Then Again: The Tenth Milliaeon

 

Anne McCaffrey’s 1969 novel The Ship Who Sang and its sequels are set in an undated Tellurian space, which would go well enough into Doctor Who narrative at this point.

 

The Sour Note   Illustrated short story, published 1967                            Doctor: 2

featuring Polly, Ben

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1968 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet.


Timepeace   Short story, published 2017                                                   Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Simon Brett.

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


Alien Mind Games   Illustrated short story, published 1980                  Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II, Romana

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1981 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in space.


Time and Tide   Comic story, published 1989                                           Doctor: 7

Written by Richard Alan and John Carnell.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Tojana. In my edition of Doctor Who Magazine 146, at any rate, two pages of this story were printed out of order, doing nothing for its coherence.

 

This will be approximately as far in the future as the emergence of Kangaroos was in the past.

 

Doing Time   Audio drama, released 2010                                                 Doctor: 5

Featuring Nyssa

Written by William Gallagher.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Folly, presumably in Tellurian space.


The Ghost Monument   TV story, broadcast 2018                           Doctor: 13

Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz

Written by Chris Chibnall.

Informed guess Takes place on and above Desolation. We may assume that a humanoid named Angstrom is of Tellurian descent, or at least exists after Tellurian interstellar colonisation.


The Memory Collective   Comic story, published 2009                          Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Uriel.


Pathfinders   Illustrated short story, published 1991                                 Doctor: 4

featuring K9II, Romana, Adric

Written by Michael E P Stevens.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet in E-space.

 

The end of the first centiaeon will be approximately four hundred thousand generations in the future.

 

 

Total Stories Considered             6206

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 537 stories                   

7                 528 stories 

10               451 stories 

11               447 stories 

8                 417 stories 

6                 387 stories

3                 386 stories 

5                 373 stories         

1                 359 stories 

2                 339 stories         

12               189 stories

Unbound  132 stories

9                 94 stories  

13               83 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1172 stories                

Regional England                                            832 stories

The Time Lords                                               550 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  502 stories 

UNIT                                                                  469 stories  

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                            464 stories  

Continental Europe                                         442 stories 

North America                                                 435 stories  

Benny                                                                 319 stories

The Master, including Missy                             297 stories

Ace                                                                      288 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        286 stories 

The K9s                                                              268 stories  Climber! 

Amy and Rory                                                  268 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        256 stories  

At Sea                                                                 234 stories

Peri                                                                     222 stories 

Jamie                                                                  214 stories 

Romana                                                             212 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2502 stories

The Noughties                                                  1663 stories       

The Nineties                                                      637 stories  

The Twenties                                                     505 stories   

The Eighties                                                      331 stories   

The Seventies                                                    290 stories         

The Sixties                                                         208 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          315 stories

2016                                                          314 stories 

2020                                                          295 stories  

2015                                                          276 stories 

2008                                                          274 stories  

2017                                                           254 stories       

2011                                                          243 stories 

2009                                                          241 stories 

2010                                                          241 stories 

2013                                                          239 stories 

2019                                                          231 stories 

2007                                                          222 stories 

2021                                                          212 stories 

2014                                                          210 stories 

2001                                                          184 stories  

2012                                                          184 stories 

2006                                                          167 stories

2004                                                          157 stories

2005                                                          143 stories

2003                                                          124 stories  

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1171

Proportion of Female Writers                '17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Justin Richards                                       161 stories

James Goss                                              155 stories 

Terrance Dicks                                       148 stories

Russell T Davies                                     125 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    119 stories 

Steven Moffat                                         105 stories

Eddie Robson                                          104 stories                   

Paul Magrs                                              97 stories  

Terry Nation                                           90 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              89 stories  

Nicholas Briggs                                       88 stories 

John Dorney                                            86 stories 

Simon Guerrier                                       86 stories  

David Whitaker                                      84 stories           

Steve Lyons                                             74 stories 

Trevor Baxendale                                  73 stories  

Alan Barnes                                             69 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                       69 stories  

Guy Adams                                              68 stories  

Eric Saward                                            66 stories  

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Then: The Late Nineteen Twenties     When I Remember __________    Short story, published 2020                Doctor: 0 Featuring Chris, 10,000 Dawns Written by Simon Bucher-Jones. Informed guess   Takes place in North America, during the career of H P Lovecraft. Theatre of the Mind    Comic story, published 2016                                  Doctor: 12 Featuring Harry Houdini, Clara Written by Roger Langridge. Informed guess Takes place in New York, NY; self-dated 1925 CE. The Futurists    Comic story, published 2006                                ...
Read more
Then: The Sixteenth Century   Prelude to Against Nature    Web short story, posted 2013                    Doctor : 0 Featuring Faction Paradox Written by Lawrence Burton. Takes place in Mexico, a few years before Against Nature. To Kill a Nandi Bear    Short story, published 2004                                   Doctor : 4 featuring Sarah Jane, Harry Written by Paul Williams. The Doctor says their location will be Nyasaland, an area of east Africa, in four centuries’ time. Two Monks, One Mistress    Audio drama, released 2021            Doctor : 0 Featuring Missy, Mortimus Written by James Kettle. Takes place in Tuscany, a region ...
Read more
Then Again: The Late Twenty-Fourth Century   A Most Excellent Match     Audio drama, released 2011                           Doctor: 6 Featuring Peri Written by Matt Fitton. Takes place at the Galaxy Fair; self-dated 2351 CE. The Child    Audio drama, released 2012                                                  Doctor: 4 Featuring Leela Written by Nigel Fairs. Arbitrary placement Takes place on the planet of The Map Of Life. Mission to Magnus    Novelisation of an unproduced TV story, published 1990       Doctor: 6 featuring the Time Lords, the Ice Warrior...
Read more