Then Again: The Late Twenty Twenties

  

Energy of the Daleks   Audio drama, released 2012                         Doctor: 4

Featuring the Daleks, Leela

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place in London and on the Moon; self-dated January 2025 CE.


Horror of the Space Snakes   Novel, published 2012            Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy, Rory, with UNIT, Sam (informative mention)

Written by Gary Russell.

Takes place on the Moon; the later sections self-dated April 2025 CE.


Farewell, Sarah Jane   Video story, released 2020                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Jo, Ace, with Barbara, Ian, Dodo, Polly, Ben, Victoria, UNIT, Liz, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Sarah Jane, Nyssa, Tegan, Mickey, Captain Jack, K9 IV, Martha (informative mention)

Written by Russell T Davies.

Informed guess Takes place in Ealing, some time before Jo’s death in 2028 CE. Sarah Jane’s young protoges are not that old. It would appear that Nyssa has been retrieved from E-space and reunited with Tegan. No doubt less plausible things have happened.


Hello, Children Everywhere   Illustrated short story, published 2008             Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Paul Magrs.

Informed guess Takes place in south-east London; self-dated 2025 CE.


Project: Destiny    Audio drama, released 2010                              Doctor: 7

Featuring Vampires, Ace, Hex, Lysandra

Written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright.

Takes place in London; self-dated April 2026 CE.


Duel of the Daleks   Comic story, published 1965                                    Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Angus Allan, Alan Fennell, Terry Nation and David Whitaker.

Informed guess Takes place on Skaro; as published, some time after Power Play.


Remake/Remodel   Short story, published 2013                                      Doctor: 0

Featuring Faction Paradox

Informed guess Takes place in Los Angeles, Ca. Michael Brookhaven, born in 1945 CE according to The Book of the War, “should be in his eighties.” True, he was filmed being absorbed by some product of The Enemy in the duel on Mount Usu in 1999 CE (also The Book of the War). There is, however, no conclusive proof that this was fatal, and even if it were, someone with access to time travel can be at large after the date of their death, particularly if, like Brookhaven, they look significantly younger than they should.


The Ring of Steel   Audio story, released 2010                                   Doctor: 11

featuring Amy

Written by Stephen Cole.

Informed guess Takes place in Orkney; self-dated “about fifteen years” after Amy’s time.


Iris Wildthyme & the Bush Offensive   Short story, published 2018   Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Stewart Sheargold.

Tales place principally on the Devon coast; self-dated 2027 CE.


Shield of the Joetunn   Audio drama, released 2015                 Doctor: 6

Featuring Constance

Written by Ian Edginton.

Takes place in Arizona; the later sections self-dated July 2029 CE.

  

 

 

Total Stories Considered             4393

Proportion Written By Women  11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 378 stories                   

7                 338 stories 

3                 319 stories

8                 300 stories 

11               299 stories 

10               297 stories  

5                 275 stories         

1                 262 stories 

6                 256 stories  

2                 226 stories         

12               137 stories

Unbound  100 stories

9                 79 stories  

13               66 stories           

War           47 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1073 stories                

Regional England                                            772  stories        

UNIT                                                                  457 stories  

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

The Time Lords                                               431 stories 

Continental Europe                                         392 stories 

North America                                                 390 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  Climber!

The K9s                                                              175 stories 

Romana                                                             171 stories  

Christmas                                                          170 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          1909 stories

The Noughties                                                  1113 stories       

The Nineties                                                      409 stories

The Twenties                                                     365 stories

The Seventies                                                    220 stories         

The Eighties                                                      215 stories

The Sixties                                                         92 stories

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

 

 

Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          270 stories

2018                                                          241 stories 

2017                                                           218 stories       

2020                                                          216 stories  

2015                                                          208 stories 

2008                                                          195 stories  

2019                                                          190 stories

2011                                                          183 stories

2013                                                          183 stories   Climber!

2009                                                          168 stories 

2010                                                          154 stories

2021                                                          150 stories

2014                                                          136 stories  

2001                                                          135 stories

2007                                                          125 stories 

2012                                                          124 stories         

2006                                                          120 stories

2004                                                          105 stories

2005                                                          103 stories

1993                                                          86 stories

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1020

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   Climber!   

Andrew Cartmel                                    45 stories  

 

 

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