Then Again: The Thirty Fifth Century

 

The Flight of the Sun God   Audio story, released 2019                 Doctor: 6

Featuring Peri, with Egypt (informative mention).

Written by Nev Fountain.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space; self-dated the thirty-fifth century CE.


The Ruins of Heaven   Short story, published 2003                                 Doctor: 6

featuring Peri

Written by Marc Platt.

Informed guess Takes place on Sheol; cricket is still played on Earth.


The Menagerie   Novel, published 1995                                           Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Zoe, and the Draconians (informative mention)

Written by Martin Day.

Takes place on an unnamed Tellurian colony; dated 3417 CE by Parkin in Ahistory


Paradise Five   Prose adaptation of unmade TV story, published 1993   

Doctor: Unbound 6

featuring Unbound Time Lords, Unbound Valeyard, Unbound Mel

Adapted by Jamie Woolley from a story by P J Hammond.

Informed guess Takes place in the Paradise System, simultaneously with Paradise 5 in an alternative timeline.


Paradise 5   Audio adaptation of unmade TV story, released 2010     Doctor: 6

Featuring Peri

Adapted by Andy Lane from a story by P J Hammond.

Informed guess Takes place in the Paradise System, self-dated the thirty-fifth century CE. The Doctor’s clothes are described as “so last millennium” (see Victims).


World of Ice   Illustrated short story, published 1968                               Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Victoria

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1969 crew.

Informed guess Takes place on Pendant; not too far from the late Fourth Millenium (Placebo Effect); given the lack of reference to space travel, probably some time before.


Sick Building   Novel, published 2007                                             Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha

Written by Paul Magrs.

Informed guess Takes place on Tiermann’s World; self-dated the thirty-fifth century CE.


The Beast of Muir   Audio short story, released 2020                              Doctor: 4

Featuring Leela

Written by Nicole Petit.

Takes place on Muir; self-dated 3457 CE.

 

As mentioned, Robert Heinlein’s future history is in its entirety incompatible with Doctor Who narrative, but his 1963 novel Orphans of the Sky can be cherry-picked easily enough. Heinlein’s novel Methusulah’s Children puts its events as taking place in the late thirty-fifth century, in a millennium-old generation starship.

 

Terror on Tiro   Illustrated short story, published 1966                            Doctor: 1

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1967 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Tiro.


The Master of Callous   Audio drama, released 2018               Doctor: 0

Featuring the Time Lords, the Master, the Ood

Written by James Goss and Guy Adams.

Informed guess Takes place on Callous, in Tellurian space.


Citadel of Dreams   Novella, published 2002                                    Doctor: 7

featuring Ace

Written by Dave Stone.

Informed guess Takes place on world near the Galactic Hub, centuries after the arrival of a Tellurian expedition.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             5368

Proportion Written By Women  11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 448 stories                   

7                 436 stories 

8                 366 stories 

11               361 stories

10               359 stories

3                 352 stories

5                 330 stories         

6                 327 stories    

1                 313 stories 

2                 279 stories         

12               161 stories

Unbound  119 stories

9                 86 stories  

13               67 stories           

War           47 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1144 stories                

Regional England                                            806 stories

The Time Lords                                               496 stories

UNIT                                                                  466 stories  

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

Continental Europe                                         432 stories 

North America                                                 419 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                  381 stories

Benny                                                               293 stories

The Master, including Missy                         271 stories

Wales                                                                261 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        255 stories 

Torchwood                                                        252 stories  

Ace                                                                      244 stories 

The K9s                                                              228 stories 

At Sea                                                                 224 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  219 stories

Captain Jack                                                    203 stories

Christmas                                                          195 stories

Asia                                                                     190 stories=

Romana                                                             190 stories=

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2180 stories

The Noughties                                                  1446 stories       

The Nineties                                                      569 stories

The Twenties                                                     428 stories

The Eighties                                                      257 stories

The Seventies                                                    254 stories         

The Sixties                                                         164 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          284 stories

2018                                                          269 stories 

2020                                                          251 stories  

2015                                                          240 stories 

2017                                                           231 stories       

2008                                                          231 stories  

2011                                                          217 stories 

2013                                                          212 stories 

2009                                                          210 stories 

2010                                                          207 stories 

2019                                                          200 stories 

2007                                                          187 stories 

2021                                                          178 stories

2001                                                          167 stories 

2014                                                          166 stories 

2012                                                          159 stories  

2006                                                          145 stories

2004                                                          140 stories

2005                                                          131 stories

1993                                                          109 stories

                            

     

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1116

Proportion of Female Writers                17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Terrance Dicks                                       142 stories

Justin Richards                                       141 stories 

James Goss                                              137 stories   

Russell T Davies                                     118 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    97 stories 

Paul Magrs                                              97 stories   Climber!   

Eddie Robson                                          93 stories  

Steven Moffat                                         90 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  

Gareth Roberts                                       61 stories

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                         60 stories           

Alan Barnes                                             58 stories  

Stephen Cole                                           57 stories=

Robert Holmes                                        57 stories=

Gary Russell                                            57 stories=

Eric Saward                                            57 stories=

 

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