Then Again: The Third Kilocentury

 

  

The Long Game   TV story, broadcast 2005                                         Doctor: 9

Featuring Rose, with the Face of Boe (glimpse)

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place above Earth; self-dated 200,000 CE.

The Fate Of The Earth

Earth has a population of ninety-six billion, and five moons. It belongs to the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire: it is unclear whether this is a political or just cultural entity.


Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways   TV story, broadcast 2005

                                                                                                Doctors: 9, with 10 (glimpse)

Featuring the Daleks, Rose, Mickey, Captain Jack, with the Time Lords, Torchwood (informative mention)

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place above Earth; self-dated a century after The Long Game.


The Year After I Died   Audio drama, released 2017                        Doctor: 0

Featuring Captain Jack, with the Daleks (informative mention)

Written by Guy Adams.

Takes place on and above Earth, including near Blackcastle; self-dated a year after Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways.


We Will Feed You To the Trees   Illustrated short story, published 2020         Doctor: 7

Written by Dave Rudden.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Outsmawe.


Flight to Calandra   Audio drama, released 2021                        Doctor: 12

Featuring the Time Agency, with Nardole (informative mention)

Written by Matt Fitton.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in Bristol, but mostly on Callandra.         


The Infinity Season   Illustrated short story, published 1989                  Doctor: 7

Written by Dan Abnett.

Informed guess Takes place on Archimedes, clearly colonised by the descendants of Tellurians. The obsession with the media suggests the Fourth Great and Bounteous Earth Empire.


Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius

Audio drama, released 2008                                                              Doctor: 8

Featuring the Time Lords, Lucie, with the Headhunter (glimpse)

Written by Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place in Mutter’s Spiral. Earth is part of an intergalactic civilisation, plausibly about now. The Time Lords seem very timid of Zarodnix: possibly they are the Time Lords restored from the back-up in the Doctor’s memory in The Gallifrey Chronicles, and are traumatised and cautious: this would explain the suggestion that they are contemporaneous with an interstellar Tellurian civilisation. Possibly the Doctor established them now near a time when their reluctant allies and cousins, the Sisterhood of Karn, are evidently secure.


Orbis   Audio drama, released 2009                                                         Doctor: 8

Featuring Lucie, the Headhunter

Written by Alan Barnes and Nicholas Briggs.

Informed guess Takes place on Orbis; self-dated some six centuries after Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius.


Le Tour de Death   Comic story, published 2012                                      Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Informed guess Takes place on Parisian Dix, in Tellurian space at a time not obviously near any other. The law is upheld by Galactic Marshals.


Into the Dalek   TV story, broadcast 2014                                            Doctor: 12

Featuring the Daleks, Clara, with Missy (glimpse)

Written by Phil Ford and Steven Moffat.

Informed guess Takes place in Coal Hill School, but mostly in Tellurian space. Rusty appears to remember events from Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways. I am surprised to learn that Rose left any Daleks alive to remember, but I assume that even though these are post-Time War Daleks, they have lost their time-travel capability, or they would not be bothering with interstellar fleet-warfare. I am consequently placing this in the early third kilocentury.


Soft Target   Short story, published 2020                                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Chris

Written by Vince Stadon.

Arbitrary placement Takes place indeterminately.


The Krotons   TV story, broadcast 1969                                            Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Zoe, the Krotons

Written by Robert Holmes, script edited by Terrance Dicks.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the planet of the Gonds.


City of Light   Comic story, published 2009                                               Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather

Written by Eddie Robson.

Informed guess Takes place on Luminous, implicitly in humanity’s future.


Night of the Humans   Novel, published 2010                           Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by David Llewellyn.

Takes place on the Gyre (a mere twenty-five light years from Earth); self-dated 250,339 CE.

The Fate Of The Earth

Earth is currently inhabited, and seems to be doing quite well as a spacefaring civilisation.


The Lamentation Cipher   Audio drama, released 2014                Doctor: 0

Featuring The Viyrans, Charley

Written by Jonathan Barnes.

Informed guess Takes place in Tellurian space, at a time when it is casually intergalactic; the location is given as “billions” of light years from Earth.


The Viyran Solution   Audio drama, released 2014                          Doctor: 0

Featuring The Viyrans, Charley

Written by Matt Fitton.

Takes place in Tellurian space, two years after The Lamentation Cypher.


Panda and the Airship   Short story, published 2017                              Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme, Faction Paradox, or possibly Unbound Faction Paradox

Written by John Alice.

Arbitrary placement Takes place wherever the Number 22 has materialised, just after Iris has regenerated. There is a slight suggestion that Belle is a member of a Clockworks equivalent to Faction Paradox, rather than the Faction itself, if indeed there is a distinction that can meaningfully be drawn.


Emissary of the Daleks   Audio drama, released 2019             Doctor: 6

Featuring the Daleks, Peri

Written by Andrew Smith.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Omnia.


Space Station Z7   Comic story, published 1966                                      Doctor: 1

featuring Gillian, John

Illustrated ?and written by Bill Mevin.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Space Station Z7.


Doctor Who - Slipback   Novelisation of an Audio drama, published 1986        Doctor: 6

featuring Peri, and the Time Lords (glimpse)

Adapted from his own script by Eric Saward.

Informed guess Takes place on the Vipod Mor, sufficiently far in the future that Earth is mythically held to be one of only three planets in Mutter’s Spiral on which civilisation arose.


Pondnium   Comic story, published 2012                                                   Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Pondinium, which is very nearly the title of the story.


Concealed Weapon   Audio drama, released 2019                            Doctor: 0

Featuring the Master, River Song

Written by Scott Handcock.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in space. River Song has been released from prison, and can now travel through time at will, so this might be taking place at any time.


The Strings   Short story, published 2013                                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Faction Paradox

Written by James Worrad.

Informed guess Takes place on Whubir. The Republic of Sol is a significant interstellar power, and it is far enough into the future that it is no longer common knowledge that the Solar System was the original home of Tellurians.

 

Frank Herbert’s 1966 novel The Eyes of Heisenberg take place mostly in the Seattle area an indefinite distance into the future, but it transpires that the Optimen have been ruling the Earth in a rigidly unchanging system for eighty thousand years. In Doctor Who narrative, this is probably the earliest that this can be accommodated.

 

The Planet of Dust   Illustrated short story, published 1978                     Doctor: 4

featuring Leela

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1979 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet (other than, the planet of dust).


The Eyeless   Novel, published 2008                                                  Doctor: 10

Written by Lance Parkin.

Takes place on Arcopolis; self-dated 292,009 CE.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             6048

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 520 stories                   

7                 505 stories 

10               430 stories 

11               429 stories 

8                 409 stories 

3                 382 stories

6                 379 stories 

5                 368 stories         

1                 345 stories 

2                 330 stories         

12               185 stories

Unbound  130 stories

9                 92 stories  

13               83 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1171 stories                

Regional England                                            831 stories

The Time Lords                                               542 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  500 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                         294 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        279 stories

Ace                                                                      278 stories 

The K9s                                                              262 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  260 stories 

Torchwood                                                        256 stories  

At Sea                                                                 234 stories

Peri                                                                     219 stories 

Christmas                                                          210 stories

Jamie                                                                  210 stories  Climber! 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2430 stories

The Noughties                                                  1630 stories       

The Nineties                                                      629 stories  

The Twenties                                                     494 stories   

The Eighties                                                      322 stories   

The Seventies                                                    279 stories         

The Sixties                                                         194 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          308 stories 

2016                                                          305 stories

2020                                                          287 stories  

2015                                                          267 stories 

2008                                                          265 stories  

2017                                                           247 stories       

2011                                                          236 stories  Climber! 

2013                                                          236 stories 

2010                                                          233 stories 

2009                                                          232 stories 

2019                                                          226 stories 

2007                                                          216 stories 

2021                                                          209 stories 

2014                                                          199 stories 

2001                                                          184 stories  

2012                                                          178 stories  

2006                                                          164 stories

2004                                                          156 stories

2005                                                          142 stories

2003                                                          122 stories  

                                     

 

 Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1161

Proportion of Female Writers               17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Justin Richards                                       159 stories

James Goss                                              150 stories 

Terrance Dicks                                       147 stories

Russell T Davies                                     125 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    113 stories 

Steven Moffat                                         103 stories

Eddie Robson                                          100 stories                   

Paul Magrs                                              97 stories  

Terry Nation                                           90 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              89 stories  

Nicholas Briggs                                       87 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                                             65 stories  

Eric Saward                                            65 stories  

Guy Adams                                              64 stories=

Robert Holmes                                        64 stories= 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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