Then: The Early Nineteen Teens

 

 In Case of Emergencies   Short story, published 2007                             Doctor:4

Written by Ian Farrington.

Takes place in Mayfair; self-dated May 1910 CE.


The 1964 film Mary Poppins is difficult to leave out of any examination of Mythic London as a subject of Doctor Who narrative. Set in spring 1910, its monumental artificiality - to the point of an American robin singing in the Thames valley – only reinforces its sense of London as a dream realm. Ms Poppins herself appears in the last volume of Century and definitely qualifies, in The Tides of Time terms, as a higher evolutionary.


The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: What Keeps Mankind Alive?    
                    Comic story, published 2009                                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Carnacki, with Sherlock Holmes (informative mention)

Written by Alan Moore.

Takes place in a version of London; self-dated 1910 CE. Although this is clearly not the reality of the Doctor, and he does not appear (as far as it is possible to tell), there is some overlap, and in the subsequent chapters of the story he is glimpsed.


The Spirit of Ashgar   Comic story, published 2009                                Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Kroul.


Pyramids of Mars   TV story, broadcast 1975                                 Doctor: 4

featuring Sarah Jane, the Osirians

Written by Stephen Harris and Robert Holmes.

Takes place in regional England and Egypt, and on Mars; self-dated 1911 CE.


The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber   Audio drama, released 2015                                                             Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray

Written by David Llewellyn.

Takes place in London; self-datedly leading up to the coronation of King George V in June 1911 CE.


Sax Rohmer’s 1913 novel The Mystery of Dr.Fu-Manchu (published as The Insidious Dr.Fu-Manchu in the USA) was a reworking of stories published from October of the previous year. Not strictly placeable in time, this seems a reasonable point to put it in Doctor Who narrative. The eponymous agent of the Si-Fan Tong gets occasional appearances and mentions in Iris Wildthyme and Brenda stories.


Hitching Point   Comic story, published 2009                                          Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Takes place in Peru; self-dated July 1911 CE.


Moonflesh   Audio drama, released 2014                                           Doctor: 5

Featuring Nyssa, Hannah

Written by Mark Morris.

Takes place in Suffolk; self-dated October 1911 CE. Hannah Bartholemew is a Tellurian, born in the late nineteenth century CE. She leaves linear time in this story, having concealed herself aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.


Echoes   Short story, published 2006                                                           Doctor: 3

featuring Edward Grainger

Written by Gary Russell.

Takes place in Knightsbridge, a fashionable street in west London; self-dated just before Christmas, 1911 CE.


The Left-Handed Hummingbird   Novel, published 1993         Doctor: 7

featuring UNIT, Ace, Benny, with Mortimus, the Chronovores (glimpse) and the Exxilons (informative mention)

Written by Kate Orman.

Takes place in London, Mexico City and pivotally in the North Atlantic in April, 1912 CE.


Battle Scars   Audio short story, released 2019                                          Doctor: 9

Written by Selim Ulug.

Takes place in Southampton; self-dated April 1912 CE, ending shortly after the relevant section of The Left-Handed Hummingbird.


The Demons of Repton Abbey   Comic story, published 2012               Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Takes place in the UK; self-dated 1912 CE, and not long after the sinking of the Titanic.


The Suffering   Audio drama, released 2010                                    Doctor: 1

featuring Vicki, Steven

Written by Jacqueline Rayner.

Takes place in Sussex and London; self-dated 1912 CE.


The Haunted Jarvee   Short story, published 1929                                   Doctor: 0

featuring Carnacki

Written by William Hope Hodgson.

Informed guess Takes place in Chelsea and at sea; after The Horse of the Invisible as published.


The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner   Audio drama, released 2012                                                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Jonathan Barnes.

Takes place on the South Downs; self-dated August 1912 CE.


The Sphere   Audio drama, released 2010                                              Doctor: 0

Featuring Grace technology

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Takes place partly in regional England; self-dated October 1912 CE.


The Fog   Audio drama, released 2010                                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Grace technology

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Takes place in regional England; self-dated late October 1912 CE, and after The Sphere.


Ghosts of Christmas Past   Audio drama, released 2012                Doctor: 0

Featuring Dorian Gray, Sherlock Holmes

Written by Tony Lee.

Takes place in London; self-dated Christmas 1912 CE.


The Find   Short story, published 1929                                                        Doctor: 0

featuring Carnacki

Written by William Hope Hodgson.

Informed guess Takes place in London; after The Haunted Jarvee, as published.


Year of the Pig   Audio drama, released 2006                                Doctor: 6

featuring Peri

Written by Matthew Sweet.

Takes place in Belgium; self-dated summer, 1913 CE.


The Immortal Game   Audio drama, released 2013                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Dorian Gray

Written by Nev Fountain.

Takes place in Brighton; self-dated 1913 CE, and presumably summer, as chess is being played outdoors.

Human Nature and The Family of Blood   TV story, broadcast 2007                                               Doctor: 10

featuring Martha

Written by Paul Cornell, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in regional England; self-dated November 1913 CE.


The Hog   Short story, published 1947                                                         Doctor: 0

featuring Carnacki

Written by William Hope Hodgson.

Informed guess Takes place in Chelsea; after The Find, as published.


Human Nature: Prelude   Illustrated short story, published 1995         Doctor: 7

Written by Paul Cornell.

Takes place in Norfolk; self-dated spring 1914 CE.


Human Nature   Novel, published 1995                                          Doctor: 7

featuring the Time Lords, Death, Benny

Written by Paul Cornell.

Takes place in Norfolk; self-dated April, 1914 CE.


Ante Bellum   Short story, published 2004                                                Doctor: 7

featuring Ace

Written by Stephen Hatcher.

Takes place in Anatolia and, principally, in Constantinople; self-dated June, 1914 CE.       


His Last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes   Illustrated short story, published 1917                                                                                                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Takes place on the coast of Essex; self-dated early August 1914 CE.


Warfreekz!   Comic story, published 2006                                                 Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose, with Destrii (glimpse)

Written by Alan Barnes.

Takes place in the forest of Mormal, Belgium. Historically, the British army retreated through and around the forest in late August 1914 CE. Captain Rotmund shouldn’t be wearing his Husar’s dress uniform in the front line, but in the first month of the war I suppose he could just about have gotten away with it. Sadly, Destrii seems to have gone back to her old ways in consorting with the Warfreekz, unless she is travelling through time with her uncle before Bad Blood.


Horrors of War   Audio drama, released 2018                                     Doctor: 3

Featuring Jo

Written by Justin Richards.

Takes place in Ypres, Belgium; self-dated six months after June 1914 CE.


The Amateur   Comic story, published 1974                                              Doctor: 3

featuring Arnold

Written by Gerry Haylock.

Takes place in Cornwall, and the later section in France, self-dated Christmas 1914 CE. Arnold is a Tellurian born in the 32nd or 31st century CE.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               3954

Proportion Written By Women   11%                                        

 

Top Docs

4                 350 stories                   

3                 300 stories

7                 291 stories         

10               267 stories  

8                 262 stories 

11               259 stories  

5                 252 stories         

1                 232 stories  

6                 227 stories 

2                 205 stories         

12               129 stories

Unbound   93 stories  

9                 68 stories  

13               56 stories           

War            46 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                955 stories         

Regional England                                               681 stories

The Time Lords                                                  413 stories 

UNIT                                                                    407 stories

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                      405 stories

North America                                                   314 stories  

Continental Europe                                           311 stories

Wales                                                                  250 stories

Torchwood                                                         241 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            232 stories  

Sarah Jane                                                          228 stories   Climber!   

The Daleks and Davros                                      227 stories   

Captain Jack                                                       195 stories

Ace                                                                      173 stories 

At Sea                                                                  164 stories  Climber! 

The K9s                                                               164 stories  

Romana                                                               160 stories  

Christmas                                                            156 stories

Asia                                                                      152 stories           

Amy and Rory                                                    147 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           1683 stories

The Noughties                                                    991 stories                   

The Nineties                                                       371 stories

The Twenties                                                     328 stories

The Seventies                                                    214 stories         

The Eighties                                                        207 stories

The Sixties                                                          90 stories

(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and William Hope Hodgson)                                                                                                 70 stories  

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          248 stories

2018                                                          203 stories 

2020                                                          197 stories   

2017                                                           193 stories

2015                                                          187 stories 

2008                                                          184 stories  

2011                                                          169 stories

2019                                                          160 stories

2013                                                          156 stories

2021                                                          150 stories

2009                                                          149 stories  

2010                                                          139 stories

2014                                                          123 stories 

2001                                                          117 stories

2007                                                          116 stories 

2012                                                          103 stories         

2006                                                          98 stories

2005                                                          94 stories  

2004                                                          90 stories              

1993                                                          85 stories                     

         

  

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                  980

Proportion of Female Writers           17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                          121 stories  

James Goss                                               116 stories

Russell T Davies                                       111 stories

Justin Richards                                         108 stories

Paul Magrs                                                83 stories  

Steven Moffat                                          75 stories           

Jonathan Morris                                      75 stories           

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                           60 stories           

John Dorney                                             52 stories           

Robert Holmes                                         51 stories   Climber!

Eddie Robson                                            51 stories 

Gareth Roberts                                        49 stories  

Matt Fitton                                               48 stories  

Eric Saward                                               47 stories           

David Llewellyn                                       43 stories  

Gary Russell                                              43 stories  

Alan Barnes                                              41 stories   Climber!

Guy Adams                                               40 stories=

Andrew Cartmel                                      40 stories=

Steve Lyons                                               40 stories=

Marc Platt                                                 40 stories=

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