Then Again: The Twenty-Seventies

 

The Isidore Corporation   Charity short story, published 2001             Doctor: 6

featuring Peri, Frobisher, with the Time Lords (informative mention) and probably Faction Paradox (glimpse)

Written by Sarah Hadley.

Informed guess Takes place in Los Angeles, several decades in the future; a reference to the UK “seventy years ago” suggests seventy years after publication.


The Moonbase   TV story, broadcast 1967                                      Doctor: 2

featuring the Cybermen, Polly, Ben, Jamie

Written by Kit Pedler, script edited by Gerry Davis.

Takes place on the Moon; self-dated October, 2070 CE.


Second Chances   Short story, published 1997                                          Doctor: 0

featuring the Forrester Family

Written by Alex Stewart.

Informed guess Takes place on the orbital structure Pellucidar, above Earth, “years” after the departure of the colony ship Mandela in 2059 CE, but the jacket that Mark Forrester received then still fits him. The destruction of Tower Hamlets in a war between the UK and Norway sounds like the sort of thing that might have happened in the wake of the Myloki War of 2068 CE.


Expiry Dating   Audio drama, released 2020  

                                                                 Doctors: 5, 6, 10, with 1 (informative mention)

Featuring River Song, with Tegan, Turlogh, Mel (glimpse)

Written by James Goss.

Takes place variously, but pivotally at the Café de Paris in 2070 CE.


Scavenger   Audio drama, released 2014                                             Doctor: 6

Featuring Flip

Written by William Gallagher.

Takes place above the Earth and in India; self-dated May 2071 CE.


Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death   Short story, published 2008     Doctor: 8

featuring Charley

Written by Graeme Burk.

Informed guess Takes place on and above Earth; evidently a few years after 2062 CE.


Mad Dogs and Englishmen   Novel, published 2002           Doctor: 8

Featuring Iris Wildthyme, the Smudgelings, the remembered Fitz, Anji

Written by Paul Magrs.

Takes place in the USA and regional England, but pivotally on an unnamed asteroid in the Solar System, a hundred years after 1974 CE.


The Hijackers of Thrax   Comic story, published 1965                                        Doctor: 1

featuring Gillian, John, with Venus (informative mention)

Illustrated ?and written by Neville Main.

Takes place in the Solar System; self-dated 2075 CE

 

Algis Budrys’s 1969 novel Rogue Moon features both crude matter transmission technology – suggesting a time say ten years before The Seeds of Death – and a Lunar colony of clones, picking up neatly from Moon.

 

Ring Theory   Short story, published 2020                                                Doctor: ?Unbound

Featuring Chris, 10,000 Dawns, with the Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Charles Whitt.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on a crashed spaceship. It is strongly suggested that the body-hopping entity The Gestalt is a possible future form of the Doctor.


Total Eclipse of the Heart   Illustrated short story, published 2009      Doctor: 10

Written by Oli Smith.

Takes place above the Earth. The Doctor identifies the time as around 2070; Houston is undergoing a “total eclipse”. The closest candidate in the almanac is an Annular eclipse over Houston in November 2077 CE. It is established that there was a Great War in the 2060s (World War IV), following which the national governments of the Earth were formally consolidated into United Earth, although this does not seem to have entirely eradicated regional rivalries (see Warriors of the Deep).


The Wheel in Space   TV story, broadcast 1968                          Doctor: 2

featuring the Cybermen, Jamie, Zoe, with Victoria (glimpse)

Written by David Whitaker, script edited by Derrick Sherwin.

Informed guess Takes place in the Solar System; dated 2079 CE in The Dying Light. Zoe leaves linear time, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.


Short Circuit   Comic story, published 2015                                               Doctor: 0

Featuring K9 I (2)

Written by Paul Tams.

Informed guess Takes place in space, some time after Eclipse of the Korven.


Mars   Short story, published 2005                                                              Doctor: 1

featuring Vicki, Steven

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Informed guess Takes place on and above Mars; plausibly in the late twenty-first century CE.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             4521

Proportion Written By Women  11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 384 stories                   

7                 357 stories 

3                 324 stories

8                 313 stories 

11               305 stories 

10               305 stories   Climber! 

5                 280 stories         

1                 271 stories 

6                 264 stories  

2                 232 stories         

12               141 stories

Unbound  106 stories

9                 79 stories  

13               66 stories           

War           47 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1111 stories                

Regional England                                            782  stories        

UNIT                                                                  463 stories  

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

The Time Lords                                               438 stories 

Continental Europe                                         400 stories 

North America                                                 398 stories  

Wales                                                                  261 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  257 stories 

Torchwood                                                        252 stories  

The Master, including Missy                         250 stories  

Sarah Jane                                                        240 stories  

Ace                                                                      212 stories 

At Sea                                                                 206 stories  

The K9s                                                              205 stories 

Captain Jack                                                    201 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  180 stories 

Asia                                                                     179 stories 

Christmas                                                          173 stories 

Romana                                                             172 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          1956 stories

The Noughties                                                  1156 stories       

The Nineties                                                      420 stories

The Twenties                                                     373 stories

The Seventies                                                    221 stories         

The Eighties                                                      217 stories

The Sixties                                                         108 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                                                          211 stories 

2008                                                          201 stories  

2019                                                          190 stories

2013                                                          186 stories  

2010                                                          184 stories

2011                                                          184 stories

2009                                                          172 stories 

2021                                                          151 stories

2014                                                          141 stories   

2001                                                          138 stories  

2007                                                          129 stories 

2012                                                          126 stories  

2004                                                          122 stories  

2006                                                          121 stories 

2005                                                          106 stories

1993                                                          89 stories

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1046

Proportion of Female Writers                17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

James Goss                                              129 stories  New sole no.1!

Terrance Dicks                                       128 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  

Steve Lyons                                             49 stories  

David Whitaker                                      49 stories   Climber!

David Llewellyn                                      48 stories  

Eric Saward                                            48 stories           

Guy Adams                                              47 stories  

Gary Russell                                            47 stories  

 

 

 

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