Then Again: The Sixth Aeon


 

A Rose By Any Other Name   Short story, published 2004                    Doctor: ?9

Featuring ?Rose

Written by Jim Mortimore.

Takes place mostly on Earth, five hundred million years before what the narrator takes to be the Sun going nova. The Doctor’s incarnation and the name of his young female companion are left coyly unstated: with the story’s title and date of publication, I believe Jim Mortimore is cheekily tweaking copyright rules to give us a ninth Doctor story in a Big Finish anthology.

The Fate Of The Earth

Humanity on Earth has largely died out, owing to apathy, leaving behind many millions of sentient suits.


Cortex Fire   Audio drama, released 2017                                              Doctor: 6

Featuring Flip

Written by Ian Potter.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in the city of Festin.


The Armageddon Gambit   Comic story, published 2018                       Doctor: 7

Featuring Ace, with the Voord, the Draconians (informative mention)

Written by John Freeman.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Trath.


The Rings of Akhaten   TV story, broadcast 2013                            Doctor: 11

Featuring Clara

Written by Neil Cross, script supervised by Steven Moffat.

Informed guess Takes place mostly on Tiaanamat. The presence of what appears to be a member of the same species as the Ambassadors of the City-State of Binding Light suggests a time not too distant from The End of the World.


The Body Bank   Illustrated short story, published 2007                          Doctor: 10

Featuring the Chelonians, Martha

Written by Gareth Roberts.

Takes place on Fraxinos; self-dated two hundred thousand years before Gridlock.


Who Ate All the Biscuits?   Web comic, posted 2008                            Doctor: 10

Featuring the Raxacorricofallapatorians, Martha

Written by Helen Raynor.

Takes place in post-Tellurian space, not long before The End of the World.


The End of the World   TV story, broadcast 2005                            Doctor: 9

Featuring Rose, Cassandra, with the Face of Boe (glimpse)

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place in the Solar System, in the year 5.5/Apple/26, “five billion years” after the early twenty-first century CE. I speculate that ‘Apple’ is a designated century in the fifty-sixth deciaeon, presumably part of a million-word cycle, and this is its twenty-seventh year.

The Fate Of The Earth

The Earth is finally destroyed by the Sun, having been preserved for many years by the National Trust.


Growing Terror, Hyperstar Rising, Death Race Five Billion, The Macrobe Menace, The Hunt of Doom and Reunion of Fear   Comic story, published 2006             Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose

Written by Stephen Cole.

Takes place in post-Tellurian space, shortly after The End of the World.


Agent Provocateur   Comic story, published 2008                                  Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha

Written by Gary Russell.

Takes place variously, after The End of the World, the latest date being 5,000,000,000, clearly on the post-Tellurian calendar.


Fairy Tale of New New York   Illustrated short story, published 2016   Doctor: 6

Featuring Mel

Written by Gary Russell.

Takes place on The Abbey, in post-Tellurian space, after Agent Provocateur.


New Earth Tardisode   TV story, broadcast 2006                                    Doctor: 0

Written by Gareth Roberts, script supervised by Russell T Davies.

Takes place on New Earth, shortly before New Earth.


New Earth   TV story, broadcast 2006                                                    Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose, Cassandra, with Mickey, the Face of Boe (glimpse)

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place on New Earth, shortly after The End of the World. The date is given as 5,000,000,023; this is possibly a new calendar for post-Tellurian space, in which the year of the Earth’s destruction was designated 5,000,000,000. An alternative suggestion is that this is a pre-existing calendar dating from the sixth deciaeon, which is why I placed Watershed there, marking the point where engineered post-humans – by now far outnumbering the unmodified version - became serious about colonising the entire universe.


Gridlock   TV story, broadcast 2007                                                        Doctor: 10

Featuring the Macra, the Face of Boe, Martha

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place on New Earth; self-dated 5,000,000,053.


In-Flight Entertainment   Web comic, posted 2008                              Doctor: 10

Featuring the Cybermen, the Macra, Martha, the Judoon

Written by Lindsey Alford.

Takes place on New Earth; self-dated 5,000,000,57. These are surely time-travelling Cybermen, long past their native eventuality. (The Judoon are presumably time-travellers as part of their job description).


Escape From New New York   Audio drama, released 2018        Doctor: 0

Written by Roy Gill.

Takes place on New Earth, several years after In-Flight Entertainment.


Death in the New Forest   Audio drama, released 2018              Doctor: 10

Written by Roland Moore.

Takes place on New Earth, not long after Escape From New New York.


The Skies of New Earth   Audio drama, released 2018                 Doctor: 10

Written by Paul Morris.

Takes place on New Earth, not long after Death in the New Forest.


The Cats of New Cairo   Audio drama, released 2018                  Doctor: 10

Written by Matt Fitton.

Takes place on New Earth, not long after The Skies of New Earth.


The Secret of Novice Hame   Web audio drama, posted 2020              Doctor: 10

Written by Russell T Davies.

Takes place on New Earth, many years after The Cats of New Cairo.


The Silent Stars Go By   Novel, published 2011                         Doctor: 11

Featuring the Ice Warriors, Amy, Rory

Written by Dan Abnett.

Informed guess Takes place on Hereafter, several generations after the Solar System has “gone”, I assume in The End of the World.


Stairway to Heaven   Comic story, published 1989                                  Doctor: 7

Written by Paul Cornell and John Freeman.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in an art gallery.


The Memory Feast   Comic story, published 2017                                    Doctor: 11

Featuring Alice, the Sapling

Written by George Mann.

Informed guess Takes place in the Antrozenus Zone of space, self-dated “a few billion years” after a time before the establishment of the Chronarchy.


The Great Shopping Bill   Comic story, published 2017                          Doctor: 12

Featuring Missy, Nardole, Bill

Written by Richard Dinnick.

Takes place at the Ubermarket, not long after Gridlock.

 

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             6424

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 572 stories                   

7                 539 stories 

10               482 stories 

11               472 stories 

8                 434 stories 

6                 399 stories

3                 391 stories 

5                 385 stories         

1                 381 stories 

2                 351 stories         

12               202 stories

Unbound  140 stories

9                 97 stories  

13               90 stories           

War           48 stories                     

 

 

Top Twenty Recurring Elements

 

London                                                              1173 stories                

Regional England                                            832 stories

The Time Lords                                               557 stories

The Daleks and Davros                                  505 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                                                                 322 stories

The Master, including Missy                         308 stories

Sarah Jane                                                        298 stories 

Ace                                                                      294 stories

Amy and Rory                                                  284 stories 

The K9s                                                              282 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        257 stories  

At Sea                                                                 234 stories

Peri                                                                     227 stories 

Jamie                                                                  223 stories 

Romana                                                             220 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2578 stories

The Noughties                                                  1718 stories       

The Nineties                                                      651 stories  

The Twenties                                                     526 stories   

The Eighties                                                      348 stories   

The Seventies                                                    306 stories         

The Sixties                                                         227 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          328 stories

2016                                                          322 stories 

2020                                                          309 stories  

2015                                                          285 stories 

2008                                                          284 stories  

2017                                                           265 stories       

2011                                                          250 stories  

2009                                                          248 stories

2010                                                          246 stories 

2013                                                          245 stories  

2019                                                          240 stories 

2007                                                          231 stories 

2021                                                          219 stories 

2014                                                          212 stories 

2001                                                          190 stories  

2012                                                          190 stories 

2006                                                          176 stories

2004                                                          159 stories

2005                                                          147 stories

2003                                                          126 stories  

                            

         

  

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1195

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                                    121 stories 

Eddie Robson                                          109 stories 

Steven Moffat                                         107 stories

Paul Magrs                                              97 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              92 stories  

Terry Nation                                           90 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                       89 stories  

Nicholas Briggs                                       88 stories 

John Dorney                                            87 stories 

David Whitaker                                      85 stories           

Steve Lyons                                             80 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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