Then Again: The Twenty-Ninth Century

 

Timevault   Short story, published 1996                                                      Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II

Written by Ben Jeapes.

Informed guess Takes place in space; dated 2800 CE in the Whoniverse.

EarthWorld   Novel, published 2001                                                   Doctor: 8

Featuring the remembered Fitz, Anji

Written by Jacqueline Rayner.

Takes place on New Jupiter; dated 2800 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.

The Highest Science: Prelude   Illustrated short story, published 1993         Doctor: 7

featuring the Chelonians, Benny

Written by Gareth Roberts.

Takes place on Checkley’s World, approaching Vaagon, and in the TARDIS. For the Chelonians and the TARDIS occupants, The Highest Science takes place soon after.

The Highest Science   Novel, published 1993                             Doctor: 7

featuring the Chelonians, Benny

Written by Gareth Roberts.

Takes place on Hogsumm; self-dated two hundred and thirty years after Benny’s time, or 2680, which would be correct by Galactic Standard dates, so 2800 CE.

Attack of the 50 Foot Rory   Comic story, published 2011                       Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy, Rory

Written by Colin Brake.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space.

The Mechanical Planet   Comic story, published 1965                            Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Terry Nation and David Whittaker.

Informed guess Takes place in space; self-dated two hundred years after the last Tellurian-Dalek conflict, and plausibly after The Chase; although building a mechanical planet would take a bit of time, even if you’re the Mechanoids.

Distant Voices   Audio story, released 2020                                        Doctor: 12

Written by Lizbeth Myles.

Takes place in Rochester Castle, the latest section self-dated 2815 CE.

The World that Waits   Comic story, published 1965                              Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks, the Mechanoids

Written by Terry Nation and David Whittaker.

Informed guess Takes place on Mechanus, not long after The Mechanical Planet.

Destination: Nerva   Audio Drama, released 2012                            Doctor: 4

Featuring Leela

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place in London, Kent and the orbit of Jupiter; mostly soon after the construction of Space Station Nerva as a dock.

Eve of the War   Comic story, published 1966                                           Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks, the Mechanoids

Written by Angus Allan, Allen Fennell, Terry Nation and David Whitaker.

Informed guess Takes place near and on Skaro, plausibly not long after The World that Waits.

Night of the Vashta Nerada   Audio Drama, released 2017           Doctor: 4

Featuring the Vashta Nerada

Written by John Dorney.

Informed guess Takes place on Funworld, in Tellurian Space, around the same time as The Two Masters, and hence, sometime after Requiem For the Rocket Men.

The Archives of Phyrne   Comic story, published 1966                           Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Angus Allan, Allen Fennell, Terry Nation and David Whitaker.

Informed guess Takes place near and on Phyrne; shortly after Eve of the War.

Dreamers of Death   Comic story, published 1980                                   Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II, Sharon

Written by Steve Moore.

Informed guess Takes place on Uniceptor IV. This is clearly a Tellurian colony world: the presence of a “Lord” suggests the later First Empire.

Rogue Planet   Comic story, published 1966                                             Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Angus Allan, Allen Fennell, Terry Nation and David Whitaker.

Informed guess Takes place on Skaro; after The Archives of Phyrne, as published.

Impasse   Comic story, published 1966                                                       Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks, the Mechanoids

Written by Angus Allan, Allen Fennell, Terry Nation and David Whitaker.

Informed guess Takes place on Zeros, Skaro and Mechanus; immediately after Rogue Planet.

Lost Luggage   Game Book, published 2008                                         Doctor: 10

Written by Colin Brake.

Ig Takes place in Tellurian space at a time of extensive interstellar travel: there is a Security Office on Saturn.

Victims   Comic story, published 1994                                                        Doctor: 4

featuring Romana

Written by Dan Abnett.

Informed guess Takes place on Kolpasha, during a Tellurian empire; plausibly the late First.

Dark Progeny   Novel, published 2001                                             Doctor: 8

Featuring the remembered Fitz, Anji

Written by Steve Emmerson.

Takes place on Ceres Alpha; self-dated November 2847 CE.

They Were Chancing Their Arm

…employing somebody called Tyran and expecting him not to behave tyrannically.

Time Bomb   Comic story, published 1986                                              Doctor: 6

featuring Frobisher, and Peri (glimpse)

Written by Jamie Delano.

Informed guess Takes place eventually on Hedron and briefly in New York, NY; self-dated 2850 CE.

 

Terrore della Spazia(1965), approximately “Terror in Space”, was released in Anglophone territories as Planet of the Vampires although its monsters have nothing to do with Vampires as the term might be used in Doctor Who narrative. It is an influential work of horror/space opera however, which I think could be inserted into the narrative at this point.

 

Revenge of the Cybermen   TV story, broadcast 1975           Doctor: 4

featuring the Cybermen, the Vogans, Sarah Jane, Harry

Written by Gerry Davis, script edited by Robert Holmes.

Takes place in the outer Solar System; dated November 2875 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.

Zeitgeist   Short story, published 1996                                                         Doctor: 5

featuring Turlough, and the Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Craig Hinton.

Informed guess Takes place on Heracletus, a Lorq lifespan after Timevault.

The Power of Kroll    TV story, broadcast 1979                           Doctor: 4

featuring Grace technology, Romana, and K9 II (informative mention)

Written by Robert Holmes, script edited by Anthony Read.

Takes place on Delta Three; dated 2878 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.

Planet of the Mechanoids   Animated story, released 2020                  Doctor: 0

Featuring the Daleks, the Mechanoids

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place on Mechanus. This dating would make the Restoration Empire Daleks from the far future: I’m assuming that in shaking off the Entity, they are killing two birds with one stone in dumping on the Mechanoids who were a potential threat to their ancestors. (Do Daleks have ancestors? Predecessors, anyway).

The Deadly Ally   Animated story, released 2020                                     Doctor: 0

Featuring the Daleks, the Mechanoids

Written by James Goss.

Informed guess Takes place on Mechanus, immediately after Planet of the Mechanoids.

Dummy Run   Comic story, published 2012                                               Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Glenn Dakin.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space at a time of sophisticated robotics.

Three’s a Crowd   Audio Drama, released 2005                             Doctor: 5

featuring Peri, Erimem

Written by Colin Brake.

Takes place on and above Phoenix; self-dated fifty years after 2835 CE. It would appear from this that some Tellurian colonists lived in the nascent Federation contemporaneously with the First Empire; and already dissident to it.

Rescue Mission   Short story, published 1997                                           Doctor: 0

featuring the Forrester Family

Written by Paul Leonard.

Takes place on Claathi; dated 2895 CE in the Whoniverse.

Supernature   Comic story, published 2010                                               Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Takes place on Basingstoke; dated 2895 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.

The Star Racer   Charity short story, published 2001                                Doctor: 8

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Takes place near the Solar System; self-dated September, 2897 CE.

The Invisible Invaders   Comic story, published 1965                             Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Terry Nation and David Whittaker.

Informed guess Takes place on Skaro; plausibly in the run up to the Tellurian-Dalek conflict described in We Are The Daleks!.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             5240

Proportion Written By Women  11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 431 stories                   

7                 419 stories 

8                 360 stories 

11               349 stories 

3                 345 stories

10               343 stories

5                 323 stories         

6                 313 stories    

1                 305 stories 

2                 270 stories         

12               156 stories

Unbound  116 stories

9                 86 stories  

13               67 stories           

War           47 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1143 stories                

Regional England                                            805 stories

The Time Lords                                               483 stories

UNIT                                                                  465 stories  

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

Continental Europe                                         427 stories 

North America                                                 417 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                  373 stories

Benny                                                                 289 stories

The Master, including Missy                         268 stories

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        252 stories  Climber!   

Torchwood                                                        252 stories  

Ace                                                                      236 stories 

At Sea                                                                 222 stories

The K9s                                                              222 stories  Climber! 

Amy and Rory                                                  211 stories

Captain Jack                                                    203 stories

Christmas                                                          192 stories

Asia                                                                     190 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2148 stories

The Noughties                                                  1401 stories       

The Nineties                                                      550 stories

The Twenties                                                     420 stories

The Eighties                                                      250 stories

The Seventies                                                    247 stories

The Sixties                                                         154 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          282 stories

2018                                                          265 stories 

2020                                                          246 stories  

2015                                                          235 stories 

2017                                                           230 stories       

2008                                                          225 stories  

2011                                                          211 stories  Climber!

2013                                                          210 stories 

2010                                                          205 stories  Climber! 

2009                                                          202 stories 

2019                                                          197 stories 

2007                                                          176 stories 

2021                                                          175 stories

2001                                                          164 stories  Climber! 

2014                                                          162 stories 

2012                                                          156 stories  

2006                                                          142 stories

2004                                                          139 stories

2005                                                          130 stories

1993                                                          108 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                                              134 stories   

Russell T Davies                                     118 stories  

Paul Magrs                                              96 stories  

Eddie Robson                                          92 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    91 stories  

Steven Moffat                                         88 stories  

David Whitaker                                      81 stories  

Terry Nation                                           74 stories   Climber!   

Matt Fitton                                              72 stories  

John Dorney                                            72 stories   Climber!   

Steve Lyons                                             63 stories 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                       60 stories           

Gareth Roberts                                       60 stories   Climber!

Simon Guerrier                                       58 stories  

Stephen Cole                                           57 stories  

Alan Barnes                                             56 stories  

Robert Holmes                                        56 stories   Re-entry!

Eric Saward                                            56 stories