Then Again: The Second Deciaeon

 

The Gyros Injustice   Comic story, published 1965                                         Doctor: 1

featuring Gillian, John

Illustrated ?and written by Neville Main.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the planet of the Gyros.


Hot Metal   Comic story, published 2008                                                               Doctor: 10

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in The News Factory.

 

Ann Leckie’s 2013 novel Ancillary Justice and its sequels are set in an interstellar empire of Tellurian-descended humanoids, in the far future. I see no harm in slotting them into Doctor Who narrative at this point.

 

The Hand of the Goddess   Charity short story, published 1999                        Doctor: 8

Featuring UNIT, Death, Sam, with the Daleks, Lethbridge-Stewart, the Krotons (informative mention)

Written by Susannah Tiller.

Informed guess Takes place on an apparently Tellurian colony, plausibly some time before The Life Bringer.

 

This is approximately as far in the future as the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, in which most of the world’s chalk was deposited was, in the past.

 

Sweet Dreams   Comic story, published 2009                                                       Doctor: 10

Featuring Heather, Wolfie

Written by Craig Donaghy.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Lurbos 3.

 

This is approximately as far in the future as the original uplifting of the Pyrenees was, in the past.

 

See No Evil   Short story, published 2008                                                           Doctor: 6

Featuring Peri

Written by Steve Lyons.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet.


The Fifth Traveller   Audio drama, released 2016                                   Doctor: 1

Featuring Barbara, Ian, Vicki

Written by Philip Lawrence.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the planet of the Arunde.


The Sabre-Toothed Gorillas   Comic story, published 1968                             Doctor: 2

featuring Gillian, John

Illustrated ?and written by John Canning.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet.

 

This is approximately as far in the future as the emergence of crabs was, in the past.

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             6295

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 554 stories                   

7                 533 stories 

10               459 stories 

11               456 stories 

8                 429 stories 

6                 393 stories

3                 389 stories 

5                 376 stories         

1                 367 stories 

2                 341 stories         

12               193 stories

Unbound  135 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                                                                  470 stories  

Alastair, Kate, Kadiatu, Lucy Weston and the Lethbridge-Stewart family                                                                             467 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 

Amy and Rory                                                  275 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        257 stories  

At Sea                                                                 234 stories

Peri                                                                     226 stories 

Jamie                                                                  217 stories 

Romana                                                             216 stories 

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2529 stories

The Noughties                                                  1686 stories       

The Nineties                                                      642 stories  

The Twenties                                                     518 stories   

The Eighties                                                      340 stories   

The Seventies                                                    297 stories         

The Sixties                                                         213 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          319 stories

2016                                                          318 stories 

2020                                                          303 stories  

2015                                                          280 stories 

2008                                                          279 stories  

2017                                                           256 stories       

2009                                                          244 stories 

2010                                                          243 stories 

2011                                                          243 stories 

2013                                                          242 stories 

2019                                                          236 stories 

2007                                                          226 stories 

2021                                                          217 stories 

2014                                                          210 stories 

2001                                                          187 stories  

2012                                                          187 stories  Climber! 

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 

Simon Guerrier                                       88 stories  

John Dorney                                            87 stories 

David Whitaker                                      84 stories           

Steve Lyons                                             78 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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