Then: The Early Eighteen Nineties

  

All-Consuming Fire: Prelude   Illustrated short story, published 1994       Doctor: 0

featuring Sherlock Holmes (informative mention)

Written by Andy Lane.

Informed guess Takes place in Portsmouth, some time after All-Consuming Fire.

Assassin on the Railroads   Illustrated short story, published 2017       Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Kieron Moore.

Informed guess Takes place in France, during one of the three Premierships of Lord Salisbury, here called Lord Cecil, but he had inherited the Marquessate of Salisbury back in the 1860s CE. Salisbury, vigorously brown-haired, is travelling to diplomatic negotiations on the continent. I shall assume that these lead up to the Anglo-German treaty of July 1890 CE.

The Perils of Nellie Bly   Audio drama, released 2021                Doctor: 5

Featuring Nyssa, Tegan, Marc

Written by Sarah Ward.

Takes place at sea and in the USA; historically, Nellie Bye completed her circumnavigation of the world in January 1890 CE.

Prelude: Heritage   Audio drama, released 2019                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written anonymously.

Takes place in London, before The Cars That Ate London as released.

The Cars That Ate London   Audio drama, released 2019             Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Informed guess Takes place in London, soon after the opening of the central power station in Deptford, in 1889 CE.

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches   Short story, published 1892     Doctor: 0

featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Takes place in London and Hampshire; dated March 1890 CE by Keefvauer in the Birlstone Railway Timetable. Modern adaptors of Sherlock Holmes tend to make Irene Adler Holmes’s love interest, But Violet Hunter seems to me a far more likely candidate. True, Watson says that Holmes had no further involvement with her after the case, but a couple of years later she is the principal of a prestigious school in the Midlands, despite having no money, family or social connections. How is she likely to have got the interview, and references? The most obvious explanation is that Holmes organised it. Why would he conceal it from Watson? The obvious, very Holmesian, reason is that he wanted Watson to keep his nose out of his emotional life. I think Doyle is telling us that Watson sees but, alas, he continues not to observe.

The Pest of Paternoster Row   Illustrated short story, published 2015       Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang, the Graske

Written by the BBC Annual 2016 crew.

Informed guess Takes place in London, no earlier than 1888 CE. A reference to giant rats in the sewers has led me to place it near The Talons of Weng Chiang.

The Adventure of the Three Gables   Short story, published 1926      Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Informed guess Takes place in London and Middlesex, “some years” after one of Holmes’s early cases.

Vincent and the Doctor   TV story, broadcast 2010                        Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Richard Curtis, script supervised by Steven Moffat.

Takes place principally in Auvers-sur-Oise; self-dated June, 1890 CE.

A Victorian Interlude   Illustrated short story, published 1991               Doctor: 5

featuring Litefoot, Jago

Written by Andy Lane.

Takes place in London, some months after The Talons of Weng Chiang.

The Picture of Dorian Gray   Novel, first version published 1890 Doctor: 0

Featuring Dorian Gray

Written by Oscar Wilde.

Published in July 1890 CE, and in this continuity a fictionalisation by Oscar Wilde of events that had taken place in London some years previously.

The Dead Travel Fast   Short story, published 2020                                Doctor: 0

Featuring the Master

Written by Mark Wright.

Informed guess Takes place in Whitby; concluding self-datedly in August 1890 CE.

Prologue: Erasing Sherlock   Short story, published 2005                    Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes, Faction Paradox

Written by Kelly Hale.

Takes place in London; self-dated October, 1890 CE. I am assuming that Gillian Petra has been recruited into Faction Paradox, and that she is about to involve Holmes and Watson in the case of Miss Mary Sutherland, as mentioned in The Red-Headed League. 

The Red-Headed League   Short story, published 1891                          Doctor: 0

featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Takes place in London; self-dated October, 1890 CE.

As the Son Falls   Short story, published 2018                                         Doctor: 0

Featuring the Lethbridge-Stewart family

Written by Wink Taylor.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self dated 1890 CE.

The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton   Short story, published 1904                                                                                                                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Takes place in London; dated January 1891 CE by Keefvauer in the Birlstone Railway Timetable.

The Crystal Throne   Comic story, published 2014                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Scott Gray.

Informed guess Takes place in London, no earlier than 1888 CE.

A Town Called Fortune   Audio drama, released 2010                    Doctor: 6

Featuring Evelyn

Written by Paul Sutton.

Informed guess Takes place generically in the Wild West.

The Adventure of the Final Problem   Short story, published 1893   Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Takes place in London and Switzerland, with points in between; self-dated May 1891 CE.

Devil in the Smoke   Novella, published 2012                                  Doctor: 0

featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place in London, no earlier than 1888 CE, self-dated December.

1001 Nights   Audio drama, released 2012                                          Doctor: 5

Featuring Nyssa

Written by Emma Beeby, Gordon Rennie, Jonathan Barnes and Catherine Harvey.

Informed guess Takes place variously but identifiably in Norwood, an area formerly in Surrey but recently incorporated into the County of London; self-dated 1892 CE.

The Great Detective   TV story, broadcast 2012                                       Doctor: 11

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Silurians, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Steven Moffat.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 1892 CE.

The Mahogany Murderers   Audio drama, released 2009            Doctor: 0

featuring Litefoot, Jago

Written by Andy Lane.

Informed guess Takes place in London, some time after The Talons of Weng Chiang and not long before The Bloodless Soldier.

The Bloodless Soldier   Audio drama, released 2010                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Litefoot, Jago

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place in London, not long before The Bellova Devil.

The Bellova Devil   Audio drama, released 2010                                Doctor: 0

Featuring Litefoot, Jago

Written by Alan Barnes.

Informed guess Takes place in London, not long before The Spirit Trap.

Marooned at Teatime   Short story, published 2019                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, Queen Victoria

Written by Ryan Fogarty.

Informed guess Takes place in Buckingham Palace on several occasions, the latest self-dated 1892 CE.

The Spirit Trap   Audio drama, released 2010                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Litefoot, Jago

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Informed guess Takes place in London, not long before The Similarity Engine.

The Confounding Case of the Planetary Prankster   Illustrated short story, published 2016                                                                                                                                  Doctor: 0

featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Rik Hoskin.

informed guess Takes place in London, some time after 1888 CE.

The Similarity Engine   Audio drama, released 2010                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Litefoot, Jago

Written by Andy Lane.

Informed guess Takes place in London, immediately before Litefoot and Sanders.

Litefoot and Sanders   Audio drama, released 2011                         Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Litefoot, Jago

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place in London, immediately before The Necropolis Express.

The Necropolis Express   Audio drama, released 2011                    Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Litefoot, Jago

Written by Mark Morris.

Informed guess Takes place in London, a month before The Theatre of Dreams.

The Dangerous Dilemma of the Dream Doorway   Illustrated short story, published 2016                                                                                                                                      Doctor: 0

featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Rik Hoskin.

Informed guess Takes place in Marylebone, a district of London; self-dated the 1890s CE.

The Theatre of Dreams   Audio drama, released 2011                     Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Litefoot, Jago

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Informed guess Takes place in London, over a month before The Ruthven Inheritance.

 

The Lighthouse (2019), set in the 1890s, has a distinct feeling of Enemy incursion about it.

 

The Ruthven Inheritance   Audio drama, released 2011                Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Litefoot, Jago, with Leela (glimpse)

Written by Andy Lane.

Informed guess Takes place in London, not long before Dead Men’s Tales.

Dead Men’s Tales   Audio drama, released 2011                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Leela, Litefoot, Jago, with Romana (informative mention)

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place in London, before The Man At the End of the Garden.

The Fear Factory   Illustrated short story, published 2016                       Doctor: 0

featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Rik Hoskin.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated the 1890s CE.

The Man At the End of the Garden   Audio drama, released 2011         Doctor: 0

featuring Leela, Litefoot, Jago

Written by Matthew Sweet.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated August, and before Swan Song.

Thin Time   Audio drama, released 2020                                               Doctors: 5, 11

Written by Dan Abnett.

Takes place in London; self-dated Hallowe’en 1892 CE.

Regeneration Impossible   Audio story, released 2020                         Doctors: 11, 12

Featuring the Vampires, with the Earth Reptiles (informative mention)

Written by Alfie Shaw.

Takes place in London; self-dated late November 1892 CE.

Vastra Investigates   Webcast released 2012                                           Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Steven Moffat.

Takes place in London, immediately before The Snowmen.

The Snowmen   TV story, broadcast 2012                                             Doctor: 11

Featuring the Great Intelligence, the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang, Clara +, with Clara (glimpse)

Written by Steven Moffat.

Takes place in London; self-dated Christmas 1892 CE. The origin of the Great Intelligence given in this story apparently contradicts its status as Yog-Sothoth, strategist of the Old Great Ones as related in All-Consuming Fire; but The Abominable Snowmen suggests that its relationship with individual human beings is problematic: perhaps it requires them to make sense of our universe. Dr Simeon’s suggestion that Vastra is Conan Doyle’s inspiration seems to be clear of the mark.

Swan Song    Audio drama, released 2011                                                Doctor: 0

Featuring Leela, Litefoot, Jago

Written by John Dorney.

Informed guess Takes place in London after The Man at the Bottom of the Garden and after December.

Chronoclasm   Audio drama, released 2011                              Doctor: 6 (glimpse)

Featuring Leela, Litefoot, Jago

Written by Andy Lane.

Informed guess Takes place in London, after Swan Song and before Jago in Love.

The House of Sorrows   Illustrated short story, published 2015             Doctor: 0

Featuring the Sontarans, with the Paternoster Gang (informative mention)

Written anonymously.

Informed guess Takes place in Yorkshire; self-dated 1893 CE.

Jago in Love   Audio drama, released 2012                                               Doctor: 6

Featuring Leela, Litefoot, Jago

Written by Nigel Fairs.

Informed guess Takes place in London and Brighton, just before Beautiful Things.

Beautiful Things   Audio drama, released 2012                                     Doctor: 6                      

Featuring Leela, Litefoot, Jago, Oscar Wilde

Written by John Dorney.

Takes place in London. Historically, A Woman Of No Importance premiered in April 1893 CE.

The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel   Audio drama, released 2008                                                                                                                             Doctor: 0

Featuring the Time Lords, Benny, Chris, with Sherlock Holmes, Oscar Wilde (informative mention)

Written by Jim Smith.

Takes place in London; self-dated May 1893 CE.

The Lonely Clock   Audio drama, released 2012                                       Doctor: 6

Featuring Leela, Litefoot, Jago

Written by Matthew Smith.

Takes place in London, shortly after Beautiful Things.

The Case of the Curious Fugitive   Illustrated short story, published 2016  Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written anonymously.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 1893 CE.

The Hourglass Killers   Audio drama, released 2012                             Doctor: 6

Featuring Leela, Litefoot, Jago

Written by Justin Richards.                

Takes place in London and Bedfordshire, shortly after The Lonely Clock. Jago and Litegfoot leave linear time, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.

Camera Obscura   Novel, published 2002                                           Doctor: 8

Featuring the remembered Fitz, Anji, Sabbath, with Death (glimpse)

Written by Lloyd Rose.

Takes place in London, Liverpool, Newcastle, Dartmoor and Wales, concluding in August and dated 1893 CE in Time Zero. This contains what I think is the only description of a vulva in licenced Doctor Who prose, and appropriately, I think, for Doctor Who, it’s Death’s vulva.

The Skeleton Quay   Audio drama, released 2013                                   Doctor: 0                     

Featuring Jago, Litefoot

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Takes place on the coast of England; self-dated 1893 CE, and after The Hourglass Killers.

Return of the Repressed   Audio drama, released 2013                Doctor: 0

Featuring Jago, Litefoot

Written by Matthew Sweet.

Informed guess Takes place in London, shortly after The Skeleton Quay

Mind Games   Audio drama, released 2014                                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Jago, Litefoot

Written by Justin Richards.

Takes place in London, after Return of the Repressed and before Military Intelligence.

The Death and Life   Audio drama, released 2009                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Unbound Sherlock Holmes

Written by David Stuart Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in the mind of an Unbound Sherlock Holmes, narratively, I suppose, before The Adventure of the Empty House.

Fortitude   Audio drama, released 2020                                                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Queen Victoria, Torchwood

Written by James Goss.

Takes place in the English Channel; self-dated 1893 CE: presumably October, the date of  Duleep Singh’s official death.

The Crimson Horror   TV story, broadcast 2013                                     Doctor: 11

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang, Clara

Written by Mark Gatiss, script edited by Steven Moffat.

Informed guess Takes place in Yorkshire; self-dated 1893 CE.

The Singular Case of the Blue Men of the Minch        Illustrated short story, published 2015                                                                                                                      Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written anonymously.

Informed guess Takes place in Scotland; self-dated 1894 CE.

The Bodysnatchers    Novel, published 1997                                      Doctor: 8

featuring the Zygons, Litefoot, Sam

Written by Mark Morris.

Takes place in London; self-dated January 1894 CE.

Things That Doctor Who Writers Who Want To Set Things In “The Present” Should Find Difficult To Ignore. Though Quite Likely They’ll Just Pile More Stuff In.

MUCH OF THE EAST END IS GODZILLA’D BY RAMPAGING SKARASENS. ALSO, AT ONE POINT THE ACTION APPEARS TO BE TAKING PLACE BY THE THAMES...AT SHOREDITCH. SO THE CITY OF LONDON HAS PRESUMABLY BECOME AN ISLAND.

The Curious Case of the Miniature Menaces    Illustrated short story, published 2016  Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Tommy Donbavand.

Takes place in Greenwich; self-dated February 1894 CE.

The Ghosts of Greenwich   Audio drama, released 2019                   Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Paul Morris.

Takes place in Greenwich; self-dated February 1894 CE. This, rather annoyingly from my point of view, offers an alternative account of the explosion that historically took place at the Royal Observatory at this time to the one given in The Curious Case of the Miniature Menaces. All I can suggest is that as the negative chronons that flow along the meridian are “the very enemy of causality”, the event having more than one mutually exclusive cause may well be the natural outcome. Also, negative chronons sound like the sort of thing that The Enemy might be into, so this might all be an aspect of the Second War in Heaven.

Time Zero   Novel, published 2002                                                   Doctor: 8

Featuring the remembered Fitz, Anji, Sabbath, Trix, with Control (informative mention)

Written by Justin Richards.

Takes place in London and Siberia; partly self-dated early 1894 CE. Trix presumably leaves linear time, being (surreptitiously) aboard the TARDIS as it dematerialises, although there is some suggestion that she has travelled in time already.

The Adventure of the Empty House   Short story, published 1903            Doctor: 0              

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Takes place in London; self-dated April, 1894 CE.

Military Intelligence   Audio drama, released 2013                            Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Jago, Litefoot

Written by George Mann.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 1894 CE, after Return of the Repressed.

The Trial of George Litefoot   Audio drama, released 2013              Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Jago, Litefoot

Written by Justin Richards.

Takes place in London, immediately after Military Intelligence.

The Monstrous Menagerie   Audio drama, released 2014                 Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Jago, Litefoot

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Takes place in London, two days after The Trial of George Litefoot.

The Demon of Paris   Audio drama, released 2010                             Doctor: 4

Featuring Yates, Mrs Wibbsey

Written by Paul Magrs.

Takes place in Paris; self-dated June 1894 CE.

The Phantom of the Music Hall   Illustrated short story, published 2015    Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written anonymously.

Takes place in London; self-dated June 1894 CE.

The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone   Short story, published 1921          Doctor: 0           

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Takes place in London; dated June 1894 CE by Keefvauer in the Birlstone Railway Timetable.

Deep Breath   TV story, broadcast 2014                        Doctors: 12, with 11 (glimpse)

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang, Clara, with Missy (glimpse)

Written by Steven Moffat.

Informed guess Takes place mostly in London, though briefly Glasgow, some time between The Crimson Horror and Silhouette.

 

The Book of the Enemy records that Anthony Hope’s 1894 novel The Prisoner of Zenda was part of reality at some stage of the Second War in Heaven.

 

Dining With Death   Audio drama, released 2019                             Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Dan Starkey.

Informed guess Takes place in London, after The Ghosts of Greenwich as released.

The Screaming Ceiling   Audio drama, released 2019                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Carnacki, the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Guy Adams.

Informed guess Takes place in the Highlands of Scotland, after Dining With Death as released.

Thomas Carnacki is a Tellurian, born in approximately 1875 CE.

The Adventure of the Norwood Builder   Short story, published 1903    Doctor: 0     

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Takes place in London; self-dated August, “some months” after The Adventure of the Empty Room.

The Singular Case of the Time Machine   Illustrated short story, published 2015     Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written anonymously.

Takes place in London; self-dated September 1894 CE. It seems likely that Thaddeus Maine’s time machine is inspired by the one described in H G Wells’s 1895 novella The Time Machine.

The Curious Case of the Misery Diary   Illustrated short story, published 2015       Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Rik Hoskin.

Informed guess Takes place in Bloomsbury; self-dated the autumn of 1894 CE.

The Night of 1000 Stars   Audio drama, released 2014                      Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Leela, Jago, Litefoot

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in London, after The Monstrous Menagerie.                            

The Spectre of Paternoster Row   Illustrated short story, published 2015  Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by James Hill.

Takes place in London; self-dated November 1894 CE, and, as it happens, eight days before The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez.

The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez   Short story, published 1904   Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Takes place in London and Kent; self-dated November 1894 CE.

Murder at Moorsey Manor   Audio drama, released 2014               Doctor: 0

Featuring Jago, Litefoot, with Sherlock Holmes (informative mention)

Written by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris.

Takes place in regional England, one year after the publication of The Adventure of the Final Problem in the Strand Magazine.

The Evolution Episode   Illustrated short story, published 2017              Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by James Hill.

Takes place in Regent’s Park; self-dated December 1894 CE.

The Wax Princess   Audio drama, released 2014                              Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Jago, Litefoot, Queen Victoria

Written by Justin Richards.

Takes place in London, after Murder at Moorsey Manor; self-dated December 1894 CE.

Spring-Heeled Jack   Audio drama, released 2019                           Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by Gemma Arrowsmith.

Takes place in London, after The Cars That Ate London.

The Adventure of the Fleet Street Transparency   Audio drama, released 2017                                                                                                                                         Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Jonathan Barnes.

Informed guess Takes place in London, during The Master of Blackstone Grange; self-dated Christmas. It is not long after the death of Mary Watson.

Encore of the Scorchies   Audio drama, released 2014                    Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Jago, Litefoot, the Scorchies

Written by James Goss.

Takes place in London; self-dated December 1894 CE.

The Case of the Dissolving Man   Illustrated short story, published 2015  Doctor: 0

Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the Paternoster Gang

Written by James Peaty.

Takes place in London; self-dated December 1894 CE.

 

 

Total Stories Considered               3753

Proportion Written By Women   11%                                        

 

Top Docs

4                 339 stories                   

3                 296 stories

7                 283 stories         

8                 254`stories  Climber!  

10               254 stories  

11               251 stories  

5                 245 stories         

1                 223 stories         

6                 220 stories  

2                 198 stories         

12               125 stories

Unbound   92 stories  

9                 67 stories  

13               53 stories           

War            46 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                851 stories         

Regional England                                               632 stories

The Time Lords                                                  410 stories 

UNIT                                                                    406 stories

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                   403 stories

North America                                                   302 stories  

Continental Europe                                           292 stories

Wales                                                                  248 stories

Torchwood                                                         237 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                     227 stories   

Sarah Jane                                                          226 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            220 stories   

Captain Jack                                                       193 stories

Ace                                                                      169 stories 

The K9s                                                               163 stories  

Romana                                                               158 stories  

At Sea                                                                  154 stories 

Christmas                                                            148 stories

Asia                                                                      144 stories           

Amy and Rory                                                    143 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           1596 stories

The Noughties                                                    953 stories                   

The Nineties                                                       363 stories

The Twenties                                                     308 stories

The Seventies                                                    210 stories         

The Eighties                                                        205 stories

The Sixties                                                          90 stories

(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde)    38 stories  

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          226 stories

2018                                                          197 stories 

2017                                                           186 stories

2020                                                          182 stories 

2008                                                          175 stories  

2015                                                          174 stories 

2011                                                          165 stories

2019                                                          153 stories

2013                                                          150 stories

2021                                                          145 stories

2009                                                          144 stories  

2010                                                          134 stories

2001                                                          115 stories

2014                                                          114 stories  Climber!    

2007                                                          111 stories 

2012                                                          95 stories   Climber!

2005                                                          92 stories   Climber!

2006                                                          92 stories 

2004                                                          85 stories              

1993                                                          84 stories                     

         

 

           

  

 

         

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                  966

Proportion of Female Writers            17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                          119 stories  

James Goss                                               114 stories

Russell T Davies                                       110 stories

Justin Richards                                         89 stories  

Paul Magrs                                                82 stories  

Steven Moffat                                          75 stories           

Jonathan Morris                                      72 stories           

John Dorney                                             51 stories           

Robert Holmes                                         49 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        49 stories  

Eddie Robson                                            49 stories  

Matt Fitton                                               46 stories  

Eric Saward                                             46 stories           

David Llewellyn                                       40 stories  

Steve Lyons                                               40 stories  

Gary Russell                                              40 stories  

Guy Adams                                               38 stories   Climber!

Alan Barnes                                              38 stories Climber!

Marc Platt                                                 39 stories  

David Whitaker                                        39 stories