Then: The Early Nineteen Thirties

 

 The English Way of Death   Novel, published 1996               Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II, Romana

Written by Gareth Roberts.

Takes place in London and on the south coast of England; self-dated June 1930 CE


The Silent Scream   Audio drama, released 2017                               Doctor: 4

Featuring K9 II, Romana

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Los Angeles,Ca.; self-dated 1930 CE.


There Are Such Things   Audio story, released 2019                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Dorian Gray

Written by Scott Harrison and Scott Handcock.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK; self-dated 1930 CE.


In Their Nature   Comic story, published 2013                                          Doctor: 5

Featuring the Sontarans, the Rutan, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan

Written by Scott and David Tipton.

Informed guess Takes place on a Rutan weapons range; not too long after Horror of Fang Rock, as a random group of Rutan know about what must be a very minor incident in their history.


Sussex   Short story, published 2014                                                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Philip Purser-Hallard.

Informed guess Takes place in Sussex, some time after The Feast of Magog.


Storm Warning   Audio drama, released 2001                               Doctor: 8

Featuring Charley

Written by Alan Barnes.

Takes place above southern England, the English Channel and northern France; self-dated October 1930 CE. Charley leaves linear time, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.


Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks

                                                                        TV Story, broadcast 2007      Doctor: 10

Featuring the Daleks, Martha

Written by Helen Raynor.

Takes place in new York, NY; self-dated November 1930 CE.


The Northern Heights   Short story, published 2004                             Doctor: 4

Written by Mark Stevens.

Takes place in northern London; ending self-datedly in March 1931 CE


What He Wants…   Comic story, published 2014                                      Doctor: 11

Featuring Alice, John Jones

Written by Rob Williams.

Takes place in Hackney and, pivotally, in Mississippi; self-dated 1931 CE. John Jones leaves linear time, having mooched unobtrusively onto the TARDIS when it dematerialises.


Mapp, Lucia and the Lords of Time   Charity short story, published 2016    Doctor: 3

Featuring the Master, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton

Written by Stuart Douglas.

Informed guess Mostly takes place on the south coast of England, apparently during the events of E.F.Benson’s novel Mapp and Lucia, published in 1931.

 

H P Lovecraft’s 1931 novella The Whisperer in Darkness introduces the eldritch horror known as Shub-Niggurath, identified in All-Consuming Fire as the mother of the Nestene Consciousness.

 

The Duke of Dominoes   Short story, published 1994                Doctor: 4 (glimpse)

featuring the Master, with Sarah Jane (glimpse)

Written by Marc Platt.

informed guess Takes place in Chicago, Ill., after the arrest of Al Capone, but before the repeal of alcohol prohibition.


Masters of Fear   Charity short story, published 1998                               Doctor: 0

featuring the Master, the Earth Reptiles

Written by James Ambuehl and Laurence J Cornford.

Informed guess Takes place in New England, before the death of H.P.Lovecraft.


Mardi Gras Massacre   Short story, published 2009                                Doctor: 6

featuring Peri

Written by Arnold T Blumberg.

Takes place in New Orleans, La; self-dated February 1932 CE.


The Search   Audio drama, released 1999                                              Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 II, Romana (constructively)

Written by Mark Duncan.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in E-Space (constructively).


Rock Quasar and the Mudslugs of Gurrn   Comic story, published 2011        Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Informed guess Takes place in Hollywood, Los Angeles Ca.; self-dated 1932 CE.


Briarwood   Comic story, published 2016                           Doctors: 8, with 12 (glimpse)

Featuring Josie, Clara

Written by George Mann.

Takes place in regional England; self-dated April 1932 CE.


The Dead Shoes   Audio drama, released 2009                                  Doctor: 4

Featuring Yates, Mrs.Wibbsey

Written by Paul Magrs.

The principal action takes place in Cromer, Norfolk and is self-dated June 1932 CE. Mrs Wibbsey leaves linear time, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.


Blame Iris   Short story, published 2005                                                    Doctor: 0

featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Stewart Sheargold.

Takes place in Paris; historically, Anais Nin’s menage with Henry and June Miller took place in 1932 CE.

 

Rounding it off for the Great Old Ones, the 1932 short story The Lair of the Star Spawn by August Derleth and Mark Schorer introduced the terrifying abomination Lloigor, identified in All-Consuming Fire as the Animus in The Web Planet.

 

The Alchemists   Audio drama, released 2013                                     Doctor: 1

Featuring Susan

Written by Ian Potter.

Takes place in Berlin; self-dated January, 1933 CE.


The Dinner Party   Short story, published 2019                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, Grace technology

Written by Baz Greenland.

Takes place in Appin, in the Highlands of Scotland, just after the Reichstag Fire at the end of February 1933 CE.


Fallen Angel   Short story, published 1994                                                 Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Zoe (glimpse) and the Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Andy Lane.

Informed guess Takes place in and near London; self-dated 1933 CE.


The Wormery   Audio drama, released 2003           Doctors: 6, with 7 (glimpse)

featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Paul Magrs and Stephen Cole.

Informed guess Takes place partly in Berlin; self-dated the 1930s CE: evidently the early 1930s.


Bide-a-Wee   Short story, published 2004                                                 Doctor: 1

featuring Susan (informative mention)

Written by Anthony Keetch.

Takes place on the English south coast; self-dated 1933 CE, and, one would think, during the school summer holidays.


Eater of Wasps   Novel, published 2001                                           Doctor: 8

Featuring the remembered Fitz, Anji, the Time Agency

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Takes place in regional England; self-dated August 1933 CE.


Fellowship of Ink   Novel, published 2017                                    Doctor: 0

Featuring Professor Cleavis, Brenda

Written by Paul Magrs.

Informed guess Takes place in Darkholmes, in northern England; self-dated the 1930s. I’d have been tempted to title this “The Fellowship of the Ink”, but I may be entirely misreading what Mr Magrs is aiming for. 
Professor Cleavis is a Tellurian literature academic, born in approximately 1898 CE.


Log 384   Short story, published 2006                                                     Doctor: 7

featuring Edward Grainger

Written by Richard Salter.

Takes place in London and Manchuria, a region of northeast China; self-dated the December after Hitler’s accession as Chancellor of Germany.


Blood Harvest: Prelude   Illustrated short story, published 1994   Doctor: 7 (informative mention)

featuring Ace (informative mention)

Written by Terrence Dicks.

Takes place in Chicago, Ill; self-dated December 1933 CE.


The Colour Scheme   Short story, published 2009                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Eddie Robson.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 1934 CE.


The Last House on Sandray   Short story, published 2019                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Anne Travers, Grace technology

Written by Roland Moore.

Informed guess Takes place on the island of Sandray in Scotland, during its evacuation in 1934 CE.


Pulp of the Black Lotus   Charity short story, published 2001   Doctor: 8 (the amnesiac sequence)

Written by Simon Bucher-Jones

Takes place in the USA; self-dated May 1934 CE.


Lurkers at Sunlight’s Edge   Audio drama, released 2010    Doctor: 7

Featuring Ace, Hex

Written by Marty Ross.

Informed guess Takes place off the north coast of Alaska; self-dated 1934 CE.


Death On the Waves   Novel, published 2019                             Doctor: 0

Featuring Erimem

Written by Iain McLaughlin.

Informed guess Takes place on the Mediterranean; self-dated 1934 CE.

 

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               4086

Proportion Written By Women   11%                                        

 

Top Docs

4                 361 stories                   

7                 307 stories  Climber!  

3                 306 stories

10               278 stories  

8                 276 stories 

11               271 stories  

5                 260 stories         

1                 239 stories  

6                 234 stories 

2                 212 stories         

12               132 stories

Unbound   93 stories  

9                 71 stories  

13               57 stories           

War            46 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                977 stories         

Regional England                                               710  stories        

The Time Lords                                                  420 stories 

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                       410 stories 

UNIT                                                                    407 stories

Continental Europe                                           347 stories 

North America                                                   338 stories  

Wales                                                                  253 stories

Torchwood                                                         241 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            239 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                     234 stories 

Sarah Jane                                                          230 stories  

Captain Jack                                                       196 stories

Ace                                                                      181 stories 

At Sea                                                                  170 stories 

The K9s                                                               169 stories  

Romana                                                               167 stories  

Asia                                                                      164 stories 

Christmas                                                            159 stories

Amy and Rory                                                    151 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           1750 stories

The Noughties                                                    1029 stories       

The Nineties                                                       387 stories

The Twenties                                                     331 stories

The Seventies                                                    217 stories         

The Eighties                                                        211 stories

The Sixties                                                          91 stories

(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde)    70 stories  

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          256 stories

2018                                                          210 stories 

2020                                                          199 stories   

2017                                                           197 stories Climber! 

2015                                                          196 stories 

2008                                                          185 stories  

2011                                                          172 stories

2019                                                          172 stories Climber! 

2013                                                          166 stories

2009                                                          160 stories 

2021                                                          151 stories

2010                                                          142 stories

2014                                                          127 stories 

2001                                                          121 stories Climber! 

2007                                                          120 stories 

2012                                                          110 stories         

2006                                                          104 stories

2005                                                          97 stories  

2004                                                          96 stories              

1993                                                          86 stories                     

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                  990

Proportion of Female Writers           17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                          125 stories  

James Goss                                               118 stories

Justin Richards                                         112 stories 

Russell T Davies                                       112 stories  

Paul Magrs                                                88 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                      76 stories  

Steven Moffat                                          75 stories           

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                           60 stories           

John Dorney                                             56 stories           

Eddie Robson                                            53 stories  

Robert Holmes                                         52 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        52 stories  

Matt Fitton                                               50 stories  

Eric Saward                                               48 stories           

Alan Barnes                                              44 stories   Climber!

David Llewellyn                                       44 stories            

Steve Lyons                                               44 stories  

Gary Russell                                              43 stories  

Guy Adams                                               41 stories =

Paul Cornell                                              41 stories =

Marc Platt                                                 41 stories = Re-entry!

         

 

 

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