Then Again: The Fourth Deciaeon

 

This is approximately as far in the future as the initial uplifting of the Urals, the Alps, the Rockies, and the Great Dividing Range, was, in the past.

 

The Parasites   Comic story, published 2012                                              Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy or an Amy ganger, Rory

Written by Steve Lyons.

Informed guess Takes place on the Terrapratch, which, interestingly, the Doctor insists is located where Earth should be. I am therefore placing it near Lords of the Galaxy, when the Earth is peregrinating around the galaxy.


Lords of the Galaxy   Illustrated short story, published 1968                  Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Victoria

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1969 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in Saurian space.

The Fate Of The Earth

By this time Earth has been repopulated, rendered invisible, and is being piloted around the galaxy in a war against the Saurians.


Helana and the Beast   Illustrated short story, published 2015              Doctor: 12

Written by Justin Richards.

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


The Living Storm   Comic story, published 2010                                      Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by Steve Lyons.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on a no longer inhabited planet.             


Colony of Fear   Audio drama, released 2021             Doctor: 6, with 2 (informative mention)

Featuring Constance

Written by Roland Moore.

Informed guess Takes place on Triketha, in Tellurian space.


Planet of Bones   Illustrated short story, published 1967                          Doctor: 2

featuring Polly, Ben

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1968 crew.

Informed guess Takes place on Harmony, some time before the collision of Mutter’s Spiral and the Great Spiral Nebula in Andromeda in the fifth or sixth Aeon.


How It Begins   Charity drabble, published 1993                          Doctor: Probably 1

Written by Jan-Vincent Rudzki

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet.

 

This is approximately as far in the future as the start of the Carboniferous period, in which the swampy fern forests became the world’s coal deposits and reptiles first evolved, was, in the past.

 

Light Fantastic   Illustrated short story, published 1979                           Doctor: 4

featuring K9 II, Romana

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1980 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on UX80, formerly Culturus.

 

In Hal Clement’s 1980 novel The Nitrogen Fix, bacteria have stripped free oxygen out of the Earth’s air, making life difficult for the small number of surviving humanoid Tellurians, not least because the resulting atmosphere corrodes metals.

                                                                       

Sirgwain and the Green Knight   Illustrated short story, published 2015      Doctor: 0

Featuring the Ice Warriors, arguably the Matter of Britain

Written by Justin Richards.

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

 

This is approximately as far in the future as the emergence of the first amphibians on land, was, in the past.

 

Rise and Fall  Audio short story, released 2010                                         Doctor: 1

Featuring Ian, with Susan, Barbara (informative mention)

Written by George Mann.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet with hypervelocitic metabolising inhabitants.


Terror Moon   Gamebook, published 2016                                       Doctor: 12

Featuring UNIT, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart

Written by Trevor Baxendale.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed moon, colonised by humanoids.


The Rival Robots   Illustrated short story, published 1977                       Doctor: 4

featuring Sarah Jane

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1978 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Vona.

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             6318

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 559 stories                   

7                 533 stories 

10               461 stories 

11               458 stories 

8                 429 stories 

6                 394 stories

3                 389 stories 

5                 376 stories         

1                 373 stories 

2                 345 stories         

12               195 stories

Unbound  136 stories

9                 94 stories  

13               88 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1173 stories                

Regional England                                            832 stories

The Time Lords                                               557 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  504 stories 

UNIT                                                                  471 stories  

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                         468 stories  

Continental Europe                                         443 stories 

North America                                                 436 stories  

Benny                                                                 321 stories

The Master, including Missy                         305 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        292 stories 

Ace                                                                      291 stories

The K9s                                                              278 stories 

Amy and Rory                                                  277 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        257 stories  

At Sea                                                                 234 stories

Peri                                                                     226 stories 

Jamie                                                                  219 stories 

Romana                                                             219 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2537 stories

The Noughties                                                  1688 stories       

The Nineties                                                      645 stories  

The Twenties                                                     519 stories   

The Eighties                                                      342 stories   

The Seventies                                                    299 stories         

The Sixties                                                         218 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          320 stories

2016                                                          319 stories 

2020                                                          303 stories  

2015                                                          283 stories 

2008                                                          279 stories  

2017                                                           256 stories       

2009                                                          245 stories 

2010                                                          245 stories  Climber! 

2011                                                          243 stories 

2013                                                          242 stories 

2019                                                          236 stories 

2007                                                          226 stories 

2021                                                          218 stories 

2014                                                          210 stories 

2012                                                          188 stories  Climber! 

2001                                                          187 stories  

2006                                                          170 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                                       166 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 

Simon Guerrier                                       88 stories  

John Dorney                                            87 stories 

David Whitaker                                      85 stories           

Steve Lyons                                             80 stories 

Trevor Baxendale                                  76 stories  

Guy Adams                                              69 stories           

Alan Barnes                                             69 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                       69 stories  

Eric Saward                                            66 stories  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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