Then Again: The Sixth Myriad

 

This is as far in the future as the genetic record suggests the last Neanderthal interbreeding with Homo Sapiens was in the past.

 

The Doctor and the Witch   Charity short story, published 2016           Doctor: 4

Featuring the Master, Sarah Jane, with the Time Lords (informative mention)

Written by Rachel Redhead.

Takes place mostly on what is implicitly Earth; self-dated 51,204 CE. (Sarah Jane asks to be taken to the fifty-second century and the Doctor actually takes her to the fifty-second millennium, but, yes, that’s quite plausible in his fourth incarnation.)

The Coming of the Terraphiles   Novel, published 2010   Doctor: 11

Featuring the Judoon, Amy

Written by Michael Moorcock.

Takes place at least partly in Tellurian space, self-dated some fifty thousand years after Amy’s time.

The Fate Of The Earth

Earth is currently frozen, owing to a couple of nuclear winters and a large comet. Venus has been relocated to the Calypso V star system.

The Grey Hole   Comic story, published 2010                                            Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Informed guess Takes place on the Gemstone Moon of Regol Genaralon, in Tellurian space. The Doctor says that Grey Holes are rare, so I am assuming that Tellurians have had to travel to a distant galaxy to find one.

Timeslip   Comic story, published 1980                  Doctors: 4, with 1, 2, 3 (glimpse)

featuring K9 II, and Romana (informative mention)

Written by Dez Skinn.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in space.

Penny Wise, Pound Foolish   Audio short story, released 2011             Doctor: 2

Featuring Jamie, Zoe

Written by Foster Marks.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Juno 10, probably in Tellurian space, as it features somebody named Jack.

The Pursuit of History and Casualties of Time

Audio drama, released 2016                                                             Doctor: 4

Featuring K9 II, Grace technology, Romana

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes variously, including in Scotland, Yorkshire and Asia, but pivotally on Space Platform 237, a component of the Conglomerate’s Quantum Gateway. I am assuming this is physically located in a time and place distant from potential disruption.

Lant Land  Short story, published 2004                                                     Doctor: 5

featuring Tegan, Turlough

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in a humanoid society.

The Gulf   Audio drama, released 2021                                       Doctor: 3

Featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Tim Foley.

Informed guess Takes place on oceanic planet, from the names of its characters, in Tellurian space.

Freedom by Fire   Comic story, published 1968                                        Doctor: 2

featuring Polly, Jamie

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1969 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet inhabited by humanoids. The appearance of the Doctor’s female friend is identifiable as the 1969 Annual’s attempt at Deborah Watling, but she is identified in the script as Polly. Ben is presumably in a mood and remaining in the TARDIS.

The Creature From the Pit   TV story, broadcast 1979          Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II, Romana

Written by David Fisher, script edited by Douglas Adams.

arbitrary placement Takes place on Chloris.

All of Beyond   Short story, published 2007                                               Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie

Written by Helen Raynor.

Takes place on Earth; self-dated 54,010 CE.

The Fate Of The Earth

This is four centuries after the Great Melt, (presumably after the glaciation described in The Coming of the Terraphiles) and a time of great prosperity.

The Old Kings of Skarab   Comic story, published 2008                        Doctor: 10

Written by Martin Day.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Skarab.

The Hangover of Injustice   Charity short story, published 2018           Doctor: 7

Featuring Mel

Written by Andrew Lawston.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on a planet inhabited by humanoids, probably Tellurian colonists.

 

Yevgeny Zamyatin’s 1921 novel We is set on a dystopian Earth, in which a totalitarian regime is preparing once again to turn its attention to space travel, even as a rebellion against it ignites. Doctor Who narrative offers little concrete about Earth history at this point.

 

Faceache   Comic story, published 2013                                                      Doctor: 11

Featuring Clara

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in a theme park, in an unknown environment.

Wheel of Lights   Charity Drabble, published 1993                                   Doctor: 7

Featuring Ace

Written by Richard W Dance.

Arbitrary Placement Takes place in an unknown environment with a view of the stars.

Wooden Heart   Novel, published 2007                                          Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha

Written by Martin Day,

Informed guess Takes place outside Tellurian space, a long time after the Castor was launched, but not long enough for the bodies of its occupants to have decomposed in a presumably sterile environment.

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back   Short story, published 2008      Doctors: 2, 5

Featuring Jamie, Turlough

Written by Chris Thomas.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Atkya.

Planet of the Drashigs   Audio drama, released 2019                      Doctors: 4

Featuring K9 II, Ann

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Drashigworld.

Moon Graffiti   Short story, published 1998                                             Doctors: 6

featuring Peri

Written by Dave Stone.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth, “several tens of thousands of years” after Peri’s time.

The Fate Of The Earth

The Earth has been devastated by Pararachnids. Following its destruction in Wormwood, the Moon has evidently been rebuilt, possibly for tidal reasons. The Pararachnids have vandalised it.

Ghosts   Audio drama, released 2020                                                       Doctors: 10

Featuring River Song

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Demonese 2.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             5965

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 513 stories                   

7                 497 stories 

10               422 stories 

11               418 stories 

8                 403 stories 

3                 376 stories

6                 375stories 

5                 363 stories         

1                 338 stories 

2                 322 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                                            829 stories

The Time Lords                                               537 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                         292 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        279 stories

Ace                                                                      278 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

The K9s                                                              261 stories  Climber! 

Torchwood                                                        254 stories  

Amy and Rory                                                  254 stories  Climber! 

At Sea                                                                 231 stories

Peri                                                                     215 stories 

Christmas                                                          209 stories 

Captain Jack                                                    206 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2393 stories

The Noughties                                                  1612 stories       

The Nineties                                                      623 stories  

The Twenties                                                     488 stories   

The Eighties                                                      315 stories   

The Seventies                                                    276 stories         

The Sixties                                                         188 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          305 stories 

2016                                                          299 stories

2020                                                          283 stories  

2015                                                          264 stories 

2008                                                          261 stories  

2017                                                           242 stories       

2011                                                          236 stories 

2013                                                          232 stories 

2010                                                          230 stories 

2009                                                          227 stories 

2019                                                          223 stories 

2007                                                          215 stories 

2021                                                          207 stories 

2014                                                          194 stories 

2001                                                          183 stories  

2012                                                          173 stories  

2006                                                          161 stories

2004                                                          156 stories

2005                                                          140 stories

2003                                                          122 stories  

                            

         

  

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1154

Proportion of Female Writers               17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Justin Richards                                       157 stories

James Goss                                              149 stories 

Terrance Dicks                                       146 stories

Russell T Davies                                     123 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    113 stories 

Steven Moffat                                         102 stories

Eddie Robson                                          98 stories           

Paul Magrs                                              97 stories  

Terry Nation                                           90 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              86 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=