Then Again: The Ninth Millennium

  

The Forest Bride   Comic story, published 2021                                Doctor: 13

Featuring Yaz

Written by Jacqueline Rayner.

Informed guess Takes place on an unnamed Tellurian colony that is not part of interstellar civilisation, possibly as a result of the Great Catastrophe.


Warworld   Comic story, published 1985                                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring the Freefall Warriors, Intra-Venus

Written by Steve Parkhouse.

Takes place on Warworld, before Cat Out of Hell.


Cat Out of Hell   Comic story, published 1985                                         Doctor: 0

Featuring the Freefall Warriors, Intra Venus

Written by Steve Parkhouse.

Takes place on Warworld, before Recruitment.


Recruitment…   Comic story, published 1985                                          Doctor: 0

Featuring the Freefall Warriors, Intra Venus

Written by Steve Parkhouse.

Takes place on Warworld, before Mission Improbable.


Mission Improbable    Comic story, published 1985                                Doctor: 0

Featuring the Freefall Warriors, Intra Venus

Written by Steve Parkhouse.

Takes place on Warworld, before The Free Fall Warriors.


The Free Fall Warriors   Comic story, published 1981                             Doctor: 4

featuring Dr.Asimoff, the Freefall Warriors

Written by Steve Parkhouse.

Takes place at the Festival of Five Planets, not long before A Ship Called Sudden Death.


A Ship Called Sudden Death   Comic story, published 1982               Doctor: 0

featuring the Freefall Warriors

Written by Steve Parkhouse.

Informed guess Takes place near and on Ariadne, some time after Mission Improbable.


The Fabulous Idiot   Comic story, published 1982                              Doctor: 0

featuring Dr.Asimoff

Written by Steve Parkhouse.

Informed guess Takes place on Sigma, not long before Polly the Glot.


The Good Doctor   Novel, published 2018                                     Doctor: 13

Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz

Written by Juno Dawson.

Informed guess  Takes place on Lobos, which has been colonised by Tellurians, but spends several centuries isolated from interstellar civilisation, plausibly setting it in the aftermath of the Great Catastrophe.


The Golesterkol Collection   Comic story, published 2011                     Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in a Sentork Science Hanger.


Storm Harvest   Novel, published 1999                                         Doctor: 7

featuring Ace, and the Daleks (informative mention)

Written by Robert Perry and Mike Tucker.

Informed guess Takes place on Coralee, a year before Prime Time. Bev Tarrant claimed to have been on Coralee, which is only just being colonised; but it could have been depopulated in the Great Catastrophe. Interestingly, there has been conflict with the Daleks, despite this story taking place between Dalek War: Chapter Four and Dalek Empire: The Exterminators: these must have been time-active Daleks.


The Moderator      Comic story, published 1984                                          Doctor: 5

featuring Intra Venus, Gus, with Venus, Mars, the outer Solar System

Written by Steve Parkhouse.

Informed guess Takes place variously, in Tellurian space, not long before The Shape Shifter. Interestingly, the Doctor claims to have returned Gus to the time they met: but that would mean the Moderator has access to time travel, in which case why not Dogbolter? Which would negate the entire plot, so I conclude that the Doctor has absent-mindedly brought Gus to Earth in the early ninth millennium.


Prime Time   Novel, published 2000                                                 Doctor: 7

featuring the Master, Ace, and the Daleks, the Voord, the Ice Warriors, the Ogrons, the Draconians, Intra Venus (informative mention)

Takes place on Blinni-Gar, Blinni Orkos and Scrantek, not long before Time Bomb. Incidentally, one hundred and fifty billion doesn’t sound much of an audience for the entire galaxy; although, bear in mind from Dalek Empire: The Exterminators that before the Great Catastrophe, it would have been a billion times that.

Why I Respectfully Disagree With Lance Parkin’s Dating

Mention of Dogbolter links this to Time Bomb and 8162 CE, and London hasn’t existed for five thousand years anyway (Storm Harvest).


The Shape Shifter   Comic story, published 1984                                     Doctor: 6

featuring Intra Venus, Frobisher

Written by Steve Parkhouse.

Informed guess Takes place on Venus and elsewhere in Tellurian space, not long before Polly the Glot. Frobisher leaves linear time, being aboard the TARDIS when it dematerialises, although he is not yet calling himself Frobisher.


Polly the Glot   Comic story, published 1985                                             Doctor: 6

featuring Dr.Asimoff, Frobisher, Astrolabus

Written by Steve Parkhouse.                         

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, immediately before Once Upon a Time-Lord.


Once Upon a Time-Lord   Comic story, published 1985                    Doctor: 6

featuring Frobisher, Astrolabus

Written by Steve Parkhouse.

Informed guess Takes place in a magician’s cabinet, some time before Time Bomb.


The Maltese Penguin   Audio drama, released 2002                        Doctor: 6

featuring Intra Venus, Frobisher

Written by Robert Shearman.

Informed guess Takes place on an unnamed planet; presumably some time after Once Upon a Time-Lord.


The Game   Comic story, published 1988                                                   Doctor: 0

featuring Dragon’s Claws

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in and west of London ; self-dated 8162 CE. The Earth is described as getting closer to the sun, which I take to be the same phenomenon described elsewhere as solar flares, i.e. the sun moving closer to the Earth. Possibly it’s a translation issue. London appears to have been rebuilt since Storm Harvest. The Dragon’s Claws are a team of Tellurian gladiators, presumably born in the early ninth millennium.


Dead Reckoning   Comic story, published 1988                                       Doctor: 0

featuring Dragon’s Claws

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in London and regional England, immediately after The Game.


High Noon, Tex   Comic story, published 1988                                         Doctor: 0

featuring Death’s Head

Written by Simon Furman.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, before Here’s Death’s Head.


Heroes’ Welcome   Comic story, published 1988                                     Doctor: 0

featuring Dragon’s Claws

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in London and regional England, after Dead Reckoning.


Wild in the Country   Comic story, published 1988                                 Doctor: 0

featuring Dragon’s Claws

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in regional England and France, after Heroes’ Welcome.


Here’s Death’s Head   Comic story, published 1988                                Doctor: 0        

featuring Death’s Head, Dragon’s Claws

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in London and regional England, presumably in 8162 CE (see The Crossroads of Time) after Wild in the Country.


Keepsake   Comic story, published 1988                                                    Doctor: 7

Written by Simon Furman.

Informed guess Takes place on Ryos, shortly before Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling.


Craven Idols   Comic story, published 1988                                               Doctor: 0

featuring Dragon’s Claws

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in London, regional England, and Canada, after Here’s Death’s Head.


The Quality of Mercy   Comic story, published 1988                               Doctor: 0

featuring Dragon’s Claws

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in London, regional England and Canada, after Craven Idols.


Death’s Head Revisited   Comic story, published 1988                          Doctor: 0

featuring Death’s Head

Written by Simon Furman.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth, after Here’s Death’s Head.


Contractual Obligations   Comic story, published 1988                      Doctor: 0

featuring Death’s Head, Dragon’s Claws

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in London and in an earthquake zone, probably in the Rocky Mountains, after The Quality of Mercy.


High Stakes   Comic story, published 1989                                         Doctor: 0

featuring Death’s Head

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in the Los Angeles Resettlement, just after Contractual Obligations.


Plague Dog   Comic story, published 1989                                                 Doctor: 0

featuring Death’s Head

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in the Los Angeles Resettlement, just after High Stakes.


Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling   Comic story, published 1989    Doctor: 0

featuring Death’s Head

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in and around the Los Angeles Resettlement, also in Ecuador, shortly after Plague Dog.


The Evil Dead Too   Comic story, published 1989                                    Doctor: 0

featuring Dragon’s Claws

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in London and regional England, after Contractual Obligations.


Treatment   Comic story, published 1989                                                  Doctor: 0

featuring Dragon’s Claws, with Scotland (informative mention)

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in London, immediately after The Evil Dead Too.


Sudden Impact   Comic story, published 1989                                          Doctor: 0

featuring Death’s Head

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in the Los Angeles and Arizona after Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling, as published.


Shot By Both Sides   Comic story, published 1989                                   Doctor: 0

featuring Death’s Head

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in the Los Angeles Resettlement, after Sudden Impact, as published.


The Deadliest Game   Comic story, published 1991                           Doctor: 0        

featuring Death’s Head

Written by Simon Furman.

Informed guess Takes place on Yel-Jek, sometime before Time Bomb.


Time Bomb   Comic story, published 1989                                                 Doctor: 7

featuring Intra Venus, Death’s Head

Written by Steve Parkhouse.

Takes place in the Solar System, including the Los Angeles resettlement, New York and France, pivotally after Shot By Both Sides, as published.


The End of the Road   Comic story, published 1989                                Doctor: 0

featuring Dragon’s Claws

Written by Simon Furman.

Takes place in London, regional England, Switzerland and Cuba, not long after Treatment.


The Power of the Mobox   Comic story, published 2019                         Doctor: 13

Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz

Written by Scott Gray.

Informed guess Takes place on Acantha, not long before Mistress of Chaos.


The Quantum Possibility Engine   Audio drama, released 2018     Doctor: 7

Featuring the Time Lords, Intra-Venus, Mel, Ace

Written by Guy Adams.

Takes place in London and the outer Solar System, presumably after Time Bomb.


The Warmonger   Comic story, published 2019                                        Doctor: 13

Featuring Intra-Venus, Graham, Ryan, Yaz

Written by Scott Gray.

Takes place on Gatan, presumably after The Quantum Possibility Engine.


Mistress of Chaos   Comic story, published 2020                                     Doctor: 13

Featuring Intra-Venus, Graham, Ryan, Yaz

Written by Scott Gray.

Takes place on Venus and elsewhere in Tellurian space, some weeks after The Warmonger.


Where Nobody Knows Your Name   Comic story, published 2003      Doctor: 8

Featuring Frobisher

Written by Scott Gray.

Takes place in an environment containing a variety of sentient species, some time before A Winter’s Tale.


A Winter’s Tale   Charity short story, published 2001                               Doctor: 0

featuring Frobisher

Written by Robert Shearman.

Takes place on the Whifferdill homeworld, many years after the Doctor has returned Frobisher to his own time.


Size Control   Comic story, published 1974                                        Doctor: 3

Written by Gerry Haylock.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in space.


The Time Eater   Short story, published 2007                                           Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie

Written by Lee Battersby.

Informed guess Takes place in Prague, at a number of times; the latest confirmed date in the eighty-third century CE.


Once Upon a Time   Illustrated short story, published 2006                   Doctor: 10

Written by Tom MacRae.

Informed guess Takes place in England, at a time when the authorities wouldn’t take particular notice of a mountain-sized spaceship parking there.


Let It Snow   Short story, published 2014                                                   Doctor: 11

Featuring the Ice Warriors

Writtne by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place on Trenzalore, more than one hundred and fifty years after it was colonised by “humans” and before An Apple a Day as published. Storm Harvest suggests that recolonization was going on at that time.


Harvest of the Daleks   Comic story, published 2018                              Doctor: 12

Featuring Bill, with the Daleks (informative mention)

Written by Richard Dinnick.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Gosligi’s Branch.


The Witches   Comic story, published 1968                                               Doctor: 2

featuring Gillian, John

Written by Roger Noel Cook.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Vargo.


An Apple a Day   Short story, published 2014                                           Doctor: 11

Featuring the Cybermen, the Krynoids

Written by George Mann.

Informed guess Takes place on Trenzalore, before Strangers in the Outland as published.


Return of the Witches   Comic story, published 1968                             Doctor: 2

featuring Gillian, John

Written by an unknown Polystyle writer.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet, plausibly not long after The Witches.


Strangers in the Outland   Short story, published 2014                         Doctor: 11

Featuring the Cybermen, the Nestene Consciousness

Written by Paul Finch.

Informed guess Takes place on Trenzalore, some four hundred and fifty years after its colonisation.


Dalek Empire: The Exterminators   Audio drama, released 2004       Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, two and a half thousand years after Dalek War: Chapter Four.


Dalek Empire: The Healers   Audio drama, released 2004          Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, immediately after Dalek Empire: The Exterminators.


Dalek Empire: The Survivors   Audio drama, released 2004      Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, immediately after Dalek Empire: The Healers.


Dalek Empire: The Demons   Audio drama, released 2004         Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, immediately after Dalek Empire: The Survivors.


Dalek Empire: The Warriors   Audio drama, released 2004        Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, immediately after Dalek Empire: The Demons.


Dalek Empire: The Future   Audio drama, released 2004             Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, immediately after Dalek Empire: The Warriors.


Natalie’s Diary   Short story, published 2006                                           Doctor: 7

featuring the Daleks, Ace, Hex

Written by Joseph Lidster.

Informed guess Takes place on an unnamed planet in Tellurian space; centuries after a previous Dalek war, and plausibly near the start of the conflict described in Dalek Empire: The Future.


Dalek Survival Guide   Fictional document, published 2002         Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks

Written by Nicholas Briggs, Stephen Cole, Jacqueline Rayner, Justin Richards and Mike Tucker.

Informed guess The urgency and randomly patchy information displayed in this slim volume could plausibly place its publication soon after Dalek Empire: The Future.


Mutually Assured Survival   Short story, published 2006                     Doctor: 0

featuring the Daleks, with the Ogrons (glimpse)

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place in Dalek and Tellurian space, shortly after Dalek Empire: The Future.


The Secret of Vault 13   Novella, published 2018                               Doctor: 13

Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz

Written by David Solomons.

Informed guess Takes place variously, but crucially on Callufrax Major, some millennia after 3004 CE.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             5786

Proportion Written By Women  11%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 487 stories                   

7                 481 stories 

10               402 stories 

11               398 stories 

8                 394 stories 

3                 367 stories

5                 351 stories         

6                 347 stories    

1                 330 stories 

2                 303 stories         

12               173 stories

Unbound  125 stories

9                 90 stories  

13               82 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1164 stories                

Regional England                                            827 stories

The Time Lords                                               523 stories

UNIT                                                                  467 stories  

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

The Daleks and Davros                                  458 stories 

Continental Europe                                         441 stories 

North America                                                 433 stories  

Benny                                                                 308 stories

The Master, including Missy                         285 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        267 stories

Ace                                                                      266 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        254 stories  

The K9s                                                              246 stories 

Amy and Rory                                                  240 stories 

At Sea                                                                 230 stories

Christmas                                                          207 stories 

Captain Jack                                                    206 stories

Peri                                                                     201 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2328 stories

The Noughties                                                  1567 stories       

The Nineties                                                      606 stories

The Twenties                                                     465 stories

The Eighties                                                      301 stories

The Seventies                                                    266 stories         

The Sixties                                                         183 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          297 stories  New number one! 

2016                                                          293 stories

2020                                                          264 stories  

2015                                                          258 stories 

2008                                                          251 stories  

2017                                                           238 stories       

2011                                                          229 stories 

2013                                                          226 stories 

2010                                                          222 stories 

2019                                                          219 stories  Climber! 

2009                                                          218 stories 

2007                                                          206 stories 

2021                                                          203 stories 

2014                                                          184 stories 

2001                                                          177 stories  

2012                                                          167 stories  

2006                                                          160 stories

2004                                                          153 stories

2005                                                          137 stories

2003                                                          120 stories  

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1139

Proportion of Female Writers               17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Justin Richards                                       151 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                                          95 stories  

Terry Nation                                           89 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              84 stories  

David Whitaker                                      82 stories  

John Dorney                                            80 stories  

Nicholas Briggs                                       79 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                       72 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                       68 stories  

Steve Lyons                                             67 stories  

Guy Adams                                              63 stories

Alan Barnes                                             62 stories  

Gary Russell                                            61 stories  

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                       60 stories           

 

 

 

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