Then Again: The Early Second Myriad
Doomsilk Comic story, published 2009 Doctor:
10
Featuring Heather
Written by
Trevor Baxendale.
Informed guess Takes place on
an unnamed and uninhabited planet; self-dated “thousands of years” in Heather’s
future.
Pirates of the Seven
Seeds Comic story, published 2010 Doctor:
11
Featuring Amy
Written by Christopher
Cooper.
Informed guess Takes place on Feltzmodo 12
and Earth, “centuries” after extinction-event level Solar flares.
He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not Audio drama, released 2020 Doctor:
8
Featuring the Ood, with the Daleks (informative mention)
Written
by Carrie Thompson.
Arbitrary placement Takes
place on Atharna: from the names of its visitors, in Tellurian space.
These Things Take Time Short
story, published 2004 Doctor: 7
featuring
Ace, Hex
Written by Samantha Baker.
Informed guess Takes place on Armstrong’s Colony; self-dated after
the Earth has become uninhabitable.
The Crystal Bucephalus Novel,
published 1994 Doctor:
5
featuring
Tegan, Turlogh, Kamelion, and the Time
Lords, the Cybermen, the Ice Warriors, the Earth Reptiles, the Alpha
Centaurans, the Draconians, the Sontarans (glimpse)
Written by Craig Hinton.
Takes place on New Alexandria; dated 10,764 CE by
Parkin in Ahistory.
Return of the Krotons Audio drama, released 2008 Doctor: 6
featuring
the Krotons, Charley
Written by Nicholas Briggs.
Informed guess Takes place on Onyakis; self-dated several
centuries after the Solar Flares mentioned in The Ark in Space.
This is as far in the future as Albion
becoming an island rather than a peninsula of continental Europe, was in the
past.
Asylum of the Daleks TV story,
broadcast 2012 Doctor:
11
Featuring the Daleks, Amy, Rory, an iteration of Clara
Written by Steven Moffat.
Informed guess Takes place partly on Skaro, so before
Doctor Who – Remembrance of the Daleks; the New Paradigm Daleks
are skulking about their own timeline, so I suggest this period after Return of the Daleks when the non-time active Daleks had fled Mutters Spiral.
A Room With No View Audio short
story, released 2014 Doctor: 5
Featuring Peri
Written by David Bartlett.
Arbitrary placement Takes place indeterminately.
The
Rosemariners Audio adaptation
of an unproduced TV story, released 2012 Doctor:
2
Featuring Jamie,
Zoe
Adapted by Donald Tosh from
his own script.
Takes place in the Antares
Galaxy; self-dated ‘ten thousand years’ after the fourteenth century CE.
The Archive of Islos Webcast
story, posted 2020 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Daleks
Written
by James Goss.
Arbitrary placement Takes
place on Islos.
This is as far in the
future as the earliest evidence of the domestication of cats (a neolithic grave
in Cyprus), was in the past.
The Happiness Patrol TV story,
broadcast 1988 Doctor: 7
featuring
Ace
Written by Graeme Curry.
Informed guess Takes place on Terra Alpha.
Why I Respectfully Disagree With Lance Parkin’s
Dating
Terra Alpha is one of a series planet
named “Terra” followed by a Greek letter, answerable to Galactic Centre. This
doesn’t sound like the 24th century CE. I speculate that this series of “Terra”
worlds are worlds designated for settlement by inhabitants of the Solar System
following its uninhabitability owing to the solar flares mentioned in The Ark in Space, eventually evolving into the GalSec civilisation.
Buy, Buy, Baby! Comic story, published 2012 Doctor: 11
Featuring Amy
or an Amy ganger, Rory
Written by Steve Lyons.
Takes place in a marketplace,
presumably in Tellurian space; self-dated 12002 CE.
While Stocks Last Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor:
6
featuring
Peri, with the Nestene Consciousness (glimpse)
and the Time Lords (informative mention)
Written by James Potter.
Informed guess Takes place on Ouiselstarph. The retro-obsessed
interstellar culture suggests not long before SynthespiansTM, as does an
unresolved plot by the Nestene Consciousness.
SynthespiansTM Novel, published 2004 Doctor: 6
featuring
the Time Lords, the Nestene
Consciousness, Peri, with the Time Lords (glimpse)
Written by Craig Hinton.
Takes place in the New Earth Republic, self-dated
the 101st century, but some centuries after The Crystal Bucephalus. Perhaps inevitably, I suggest that this is the 101st
Imperial Space Century and the 120th or 121st century
BCE.
City of Dust Short story, published 2014 Doctor:
0
Featuring Iris Wildthyme
Written by Aditya Bidikar.
Informed guess Takes place on Mangala, which is the name for Mars in ancient Hindu
literature, has two moons and appears in a book called Iris Wildthyme of Mars, so I assume it is Mars, at a time when its Tellurian settlers are
islolated from interstellar civilisation and have forgotten that they
originated offworld. I think the early second Myriad works well enough. Solar
flares that rendered Earth uninhabitable wouldn’t necessarily do the same to
Mars, much further from the Sun.
Stranger on the Train Illustrated short story, published 2015 Doctor:
0
Featuring K91(2)
Written by Bob Baker
Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space; self-dated ten thousand, eight hundred
years after the creation of Punch and Judy shows.
The Androids of Tara TV story,
broadcast 1978 Doctor: 4
featuring K9 II, Grace technology, Romana
Written by David Fisher, script edited by Anthony Read.
informed guess Takes place on
Tara “four hundred years” after the TARDIS’s previous location.
Why
I Respectfully Disagree With Lance Parkin’s Dating
Parkin
dates this as four hundred years after The Stones of
Blood, but there has been material written to
be inserted between these two stories, cutting the dating of this one loose
from the twenty-fourth century CE.
Coriolanus Short story, published 2014 Doctor:
0
Featuring the William Shakepeare Thing
Written by James Goss, Jonathan Morris,
Julian Richards, Justin Richards, Matthew Sweet.
Takes place on Tara, shortly after The
Androids of Tara.
The Trials of Tara Short story, published 1995 Doctor:
7
featuring Benny
Written by Paul
Cornell.
Informed guess Takes place on
Tara; self-dated ten years after The Androids of Tara. If an object
(in this case the Kandyman) is fired into space from a planet, what is the most
likely planet for it to land on? The same one: and we know that a plague on
Tara separates it from a more technologically advanced past; and “Tara” is a
plausible corruption of “Terra Alpha" over several centuries...case made, I
think. Additionally, names like Grend L and Farr R could once have been Terra
Alphan.
The Dalek Occupation of Winter Audio drama, released 2018 Doctor: 1
Featuring the
Daleks, Vicki, Steven
Written by David K Barnes.
Informed guess Takes place on Winter. The Daleks have been running a production line
on the planet for centuries. I suggest that they are secretly trying to build
up numbers during their long stand-off against the Movellans.
Jukebox Short story, published 2018 Doctor: 0
Featuring Faction
Paradox
Written by Aditya Bidikar.
Arbitrary placement Takes place on a Remote colony world of Faction Paradox.
The Dark Domain Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor: 3
featuring the Moroks
Written by
Nathan A Skreslet.
Informed guess Takes place on
and above Tae Nega IV, probably before The Space Museum.
World of Damnation and Sweet Salvation
Audio drama, released 2018 Doctor: 8
Featuring Liv,
Helen, the Eleven
Written by Matt Fitton.
Takes place on Rykerzon,
some centuries after The Happiness Patrol.
Wirrn Dawn Audio drama, released 2009 Doctor: 8
Featuring the Wirrrn, Lucie
Written by
Micholas Briggs.
Inforned guess Takes place on
and above Carista 7, during the GalSec expansion following the evacuation of
Earth before The Ark in Space.
The Space Museum TV story, broadcast 1965 Doctor:
1
featuring Barbara, Ian, Vicki, the Moroks, and the Daleks (glimpse)
Written by Glyn
Jones, script edited by Dennis Spooner.
Informed guess Takes place on
Xeros, after the twentieth century (according to Doctor
Who – The Space Museum, the museum contains a NASA space shuttle, and the
Moroks play chess), but the Moroks do not know of Earth, suggesting it is
during a period of Earth’s depopulation.
Why
I Respectfully Disagree With Lance Parkin’s Dating
Parkin
dates this before original Sin, by which time the
First Empire has absorbed the Morok empire, according to The Death of
Art; but for the reasons given above, I’m assuming that The Death of
Art was referring to an earlier Morok empire.
Nowhere Man Comic story, published 2010 Doctor: 11
Featuring Amy
Written by John Ross
Takes place in space; self-dated 12042. If this is an Imperial Space
Year, this would be 13,998 CE.
Anger Management Short story, published 2020 Doctor:
0
Featuring
the Master
Written by Peter Anghelides.
Arbitrary
placement Takes
place variously.
Grip of Ice Illustrated
short story, published 1969 Doctor:
2
featuring Jamie, Zoe
Written by the
World Distributors Annual 1970 crew.
Arbitrary placement Takes place on the planet of the Morrains.
14500 CE is as far in the future as the end of the Last Glaciation was in the past.
The glaciers retreated, and Homo Sapiens got into its stride as a mass
extinction event, apparently dispatching many species of large fauna, including
mastodons and sabre-toothed tigers.
featuring Ace, Hex, with Australia (informative mention)
Written by Simon
A Forward.
Informed guess Takes place in
space, “thousands” of years after Uluru has been removed from Earth.
Why
I Respectfully Disagree With Lance Parkin’s Dating
Parkin
places the Solar Flares mentioned in The Ark in Space
in the sixth millennium: as explained, I put them later than that.
Frozen Beauty Illustrated
short story, published 1969 Doctor:
0
Featuring the
Wirrrn
Written by Justin Richards.
Informed guess Takes place aboard the Stellar Fire, in Tellurian space,
presumably after Wirrn Dawn.
Total
Stories Considered 5828
Proportion
Written By Women 11%
Top
Docs
4 492
stories
7 486
stories
11 406
stories Climber!
10 404
stories
8 398
stories
3 369
stories
5 355 stories
6 352 stories
1 334
stories
2 308
stories
12 174
stories
Unbound 125 stories
9 90 stories
13 82 stories
War 48 stories
Top
Twenty Recurring Elements
London 1165
stories
Regional
England 827
stories
The
Time Lords 528
stories
UNIT 468
stories
The
Daleks and Davros 466 stories Climber!
Alastair,
Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 463
stories
Continental
Europe 441
stories
North
America 433
stories
Benny 309
stories
The
Master, including Missy 287
stories
Ace 269
stories Climber!
Sarah
Jane 268
stories
Wales 261
stories
Torchwood 254
stories
The
K9s 248
stories
Amy
and Rory 246
stories
At Sea 230
stories
Christmas 208
stories
Captain
Jack 206
stories
Peri 205
stories
Top
Decades
The
Teens 2347
stories
The
Noughties 1577
stories
The
Nineties 608
stories
The
Twenties 469
stories
The
Eighties 303
stories
The
Seventies 268
stories
The
Sixties 186
stories
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and
William Hope Hodgson) 70
stories
And
Top Twenty Years
2018 301
stories
2016 293
stories
2020 268
stories
2015 261
stories
2008 253
stories
2017 238
stories
2011 231
stories
2013 227
stories
2010 224
stories
2009 220
stories Climber!
2019 219
stories
2007 206
stories
2021 203
stories
2014 188
stories
2001 179
stories
2012 170
stories
2006 160
stories
2004 155
stories
2005 138
stories
2003 121
stories
Total
Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material
writers) 1139
Proportion
of Female Writers 17%
Top
Twenty Writers
Justin
Richards 155 stories
Terrance Dicks 145
stories
James
Goss 144
stories
Russell
T Davies 123 stories
Jonathan Morris 109
stories
Steven Moffat 102
stories
Paul
Magrs 97 stories
Eddie
Robson 95
stories
Terry
Nation 89
stories
Matt Fitton 85
stories
David Whitaker 82 stories
Nicholas
Briggs 81
stories Climber!
John
Dorney 80
stories
Simon
Guerrier 72
stories
Steve Lyons 68
stories Climber!
Gareth Roberts 68 stories
Guy Adams 63
stories
Alan
Barnes 62
stories
Trevor Baxendale 62 stories
Gary Russell 61
stories
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