Then: The Late Nineteen Hundreds

  

Freakshow   Audio drama, released 2010                                  Doctor: 5

Featuring Turlough, with Tegan (informative mention)

Written by Mark Morris.

Takes place in Arizona; self-dated 1905 CE.


The Gateway of the Monster    Short story, published 1910     Doctor: 0

featuring Carnacki

Written by William Hope Hodgson.

Informed guess Takes place in Chelsea and less than twenty miles from Chelsea; the first of the Carnacki stories to be published.

 

Edwin Lester Arnold’s 1905 novel Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation is a general precursor to the planetary romance genre of science fiction, very much a mainstay of Doctor Who narrative, and its protagonist later encounters Iris Wildthyme (also popping up in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Incompatible versions of Mars are a side effect of the Second War in Heaven, of course.

 

Einstein and the Doctor   Short story, published 2019   Doctors: 13, with 4 (glimpse)

Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz

Written by Jo Cotterill.

Informed guess Takes place in Bern, Switzerland, while Einstein was living there.


Peace in Our Time   Audio short story, released 2019                Doctor: 1

Featuring Steven

Written by Una McCormack.

Takes place in London; self-dated January 1906 CE.


Her and Allan   Short story, published 2011                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.

Informed guess Takes place in South Africa and under the Rwenzori Mountains on the border of Uganda, a landlocked nation of central Africa, and the Congo, the vast nation to its west with a narrow strip of coast on the Atlantic; at this point the former was a colonial possession of the UK and the latter of Belgium. Self-dated 1906 CE.


The Gift   Audio drama, released 2016                                         Doctor: 8

Featuring the Time Lords, Liv, Helen

Written by Marc Platt.

Takes place in San Francisco, Ca; self-dated April 1906 CE.


The Centenarian: Prologue   Short story, published 2006        Doctor: 8

Featuring ? the Master, Edward Grainger

Written by Joseph Lidster.

Takes place in London; self-dated June, 1906 CE.


Forgotten   Short story, published 2006                                        Doctor: 8

Featuring the Master, Edward Grainger

Written by Joseph Lidster.

Takes place in London; mostly during and immediately after The Centenarian: Prologue.


Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Bad Weekend   Short story, published 2014      Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Daniel Tessier.

Informed guess Takes place on a version of Mars; Jones, engaged in Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation, is now married.


The Chimes of Midnight   Audio drama, released 2002        Doctor: 8

featuring Charley

Written by Robert Shearman.

Takes place in London; self-dated Christmas Eve, 1906 CE.


The Cutty Wren   Short story, published 2007                              Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Victoria

Written by Ann Kelly.

Takes place in Suffolk; self-dated Boxing Day 1906 CE.


The Catalyst   Audio drama, released 2008                              Doctor: 4

featuring Leela

Written by Nigel Fairs.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK; self-datedly during the Edwardian period.


The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane   Illustrated short story, published 1926     Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Takes place on the Sussex coast; self-dated July 1907 CE.


The Darkness of Glass   Audio drama, released 2015          Doctor: 4

Featuring Leela, K9 I

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place on an island off the coast of England; self-dated November 1907 CE.


Soldier in Time  Short story, published 2018                                Doctor: 0

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart

Written by Martin Gregory.

Partially set in 1907 CE.


The House Among the Laurels   Short story, published 1910    Doctor: 0

featuring Carnacki

Written by William Hope Hodgson.

Informed guess Takes place in Chelsea and the west of Ireland; after The Gateway of the Monster as published.


Perfect Present   Short story, published 2004                              Doctor: 7

Written by Andy Campbell.

Informed guess Takes place in England; self-dated a Christmas Eve in the 191st decade CE.


The Fairest of Them All   Comic story, published 2012               Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Informed guess Takes place near a ghost town, probably in the New World; self-dated 1908 CE.


The Time Stealer, School of the Dead, Ghosts of the Past and Battle for Time

                                        Comic story, published 2008                        Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Jason Loborik.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK; self-dated variously, but pivotally in 1908 CE.


The Child   Audio drama, released 2012                         Doctors: 4, with 1, 2, 3 (glimpse)

Featuring Leela

Written by Nigel Fairs.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK, during the reign of Edward VII.


In Vino Veritas   Charity short story, published 2001                    Doctor: 1

featuring Ian, with Susan and Barbara (glimpse)

Written by Mark Michalowski.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated in Edward VII’s reign.


Deleted Scenes   Audio short story, released 2020                      Doctors: 2, 4

Featuring Jamie, Sarah Jane

Written by Angus Dunican.

Informed guess Takes place in Paris; self-dated 1908 CE.

 

The Lost World, featuring Professor Challenger, whom Iris Wildthyme meets in Ms Wildthyme and Friends Investigate, was published in 1912, and set in a year when August 18th fell on a Tuesday. 1908 CE seems to be the best year for that.

 

Gallery   Comic story, published 2016                                             Doctor: 12

Written by Rik Hoskin.

Informed guess Takes place in Paris; self-dated springtime, 1909 CE.


Birthright   Audio adaptation of a novel, released 1999         Doctor: 0

Featuring Unbound Benny

Adapted by Jacqueline Rayner from a novel by Nigel Robinson.

Takes place partly in London; self-dated 1909 CE. The novel concludes the action in April.


The Whistling Room   Short story, published 1910                      Doctor: 0

featuring Carnacki

Written by William Hope Hodgson.

Informed guess Takes place in Chelsea and Ireland; after The House Among the Laurels as published.


Sting of the Zygons   Novel, published 2007                   Doctor: 10

Featuring the Zygons, Martha

Written by Stephen Cole.

Takes place in the Lake District; self-dated September 1909 CE.


64 Carlysle Street   Short story, published 1999                           Doctor: 1

featuring Steven, Dodo

Written by Gary Russell.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 1909 CE.


The City of Dr Moreau   Novella, published 2021             Doctor: 0

featuring Edward Travers, H G Wells

Written by Andrew Allen.

Takes place in a version of London; self-dated the late Edwardian period. We are given to understand that these events inspire the time-travelling Wells to write his novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, published in 1896.


The Horse of the Invisible   Short story, published 1910            Doctor: 0

featuring Carnacki

Written by William Hope Hodgson.

Informed guess Takes place in Chelsea and Lancashire; after The Whistling Room as published.


Missing Habitas Frond   Illustrated short story, published 2020           Doctor: 0

Featuring Missy

Written by Dave Rudden.

Takes place in Edinburgh; self-dated Christmas Eve 1909 CE.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               3925

Proportion Written By Women   11%                                        

 

Top Docs

4                 348 stories                   

3                 297 stories

7                 287 stories         

10               263 stories  

8                 262 stories 

11               258 stories  

5                 251 stories         

1                 231 stories  

6                 226 stories 

2                 205 stories         

12               129 stories

Unbound   93 stories  

9                 67 stories  

13               56 stories           

War            46 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                945 stories         

Regional England                                               668 stories

The Time Lords                                                  412 stories 

UNIT                                                                    406 stories

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

North America                                                   313 stories  

Continental Europe                                           306 stories

Wales                                                                  250 stories

Torchwood                                                         241 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            232 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                     227 stories   

Sarah Jane                                                          227 stories   Climber!  

Captain Jack                                                       195 stories

Ace                                                                      171 stories 

The K9s                                                               164 stories  

At Sea                                                                  162 stories 

Romana                                                               160 stories  

Christmas                                                            154 stories

Asia                                                                      151 stories           

Amy and Rory                                                    146 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           1672 stories

The Noughties                                                    982 stories                   

The Nineties                                                       368 stories

The Twenties                                                     328 stories

The Seventies                                                    212 stories         

The Eighties                                                        207 stories

The Sixties                                                          90 stories

(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and William Hope Hodgson)                                                                             66 stories  

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          248 stories

2018                                                          202 stories 

2020                                                          197 stories   

2017                                                           193 stories

2015                                                          186 stories 

2008                                                          184 stories  

2011                                                          169 stories

2019                                                          159 stories

2013                                                          155 stories

2021                                                          150 stories

2009                                                          146 stories  

2010                                                          136 stories

2014                                                          122 stories 

2001                                                          117 stories

2007                                                          114 stories 

2012                                                          100 stories         

2006                                                          95 stories Climber!

2005                                                          94 stories  

2004                                                          89 stories              

1993                                                          84 stories                     

         

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                  979

Proportion of Female Writers            17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                          121 stories  

James Goss                                               116 stories

Russell T Davies                                       110 stories

Justin Richards                                         107 stories

Paul Magrs                                                83 stories  

Steven Moffat                                          75 stories           

Jonathan Morris                                      75 stories           

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                           59 stories           

John Dorney                                             52 stories           

Eddie Robson                                            51 stories 

Robert Holmes                                         50 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        49 stories  

Matt Fitton                                               48 stories  

Eric Saward                                               47 stories           

David Llewellyn                                       42 stories  

Gary Russell                                              42 stories   Climber!

Guy Adams                                               40 stories=

Alan Barnes                                              40 stories=

Andrew Cartmel                                      40 stories=

Steve Lyons                                               40 stories=

Marc Platt                                                 40 stories= Re-entry!  

         

 

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