Then Again: The Twenty-Eighties
featuring Werewolves, Turlough
Written by Marc Platt.
Takes place in Brazil; self-dated 2080 CE.
Salt of the Earth Illustrated
short story, published 2014 Doctor: 3
Featuring Jo
Written by Trudi Canavan.
Child of Darkness Charity short
story, published 1998 Doctors:
4, 7
featuring the Time Lords, UNIT, K9 II, Romana, Mel
Written by Daniel Blythe.
The later section takes place in central Europe; self-dated March, 2083
CE. Evidently, Total
Eclipse of the Heart’s United Earth
has not entirely eradicated war.
Warriors of the Deep TV story, broadcast 1984 Doctor:
5
featuring Earth Reptiles, Tegan, Turlough
Written by Johnny Byrne, script edited by Eric Saward.
Takes place under the ocean on Earth; dated 2084 CE by Dicks in Doctor Who – Warriors of the Deep. The novelisation further identifies Sea Base Four
as a military installation of West Bloc in its confrontation with East Bloc. By
the time of Transit, Aaronovitch tells us that Japan, which had been
dominating technology in the previous decades, was being overtaken by
Africa. Japan seems a plausible centre
for a grouping called East Bloc: we learned from Scavenger that India had
become a leader in global technology, and it is undeniably west of Japan.
Junk Food Comic story,
published 2010 Doctor: 10
Featuring Heather
Written by Christopher
Cooper.
Informed guess Takes place on Earth, after
the invention of matter-transmission.
Black Destiny Comic story,
published 1996 Doctor: 4
featuring Sarah Jane, Harry and the Threshold (glimpse)
Written by Gary Russell.
Takes place in Ukraine; self-dated 2086 CE. There seems to be a
surprising amount of nostalgia for the USSR in Ukraine; I suppose it is quite a
long time in the future.
The Seeds of Death TV story, broadcast 1969 Doctor:
2
featuring the Ice Warriors, Jamie, Zoe
Written by Brian Hayles, script edited by Terrance Dicks.
Informed guess Takes place on Earth and the Moon.
Why I Respectfully Disagree With Lance Parkin’s
Dating
Ben Aaronovitch implicitly dates this as 2086 CE in Transit.
Trank Tank Short story, published 2021 Doctor: 0
Written by John Peel.
Informed guess Takes place in Paradise
Towers, which is still under construction.
Doris Short story, published 2021 Doctor: 0
Written by Jenny Shirt.
Takes place in Paradise Towers. People are still moving into it, so I
would have thought relatively soon after its construction.
Larry Niven’s novella Flash Crowd (1973) and several short story
sequels to it explore the consequences of a global Transmat system similar to
the one suggested in The
Seeds of Death. I don’t think
they’re too incompatible with Doctor Who narrative. Quite plausibly, such a
system rapidly makes the conflict implied in Warriors of the Deep suddenly impossible.
The Emmisaries of Jevo Comic story, published 1966 Doctor:
0
featuring the Daleks
Written by Angus Allan, Alan Fennel, Terry Nation and David Whitaker.
The Wheel of Ice Novel,
published 2012 Doctor: 2
Featuring Jamie,
Zoe
Written by Stephen Baxter.
Informed guess Takes place orbiting Saturn, principally in the late twenty-first
century CE, not long after The Seeds of
Death. Also in Scotland.
Damaged Goods Short story, published 2021 Doctor: 0
Written by Stuart Douglas.
Takes place in Paradise
Towers, apparently in the aftermath of the Thousand Day War.
All the Empty Towers Short story, published 2015 Doctor: 12
Featuring Clara
Written by Jenny T Colgan.
Takes place in Blackpool;
self-dated 2089 CE.
Total Stories Considered 4534
Proportion Written By Women 11%
Top Docs
4 386 stories
7 358 stories
3 325 stories
8 313 stories
10 306 stories Climber!
11 305 stories
5 282
stories
1 271 stories
6 264 stories
2 234 stories
12 142 stories
Unbound 106 stories
9 79 stories
13 66
stories
War 47
stories
Top Twenty Recurring Elements
London 1111 stories
Regional England 783
stories
UNIT 464
stories
Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the
Lethbridge-Stewart family 450 stories
The Time Lords 439 stories
Continental Europe 402 stories
North America 398 stories
Wales 261
stories
The Daleks and Davros 258 stories
Torchwood 252
stories
The Master, including Missy 250
stories
Sarah Jane 241
stories
Ace 212
stories
At Sea 207
stories
The K9s 206
stories
Captain Jack 201
stories
Amy and Rory 180
stories
Asia 179
stories
Christmas 173 stories
Romana 173
stories Climber!
Top Decades
The Teens 1960 stories
The Noughties 1157 stories
The Nineties 422 stories
The Twenties 376
stories
The Seventies 221
stories
The Eighties 218
stories
The Sixties 110 stories
(Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and William Hope Hodgson) 70
stories
And Top Twenty Years
2016 272 stories
2018 245 stories
2020 223 stories
2017 218
stories
2015 212
stories
2008 201
stories
2019 190
stories
2013 186 stories
2010 185
stories
2011 184 stories
2009 172
stories
2021 154
stories
2014 142
stories
2001 139
stories
2007 129
stories
2012 127 stories
2004 122
stories
2006 121
stories
2005 106 stories
1993 89
stories
Total Writers (including showrunners, script
editors, anthology linking material writers) 1047
Proportion of Female Writers 17%
Top Twenty Writers
Terrance Dicks 129
stories New joint no.1!
James Goss 129
stories
Justin Richards 120 stories
Russell T Davies 117 stories
Paul Magrs 93
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
David Whitaker 50
stories Climber!
Steve Lyons 49
stories
Eric Saward 49
stories Climber!
David Llewellyn 48
stories
Gary Russell 48
stories Climber!
Guy Adams 47
stories
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