Then Again: The Late Twenty-Thirties

 

The Caterpillar Men   Comic story, published 1965                                 Doctor: 1

featuring Gillian, John

Illustrated ?and written by Neville Main.

Takes place in Africa; self-dated 2035 CE.


Singularity   Audio drama, released 2005                                           Doctor: 5

featuring Turlough

Written by James Swallow.

Informed guess Takes place in Moscow; dated by James Swallow “twenty or thirty years” after 2005 CE. I’d tend toward thirty, given the technological levels.


A Ghost of Christmas Past?   Charity drabble, published 1993              Doctor: Unbound

Written by Caz Mason.

Takes place on Earth; self-dated Christmas Eve 2035 CE.


Just Another Thursday   Online comic story, posted 2008                     Doctor: 10

featuring The Raxicorricofallapatorians, Donna

Written by Paul Cornell.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK at a time when BBC newscasters are informally dressed.


All the Time in the World   Charity short story, published 2001            Doctor: 8

Featuring UNIT, Sam

Written by Susannah Tiller.

Takes place in Australia, variously; the latest date is given as October, 2036 CE.


The Southwell Park Mermaid   Short story, published 2004                Doctor: 7

featuring Chris

Written by Kate Orman.

Informed guess Takes place in Southwell Park, Australia; self-dated the twenty-first century. Environmental degradation has not yet been reversed.


A Confusion of Angels   Comic story, published 2018                             Doctor: 12

Featuring the Raxicorricofallapatorians, the Weeping Angels, Missy, Nardole, Bill

Written by Richard Dinnick.

Informed guess Takes place in space, enough years after Boom Town for a Raxicorricofallapatorian egg to have become an adult.

 

Stalker (1979) is set in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial visitation that has scattered its

site with incomprehensible detritus, which interacts with human beings in inexplicable

ways: there is a distinct evocation of The Enemy. It is plausibly this far in the future.

 

One Minute Fourteen Seconds   Illustrated short story, published 1993      Doctor: 7

featuring Ace

Written by Kate Orman.

Informed guess Takes place probably in the UK; this is the first time an extraterrestrial has appeared on a TV chat show, and the Amazon Basin is largely deforested.


Hothouse   Audio drama, released 2009                                                Doctor: 8

Featuring the Krynoids, Lucie, with UNIT (informative mention)

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK; the Earth is Zoned and there is considerable ecological damage. Twenty-two weeks into a drought, it is probably early autumn.


The Lunar Tyk   Comic story, published 2010                                           Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Richard Dinnick.

Takes place on the Moon; self-dated 2039 CE.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             4410

Proportion Written By Women  11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 379 stories                   

7                 341 stories 

3                 319 stories

8                 302 stories 

11               301 stories 

10               298 stories  

5                 276 stories         

1                 263 stories 

6                 256 stories  

2                 227 stories         

12               138 stories

Unbound  102 stories

9                 79 stories  

13               66 stories           

War           47 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1073 stories                

Regional England                                            775  stories        

UNIT                                                                  459 stories  

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

The Time Lords                                               433 stories 

Continental Europe                                         393 stories 

North America                                                 391 stories  

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        251 stories  

The Master, including Missy                         249 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                  243 stories 

Sarah Jane                                                        237 stories  

Ace                                                                      206 stories 

At Sea                                                                 202 stories  

Captain Jack                                                    201 stories

Asia                                                                     177 stories 

Amy and Rory                                                  177 stories  Climber! 

The K9s                                                              175 stories 

Christmas                                                          172 stories  Climber!

Romana                                                             171 stories  

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          1914 stories

The Noughties                                                  1118 stories       

The Nineties                                                      413 stories

The Twenties                                                     366 stories

The Seventies                                                    221 stories         

The Eighties                                                      215 stories

The Sixties                                                         93 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          271 stories

2018                                                          245 stories 

2017                                                           218 stories       

2020                                                          217 stories  

2015                                                          208 stories 

2008                                                          196 stories  

2019                                                          190 stories

2013                                                          184 stories  

2011                                                          183 stories

2009                                                          169 stories 

2010                                                          155 stories

2021                                                          150 stories

2001                                                          136 stories   Climber!

2014                                                          136 stories  

2007                                                          125 stories 

2012                                                          125 stories  

2006                                                          120 stories

2004                                                          106 stories

2005                                                          104 stories

1993                                                          88 stories

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1024

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                                    80 stories   Climber!   

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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