Then Again: The Ninth Myriad

 

The Planet of the Daleks   Comic story, published 1972                         Doctor: 3

featuring the Daleks

Written by Dennis Hooper.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet colonised by time-travelling Daleks: the date may be deemed to be unconnected to their position in Dalek history.


Day of the Tune, The Meddling of Clara’s Song, The Abominable Showmen, The Five Masters and One! Two! Three! Four! To Doomsday        Comic story, published 2015                                                                                                                          Doctors: 12, with 1, 2, 3, 4 (glimpse)

Featuring The Master, Clara

Written by Colin Bell.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Karaoke.


Who Tortures the Torturers?   Charity short story, published 2001      Doctor: 2

featuring Polly, Ben, Jamie

Written by James Enright.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Vandiel.

 

Michael G Coney’s The Song of Earth sequence of novels (1982-9) is set on Earth some eighty thousand years in the future, and can be broadly incorporated into this underdeveloped area of the planet’s future in Doctor Who narrative.

 

Starstruck   Comic story, published 2009                                                  Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather, Wolfie

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in an unknown environment.


Guests of King Neptune   Comic story, published 1966                       Doctor: 1

featuring Gillian, John

Written by Roger Noel Cook.

Informed guess Takes place on a volcanic island in a sea. King Neptune may be descended from, or the artefact of, Tellurians with a thing about Roman myth.


A Switch in Time   Comic story, published 1989                                       Doctor: 7

Written by John Freeman.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in an unknown environment.


Dumb Waiter   Audio drama, released 2018     Doctors: 2, with 4 (informative mention)

Featuring Jamie, Victoria, Leela

Written by Rob Nisbet.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in an incarceral environment.


The Greatest Mall in the Universe   Comic story, published 2008      Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Colin Brake.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Liater.


The God Machine   Illustrated short story, published 1982                       Doctor: 5

featuring Nyssa, Tegan

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1983 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet inhabited by humanoids.

 

 

Total Stories Considered             5996

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 515 stories                   

7                 499 stories 

10               425 stories  Climber! 

11               424 stories 

8                 404 stories 

3                 381 stories

6                 376 stories 

5                 367 stories         

1                 340 stories 

2                 327 stories         

12               180 stories

Unbound  129 stories

9                 90 stories  

13               83 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1170 stories                

Regional England                                            829 stories

The Time Lords                                               539 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  496 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                                                                 313 stories

The Master, including Missy                         293 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        279 stories

Ace                                                                      278 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

The K9s                                                              261 stories 

Amy and Rory                                                  256 stories 

Torchwood                                                        254 stories  

At Sea                                                                 233 stories

Peri                                                                     216 stories 

Christmas                                                          209 stories

Jamie                                                                  208 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2409 stories

The Noughties                                                  1619 stories       

The Nineties                                                      624 stories  

The Twenties                                                     489 stories   

The Eighties                                                      317 stories   

The Seventies                                                    278 stories         

The Sixties                                                         190 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          306 stories 

2016                                                          303 stories

2020                                                          284 stories  

2015                                                          267 stories 

2008                                                          262 stories  

2017                                                           244 stories       

2011                                                          236 stories 

2013                                                          234 stories 

2010                                                          231 stories 

2009                                                          229 stories 

2019                                                          224 stories 

2007                                                          216 stories 

2021                                                          207 stories 

2014                                                          194 stories 

2001                                                          184 stories  

2012                                                          175 stories  

2006                                                          163 stories

2004                                                          156 stories

2005                                                          140 stories

2003                                                          122 stories  

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1156

Proportion of Female Writers                17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Justin Richards                                       158 stories

James Goss                                              149 stories 

Terrance Dicks                                       146 stories

Russell T Davies                                     123 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    113 stories 

Steven Moffat                                         102 stories

Eddie Robson                                          99 stories           

Paul Magrs                                              97 stories  

Terry Nation                                           90 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              87 stories  

Nicholas Briggs                                       85 stories 

John Dorney                                            83 stories 

David Whitaker                                      82 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                       80 stories  

Steve Lyons                                             71 stories 

Gareth Roberts                                       68 stories  

Trevor Baxendale                                  67 stories  

Alan Barnes                                             64 stories  

Eric Saward                                            64 stories  

Guy Adams                                              63 stories=

Robert Holmes                                        63 stories= 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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