Then Again: The Early Sixth Millennium
Emotional Chemistry Novel, published 2003 Doctor: 8
Featuring
the remembered Fitz, Trix, with the Time
Agency (informative mention)
Written by Simon A Forward.
Takes place in eastern Europe and northern
Asia; climactically self-dated 5000 CE.
One Man and His Dog Illustrated
short story, published 2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring K9 I
Written by Bob Baker.
Takes place on Earth and the Bi-Al Foundation, orbiting the sun between
Mars and Jupiter; self-dated 5000 CE.
The Invisible Enemy TV
story, broadcast 1977 Doctor: 4
featuring
Leela, K9 I
Written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, script edited
by Robert Holmes.
Takes place on the Bi-Al Foundation; dated 5000 CE
by Parkin in
Ahistory. K9 I leaves linear time,
being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises.
Death on the Euphrates Short story,
published 2014 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written by Selina Lock.
Informed guess Takes place on Mars. At least part of its surface is covered by “miles
high” aqueducts, constructed by a long-dead race, so relatively far in the
future, and at least part of its surface is dominated by criminal gangs,
suggesting a solar system collapsing into anarchy as a result of the solar
flares.
The Butcher of Brisbane Audio drama, released 2012 Doctor: 5
Featuring Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough
Written by Marc Platt.
Takes place on and above the Earth, including in Queensland, Beijing
and Iceland; self-dated the fifty-first century CE and before The Keep.
Pompadour Webcast, posted 2020 Doctor: 10 (informative mention)
Featuring Versailles
(informative mention)
Written by Steven Moffat.
Takes place in Tellurian
space, self-dated the fifty-first century CE.
Screamers! Comic story,
published 2011 Doctor: 11
Featuring Amy,
Rory
Written by Steve Lyons.
Informed guess Takes place on Argone, in
Tellurian space.
Month 25 Audio drama, released 2017 Doctor:
0
Featuring Dorian Gray, the Time Agency, Captain Jack
Written
by Guy Adams.
Informed guess Takes
place in Tellurian space; self-dated the Fifty-First century CE.
Schroedinger’s Botanist Charity short
story, published 1998 Doctor: 6
featuring
Grant, and the Time Lords, the Daleks,
Vortis, the Earth Reptiles, the Chellonians, the Rutan, the Valeyard (glimpse),
and Peri (informative mention)
Written by Ian McIntire.
Informed guess Ends up on the Bi-Al Foundation; one may assume
some time near to
4T.
The End of the Beginning Audio drama, released 2021
Doctors: 5, 6, 8, with
7 (glimpse)
Featuring Turlough,
Charley, Constance, the Time Lords, with Flip (informative mention)
Written by Robert
Valentine.
Informed guess Takes place
variously, including in Syria, London and the Outer Solar System; pivotally
self-dated the fifty-first century CE.
Revellers of Doom Short story,
published 2008 Doctor: 6
featuring
Evelyn
Written by Matthew Griffiths.
Takes place beneath Iceland; self-dated Christmas 5017
CE.
Diamond Dogs Novel, published 2017 Doctor:
12
Featuring Bill
Written by Mike Tucker.
Informed guess Takes place in New York but
mostly above Saturn; self-dated the fifty-first century, and some time after 5012 CE.
One
Mile Down Audio drama, released 2019 Doctor: 10
Featuring Donna, the Judoon
Written by Jenny Colgan.
Ig Takes place on Vallarasee;
self-dated the fifty-first century CE.
The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
TV
story, broadcast 2010 Doctor: 11
Featuring the
Weeping Angels, River Song, Amy, with Rory (informative mention)
Written by Steven Moffat.
One Last Try Illustrated
short story, published 1994 Doctor: 5
featuring Turlough
Written by Steve
Lyons.
Informed guess Takes place in
Paramount City, ending two thousand years after it was a flourishing Tellurian
colony.
The Keep Comic story,
published 1997 Doctor: 8
featuring Izzy
Written by Alan
Barnes.
Informed guess Takes place in the
Amazon Basin; self-dated the fifty-first century CE.
The
Fate Of The Earth
The last of
Earth’s population – or almost the last, see The
Tears of Isis - evacuates it to escape Solar Flares.
Planet of the Diners Comic story,
published 2014 Doctor: 12
Featuring Clara
Written by Colin Bell
Takes place on Calbaron
III, the later section self-dated 5086 CE.
Silence in the Library and The Forest of the Dead
TV
story, broadcast 2008 Doctor: 10
Featuring Donna,
River Song, the Vashta Nerada
Written by Steven Moffat,
script supervised by Russell T Davies.
Informed guess Takes place in The Library; self-dated the fifty-first century CE.
Nightmare
of the Daleks Audio drama, released 2021 Doctor: 5
Featuring the
Daleks, Nyssa, Tegan, Marc
Written by Martyn
Waites.
Informed guess Takes place on XB93;
self-dated the fifty-first century CE.
The
Tears of Isis Audio drama, released 2015 Doctor: 7
Featuring the Osirans, Ace, Benny
Written by Una McCormack.
Informed guess Takes place in Surrey, after Earth has been
denuded by Solar flares, dated the twenty-ninth century by the Doctor. Clearly,
Big Finish is jackaling along in the Welsh Series’s footsteps in trying to
rubbish the continuity established by its superiors in the New Adventures, but
I scorn to accommodate it, and am setting this not too long after The Keep.
The Lost Generation Short story,
published 2014 Doctor: 4
Featuring Sarah
Jane
Written by George Mann.
Informed guess Takes place aboard the
generation starship Prosperity, some three thousand years into its voyage,
which started before the development of supralight travel.
Fire and Brimstone Comic story,
published 1997 Doctor: 8
featuring the Daleks, the Threshold, Izzy
Written by Alan
Barnes.
Informed guess Takes place in
the New Earth (Crivello’s Cauldron) system; self-dated two centuries after The
Keep (but by the dating of Wormwood, “two
centuries” is rounding up).
The Beast Below TV story, broadcast 2010 Doctor:
11
Featuring Amy
Written by Steven Moffat.
Informed guess Takes place in space, dated
the 33rd century by the Doctor, who also says that Earth was ravaged
by solar flares in the 29th century. This contradicts much other
material set around the end of the third millennium, while not fitting in badly
with material from around the end of the fifth, so I conclude that the Doctor
is absent-mindedly using Imperial Space years, putting this story in the 52nd
to 53rd century CE. True, the records of Spaceship UK give Amy an
age of 1306, but the screen shows an age of 1308, casting doubt on the
reliability of the system.
High Spirits Audio drama, released 2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written by Cavan Scott.
Informed guess Takes place in The Garden In The Clouds, presumably in Tellurian space.
Revenge
of the Swarm Audio drama, released 2014 Doctor: 7
Featuring Ace, Hex
Written by Jonathan Morris.
Informed guess Takes place in the outer Solar System and elsewhere in Tellurian space;
the later sections self-dated the fifty-second century.
Wormwood Comic story,
published 1998 Doctor: 8
featuring the Threshold, Shayde, Izzy, Fey, with the Time Lords (glimpse) and the
Sontarans (informative mention)
Written by Scott
Gray.
Informed guess Takes place on
the Moon; self-dated twenty years after Fire and Brimstone and the
fifty-second century CE.
The
Fate Of The Earth
THE MOON EXPLODES, PRESUMABLY GIVING EARTH
A RING SYSTEM, BOMBARDING IT WITH DEBRIS AND GRADUALLY ELIMINATING TIDES. THE
RESUMPTION OF SPACE TRAVEL AFTER THE WORMWOOD WAVEFRONT IS PLAUSIBLY THE
OCCASION OF “THE GREAT BREAKOUT” (The Invisible Enemy).
The Master Plan Comic story, published 2021 Doctors: 3, 12, with 4, 8, War, 13 (glimpse)
Featuring The Master, River Song, Missy, with the
Cybermen, Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton, the Raxacorricofallapatorians, the Earth
Reptiles, Jo, Grace, Clara
Written by Jody Hauser.
Informed guess Takes place variously, including in London, Essex and
San Francisco, but pivotally in the Stormcage facility, self-dated the
fifty-second century CE,
The Origins of the Cyberpapacy Online fictional document, posted 2014 Doctor: 0
Featuring the
Second War in Heaven
Written by Simon
Bucher-Jones
Informed guess Relates to the
fifty-second century CE.
Lorna’s Escape Illustrated
short story, published 2012 Doctor:
11
Written by Jason Loborik.
Informed guess Takes place in the Gamma
Forests, a few years before A Good Man Goes to War.
The Bekdel Test Audio drama, released 2019 Doctor: 0
Featuring Missy,
River Song, with the Time Lords, the Daleks, Mortimus, the Sontarans, the
Draconians, the Rani, Romana (informative mention)
Written by Jonathan Morris.
Informed guess Takes place in the Bekdel Institute, soon after River Song’s initial
incarceration in the Stormcage facility, but after The Master
Plan.
Visiting Hours Illustrated
short story, published 2020 Doctor:
0
Featuring River
Song, Faction Paradox, Rory, with Amy (informative mention)
Written by David Rudden.
Informed guess Takes place in the Stormcage facility, after Amy and Rory have learned
that River Song is their daughter, at Christmas.
The Light Keepers Audio drama,
released 2018 Doctor:
11
Written by Roy
Gill.
Informed guess Takes place in the Maldovarium, not long before A Good Man Goes to War.
Picnic at Asgard Short story,
published 2016 Doctor: 11
Featuring River Song
Written by Jenny Colgan.
Takes place on Asgard; self-dated May 5147 CE.
Inside the Maldovarium Audio drama,
released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring Jenny
Written by Adrian
Poynton.
Takes place in
the Maldovarium, before A Good Man Goes to War.
Altered Status Audio drama,
released 2021 Doctor: 0
featuring the
Cybermen, Jenny
Written by Christian
Brassington and Matt Fitton.
Takes place on
and above New Damson, immediately after Inside the Maldovarium.
Death in New Venice
Short story, published 2016 Doctor: 0
Featuring River Song
Written by Guy Adams.
Informed guess Takes place in New Venice, during River Song’s incarceration in the
Stormcage facility.
A Good Man Goes to War TV
story, broadcast 2011 Doctor: 11
Featuring the Cybermen, the Earth Reptiles, the
Sontarans, the Judoon, River
Song, Amy, Rory, the Paternoster Gang
Written by Steven Moffat.
Takes place on Demon’s Run, a century after The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone.
Amnesia Online
fictional document, posted 2014 Doctor: 0
Featuring the
Silents
Written by
Simon Bucher-Jones.
Pertains to
the Silents, and placed during A Good Man Goes to War.
The Battle of Demon’s Run: Two Days Later Webcast, posted 2013 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Earth Reptiles, the Sontarans, the
Paternoster Gang
Written by Steven Moffat.
Takes place on Demon’s Run, two days after A Good Man Goes to War.
The Heist Short story,
published 2018 Doctor:
0
Featuring the Cybermen, the Nestene Consciousness,
the Earth Reptiles, the Krillitanes. The Ood, with the Sontarans (glimpse) and
the Draconians (informative mention)
Written by Dave Rudden.
Informed guess Takes place in and near the Maldovarium, not long after A Good Man Goes to War.
River of Time Short story,
published 2016 Doctor:
0
Featuring the Time Lords, River Song, with the
Racnoss (informative mention)
Written by Andy Lane.
Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, during River Song’s incarceration in
the Stormcage facility, and after Death
in New Venice as published.
The Lady in the Lake Audio drama,
released 2018 Doctor:
5
Featuring Brooke, River Song
Written by Nev Fountain.
Takes place on Terminus Prime; self-dated the fifty-second century, and
some years after A Good Man
Goes to War.
The Furies Audio drama,
released 2018 Doctor: 5
Featuring Brooke, River Song
Written by Matt Fitton.
Takes place in the Concorde Well, not long after The Lady in the Lake.
The Shattered Hourglass
Audio short story, released 2020 Doctor: 10
Featuring Time Agents
Written by Robert Napton.
Informed guess Takes place at the Time Agency; self-dated the fifty-second century.
Lies in Ruins Audio drama,
released 2019 Doctor: 8
Featuring Benny, River Song, with the Time Lords (informative
mention)
Written by James Goss.
Informed guess Takes place on a TT capsule configured as an archeologically
interesting planet. Presumably this is during River Song’s career as an
archaeologist following her release from the Stormcage Facility. Benny fetched
up on the faculty at the Lunar University in the 52nd century CE and
River Song studied under her.
Time in a Bottle Audio drama,
released 2018 Doctor:
0
Featuring River Song
Written by Emma Reeves and Matt Fitton.
Informed guess Takes place on Lyparia, implicitly after The Furies.
This is approximately as far in the future as the dawn of the Iron Age
(evidence of iron being smelted and worked in Anatolia), is in the past.
Alien Heart and Dalek
Soul Audio drama, released 2017 Doctor: 5
Featuring the Daleks, Nyssa, with the Movellans (informative
mention)
Written by Stephen Cole and Guy Adams.
Informed guess Takes place on and near Traxana and Mojox, during the Dalek-Movellan
war, at a fluid, and therefore early stage. Neverland dates a Dalek-Movellan battle to 4949 CE, so I’m placing this
relatively near then.
Her Own Worst Enemy Audio drama,
released 2021 Doctor: 0
Featuring Jenny,
with the Cybermen (informative mention)
Written by
Lisa McMullin.
Informed guess Takes place on
Mirabilis 5. It is said that the Cybermen were wiped out a century ago: this
proves to be wishful thinking, but it suggests a time over a century on from The
Heist.
Winter on Mesique
Illustrated short story, published 1983 Doctor: 5
featuring
Tegan, Turlough
Written by the World Distributors Annual 1984 crew.
Informed guess Takes place on Mesique, after many generations of
Tellurian colonisation.
The Dalek Trap Audio drama, released 2019 Doctor: 8
Featuring the Daleks, the Fendahl, Lucie
Written
by Nicholas Briggs.
Arbitrary placement Takes
place in the Canthares Black Hole.
The Discourse of Flies
Short story, published 2003 Doctor: 3
featuring
Sarah Jane
Written by Jeremy Daw.
Arbitrary placement
Takes place in
the city of Hezrah.
Kursaal Novel,
published 1998 Doctor: 8
featuring Sam, with the Ogrons, the Alpha Centaurans (glimpse)
Written by Peter
Anghelides.
Informed guess Takes place on
Saturnia Regna. This has been recently colonised by Tellurian-descended humans:
a previous humanoid colony was wiped out a thousand years previously, so I’m
placing it after the Great Breakout. The Jax on Saturnia Regna are werewolves
in a way that may be thought of as parallel evolution to the Mal’akh.
The Killer Weed Comic story,
published 2014 Doctor:
11
Featuring Clara
Written by Trevor Baxendale.
Informed guess Takes place in the Arboretum, at a time when
Terrestrial biology is being conserved, plausibly while Earth is uninhabitable.
The Husbands of River Song TV story, broadcast 2015 Doctor:
12
Featuring River
Song, Nardole
Written by Steven Moffat.
Takes place principally on
Mendorax Dellora, Darillium and elsewhere in Tellurian space;
self-dated Christmas 5343
CE. Nardole is aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises, but, as an employee of
River Song, he may have left linear time at an earlier stage of his life than
this.
The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe TV story, broadcast 2011 Doctor: 11
Featuring Amy, Rory
Written by Steven Moffat.
Takes place variously, in
London, at Christmas, and Dorset, but pivotally on an uninhabited planet,
probably not far from Sirius; self-dated 5345 CE.
TV Hell! Comic story,
published 2012 Doctor:
11
Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory
Written by Christopher Cooper.
Informed guess The narrative seems a little ambiguous, but it would appear that Earth is suffering from Solar Flares, and so is this planet, suggesting that it is a terraformed planet in the Solar System, most likely Mars. Around the beginning of the sixth millennium CE seems a plausible date.
Kill the Doctor! And The Age of Sutekh Audio drama, released 2018 Doctor: 4
Featuring the Osirans, Leela
Written by Guy Adams.
Takes place on Drummond, one assumes some time after The Tears of Isis.
Nova Comic story,
published 1973 Doctor: 3
featuring Arnold
Written by Gerry
Haylock.
Arbitrary placement Takes place in
space.
Paper Moon Novel, published 2021 Doctor: 13
Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz
Written by Louie Stowell.
Arbitrary placement Takes place on Boda.
Exhausting Evil Comic story,
published 2007 Doctor:
10
Featuring Martha
Written by Claire Lister.
Informed guess
Takes place on Harankast, a colony world settled by Tellurians for some
considerable time.
The Star Men Audio drama, released 2017 Doctor: 5
Featuring Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
Written by Andrew Smith.
Informed guess Takes place on Gallius Ultima and in the Large Magellanic Cloud;
self-dated the fifty-fourth century CE.
The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos TV story, broadcast 2018 Doctor: 13
Featuring Graham,
Ryan, Yaz
Written by Chris Chibnall.
Takes place on Ranskoor Av
Kolos; self-dated three thousand, four hundred and seven years after 2018 CE.
Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders
Novelisation of a TV story, published 1975 Doctor: 3
featuring the Time Lords, Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT, Benton, Yates, Sarah Jane
Adapted by
Terrance Dicks from a script by Robert Sloman, edited by himself.
Takes place in
regional England and, pivotally, on Metebilis III; dated 5433 CE by Parkin in
Ahistory.
Space Vikings! Comic story,
published 2009 Doctor: 10
Written by Jonathan Morris.
Informed guess Takes place on Lindis, a Tellurian colony world, some distance in the
future.
Starlight Robbery
Audio drama,
released 2013 Doctor: 7
Featuring the Sontarans, Klein,
Will Arrowsmith, with the Daleks (informative mention)
Written by Matt Fitton.
Takes place on Planetoid Q987, after Black and
White and before Stolen Goods.
Corridors of Power Short story,
published 2003 Doctor: 1
featuring Vicki, Steven
Written by
Matthew Griffiths.
Informed guess Takes place in
space, far enough in the future for Tellurians to be subcontracting weapons
construction to aliens.
Terminus TV story, broadcast 1983 Doctor: 5
featuring Grace technology, Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough
Written by Steve
Gallagher, script edited by Eric Saward.
Informed guess Takes place at
and near the centre of the universe.
Why
I Respectfully Disagree With Lance Parkin’s Dating
Ahistory
gives a date of 3482, from the date given in Asylum; but this is
given as Year 3482, in contradistinction to 1278 AD and 1346 AD, so I am taking
this as an Imperial Space Year (making it 5439 CE).
Andiba and the Four
Slitheen Illustrated short story, published 2015 Doctor: 0
Featuring the
Raxacoricofallapatorians
Written by Justin Richards.
Arbitrary placement Takes place in an unnamed
environment inhabited by humanoids
Live 34 Audio drama,
released 2005 Doctor:
7
featuring Ace, Hex
Written by James
Parsons and Andrew Stirling-Brown.
Informed guess Takes place on
Colony 34. Earth is believed to have been abandoned for centuries.
Vortex of Fear Short story,
published 1995 Doctor:
2
featuring Jamie, Zoe
Written by
Gareth Roberts.
Informed guess Takes place in
an artefact of the Second Empire. I place this in the wake of the Great
Breakout: the empire is centred on a colony on the edge of the galaxy
(identified in The Tomb of Valdemar as Dephys),
presumably because the Solar System is largely uninhabitable owing to the Solar
flares described in The Keep.
Cobwebs Audio drama, released 2010 Doctor: 5
Featuring Nyssa,
Tegan, Turlough
Written by Jonathan Morris.
Takes place on Helheim;
self-dated fifty years after Terminus.
These Stolen Hours Audio
short story, released 2020 Doctor: 6
Featuring
Charley, with the Viyrans (informative
mention)
Written by Grace Knight.
Informed
guess Takes
place on a space station in Tellurian space.
Hide and Seek Short story, published 2006 Doctor:
3
featuring the Daleks, Jo
Written by Ian
Farrington.
Informed guess Takes place in
Tellurian space, which is now extensive; and interstellar travel takes a matter
of hours; but nobody has heard of the Daleks. I do not think that this would be
the case in any Tellurio-Dalek conflict before the one described in Doctor
Who – The Evil of the Daleks.
Words of Conquest Charity drabble, published 1993 Doctor: 7, probably
featuring the Daleks
Written by Steve
Bowkett.
Informed guess Takes place on
Drakonamegas; plausibly just before or during Doctor
Who – The Evil of the Daleks.
Doctor Who - The Evil of the Daleks Novelisation of a TV story, published 1993 Doctor: 2
featuring the Daleks, Jamie, Victoria, with the Draconians (informative mention)
Adapted by John
Peel from a script by David Whitaker, edited by Gerry Davis and Peter Bryant.
Informed guess Takes place in
London and Kent, but pivotally on Skaro, “over a thousand years” after The
Daleks’ Masterplan. I am guessing that the
Dalek civil war featured is the one recorded five thousand years before The
Crystal Bucephalus. That the Daleks are on
the back foot with regard to the Tellurians and the Draconians is compatible
with their resources being absorbed by hostilities with the Movellans; also
they may have been slower to rebuild their resources in interplanetary space
after the universal Threshold extinction event in Wormwood.
Meeting of Minds Charity short
story, published 2001 Doctor: 2
featuring the Daleks
Written by Craig
Hinton.
Takes place on
Skaro, during Doctor Who – The Evil of the Daleks.
Total
Stories Considered 5615
Proportion
Written By Women 11%
Top
Docs
4 475
stories
7 458
stories
10 392
stories
11 384
stories
8 382
stories
3 364
stories
5 349 stories
6 336 stories
1 322
stories
2 290
stories
12 169
stories
Unbound 123
stories
9 89 stories
13 73 stories
War 48 stories
Top
Twenty Recurring Elements
London 1151
stories
Regional
England 813
stories
The
Time Lords 511
stories
UNIT 467
stories
Alastair,
Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 462
stories
Continental
Europe 437
stories
North
America 423
stories
The
Daleks and Davros 416
stories
Benny 301
stories
The
Master, including Missy 276 stories
Sarah
Jane 263
stories Climber!
Wales 261
stories
Ace 254
stories Climber!
Torchwood 254
stories
The
K9s 243
stories
Amy
and Rory 234
stories Climber!
At Sea 230
stories
Captain
Jack 206
stories
Christmas 204
stories
Peri 196
stories=
Romana 196
stories=
Top
Decades
The
Teens 2276
stories
The
Noughties 1509
stories
The
Nineties 596
stories
The
Twenties 459
stories
The
Eighties 264
stories
The
Seventies 263
stories
The
Sixties 178
stories
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and
William Hope Hodgson) 70
stories
And
Top Twenty Years
2016 293
stories
2018 282
stories
2020 262
stories
2015 254
stories
2008 246
stories
2017 236
stories
2011 226
stories
2013 219
stories
2010 216
stories Climber!
2009 215
stories
2019 215
stories Climber!
2007 199
stories
2021 198
stories
2014 176
stories Climber!
2001 171
stories
2012 164
stories
2006 150
stories
2004 144
stories
2005 136
stories
2003 114
stories
Total
Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material
writers) 1131
Proportion
of Female Writers 17%
Top
Twenty Writers
Justin
Richards 146 stories
Terrance Dicks 145
stories
James
Goss 141
stories
Russell
T Davies 122 stories
Jonathan Morris 105
stories
Steven Moffat 100
stories Climber!
Paul
Magrs 97 stories
Eddie
Robson 93
stories
Terry
Nation 89
stories
David Whitaker 82 stories
John
Dorney 79
stories
Matt Fitton 77
stories
Steve Lyons 67
stories Climber!
Simon
Guerrier 66
stories
Gareth Roberts 64 stories
Alan
Barnes 62
stories Climber!
Guy Adams 61
stories Climber!
Gary Russell 61
stories
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 60 stories
Robert Holmes 59
stories
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