Then Again: The Twenty-Eighth Century

 

Prisoners of the Kleptons   Comic story, published 1965                       Doctor: 1

featuring the Kleptons, Gillian, John

Illustrated ?and written by Neville Main.

Informed guess Takes place on the Klepton world, presumably some time before The Klepton Parasites.


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

Featuring Peri

Adapted by Paul Finch from a script by Brian Finch.

Informed guess Takes place in space, “centuries” after the 22nd century CE.


By Hook or by Crook   Comic story, published 1997                                Doctor: 8

featuring Izzy

Written by Scott Gray.

Takes place in Tor-Ka-Nom; self-dated 2708 CE


The Calamari-Men of Mare Cimmerium   Short story, published 2014         Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Blair Bidmead.

Informed guess Takes place on Mars. Earth is doing well enough that there are plenty of tourists there. Sydenham is still a place. It is confirmed that Ice Warriors are just one variety of physically diverse Martians.


Earth Aid  Audio adaptation of an unproduced TV story, released 2011         Doctor: 7

Featuring Ace, Raine, the Metatraxi

Adapted by Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel from a script by Ben Aaronovitch.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space: Earth is wealthy enough to be sending charitable aid to other stellar systems.

 

Hard To Be a God(2013) is set on a planet inhabited by humanoids, where agents from Earth are attempting to guide development without obvious interference, which is the sort of thing I can imagine the Empire doing.

 

Shadow of Death   Audio drama, released 2013         Doctors: 2, with 11 (glimpse)

Featuring Jamie, Zoe

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Takes place on a planet orbiting a Pulsar on Tellurian space; self-dated 2724 CE.


Warlord of the Ogrons   Comic story, published 1980                            Doctor: 4 (glimpse)        

featuring the Ogrons

Written by Steve Moore.

Informed guess Takes place on Braah, not long after 2723 CE.


The Memory Bank   Audio drama, released 2016                                    Doctor: 5

Featuring Turlough

Written by Chris Chapman.

Informed guess Takes place on Insculpo, which has been settled by Tellurians, it may be inferred, for some time.


The Zarbi and the Menoptera   Illustrated short story, published 1992         Doctor: 1

featuring Vortis, and Barbara, Ian, Vicki (glimpse)

Written by Adrian Rigelsford.

Informed guess Takes place on Vortis, during the first Tellurian discovery of it in interstellar space.


Puppeteer   Short story, published 2007                                                   Doctor: 4

featuring Oliver Day

Written by Benjamin Adams.

Informed guess Takes place on Gondalla, hundreds of years after 2007 CE, after the Draconian War, and during the Tellurian Empire.


The Whispering Forest   Audio drama, released 2010             Doctor: 5

Featuring Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, with the Mara (glimpse)

Written by Stephen Cole.

Informed guess Takes place on Cherdor; self-dated the twenty-eighth century CE.


Mudshock   Comic story, published 2010                                                   Doctor: 10

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Informed guess Takes place on Arkansas XVI, in Tellurian space.


Lords and Masters   Short story, published 2018                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring the Time Lords, Missy

Written by Cavan Scott.

Informed guess Takes place partly at the Kyme Institute, self-dated the twenty-eighth century.


The Sensorites   TV story, broadcast 1964                                      Doctor: 1

featuring Susan, the Sensorites, Barbara, Ian

Written by Peter R Newman, script edited by David Whittaker.

Takes place around and on the Sense-sphere; dated 2764 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.


The Arts in Space   Comic story, published 2014                                      Doctor: 10

Featuring Gabby

Written by Nick Abadzis.

Informed guess Takes place on Ouloumos and its moon, in Tellurian space. Zhe studied in Logopolis (before 1981 CE), but as s/he has spent a century as a recluse, s/he is clearly long-lived.


Adjudicator’s Holiday   Charity short story, published 1999                  Doctor: 7

featuring Chris, with Roz (glimpse)

Written by Kathryn Sullivan.

Informed guess Takes place on Klataka, outside, but within travelling distance of, the later First Empire.


The Stealers of Dreams   Novel, published 2005                     Doctor: 9

Featuring Rose, Captain Jack

Written by Steve Lyons.

Takes place on Arkannis Major; self-dated 2775 CE.


Cyber-Hunt   Novelisation of a video drama, published 2021            Doctor: 0

Featuring the Cyberons

Adapted by Callum Philpot from a script by Nicholas Briggs, writing as Martin Peterson.

Takes place on Carson’s Planet, in Tellurian space; self-dated 2777 CE.


Strange Attractor   Short story, published 2007                                       Doctor: 6

featuring Peri

Written by Paul Kupperberg.

Takes place in Prague; self-dated 2781 CE.


Kinda   TV story, broadcast 1982                                                             Doctor: 5

featuring Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, the Mara

Written by Christopher Bailey, script edited by Eric Saward.

Takes place on Deva Loka; dated 2782 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.


Darkstar Academy   Audio story, released 2012                                Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Mark Morris.

Takes place on an extraplanetary structure in Tellurian space; self-dated the

twenty-eighth century.


The Rocket Men   Audio drama, released 2011                                    Doctor: 1

Featuring Barbara, Ian, Vicki

Written by John Dorney.

Informed guess Takes place above Jobis, on Platform Nine, a year before Return of the Rocket Men.


Return of the Rocket Men   Audio drama, released 2012              Doctor: 1

Featuring Steven, Dodo

Written by Matt Fitton.

Takes place in Tellurian space, not long after Steven’s twenty-first birthday.


The Chase  TV story, broadcast 1965                                           Doctor: 1          

featuring the Daleks, Barbara, Ian, the Marie Celeste thing, Vicki, the Mechanoids, with Steven (glimpse)

Written by Terry Nation, script edited by Dennis Spooner.

Informed guess Takes place variously, including in New York, the north Atlantic and in Ghana, a republic on the coast of west Africa, and ending up on Mechanus, plausibly not long before The Mechanical Planet. Steven leaves linear time, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.

The Were Chancing Their Arm

...calling the planet Mechanus, and not expecting the Mechanoids to take it over.


Paradox Lost   Novel, published 2011                                                Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy, Rory

Written by George Mann.

Takes place in London, partly self-dated 2789 CE.


Secret of the Black Planet   Short story, published 1997                        Doctor: 0

featuring the Forrester family

Written by Lance Parkin.

Takes place in the Transkei, a landlocked area of southern Africa; dated 2790 CE by the Whoniverse.


Nocturne   Audio drama, released 2007                                            Doctor: 7

featuring Ace, Hex

Written by Dan Abnett.

Takes place on Nocturne; self-dated seven hundred and ninety years into Ace and Hex’s future. As Ace and Hex don’t actually share a present, this is problematic: I’m assuming that it is simply 2790 CE.


Requiem For the Rocket Men   Audio drama, released 2015      Doctor: 4

Featuring the Master, Leela, K9 I

Written by John Dorney.

Ig Takes place in Tellurian space, some time after Return of the Rocket Men.


Death Match   Audio drama, released 2015                                          Doctor: 4

Featuring the Master, Leela, K9 I

Written by Matt Fitton.

Takes place on Quarry Station, soon after Requiem For The Rocket Men.


Companion Piece   Novella, published 2003                                      Doctor: 7

featuring the Time Lords (glimpse)

Written by Robert Perry and Mike Tucker.

Takes place on and near Haven; dated 2799 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             5210

Proportion Written By Women  11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 424 stories                   

7                 417 stories 

8                 357 stories 

11               346 stories  Climber!

3                 345 stories

10               342 stories

5                 321 stories         

6                 312 stories    

1                 305 stories 

2                 270 stories         

12               155 stories

Unbound  116 stories

9                 86 stories  

13               67 stories           

War           47 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1142 stories                

Regional England                                            803 stories

The Time Lords                                               482 stories

UNIT                                                                  465 stories  

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                            459 stories  

Continental Europe                                         427 stories 

North America                                                 416 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                  364 stories

Benny                                                                 287 stories

The Master, including Missy                         268 stories

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        252 stories  

Sarah Jane                                                        251 stories  

Ace                                                                      236 stories 

At Sea                                                                 222 stories

The K9s                                                              219 stories 

Amy and Rory                                                  208 stories

Captain Jack                                                    203 stories

Christmas                                                          192 stories

Asia                                                                     190 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2143 stories

The Noughties                                                  1396 stories       

The Nineties                                                      544 stories

The Twenties                                                     417 stories

The Eighties                                                      248 stories

The Seventies                                                    245 stories

The Sixties                                                         147 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          282 stories

2018                                                          265 stories 

2020                                                          243 stories  

2015                                                          235 stories 

2017                                                           229 stories       

2008                                                          224 stories  

2011                                                          210 stories Climber!

2013                                                          210 stories 

2009                                                          202 stories 

2010                                                          201 stories 

2019                                                          197 stories 

2007                                                          176 stories 

2021                                                          175 stories

2014                                                          162 stories  Climber!    

2001                                                          161 stories 

2012                                                          154 stories  

2006                                                          142 stories

2004                                                          139 stories

2005                                                          129stories 

1993                                                          106 stories

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1107

Proportion of Female Writers                17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                       140 stories

Justin Richards                                       136 stories 

James Goss                                              132 stories   

Russell T Davies                                     118 stories  

Paul Magrs                                              96 stories  

Eddie Robson                                          92 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    90 stories  

Steven Moffat                                         88 stories  

David Whitaker                                      74 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              72 stories  

John Dorney                                            71 stories  

Terry Nation                                           67 stories  

Steve Lyons                                             63 stories 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                       60 stories           

Simon Guerrier                                       58 stories   Climber!   

Gareth Roberts                                       58 stories  

Stephen Cole                                           57 stories   Climber!

Alan Barnes                                             56 stories  

Eric Saward                                            56 stories

Paul Cornell                                            55 stories=

Gary Russell                                            55 stories=

 

 

 

 

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