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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