Then Again: The Seventh Millennium

 

Secret of Arkatron   Illustrated short story, published 2010                    Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place on an uninhabited asteroid in Tellurian space, at some moderately distant point in the future.

The Doctor’s Daughter   TV story, broadcast 2008                         Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha, Donna, Jenny

Written by Stephen Greenhorn, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place on Messaline; self-dated July 6012 CE.

Stolen Goods   Audio drama, released 2018                                         Doctor: 0

Featuring Jenny

Written by Matt Fitton.

Takes place principally in the Vesh Taralesh Emporium, not long (ten years? the gap between The Doctor’s Daughter being broadcast and Stolen Goods being released) after The Doctor’s Daughter. If the Garundel she meets is the one featured in Black and White, he is over five and a half thousand years old.

Gatecrashers   Illustrated short story, published 2019                              Doctor: 13

Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz

Written by Joy Wilkinson.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the planet of the Gornts.

Booked Up   Comic story, published 2010                                               Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Informed guess Takes place in The Library. We learn in The Name of the Doctor that the Doctor never revisited the Library, to avoid meeting the virtual River Song. Evidently he cold-bloodedly calculated how long it would be before the virtual River Song would no longer be alive before visiting it on this occasion, and I have had to do the same thing.

Heritage   Novel, published 2002                                                     Doctor: 7

featuring Ace, and Mel (informative mention)

Written by Dale Smith.

Takes place on Heritage; self-dated August 6048 CE.

On the Slippery Trail   Illustrated short story, published 1976               Doctor: 4

featuring Sarah Jane

Written anonymously.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet with humanoid inhabitants.

Halflife   Novel, published 2004                                                       Doctor: 8

Featuring the remembered Fitz, Trix

Written by Mark Michalowski.

Takes place on Espero; dated 6050 CE by Parkin in Ahistory.

The Aquarius Condition   Comic story, published 2009                         Doctor: 10

featuring Heather

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth. The Palace of Westminster is still a thing, but it is not obviously near any other point of Earth’s history. (This could be the First World Flood mentioned in The Apocalypse Mirror).

Spaceport Fear   Audio drama, released 2013                                 Doctor: 6

Featuring Mel

Written by William Gallagher.

Takes place on Tantane Spaceport; self-dated 6127 CE.

Cinderella and the Magic Box   Illustrated short story, published 2015   Doctor: 11

Featuring the Vampires

Written by Justin Richards.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in an unnamed environment with humanoid inhabitants.

Doctor Who and The Vortex Crystal

Gamebook, published 1986                                                                     Doctor: 4

featuring the Daleks, the Chronovores, Sarah Jane, Harry

Written by William H Keith, Junior.

Informed guess Takes place on Gathwyr, quite a few centuries after the fall of a Tellurian empire, and when the Daleks are investigating time travel, plausibly around the same time as The Genocide Machine and Doctor Who and the Daleks II. For the Daleks, I envisage The Apocalypse Element takes place between this and Dalek Empire: Invasion of the Daleks.

Fugitives   Audio drama, released 2012                                        Doctor: 8

Featuring the Time Lords, the Daleks, Molly

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place variously, including in London and Dunkirk, but pivotally on Halalka. These are time-active Daleks.

Transmission From Mars   Webcast, posted 2015                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring the Osirians, Benny

Written by Guy Adams,

Takes place on Mars, during The Pyramid of Sutekh.

The Pyramid of Sutekh   Audio drama, released 2015                   Doctor: 7

Featuring the Osirians, Benny, with Ace (glimpse)

Informed guess Takes place on Mars, presumably sometime in the eleven thousand years following Pyramids of Mars.

Kalendorf   Short story, published 2006                                                    Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place on Vega VI, during Dalek Empire: Invasion of the Daleks.

Dalek Empire: Invasion of the Daleks   Audio drama, released 2001    Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place in Tellurian space, a long time after any previous Tellurio-Dalek conflict.

Dalek Empire: The Human Factor   Audio drama, released 2001             Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place in Tellurian space, immediately after Dalek Empire: Invasion of the Daleks.

Dalek Empire: The Fearless 1   Audio drama, released 2007       Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place in Tellurian space during Dalek Empire: Invasion of the Daleks and The Human Factor.

Dalek Empire: The Fearless 2   Audio drama, released 2007      Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place in Tellurian space soon after Dalek Empire: The Fearless 1.

Mission to Galacton   Short story, published 2006                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring the Daleks

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place on and above Galacton; self-dated “at the height of the Dalek Empire”, which is plausibly about now.

Dalek Empire: The Fearless 3   Audio drama, released 2007      Doctor: 0

Featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place in Tellurian space soon after Dalek Empire: The Fearless 2.

Dalek Empire: The Fearless 4   Audio drama, released 2007      Doctor: 0

Featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place in the Solar System, ending a month before Dalek Empire: Project Infinity.

Dalek Empire: “Death to the Daleks!”

   Audio drama, released 2001                                                        Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place in Tellurian space, after Dalek Empire: The Human Factor.

Alby   Short story, published 2006                                                               Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Sharon Gosling.

Takes place in Tellurian space, during Dalek Empire: “Death to the Daleks!”.

Suz   Short story, published 2006                                                               Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Sharon Gosling.

Takes place in Dalek space, during Dalek Empire: Invasion of the Daleks, The Human Factor, “Death to the Daleks!”.

Return of the Daleks   Audio drama, released 2006                        Doctor: 7

featuring the Daleks, the Ogrons

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place on Zaleria, ending after Dalek Empire: “Death to the Daleks!”.

Dalek Empire: Project Infinity   Audio drama, released 2002   Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place in Tellurian space, a month after Dalek Empire: “Death to the Daleks!”.

Dalek War: Chapter One   Audio drama, released 2003               Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place in Tellurian space, some six years after Dalek Empire: Project Infinity.

Dalek War: Chapter Two   Audio drama, released 2003               Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place in Tellurian space, including above Jupiter, immediately after Dalek War: Chapter One and sixteen years after Dalek Empire: Invasion of the Daleks.

Dalek War: Chapter Three   Audio drama, released 2003             Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place in Tellurian space, including on and above Jupiter, immediately after Dalek Empire: Chapter Two.

Dalek War: Chapter Four   Audio drama, released 2003              Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Takes place in Tellurian space, immediately after Dalek Empire: Chapter Three, and concluding with the Great Catastrophe.

Museum Peace   Short story, published 2006                                         Doctor: 8

Featuring the Daleks

Written by James Swallow.

Takes place on Velyshaa; self-dated some four decades after Dalek War: Chapter Four.

Lost Patrol   Short story, published 2017                                                Doctor: 0

Featuring the Daleks

Written by George Mann.

Takes place on an unnamed planet, colonised by Tellurians for mining; self-dated the sixty-fourth century CE. A Tellurian believes that the Daleks should “all be dead” by now, a reasonable opinion after the Great Catastrophe.

Apotheosis and The Child of Time   Comic story, published 2011        Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy, Chiyoko

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Informed guess Takes place variously, but pivotally on Earth at a time with which the Doctor is unfamiliar, after much of humanity has been wiped out by a plague. After the Great Catastrophe seems plausible to me.

The Phantom Piper   Comic story, published 2018                                  Doctor: 12

Featuring Chiyoko, Bill, with Shayde, Fey (glimpse)

Written by Scott Gray.

Takes place in Athenia, on the Moon, over two years after Apotheosis and The Child of Time.

Battle Planet   Illustrated short story, published 1984                             Doctor: 6

featuring Peri

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1985 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Belstar.

The God of Phantoms   Audio adaptation of an unmade TV story, released 2021

                                                                                                Doctor: 4

Featuring Leela, with the Time Lords (glimpse)

Adapted by Marc Platt from a story by Philip Hinchcliffe.

arbitrary placement Takes place on a Tellurian colony world, some time in the future.

Ground Control   Comic story, published 2010                                        Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna, Martha (informative mention)

Written by Jonathan L Davis.

Takes place indeterminately; self-dated 6558 CE.

The Tsuranga Conundrum   TV story, broadcast 2018                  Doctor: 13

Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz

Written by Chris Chibnall.

Takes place in Tellurian space; self-dated the sixty-seventh century. A reference to “junk galaxies” suggest that it is a long way from Mutter’s Spiral and hence the Great Catastrophe.

The Apocalypse Mirror   Audio drama, released 2013                    Doctor: 2

Featuring Jamie, Zoe

Written by Eddie Robson.

Informed guess Takes place in Switzerland, after the Second Great Flood, some time after the late twenty-first century, and not obviously near any other known period of Tellurian history. The Second Great Flood seems to me to be the sort of thing that could have happened in the wake of the devastation presumably caused to Earth in the Great Catastrophe.

The Good Companion   Comic story, published 2018     Doctors: 10, with 12 (glimpse)

Featuring Gabby, Cindy, Noobis

Written by Nick Abadzis.

Takes place variously, including in New York, but pivotally on Aramuko; self-dated approximately 6771 CE.

The Thousand Years of Christmas   Short story, published 2005

                                                                                Doctors: 3, with 1, 2 (glimpse)

featuring Jo, and the Time Lords, Susan (glimpse)

Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.

Informed guess Takes place on Ossian Minima, a Tellurian colony many generations in the future, but at a time when Christmas is still remembered. The sparse interstellar civilisation implied suggests a time not long after the Great Catastrophe.

Private Investigations   Short story, published 2006                          Doctor: 7

featuring the Daleks, Ace

Written by Ian Farrington.

Takes place on Newlandis; self-dated six hundred and fifty years after the Great Catastrophe.

The Robot King   Comic story, published 1969                                   Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Zoe

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1970 crew.

Takes place in Hope City, five thousand years in Jamie’s future. Hope City’s condition could conceivably be a result of the Great Catastrophe. Grip of Ice refers to an encounter between this TARDIS crew and giant robots on Korad: the Robot King just about qualifies as a giant robot, so I’d like to think that Hope City is on Korad, and that this story is a prequel to Peril in Mechanistria.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             5703

Proportion Written By Women 11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 484 stories                   

7                 471 stories 

10               400 stories 

8                 392 stories 

11               392 stories  Climber!   

3                 366 stories

5                 350 stories         

6                 341 stories    

1                 330 stories 

2                 295 stories         

12               172 stories

Unbound  125 stories

9                 90 stories  

13               76 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1153 stories                

Regional England                                            817 stories

The Time Lords                                               520 stories

UNIT                                                                  467 stories  

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                            462 stories  

The Daleks and Davros                                  446 stories  Climber!

Continental Europe                                         437 stories 

North America                                                 424 stories  

Benny                                                                 307 stories

The Master, including Missy                         283 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        267 stories

Ace                                                                      262 stories  Climber! 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        254 stories  

The K9s                                                              245 stories 

Amy and Rory                                                  238 stories 

At Sea                                                                 230 stories

Christmas                                                          207 stories 

Captain Jack                                                    206 stories

Peri                                                                     199 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2309 stories

The Noughties                                                  1546 stories       

The Nineties                                                      602 stories

The Twenties                                                     462 stories

The Eighties                                                      268 stories

The Seventies                                                    265 stories         

The Sixties                                                         181 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2016                                                          293 stories

2018                                                          289 stories 

2020                                                          263 stories  

2015                                                          258 stories 

2008                                                          249 stories  

2017                                                           237 stories       

2011                                                          228 stories 

2013                                                          224 stories 

2010                                                          220 stories 

2009                                                          217 stories 

2019                                                          217 stories  Climber!

2007                                                          204 stories 

2021                                                          201 stories 

2014                                                          182 stories 

2001                                                          174 stories  

2012                                                          166 stories  

2006                                                          157 stories

2004                                                          146 stories

2005                                                          137 stories

2003                                                          119 stories  

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1137

Proportion of Female Writers                17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Justin Richards                                       148 stories

Terrance Dicks                                       145 stories

James Goss                                              141 stories   

Russell T Davies                                     123 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    108 stories 

Steven Moffat                                         100 stories

Paul Magrs                                              97 stories  

Eddie Robson                                          94 stories  

Terry Nation                                           89 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              84 stories  

David Whitaker                                      82 stories  

John Dorney                                            79 stories  

Nicholas Briggs                                       72 stories   New entry!

Simon Guerrier                                       71 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                       68 stories  

Steve Lyons                                             67 stories  

Alan Barnes                                             62 stories  

Guy Adams                                              62 stories  

Gary Russell                                            61 stories  

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                       60 stories