Then Again: The Early Twenty-Fifties

 

Regeneration   TV story, broadcast 2009                                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2), with K9 I (glimpse)

Written by Shayne Armstrong and S P Krause.

Takes place in London; self-dated 2050 CE. K9 I, who has presumably fled Gallifrey from the Last Great Time War, regenerates into K9 I (2).


Liberation   TV story, broadcast 2010                                                        Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Shayne Armstrong and S P Krause.

Takes place in London; after Regeneration as broadcast.


The Korven   TV story, broadcast 2010                                                      Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Tim Pye.

Takes place in London; after Liberation.


The Bounty Hunter   TV story, broadcast 2010                                        Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Ian McFadyen

Takes place in London; after The Korven as broadcast.


Sirens of Ceres   TV story, broadcast 2010                                                Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Deborah Parsons.

Takes place in London; after The Bounty Hunter as broadcast.


Fear Itself   TV story, broadcast 2010                                                         Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Everett DeRoche and Graeme Farmer.

Takes place in London; after Sirens of Ceres as broadcast.


The Fall of the House of Gryffen   TV story, broadcast 2010                Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Shayne Armstrong and S P Krause.

Takes place in London; after Fear Itself as broadcast.


Jaws of Orthrus   TV story, broadcast 2010                                               Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Lindsay James.

Takes place in London; after The Fall of the House of Gryffen as broadcast.


Dream-Eaters   TV story, broadcast 2010                                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Jim Noble.

Takes place in London; after Jaws of Orthrus as broadcast.


Curse of Anubis   TV story, broadcast 2010                                              Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Jim Noble

Takes place in London; after Dream-Eaters as broadcast.


Fable Fusion   Short story, published 2007                                                Doctor: 7

featuring Ace, with Liz (informative mention)

Written by Gary A Braunbeck and Lucy A Snyder.

Takes place in Prague; self-dated May, 2050 CE.


Oroborus   TV story, broadcast 2010                                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Deborah Parsons.

Takes place in London; after Curse of Anubis as broadcast.


Alien Avatar   TV story, broadcast 2010                                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Graeme Farmer.

Takes place in London; after Oroborus as broadcast.


Aeolian   TV story, broadcast 2010                                                              Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Dave Warner.

Takes place in London; after Alien Avatar as broadcast.


The Last Oak Tree   TV story, broadcast 2010                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Jim Noble

Takes place in London; after Aeolian, as broadcast.             


Black Hunger   TV story, broadcast 2010                                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Chris Roache.

Takes place in London; after The Last Oak Tree, as broadcast.


The Cambridge Spy   TV story, broadcast 2010                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Jason Bourque.

Takes place in London, the later sections after Black Hunger as broadcast.


Lost Library of Ukko   TV story, broadcast 2010                                      Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by Deborah Parsons.

Takes place in London, after The Cambridge Spy as broadcast.


Foul Play   Comic story, published 2010                                                     Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Steve Lyons.

Taks place in New Wembley Space Stadium; self-dated 2050 CE.


Mutant Copper   TV story, broadcast 2010                                                Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I(2)

Written by John O’Brien,

Takes place in London, after Lost Library of Ukko as broadcast.


The Custodians   TV story, broadcast 2010                                               Doctor: 0

Featuring K9I(2)

Written by Shayne Armstrong and S P Krause.

Takes place in London, after Mutant Copper as broadcast.


Taphony and the Time Loop   TV story, broadcast 2010                       Doctor: 0

Featuring K9I(2)

Written by Anthony Morris and Graeme Farmer.

Takes place in London, after The Custodians as broadcast.


The Long Way Round   Audio drama, released 2021      Doctor: 8, with Unbound (glimpse)

Featuring Liv, Helen, Torchwood

Written by John Dorney.

Takes place in London; the later sections self-dated 2050 CE.


Robot Gladiators   TV story, broadcast 2010                                            Doctor: 0

Featuring K91(2)

Written by Jim Noble

Takes place in London, after Taphony and Time Loop as broadcast.


Mind Snap   TV story, broadcast 2010                                                        Doctor: 0

Featuring K9I(2)

Written by Bob Baker and Paul Tams.

Takes place in London, after Robot Gladiators as broadcast.


Angel of the North   TV story, broadcast 2010                                         Doctor: 0

Featuring K9I(2)

Written by Bob Baker.

Takes place in London and Canada, after Mind Snap as broadcast.


The Last Precinct   TV story, broadcast 2010                                            Doctor: 0

Featuring K9I(2)

Written by Shayne Armstrong and S P Krause.

Takes place in London; self-dated two years after 2048 CE and after Angel of the North as

broadcast.


Hound of the Korven   TV story, broadcast 2010                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring K9I(2)

Written by Shayne Armstrong and S P Krause.

Takes place in London, after The Last Precinct as broadcast.


The Eclipse of the Korven   TV story, broadcast 2010                            Doctor: 0

Featuring K91(2)

Written by Shayne Armstrong and S P Krause.

Takes place in London, after Hound of the Korven as broadcast.


Utopia   Short story, published 2006                                                              Doctor: 7

Written by Darren Sellars.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth; self-dated some fifty years after early genetic surgery started.


Transit: Prelude   Illustrated short story, published 1992                         Doctor: 0

featuring Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT

Written by Ben Aaronovitch.

Informed guess Takes place amongst mountains in Russia; from Lethbridge-Stewart’s mental state here and in The King of Terror, some time after 2050 CE. Bambera and Ancelyn seem to be in exceptional physical condition given their age, but if they have access to the technology of Morgaine’s continuum, they might well be. A reference to an exploding mountain in the USA suggests that this was meant to be contemporary with Warhead, but it was written before Lethbridge-Stewart got a new lease of life in Happy Endings.


Rally of the Quarks   Comic story, published 1969                                  Doctor: 2

featuring the Quarks

Illustrated ?and written by John Canning.

Takes place between London and Brighton; self-dated 2053 CE. In this year, the London to Brighton Vintage car rally is watched by extraterrestrials in hovering spaceships. I suspect that these are invisible to Tellurians, in which case, perhaps it always has been.

 

Paprika (2006). Set not too far in the future, this film envisages technology to enter and engineer dreams. Transit tells us that Japan dominated technological progress in the later twenty-first century: I think this is a handy place to insert this into Doctor Who narrative.

 

The Terrorkon Harvest   Comic story, published 1966                           Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Angus Allan, Allen Fennel, Terry Nation and David Whitaker.

Informed guess Takes place on Skaro, some time after Menace of the Monstrons. The Golden Emperor expresses concern that the Daleks might have to evacuate their “fine city”, consistent with its having been recently rebuilt after the Monstron invasion.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             4482

Proportion Written By Women  11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 384 stories                   

7                 352 stories 

3                 323 stories

8                 308 stories 

11               303 stories 

10               299 stories  

5                 277 stories         

1                 265 stories 

6                 260 stories  

2                 230 stories         

12               141 stories

Unbound  103 stories

9                 79 stories  

13               66 stories           

War           47 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1108 stories                

Regional England                                            781  stories        

UNIT                                                                  462 stories  

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                             450 stories  

The Time Lords                                               433 stories 

Continental Europe                                         396 stories 

North America                                                 393 stories  

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        252 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                  249 stories  Climber! 

The Master, including Missy                         249 stories  

Sarah Jane                                                        239 stories  

Ace                                                                      210 stories 

At Sea                                                                 205 stories  

The K9s                                                              203 stories  Climber!  

Captain Jack                                                    201 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  179 stories 

Asia                                                                     178 stories 

Christmas                                                          173 stories 

Romana                                                             172 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          1951 stories

The Noughties                                                  1142 stories       

The Nineties                                                      414 stories

The Twenties                                                     368 stories

The Seventies                                                    221 stories         

The Eighties                                                      216 stories

The Sixties                                                         100 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                                                          218 stories 

2015                                                          209 stories 

2008                                                          197 stories  

2019                                                          190 stories

2013                                                          186 stories  

2010                                                          184 stories Climber!

2011                                                          184 stories

2009                                                          170 stories 

2021                                                          151 stories

2014                                                          140 stories   

2001                                                          137 stories  

2007                                                          127 stories 

2012                                                          125 stories  

2004                                                          121 stories  

2006                                                          121 stories  Climber!

2005                                                          104 stories

1993                                                          88 stories

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1042

Proportion of Female Writers                17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                       128 stories  

James Goss                                              127 stories

Justin Richards                                       120 stories 

Russell T Davies                                     116 stories  

Paul Magrs                                              92 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    83 stories            

Steven Moffat                                         81 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              66 stories  

John Dorney                                            63 stories  

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                       60 stories           

Eddie Robson                                          59 stories

Gareth Roberts                                       54 stories           

Alan Barnes                                             52 stories  

Robert Holmes                                        52 stories  

Steve Lyons                                             49 stories   Climber!   

Eric Saward                                            48 stories           

David Llewellyn                                      48 stories  

Guy Adams                                              47 stories  

Gary Russell                                            47 stories  

Andrew Cartmel                                    46 stories  

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