Then Again: The Second Kilocentury

 

First Person   Charity short story, published 1999                                     Doctors: 7, 8

Written by Philip Purser-Hallard.

Takes place in the nebular Co-operative, ninety-eight thousand years after its founders seceded from an Earth-based empire. I think the first Tellurian empire is implied, putting this in the first millennium of the second kilocentury CE.

The Genesis Chamber   Audio adaptation of an unproduced TV script, released 2016                                                                                                                       Doctor: 4

Featuring Leela

Adapted by Marc Platt from a script by Philip Hinchcliffe.

Informed guess Takes place on a long-settled world in Tellurian space, at a time of considerable technological development.

Ten Fathom Pirates   Illustrated short story, published 1966                   Doctor: 1

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1967 crew.

Informed guess Takes place on an unnamed planet with humanoid inhabitants, which has had cultural contact with Tellurians.

The Final Analysis   Illustrated short story, published 1995                    Doctor: 4

featuring Romana

Written by Gareth Roberts.

Informed guess Takes place in Krannendale, in Earth’s far future.

The Fate Of The Earth

Earth has been “left behind” by interstellar culture, and its “several million” inhabitants are seeking collective psychotherapy.

The Masters of Luxor   Script of an unproduced TV story, published 1992

                                                                                                    Doctor: 1

featuring Susan, Barbara, Ian

Written by Anthony Coburn.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on a moon of Luxor.

The Eye of Torment   Comic story, published 2014                                  Doctor: 12

Featuring Clara

Written by Scott Gray.

Informed guess Takes place in the Solar System; self-dated the Ninth Era. An Era sounds like a long time, and it is not a chronological system mentioned elsewhere. My suggestion is that it refers to times when Earth is inhabitable, so the First Era would be up to the evacuation described in The Keep, the Second Era would be from the Earth’s resettlement in the late sixth millennium to its evacuation in the tenth, the Third from its resettlement following The Sontaran Experiment to the abandonment mentioned in Planet of Evil and so on. Allowing for the planet’s viability to have calmed down a bit after the early first kilocentury, I’m setting the Ninth Era in the mid-second.

The Soul Garden   Comic story, published 2017                                        Doctor: 12

Featuring Bill, with Japan (informative mention)

Written by Scott Gray.

Informed guess Takes place on Titan, not long after The Eye of Torment.

 

The 1969 film The Illustrated Man is set in an indeterminate future in which Venus has been terraformed. There is, unsurprisingly, no indication if Venus is still in the Calypso V system or whether it has been returned to the Solar System.

 

Planet of Fear   Illustrated short story, published 1981                              Doctor: 5

featuring Adric

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1982 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Ixos-4.

Snake Bite   Audio story, released 2012                                                  Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Scott Handcock.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in Tellurian space; self-described as “the far future”.

Planet of the Bunnoids   Short story, published 2000                           Doctor: 1

featuring Vicki, Steven

Written by Harriet Green.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet.

Nightdreamers   Novella, published 2002                                           Doctor: 3

featuring Jo

Written by Tom Arden.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Verd, colonised by humanoids presumably of Tellurian descent.

Attack of the Daleks   Comic story, published 1968                                Doctor: 2

featuring the Daleks, Gillian, John

Written by an anonymous Polystyle writer.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet. I’m assuming that these are time-travelling Daleks and that the date is not correlated to their position in Dalek history.

The Resurrection Casket   Novel, published 2006                 Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose

Written by Justin Richards.

Informed guess Takes place on and near Starfall. A reference to Kronkburgers very tentatively suggests a temporal proximity to The Long Game.

Scream of the Silent   Illustrated short story, published 1988                 Doctor: 7

Written anonymously.

Informed guess Takes place on Tya, during an era of Tellurian interstellar expansion; plausibly the Fourth Great and Bountiful Earth Empire.

The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook   Audio drama, released 2021     Doctor: 4

Featuring Leela

Written by Andrew Smith.

Takes place variously, including Normandy and Texas, but pivotally in Tellurian space. There is another reference to Kronkburgers, so I am again placing this story near The Long Game.

Strictly Fight Monsters   Comic story, published 2013                            Doctor: 11

Featuring Clara

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Anclodupon.

Final Sacrifice   Comic story, published 2010                                            Doctor: 10

Featuring Torchwood, Emily, Matthew, with Captain Jack (informative mention)

Written by Tony Lee.

Informed guess Takes place briefly in Oxford but mostly on an unnamed planet on which Tellurian-descended colonists have lived for thousands of years.

The Hesitation Deviation   Audio short story, released 2016                Doctor: 7

Featuring Benny

Written by James Goss.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet: Christmas is being celebrated.

Chime Time   Comic story, published 2014                        Doctors: 12, with 1 (glimpse)

Featuring Clara

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the planet of the Sibro.

 

  

 

Total Stories Considered             6023

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 519 stories                   

7                 503 stories 

10               428 stories 

11               426 stories 

8                 407 stories 

3                 382 stories

6                 377 stories 

5                 368 stories         

1                 344 stories 

2                 329 stories         

12               183 stories

Unbound  130 stories

9                 90 stories  

13               83 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1170 stories                

Regional England                                            830 stories

The Time Lords                                               539 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  497 stories 

UNIT                                                                 468 stories  

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                            463 stories  

Continental Europe                                         442 stories 

North America                                                 435 stories  

Benny                                                                 315 stories

The Master, including Missy                          293 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        279 stories

Ace                                                                      278 stories 

The K9s                                                              262 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  257 stories 

Torchwood                                                        255 stories  

At Sea                                                                 234 stories

Peri                                                                     217 stories 

Christmas                                                          210 stories

Jamie                                                                  209 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2419 stories

The Noughties                                                  1624 stories       

The Nineties                                                      629 stories  

The Twenties                                                     491 stories   

The Eighties                                                      320 stories   

The Seventies                                                    278 stories         

The Sixties                                                         192 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          308 stories 

2016                                                          305 stories

2020                                                          285 stories  

2015                                                          267 stories 

2008                                                          263 stories  

2017                                                           245 stories       

2011                                                          236 stories 

2013                                                          235 stories 

2010                                                          232 stories 

2009                                                          230 stories 

2019                                                          224 stories 

2007                                                          216 stories 

2021                                                          208 stories 

2014                                                          196 stories 

2001                                                          184 stories  

2012                                                          176 stories  

2006                                                          164 stories

2004                                                          156 stories

2005                                                          140 stories

2003                                                          122 stories  

                            

     

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1158

Proportion of Female Writers               17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Justin Richards                                       159 stories

James Goss                                              150 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                                            84 stories 

David Whitaker                                      82 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                       81 stories  

Steve Lyons                                             71 stories 

Gareth Roberts                                       69 stories  

Trevor Baxendale                                  67 stories  

Alan Barnes                                             64 stories  

Eric Saward                                            64 stories  

Guy Adams                                              63 stories=

Robert Holmes                                        63 stories=