Then: The Late Nineteen Forties
Featuring Constance
Written by John Pritchard.
Informed guess Takes place in Germany, during the RAF’s area
bombing campaign.
The Turing Test Novel,
published 2000 Doctor: 8 (the amnesiac sequence)
Written by Paul
Leonard.
Takes place in Oxford, Bletchley Park,
Sierra Leone, Malta, Paris and Dresden; the main action ends self-datedly in
February 1945 CE. Sierra Leone and Malta were possessions of the British
Government, on the Atlantic coast of Africa and in the Mediterranean Sea
respectively.
Tip of the Tongue Short story published 2013 Doctor: 5
Featuring Nyssa
Written by Patrick Ness.
Informed guess Takes place in Maine; self-dated 1945 CE.
The Shadow in the Glass Novel,
published 2001 Doctor: 6
featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, with Winston Churchill
(glimpse)
Written by Justin Richards and Stephen Cole.
Takes place in Cornwall and Dorset, and climaxing in Berlin, self-dated
April 1945 CE. When the Germans address Lethbridge-Stewart as “Brigadier-General”,
I assume that this is a translation of Generalmajor, which is also one rank
above Colonel, although a Major-General in anglophone armies is two ranks above
Colonel, like Scobie, Lethbridge-Stewart’s superior in Spearhead From Space and The
Eye of the Giant.
Persuasion Audio drama, released 2013 Doctor: 7
Featuring UNIT,
Klein, Arrowsmith, with the
Sontarans (glimpse)
Written by Jonathan Barnes.
Takes place in London and climactically in Dusseldorf, a city of
Germany, and on Minos; self-dated May 1945 CE. Will Arrowsmith leaves linear
time, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises; Klein’s relationship with
time is more complicated.
The Note Short story
published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart
Written by Andy Frankham-Allen.
Takes place in Cornwall; self-dated May 1945 CE.
Schadengeist’s First Love Short story published 2016 Doctor: 0
Written by Jonathan Cooper.
Informed guess Takes place in Germany; the
earlier section self-dated 1945 CE.
Churchill Victorious Audio drama, released 2018 Doctor:
10
Featuring Winston
Churchill
Written by Robert Khan and
Tom Salinsky.
Takes place in London;
self-dated VE Day in early May 1945.
The Gates of Hell Audio drama, released
2021 Doctors: 5, 10
Featuring the Cybermen
Written by David Llewellyn.
Takes place in Paris at various times, the latest
being Victory Day 1945 CE.
Casualties of War Audio drama, released 2008 Doctor: 7
featuring Ace,
Hex
Written by Mark Michalowski.
Takes place in Streatham, a
district of London; self-dated the day after Churchill
Victorious and The Gates of Hell.
Daleks Among Us Audio drama, released
2013 Doctor: 7
Featuring the
Daleks, Davros, Klein, Arrowsmith, with Ace (informative mention)
Written by Alan Barnes.
Takes place partly in
Germany and Greece in 1945 CE, soon after Persuasion.
Letters From the Front Illustrated short
story, published 2019 Doctor: 0
Written by Vinay Patel.
An epistolatory story in which most letters
were written in Lahore; the last date given is late May 1945 CE.
Atom Bomb Blues Novel, published 2005 Doctor: 7
featuring Ace, with
Japan (informative mention)
Written by Andrew Cartmel.
Takes place in an
alternative version of New Mexico and California; self-dated July 1945 CE.
Subterfuge Audio drama, released 2020 Doctor: 7
Featuring Mortimus, Winston
Churchill
Written by Helen Goldwyn.
Takes place in London, concluding in late
July 1945 CE.
In His Kiss Short story published
2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Lethbridge-Stewart
Written by Sue Hampton.
Takes place in Cornwall and the Blackdown
Hills; concluding self-datedly in August 1945 CE.
Death Is the Only Answer TV story, broadcast
2011 Doctor: 11
Featuring the Ood
Written by the Children of Oakley Junior
School.
Takes place in the TARDIS; partially
self-dated September 1945 CE.
The Memory of Stones Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor: 7
featuring Ace
Written by James Middleditch.
Takes place in Poland;
self-dated October 1945 CE.
Time Gained, Time Lost Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor: 1
featuring Susan,
Barbara, Ian
Written by John S Drew.
Takes place in London;
self-dated the January after the end of World War II (evidently misprinted as
1945 CE).
The Brakespeare Voyage Novel, published 2013 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction Paradox, the War in Heaven, with Compassion (glimpse), and the Yssgaroth (informative mention)
Written
by Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis.
Rory’s Story Online video
story, broadcast 2020 Doctor: 0
Featuring Rory, with Amy (informative
mention)
Written by Neil Gaiman.
Informed
guess Takes place in New York, NY; self-dated 1946 CE.
Fright Motif Audio drama, released
2021 Doctor: 9
Written by Tim Foley.
Takes place in Paris; self-dated December 1946 CE.
Ghosts of India Novel, published 2008 Doctor: 10
Featuring Donna
Written by Mark Morris.
Takes place in Calcutta; self-dated 1947 CE,
and before Partition.
Demons of the Punjab TV Story, broadcast 2018 Doctor: 13
Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz
Written by Vinay Patel, script supervised by
Chris Chibnall.
Takes place in the Punjab; self-dated August
1947 CE. The Punjab was a region of northwest India before Partition;
part of it lay in northeast Pakistan afterwards.
Dying in the Sun Novel, published 2001 Doctor: 2
featuring Polly,
Ben
Written by Jon de Burgh Miller.
Takes place in Los Angeles,
Ca; self-dated October 1947 CE.
Playback
Short story published 1994 Doctor: 7
featuring Benny
(informative mention)
Written by Stephen James
Walker.
Takes place in southern
California; self-dated December 1947 CE.
Frostbite Audio drama, released 2014 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Vampires, Dorian
Gray
Written by Mark B Oliver.
Takes place in Manhattan, New York NY;
self-dated Christmas 1947 CE.
Ancient Whispers Short story published
2006 Doctor: 3
featuring Edward
Grainger
Written by Brian Willis.
Takes place in Berlin;
self-dated January 1948 CE.
Quicksilver Audio drama, released 2016 Doctor: 6
Featuring Flip, Constance
Written by Matt Fitton.
Informed
guess Takes place in London and Bletchley Park and, pivotally, in Vienna and
Bucharest, self-dated 1948 CE.
Treasure Trail Comic story, published 1976 Doctor: 4
featuring Sarah
Jane, with the Time Lords (informative mention)
Written by John Canning.
Takes place in Italy; pivotally
self-dated April 1948 CE.
Lost and Found Audio short story,
released 2016 Doctor: 2
Featuring Polly, Ben
Written by Penelope Faith.
Informed
guess Takes place in London; self-dated 1948 CE.
The Valley of Nightmares Audio drama, released 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring Dorian Gray
Written by David Llewellyn.
Informed
guess Takes place in Los Angeles, Ca.; self-dated 1948 CE.
Sphinx Lightning Audio short story,
released 2015 Doctor: 3
Featuring Jo
Written by John Pritchard.
Informed
guess Takes place in regional England; self-dated 1948 CE.
The Living Image Audio drama, released
2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring Dorian Gray
Written by Matt Fitton.
Informed
guess Takes place in the UK; self-dated 1949 CE.
The Cabinet of Light Novella, published 2003 Doctor: Unbound
featuring LeChasseur
Written by Daniel O’Mahony.
Informed
guess Takes place in London; self-dated 1949 CE.
The Winning Side Novella, published 2003 Doctor: 0
featuring LeChasseur
Written by Lance Parkin.
Takes place in London;
self-dated December 1949 CE.
Total
Stories Considered 4226
Proportion
Written By Women 11%
Top
Docs
4 369
stories
7 325
stories
3 311
stories
8 290
stories
10 287
stories
Climber!
5 265 stories
6 246 stories
1 243
stories
2 220
stories
12 134
stories
Unbound 95 stories
9 77 stories
13 61 stories
War 46 stories
Top
Twenty Recurring Elements
London 1010
stories
Regional
England 740 stories
The
Time Lords 425
stories
Alastair,
Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 418
stories
UNIT 409
stories
Continental
Europe 378
stories
North
America 362
stories
Wales 257
stories
Torchwood 245
stories
The
Master, including Missy 241
stories
The
Daleks and Davros 236
stories
Sarah
Jane 232
stories
Captain
Jack 200
stories
Ace 192
stories
At Sea 181
stories
The
K9s 173
stories
Asia 170
stories Climber!
Romana 170
stories
Christmas 164
stories
Amy
and Rory 164
stories
Top
Decades
The
Teens 1822
stories
The
Noughties 1066
stories
The
Nineties 398
stories
The
Twenties 346
stories
The
Seventies 220
stories
The
Eighties 213
stories
The
Sixties 91
stories
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde) 70 stories
And
Top Twenty Years
2016 265
stories
2018 223
stories
2020 207
stories
2015 204
stories Climber!
2017 204
stories
2008 187
stories
2011 177
stories
2019 177
stories
2013 173
stories
2009 166
stories
2021 158
stories
2010 149
stories
2014 132
stories
2001 131
stories
2007 123
stories
2012 116
stories
2006 108
stories
2005 99
stories Climber!
2004 98
stories
1993 86
stories
Total
Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material
writers) 999
Proportion
of Female Writers 17%
Top
Twenty Writers
Terrance Dicks 127
stories
James
Goss 119
stories
Justin
Richards 118 stories
Russell
T Davies 114 stories
Paul
Magrs 89 stories
Steven Moffat 80
stories
Jonathan Morris 77
stories
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 60 stories
John
Dorney 57
stories
Eddie
Robson 55
stories
Matt Fitton 54
stories
Robert
Holmes 52
stories
Gareth Roberts 52
stories
Alan
Barnes 51 stories
Eric Saward 48
stories
David Llewellyn 47 stories
Steve Lyons 46
stories
Gary Russell 45
stories
Andrew
Cartmel 43 stories
Guy
Adams 42
stories
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