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.
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.
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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