Then: The Early Nineteen Hundreds
The Searcher of the End House Illustrated short story, published 1910 Doctor: 0
Featuring Carnacki
Written by William Hope Hodgson.
Informed guess
The framing action takes place in London: the main action takes place “a deuce
of a long time ago, on
the south coast of England; presumably before Foreign Devils.
A Big Hand For the Doctor Short story,
published 2013 Doctor: 1
Featuring Susan
Written by Eoin Colfer.
Informed guess Takes place in and above
London; self-dated 1900 CE.
Perceptions and Coda Comic story, published 1997 Doctor: 8
featuring
Stacy, Ssard
Written by Gary Russell.
Informed guess Takes place in South
London, self-dated the Victorian period. From the female fashions, it would be
right at the end of Victoria’s reign.
Upstairs Audio drama, released 2013 Doctor: 1
Featuring Vicki, Steven
Written by Mat
Coward.
Takes place in
London; self-dated July 1900 CE.
Warring States Novel, published 2005 Doctor:
0
featuring
Faction Paradox, the Second War in
Heaven, Compassion
Written by Mags L Halliday.
Takes
place mostly in China, during the summer of 1900 CE.
The Beast of Kravenos Audio drama, released 2017 Doctor: 4
Featuring Jago, Litefoot, K9II, Romana
Written by Justin Richards.
Takes place in London; some time after The Justice of Jalxar.
The Problem of Thor Bridge Illustrated
short story, published 1922 Doctor:
0
Featuring Sherlock Holmes
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Takes place in London and Hampshire; dated
October 1900 CE by Keefvauer in the Birlstone Railway Timetable.
This World Our Hell Audio drama, released 2012 Doctor: 0
Featuring Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Written by David
Llewellyn.
Takes place in
Paris; self-dated November 1900 CE.
Foreign Devils Novella,
published 2002 Doctor: 2
featuring
Jamie, Zoe, Carnacki
Written by Andrew Cartmel.
Takes place in Canton (effectively a name for
Guangzhou) and pivotally in Kent, self-datedly in December 1900 CE.
Banshee Audio drama, released 2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring Dorian Gray
Written by Xanna Eve Chown.
World Our Hell.
The Farmer’s Story Short story, published 2004 Doctor:
2
featuring
Jamie, Victoria
Written by Todd Green.
Informed guess Takes place in Texas, at
the start of the Oil Rush.
The Adventure of the Priory School Illustrated short story, published 1904 Doctor: 0
Featuring Sherlock Holmes
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Takes place in London and the Peak District of Derbyshire; dated May
1901 CE by Keefvauer in the Birlstone Railway Timetable.
The First Men in the Moon, H G Wells’s 1901 novel feeds into The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen but is in any case a very direct ancestor of Doctor
Who, featuring a carefully thought-out extraterrestrial ecosphere, seldom
matched in science fiction since.
Enlightenment TV story, broadcast 1983 Doctor: 5
featuring
Grace technology, Tegan, Turlogh, the
Eternals
Written by Barbara Clegg, script edited by Eric
Saward.
Takes place in the Solar System. For the crew of
Striker’s yacht, the latest, temporally, of all the ephemerals employed, dated September
1901 CE.
Print the Legend Short story, published 2011 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven
Written by Daniel O’Mahony.
Takes place in the west of a version of the USA, a few days after the
shooting of President McKinley in September 1901 CE. In this, more totalitarian
version of the USA, Lincoln had been assassinated thirty-nine years previously
(1862 CE), well before the end of the civil war. I think we may infer that our
version of the USA is the one proceeding from the events of this story, in
which the USA is still the property of the Celestis, but it is contested, and
made more complex and ambiguous, by Faction Paradox.
Cryptobiosis Audio drama, released 2005 Doctor:
6
featuring
Peri
Written by Elliot Thorpe.
Takes place on the Atlantic; self-dated October
1901 CE.
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire Illustrated short story, published 1924 Doctor: 0
Featuring Sherlock Holmes, and not the Vampires
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Takes place in London and Sussex; dated
November 1901 CE by Keefvauer in the Birlstone Railway Timetable.
Starborn
Audio drama, released 2014 Doctor: 1
Featuring Barbara, Ian, Vicki
Written by Jacqueline Rayner.
Informed guess The later sections take place in London, in “the early twentieth
century”.
Ghosts of New York Short story, published 2016 Doctor: 12
Written by
Justin Richards.
Takes place in New York, NY; self-dated 1902 CE.
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons Illustrated short story, published 1904 Doctor: 0
Featuring Sherlock Holmes
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Takes place in London; dated June 1902 CE by Keefvauer in the Birlstone Railway Timetable.
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs Illustrated short story, published 1924 Doctor: 0
Featuring Sherlock Holmes
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Takes place in London; self-dated late June,
1902 CE.
The Disappearance Of Lady Frances Carfax Illustrated
short story, published 1911 Doctor: 0
Featuring Sherlock Holmes
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Takes place in London, Switzerland and France; dated July 1902 CE by
Keefvauer in the Birlstone Railway Timetable.
The Prestige (2006) **SPOILER ALERT** is arguably a
prequel to The Seds
of Death and Ride to Nowhere, amongst others.
Retribution Illustrated short story, published 1985 Doctor: 6
featuring
Peri
Written by the World Distributors Annual 1986 crew.
Takes place in the UK; self-dated shortly before
Edward VII’s coronation in August 1902 CE.
Revenge of the
Judoon Novella, published 2008 Doctor: 10
Featuring
Martha, the Judoon
Written by Terance Dicks.
Takes place in Scotland, London and Saudi Arabia;
self-dated Autumn 1902 CE.
The Adventure of the Illustrious Client Illustrated short story, published 1924 Doctor: 0
Featuring Sherlock Holmes
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Takes
place In London; self-dated September 1902 CE.
Black Thursday Audio
drama, released 2019 Doctor: 5
Featuring Tegan, Turlogh, Kamelion
Written by Jamie Anderson.
Informed guess Takes place beneath South Wales; self-dated September
1902 CE.
Horror of Fang Rock TV
story, broadcast 1977 Doctor:
4
featuring
Leela, the Rutan
Written by Terrance Dicks, script edited by Robert Holmes.
Takes place in the coastal waters of southern
England; Terrance Dicks sets Doctor Who and the Horror of Fang Rock shortly after the accession
of Edward VII.
False Gods Audio drama, released 2008 Doctor: 7
featuring
the Time Lords, Ace, Hex
Written by Mark Morris.
Takes place in Egypt; self-dated 1902 CE.
The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier Illustrated short story, published 1926 Doctor: 0
Featuring Sherlock
Holmes
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Takes
place in London and Bedfordshire; self-dated January 1903 CE.
Wet Walls Audio
short story, released 2011 Doctor: 5
Featuring Peri
Written by Mathilde
Madden.
Takes place in
Shropshire; self-dated 1903 CE.
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place Illustrated short story, published 1927 Doctor: 0
Featuring Sherlock Holmes
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Takes place in London and Berkshire; dated May 1903 CE by Keefvauer in
the Birlstone Railway Timetable.
Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror TV story, broadcast 2020 Doctor: 13
Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz
Written by Nina Metivier, script supervised by Chris Chibnall.
Takes place mostly in New York, NY. Tesla received J P Morgan’s letter
withdrawing funding in July 1903 CE.
The Adventure of the Creeping Man Illustrated short story, published 1923 Doctor: 0
Featuring Sherlock Holmes
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Takes place in London and Camford;
self-dated September 1903 CE.
The Adventure of the Bermondsey Cutthroats Audio drama, released 2013 Doctor: 0
Featuring Sherlock Holmes
Written by Jonathan Barnes.
Takes place in London; self-dated October 1903
CE, and after The Adventure of the Creeping Man.
The Dragon King Gamebook,
published 2008 Doctor: 10
Written by
Trevor Baxendale.
Arbitrary placement Takes place on Elanden.
The Adventure of the Dying Detective Illustrated short story, published 1923 Doctor:
0
Featuring Sherlock
Holmes
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Takes place in London;
dated November 1903 CE by Keefvauer in the Birlstone Railway
Timetable. It is plausibly a bit of unfinished business that Holmes is concluding
after The Adventure of the Bermondsey Cutthroats.
The Wanderer Audio drama, released 2012 Doctor: 1
Featuring Susan, Barbara, Ian
Written by Richard Dinnick.
Informed guess Takes place in Siberia and St.Petersburg;
Rasputin arrived in the capital no earlier than December 1903 CE.
Mirth, or Walking Spirits Short story, published 2008 Doctor: 2
Featuring Jamie,
Zoe
Written by Gareth Wigmore.
Takes place in Antarctica;
self-dated Christmas 1903 CE.
Gudok Short story, published 2008 Doctor:
5 (glimpse)
featuring
Tegan, Turlogh
Written by Mags L Halliday.
Takes place in Siberia and European Russia;
self-dated “winter” 1904 CE. Reports of Vladivostok being besieged by the
Japanese seem to be an exaggeration (it was subject to intermittent naval
bombardment), suggesting it is soon after the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese
War in February.
The Winter’s Tale Illustrated short story, published 2014 Doctor: 11
Written by James Goss, Jonathan Morris, Justin
Richards, Julian Richards and Matthew Sweet.
Informed
guess Takes place presumably on Earth; dated 1904
CE by the Doctor.
Iris Rides Out Audio
drama, released 2012 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme, Carnacki
Written by Guy Adams.
Informed guess Takes place in regional England;
self-dated 1904 CE.
The Thing Invisible Short story, published 1912 Doctor: 0
featuring
Carnacki
Written by William Hope Hodgson.
Informed guess Takes place in Chelsea and
Kent; probably, the first of the Carnacki sequence written, and therefore to
take place.
Total Stories Considered 3895
Proportion Written By Women 11%
Top Docs
4 343 stories
3 296 stories
7 286 stories
10 261 stories
8 258 stories
11 257 stories
5 250 stories
1 227 stories Climber!
6 226 stories
2 202 stories
12 128 stories
Unbound 93 stories
9 67 stories
13 55 stories
War 46 stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
London 933 stories
Regional England 663 stories
The Time Lords 411 stories
UNIT 406
stories
Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart
family 404 stories
North America 311 stories
Continental Europe 303 stories
Wales 250
stories
Torchwood 241
stories
The Master, including Missy 230
stories
The Daleks and Davros 227
stories
Sarah Jane 226
stories
Captain Jack 195
stories
Ace 171
stories
The K9s 164
stories
At Sea 161
stories
Romana 160
stories
Christmas 152 stories
Asia 151
stories
Amy and Rory 145 stories
Top Decades
The Teens 1661 stories
The Noughties 973 stories
The Nineties 366 stories
The Twenties 325
stories
The Seventies 212
stories
The Eighties 207
stories
The Sixties 90 stories
(Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde) 61 stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 246 stories
2018 201 stories
2020 195 stories
2017 193
stories
2015 185
stories
2008 182
stories
2011 168 stories
2019 157
stories
2013 155 stories
2021 149
stories
2009 146
stories
2010 135
stories
2014 121
stories
2001 116
stories
2007 112
stories
2012 98 stories
2005 94 stories Climber!
2006 93
stories
2004 88
stories
1993 84
stories
Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology
linking material writers) 975
Proportion of Female Writers 17%
Top Twenty Writers
Terrance Dicks 121
stories
James Goss 116
stories
Russell T Davies 110
stories
Justin Richards 106 stories
Paul Magrs 83
stories
Steven Moffat 75
stories
Jonathan Morris 75 stories Climber!
Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle 58 stories Climber!
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 41
stories Climber!
Guy Adams 40
stories Climber!
Alan Barnes 40
stories
Andrew Cartmel 40 stories
Steve Lyons 40
stories
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