Then Again: The Eighth Aeon

 

Paradoxicide   Audio drama, released 2011                                               Doctor: 6

Featuring Peri

Written by Richard Dinnick.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Sendos.


Planet Void   Comic story, published 2013                                                 Doctor: 11

Featuring Clara

Written by Christopher Cooper.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Dunroamin.

 

A.A.Attanasio’s 1989 novel The Last Legends of Earth is set seven billion years in the future: Humanity has been reconstructed from its DNA after the destruction of the Earth two billion years previously, which fits in with The End of the World well enough for Doctor Who narrative, I think.

 

The Therovian Quest   Comic story, published 1965                               Doctor: 1

featuring Gillian, John

Illustrated ?and written by Neville Main.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Theros, Ixa and elsewhere.


Speed of Flight   Novel, published 1996                                     Doctor: 3

featuring Yates, Jo, with UNIT, Benton (informative mention)

Written by Paul Leonard.

Informed guess Takes place on Nooma, many times more than twenty thousand years away from twentieth-century Earth.


The Trial of a Time Machine   Audio drama, released 2018         Doctor: 7

Featuring Roz, Chris

Written by Andy Lane.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Thrantas.


Opera of Doom!   Comic story, published 2006                                       Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Informed guess Takes place in Vanezia, in Earth’s future.


Letting Go   Audio short story, released 2011                                             Doctor: 8

Featuring Charley

Written by Simon Guerrier.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on a planet inhabited by Antles.


E is for…   Audio drama, released 2019                                                    Doctor: 1

Featuring Susan, Barbara, Ian

Written by Julian Richards.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Malkus.


Ringpullworld   Audio drama, released 2009                                      Doctor: 5

Featuring Tegan, Turlough

Written by Paul Magrs.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in and near the Ringpull universe.


Of Chaos Time The   Audio drama, released 2014                                   Doctor: 6

Featuring Peri

Written by Mark Ravenhill.

Arbitrary placement Takes place indeterminately.


The Missing Link   Audio drama, released 2019                                 Doctor: 8

Featuring the Master

Written by Tim Foley

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Xenotopia; self-dated “the far future”.


Darkness and Light   Audio drama, released 2019                           Doctor: 8

Featuring the Time Lords, the Master

Written by David Llewellyn.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Xenotopia, after The Missing Link.

 

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             6445

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 574 stories                   

7                 540 stories 

10               485 stories 

11               474 stories 

8                 438 stories 

6                 402 stories

3                 392 stories 

5                 387 stories         

1                 384 stories 

2                 351 stories         

12               202 stories

Unbound  140 stories

9                 97 stories  

13               90 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1174 stories                

Regional England                                            832 stories

The Time Lords                                               558 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  505 stories 

UNIT                                                                  472 stories  

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

Continental Europe                                         443 stories 

North America                                                 436 stories  

Benny                                                                 322 stories

The Master, including Missy                         310 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        298 stories 

Ace                                                                      294 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  285 stories 

The K9s                                                              282 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        257 stories  

At Sea                                                                 234 stories

Peri                                                                     230 stories 

Jamie                                                                  223 stories 

Romana                                                             221 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2590 stories

The Noughties                                                  1722 stories       

The Nineties                                                      652 stories  

The Twenties                                                     527 stories   

The Eighties                                                      348 stories   

The Seventies                                                    307 stories         

The Sixties                                                         229 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          329 stories

2016                                                          322 stories 

2020                                                          310 stories  

2008                                                          285 stories 

2015                                                          285 stories 

2017                                                           266 stories       

2011                                                          253 stories  

2009                                                          248 stories

2013                                                          247 stories   Climber!  

2010                                                          246 stories 

2019                                                          243 stories 

2007                                                          231 stories 

2021                                                          219 stories 

2014                                                          212 stories 

2012                                                          191 stories  

2001                                                          190 stories  

2006                                                          177 stories

2004                                                          160 stories

2005                                                          147 stories

2003                                                          126 stories  

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1198

Proportion of Female Writers                17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Justin Richards                                       167 stories

James Goss                                              156 stories 

Terrance Dicks                                       148 stories

Russell T Davies                                     130 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    123 stories 

Eddie Robson                                          110 stories 

Steven Moffat                                         107 stories

Paul Magrs                                              98 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              92 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                       90 stories   Climber!   

Terry Nation                                           90 stories  

Nicholas Briggs                                       88 stories 

John Dorney                                            87 stories 

David Whitaker                                      85 stories           

Steve Lyons                                             81 stories 

Trevor Baxendale                                  77 stories  

Gareth Roberts                                       71 stories

Guy Adams                                              70 stories           

Alan Barnes                                             70 stories  

Eric Saward                                            67 stories

 

 

 

 


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