Then: The Eighteen Seventies
The Brightest Stars in the Demimonde Short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written by Matthew Bright.
Takes place variously but pivotally in London, self-dated April 1870
CE.
A Town Called Mercy TV Story,
broadcast 2014 Doctor: 11
Featuring Amy, Rory
Written by Toby Whithouse, script supervised by Steven Moffat.
Takes place in Nevada; self-dated 1870 CE.
The Horror at Bletchington Station Audio short story, released 2016 Doctor:
1
Featuring Dodo
Written by Chris Wing.
Informed guess Takes place in regional England, “almost a
hundred years” before Dodo’s time.
Set Piece Novel, published 1995 Doctor: 7
featuring
Ace, Death, Benny, Kadiatu
Lethbridge-Stewart
Written by Kate Orman.
Takes place variously, including in Egypt and
Sydney, but ends in Paris, 1871 CE.
The Most Faithful Panda in the World Short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written by Richard Wright.
Takes place in Edinburgh, ending in January 1872 CE.
She and Allan was H Rider Haggard’s 1921 major crossover
event, putting his established characters of Allan Quartermaine, Ayesha and
Umslopogaas into a single novel, set in 1872. It is referenced in Allan and Her and, less directly to this chronology, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
To Captain Reginald Tate Online short story, posted 2013
Doctor: 6 or 8, from his manner, probably 6
Featuring Faction Paradox, the Fendahl, Charley
Written by Ushas the Rani.
Takes the form of a letter, dated October 1872 CE. Charley probably
related these events while travelling alone, after Blue Forgotten Planet. Its two frames take place in London and
Bath. Charley calls the Doctor the Renegade, Great House terminology suggesting
that her timeline may be intersecting the Second War in Heaven.
Calamity Jenny Audio drama, released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring Jenny
Written by
John Dorney.
Informed guess Takes place in the American West, one
would assume in the late nineteenth century CE.
The First
Sontarans Audio dramatisation of an unproduced TV story,
released 2012 Doctor:
6
Featuring the Sontarans, the Rutan, Peri
Adapted by Andrew Smith from his own script.
Takes place on the Moon and in Sussex; self-dated 1872 CE.
The 1932 film Vampyr – the Dream of Allan Gray is a vampire story
owing little to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, being based on Sheridan Le Fanu’s
much earlier In a Glass Darkly, published in
1872.
Eye of Heaven Novel,
published 1998 Doctor: 4
featuring
Leela
Written by Jim Mortimore.
Takes place between London and Easter Island,
including Portsmouth and Antarctica; ending self-datedly in December 1872 CE.
From Barbara’s Diary Short story, published 1993
Doctor: 1
featuring
Barbara, the Marie Celeste thing
Written by David Whitaker.
Takes place aboard the Marie Celeste in the north Atlantic. Historically, the
crew of the Marie Celeste
disappeared in December 1872 CE. This is the first explanation for it that Doctor
Who narrative offers; the second takes place in The Chase and involves the Daleks.
Clearly the crew’s disappearance is an event like the disappearance of the
Princes in the Tower and the Gunpowder Plot, multiply overwritten by time
travellers.
The Mystery of the Marie Celeste Illustrated short story, published 1969 Doctor: 2
featuring
the Marie
Celeste thing, Jamie, Zoe
Written by the World Distributors Annual 1970 crew.
Takes place aboard the Marie Celeste in the north Atlantic. This is the third
explanation; it involves chlorine-breathing aliens from the Arcturus system and
a giant sea-serpent.
Empty Welcome Charity
drabble, published 1993
Doctor: 2
featuring
the Marie
Celeste thing, Jamie, with the Time Lords (informative mention)
Written by Stan Eling.
Takes place aboard the Marie Celeste in the north Atlantic. This is the fourth
explanation.
A Stitch in Time Comic
story, published 1972 Doctor: 3
Featuring
the Marie
Celeste thing
Written by Dennis Hooper.
Takes place in a version of London, New York, NY
and aboard the Marie Celeste
in the north Atlantic. This is the fifth explanation; an entire alternative
timeline is potentially spun out of events on the vessel. The sixth explanation
takes place in Timechase.
It also involves Daleks.
The Silver Turk Audio drama, released 2011
Doctor:
8
Featuring the Cybermen, Mary Shelley
Written by Marc
Platt.
Takes place in
Vienna; self-dated September 1873 CE.
Strange England Novel, published 1994 Doctor: 7
featuring
the Time Lords, Ace, Benny
Written by Simon Messingham.
Takes
place in Devon, London and the Asteroid Belt, concluding self-datedly in 1873
CE.
Red Christmas Comic
story, published 2010 Doctor: 11
Featuring Amy
Written by Oli Smith.
Takes place in Hollograd, presumably in the Austro-Hungarian Empire;
self-dated Christmas 1873 CE.
The Man Who Wasn’t There Audio short story, released 2016 Doctor:
8
Featuring the Time Lords, Charley
Written by Ian Atkins.
Takes place variously, including Tangyanika, Valencia and the USA, and concluding
in Cairo, self-dated 1874 CE.
The Fun Factory Charity
drabble, published 1993
Doctor: 6
Written
by Ian M Fraser.
Informed guess Takes place (implicitly) in
a Victorian music hall.
The Curse of the Gibwyn Comic
story, published 2013 Doctor: 11
Featuring Clara
Written by Craig Donaghy.
Takes place on Medattia; rather whimsically self-dated 1875 CE.
Bad Blood Comic
story, published 2004 Doctor: 8
Featuring
Destrii
Written by Scott Gray.
Takes place in the Black Hills of the Dakota
Territory; self-dated late 1875 CE.
The Bushranger’s Story Short story, published 2004 Doctor: 4
featuring
Leela
Written by Sarah Groenewegen.
Takes place in Australia; self-dated 1876 CE.
The One
Hundred Days of the Doctor Audio
drama, released 2007
Doctors: 6, with 5, 7, 8, Unbound (informative
mention)
Featuring
Evelyn, with the Time Lords, Braxiatel,
Peri, Erimem, Ace, Hex, Benny, Charley, C’rizz, Lucie (informative mention)
Written by Paul Cornell.
Informed guess Takes place variously, but
the one identifiable location is the American west in the 1870s CE.
White Man’s Burden Short story, published 2004 Doctors: 1, 5
featuring
Barbara, Ian, Vicki, Turlogh
Written by John Binns.
Takes place in Pretoria, a city of South Africa;
self-dated April 1877 CE.
The Barnacled Baby Audio drama, released 2001 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Zygons, Queen Victoria
Written by Anthony Keetch.
Informed guess Takes place in London and Southend, during
the career of Phineas T.Barnum. I am assuming that Demeris only impersonated
the Queen until he joined the Zygon party in Loch Ness, and that the disturbing
nature of this experience contributed to Victoria’s decision to found Torchwood
in Tooth and Claw.
Emerald Green Charity
short story, published 1998 Doctor: 8
Featuring
Sam
Written by Mark Phippen.
Takes place mostly in and near
Tombstone, Arizona; self-dated 1878 CE.
Imperial Moon Novel,
published 2000 Doctor: 5
featuring
Queen Victoria, Turlogh, Kamelion
Written by Christopher Bulis.
Takes place on the Moon and in the Highlands of
Scotland; self-dated September 1878 CE.
Starstation to Starstation Short
story, published 2018
Doctor:
0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written by Jon
Wesley Huff.
Tooth and Claw TV
story, broadcast 2006 Doctor: 10
Featuring
Werewolves, Queen Victoria, Rose, with
Torchwood (informative mention)
Written by Russell T Davies.
Takes place in the Highlands of
Scotland; self-dated 1879 CE.
Total Stories Considered 3602
Proportion Written By Women 12%
Top Docs
4 331 stories
3 293 stories
7 278 stories
8 250 stories Climber!
10 249 stories
5 239 stories
11 239 stories
1 217 stories
6 211 stories
2 196 stories
12 120 stories
Unbound 92 stories
9 65 stories
13 53 stories
War 45 stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
London 723 stories
Regional England 602 stories
The Time Lords 409 stories Climber!
UNIT 406
stories
Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart
family 401 stories
Continental Europe 286 stories
North America 285 stories
Wales 246
stories
Torchwood 234
stories
The Daleks and Davros 227
stories
Sarah Jane 222
stories
The Master, including Missy 216
stories
Captain Jack 192
stories
Ace 164
stories Climber!
The K9s 162
stories
Romana 156
stories
At Sea 147
stories Climber!
Christmas 144 stories
Asia 139
stories
Amy and Rory 138
stories
Top Decades
The Teens 1506 stories
The Noughties 940 stories
The Nineties 356 stories
The Twenties 301
stories
The Seventies 208
stories
The Eighties 203
stories
The Sixties 88 stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 217 stories
2018 193 stories
2017 178
stories
2020 176 stories
2008 174
stories
2015 166
stories
2011 151 stories
2021 144
stories Climber!
2013 143 stories Climber!
2019 143
stories
2009 140
stories
2010 123
stories
2001 115
stories
2007 110
stories
2014 106
stories
2005 90 stories
2006 90
stories Climber!
2004 85
stories
1993 84
stories Climber!
2012 84 stories
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
linking material writers) 953
Proportion of Female Writers 17%
Top Twenty Writers
Terrance Dicks 119
stories
James Goss 111
stories
Russell T Davies 110
stories
Paul Magrs 81
stories
Justin Richards 80 stories
Steven Moffat 69
stories
Jonathan Morris 67 stories
John Dorney 49 stories Climber!
Gareth Roberts 49
stories
Robert Holmes 48
stories
Matt Fitton 46
stories
Eddie Robson 46 stories
Eric Saward 46
stories
Steve Lyons 40
stories
Gary Russell 40
stories
David Llewellyn 39
stories
David Whitaker 39
stories
Alan Barnes 38
stories
Marc Platt 38
stories
? John Canning 37
stories=
Andrew Cartmel 37 stories=
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