Then Again: The Ninth Centiaeon

 

Ophidius   Comic story, published 2001                                                     Doctor: 8

Featuring Izzy, Destrii

Written by Scott Gray.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in Ophidius. True this is a long time after Power of the Mobox, but if Tellurians are still about after eighty million years, why shouldn’t the Mobox be?


Uroboros   Comic story, published 2002                                                    Doctor: 8

Featuring Shayde, Fey, Destrii

Written by Scott Gray.

Takes place on the planet of the Mobox, some months after Ophidius.

 

David Brin’s 1993 novel Glory Season is set on a Tellurian colony in the distant future, where basic human beings have been reproductively engineered over three thousand years: this is a convenient place to put it in Doctor Who narrative.

 

The Time Thief   Illustrated short story, published 1974                          Doctor: 3

featuring the Time Lords, Sarah Jane

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1975 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Lunargov III.


The Crooked World   Novel, published 2002                             Doctor: 8

Featuring the remembered Fitz, Anji

Written by Steve Lyons.

Informed guess Takes place on the Crooked World, in, we may surmise, Tellurian space. It is impossible to say how long ago the, presumably, Tellurian spaceship crashed on it.

 

This is approximately as far in the future as the emergence of Crocodilia, the ancestors of crocodiles and alligators was, in the past.

 

Animal Instincts   Audio drama, released 2019                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring the Master, River Song

Written by Roy Gill.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Cheska Minor. River Song has been released from prison, and can now travel through time at will, so this might be taking place anywhen.


The Last Confession   Audio book, released 2019                      Doctor: 0

Featuring Dorian Gray

Adapted by Scott Harrison from a script by Scott Handcock.

Arbitrary placement Takes place after Ever After.


John Smith and the Common Men   Comic story, published 2013       Doctor: 11

Featuring Clara, with Lethbridge-Stewart, Jamie, Harry, with Ace (informative mention)

Written by Scott Gray.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in an unknown environment.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             6280

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 554 stories                   

7                 533 stories 

10               457 stories 

11               455 stories 

8                 425 stories 

6                 392 stories

3                 388 stories 

5                 375 stories         

1                 365 stories 

2                 340 stories         

12               191 stories

Unbound  135 stories

9                 94 stories  

13               87 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1173 stories                

Regional England                                            832 stories

The Time Lords                                               557 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  503 stories 

UNIT                                                                469 stories  

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                         466 stories  

Continental Europe                                         443 stories 

North America                                                 436 stories  

Benny                                                                 321 stories

The Master, including Missy                         305 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        291 stories 

Ace                                                                      291 stories

The K9s                                                              275 stories  Climber! 

Amy and Rory                                                  274 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        257 stories  

At Sea                                                                 234 stories

Peri                                                                     225 stories 

Jamie                                                                  217 stories 

Romana                                                             216 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2524 stories

The Noughties                                                  1679 stories       

The Nineties                                                      641 stories  

The Twenties                                                     518 stories   

The Eighties                                                      340 stories   

The Seventies                                                    297 stories         

The Sixties                                                         211 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          319 stories

2016                                                          316 stories 

2020                                                          303 stories  

2015                                                          279 stories 

2008                                                          276 stories  

2017                                                           256 stories       

2011                                                          243 stories 

2009                                                          243 stories 

2010                                                          243 stories 

2013                                                          242 stories 

2019                                                          235 stories 

2007                                                          224 stories 

2021                                                          217 stories 

2014                                                          210 stories 

2001                                                          187 stories  

2012                                                          186 stories 

2006                                                          169 stories

2004                                                          157 stories

2005                                                          144 stories

2003                                                          124 stories  

                            

         

  

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1179

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                                    120 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                                             77 stories 

Trevor Baxendale                                  74 stories  

Guy Adams                                              69 stories           

Alan Barnes                                             69 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                       69 stories  

Eric Saward                                            66 stories  

 

 

 

 

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