Then: The Late Twenty-Fifties

 

Quicksilver Bees   Charity short story, published 1999                            Doctor: 7

Written by Martin Day.

Informed guess Takes place probably on Earth, probably in the late twenty-first century CE.


Search for the Doctor   Game book, published 1986                       Doctor: 6

featuring the Time Lords, Omega, K9 IV

Written by Dave Martin (as David Martin),

Takes place on and above California; self-dated 2056 CE.


Driftwood   Short story, published 2008                                                        Doctor: 7

featuring Mel, with the Ice Warriors (informative mention)

Written by Dale Smith.

Informed guess Takes place in Europe, not long after The Enemy of the World and a century before an attack by renegade Ice Warriors.

 

Red Planet (2000) is set in 2056, and would be particularly handy to incorporate into Doctor Who narrative, as the oxygen-releasing Martian insects offer some explanation for both the Earth’s environmental recovery and the terraforming of Mars, and indeed other planets of Tellurian space.

 

Angel of Mercy   Novella-length narrative anthology, published 2015      Doctor: 0

Featuring Erimem

Written by Julianne Todd, Claire Bartlett and Iain McLaughlin.

Informed guess Takes place in a newly-built, but immediately socially-deprived city in the UK, self-dated the twenty-first century CE.

 

The cooling of the sun described in Sunshine (2007) could explain how the world was saved from global warming in the twenty-first century, It describes a mission to the sun in 2057, but an earlier mission is described as having been sent seven years earlier. Pleasingly, The Indestructible Man refers to an ice age having been successfully overcome by humanity some time before the Myloki war of 2066.

 

Attack of the Mange Mites   Comic story, published 2008                    Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Martin Day.

Takes place above the Earth; self-dated “fifty years” after Donna’s time.


The Moonrakers and The People Made of Smoke

                                           Audio drama, released 2020                  Doctor: 5

Featuring the Sontarans, Leela, Grace technology

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Informed guess Takes place on the Moon, during the early days of its colonisation by Tellurians.


Beguine   Short story, published 2005                                                        Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Stephen Cole.

Informed guess Takes place in the UK, the framing action clearly in the early to mid twenty first Century CE. I will assume that Ben was listening to 2 Unlimited when he was fourteen, and is now just short of eighty.


The Waters of Mars   TV story, broadcast 2009                                Doctor: 10

Featuring the Daleks, the Ood (glimpse), with the Ice Warriors (informative mention)

Written by Russell T Davies and Phil Ford.

Takes place mostly on Mars; self-dated November 2059 CE.


What the TARDIS Thought of “Time Lord Victorious”  

Online short story, posted 2020                                                                   Doctor: 10

Featuring the Time Lords, the Daleks, Barbara, Ian, the Ood (informative mention)

Written by James Goss.

Takes place on Earth, during and after The Waters of Mars.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             4491

Proportion Written By Women  11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 384 stories                   

7                 354 stories 

3                 323 stories

8                 308 stories 

11               303 stories 

10               302 stories  

5                 278 stories         

1                 265 stories 

6                 261 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                                               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                                                          1952 stories

The Noughties                                                  1146 stories       

The Nineties                                                      415 stories

The Twenties                                                     370 stories

The Seventies                                                    221 stories         

The Eighties                                                      217 stories

The Sixties                                                         100 stories

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

 

 

And the Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          271 stories

2018                                                          245 stories 

2017                                                           220 stories       

2020                                                          218 stories 

2015                                                          210 stories 

2008                                                          199 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                                                          127 stories 

2012                                                          125 stories  

2004                                                          121 stories  

2006                                                          121 stories 

2005                                                          105 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                                              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           

Guy Adams                                              47 stories  

Gary Russell                                            47 stories  

Andrew Cartmel                                    46 stories  

 

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