Then Again: The Second Centiaeon

 

The Experimenters   Comic story, published 1966                                    Doctor: 1

featuring Gillian, John

Written by Roger Noel Cook.

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


Mirror Image   Comic story, published 2006                                             Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose

Written by Jacqueline Rayner.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet.

 

William Hope Hodgson’s 1912 novel The Night Land is set on the Earth “millions” of years after the twentieth century CE, when the sun has “gone dark”. This might well be a conclusion that its surviving inhabitants have come to, following its expulsion into interstellar space following The Ark. We may suppose it was discovered by Tellurian descended humans some time previously and resettled, possibly for cultural reasons. Presumably they would have rendered it habitable with artificial suns, which by this time have failed.

 

Unseen Danger   Charity Drabble, published 1993                                      Doctor: Unbound

Written by Kevin Chitty.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet.


End of the Line   Comic story, published 1981                                        Doctor: 4

Written by Steve Parkhouse.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in a decaying high-tech civilisation of humanoids, presumably of Tellurian descent.

 

This is approximately as far in the future as the emergence of Iceland from the mid-Atlantic ridge, the emergence of big cats and the evolution of long necks in the ancestors of giraffes were, in the past.

 

The Calendar Man   Audio drama, released 2018                              Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by A K Benedict.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet inhabited by humanoids, presumably of Tellurian descent.


Mission for Duh   Comic story, published 1966                                         Doctor: 1

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1967 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Birr.


Dead Time   Audio drama, released 2021                                     Doctor: 8

Featuring Liv, Helen, Torchwood

Written by Matt Fitton.

Informed guess Takes place principally on the site of London, “several million” years after the early twenty-first century CE, when Earth is “desolate” but kept under observation by an interstellar polity called The Third Glorious Empire.                     


About Face   Comic story, published 2010                                                  Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Steve Lyons.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in space.

 

This is approximately as far in the future as the uplifting of the Apennine Mountains was in the past.

 

The Touchdown on Deneb-7   Comic story, published 1981            Doctor: 4 (glimpse)

featuring K9 II

Written by Paul Neary.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on a moon of Deneb-7.

 

 

  

 

Total Stories Considered             6215

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 539 stories                   

7                 528 stories 

10               452 stories 

11               449 stories 

8                 418 stories 

6                 387 stories

3                 386 stories 

5                 373 stories         

1                 361 stories 

2                 339 stories         

12               189 stories

Unbound  133 stories

9                 94 stories  

13               83 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1173 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 

Amy and Rory                                                  270 stories 

The K9s                                                              269 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        257 stories  

At Sea                                                                 234 stories

Peri                                                                     222 stories 

Jamie                                                                  214 stories 

Romana                                                             212 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2504 stories

The Noughties                                                  1664 stories       

The Nineties                                                      638 stories  

The Twenties                                                     506 stories   

The Eighties                                                      333 stories   

The Seventies                                                    290 stories         

The Sixties                                                         210 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          316 stories

2016                                                          314 stories 

2020                                                          295 stories  

2015                                                          276 stories 

2008                                                          274 stories  

2017                                                           254 stories       

2011                                                          243 stories 

2010                                                          242 stories  Climber! 

2009                                                          241 stories 

2013                                                          239 stories 

2019                                                          231 stories 

2007                                                          222 stories 

2021                                                          213 stories 

2014                                                          210 stories 

2001                                                          184 stories  

2012                                                          184 stories 

2006                                                          168 stories

2004                                                          157 stories

2005                                                          143 stories

2003                                                          124 stories  

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1172

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  

Matt Fitton                                              91 stories  

Terry Nation                                           90 stories  

Nicholas Briggs                                       88 stories 

John Dorney                                            86 stories 

Simon Guerrier                                       86 stories  

David Whitaker                                      84 stories           

Steve Lyons                                             75 stories 

Trevor Baxendale                                  73 stories  

Alan Barnes                                             69 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                       69 stories  

Guy Adams                                              68 stories  

Eric Saward                                            66 stories  

 

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