Then Again: The Thirty-First Century

 

 Genesis of the Dustbins   Charity short story, published 1999               Doctor: 0

featuring Unbound Zoe, with the Daleks, the Cybermen (informative mention)

Written by Charles Daniels.

informed guess This version of Zoe seems to come from 3000 CE, and has been sent to “last week”.


The Eye Spiders of Pergross   Illustrated short story, published 1976   Doctor: 4

featuring Sarah Jane, Harry

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1977 crew.

Takes place on Pergross; temporally variably, but ending up in 3000 CE.


The Ice Warriors   TV story, broadcast 1967                                  Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Victoria, the Ice Warriors

Written by Brian Hayles, script edited by Peter Bryant.

Takes place in Britain; dated 3000 CE in The Dark Path. The revival of toponymic terms like “Britannicus” and “Russia” are perhaps symptomatic of the retrospective cultural movement that would later result in Europa (Managra).


The Ghost Ship   Comic story, published 2018                                          Doctor: 10

Featuring Gabby, Cindy

Written by James Peaty.

Informed guess Takes place in the Spiral Head Nebula; self-dated “the early thirty-first century”.


The Red House   Audio drama, released 2015                                     Doctor: 6

Featuring Werewolves, the Valeyard, Charley

Written by Alan Barnes.

Informed guess Takes place on an unnamed planet; self-dated the thirty-first century CE.


We Are the Daleks!   Illustrated short story, published 1973       Doctor: 3, probably

featuring the Daleks

Written by Terry Nation.

Takes place on several planets, including Mars; self-dated 3007 CE.


The Power of the Cybermen, Drones of Doom, Enemy Mine and Time of the Cybermen   Comic story, published 2007                                                            Doctor: 10

Featuring the Cybermen, with Torchwood (informative mention)

Written by Steve Cook.

Informed guess Takes place on Centuria, dated by the Doctor “a thousand years” after Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.


Flight of the Cyberons   Short story, published 2020                             Doctor: 0

Featuring the Cyberons

Written by James Hornby.

Takes place in Tellurian space; self-dated 3009 CE.


Black and White   Short story, published 2006                                        Doctor: 5

featuring Peri

Written by John Binns.

Takes place partly in San Diego; self-dated 3010 CE.


Festival of Death   Novel, published 2000                                     Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II, Romana

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Takes place in Tellurian space; self-dated 3012 CE.


Barnyard of the Cyberons   Short story, published 2020         Doctor: Unbound       

Featuring Chris, the Cyberons, 10,000 Dawns

Written by Tyche McPhee Letts.

Informed guess Takes place variously, but pivotally in Tellurian space, self-dated the thirty-first century CE.


The Exterminator   Comic story, published 1967                                     Doctor: 2

featuring the Daleks, Gillian, John

Written by Roger Noel Cook.

Informed guess Takes place on a Dalek-occupied planet; the Doctor’s annihilation of the Dalek high command – including the emperor? - plausibly concludes the Tellurian-Dalek conflict described in We Are the Daleks!.


Raising Hell   Online short story, posted 2008                             Doctor: Unbound

Featuring Faction Paradox, the Second War in Heaven

Written by Ushas the Rani.

Takes place mainly aboard a TT capsule, but briefly in an environment inhabited by presumably Tellurian-descended humanoids, self-dated 3023 CE.


The Sorceror’s Apprentice   Novel, published 1995                Doctor: 1

featuring Susan, Barbara, Ian

Written by Christopher Bulis.

Takes place on Elbyon; dated 3025 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.


The Revolution Game   Audio drama, released 2019                      Doctor: 8

Featuring Lucie

Written by Alice Cavender.

Takes place on Castus Sigma; self-dated 3025 CE.                            


Barrister to the Stars   Audio drama, released 2020                        Doctor: 0

Featuring River Song

Written by James Kettle.

Informed guess Takes place at the Institution of Reconciliation and Restitution; self-dated the thirty-first century CE.


The Blazing Hour   Audio drama, released 2021                    Doctor: 5

Featuring Turlough

Written by James Kettle.

Informed guess Takes place on Testament; self-dated the thirty-first century CE. Testament is located in a “buccaneering” intergalactic empire that I don’t think has any connection with the Galactic empire declining at this point in Mutter’s Spiral.


Death Sentences   Short story, published 2009    Doctors: 7, with 6 (informative mention)

Written by Stephen Hatcher.

Informed guess Takes place in Hogarth City, on Charisma, a Tellurian colony for some time, possibly during a period of interstellar social disorder.


The Shark Shocker   Comic story, published 2012                                    Doctor: 11      

Featuring Decky Flamboon

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Takes place on Seacyde; self-dated 3044 CE.


The Slots of Giza   Audio drama, released 2015                                        Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Hamish Steele.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, in an Egyptian-themed casino that has been operating for at least half a millennium.


The Infinity Race   Novel, published 2002                                     Doctor: 8

Featuring the remembered Fitz, Anji, Sabbath

Written by Simon Messingham.

Takes place mainly on Selonart; dated 3050 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.


Picture Imperfect   Comic story, published 2012                                      Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Steve Lyons.

Informed guess Takes place in an art gallery, in “the future”.


The Ultimate Treasure   Novel, published 1997                        Doctor: 5

featuring Kamelion, Peri

Written by Christopher Bulis.

Takes place on Astroville Seven and Gelsandor; self-dated as five thousand years after 1936 BCE.


Peril at Sixty Fathoms   Comic story, published 1969                             Doctor: 2

Illustrated ?and written by John Canning.

Informed guess Takes place on Nook, in Tellurian space.


Palace of the Red Sun    Novel, published 2002                     Doctor: 6

featuring Peri

Written by Christopher Bulis.

Takes place on Esselven Minor; mostly self-dated “a few years” after The Ultimate Treasure.

Glavis Judd Was Chancing His Arm

...thinking he was Napoleon and expecting not to end up being taken away by men in white coats.


Terror of the Sontarans   Audio drama, released 2015           Doctor: 7

Featuring the Sontarans, Mel

Written by John Dorney and Dan Starkey.

Takes place in ERM 4997, in Tellurian space; self-dated 3076 CE. That the Sontarans describe Earth as a planet that is “beginning to gain influence” in Mutter’s Spiral, as the first Tellurian Empire is in decline, suggests the scale they operate on, in both space and time.


The Ribos Operation   TV story, broadcast 1978                       Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II, Grace technology, Romana

Written by Robert Holmes, script edited by Anthony Read.

Takes place on Ribos; dated 3078 CE by Parkin in Ahistory. Romana is put aboard the TARDIS by the White Guardian, but we may assume that as a Time Lord she has already left linear time. Perhaps Time Lords are by definition never in linear time to begin with.


Scourge of the Cybermen   Audio story, released 2021         Doctor: 3

Featuring the Cybermen, Sarah Jane

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Takes place in an undersea base on an unnamed planet in Tellurian space; self-dated a thousand years after The Wheel in Space.


Spider’s Shadow   Audio drama, released 2008                                       Doctor: 7

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place on Keldafaria; self-dated 3087 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.


Untitled   Illustrated short story, published 2006                                      Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose

Written by Robert Shearman.

Informed guess Takes place in Earth’s future, when the Moon has been turned into a gallery exhibiting all of Earth’s art; possibly after the social, economic and environmental collapse of the planet in the late thirtieth century


Flip-Flop   Audio drama, released 2003                                              Doctor: 7

featuring Mel, and the Quarks (informative mention)

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Takes place on Puxatawnee; the later sections self-dated Christmas 3090 CE.


Christmas Every Day?   Short story, published 2009                              Doctor: 7

featuring Scotland, Ace (informative mention)

Written by Mark Magrs.

Takes place in the southern UK; Durham Cathedral is “two thousand” years old, but it is evidently before the Huyfbfgriniotite invasion of Earth placed in the last decade of the thirty-first century by Instead of You.

The Fate Of The Earth

The poles have, in the words of an uneducated Tellurian, “exploded”.


Superior Beings   Novel, published 2001                                       Doctor: 5

featuring Peri, and the Sontarans (informative mention)

Written by Nick Walters.

Takes place, partially, on the Garden; dated 3095 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.


The Sins of Winter   Audio story, released 2015                                Doctor: 12

Featuring Clara

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, generations after The House of Winter.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             5314

Proportion Written By Women 11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 439 stories                   

7                 430 stories 

8                 365 stories 

11               354 stories 

10               354 stories Climber!

3                 350 stories

5                 329 stories         

6                 319 stories    

1                 310 stories 

2                 274 stories         

12               158 stories

Unbound  118 stories

9                 86 stories  

13               67 stories           

War           47 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1143 stories                

Regional England                                            806 stories

The Time Lords                                               488 stories

UNIT                                                                  466 stories  

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                             460 stories  

Continental Europe                                         430 stories 

North America                                                 418 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                  380 stories

Benny                                                                 291 stories

The Master, including Missy                         269 stories

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        254 stories 

Torchwood                                                        252 stories  

Ace                                                                      239 stories 

The K9s                                                              225 stories 

At Sea                                                                 224 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  213 stories

Captain Jack                                                    203 stories

Christmas                                                          194 stories

Asia                                                                     190 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2165 stories

The Noughties                                                  1431 stories       

The Nineties                                                      557 stories

The Twenties                                                     426 stories

The Seventies                                                    253 stories  Climber! 

The Eighties                                                      252 stories

The Sixties                                                         160 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          283 stories

2018                                                          266 stories 

2020                                                          250 stories  

2015                                                          240 stories 

2017                                                           231 stories       

2008                                                          227 stories  

2011                                                          212 stories 

2013                                                          211 stories 

2009                                                          209 stories 

2010                                                          205 stories 

2019                                                          199 stories 

2007                                                          182 stories 

2021                                                          177 stories

2001                                                          166 stories 

2014                                                          164 stories 

2012                                                          159 stories  

2006                                                          145 stories

2004                                                          140 stories

2005                                                          131 stories

1993                                                          108 stories

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1113

Proportion of Female Writers               17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                       141 stories

Justin Richards                                       140 stories 

James Goss                                              135 stories   

Russell T Davies                                     118 stories  

Paul Magrs                                              96 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    96 stories  Climber!    

Eddie Robson                                          92 stories  

Steven Moffat                                         88 stories  

David Whitaker                                      81 stories  

Terry Nation                                           75 stories  

John Dorney                                            73 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              72 stories  

Steve Lyons                                             64 stories 

Simon Guerrier                                       61 stories   Climber!

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                       60 stories           

Gareth Roberts                                       60 stories  

Alan Barnes                                             57 stories   Climber!   

Stephen Cole                                           57 stories  

Robert Holmes                                        57 stories   Climber!   

Eric Saward                                            57 stories

 

 

 

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