Then Again: The Early Twenty-Thirties

 

Warchild   Novel, published 1996                                                        Doctor: 7

featuring Allen Road, Benny, Roz, Chris, Victoria? (Mrs Woodcott)

Written by Andrew Cartmel.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK and the USA; self-dated Autumn, and dated 2030 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.


Doctor Who Discovers Space Travel   Illustrated novella, published 1977       Doctor: 4

Written by Fred Newman.

Informed guess Takes place variously. The latest events shown take place in the early twenty-first century CE.


By Their Deeds   Online short story, posted 2013                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring The Second War In Heaven

Written by Lawrence Burton.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth, in the early twenty-first century CE.


The Blurred Man   Charity short story, published 2016                            Doctor: 2

Featuring Jamie, with the Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Elton Townend Jones.

Takes place in Norfolk; self-dated March 2033 CE.


Good Companions   Short story, published 1999                                     Doctor: Unbound

featuring ?Unbound Tegan

Written by Peter Anghelides.

Informed guess Takes place in Cambridge; self-dated 2033 CE.

 

Gravity (2013) is a film of the Earth’s future, broadly compatible with Doctor Who narrative. It features the Hubble Space Telescope, which should still be in orbit at this time.

 

A Bright White Crack   Online story, posted 2020                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring the Time Lords, Chris, 10,000 Dawns

Written by Hunter O’Connell.

Informed guess Takes place variously, but pivotally in a version of Washington DC in “the mid-2030s” CE. I am classifying the Superiors as Time Lords: they seem to be a version of the Time Lords/Great Houses who won the Second War in Heaven and removed themselves from the universe, but they behave like Time Lords and employ seven million Cwejen as an Army of One across the universe.


Decky the Halls   Comic story, published 2012.                                        Doctor: 11

Featuring Decky Flamboon

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Takes place in England; self-dated Christmas 2034 CE.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             4400

Proportion Written By Women 11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 379 stories                   

7                 339 stories 

3                 319 stories

8                 300 stories 

11               300 stories  Climber!

10               297 stories  

5                 275 stories         

1                 262 stories 

6                 256 stories  

2                 227 stories         

12               137 stories

Unbound  101 stories

9                 79 stories  

13               66 stories           

War           47 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1073 stories                

Regional England                                            775  stories        

UNIT                                                                  457 stories  

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                             449 stories  

The Time Lords                                               433 stories 

Continental Europe                                         392 stories 

North America                                                 391 stories  

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        251 stories  

The Master, including Missy                         248 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                  243 stories 

Sarah Jane                                                        237 stories  

Ace                                                                      205 stories 

At Sea                                                                 202 stories  

Captain Jack                                                    201 stories

Asia                                                                     177 stories 

Amy and Rory                                                  176 stories 

The K9s                                                              175 stories 

Romana                                                             171 stories  

Christmas                                                          171 stories  Climber!

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          1912 stories

The Noughties                                                  1113 stories       

The Nineties                                                      411 stories

The Twenties                                                     366 stories

The Seventies                                                    221 stories         

The Eighties                                                      215 stories

The Sixties                                                         92 stories

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

 

 

And the Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          271 stories

2018                                                          241 stories 

2017                                                           218 stories       

2020                                                          217 stories  

2015                                                          208 stories 

2008                                                          195 stories  

2019                                                          190 stories

2013                                                          184 stories   Climber!

2011                                                          183 stories

2009                                                          168 stories 

2010                                                          154 stories

2021                                                          150 stories

2014                                                          136 stories  

2001                                                          135 stories

2007                                                          125 stories 

2012                                                          125 stories   Climber!

2006                                                          120 stories

2004                                                          105 stories

2005                                                          103 stories

1993                                                          86 stories

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1022

Proportion of Female Writers                17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                       128 stories  

James Goss                                              127 stories

Justin Richards                                       119 stories 

Russell T Davies                                     116 stories  

Paul Magrs                                              92 stories  

Steven Moffat                                         80 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    79 stories  

Matt Fitton                                             65 stories  

John Dorney                                           62 stories  

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                        60 stories           

Eddie Robson                                          59 stories

Gareth Roberts                                       54 stories           

Alan Barnes                                             52 stories  

Robert Holmes                                        52 stories  

Eric Saward                                            48 stories           

David Llewellyn                                      48 stories  

Guy Adams                                              47 stories  

Steve Lyons                                             47 stories  

Gary Russell                                            47 stories  

Andrew Cartmel                                     46 stories  

 

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