Then: The Late Nineteen Fifties
Not Forgotten Audio short
story, released 2020 Doctor: 6
Featuring Peri
Written
by Benjamin Holland-Smith
Informed guess Takes
place in New York, NY; self-dated the nineteen-fifties CE.
The
Dying Days establishes Bernard Quatermass as a figure of Doctor Who narrative: but
which? In its totality, especially the Martian stuff, it’s not easily
compatible, and the professor has been played by seven different actors. And
there’s no reason to suppose him a Time Lord. I’m plumping for Brian Donleavy:
the 1955 film The Quatermass Experiment has
a distinctly Second War in Heaven feel and ties in to The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A’s information that The Enemy
infected members of the British Rocket Group.
Ouroboros Short story,
published 2013 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written
by Neil Chester.
Informed guess Takes
place in regional England; “over forty years” after 1913 CE.
Locked In Short story, published 2019 Doctor:
0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart,
Grace technology
Written by Sarah
Groenewegen.
Informed guess Takes
place in the UK; self-dated 1955 CE.
The Quiz Book of
Dinosaurs Quiz book, published 1982 Doctor: 5
featuring Nyssa, Tegan
Written by Michael Holt.
Takes place variously, including Ireland, Scotland and regional England;
the latest confirmed date is June, 1955 CE.
Summer Falls: Introduction Short story,
published 2013 Doctor: 0
Featuring Amy, Rory, Clara +
Written by James Goss.
Informed guess Takes place
on the shores of Lake Erie, on the border of the USA and Canada. The action
happens before Amy writes the introduction to the second edition of Summer
Falls, first published in 1954.
Madam, I’m Audio drama,
released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring Torchwood
Written by James Goss.
Informed guess Takes place in
London, after Goodbye. Piccadilly and implicitly in 1955 CE.
Losing the Audience Short story,
published 2008 Doctor: 1
featuring Susan
Written by Mat Coward.
Takes place in London; self-dated late 1955 CE.
Rosa TV story, broadcast 2018 Doctor: 13
Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz
Written
by Marjorie Blackman and Chris Chibnall.
Takes
place in Montgomery, Ala; self-dated December 1955 CE.
The Earwig Archipelago Short story, published 2006 Doctor: Unbound 6
Featuring William/Isaac
Written by Matthew Sweet
The Web of Terror Short story, published 2011 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris
Wildthyme
Written by Iain McLaughlin.
Takes place in Nevada;
self-dated May 1956 CE.
Dear John Short story, published 2006 Doctor:
8
featuring Edward Grainger, Gemma, Samson
Written by John Davies.
Takes place in the UK; self-dated June, 1956 CE. Gemma and Samson
Griffin are Tellurians born over a human lifespan after 1956 CE.
The
Revenants Audio drama,
released 2012 Doctor: 1
Featuring Barbara,
Ian
Written by Ian Potter.
Takes place in Orkney, a
Scottish archipelago to the north of Albion; self-dated summer 1956 CE.
The
Twittering of Sparrows
Audio drama, released 2012 Doctor: 0
Featuring Dorian Gray
Written by Gary Russell.
Informed guess Takes place in Singapore; self-dated 1956 CE.
The
Bonfires of the Vanities
Audio drama, released 2017 Doctor: 1
Featuring Polly, Ben
Written by Una McCormack.
Informed guess Takes place in Lewes, Sussex; self-dated a Bonfire Night in the late 1950s CE.
The
Vardan Invasion of Mirth
Audio drama, released 2019 Doctor: 1
Featuring Steven, the Vardans
Written by Paul Morris and Ian Atkins.
Informed guess Takes place in a Vardan Mediasphere, orbiting
Saturn; self-dated 1956 CE.
An
Ordinary Life Audio drama, released 2014 Doctor: 1
Featuring Steven, Sara
Written by Matt Fitton.
Takes place in London; dated November 1956 CE by blogger_who.
Brian Donleavy’s second outing as Bernard Quatermass was in Quatermass 2 (1957), set in mid-March.
Swamp of Horrors (1957) -
Viewing Notes Short story,
published 2008 Doctor: 6
featuring Mel
Written by Michael Rees.
Informed guess Takes place in Louisiana, sort of self-dated 1957
CE.
Defining Patterns Short story,
published 2008 Doctor: 6
Featuring UNIT
Written by Ian Farrington.
Takes place in London; self-dated September 1957 CE.
Prelude: First Frontier Illustrated short story, published 1994 Doctor: 2
featuring Jamie, and Zoe, Ace (informative mention)
Written by David A McIntee.
Takes place in Korea and New Mexico, ending shortly before First Frontier.
First Frontier Novel, published 1994 Doctors: 7,
with 4 (informative mention)
featuring the Master, Ace, Benny, with the Time
Lords, the Veltrochni, the Nestene Consciousness (informative mention)
Written by David A McIntee.
Takes place mostly in New Mexico; self-dated October 1957 CE.
Parasite Audio drama,
released 2020 Doctor: 0
Featuring Torchwood
Written by James Goss.
Informed guess Takes place in London, after Madam I’m.
Talented Witches Short story,
published 2012 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written
by Paul Magrs.
Informed guess Takes
place in regional England and London; indeterminately in time, but Effie talks
of her childhood, which I am guessing is around now.
Dreamland Animated story, broadcast 2009 Doctor: 10
Written by Phil Ford.
Informed guess Takes
place in Nevada; self-dated 1958 CE.
Cambridge Previsited
Illustrated short story, published 1992 Doctor: 1
featuring the Time Lords
Written by Karen Dunn.
Informed guess Takes place in Cambridge; self-dated 1958 CE.
The Garden of Storms Audio drama, released 2020 Doctor: 5
Featuring Leela, Grace technology, with the Time Lords (informative mention)
Written
by Simon Guerrier.
Arbitrary placement Takes
place in the Garden of Storms.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier (2007) brings Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s alternative world, with
its marginal connections to Doctor Who narrative, forward to 1958
Ashenden Audio drama, released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring Torchwood
Written by James Goss.
Informed guess Takes place
in London and on the Sussex coast, after Parasite.
Doctor Crocus and the Pages of Fear
Charity short story, published 2020
Doctor: Unbound
Written by Paul Driscoll.
Informed guess Takes
place in the UK; after Lonnie Donegan’s first chart success in 1956 CE, but
before the ban on the import of US comics in 1959 CE.
Tuesday Comic story, published 2011 Doctor: 11
Featuring Amy,
Rory
Written by Dan McDaid.
Informed guess Takes place in and above London;
self-dated 1958 CE.
Bad Therapy
Novel, published 1996 Doctor: 7
featuring Peri, Chris
Written by Matthew Jones.
Takes place in London; self-dated October 1958 CE. At some stage after
this Peri returned through time and space to Krontep in the twenty-fourth
century (The Age of Chaos), probably by agency of the Doctor, for some
reason.
Callahuanca Short story,
published 2005 Doctor: 4
Written by Richard
Salter.
Takes place in Peru; the latest date given is Christmas, 1958 CE.
The clockminder Moses
in The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) has
the power to slow or freeze time, which he puts to the service of naive
protagonist Norville Barnes, and the janitor Aloysius
is his enemy, seeking to facilitate Barnes’s suicide. This seems like a minor,
cultural front in the Second War in Heaven. It concludes in the new year of
1959.
The Upper Deck Comic story, published 2011 Doctor: 11
Featuring Amy, Rory
Written by Eddie Robson.
Takes place in London; self-dated 1959 CE:
probably January or February, as The Goon Show is being recorded.
Hillbilly Heavens Short story, published 2018 Doctor:
0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written
by Brad Wolfe.
Takes
place in Sevierville, TN; self-dated 1959 CE. I’m assuming that it’s after
January so that Dolly Parton was thirteen: the behaviour of her date is no
doubt culturally plausible for the time and place.
Delta and the Bannermen TV
Story, broadcast 1987 Doctor: 7
featuring Mel
Written by Malcolm Kohll, script edited by Andrew Cartmel.
Takes place in Wales; self-dated 1959 CE, evidently summer.
Slip Away Short story,
published 2012 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written
by Scott Liddell.
Takes
place in New Jersey, in sight of Coney Island on the far side of Lower New York
Bay; self-dated 1959 CE, probably summer.
The Five Dimensional Man
Audio short story, released 2011 Doctor: 2
Featuring Zoe, Jamie
Written by Kate Orman.
Takes place in the USA; self-dated October 1959 CE.
Madness On the M1!
Comic story, published 2010 Doctor: 11
Featuring Amy
Written
by Oli Smith.
Takes
place in the north Midlands; self-dated 1959 CE. It would have to be November
or December, after the opening of the M1 motorway.
Loving the Alien Novel,
published 2003 Doctor: 7
featuring Ace, and the Cybermen (informative mention)
Written by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry.
Takes place in London and regional England; self-dated December 1959
CE.
Total Stories Considered 4304
Proportion Written By Women 11%
Top Docs
4 374 stories
7 333 stories
3 316 stories
8 294 stories
10 294 stories
5 270
stories
6 253
stories
1 251 stories
2 224 stories
12 136 stories
Unbound 97 stories
9 79
stories
13 63
stories
War 46
stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
London 1038 stories
Regional England 754
stories
The Time Lords 427 stories
Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and
the Lethbridge-Stewart family 420 stories
UNIT 412
stories
Continental Europe 383 stories
North America 380 stories
Wales 259
stories
Torchwood 250
stories
The Master, including Missy 243
stories
The Daleks and Davros 236
stories
Sarah Jane 235
stories
Captain Jack 200
stories
Ace 199
stories
At
Sea 185
stories
Asia 174
stories Climber!
The K9s 174
stories
Amy and Rory 171
stories Climber!
Romana 170
stories
Christmas 168 stories
Top Decades
The Teens 1855 stories
The Noughties 1097 stories
The Nineties 404 stories
The Twenties 352
stories
The Seventies 220
stories
The Eighties 215
stories
The Sixties 91 stories
(Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and William Hope Hodgson) 70
stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 265 stories
2018 229 stories
2020 211 stories
2017 208
stories
2015 205
stories
2008 194
stories
2011 182 stories Climber!
2019 181
stories
2013 177 stories
2009 167
stories
2021 160
stories
2010 151
stories
2014 134
stories Climber!
2001 133
stories
2007 124
stories
2012 121 stories
2006 117
stories
2005 103 stories Climber!
2004 102
stories
1993 86
stories
Total Writers (including showrunners,
script editors, anthology linking material writers) 1012
Proportion of Female Writers 17%
Top Twenty Writers
Terrance
Dicks 128
stories
James Goss 125
stories
Justin Richards 118 stories
Russell T Davies 115 stories
Paul Magrs 90
stories
Steven
Moffat 80
stories
Jonathan
Morris 77
stories
Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle 60 stories
John Dorney 57 stories
Eddie Robson 57 stories Climber!
Matt
Fitton 56
stories
Gareth
Roberts 53
stories
Robert Holmes 52
stories
Alan Barnes 51 stories
Eric
Saward 48
stories
David
Llewellyn 47 stories
Steve
Lyons 47
stories
Gary
Russell 46
stories
Andrew Cartmel 45 stories
Guy Adams 42
stories
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