Then Again: The Late Twenty-Fourth Century

 

A Most Excellent Match    Audio drama, released 2011                          Doctor: 6

Featuring Peri

Written by Matt Fitton.

Takes place at the Galaxy Fair; self-dated 2351 CE.


The Child   Audio drama, released 2012                                                 Doctor: 4

Featuring Leela

Written by Nigel Fairs.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the planet of The Map Of Life.


Mission to Magnus   Novelisation of an unproduced TV story, published 1990     Doctor: 6

featuring the Time Lords, the Ice Warriors, Peri, Sil

Adapted by Philip Martin from his own script.

Informed guess Takes place above and on Magnus Epsilon, between Vengeance on Varos and Doctor Who - Mindwarp. The Doctor describes it as the mid twenty-third century: I think he must have been thinking in Galactic Standard Time.        


Fegovy   Short story, published 1996                                                           Doctor: 6

featuring the Chelonians, Mel, and the Moroks, the Quarks, the Krotons (glimpse) and the Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Gareth Roberts.

Takes place in space; dated 2355 CE by the Whoniverse.


Madquake   Audio drama, released 2020                                                  Doctor: 5

Featuring Nyssa, Tegan, Marc, the Raxacorricofallapatorians, with the Cybermen (informative mention)

Written by Guy Adams.

Informed guess Takes place on Callana, while the Slitheen family are at large.


Last of the Cybermen   Audio drama, released 2015                 Doctor: 6

featuring the Cybermen, Jamie, Zoe

Written by Alan Barnes.

Informed guess Takes place principally on a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, ten years after the end of the Great Cyber War, and shortly after the invention of the glitter gun, so centuries before Revenge of the Cybermen.


The Price of Paradise   Novel, published 2006                         Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose

Written by Colin Brake.

Informed guess Takes place on Laylora; self-dated the late Twenty-Fourth century CE.


The Power Supply   Short story, published 2009                                     Doctors: 1, 5

featuring Vicki, Steven

Written by Eddie Robson.

Informed guess Takes place on Ca-Mon Green, the main action taking place after a wave of human colonisation, plausibly around the same time as The Macra Terror.


Heritage  Short story, published 1997                                                        Doctor: 0

featuring the Forrester family, with the Alpha Centaurans (informative mention)

Written by Ben Jeapes.

Takes place near New Caanan; self-dated 2364 CE.


The Macra Terror   TV story, broadcast 1967                              Doctor: 2

featuring Polly, Ben, Jamie, the Macra

Written by Ian Stuart Black, script edited by Gerry Davis.

Takes place on a Tellurian colony world; dated 2366 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.


Dinosaurs on a Spaceship   TV story, broadcast 2012                    Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy, Rory, with India, the Earth Reptiles (informative mention)

Written by Chris Chibnall, script supervised by Steven Moffat.

Takes place in Egypt and elsewhere in Africa, London, and pivotally in the Solar System, self-dated 2367 CE.


Assimilation2   Comic story, published 2012                  Doctors: 11, with 4 (glimpse)

Featuring the Cybermen, Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Scott and David Tipton and Tony Lee.

Takes place in Egypt and an alternative reality; the Federation Stardate of 45635.2 places it in August, 2368 CE.


House   Short story, published 2003                                                           Doctor: 6

featuring Peri

Written by Jeremy Daw.

Informed guess Takes place below the surface of Eldair, several decades after 2310 CE.


Lords of the Storm   Novel, published 1995                                 Doctor: 5

featuring the Sontarans, the Rutan, Turlogh, and the Tzun (informative mention)

Written by David A McIntee.

Takes place in the Unukalhai system; self-dated 2371 CE.


Space Race   Comic story, published 2013                                                  Doctor: 11

Featuring Decky Flamboon

Written by Steve Lyons.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space; some time after the 2200s CE.


The Hungry Night   Short story, published 2015                                      Doctor: 9

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, close enough to the twentieth century that the lyrics to Space Oddity are still known.


The Evil One   Audio drama, released 2014                                          Doctor: 4

Featuring the Master, Leela

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, not long after the twenty-first century.


From the Cutting Room Floor (i)   Charity short story, published 1998     Doctor: 0

featuring the Master, the Sontarans

Written by David A McIntee.

Informed guess Takes place on Ribos; plausibly during the late Twenty-Fourth century CE.


Doctor Who – Mindwarp   Novelisation of a TV story, published 1989  Doctor: 6

featuring the Time Lords, Peri, Sil, the Valeyard

Adapted by Philip Martin from his own script, edited by Eric Saward.

Takes place on Space Station Zenobia, and pivotally on Thoros Beta, self-dated 2379 CE.


Sil and the Mentors   Fictional document, published 1992                      Doctor: 0

featuring Sil

Written by Adrian Rigelsford.

Informed guess Purportedly produced on Thoros Beta, soon after Doctor Who - Mindwarp.


The Dimension Riders: Prelude   Illustrated short story, published 1993   Doctor: 7

featuring the Time Lords

Written by Daniel Blythe.

Takes place variously, including in Oxford; for the Doctor immediately before The Dimension Riders.


The Dimension Riders   Novel, published 1993                       Doctor: 7

featuring the Time Lords, Ace, Benny, with Mortimus, the Chronovores (glimpse), and the Cybermen, Ian, the Travers family, Lethbridge-Stewart (informative mention)

Written by Daniel Blythe.

Takes place in Oxford and pivotally in Tellurian space; self-dated March, six years before Infinite Requiem.


Fear of the Dark   Novel, published 2003                                      Doctor: 5

featuring Nyssa, Tegan

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Takes place on Akoshemon’s Moon; dated 2382 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.


Antidote to Oblivion   Audio drama, released 2014                  Doctor: 6

Featuring the Time Lords, Sil, Flip

Written by Philip Martin.

Takes place in London and on Tranquility; self-dated 2382 CE.


The Coming of the Cybermen   Comic story, published 1967               Doctor: 2

featuring the Cybermen, Gillian, John

Written by Roger Noel Cook.

Informed guess Takes place on Minot; plausibly after Last of the Cybermen, as the Cybermen are seeking to destroy Earth.


Absolution   Novel, published 2020                                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Erimem

Written by Rachel Blake.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space. A bottle of 2377 Glenmorangie is featured.


Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor   Video drama, released 2019    Doctor: 0

Featuring Sil

Written by Philip Martin.

Informed guess Takes place on the Moon, self-dated 2386 CE.


Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor

Novelisation of a video drama, published 2019                                            Doctor: 0

Featuring Sil

Adapted by Philip Martin from his own script.

Novelisation of above.


Infinite Requiem: Prelude   Illustrated short story, published 1995     Doctor: 7

featuring Benny

Written by Daniel Blythe.

Takes place mostly on Gadrell Major, immediately before Infinite Requiem.


Infinite Requiem   Novel, published 1995                                    Doctor: 7

featuring Benny

Written by Daniel Blythe.

Takes place in regional England and pivotally on Gadrell Major, self-dated May 2387 CE.


The Widow’s Assassin   Audio drama, released 2014               Doctor: 6

Featuring Peri

Written by Nev Fountain.

Informed guess Takes place on Krontep and Hurn, ending about ten years after Doctor Who - Mindwarp.


The Song of Megaptera

Audio adaptation of an unproduced TV story, released 2010                      Doctor: 6

Featuring Peri

Adapted by Pat Mills from his own script.

Informed guess Takes place in space; interstellar corporations are providing food for Tellurian colonists.


The Song of the Space Whale 

Illustrated synopsis of an unproduced TV story, published 1995      Doctor: Unbound 5

featuring Unbound Nyssa, Unbound Tegan, Unbound Turlough

Summarised by Richard Bignall from a script by Pat Mills.

Informed guess Takes place in space, simultaneously with but in an alternative timeline to The Song of Megaptera. The unbound Turlough leaves unbound linear time, being aboard the unbound TARDIS when it dematerialises.


The Invisibles   Comic story, published 2009                                           Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space.


Nanomorphosis   Short story, published 2007                                         Doctor: 4

featuring Sarah Jane, Harry

Written by Stephen Dedman.

Informed guess Takes place in Prague; self-dated the twenty fourth century CE. Nanotechnology is not mentioned in The Long Step Backward, so presumably after that.


Timebomb   Charity short story, published 2001                        Doctor: Unbound

featuring the Time Lords, Khamsin

Written by Kathryn Sullivan and Selina Lock.

Informed guess Takes place on Malahand 7; plausibly in the Twenty-Fourth century CE.


Planet Bollywood   Comic story, published 2010                                     Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Takes place on an unnamed planet inhabited by humanoids, probably of Tellurian descent; dated 2397 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.


In Passing   Short story, published 2013                                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Nick Wallace.

Informed guess Takes place above a neutron star in Tellurian space; self-dated one hundred and eighty-three years after the early twenty-third century.


Reunion   Illustrated short story, published 1992                                       Doctor: 7

featuring Peri

Written by David Carroll.

Takes place on Krontep; takes place some twenty years after Doctor Who – Mindwarp.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             4800

Proportion Written By Women 11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 405 stories                   

7                 379 stories 

8                 340 stories 

3                 336 stories

10               328 stories

11               324 stories 

5                 307 stories         

6                 298 stories    

1                 288 stories 

2                 262 stories         

12               148 stories

Unbound  111 stories

9                 83 stories  

13               67 stories           

War           47 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1134 stories                

Regional England                                            801 stories

UNIT                                                                  464 stories  

The Time Lords                                               458 stories  Climber! 

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                            454 stories  

Continental Europe                                         420 stories 

North America                                                 409 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                  287 stories

Wales                                                                  261 stories

The Master, including Missy                         259 stories

Torchwood                                                        252 stories  

Sarah Jane                                                        245 stories  

Ace                                                                      218 stories 

At Sea                                                                 214 stories  

The K9s                                                              213 stories 

Captain Jack                                                    202 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  193 stories 

Asia                                                                     188 stories

Romana                                                             181 stories

Christmas                                                          178 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2039 stories

The Noughties                                                  1240 stories       

The Nineties                                                      468 stories

The Twenties                                                     399 stories

The Eighties                                                      237 stories

The Seventies                                                    224 stories         

The Sixties                                                         123 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          277 stories

2018                                                          252 stories 

2020                                                          229 stories  

2017                                                           223 stories       

2015                                                          222 stories 

2008                                                          213 stories  

2013                                                          196 stories  Climber! 

2011                                                          195 stories

2019                                                          195 stories  Climber!

2010                                                          192 stories

2009                                                          183 stories 

2021                                                          171 stories

2014                                                          151 stories  

2001                                                          147 stories  

2007                                                          147 stories

2012                                                          137 stories  

2006                                                          129 stories

2004                                                          125 stories

2005                                                          116 stories

1993                                                          98 stories

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1076

Proportion of Female Writers                17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                       129 stories

James Goss                                              129 stories           

Justin Richards                                       125 stories 

Russell T Davies                                     117 stories  

Paul Magrs                                              95 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    87 stories  

Steven Moffat                                         85 stories  

Eddie Robson                                          71 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              68 stories  

John Dorney                                            65 stories  

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                       60 stories           

Steve Lyons                                             57 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                       57 stories   Climber!

David Whitaker                                      55 stories            

Alan Barnes                                             54 stories   Climber!  

Robert Holmes                                        54 stories           

Eric Saward                                            54 stories   Climber!   

Marc Platt                                               49 stories  

Gary Russell                                            49 stories  

Guy Adams                                              48 stories= Re-entry!

Stephen Cole                                           48 stories=

David Llewellyn                                      48 stories=

 

 

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