Then Again: The Sixth Centiaeon

 

Earth   Short story, published 2005                                                               Doctor: 4

Written by Jim Mortimore.

Takes place in New York, NY and elsewhere on Earth; the Doctor dates it as 50,000,000 CE.

The Fate Of The Earth

By this time, much of the Earth’s surface is glass. Its dominant species are giant ants, which farm large non-sentient food-animals descended from Tellurians. These survive until Earth’s final destruction in the far future, and beyond. The narrator thinks he can see New York beneath the glass, but he is not well educated and has possibly not left the city before in his life. I think he is likely to mistake any city of rectangular towers laid out on a rectangular street plan for New York, and the city he can see is a lot less than fifty million years old.


The Planet That Wept   Illustrated short story, published 2007             Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha

Written by Justin Richards.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet, that wept.


The Shadow Passes   Online short story, posted 2020                             Doctor: 13

Featuring Graham, Ryan, Yaz

Written by Paul Cornell.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Calapia.


The Mutants   Comic story, published 1977                                                 Doctor: 4

featuring Leela

Written by John Canning.

Arbitrary placement  Takes place on the planet of the Meerags.


Pinball Wizard   Comic story, published 2006                                          Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose

Written by Davey Moore.

Informed guess Takes place on a highly technological Tellurian colony.


Terror on Tantalogus   Illustrated short story, published 1978               Doctor: 4

featuring Leela

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1979 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Tantalogus.


Planet from Nowhere   Illustrated short story, published 1968              Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Victoria

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1969 crew.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth. The glassiness of much of its surface suggests relative temporal proximity to Earth.

The Fate Of The Earth

The Earth is now in orbit around another star: either attracted to it in its millions of years of interstellar travel after The Ark, or piloted there by subsequent inhabitants. It has now been resettled by belligerent humanoid inhabitants, probably of humanoid descent.


A Master of Disguise   Short story, published 2020                                 Doctor: 0

Featuring the Master

Written by Mike Tucker.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Djinn and Restovan.

 

This is approximately as far in the future as the initial uplifting of the Himalaya mountains was, in the past.

 

The Star Serpent   Comic story, published 2012                                        Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in intergalactic space.


Jak and the Wormhole   Illustrated short story, published 2015            Doctor: 0

Featuring the Nimons

Written by Justin Richards.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in an unnamed environment inhabited by humanoids.


Mighty and Despair   Audio drama, released 2020                          Doctor: 0

Featuring the Vampires, Captain Jack, with Christmas (informative mention)

Written by Tim Foley.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the Hidden Planet.


X-Rani and the Ugly Mutants   Illustrated short story, published 1979            Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II, Romana

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1980 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Xethra and Ethra.

 

This is approximately as far in the future as the ancestors of whales taking to the sea was, in the past.

 

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             6258

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 548 stories                   

7                 533 stories 

10               457 stories 

11               452 stories 

8                 421 stories 

6                 391 stories

3                 387 stories 

5                 374 stories         

1                 363 stories 

2                 340 stories         

12               189 stories

Unbound  134 stories

9                 94 stories  

13               87 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1173 stories                

Regional England                                            832 stories

The Time Lords                                               556 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  503 stories 

UNIT                                                               469 stories  

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

Continental Europe                                         443 stories 

North America                                                 436 stories  

Benny                                                                 321 stories

The Master, including Missy                         303 stories

Ace                                                                      289 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        287 stories 

The K9s                                                              273 stories 

Amy and Rory                                                  272 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        257 stories  

At Sea                                                                 234 stories

Peri                                                                     223 stories 

Jamie                                                                  215 stories 

Romana                                                             215 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2513 stories

The Noughties                                                  1674 stories       

The Nineties                                                      640 stories  

The Twenties                                                     518 stories   

The Eighties                                                      337 stories   

The Seventies                                                    295 stories         

The Sixties                                                         211 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          317 stories

2016                                                          315 stories 

2020                                                          303 stories  

2015                                                          278 stories 

2008                                                          276 stories  

2017                                                           255 stories       

2011                                                          243 stories 

2009                                                          243 stories 

2010                                                          243 stories 

2013                                                          240 stories 

2019                                                          232 stories 

2007                                                          224 stories 

2021                                                          217 stories 

2014                                                          210 stories 

2001                                                          186 stories  

2012                                                          185 stories 

2006                                                          169 stories

2004                                                          157 stories

2005                                                          144 stories

2003                                                          124 stories  

                            

         

  

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1176

Proportion of Female Writers                17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Justin Richards                                       163 stories

James Goss                                              155 stories 

Terrance Dicks                                       148 stories

Russell T Davies                                     125 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    119 stories 

Steven Moffat                                         105 stories

Eddie Robson                                          105 stories         

Paul Magrs                                              97 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              91 stories  

Terry Nation                                           90 stories  

Nicholas Briggs                                       88 stories 

John Dorney                                            87 stories 

Simon Guerrier                                       86 stories  

David Whitaker                                      84 stories           

Steve Lyons                                             76 stories 

Trevor Baxendale                                  74 stories  

Alan Barnes                                             69 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                       69 stories  

Guy Adams                                              68 stories  

Eric Saward                                            66 stories  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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