featuring Sarah Jane
Written by Lou Anders.
Arbitrary placement Takes place on Valdamar IV.
The Ravelli Conspiracy Audio drama, released 2016 Doctor:
1
Featuring Vicki, Steven
Written by
Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky.
Takes place in
Florence; self-dated 1514 CE.
The Dancing Plague Audio drama, released 2020 Doctor: 5
Written by
Kate Thorman.
Takes place in
Strasbourg, a city of eastern France; self-dated July 1518 CE.
Leo Reflects Charity
short story, published 2016 Doctor: Unbound
Written by
Ian Potter.
Informed guess This presumably takes place not long before
Leonardo da Vinci’s historical date of death, in May 1519 CE (in France).
The Price of Conviction Short story, published 2008 Doctor: 1
featuring
Susan
Written by Richard C White.
Takes place in Worms, a city of southwestern
Germany; self-dated just before the Diet of 1520 CE.
Dragon’s Claw Comic
story, published 1980 Doctor: 4
featuring
the Sontarans, K9 II, Sharon
Written by Steve Moore.
Takes place in China; self-dated 1522 CE.
Recorded Time Audio drama, released 2011 Doctor: 6
Featuring Peri
Written by Catherine
Harvey.
Takes place in
London; self-dated 1536 CE.
Hiccup in Time Short story, published 2009 Doctor: 3
featuring
Liz
Written by Matthew James.
Takes place in London; self-dated 1539 CE.
God Send Me Well To Keep Short
story, published 2008 Doctor: 5
featuring
Nyssa
Written by Linnea Dodson.
Takes place in England, ending on New Year’s Day, 1540
CE.
Tooth and Claw: Tardisode Video story, posted 2006 Doctor: 0
Featuring Werewolves
Written by Gareth Roberts.
Takes place in the Scottish Highlands; dated
1540 CE in Tooth
and Claw.
Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated Audio drama, released 2019 Doctor:
0
Featuring Missy, Mortimus
Written by John
Dorney.
Takes place in
England, evidently in 1543 CE.
The Tudor Engagement Illustrated short story,
published 2015 Doctor:
0
Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the
Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang
Written by an anonymous Panini writer.
Takes place partly in England; self-dated
1544 CE.
Into the Fourth Regeneration: The Gowned
Time Traveller Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 4
Written
by Michael Bell.
Informed guess Takes place in Italy.
Nostradamus published his prophecies in 1555 CE; it may be assumed that this
was some time before.
Empathy Games Audio drama, released 2008 Doctor:
4
Featuring Leela
Written by Nigel Fairs.
Arbitrary placement Takes place on Synchronis.
The Nine-Day
Queen Short
story, published 1995 Doctor: 1
featuring Barbara, Ian
Written by Matthew
Jones.
Takes place in Leicestershire,
Middlesex and London. Historically, Lady Jane Grey was executed in 1554 CE. Leicestershire
was a landlocked county of central England, south of Derbyshire and
Nottinghamshire, southwest of Lincolnshire, northwest of Northamptonshire and northeast
of Warwickshire.
The Marian Conspiracy Audio drama, released 2000 Doctor: 6
featuring Evelyn
Written by
Jacqueline Rayner.
Takes place in
London; self-dated January, 1555 CE. Also, Sheffield in 2000 CE, where Evelyn leaves
linear time, being aboard the TARDIS as it dematerialises.
The Sky
Warrior Comic
story, published 1977 Doctor: 4
Featuring Spain (informative mention)
Written by Geoff Cowan.
Informed guess Takes
place during the European colonisation of South America.
Future-Speak Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 6
featuring Mortimus
Written by David
Green.
Takes place in
Italy, presumably, shortly after Into the Fourth Regeneration:
The Gowned Time Traveller.
The Room With No Doors Novel, published 1997 Doctor: 7
featuring Chris, with Death (glimpse), and Tegan, Benny (informative mention)
Written by Kate
Orman.
Takes place in
the Han region of Japan; self-dated Spring 1560 CE.
Mortlake Short story, published 2004 Doctor: 6
featuring Evelyn
Written by Mark
Wright.
Takes place in Mortlake,
a town in Surrey on the bank of the Thames; self-dated 1568 CE.
The Massacre TV story, broadcast 1966 Doctor: 1
featuring Steven, Dodo (glimpse)
Written by John
Lucarotti, script edited by Donald Tosh.
Takes place in Paris,
also briefly in Wimbledon. Historically, the massacre of St.Bartholemew’s Eve
happened in 1572 CE. Dodo leaves linear time, being aboard the TARDIS when it
dematerialises.
A Handful of
Stardust Illustrated
short story, published 2014 Doctor:
6
Featuring the
Master, Peri
Written by Jake Arnott.
Takes place in England;
self-dated 1572 CE.
The Vampires of Venice TV story, broadcast 2010 Doctor:
11
Featuring Vampires (of a sort), Amy, Rory, with the Silence (informative mention)
Written by Toby Whithouse,
script supervised by Steven Moffat.
Takes place in Venice;
self-dated 1580 CE.
Deathwatch:
Faust and Falsehood Comic
story, published 1996 Doctor: 4 (glimpse)
featuring the William Shakespeare thing
Written by Paul
Cornell.
Takes place in
London; self-dated 1586 CE.
The Flames of Cadiz Audio drama, released 2013 Doctor: 1
Featuring Susan, Barbara, Ian
Written by Marc
Platt.
Takes place in
Seville and Cadiz, a port on the Atlantic southern coast of Spain; self-dated
1587 CE.
The Lost Magic Audio story, released 2017 Doctor: 12
Featuring Alex,
Brandon
Written by Cavan Scott
Takes place at sea; self-dated
July 1588 CE.
The Devil’s Armada Audio dramatization of an unproduced
script, released 2014 Doctor: 4
Featuring Leela
Adapted by Marc
Platt from a script by Philip Hinchcliffe.
Takes place in
regional England and London; self-dated 1588 CE.
The Plague of Dreams Audio drama, released 2017 Doctor: 1
Featuring the Time Lords, Polly, Ben
Written by Guy
Adams.
Takes place in
England; self-dated the sixteenth century. Shakespeare is quoted, but by a Time
Lord, so I can infer nothing chronological from it.
A Storm of Angels Audio drama, released 2005 Doctor: Unbound 1
Featuring Unbound
Time Lords, Unbound Susan
Written by Marc Platt.
Takes place in a
version of the Solar System; self-dated 1588 CE.
Minions of the
Moon Short
story, published 2005 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme, with the William Shakespeare thing (informative mention)
Written by
Philip Purser-Hallard.
Takes place on a version of the Moon;
self-dated 1590 CE.
Point of Entry Audio dramatization of an unproduced
script, released 2010 Doctor:
6
Featuring Peri,
with South America (informative mention)
Adapted by Marc Platt from a
script by Barbara Clegg.
Informed guess Takes place in London; historically, Marlowe
wrote Doctor Faustus in about 1590
CE.
Voyage to the New World Audio drama, released 2012 Doctor: 6
Featuring Jago, Litefoot
Written by
Matthew Sweet.
Takes place in
Roanoake, Virginia; self-dated 1590 CE.
A Groatsworth
of Wit Comic
story, published 2006 Doctor: 9
Featuring the
William Shakespeare thing, Rose
Written by Gareth Roberts.
Takes place in London;
partly dated September 1592 CE.
All Done With
Mirrors Short
story, published 2004 Doctor: 4
featuring Sarah Jane, the William Shakespeare thing
Written by Christopher
Bav.
Takes place on
the right bank of the Thames Estuary. Historically, Kit Marlowe was murdered in
May 1593 CE. I don’t think we have to take the suggestion of Marlowe writing
Shakespeare’s plays seriously; it was just, you know, an idea.
Master Faustus Illustrated fictional document, published 2014 Doctor: 0
featuring the Daleks, the Master, the William Shakespeare thing
Written by James Goss,
Jonathan Morris, Julian Richards, Justin Richards and Matthew Sweet.
Purportedly an
account of Kit Marlowe’s death.
The True and
Most Excellent Comedie of Romeo and Juliet Illustrated
short story, published 2014 Doctor:
11
Featuring the
William Shakespeare Thing, Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory, with the Nestene
Consciousness, the Sontarans, the Zygons (informative mention)
Written by James Goss,
Jonathan Morris, Julian Richards, Justin Richards and Matthew Sweet.
Informed guess Takes place in, presumably, London; modern
scholarship suggests that Shakespeare wrote ‘Romeo and Juliet’ immediately
before ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
The Dream Illustrated
short story, published 2014 Doctor:
1
Featuring Vortis,
the William Shakespeare thing, the
Sontarans, with Steven, Dodo, the Rutan (informative mention)
Written by James
Goss, Jonathan Morris, Julian Richards, Justin Richards and Matthew Sweet.
Takes place in England;
self-dated June 1594 CE.
The Shakespeare Code TV story, broadcast 2007 Doctor:
10
Featuring the
William Shakespeare thing, Martha, the Carrionites
Written by Gareth Roberts,
script supervised by Russell T Davies.
Takes place in Southwark,
at this point a town across the river Thames from London; self-dated 1599 CE. The Kingmaker suggests that this William Shakespeare,
unlike the Shakespeare of Deathwatch: Faust and Falsehood, A
Groatsworth of Wit, The True and Most Excellent Comedie of Romeo and Juliet and The Dream, is actually Richard Plantagenet, travelled
forward in time from 1485 CE to 1597 CE to assume the original Shakespeare’s
identity and presumably write all his work from that date onwards: finishing The Merchant of Venice and Henry IV, Part
One and possibly inventing the character of
Falstaff.
The Stranger,
the Writer, his Wife and the Mixed Metaphor
Illustrated
short story, published 1993 Doctor: 4
featuring the William Shakespeare thing, and Sarah Jane (informative mention)
Written by Graham
Cox.
Takes place in
Stratford-Upon-Avon, a town of Warwickshire. Historically, Hamlet was written
about 1599 CE.
Notes On a Play Fictional document, published 2014 Doctor: 11
featuring the William Shakespeare thing
Written by James Goss,
Jonathan Morris, Julian Richards, Justin Richards and Matthew Sweet.
Purportedly
written during the composition of Hamlet.
Total
Stories Considered 3320
Proportion
Written By Women 12%
Top
Docs
4 311
stories
3 285
stories
7 252
stories
10 228
stories
8 226
stories
5 212 stories
11 212
stories Climber!
1 192
stories
6 183 stories Climber!
2 179
stories
12 108
stories
Unbound 87 stories
9 60 stories
13 50 stories
War 45 stories
Top
Twenty Recurring Elements
London 662
stories
Regional
England 536
stories
UNIT 404
stories
The
Time Lords 396 stories Climber!
Alastair,
Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 395
stories
North
America 248
stories Climber!
Wales 245
stories
Torchwood 233
stories
Continental
Europe 229
stories Climber!
The
Daleks and Davros 219
stories
Sarah
Jane 216
stories
The
Master, including Missy 210
stories
Captain
Jack 190
stories
The
K9s 162
stories
Romana 154
stories
Ace 151
stories
Jo 134
stories
Christmas 134
stories Climber!
Asia 126 stories
Amy and Rory 121
stories
Top
Decades
The
Teens 1370
stories
The
Noughties 852
stories
The
Nineties 334
stories
The
Twenties 285
stories
The
Seventies 204
stories
The
Eighties 195
stories
The
Sixties 80
stories
And
Top Twenty Years
2016 198
stories
2018 176
stories
2017 166
stories
2020 165
stories
2008 162
stories
2015 153
stories
2021 139
stories
2019 136
stories
2011 132
stories
2013 130
stories
2009 127
stories
2010 115
stories
2001 106
stories
2007 100
stories
2014 85
stories Climber!
2006 83
stories
1993 80
stories
2012 78
stories
2005 78
stories Climber!
2004 73
stories
Total
Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material
writers) 921
Proportion
of Female Writers 16%
Top
Twenty Writers
Terrance Dicks 118
stories
Russell
T Davies 106
stories
James
Goss 92
stories
Paul
Magrs 73 stories
Steven Moffat 64
stories
Justin
Richards 58
stories
Robert
Holmes 48
stories
John
Dorney 47
stories
Gareth Roberts 47
stories Climber!
Matt Fitton 44
stories
Jonathan Morris 44 stories Climber!
Eric Saward 44
stories
Eddie
Robson 43
stories
Gary Russell 40
stories
Alan
Barnes 37
stories
David Llewellyn 37
stories
? John Canning 36
stories
Andrew Cartmel 36 stories
Steve Lyons 36
stories
David Whitaker 35
stories
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