Then: The Early Nineteen Twenties

 

Houdini and the Space Cuckoos   Online Novella, posted 2012    Doctor: 11

Featuring Harry Houdini

Written by Joseph Lidster.

Informed guess Takes place in and above New York, NY; self-dated 1920 CE.


The Prime of Deacon Brodie   Audio drama, released 2013        Doctor: 0

Featuring Dorian Gray

Written by Roy Gill.

Takes place in Edinburgh; self-dated October 1920 CE.


The Mouthless Dead   Audio drama, released 2016                         Doctor: 2

Featuring Polly, Ben, Jamie

Written by John Pritchard.

Takes place in Kent; self-dated November 1920 CE.


Doctor vs Doctor   Illustrated short story, published 2005                      Doctor: 9

featuring Rose

Written by Gareth Roberts.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK; self-dated winter 1920 CE.


The Hopes and Fears of All the Years   Illustrated short story, published 2007

                                                                                                                        Doctor: 10

Written by Paul Cornell.

Takes place in the UK; pivotally self-dated Christmas Eve 1920 CE.


The Delightful Bag   Short story, published 2009                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme, The Manleigh Halt Irregulars

Written by Paul Magrs.

Informed guess Takes place in regional England; self-dated Christmas Eve. The early 1890s were twenty-nine years previously, and it is before The Last Waltz.


A Life in the Day   Audio drama, released 2015                                  Doctor: 8

Featuring Liv

Written by John Dorney.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 1921 CE.


The Irredeemable Love   Short story, published 2010                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme, The Manleigh Halt Irregulars

Written by Nick Wallace.

Informed guess Takes place in regional England, after The Delightful Bag as published.


The Monster of Montmartre   Audio drama, released 2015         Doctor: 8

Featuring the Daleks, Liv, with the Master (glimpse)

Written by Matt Fitton.

Takes place in Paris, soon after A Life in the Day.


Master of the Daleks   Audio drama, released 2015                         Doctor: 8

Featuring the Daleks, the Master, the Sontarans, Liv, Molly

Written by John Dorney.

Takes place for the Doctor in the Moscow of an alternative reality, after The Monster of Montmartre.


Kings of Infinite Space   Audio drama, released 2018                     Doctor: 0

Featuring River Song

Written by Donald McLeary.

Takes place in alternative realities, for River Song before Whodunnit?


Whodunnit?   Audio drama, released 2018                                           Doctor: 0

Featuring River Song

Written by Matt Fitton.

Takes place in London and Vienna, about the same time as A Life in the Day.


Someone I Once Knew   Audio drama, released 2018                     Doctor: 4

Featuring River Song

Written by John Dorney.

Takes place in alternative realities, for River Song and the Doctor, immediately after Whodunnit?

 

Shadow of the Vampire (2000) is a vampire film set during the shooting of Nosferatu (1922) in the summer of 1921. It seems to be entirely compatible with the vampiric lore of Doctor Who narrative.

 

The Last Waltz   Short story, published 2013                                            Doctor: 0

Featuring the Manleigh Halt Irregulars

Written by Kati Szavai.

Informed guess Takes place in regional England, after World War I and, we may assume, before Auld Lang Syne.


The Judgement of Sherlock Holmes   Audio drama, released 2014     Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Jonathan Barnes.

Takes place partly in regional England and Tibet, but pivotally in London, self-dated October 1921 CE.


Smoke and Mirrors   Audio drama, released 2013            Doctors: 5, with 11 (glimpse)

Featuring the Master, Harry Houdini, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan

Written by Steve Lyons.

Takes place in regional England; self-dated “the nineteen-twenties”, and before the death of Harry Houdini in 1926 CE.


The Sacrifice of Sherlock Holmes   Audio drama, released 2014 Doctor: 0

Featuring Sherlock Holmes

Written by Jonathan Barnes.

Takes place in London; self-dated November 1921 CE.


Auld Lang Syne   Short story, published 2013                                           Doctor: 0

Featuring the Manleigh Halt Irregulars

Written by Matt Kimpton.

Takes place in the Home Counties; concluding self-datedly in January 1922 CE.


Muse of Fire   Audio drama, released 2018                                       Doctor: 7

Featuring Iris Wildthyme, Ace, Hex

Written by Paul Magrs.

Informed guess Takes place in Paris; self-dated 1922 CE.


The Jazz Monster and Music Man   Comic story, published 2016        Doctor: 10

Featuring Gabby, Cindy

Written by Nick Abadzis.

Informed guess Takes place in New Orleans, La. and Chicago, Ill.; self-dated “the dawn of the Jazz Age.”


The Haunting of Malkin Place   Audio drama, released 2017     Doctor: 4

Featuring Romana

Written by Phil Mulryne.

Takes place in London; self-dated autumn 1922 CE.


Evergreen   Short story, published 2004                Doctor: 8 (the amnesiac sequence)

Written by Stephen Cole.

Informed guess Takes place in regional England, at Christmas, some time after Casualties of War.


The Hat Trick   Comic story, published 2013                                             Doctor: 11

Featuring Clara

Written by James Hill.

Informed guess Takes place in New York, NY.; self-dated 1923 CE.


The Doctor Shops For Angels   Comic story, published 2015                Doctor: 11

Featuring the Weeping Angels, Alice

Written by Paul Cornell.

Ends in Paris, just before The Doctor Shops for Comics.


The Doctor Shops For Comics   Comic story, published 2015               Doctor: 11

With Alice (informative mention)

Written by Paul Cornell.

Takes place in Paris; dated 1923 CE in Four Doctors, and evidently spring or summer.


Neverland: Prelude   Short story, published 2002                                   Doctor: 0

featuring Charley

Presumably written by Alan Barnes.

Takes place in and near the London Palladium; V I Lenin died in January 1924 CE.


Eyebrows and Fish   Charity short story, published 2016                         Doctor: 7

Featuring the Silents

Written by Matt Bright, as Matthew Bright.

Informed guess I am assuming that the Gasfitters’ Ball during which this story takes place is the same event as the one mentioned in A Case of Identity, taking place over thirty years earlier. And, indeed Miss Fish, who has “temporarily misplaced” her man, is the Miss Sutherland in that story who is abandoned at the altar. So, in London, and self-dated 1924 CE.


Eyebrows and Fish (2)   Charity short story, published 2018                   Doctor: 7

Featuring River Song, the Silence

Written by Matt Bright.

Informed guess Events play out a little differently in this version…or do they? It’s difficult to be certain when the Silents are involved.


The Boundless Sea   Audio drama, released 2015                       Doctor: 0

Featuring River Song

Written by Jenny T Colgan.

Informed guess Takes place in London, at sea and in Mesopotamia; self-dated 1924 CE.


Davaark’s Experiment   Illustrated short story, published 1985             Doctor: 6

featuring Peri

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1986 crew.

Takes place in Europe or North America (that the house-owner and his guests are anglophone is no clue, given their wealth); self-dated 1924 CE. The policeman’s uniform looks too modern.


Indian Summer   Short story, published 2007                                          Doctor: 1

featuring Susan

Written by James Goss.

Takes place an hour’s journey along the coast from Bombay, a port of north west India; ends in summer 1924 CE.


The Clockwise Man   Novel, published 2005                              Doctor: 9

Featuring Rose

Written by Justin Richards.

Takes place in London; self-dated October 1924 CE.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               4019

Proportion Written By Women   11%                                        

 

Top Docs

4                 353 stories                   

3                 302 stories

7                 299 stories         

10               273 stories  

8                 270 stories 

11               267 stories  

5                 256 stories         

1                 236 stories  

6                 230 stories 

2                 207 stories         

12               129 stories

Unbound   93 stories  

9                 70 stories  

13               56 stories           

War            46 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                968 stories         

Regional England                                               693  stories        

The Time Lords                                                  416 stories 

UNIT                                                                    407 stories

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

Continental Europe                                           339 stories 

North America                                                   321 stories  

Wales                                                                  250 stories

Torchwood                                                         241 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            235 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                     232 stories 

Sarah Jane                                                          228 stories  

Captain Jack                                                       196 stories

Ace                                                                      176 stories 

At Sea                                                                  167 stories 

The K9s                                                               164 stories  

Romana                                                               161 stories  

Christmas                                                            159 stories

Asia                                                                      158 stories           

Amy and Rory                                                    148 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           1723 stories

The Noughties                                                    1009 stories       

The Nineties                                                       375 stories

The Twenties                                                     329 stories

The Seventies                                                    215 stories         

The Eighties                                                        208 stories

The Sixties                                                          90 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          252 stories

2018                                                          210 stories 

2020                                                          198 stories   

2017                                                           195 stories

2015                                                          194 stories 

2008                                                          184 stories  

2011                                                          170 stories

2019                                                          164 stories

2013                                                          163 stories

2009                                                          153 stories 

2021                                                          150 stories

2010                                                          141 stories

2014                                                          125 stories 

2007                                                          119 stories  Climber! 

2001                                                          118 stories

2012                                                           107 stories         

2006                                                          101 stories

2005                                                          96 stories  

2004                                                          93 stories              

1993                                                          85 stories                     

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                  986

Proportion of Female Writers            17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                          122 stories  

James Goss                                               117 stories

Justin Richards                                         112 stories  Climber!  

Russell T Davies                                       111 stories

Paul Magrs                                                85 stories  

Steven Moffat                                          75 stories           

Jonathan Morris                                      75 stories           

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                           60 stories           

John Dorney                                             55 stories           

Eddie Robson                                            52 stories  

Robert Holmes                                         51 stories  

Matt Fitton                                               50 stories   Climber!    

Gareth Roberts                                        50 stories  

Eric Saward                                               47 stories           

Alan Barnes                                              43 stories   Climber!

David Llewellyn                                       43 stories  

Steve Lyons                                               43 stories   Climber!

Gary Russell                                              43 stories  

Guy Adams                                               41 stories

Paul Cornell                                              41 stories   Re-entry!

         

 

 

 

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