Then Again: The Seventh Centiaeon

 

The Crumbling Magician   Audio drama, released 2019                Doctor: 1

Featuring Polly, Ben

Written by Guy Adams.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in a clinic.


The Deal   Comic story, published 1981                                                     Doctor: 4

Written by Steve Parkhouse.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet during the Millennium Wars.


The Birthday Boy   Comic story, published 2013                                      Doctor: 11

Featuring Clara, with Susan, Barbara, Ian, the Cybermen, River Song, Lethbridge-Stewart, the Master, the Earth Reptiles, Vicki, Steven, Katarina, Sara, Dodo, the Toymaker, Polly, Ben, Jamie, the Macra, Victoria, the Ice Warriors, Zoe, Benton, Liz, Yates, Axos, Sarah Jane, the Wirrrn, the Zygons, the Krynoids, Romana, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, Turlogh, Peri, Mel, Ace, Rose, Mickey, the Raxacorricofallapatorians, Captain Jack, Donna, Martha, Amy, Rory, the Silence (informative mention)

Written by Matthew Dow Smith.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in an unlocated environment.


The Android Maker of Calderon IV   Short story, published 2000      Doctor: 4

featuring Sarah Jane

Written by Miche Doherty.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Calderon IV.


The Panic Room   Comic story, published 2012                                        Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Glenn Dakin.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Arabia.

 

This is approximately as far in the future as the extinction of the dinosaurs and the beginning of the Cenozoic Era was, in the past.

 

The End of “Evil”   Charity drabble, published 1993                                   Doctor: Unbound

Written by Mark Stammers.

Informed guess Takes place on Earth.

The Fate Of The Earth

Humanoid life once again is rendered extinct on Earth.


The Constant Doctor   Short story, published 2015         Doctors: 5, 12, with 1 (informative mention)

Featuring Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, with Susan (informative mention)

Written by Andrew Smith.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Lemaria.


Rattus Erectus   Short story, published 2017                                             Doctor: 0

Featuring Iris Wildthyme

Written by Ian C Douglas.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on a planet inhabited by humanoids, in the Obverse.

 

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

 

The Mission   Illustrated short story, published 1975                                Doctor: 4

featuring Sarah Jane, Harry

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1976 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Tyrano.

 

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             6267

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 551 stories                   

7                 533 stories 

10               457 stories 

11               454 stories 

8                 421 stories 

6                 391 stories

3                 387 stories 

5                 375 stories         

1                 365 stories 

2                 340 stories         

12               190 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                                               556 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  503 stories 

UNIT                                                                  469 stories  

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                            465 stories  

Continental Europe                                         443 stories 

North America                                                 436 stories  

Benny                                                                 321 stories

The Master, including Missy                         304 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        290 stories  Climber! 

Ace                                                                      290 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  274 stories 

The K9s                                                              273 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        257 stories  

At Sea                                                                 234 stories

Peri                                                                     225 stories 

Jamie                                                                  216 stories 

Romana                                                             216 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2518 stories

The Noughties                                                  1675 stories       

The Nineties                                                      641 stories  

The Twenties                                                     518 stories   

The Eighties                                                      338 stories   

The Seventies                                                    296 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                                                          279 stories 

2008                                                          276 stories  

2017                                                           256 stories       

2011                                                          243 stories 

2009                                                          243 stories 

2010                                                          243 stories 

2013                                                          241 stories 

2019                                                          233 stories 

2007                                                          224 stories 

2021                                                          217 stories 

2014                                                          210 stories 

2001                                                          186 stories  

2012                                                          186 stories  Climber! 

2006                                                          169 stories

2004                                                          157 stories

2005                                                          144 stories

2003                                                          124 stories  

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1178

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  

Guy Adams                                             69 stories   Climber!   

Alan Barnes                                            69 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                       69 stories  

Eric Saward                                            66 stories  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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