Then: The Late Nineteen Teens

 

 Direct Action   Short story, published 2006                                   Doctor: 4

featuring Edward Grainger (glimpse)

Written by Ian Mond.

Takes place in the ANZAC bridgehead on Cape Helles, southwest of Istanbul, during the Gallipoli campaign.


Last Man Standing   Audio drama, released 2019                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Dorian Gray

Written by Scott Harrison and Scott Handcock.

Informed guess Takes place in France; self-dated 1915 CE and before Angel of War.


White Darkness   Novel, published 1993                             Doctor: 7

featuring Ace, Benny, and Germany, the USA, the Veltrochni, the Earth Reptiles (informative mention)

Written by David A McIntee.

Takes place on Haiti; self-dated August 1915 CE.


The First   Comic story, published 2007                                         Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha, the Skith

Written by Daniel McDaid.

Takes place in Antarctica; self-dated September 1915 CE.


Angel of War       Audio drama, released 2016                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Dorian Gray

Written by Roy Gill.

Informed guess Takes place in France; self-dated 1915 CE.


What Have I Done?   Audio drama, released 2019                Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack

Written by Guy Adams.

Informed guess Takes place on the Gallipoli battlefield, between February 1915 and January 1916 CE.


Front Line   Illustrated short story, published 1993                        Doctor: 7

Written by Dale Smith (as Paul Smith).

Takes place in Belgium or France; self-dated sixteen months after the outbreak of World War I. The soldier illustrated probably shouldn’t be wearing a steel helmet.


Never Seen Cairo   Short story, published 2004                            Doctors: 5, 7

featuring Cairo, Peri (informative mention)

Written by Darren Sellars.

Takes place in Belgium and the UK, and ending twelve months after Christmas, 1914 CE.

 

The Land That Time Forgot (1975) is a dinosaur romp set in World War I which features a German naval officer called Dietz, who crops up in White Darkness. Master-enthusiast David A McIntee may have done this because he is played by Anthony Ainley.

 

The Found World   Short story, published 2010                           Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Iris Wildthyme, with Sherlock Holmes (informative mention)

Written by Jim Smith.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 1916 CE. The concept of the Incrementals, introduced in this story, could be a closer look at the mechanism whereby fictionality becomes ambivalent in the Second War in Heaven. This is also circumstantial evidence of Iris being a survivor of the Celestis.


Men of War   Audio story, released 2018                                   Doctor: 1

Featuring Steven, Sara

Written by Justin Richards.

Takes place in a version of France; self-dated August, 1916 CE.


The Weeping Angels of Mons   Comic story, published 2015    Doctor: 10

Featuring the Weeping Angels, Gabby

Written by Robbie Morrison.

Takes place variously in Dundee, Glasgow, New York, but pivotally in Belgium, self-dated August 1916 CE.


The Last Act   Audio drama, released 2009                          Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by David Stuart Davies.

Takes place in London; self-dated 1916 CE.


Time Trick   Comic story, published 2013                                      Doctors: 1, 11

Featuring Susan, Clara

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Refkeet Nine.


The Wages of Sin   Novel, published 1999                          Doctor: 3

featuring Liz, Jo

Written by David A.McIntee.

Takes place in Siberia and, pivotally, St.Petersburg; self-dated December 1916 CE.


The Shape on the Chair   Illustrated short story, published 2009          Doctor: 10

Written by Matt Jones.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK; probably in the early twentieth century CE.


The Death of Empire   Novel, published 2018               Doctor: 0

Featuring Erimem

Written by Beth Jones.

Takes place pivotally in St Petersburg, self-dated early 1917 CE.


The Roof of the World   Audio drama, released 2004             Doctor: 5

featuring Peri, Erimem

Written by Adrian Rigelsford.

Informed guess Takes place in the Himalayas, north of Darjeeling; Parkin gives the date as 1917 CE in Ahistory, presumably summer.


The Dalek Project   Comic story, published 2012                   Doctor: 11

Featuring the Daleks

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place partly in Kent and France; self-dated 1917 CE.


The Great War   Audio drama, released 2012                     Doctor: 8

Featuring the Time Lords, Molly, with the Daleks (glimpse)

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place in France, behind the Allied front lines; as Mustard Gas is being used, no earlier than July 1917 CE.     


X and the Daleks   Audio drama, released 2012                 Doctor: 8

Featuring the Time Lords, the Daleks, Molly

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place indeterminately on Srinigar, but definitely in France near and shortly after The Great War.


Doctor Who and The War Games   Novelisation of a TV story, published 1979                                                                                                                              Doctor: 2

featuring the Time Lords, Jamie, Zoe, with France, the USA, South Africa (informative mention)

Adapted by Malcolm Hulke from his own script, co-written with Terance Dick.

Informed guess Takes place on a planet controlled by the Wargamers, a space controlled by the Time Lords and, briefly, Scotland; ostensibly self-dated 1917 CE. As the Wargamers are using large scale time-travel, it may, in point of fact, be 1917 CE.


Missing in Action   Comic story, published 2011                           Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy, Rory, with France (informative mention)

Written by Eddie Robson.

Takes place on Clahow; Georges Guynemer went missing in September 1917 CE.


Harry Houdini’s War   Audio drama, released 2019      Doctor: 6

Featuring Harry Houdini, with Peri (informative mention)

Written by Steve Lyons.

Takes place in New York, NY and Germany; self-dated September 1917 CE.


No Man’s Land   Audio drama, released 2006                    Doctor: 7

featuring Ace, Hex

Written by Martin Day.

Informed guess Takes place in France, behind the front lines; self-dated 1917 CE.


What’s Past Is Prologue   Short story, published 2017                Doctor: 0

Featuring the Lethbridge-Stewart family

Written by David A McIntee.

Takes place in Scotland; self-dated Boxing Day, 1917 CE.


Cyclops   Comic story, published 2009                                           Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather, with the Rutan (informative mention)

Written by Steve Lyons.

Takes place on the Atlantic, south-west of Bermuda; self-dated March 1918 CE.


Biggles and the Fractured Dimensions   Charity short story, published 2001                                                                                                                              Doctor: 5

featuring Gus

Written by Finn Clark.

Takes place over a version of France; self-dated 1918 CE. I have no intention of venturing very far into the bibliographically massive flying career of James Bigglesworth. As a fighter pilot in the late First World War, he first appears in W E Johns’s The Camels Are Coming (1932).


Last of the Romanovs   Audio drama, released 2020               Doctor: 1

Featuring Susan, Barbara, Ian

Written by Jonathan Barnes.

Takes place in Ekaterinburg, a city in Asian Russia; self-dated July 1918 CE.


Casualties of War   Novel, published 2000       Doctor: 8 (the amnesiac sequence)

Written by Steve Emmerson.

Takes place in Yorkshire; self-dated August 1918 CE. It seems likely to me that the “elemental force” summoned by Dr.Banham is the Sentience (see  Venusian Lullaby and Nightshade).


Dream Devils   Short story, published 2006                                             Doctor: 3

featuring Edward Grainger

Written by Glen McCoy.

Takes place in the Pennine Hills; Edward is of senior school age, World War I has not yet concluded.


The White Room   Audio drama, released 2014                          Doctor: 8

Featuring the Viyrans, Molly

Written by Alan Barnes.

Takes place in London; self-dated November 1918 CE.        


Fortunes of War   Audio story, released 2018                                  Doctor: 6

Written by Justin Richards.

Takes place in Germany, self-dated November 1918 CE.


Toy Soldiers   Novel, published 1995                                                Doctor: 7

featuring Benny, Roz, Chris, with the Ogrons (glimpse)

Written by Paul Leonard.

Takes place in Europe and on Q’ell; self-dated 1919 CE.


The Sowers of Despair   Audio drama, released 2013                      Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Jonathan Barnes.

Takes place in eastern Europe; self-dated 1919 CE.

 

H P Lovecraft’s story The Statement of Randolph Carter, the eponymous narrator of which becomes a pivotal character in his stories of the Great Old Ones, was published in 1919.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               3988

Proportion Written By Women   11%                                        

 

Top Docs

4                 351 stories                   

3                 302 stories

7                 296 stories         

10               271 stories  

8                 266 stories 

11               262 stories  

5                 255 stories         

1                 235 stories  

6                 229 stories 

2                 206 stories         

12               129 stories

Unbound   93 stories  

9                 68 stories  

13               56 stories           

War            46 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                958 stories         

Regional England                                               684 stories

The Time Lords                                                  416 stories 

UNIT                                                                    407 stories

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                       406 stories

Continental Europe                                           333 stories  Climber!

North America                                                   318 stories  

Wales                                                                  250 stories

Torchwood                                                         241 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            232 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                     230 stories  Climber!   

Sarah Jane                                                          228 stories  

Captain Jack                                                       196 stories

Ace                                                                      175 stories 

At Sea                                                                  166 stories 

The K9s                                                               164 stories  

Romana                                                               160 stories  

Christmas                                                            157 stories

Asia                                                                      155 stories           

Amy and Rory                                                    148 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           1700 stories

The Noughties                                                    1002 stories       

The Nineties                                                       375 stories

The Twenties                                                     329 stories

The Seventies                                                    215 stories         

The Eighties                                                        207 stories

The Sixties                                                          90 stories

(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde)    70 stories  

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          248 stories

2018                                                          206 stories 

2020                                                          198 stories   

2017                                                           194 stories

2015                                                          188 stories 

2008                                                          184 stories  

2011                                                          170 stories

2019                                                          164 stories

2013                                                          158 stories

2009                                                          152 stories  Climber!  

2021                                                          150 stories

2010                                                          140 stories

2014                                                          124 stories 

2001                                                          118 stories

2007                                                          117 stories 

2012                                                          106 stories         

2006                                                          101 stories

2005                                                          94 stories  

2004                                                          92  stories             

1993                                                          85 stories                     

         

 

           

  

 

         

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                  984

Proportion of Female Writers           17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                          122 stories  

James Goss                                               116 stories

Russell T Davies                                       111 stories

Justin Richards                                         111 stories  Climber!  

Paul Magrs                                                83 stories  

Steven Moffat                                          75 stories           

Jonathan Morris                                      75 stories           

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                           60 stories           

John Dorney                                             52 stories           

Eddie Robson                                            52 stories   Climber! 

Robert Holmes                                         51 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        49 stories  

Matt Fitton                                               48 stories  

Eric Saward                                               47 stories           

David Llewellyn                                       43 stories  

Gary Russell                                              43 stories  

Alan Barnes                                              42 stories  

Steve Lyons                                               42 stories   Climber!

Guy Adams                                               41 stories

Andrew Cartmel                                      40 stories=

Marc Platt                                                 40 stories=

         

 

 

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