Then: The Late Nineteen Twenties

  

When I Remember __________   Short story, published 2020               Doctor: 0

Featuring Chris, 10,000 Dawns

Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.

Informed guess  Takes place in North America, during the career of H P Lovecraft.

Theatre of the Mind   Comic story, published 2016                                 Doctor: 12

Featuring Harry Houdini, Clara

Written by Roger Langridge.

Informed guess Takes place in New York, NY; self-dated 1925 CE.

The Futurists   Comic story, published 2006                                             Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose

Written by Mike Collins.

Takes place in Wales and pivotally in Milan; self-dated 1925 CE.

Black Orchid   TV story, broadcast 1982                                                 Doctor: 5

featuring Adric, Nyssa, Tegan

Written by Terence Dudley, script edited by Eric Saward.

Takes place in regional England; self-dated June 1925 CE.

Monsters in Metropolis   Audio drama, released 2021               Doctor: 9

Featuring the Cybermen

Written by John Dorney.

Takes place in Berlin; self-dated August 1925 CE.

Unlimited   Charity short story, published 1999                                        Doctors: 3, 6, 7

featuring the Daleks, the Master, Sarah Jane, Mel, Faction Paradox, with the Sontarans (informative mention)

Written by Ian McIntire.

Informed guess Takes place variously, but concludes in, probably, Chicago, Ill., during Buckminster Fuller’s depression following his daughter’s death.

The Magic Mousetrap   Audio drama, released 2009             Doctor: 7

Featuring the Toymaker, Ace, Hex

Written by Matthew Sweet.

Takes place near Davos, Switzerland; self-dated 1926 CE.

Snakes Alive!   Comic story, published 2009                                             Doctor: 10

Featuring the Sidewinder Syndicate, Heather, Wolfie

Written by Steve Lyons.

Informed guess Takes place in the USA; self-dated the 1920s CE. The Sidewinder Syndicate are a serpentine time spacefaring species.

Birthright: Prelude   Illustrated short story, published 1993  

Doctors: 7, and 2 (informative mention)

featuring Victoria, Ace

Written by Nigel Robinson.

Takes place mostly in the Great Rift Valley in eastern Africa; self-dated March 1926 CE.

Who-dini   Short story, published 2019                                                      Doctors: 12, 13

Featuring Harry Houdini, Graham, Ryan, Yaz

Written by Stephen Cole.

Informed guess Takes place in Chicago, Ill.; self-dated 1926 CE.

Carnival of Monsters   TV story, broadcast 1973                        Doctor: 3

featuring Jo, the Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Robert Holmes, script edited by Terrance Dicks.

Partly takes place, ostensibly, on the Indian Ocean (or more strictly, surely, the Arabian Sea); self-dated June 1926 CE.

Silver Scream   Comic story, published 2009                                            Doctor: 10

Featuring Emily, Matthew

Written by Tony Lee.

Informed guess Takes place in Los Angeles, Ca; self-dated 1926 CE.

The Gods Walk Among Us   Comic story, published 1981                       Doctor: 0

featuring the Sontarans

Written by John Peel

Takes place in Egypt; self-dated 1926 CE.

Doctor Who - The Mind Robber   Novelisation of a TV story, published 1987                                                                                                                                                            Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Zoe, the Land of Fiction

Adapted by Peter Ling from his own script, edited by Derrick Sherwin.

Takes place in the Land of Fiction; its Master is kidnapped from summer 1926 CE.

 

H P Lovecraft’s short story The Call of Cthulu, which eponymously introduced the best known of his eldritch horrors, was published in 1926.

 

The Ugrakks   Comic story, published 1972                                               Doctor: 3

Written by Dennis Hooper.

Takes place on the planet of the Ugrakks; a newspaper page printed in Doctor Who Classic Comics gives the date as November 1926 CE.                                                                                                    

The Unicorn and the Wasp   TV story, broadcast 2008                 Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Gareth Roberts, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in Surrey; self-dated December 1926 CE.

All the Fun of the Fair   Audio short story, released 2011                        Doctor: 8

Featuring Lucie

Written by Bev Conway.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK; Constable Miller is Lucie’s “ancestor”, rather than, say, her grandfather, so probably before World War II.

The Emerald Tiger   Audio drama, released 2012                        Doctor: 5

Featuring Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough

Written by Barnaby Edwards.

Takes place in and near Calcutta, a port of northeast India; ending self-datedly in January, 1927 CE.

 

H P Lovecraft completed his novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath in January 1927, although it was not published until after his death in 1943. Nyarlathotep is one of the Great Old Ones in Doctor Who narrative. The “gods of Earth”, of whom he is contemptuous might plausibly be the Celestis, particularly as Randolph Carter is a native of Massachusetts, and the Celestis are the Wartime power particularly associated with the USA.

 

Bear Paw Adventure   Charity short story, published 1998                     Doctor: 1

featuring Susan (glimpse)

Written by David J Howe.

Informed guess Takes place in Montana; self-dated the nineteen-twenties.

The Empty House   Audio story, released 2012                                  Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Takes place in Hampshire; self-dated May, 1927 CE.

The Feast of Magog   Audio drama, released 2015                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Dorian Gray, with Sherlock Holmes (glimpse)

Written by David Llewellyn.

Informed guess Takes place in south Wales; self-dated 1927 CE.

Far From Home   Short story, published 2004                                         Doctor: 8

Written by Alison Lawson.

Takes place near Aber, Wales; self-dated Spring, 1928 CE.

 

H P Lovecraft’s short novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, written in 1927 but set in 1928, introduced the extra-universal horror Yog-Sothoth, identified in All-Consuming Fire as the Great Intelligence.

 

Falling from X’ian   Short story, published 2006                                     Doctor: 5

featuring Edward Grainger, Tegan, Turlogh

Written by Steven Savile.

Takes place in China; self-dated July 1928 CE.

 

The long-lived, eponymous, sex-changing protagonist of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography crops up in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and I’m surprised Iris Wildthyme hasn’t bumped into him/her yet.

 

Ghost Note   Short story, published 2019                                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Anne Travers, Grace technology

Written by Harry Draper.

Takes place in regional England; self-dated February 1929 CE.

Spectre of the Gyraan   Short story, published 2019                               Doctor: 0

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, Grace technology

Written by Tim Gambrell.

Takes place in Acton; self-dated February 1929 CE.

A Moment in History   Short story, published 2019                                Doctor: 0

Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, Grace technology

Written by Andy Frankham-Allen.

Takes place in Bledoe; self-dated February 1929 CE.

Blood Harvest   Novel, published 1994                   Doctors: 7, and 4( glimpse)

featuring the Time Lords, the Vampires, Romana, Ace, Benny, with K9 II (informative mention)

Written by Terrance Dicks.

Takes place partly in Chicago, Ill.; self-dated 1929 CE, before Al Capone’s arrest in May.

Terror From the Swamp   Comic story, published 2012                          Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Informed guess Takes place in Louisiana; self-dated 1929 CE.

The Stealers From Saiph   Audio drama, released 2009                Doctor: 4

featuring Romana

Written by Nigel Robinson.

Takes place in Antibes, a port on the south coast of France; self-dated summer 1929 CE.

His Dying Breath   Audio drama, released 2015                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring Dorian Gray

Written by George Mann.

Informed guess Takes place in London; self-dated 1929 CE.

The Auntie Matter   Audio drama, released 2013                              Doctor: 4

Featuring Romana, with K9 II (informative mention)

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Informed guess Takes place in London and Hampshire; self-dated 1929 and possibly soon after The Stealers From Saiph.

The Abominable Snowmen   TV story, broadcast 1967      Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Victoria, Edward Travers, the Great Intelligence

Written by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln, script edited by Peter Bryant.

Informed guess Takes place in Tibet, “forty years” before The Web of Fear.

The Yeti (i)   Illustrated short story, published 1992                                  Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Victoria, Edward Travers, the Great Intelligence

Written by Adrian Rigelsford.

Parallels the events of The Abominable Snowmen.

The Creatures in the Cave   Short story, published 2016                       Doctor: 0

Featuring Edward Travers, the Great Intelligence

Written by Rick Cross.

Takes place in Tibet, immediately after The Abominable Snowmen.

Timeshare   Short story, published 1995                                                    Doctor: 6

featuring the Time Lords, Peri

Written by Vanessa Bishop.

Takes place in North Devon; self-dated November 1929 CE.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered               4054

Proportion Written By Women   11%                                        

 

Top Docs

4                 356 stories                   

3                 305 stories

7                 303 stories         

10               277 stories  

8                 272 stories 

11               269 stories  

5                 259 stories         

1                 237 stories  

6                 232 stories 

2                 211 stories         

12               131 stories

Unbound   93 stories  

9                 71 stories  

13               57 stories           

War            46 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                                971 stories         

Regional England                                               700  stories        

The Time Lords                                                  419 stories 

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                                       408 stories  Climber!  

UNIT                                                                    407 stories

Continental Europe                                           343 stories 

North America                                                   329 stories  

Wales                                                                  253 stories

Torchwood                                                         241 stories  

The Master, including Missy                            236 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                     233 stories 

Sarah Jane                                                          229 stories  

Captain Jack                                                       196 stories

Ace                                                                      179 stories 

At Sea                                                                  168 stories 

The K9s                                                               166 stories  

Romana                                                               164 stories  

Asia                                                                      163 stories  Climber! 

Christmas                                                            159 stories

Amy and Rory                                                    150 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                           1736 stories

The Noughties                                                    1017 stories       

The Nineties                                                       381 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                                                          254 stories

2018                                                          210 stories 

2020                                                          199 stories   

2015                                                          196 stories  Climber! 

2017                                                           195 stories

2008                                                          185 stories  

2011                                                          171 stories

2019                                                          168 stories

2013                                                          164 stories

2009                                                          157 stories 

2021                                                          151 stories

2010                                                          141 stories

2014                                                          125 stories 

2007                                                          119 stories 

2001                                                          118 stories

2012                                                          110 stories         

2006                                                          103 stories

2005                                                          96 stories  

2004                                                          94 stories              

1993                                                          86 stories                     

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                  988

Proportion of Female Writers           17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                          124 stories  

James Goss                                               117 stories

Justin Richards                                         112 stories 

Russell T Davies                                       112 stories   Climber!

Paul Magrs                                                85 stories  

Steven Moffat                                          76 stories           

Jonathan Morris                                      75 stories           

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                           60 stories           

John Dorney                                             56 stories           

Robert Holmes                                         52 stories   Climber!

Eddie Robson                                            52 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                        51 stories   Climber!    

Matt Fitton                                               50 stories  

Eric Saward                                               48 stories           

David Llewellyn                                       44 stories   Climber!    

Steve Lyons                                               44 stories   Climber!

Alan Barnes                                              43 stories  

Gary Russell                                              43 stories  

Guy Adams                                               41 stories

Paul Cornell                                              41 stories