Then Again: The Thirty Third Century

 

Solar Max and the Seven-Handed Snake-Mother  

Short story, published 2002                                                                          Doctor: 0

featuring Benny

Written by Kate Orman.

Informed guess Takes place on Terra Roxa, a second-generation Tellurian colony that is over a thousand years old; so, it can be not much earlier than this. How Benny, admittedly a frequent time-traveller, got to be in this period is not disclosed; neither is the source of her expedition’s funding.


The Mind’s Eye   Audio drama, released 2007                                Doctor: 5

featuring Peri, Erimem

Written by Colin Brake.

Informed guess Takes place on YT45; there is an Earth Empire, with Space Marines, but also a Federation with, apparently, greater authority.


Deathworld   Comic story, published 1980                                     Doctor: 4 (glimpse)

featuring the Cybermen, the Ice Warriors

Written by Steve Moore.

Informed guess Takes place on Yama-10; the Cybermen have played no part in galactic affairs for so long that the Ice Warriors do not recognise them.


Death Riders   Novel, published 2011                                                Doctor: 11      

Featuring Amy, Rory

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place on Stanalan; self-dated the 33rd century CE.


CitiZen’s Arrest   Comic story, published 2008                                        Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Takes place on Theta Magonon 7; self-dated 3269 CE.


Managra   Novel, published 1995                                                        Doctor: 4

featuring Vampires, Sarah Jane, with the Time Lords, the William Shakespeare thing (glimpse)

Written by Stephen Marley.

Takes place on Earth; self-dated 3278 CE.

The Fate of the Earth

Some of the planet’s surface has been made dimensionally transcendental, and Europe’s population have developed an obsessive cultural relationship with stylised versions of their history.


Baron (Count) Dracula and Count (Baron) Frankenstein

Charity short story, published 1998                                                    Doctor: 0

featuring Vampires

Written by Stephen Marley.

Informed guess Takes place in Europa, shortly after Managra.


Real Time   Audio drama, released 2002                                             Doctor: 6

featuring the Cybermen, Evelyn

Written by Gary Russell.

Takes place pivotally on Chronos; self-dated 3286 CE.


The Moon of Lost Hope   Comic story, published 2011                           Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Takes place on Thosis; self-dated 3287 CE.


Last of the Titans   Audio drama, released 2001                                      Doctor: 7

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place on Vilgreth’s spaceship. Genetically re-creating a primeval hominid who develops a Devonshire accent suggests the Europan period, or shortly after, as there is now a European Senate.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             5340

Proportion Written By Women  11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 444 stories                   

7                 433 stories 

8                 366 stories 

10               357 stories

11               356 stories 

3                 351 stories

5                 330 stories         

6                 323 stories    

1                 312 stories 

2                 274 stories         

12               159 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                                               492 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                                  380 stories

Benny                                                                 292 stories

The Master, including Missy                         269 stories

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        255 stories 

Torchwood                                                        252 stories  

Ace                                                                      241 stories 

The K9s                                                              227 stories 

At Sea                                                                 224 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  215 stories

Captain Jack                                                    203 stories

Christmas                                                          195 stories

Asia                                                                     190 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2170 stories

The Noughties                                                  1441 stories       

The Nineties                                                      562 stories

The Twenties                                                     427 stories

The Eighties                                                      256 stories

The Seventies                                                    254 stories         

The Sixties                                                         160 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          284 stories

2018                                                          267 stories 

2020                                                          250 stories  

2015                                                          240 stories 

2017                                                           231 stories       

2008                                                          230 stories  

2011                                                          214 stories 

2013                                                          211 stories 

2009                                                          209 stories 

2010                                                          205 stories 

2019                                                          199 stories 

2007                                                          186 stories 

2021                                                          178 stories

2001                                                          167 stories 

2014                                                          165 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                                       142 stories

Justin Richards                                       141 stories 

James Goss                                              136 stories   

Russell T Davies                                     118 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    97 stories 

Paul Magrs                                              96 stories  

Eddie Robson                                          93 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  

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                       60 stories           

Gareth Roberts                                       60 stories  

Alan Barnes                                             57 stories  

Stephen Cole                                           57 stories  

Robert Holmes                                        57 stories  

Eric Saward                                            57 stories

 

 

 

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