Then Again: The Twenty-Sixties

 

Scribbles in Chalk   Short story, published 2004                                     Doctor: Unbound 1

featuring Unbound Steven, Unbound Katarina

Written by Gareth Wigmore.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the world of the Lakhotha. There is no time for this story between The Myth Makers and The Dalek Masterplan, so I am assuming it is part of the phantom history created by the Chronovore in Euridyce’s Reprieve.


Prime Imperative   Novel, published 2016                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Erimem

Written by Julianne Todd.

Takes place above the Earth; self-dated 2062 CE.


Legacy of Yesteryear   Comic story, published 1966                                 Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

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

Informed guess Takes place on Skaro, some time after The Terrorkon Harvest.


The Last Dodo   Novel, published 2007                                          Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha, the Time Lords, the Daleks (informative mention)

Written by Jacqueline Rayner.

Takes place principally in The Museum of the Last Ones; self-dated 2062 CE.


Ace’s Diary Entry, 23rd November 2062   Charity drabble, published 1993   Doctor: 7

featuring Ace

Written by Sophie Aldred.

Takes place in the TARDIS; self-dated November, 2062 CE.


Lackaday Express   Short story, published 1994                                        Doctor: 5

featuring Nyssa, Tegan

Written by Paul Cornell.

Informed guess Takes place in the Solar System; some decades after the 1980s CE.


Canaries   Online short story, posted 2020                                    Doctors: 8, 11, Unbound

Featuring the Daleks, Faction Paradox

Written by Dave Rudden.

Informed guess Takes place at the Vebier Museum of the Impossible, Switzerland. The Museum was founded in 2044 CE, after somebody’s disappearance from reality twenty years before this story, which concludes in winter.


The Lair of Zarbi Supremo   Illustrated short story, published 1965    Doctor: 1

featuring Vortis

Written by David Whitaker and Dennis Spooner.

Informed guess Takes place on Vortis, which is at this point near Jupiter; although the Doctor identifies the children’s voices as Twentieth Century CE, the level of space travel suggests the Twenty-First. Jupiter was, by the Common Era, the fifth and largest planet of the Solar System, a gas giant.


Bumble of Destruction   Comic story, published 2012                                        Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Takes place in London; self-dated 2064 CE.


Dalek Saturn Probe   Illustrated short story, published 1966                  Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Brad Ashton and Terry Nation.

Informed guess Takes place on Titan, during Tellurian exploration of the Solar System. The Daleks presented here would be time travellers from the future, rather than colonists from contemporary Skaro. Titan was a moon of Saturn.


War in a Time of Peace   Short story, published 2007                            Doctor: 8

featuring Charley

Written by Steve Lockley and Paul Lewis.

Takes place in Prague; self-dated December 2064 CE.


Twilight’s End   Short story, published 2008                                            Doctor: 7

featuring the Vampires

Written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright.

Informed guess Takes place beneath a skyscraper kept upright by centrifuges; self-dated many decades after Project: Lazarus, but not too much more than a century after World War I.


Full Fathom Five   Audio drama, released 2003                                 Doctor: Unbound

Written by David Bishop.

Takes place on the US western seaboard; self-dated 2066 CE.


The Trodos Tyranny   Comic story, published 1966                                 Doctor: 1

featuring Gillian, John, the Trods

Written by Roger Noel Cook.

Takes place on Trodos; self-dated 2066 CE. Like the inhabitants of Hekton in The Duellists, the presence of a humanoid named MacTaggart in another stellar system in the twenty-first century is a bit of a puzzle.

 

If the film Moon (2009) is to be incorporated into Doctor Who narrative, Bell’s original mission, fifteen years before the film’s action, must surely have been after The Waters of Mars in 2049.

 

Stop the Pigeon   Short story, published 1998                                          Doctor: 7

featuring the Master, the Krynoids, Ace

Written by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry.

Takes place in London; the later section self-dated August 2067 CE


Shadow of Humanity   Comic story, published 1966                               Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

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

Informed guess Takes place on Skaro; some time after Legacy of Yesteryear as published.


Alien Bodies   Novel, published 1997                        Doctors: 8, with 3 (glimpse)

featuring the Krotons, Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven, Sam, with the Daleks, Sarah Jane (glimpse), and the Voord, the Cybermen, UNIT (informative mention)

Written by Lawrence Miles.

Takes place mainly in Borneo; self-dated March, 2069 CE. It has been suggested that Mr Quixotl may be Drax or Glitz; my own guess, from the reference to damage to his face, is Mortimus (see No Future).

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             4508

Proportion Written By Women  11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 384 stories                   

7                 357 stories 

3                 324 stories

8                 311 stories 

11               305 stories 

10               303 stories  

5                 279 stories         

1                 268 stories 

6                 261 stories  

2                 230 stories         

12               141 stories

Unbound  105 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                                               435 stories 

Continental Europe                                         397 stories 

North America                                                 394 stories  

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        252 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                  251 stories 

The Master, including Missy                         249 stories  

Sarah Jane                                                        239 stories  

Ace                                                                      210 stories 

At Sea                                                                 205 stories  

The K9s                                                              204 stories 

Captain Jack                                                    201 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  179 stories 

Asia                                                                     178 stories 

Christmas                                                          173 stories 

Romana                                                             172 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          1954 stories

The Noughties                                                  1151 stories       

The Nineties                                                      419 stories

The Twenties                                                     371 stories

The Seventies                                                    221 stories         

The Eighties                                                      217 stories

The Sixties                                                         105 stories

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

 

 

Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          272 stories

2018                                                          245 stories 

2020                                                          221 stories   Climber! 

2017                                                           218 stories       

2015                                                          210 stories 

2008                                                          200 stories  

2019                                                          190 stories

2013                                                          186 stories  

2010                                                          184 stories

2011                                                          184 stories

2009                                                          171 stories 

2021                                                          151 stories

2014                                                          140 stories   

2001                                                          137 stories  

2007                                                          129 stories 

2012                                                          126 stories  

2004                                                          122 stories  

2006                                                          121 stories 

2005                                                          105 stories

1993                                                          89 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                                             128 stories  New joint no.1!

Justin Richards                                       120 stories 

Russell T Davies                                     117 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  

David Llewellyn                                      48 stories  

Eric Saward                                            48 stories           

David Whitaker                                      48 stories   Re-entry!

Guy Adams                                              47 stories  

Gary Russell                                            47 stories  

 

 

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