Then Again: The Tenth Myriad

 

Have You Tried Turning It Off And Then Back On Again?

Short story, published 2009                                                                          Doctor: 7

Featuring Mel

Written by John Callaghan.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet.


Dusty Death, Cold Assassin, Designs of the Dust and A Suitable Showdown

Comic story, published 2008                                                                        Doctor: 10

Written by Stephen Cole (as Steve Cole).

Arbitrary placement  Takes place variously.


The Horns of Nimon   TV story, broadcast 1980                      Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II, Romana

Written by Anthony Read, script edited by Douglas Adams.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on and near Skonnnos.


Flashpoint   Audio short story, released 2017                                            Doctor: 8

Featuring Lucie

Written by Andrew Smith.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Cerberin.

 

The Thing in the Attic, James Blish’s 1954 novella, describes Tellurian colonists biologically engineered for their environment on an alien world many generations previously. I am fitting it into Doctor Who narrative here: it was anthologised in the collection The Seedling Stars in 1957.

 

The Angel of History   Audio drama, released 2018             Doctor: Unbound

Featuring Benny

Written by Una McCormack.

Takes place on an unnamed planet in the Unbound universe.


Spinvasion   Audio drama, released 2020                                              Doctor: 0

Featuring Donna

Written by John Dorney.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Ganthak.


Thicket of Thieves   Charity short story, published 1998                         Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Zoe

Written by Kathryn Sullivan.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet.


Frontier Worlds   Novel, published 1999                                        Doctor: 8

Featuring Compassion, the remembered Fitz

Written by Peter Anghelides.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Drebnar.


Dr.Sixth   Illustrated short story, published 2018                                       Doctor: 6

Featuring the Rani, Peri

Written by Adam Hargreaves.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the Blue Planet.

 

The end of the first kilocentury will be approximately four thousand human generations in the future.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             6005

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 516 stories                   

7                 500 stories 

10               426 stories 

11               424 stories 

8                 406 stories 

3                 381 stories

6                 377 stories 

5                 367 stories         

1                 340 stories 

2                 328 stories         

12               180 stories

Unbound  130 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                                                                 314 stories

The Master, including Missy                             293 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        279 stories

Ace                                                                      278 stories 

The K9s                                                              262 stories  Climber! 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  256 stories 

Torchwood                                                        254 stories  

At Sea                                                                 233 stories

Peri                                                                     217 stories 

Christmas                                                          209 stories

Jamie                                                                  209 stories  Climber!

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2412 stories

The Noughties                                                  1621 stories       

The Nineties                                                      626 stories  

The Twenties                                                     490 stories   

The Eighties                                                      318 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                                                          308 stories 

2016                                                          303 stories

2020                                                          285 stories  

2015                                                          267 stories 

2008                                                          263 stories  

2017                                                           245 stories       

2011                                                          236 stories 

2013                                                          234 stories 

2010                                                          231 stories 

2009                                                          230 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                                            84 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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