Then Again: The Fourth Myriad
Alien Arena Gamebook,
published 2007 Doctor:
10
Featuring Martha
Written by Richard Dungworth.
Takes place on a prison spaceship; self-dated 30506 CE.
Colin
Kapp probably didn’t see his The
Unorthodox Engineers stories, collected into one eponymous volume in 1979,
as being set this far into the future, but assuming there is a Tellurian
interstellar polity of some sort at this point, I don’t see why it shouldn’t be
slotted into Doctor Who Narrative at this point.
Risen Webcast story,
posted 2021 Doctor: 4 (glimpse)
Featuring Davros,
with the Daleks(glimpse)
Written by
Peter McTighe.
Takes place on
Skaro, leafing into Destiny of the Daleks.
Destiny of the Daleks TV
story, broadcast 1979 Doctor: 4
featuring
the Daleks, Davros, Romana, the
Movellans, with K9 II (glimpse)
Written by Terry Nation, script edited by Douglas
Adams.
Informed guess Takes place on a Skaro long abandoned by the
Daleks, “centuries” into the Dalek/Movellan conflict.
Why I Respectfully Disagree With Lance Parkin’s
Dating
Following on from Destiny of the Daleks is a lot of
history difficult to reconcile with the dating in Ahistory. Neverland dates a Dalek-Movellan battle to 4949. It is not
difficult to imagine two small forces in deadlock, both sides reinforcing,
until three millennia or so later the Daleks have a considerable proportion of
their resources tied up. After they are driven from Mutter’s Spiral in the
ninth millennium, they cannot afford to retreat, and little is heard of them
for the next two myriads as virtually all their productive effort goes into
maintaining parity with the Movellans.
Beneath the Skin, The Sky Below, Beyond the Sea and Lonely Planet
Comic story,
published 2007 Doctor: 10
Written by
Steve Cook.
Arbitrary placement Takes place on and within a living planet.
Order of the Daleks Audio drama,
released 2016 Doctor: 6
Featuring the Daleks, Constance
Written by Mike Tucker.
Takes place on Strellin, some time after the Kantran campaign, which
took place not long before Destiny of
the Daleks.
Prisoners of Gritog Comic story,
published 1965 Doctor: 1
featuring
Gillian, John
Illustrated ?and written by Neville Main.
Informed guess Takes place on Spekra, on the edge of Tellurian
space.
Resurrection of the
Daleks TV story, broadcast 1984 Doctor: 5
featuring
the Daleks, Davros, Tegan, Turlough,
Lytton, with the Movellans (informative mention)
Written by Eric Saward.
Informed guess Takes place partly
in London, but pivotally on a space station in Tellurian space; self-dated eighty
years after Destiny of the
Daleks.
Monster Idol Comic story, published 2009 Doctor: 10
Featuring Heather
Written by Steve Lyons.
Informed guess Takes place on Space Station Apple Theta,
probably in Tellurian space.
Attack of the Cybermen TV story, broadcast 1985 Doctor: 6
featuring the Cybermen, Lytton, Peri
Written by Paula
Moore, script edited by Eric Saward.
Informed guess Takes place
partly in London, but pivotally on Telos. As Lytton has the means to
communicate with beings in his future, and is trying to escape from Earth, I
see no reason to suppose that he is not communicating with the Cryons in his “home”
future.
The Mirror War Comic story, published 2012 Doctor: 11
Featuring Amy
or an Amy ganger, Rory
Written by Eddie Robson.
Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, probably in
the relatively far future.
Davros Audio drama, released 2003 Doctor: 6
featuring Davros, and the Daleks, Peri (informative mention)
Written by Lance
Parkin.
Informed guess Takes place on
an unnamed planet; enough time after Resurrection of the
Daleks for Davros’s body to have been salvaged and
acquired by a galactic bank.
Orcini Comic story, published 2021 Doctor: 0
Written by Eric Saward.
Informed guess Takes place in London, and, pivotally, in Tellurian
space, some time before Revelation of the Daleks.
Waiting for Gadot Audio short
story, released 2014 Doctors: 4,
with 3, 5, 6 (glimpse)
Featuring Jo
(glimpse), with Christmas (informative mention)
Written by John Dorney.
Informed guess Takes place on Erindra, in Tellurian space.
Revelation of the Daleks TV story, broadcast 1985 Doctor: 6
featuring the Daleks, Davros, Peri
Written by Eric
Saward.
Informed guess Takes place on
Necros, some time after Davros.
Bazaar Adventures Comic story, published 2013 Doctor: 2
Featuring Jamie,
the Ice Warriors, Zoe, with the Voord, the Alpha Centaurans, the Sontarans, the
Raxcorricofalapatorians, the Sycorax (glimpse)
Written by Scott and David
Tipton.
Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, in the
relatively far future.
The Juggernauts Audio drama, released 2005 Doctor: 6
featuring the Daleks, the Mechanoids, Davros, Mel
Written by Scott
Alan Woodard.
Informed guess Takes place on
and near Lethe, seven hundred and sixteen days after Revelation
of the Daleks.
The Davros Mission Audio drama, released 2007 Doctor: 0
featuring the Daleks, Davros
Written by Nicholas
Briggs.
Informed guess Takes place in
space en route to Skaro, and on Skaro, shortly after The
Juggernauts.
Up Above the Gods Comic story,
published 1995 Doctor: 6
featuring Davros, and the Daleks (informative mention)
Written by Richard
Alan.
Informed guess Takes place in
the TARDIS, for the Doctor and Davros, during The
Emperor of the Daleks.
Emperor of the Daleks! Comic story, published 1993 Doctors: 7, and 6 (glimpse)
featuring the Daleks, the Ice Warriors, the Draconians, Davros, Peri, Absalom
Daak, Benny, with the Alpha Centaurans, the Sontarans (glimpse) and Frobisher, Ace
(informative mention)
Written by Paul
Cornell.
ig Takes place mostly on Skaro
and Spiridon, after The Davros Mission. That story
ended with Davros being acclaimed emperor, yet this one begins with Davros
being tried by another emperor. It is likely, however, that the framing story
of I Davros takes place in between. Two possibilities
present themselves: Firstly, Davros’s expressed contempt for the Daleks emboldened
the Supreme Dalek to move against him and proclaim himself emperor (for what
turned out to be a short while). Or, alternatively, there had always been an
emperor, who had kept his existence hidden from the retrieved Davros, and the
events of The Davros Mission and I,
Davros were simply a ruse on his part to get Davros to provide
useful information. Although a frozen Dalek army on Spiridon was destroyed in Return
of the Daleks (audio drama), it would appear
other frozen Daleks had been left there.
Doctor Who - Remembrance of the Daleks
Novelisation of a TV story, published 1990 Doctor: 7
featuring the Daleks, Davros, Ace, the Countermeasures Group, with the Time Lords
(informative mention)
Adapted by Ben
Aaronovitch from his own script, edited by Andrew Cartmel.
Informed guess Takes place in
London but pivotally on Skaro, after Emperor of the
Daleks!.
The Deep Hereafter Comic story,
published 2009 Doctor:
10
Featuring Majenta
Written by Dan McDaid.
Informed guess Takes place on New Old Detroit, a Tellurian colony of the relatively
far future.
War of the Daleks Novel, published 1997 8
featuring the Daleks, Davros, Sam, with the Mechanoids, the Draconians, the
Movellans (glimpse)
Written by John
Peel.
Informed guess Takes place in
Dalek space; for the Daleks, thirty years after Doctor
Who – Remembrance of the Daleks. The Dalek Prime tells the Doctor
and Davros that everything that happened in Destiny
of the Daleks, Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks, The Davros
Mission, Emperor of the Daleks! and Doctor
Who – Remembrance of the Daleks was part of a cunning Dalek
plan to prevent the Doctor and Davros from destroying Skaro between them, as
appeared to happen at the end of Doctor Who – Remembrance of the Daleks. One suspects
John Peel was trying to fit all these stories into Dalek history before Evil
of the Daleks and his novelisation of it, though it obviously
didn’t impress Lance Parkin, who dates Evil of the Daleks a couple of
thousand years before this lot anyway. If the Dalek Prime is telling the truth,
then the Movellans were only ever
servants of the Daleks to begin with, in which case why didn’t they just kill
the Doctor on pretend-Skaro in Destiny and the Daleks? And who were
the Emperor and his Daleks in Emperor of the Daleks!? Or the Daleks
who fought Davros in Shoreditch in Remembrance of the
Daleks? The more likely explanation
is the Dalek fascination with boastful but implausible lies, displayed in The
Dalek Book and elsewhere: all that business about racing down
the M1 at supersonic speeds and being the abominable snowmen, really. Also the
Dalek Prime has all sorts of other cunning plans going on to fool the Doctor,
Davros and his own rebels: he might be saying anything, for any reason. And the
original Dalek Prime died in Doctor Who – Evil of the Daleks, so he’s not
even the Dalek Prime he claims to be, so there. Davros is presumably saved,
though having sustained damage, by his loyal spider-Dalek, leading into the
events of Terror Firmer. The
non-Davrosian Daleks suffer heavy defeat, territorially: I suggest that it is
from this point on they become a primarily time-active power, increasingly
abandoning space-conquest as such.
The Crimson Hand Comic story, published 2010 Doctor: 10
Featuring Majenta
Written by Dan McDaid.
Informed guess Takes place variously (Intersol and The Crimson Hand are clearly
time-active), but ends on Redemption, shortly after The Deep Hereafter.
Terror Firma Audio drama, released 2005 Doctor: 8
featuring the Daleks, Davros, Samson, Gemma, Charley, C’rizz
Written by
Joseph Lidster.
Takes place on
Earth, apparently after War of the Daleks.
The
Fate Of The Earth
Most of the
Earth’s population are turned into Daleks by a mutagenic virus and Davros’s
assistance. As Samson and Gemma clearly do not come from this period, one may
assume that Davros has recreated something like 21st century
Folkestone for their benefit, and that Harriet is an innocent Tellurian who has
had her memories altered to believe that she is their mother. It is reasonable
to suppose that these Tellurian-descended Daleks are those seen in An
Incident Concerning the Continual Bombardment of the Phobos colony, Brotherhood
of the Daleks and getting their bottoms kicked by the Skeletoids
in Kane’s Story etc..
The Proclaimer Short story,
published 2020 Doctor:
0
Featuring K9
I(2)
Written by Bob Baker.
Informed guess Takes place on an unnamed planet in the same galaxy as NuEarth Seven,
after The Time Thief (Megabytes) as published.
Dead Woman Walking Audio short story, released 2020 Doctor: 7
Featuring
Ace
Written by Roland Moore.
Arbitrary
placement Takes
place on Gathrossa.
Alchemy Short story, published 2011 Doctor:
0
Featuring the Second
War in Heaven
Written by James Milton.
Arbitrary placement Takes place on Tagonique, a planet inhabited by humanoids, who are
revealed in A Hundred Words From a Civil War to be of Tellurian
descent.
An Incident Concerning
the Continual Bombardment of the Phobos Colony
Illustrated short story, published 1990 Doctor: 0
featuring the Daleks, Davros
Written by Paul
Cornell.
Informed guess Takes place
above Phobos; apparently between Terror Firma and Kane’s
Story etc..
The
Fate Of The Earth
Davros is once
again at war with Earth, though not with an overwhelming advantage. It is
unclear whether this Phobos, home to millions of humans, is the moon of Mars.
The King in Glass Short story,
published 2018 Doctor:
11
Featuring the
Zygons, Rory, with Amy (informative mention)
Written by Dave Rudden.
Arbitrary placement Takes place on Numina Vitri.
Brotherhood of the Daleks Audio drama, released 2008 Doctor: 6
featuring the Daleks, Charley, and the Mechanoids (informative mention)
Written by Alan
Barnes.
Informed guess Takes place on
an unnamed planet occupied by the Davrosian Daleks, some time after Terror
Firma.
The Traitor Comic story,
published 1977 Doctor: 4
featuring Sarah Jane
Written by the
World Distributors Annual 1978 crew.
Arbitrary placement Takes place in
the Sigimund Galaxy, a galaxy petite enough to contain only three stars.
Samuel Delaney’s 1966 novel Babel-17 describes the Galaxy as being
in the territory of an inter-species Alliance centered on Earth, finding itself
at war with a similarly constituted group called the Invaders, who use language
itself as a weapon; as, so to speak, malware for the consciousness. I’m
inclined to slip this into Doctor Who narrative history between Terror Firmer and The Planet of Evil.
Fun House Comic story,
published 1985 Doctor: 6
featuring Frobisher
Written by Alan
McKenzie.
Informed guess Takes place
mostly in the vortex, but the events lead into those of Kane’s
Story.
Kane’s Story, Abel’s
Story, the Warrior’s Story and Frobisher’s Story
Comic story, published 1985 Doctor: 6
featuring the Draconians, Peri, Frobisher, and the Daleks, the Cybermen, Davros
(glimpse)
Written by Alan McKenzie.
Informed guess Takes place briefly
in New York, NY, but principally in Tellurian space, probably after An
Incident Concerning the Continual Bombardment of the Phobos Colony, as Davros’s
Dalek empire is largely destroyed by the Skeletoids.
War-Game Comic story,
published 1985 Doctor: 6
featuring the Draconians, Frobisher
Written by Alan
McKenzie.
Informed guess Takes place on
Actinon, many years after Kane’s Story etc.
The Billion Year Heart Charity short story, published 2001 Doctor: 0
featuring the Daleks
Written by Steve Emmerson.
Informed guess Takes place on
and near Chernos. I am assuming that the reverting conscience, described as an
escalating and unsolved problem for the Daleks in this story, eventually leads
them to abandon space conquest and concentrate on the temporal campaigns seen
in Rennaissance of the Daleks, Jubilee and The
Time of the Daleks.
Harry Harrison’s 1972 novel The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World
is set 32,598 years after 1975 CE, with its prequels and sequels shortly before
and after, not, I think, inherently contradicting Doctor Who narrative
White Ghosts Audio drama, released 2014 Doctor:
4
Featuring Leela
Written by Alan Barnes.
Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet at the edge of the known universe.
The Last Message Webcast,
posted 2020 Doctor: 0
Featuring the Daleks
Written by James Goss.
Effectively takes place within The Last Message (illustrated
short story).
The Last Message Illustrated short story, published 2020 Doctor: 0
Featuring the
Daleks
Written by James Goss
Informed guess Takes place on a rebuilt Skaro, following the internecine conflict
around Davros.
The Sentinel of the Fifth
Galaxy Video drama, released 2020 Doctor: 0
Featuring the
Daleks
Written by James Goss.
Informed guess Takes place on rebuilt Skaro and in the Dalek noosphere at the time of
the Daleks’ Restoration Empire, after The Last Message.
Day of Reckoning Video drama,
released 2020 Doctor: 0
Featuring the
Daleks, the Mechanoids
Written by James Goss.
Informed guess Takes place on rebuilt Skaro, after The Sentinel
of the Fifth Galaxy. I assume that the Mechanoids have learned enough about time travel to
follow the Emperor and Strategist back to rebuilt Skaro.
The House on the Edge of
Chaos Audio drama, released 2019 Doctor: 8
Featuring
Lucie
Written by Eddie Robson.
Informed
guess Takes
place on Horton’s Orb, in Tellurian space.
And in the 2009 film Pandorum, overpopulation again causes
environmental catastrophe, and a space ark is despatched to take the last
survivors to an uninhabited Earth-like planet in another stellar system,
plausibly heralding the depopulation of Earth mentioned in The Planet of Evil.
The Restoration Empire Short story,
published 2020 Doctors: 8, 10 (glimpse)
Featuring the
Daleks, with the Mechanoids (informative mention)
Written by James Goss.
Takes place on rebuilt Skaro,
ending after The Last Message.
Lights Out Short story,
published 2014 Doctor:
12
Featuring Clara
(informative mention)
Written by Holly Black.
Informed guess Takes place on the Intergalactic Coffee Roasting Station in “the far
future”.
Hot Stuff! Comic story,
published 2011 Doctor:
11
Featuring Amy,
Rory
Written by Trevor Baxendale.
Takes place above Mercury;
self-dated the 367th century CE.
Planet of Evil TV story, broadcast 1975 Doctor: 4
featuring Sarah Jane
Written by Louis
Marks, script edited by Robert Holmes.
Takes place on
and near Zeta Minor, self-dated 37,166 CE.
The Weasels and the Warpfield Short story, published 2020 Doctor: 0
Featuring
Chris
Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.
Arbitrary
placement Takes
place indeterminately.
Zeta Major Novel, published 1998 Doctor: 5
featuring Nyssa, Tegan
Written by Simon
Messingham.
Takes place in
Morestran space; dated 39,164 CE by Parkin in
Ahistory.
The Same Face Audio short story, released 2019 Doctor: 3
Featuring
the Time Lords, the Master, Jo
Written by Justin Richards.
Informed
guess Takes
place on Samael, presumably in Tellurian space. Tardis Wiki’s attempts to link
this story to Under the Lake and therefore taking
place before that story, seem to me lacking in substance.
Andre Norton’s 1972 novel Breed to Come is set on an earth
inhabited by the descendants of animals given intelligence by an engineered
disease that has driven Tellurians offworld, not incompatibly with the events
alluded to in Pandorum.
The first Tellurians are returning, presaging a useful repopulation of Earth
for Doctor Who narrative in, for example, Skydive!
War and Peace Short story,
published 2017 Doctor:
0
Featuring the
Daleks
Written by Eric Saward.
Informed guess Takes place on Cerberus. I am assuming that the withdrawal of the Dalek
Prime seen in War of the Daleks and the Dalek Emperor in The
Restoration Empire, and their forces from being spatial powers into being purely temporal
powers, allowed Gonzo Orcini to produce these altered Daleks, possibly from survivors
of Davros’s forces.
Total
Stories Considered 5934
Proportion
Written By Women 10%
Top
Docs
4 508
stories
7 494
stories
10 417
stories
11 412
stories
8 403
stories
3 373
stories
6 372 stories
5 361 stories
1 337
stories
2 316
stories
12 178
stories
Unbound 128 stories
9 90 stories
13 83 stories
War 48 stories
Top
Twenty Recurring Elements
London 1170
stories
Regional
England 828
stories
The
Time Lords 536
stories
The
Daleks and Davros 494 stories
UNIT 468
stories
Alastair,
Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family 463
stories
Continental
Europe 441
stories
North
America 434
stories
Benny 312
stories
The
Master, including Missy 291
stories
Ace 277
stories
Sarah
Jane 276
stories
Wales 261
stories
The
K9s 256
stories
Torchwood 254
stories
Amy
and Rory 249
stories
At Sea 230
stories
Peri 213
stories Climber!
Christmas 209
stories
Captain
Jack 206
stories
Top
Decades
The
Teens 2380
stories
The
Noughties 1603
stories
The
Nineties 621
stories
The
Twenties 485
stories
The
Eighties 313
stories
The
Seventies 275
stories
The
Sixties 187
stories
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and
William Hope Hodgson) 70
stories
And
Top Twenty Years
2018 304
stories
2016 297
stories
2020 282
stories
2015 263
stories
2008 257
stories
2017 242
stories
2011 234
stories
2013 230
stories
2009 226
stories Climber!
2010 226
stories
2019 222
stories
2007 212
stories
2021 205
stories
2014 194
stories
2001 183
stories
2012 173
stories
2006 161
stories
2004 155
stories
2005 140
stories
2003 122
stories
Total
Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material
writers) 1150
Proportion
of Female Writers 17%
Top
Twenty Writers
Justin
Richards 157 stories
James
Goss 149
stories Climber!
Terrance Dicks 146
stories
Russell
T Davies 123 stories
Jonathan Morris 111
stories
Steven Moffat 102
stories
Eddie
Robson 98
stories Climber!
Paul
Magrs 97 stories
Terry
Nation 90
stories
Matt Fitton 86
stories
Nicholas
Briggs 83
stories
John
Dorney 83
stories Climber!
David Whitaker 82 stories
Simon
Guerrier 78
stories
Steve Lyons 69
stories
Gareth Roberts 68 stories
Alan
Barnes 64
stories
Trevor Baxendale 64 stories
Eric Saward 64
stories Re-entry!
Guy Adams 63
stories=
Robert Holmes 63
stories=
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