Then Again: The Early Twenty-Third Century
The Eternal Present Comic story,
published 1972
Doctor:
3
Written
by Dennis Hooper.
a few instants, in the London of 2200 CE or thereabouts. Mar-Kom itself is located in St Paul’s Cathedral, in London.
Class Four Renegade Illustrated short
story, published 1983 Doctor:
5
featuring Tegan,
Turlough
Written by the World Distributors
Annual 1984 crew.
Informed guess Takes place on Melphis; self-dated the Twenty-Third
century CE; Tellurians are travelling in interstellar space but are not yet
well known.
Dreamstone
Moon Novel, published 1998 Doctor: 8
featuring Sam
Written by Paul Leonard.
Takes place on Occam’s World and in the Mu
Camelopides system, a few days before the beginning of Seeing I, which is dated 2202 CE.
Fear
Itself Novel, published 2005 Doctor: 8
Featuring
the remembered Fitz, Anji, with the
Daleks, the Ice Warriors (informative mention)
Written by Nick Wallace.
The Guardians of Terror and The Rebirth of
Corah Comic
story, published 2009
Doctor: 10
Written by Jason Loborik.
Informed guess Takes place on Corah, at a time of Tellurian interstellar exploration.
The
Final Sanction Novel, published 1999 Doctor: 2
featuring the Ockorans,
Jamie, Zoe
Written by Steve Lyons.
Takes place on Kalya and
Ockora; self-dated 2204 CE.
Seeing
I
Novel, published 1998 Doctor: 8
Featuring
Sam, the I, with the Time Lords
(informative mention)
Written by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman.
Takes place on Ha’olam; concluding self-datedly in 2205 CE. The I
are a quadrupedal, pacefaring species. Blum and Orman reveal Sam’s bisexuality
by means of a single pronoun, midsentence, several dozen pages before it
becomes relevant, which is a degree of indirection Gene Wolfe himself would
have been proud of.
Ghost World Comic story, published 2011 Doctor: 11
Featuring Amy, Rory
Written by Eddie Robson.
Informed guess Takes place on the Third Moon of Callicial, before Tellurian
interstellar expansion outstrips the speed of light. Which happens surprisingly
quickly.
The Electrodes Comic story,
published 1969 Doctor:
2
featuring Gillian,
John
Written by an anonymous
Polystyle writer.
Takes place on Earth;
self-dated 2208 CE.
The Curator’s Egg Audio drama,
released 2018 Doctor: 2
Featuring Polly, Ben
Written by
Justin Richards.
The
Janus Conjunction Novel, published 1998 Doctor: 8
Featuring
Sam, with the Daleks, the Cybermen, the
Veltrochni (informative mention)
Written by Trevor Baxendale.
Takes place in the Janus system; self-dated September, 2211
CE.
Coral Maze
Comic story, published 2013 Doctor: 11
Featuring
Clara
Written by Glenn Dakin.
The Sommerton Fetch Short story, published 2007 Doctor: 3
featuring Jo,
with Christmas (informative mention)
Written by Peter Anghelides.
Ends up in Shrewsbury;
self-dated 2212 CE.
All Hands on Deck Audio drama,
released 2017 Doctor: 8
Featuring
Susan, with the Time Lords, the Daleks (informative mention)
Written
by Eddie Robson.
Takes place in
the buildings that were formally Coal Hill School; self-dated late October, the
2210s CE.
Enemy Mine (1985) sees Earth conducting an
interstellar war. It takes place over three years, ending in 2095. Again, this
can be incorporated into Doctor Who narrative by making this a Galactic
Standard date, placing it in 2215 CE.
Churchill’s
Castle Novel, published 2017 Doctor: 0
Featuring
Erimem
Written by Beth Jones.
Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space. Earth’s furthest interstellar colony is
a hundred light years distant from it,
suggesting a time before establishes a revolution in faster-than light travel in the
early 23rd century; I imagine this takes place before it.
The Meaning of Red Audio short story, released 2020 Doctor: 5
featuring
Peri
Written by Rod Brown.
Arbitrary
placement Takes place on Calleto.
Passengers (2016) is set on a sub lightspeed colony ship that arrives at its destination a hundred and twenty years after being launched. Now in Doctor Who narrative seems a reasonable time.
The Unwinding World Audio drama, released 2015 Doctor: 1
Featuring Barbara, Ian, Vicki
Written by Ian
Potter.
Informed guess Takes place in
Tellurian Space; Vicki thinks the technology is “old fashioned”.
The Cat Came Back Illustrated short story, published 2006 Doctor: 10
Featuring Rose
Written by Gareth Roberts.
Informed guess Takes place on and above
Phostris; self-dated “only just after” Rose’s time. By Doctor Who – The Twin Dilemma, Earth has inter-galactic
travel, so it’s not unreasonable to place this story about here. This may be
connected to the Doctor Who – The Leisure Hive revolution in FTL travel.
Spoilsport Short story, published 2007 Doctor:
3
featuring Jo
Written by Paul Finch.
Takes place in Prague;
self-dated 2221 CE.
System
Wipe Novel, published 2011 Doctor: 11
Featuring
Amy, Rory
Written by Oli Smith.
Takes place in Chicago, Ill and Oklahoma; self-dated 2222 CE. Earth has
been depopulated, evidently briefly.
Will You Be the Master’s Valentine?
Online video drama,
posted 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring the
Master
Written
anonymously.
Takes place, for
the Master, shortly before Faustian, in the Time Vortex.
Faustian
Audio drama, released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Master
Written by Robert
Valentine.
Takes place in London; self-dated 2223 CE. Earth has rapidly been
repopulated after being deserted in System Wipe.
Prey Audio drama, released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Master, Vienna
Written by Robert Whitelock.
Takes place in and above London,
immediately after Faustian. Vienna Salvatori is a time-travelling
humanoid, or presumably Tellurian descent, and has presumably been sent to this
location by time-active Daleks.
Vengeance Audio drama, released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Daleks, the Master, Vienna
Written by Matt Fitton.
Takes place in and above London; after Prey
and self-dated 2223 CE. These are time-active Daleks, unconnected with those on
contemporary Skaro.
The Caves of Androzani TV story, broadcast 1984
Doctors:
5, and 6 (glimpse)
featuring
Peri
Written by Robert Holmes, script edited by Eric
Saward.
Informed guess Takes place in the Sirius system, some decades after Tellurians have colonised it.
Why I Respectfully Disagree With Lance Parkin’s Dating
The ‘Krau’ and ‘Trau’ business suggests a time not
far from Lucifer Rising, and the Sirius system seems fairly isolated,
though there has been more than one wave of colonisation from Earth. This
suggests a time before the revolution in faster-than-light travel mentioned in Doctor Who – The Leisure Hive.
The Year of Intelligent
Tigers Novel, published 2001 Doctor: 8
Featuring the remembered Fitz, Anji
Written by Kate Orman.
Takes place on Hitchemus; dated 2225 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.
The Sixth Doctor Sends a Letter Charity short story, published 1998 Doctor: 6
featuring
Peri
Written by Charles Daniels.
Informed guess Takes place on Digma Ego Seven; a reference to 22nd
century vintage champagne suggests the early to mid twenty-third century CE.
Wetworld Novel, published 2007 Doctor: 10
Featuring Martha
Written by Mark Michalowski.
Takes place on Sunday; self-dated 2108. This seems altogether too early
for an interstellar colony. However, I have the Galactic Standard calendar to
fall back on, so I’m placing it in 2228 CE.
The Kchrusivour Gambit Comic story, published 2011 Doctor: 11
featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory
Written by Christopher Cooper.
Informed guess Takes place on Earth; self-dated the 23rd century CE.
Frayed Novella,
published 2003 Doctor:
1
featuring
Susan
Written by Stephen Cole, as Tara Samms.
Takes place on Iwa; dated 2230 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.
The Fate Of The Earth, as time goes by
By this time, Earth had recovered from the Oil Wars (Suspension and Disbelief), which I take to be conflicts after the Dalek
occupation, of the sort seen in Legacy
of the Daleks and The More Things Change.
An Ideal World Audio drama, released 2018 Doctor: 1
Featuring Vicki,
Steven
Written by Ian Potter.
Informed guess Takes place above T19. A slow, cryogenic colony ship has been sent
there from Earth.
Masquerade Audio drama,
released 2014 Doctor: 5
Featuring Nyssa, Hannah
Written by
Stephen Cole.
Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space. Earth Central is experimenting with intergalactic travel, so after The Cat Came Back, but before Doctor Who – The Twin Dilemma.
Categorical Imperative Short story, published 2004 Doctors:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
featuring
Susan, Jo, Sarah Jane, Tegan, Peri, Ace,
Charley, with Jamie (informative mention)
Written by Simon Guerrier.
Takes place on Earth, fifty-two years before a
potentially apocalyptic war. I’m assuming this is the conflict that has wiped
out most of the world’s human population by the time of Doctor Who – The Leisure Hive.
Nightmare of Eden TV
story, broadcast 1979 Doctor:
4
featuring
K9 II, Romana
Written by Bob Baker, script edited by Douglas
Adams.
Takes place in Tellurian space; self-dated 2116.
Why I Respectfully Disagree With Lance Parkin’s Dating
This date seems far too early to me for
interstellar tourist cruise ships. Consequently, I’m assuming the dates given
in this story are Galactic Standard, and 2116 is actually 2236 CE.
The Ashes of Eden Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor: 4
featuring
Romana
Written by Lorelei S Jordan.
Informed guess Takes place above Eden, not long after Nightmare of Eden.
The Changeling Years Illustrated short story, published 1993 Doctor: 4
featuring
Leela
Written by Gareth Roberts.
Informed guess Takes place in the Solar System; some time after
2217 CE. Earth is again heavily populated.
Mortal Thoughts Short
story, published 2004 Doctor: 6
featuring
Mel
Written by Trevor Baxendale.
Takes place on Andron; self-dated shortly after
2235 CE.
They Were Chancing Their Arm
...calling
the planet Andron and expecting a homicidal android not to turn up on it.
Most of Gene Wolfe’s stories are puzzles, and none
more so than his novel The Fifth Head of Cerberus. Set on two planets of
a stellar system ostensibly inhabited by the descendants of Tellurian settlers,
most readers conclude that some or all of its characters are actually descended
from the shape-changing extraterrestrials who originally inhabited one of the
worlds. I would argue (from clues in the text) that there were no such
creatures, and that they are folklore rooted in the oppression and massacre of one
wave of settlers by another. In Doctor Who continuity however, we know that The
Enemy and the Great Houses can render the barriers between fictionality and
factuality fluid, so both things might be true. At this point, interstellar
travel is difficult and, for those not exceptionally wealthy, time-consuming. I
suggest this novel can be conveniently placed here, before Doctor Who – The Leisure Hive’s revolution in supra-light travel.
The Curse of the Daleks Audio adaptation of a
stage play, released 2008
Doctor:
0
featuring
the Daleks
Adapted by Nicholas Briggs from a script by David
Whitaker and Terry Nation.
Takes place on Skaro; self dated fifty years after
“the defeat” of the Daleks, which I take to be in about 2190 CE, in Lucie Miller and To the Death.
Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars Audio drama, released 2010
Doctor: 8
Featuring Mortimus,
the Ice Warriors, Lucie, Tamsin
Written by Jonathan Morris.
Informed guess Takes place on Deimos, a moon of Mars; self-dated the twenty-third
century CE.
The Shopping Trolleys of
Doom Short
story, published 2008 Doctor:
7
Written
by Caleb Woodbridge.
Informed guess Takes place on Earth. Culture is not too dissimilar
to the 21st century, the world is widely populated and AIs are
commonplace: my guess is the mid-twenty-third century CE.
The 2018 film Aniara, set on the titular Earth-Mars ferry, is set
at a time when the Earth is again suffering catastrophic environmental
degradation: plausibly the same that causes the evacuation of the planet
described in System Wipe. The last time its passengers and crew are seen
alive is twenty-four years after it left Earth.
Dreadnought Comic story, published 1996 Doctor:
8
featuring
the Cybermen, Stacy, with Norfolk
(informative mention)
Written by Gary Russell.
Takes place in Tellurian space; self-dated 2246 CE.
Stacy leaves linear time, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.
Shopping For Eternity Short story, published 1997 Doctor: 0
featuring
the Forrester Family
Written by Gus Smith.
Informed guess Takes place on and near New Zion; self-dated the
mid-Twenty-Third Century CE.
Total
Stories Considered 4694
Proportion
Written By Women 11%
Top
Docs
4 395 stories
7 369 stories
3 332 stories
8 331 stories
10 321 stories
11 314 stories
5 297
stories
1 281 stories
6 279
stories
2 254 stories
12 146 stories
Unbound 109 stories
9 81
stories
13 66
stories
War 47
stories
Top
Twenty Recurring Elements
London 1130 stories
Regional
England 797
stories
UNIT 464
stories
Alastair,
Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 451 stories
The
Time Lords 447 stories
Continental
Europe 415 stories
North
America 408 stories
The
Daleks and Davros 282
stories
Wales 261
stories
The
Master, including Missy 256 stories
Torchwood 252
stories
Sarah
Jane 243
stories
Ace 216
stories
At Sea 214
stories
The
K9s 210
stories
Captain
Jack 201
stories
Amy
and Rory 188
stories
Asia 184
stories
Christmas 177 stories
Romana 177
stories Climber!
Top
Decades
The
Teens 2002 stories
The
Noughties 1213 stories
The
Nineties 449 stories
The
Twenties 394
stories
The
Eighties 227
stories
The
Seventies 223
stories
The
Sixties 116 stories
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and
William Hope Hodgson) 70
stories
And
Top Twenty Years
2016 276 stories
2018 248 stories
2020 224 stories
2017 221
stories
2015 217
stories
2008 210
stories
2019 192
stories
2011 192 stories Climber!
2013 191 stories
2010 188
stories
2009 180
stories
2021 171
stories
2014 147
stories
2001 144
stories
2007 142
stories
2012 131 stories
2004 125
stories Climber!
2006 125
stories
2005 115 stories
1993 96
stories
Total
Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material
writers) 1067
Proportion
of Female Writers 17%
Top
Twenty Writers
Terrance Dicks 129 stories
James
Goss 129
stories
Justin
Richards 122 stories
Russell
T Davies 117
stories
Paul
Magrs 94
stories
Jonathan Morris 84 stories Climber!
Steven Moffat 83
stories
Matt Fitton 67 stories
John
Dorney 65 stories
Eddie
Robson 64 stories
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 60
stories
Gareth Roberts 56
stories
Robert
Holmes 54
stories Climber!
David Whitaker 54
stories Climber!
Alan
Barnes 53
stories
Steve Lyons 53
stories Climber!
Eric Saward 50
stories
Gary Russell 49
stories Climber!
David Llewellyn 48
stories
Guy
Adams 47
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Andrew
Cartmel 47
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