Then Again: The Early Twenty-Fifth Century                                                    

 

Invasion of the Daleks   Comic story, published 1964                            Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks, with the Outer Solar System, Mars (glimpse)

Written by David Whitaker and Terry Nation.

Informed guess Takes place on Venus, some time before Break-Through.


Red for Danger   Illustrated short story, published 1964                         Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by David Whitaker and Terry Nation.

Informed guess Takes place on Venus, shortly after Invasion of the Daleks.


Wetware   Charity short story, published 2001                                            Doctor: 2

featuring the Time Lords, Jamie

Written by Alex Steer.

Takes place on Mars; self-dated 2401 CE.


I Scream   Audio drama, released 2000                                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring the I

Written by Lance Parkin.

Informed guess Takes place on Galspar: Earth is heavily industrialised and Tellurian space is quite corporate.


The Oil Well   Comic story, published 1964                                               Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by David Whitaker and Terry Nation.

Informed guess Takes place on Venus; shortly after Red for Danger. Oil fields on Venus must be impressively ancient: presumably the remains of the ecosphere seen three billion years previously in Venusian Lullaby.


The Secret of the Mountain   Illustrated short story, published 1964  Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by David Whitaker and Terry Nation.

Informed guess Takes place on Venus; some time after The Oil Well.


City of the Daleks   Comic story, published 1964                                     Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by David Whitaker and Terry Nation.

Informed guess Takes place on Skaro; after The Secret of the Mountain, as published.


The Conquest of Far   Audio drama, released 2017                          Doctor: 3

Featuring the Daleks, Jo

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place on and near Far, in Tellurian space. That the Daleks have no record of the Doctor’s third incarnation puts this before Frontier in Space, I think, but the Gateway is no longer new, suggesting that Tellurian space is extensive. The Telluro-Dalek conflict of the early twenty-fifth century seems a plausible time for it. The Dalek Book concentrates on conflict in the Solar System, but Gurnian (The Monsters of Gurnian) is certainly outside it, confirming that this confrontation was more widespread.


Burning Bright   Short story, published 1997                                            Doctor: 0

featuring the Forrester Family

Written by Liz Holliday.

Informed guess Takes place on Vance’s World; dated 2405 CE by the Whoniverse.


Vanishing Point   Novel, published 2001                                       Doctor: 8

Featuring the remote Fitz, Anji

Written by Stephen Cole.

Takes place on an unnamed planet settled by Tellurians; dated 2405 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.


The Humanoids   Comic story, published 1964                                        Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by David Whitaker and Terry Nation.

Informed guess Takes place on Mars; after City of the Daleks, as published.


The Small Defender   Illustrated short story, published 1964                 Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by David Whitaker and Terry Nation.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth; after The Humanoids, as published.


Divided Loyalties   Novel, published 1999                                   Doctors: 1, 5

featuring the Time Lords, the Toymaker, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, and the Master, Mortimus, the Rani (glimpse)

Written by Gary Russell.

ig Takes place on Dymok; Lance Parkin gives the date as 2408 CE in Ahistory. The “Earth Empire” was at its height in the mid-twenty-fourth century, Gary Russell informs us. I assume that this was some short-lived institution, probably centred on a single individual, like France’s two Bonapartist empires. Perhaps it arose as a response to the Cyber Wars, and its fall was plausibly part of the pattern of “colonial events” following the Cyber Wars. It could also explain the existence of a titular King of Earth in The Sword of Forever in the late twenty-sixth century.


The Monsters of Gurnian   Comic story, published 1964                       Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by David Whitaker and Terry Nation.

Informed guess Takes place on Gurnian; after The Small Defender, as published.


Break-Through   Illustrated short story, published 1964                          Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by David Whitaker and Terry Nation.

Takes place in the outer Solar System; self-dated 2409 CE, and after The Monsters of Gurnian, as published.


The Battle for the Moon   Comic story, published 1964                          Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by David Whitaker and Terry Nation.

Informed guess Takes place on the Moon; after Break-Through, as published.


The Intergalactic Trials   Comic story, published 2012                           Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Luke Paton.

Takes place at an interstellar sports venue; self-dated 2412 CE.


The Romance of Crime   Novel, published 1995                      Doctor: 4

featuring the Ogrons, K9 II, Romana, Menlove Stokes

Written by Gareth Roberts.

Informed guess Takes place in the Uva Beta Uva system; self-dated the early Twenty-Fifth century CE.

Why I Respectfully Disagree With Lance Parkin’s Dating

2380 CE is, in-story, actually some considerable time ago, and Stokes had an exhibition some years back in the new century.


Garbage Day!   Comic story, published 2012                                              Doctor: 11

Written by Glenn Dakin.

Takes place on Earth; self-dated 2423 CE.


Briefly Noted   Illustrated short story, published 1994                             Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Zoe

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place on a Tellurian space station, before Stradivarius violins have decayed out of tune.


Doctor Who and The Dogs of Doom   Comic story, published 1980   Doctor: 4

featuring the Daleks, K9 II, Sharon

Written by John Wagner and Pat Mills.

Takes place in the New Earth system; self-dated 2430 CE. These Daleks are explicitly time-active, rather than contemporary.


Curiosity   Short story, published 2008                                                      Doctor: 5

featuring Nyssa

Written by Mike Amberry.

Informed guess Takes place on a world in the Ardelban system, generations after a Tellurian space liner has crashed there and remained unsalvaged.


The Age of Chaos   Comic story, published 1994                                Doctor: 6

featuring Frobisher, and Peri (glimpse)

Written by Colin Baker.

Informed guess Takes place on Krontep, a couple of generations after Doctor Who - Mindwarp.


Rest and Re-Creation   Comic story, published 1993                              Doctor: 4

featuring the Zygons, Leela

Written by Scott Gray, as Warwick Gray.

Informed guess Takes place on Shontaa. The Zygons seem to have flourished generally in the second and third millennia CE.

 

Solaris (1972) is set in an era of Earth-centered interstellar exploration. (In the original novel, the planet Solaris has been investigated for decades). I am very speculatively proposing it for inclusion in Doctor Who narrative in the early twenty-fifth century.

 

Gods of Winter   Audio story, released 2015                                        Doctor: 12

Featuring Clara

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place principally on the homeworld of the Golhearn, a couple of generations before The House of Winter.


The Last Thing You Ever See   Short story, published 2008                 Doctor: 4

featuring Sarah Jane, Harry

Written by Richard Goff.

Informed guess Takes place in space; the presence of nanite technology suggests a time around, or after, Nanomorphosis.


Silent Warrior   Audio drama, released 1999                                       Doctor: 0

featuring the Sontarans

Written by Peter Grehan.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, apparently before widespread contact with the Sontarans.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             4827

Proportion Written By Women 11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 409 stories                   

7                 379 stories 

8                 341 stories 

3                 337 stories

10               328 stories

11               326 stories 

5                 309 stories         

6                 299 stories    

1                 289 stories 

2                 264 stories         

12               149 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                                               460 stories 

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

Continental Europe                                         420 stories 

North America                                                 409 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                  299 stories

Wales                                                                261 stories

The Master, including Missy                         260 stories

Torchwood                                                        252 stories  

Sarah Jane                                                        246 stories  

Ace                                                                      218 stories 

The K9s                                                              215 stories 

At Sea                                                                 214 stories  

Captain Jack                                                    202 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  194 stories 

Asia                                                                     188 stories

Romana                                                             182 stories

Christmas                                                          178 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2043 stories

The Noughties                                                  1245 stories       

The Nineties                                                      475 stories

The Twenties                                                     399 stories

The Eighties                                                      238 stories

The Seventies                                                    224 stories         

The Sixties                                                         133 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                                                           224 stories       

2015                                                          223 stories 

2008                                                          215 stories  

2013                                                          196 stories 

2011                                                          195 stories

2019                                                          195 stories 

2010                                                          192 stories

2009                                                          183 stories 

2021                                                          171 stories

2014                                                          151 stories  

2001                                                          149 stories  

2007                                                          147 stories

2012                                                          139 stories  

2006                                                          129 stories

2004                                                          125 stories

2005                                                          116 stories

1993                                                          99 stories

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1079

Proportion of Female Writers                17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

James Goss                                              130 stories   

Terrance Dicks                                       129 stories

Justin Richards                                       126 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  

David Whitaker                                      65 stories   Climber!   

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                         60 stories           

Gareth Roberts                                       58 stories   Climber!

Steve Lyons                                             57 stories  

Alan Barnes                                             54 stories  

Robert Holmes                                        54 stories           

Eric Saward                                            54 stories  

Gary Russell                                            50 stories  

Stephen Cole                                           49 stories   Climber!

Marc Platt                                               49 stories  

 

 

 

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