Then: The Late Nineteen Thirties
Entanglement
Audio drama, released 2018 Doctor:
1
Featuring Vicki,
Steven
Written by Robert Khan
and Tom Salinsky.
Takes place in
Cambridge, self-dated the mid-nineteen thirties, but before May 1935 CE, as Guy
Burgess is still there.
Enemy Aliens Audio
drama, released 2013 Doctors: 8,
with 11
Featuring Charley
Written by Alan Barnes.
Informed guess Takes place in London,
Scotland and points between; self-dated 1935 CE.
String Theory Audio short
story, released 2015 Doctor: 4
Featuring Leela
Written
by Kini Brown.
Takes
place in Cremona, a city of Italy, Connecticut and pivotally in New York, NY in
February 1936 CE. Connecticut was
a constituent state of the USA, lying on the northeast coast, south of
Massachusetts and east of New York.
The Shadow At the Edge of the World Audio drama, released 2014 Doctor: 0
Featuring the
Viyrans, Charley
Written by Jonathan
Barnes.
Informed guess Takes place in Scotland;
self-dated 1936 CE.
Judoon Monsoon Gamebook,
published 2010 Doctor: 11
Featuring the Judoon, Amy, Rory
Written
by Oli Smith.
Arbitrary placement Takes
place on Betul.
The Church of Football
Short story, published 2006 Doctor: 5
featuring Edward Grainger, Peri
Written by Benjamin Adams.
Takes place in Wembley Stadium; self-dated April, 1936 CE.
The Glamour Chase Novel, published 2010 Doctor: 11
Featuring Amy, Rory
Written
by Gary Russell.
Informed guess Takes
place in Norfolk; self-dated 1936 CE.
Pier Pressure Audio drama, released 2006 Doctor: 6
featuring Evelyn
Written by Robert Ross.
Takes place in Brighton; self-dated 1936 CE, implicitly summer.
The Elixir of Doom
Audio drama, released 2014 Doctor: 8
Featuring Jo, Iris Wildthyme
Written
by Paul Magrs.
Informed guess Takes
place in Los Angeles, Ca.; self-dated 1936 CE.
The Fall of the House of Pollard
Audio drama, released 2014 Doctor: 0
Featuring The Viyrans, Charley
Written
by Matt Fitton.
Takes
place in Hampshire; self-dated November, 1936 CE. The title of Lord Richard
Pollard suggests that he is, or at his age more likely was, the younger son of
a Duke or Marquess.
The Hunting Season
Audio drama, released 2021 Doctor: 9
Written by James Kettle.
Takes place in regional England;
self-dated November 1936 CE.
The Crystal Palace
Comic story, published 2009 Doctor: 10
featuring Heather
Written
by Christopher Cooper.
Takes
place in the Crystal Palace, which, historically, burned down in November 1936
CE.
The Eagle of the Reich
Comic story, published 2012 Doctor: 11
Featuring Winston Churchill, Amy, Rory
Written
by Andy Diggle.
Takes
place in London; ending simultaneously with The Crystal
Palace.
Players Novel, published 1999 Doctors: 2, 6
featuring the Players, Peri, Winston Churchill, and
the Time Lords (glimpse)
Written by Terrence Dicks.
Takes place in South Africa, France and pivotally in London in December
1936 CE.
Wolfsbane Novel, published 2003
Doctors: 4, 8 (the
amnesiac sequence)
Featuring Werewolves, Sarah Jane, Harry
Written by Jacqueline Rayner.
Takes place in Somerset and London; self-dated December 1936 CE.
O Tannenbaum Audio
short story, released 2017 Doctor: 1
Featuring Steven
Written
by Anthony Keetch.
Informed guess Takes
place in Germany, plausibly in the twentieth century, at Christmas time.
The Lovecraft Invasion
Audio drama, released 2020 Doctor: 6
Featuring Flip, Constance
Written
by Robert Valentine.
Takes
place in Providence, in Rhode Island; self-dated January 1937 CE. Rhode
Island was state on the northeast coast of the USA, south of Massachusetts
and east of Connecticut.
The Best Holiday Ever
Short story, published 2010 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written
by Ian Gregory.
Takes
place in Egypt; self-dated February 1937 CE.
Lemora (1973) is a vampire film set before World War II
(and features a Citroen Traction Avant, first manufactured in 1934). It
features two distinct genera of vampire and if incorporated into Doctor Who
narrative helps bridge the Lawrence Miles gap between Mal’akh as vampires
(passing for human, seductive) and Mal’akh as Primords (regressive, bestial),
showing them in a state of near competition.
Analysis Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor: 8 (the amnesiac sequence)
Written by Mark
Clapham.
Informed guess Takes place on Earth, after the Depression of the early 1930s CE and
before Sigmund Freud’s final illness in 1938 CE.
The Brigadier & the Bledoe Cadets Novel, published 2019 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart,
Grace technology, Lucy Wilson
Written by Tim Gambrell.
Informed guess Takes place in south Wales and
Cornwall, pivotally in 1937 CE.
History 101 Novel, published 2002 Doctor: 8
Featuring the remembered Fitz, Anji, Sabbath
Written by Mags L Halliday.
Takes place mainly in
Spain; concluding self-datedly in May 1937 CE.
Chasing the Dawn Short story, published 2019 Doctors: 11, 13
Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz
Written
by Jenny T Colgan.
Takes
place on the International Date Line in the Pacific Ocean: the presence of
Amelia Earhart implies it is July 1937 CE.
The Bledoe Cadets and the Bald Man of Pengriffen Short story, published 2017 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart
Written
by Tim Gambrell.
Takes
place in Cornwall; self-dated July 1937 CE.
The Shadow of Weng Chiang
Novel, published 1996 Doctor: 4
featuring K9 II, Grace technology, Romana
Written by David A McIntee.
Takes place in China; self-dated August 1937 CE.
The Shadow Knows Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor: 2
featuring Jamie, Zoe
Written by Wendy Padbury
Informed guess Takes place in New York, NY, while Orson Welles was broadcasting The Shadow.
Carnival of Angels
Audio drama, released 2020 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Weeping Angels, River Song
Written
by Roy Gill.
Informed
guess Takes
place in New York, NY; before The Angel’s Kiss
The Angel’s Kiss Novel, published 2012 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Weeping Angels, River Song
Written
by Justin Richards.
Takes
place in New York, NY; self-dated 1938 CE, and before The Angels Take Manhattan.
The Angels Take Manhattan
TV Story, broadcast 2012 Doctor: 11
Featuring the Weeping Angels, River Song, Amy, Rory
Written
by Steven Moffat.
Takes
place in New York, NY; pivotally self-dated April 1938 CE.
The Curse of the Scarab
Comic story, published 1995 Doctor: 5
featuring the Osirans, Peri, and the Threshold (glimpse)
Written by Alan Barnes.
Takes place in Los Angeles, Ca; self-dated May 1938 CE. The Threshold
is a cult of Tellurians enhanced by Gallifreyan technology. This they use to
travel through space, but not time, so as to escape the attention of the Time
Lords.
Warlock: Prelude Illustrated short story, published 1995 Doctor: 7
Written by
Andrew Cartmel.
Takes place in the USSR; self-dated the autumn before the outbreak of
World War Two.
Invaders From Mars
Audio drama, released 20o2 Doctor: 8
featuring Orson Welles, Charley
Written by Mark Gatiss.
Takes place in New York, NY; self-dated October 1938.
Humanoids transforming into big cats is obviously part of Doctor Who
narrative since Survival. The 1942 film Cat People is a treatment of this theme: I don’t think it
is unreasonable to link the phenomenon to the Mal’akh. It is set at least six
years before its sequel The Curse of the
Cat People (1944).
The Blue Star Bomb
Comic story, published 2009 Doctor: 10
Featuring Heather
Written
by Trevor Baxendale.
Informed guess Takes
place in Los Angeles, Ca.; self-dated 1938 CE.
Fiesta of the Damned Audio drama,
released 2016 Doctor: 7
Featuring Mel,
Ace
Written by Guy Adams.
Takes place near
Valencia, port on the northeast coast of Spain; self-dated 1938 CE, just after
the Battle of the Ebro.
Let’s Kill Hitler TV Story, broadcast 2011 Doctor: 11
Featuring River Song, Amy, Rory, with the Silents (informative mention)
Written
by Steven Moffat.
Informed guess Takes
place in Leadworth and, principally, in Berlin self-dated 1938 CE.
Prequel: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
Webcast, posted 2011
Doctor: 11
Featuring Amy (informative mention)
Writer
not credited but we may infer the involvement of Steven Moffat.
Takes
place in a spaceship above the Earth; self-dated Christmas Eve 1938 CE.
In the Days Of ‘The
Days of “The Days of our Lives”’
Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor: 2
featuring Polly, Ben
Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Informed guess Takes place in London; centrally self-dated 1939 CE.
Tooth
and Claw Comic story, published 1997 Doctor: 8
featuring the Vampires, Izzy, Fey
Written by Alan Barnes.
Informed guess Takes place on an island in the Indian Ocean; self-dated 1939 CE. Fey
is aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises, but she is an old chum of the
Doctor: this may not bee the first time she has left linear time.
Fantomville Short story, published 2011 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written
by Nick Campbell.
Takes
place in and outside Paris; self-dated the summer before World War II.
The Wonderful Doctor of Oz Novel, published 2021 Doctor: 13
Featuring Missie, the
Cybermen, the Land of Fiction, Graham, Ryan, Yaz, K9 V
Written by Jacqueline Rayner.
Takes place in the Land of
Fiction and Los Angeles, Ca.; self-dated August 1939 CE. K9 V gives
himself the name 2-2, suggesting he is a second iteration of K9 II, constructed
by the Doctor.
Murder on 81st Street
Audio drama, released 2013 Doctor: 0
Featuring Dorian Gray
Written
by David Llewellyn.
Informed guess Takes
place in Manhattan, New York, NY; self-dated 1939 CE.
An Eye For Murder Audio drama, released 2014 Doctor: 6
Featuring Peri
Written by Una McCormack.
Takes place in the UK;
self-dated September 1939 CE.
A Blind Eye Audio drama, released 2004 Doctor: 0
featuring the Time Lords, Leela, K9 II, Romana, with
Charley (informative mention)
Written by Alan Barnes.
Takes place on the train from Munich to Calais, self-dated September,
1939 CE.
The Ruby’s Curse
Novel, published 2021 Doctor: 13
Featuring Captain Jack, River
Song, Amy, Rory
Written by Alex Kington and
Jacqueline Rayner.
Takes place variously, including
in Egypt, but pivotally in New York, NY, self-dated 1939 CE.
The Oncoming Storm
Audio drama, released 2016 Doctor:
9
Featuring Winston
Churchill, with the Time Lords (informative mention)
Written by Phil Mulryne.
Takes place in London;
self-dated December, 1939 CE.
Total
Stories Considered 4129
Proportion
Written By Women 11%
Top Docs
4 364
stories
7 309
stories
3 306
stories
8 283
stories Climber!
10 280
stories
11 279
stories
5 262 stories
1 241
stories
6 238 stories
2 215
stories
12 132
stories
Unbound 93
stories
9 73 stories
13 60 stories
War 46 stories
Top
Twenty Recurring Elements
London 985 stories
Regional
England 718 stories
The Time
Lords 422 stories
Alastair,
Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 412 stories
UNIT 407
stories
Continental
Europe 355 stories
North
America 350 stories
Wales 254
stories
Torchwood 241
stories
The
Master, including Missy 240 stories
The
Daleks and Davros 234
stories
Sarah
Jane 231
stories
Captain
Jack 197
stories
Ace 182
stories
The K9s 172
stories Climber!
At Sea 172
stories
Romana 169
stories
Asia 165
stories
Christmas 161 stories
Amy and
Rory 158
stories
Top
Decades
The Teens 1772 stories
The
Noughties 1040 stories
The
Nineties 392 stories
The Twenties 336
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 258 stories
2018 211 stories
2020 201 stories
2017 199
stories
2015 197
stories
2008 185
stories
2011 175 stories
2019 174
stories
2013 168 stories
2009 162
stories
2021 154
stories
2010 144
stories
2014 131
stories
2001 124
stories
2007 120
stories
2012 113 stories
2006 106
stories
2005 97 stories
2004 97
stories Climber!
1993 86
stories
Total
Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material
writers) 993
Proportion
of Female Writers 17%
Top
Twenty Writers
Terrance Dicks 126
stories
James
Goss 118
stories
Justin
Richards 113 stories
Russell T
Davies 112
stories
Paul
Magrs 89
stories
Steven Moffat 78
stories Climber!
Jonathan Morris 76
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 51 stories
Alan
Barnes 48
stories Climber!
Eric Saward 48 stories
David Llewellyn 45
stories
Steve Lyons 44 stories
Gary Russell 44
stories Climber!
Guy Adams 42
stories
Andrew Cartmel 41
stories = Re-entry!
Paul Cornell 41
stories =
Marc Platt 41
stories =
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