Then Again: The Third Dekaeon

 

Master of Spiders   Comic story, published 1967                                      Doctor: 2

featuring Gillian, John

Written by Roger Noel Cook.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on an unnamed planet.

 

Jack Vance’s 1950 novel/linked short stories The Dying Earth and its sequels are set in the 21st Aeon. It could be that Vance meant by this the 21st Aeon since the creation of the universe, which would be approximately back in the Eighth Aeon, but I’m assuming it is set on the same “Earth” as Dark is the Sun. and much later, so I am interpreting it as the twenty-first Aeon CE.

 

The False Planet   Comic story, published 1977                                        Doctor: 4

Written by John Canning.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in space.


Gangster’s Paradise Comic story, published 2006                                Doctor: 10

Featuring Rose

Written by Alan Barnes.

Informed guess Takes place in the Sunset Strip, at a time when Tellurian or post-Tellurian space spans galaxies.


People of the Trees   Short story, published 1995                                 Doctor: 4

featuring Leela, K9 I

Written by Pam Baddeley.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Dascaris.


Psychodrome   Audio drama, released 2014                                    Doctor: 5

Featuring Adric, Nyssa, Tegan

Written by Jonathan Morris.

Arbitrary placement Takes place in the Psychodrome.


Freeze   Comic story, published 2014                                                          Doctor: 12

Featuring Clara, Coal Hill School

Written by Jason Loborik.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Eden 2.


Strange Loops   Comic story, published 2017                                            Doctor: 11

Featuring Alice, the Sapling, the Silence

Written by Alex Paknadel.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Disch and Zoline.


After the Velvet Eon   Short story, published 2013                                  Doctor: 0

Featuring Faction Paradox

Written by Simon Bucher-Jones.

Takes place on a moon of Ghul; self-dated the Twenty-Seventh Aeon. I am assuming this to be the Twenty-Seventh Aeon CE. If Simon Bucher-Jones means the Twenty-Seventh aeon since the creation of the universe, that would be approximately the Fourteenth Aeon CE, and this entry belongs in the previous Dekaeon.


Wish You Were Here   Online script, posted 2010                                   Doctor: 11

Featuring Amy

Written by James Moran.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Smyslov 3.


Nipping Out for Some Bits   Charity short story, published 2018          Doctor: 4

Featuring K9 II, Romana

Written by Ian Potter.

Arbitrary placement Takes place partly on Barastabon.


Slave of Shran   Illustrated short story, published 1969                            Doctor: 2

featuring Jamie, Zoe

Written by the World Distributors Annual 1970 crew.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on the planet of the Shelgars.


The Woman Who Sold the World   Comic story, published 2007        Doctor: 10

Featuring Martha

Written by Rob Davis.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Loam and in the Krib.


Midnight Feast   Comic story, published 2018                                          Doctor: 11

Featuring Alice, with the Zygons (glimpse)

Written by George Mann.

Arbitrary placement Takes place at Joe’s Diner.


Erato, the Muse of Love Poetry and Mimicry: Confabula   

Short story, published 2003                                                                          Doctor: 5

Written by Ian Potter.

featuring Nyssa

arbitrary placement Takes place in an unspecified environment.


By Order of the Bonemenders   Comic story, published 2008             Doctor: 10

Featuring Donna

Written by Martin Day.

Arbitrary placement Takes place on Feu.

 

 

 

 

 

Total Stories Considered             6473

Proportion Written By Women 10%                                       

 

Top Docs

4                 581 stories                   

7                 541 stories 

10               492 stories 

11               484 stories 

8                 440 stories 

6                 404 stories

3                 392 stories 

5                 390 stories         

1                 384 stories 

2                 354 stories         

12               203 stories

Unbound  141 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                                                  290 stories 

The K9s                                                              287 stories 

Wales                                                                  261 stories

Torchwood                                                        257 stories  

At Sea                                                                 234 stories

Peri                                                                     231 stories 

Jamie                                                                  225 stories 

Romana                                                             224 stories

 

 

Top Decades

 

The Teens                                                          2605 stories

The Noughties                                                  1735 stories       

The Nineties                                                      654 stories  

The Twenties                                                     528 stories   

The Eighties                                                      349 stories   

The Seventies                                                    310 stories         

The Sixties                                                         231 stories

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

 

 

And Top Twenty Years

 

2018                                                          331 stories

2016                                                          322 stories 

2020                                                          310 stories  

2008                                                          289 stories 

2015                                                          286 stories 

2017                                                           267 stories       

2011                                                          256 stories  

2009                                                          250 stories

2010                                                          249 stories 

2013                                                          249 stories 

2019                                                          243 stories 

2007                                                          233 stories 

2021                                                          220 stories 

2014                                                          216 stories 

2002                                                          192 stories 

2012                                                          192 stories  

2006                                                          180 stories

2004                                                          160 stories

2005                                                          147 stories

2003                                                          127 stories  

                            

         

 

 

 

Total Writers (including showrunners, script editors, anthology linking material writers)                                     1202

Proportion of Female Writers                17%      

 

Top Twenty Writers

 

Justin Richards                                       168 stories

James Goss                                              156 stories 

Terrance Dicks                                       148 stories

Russell T Davies                                     130 stories  

Jonathan Morris                                    124 stories 

Eddie Robson                                          110 stories 

Steven Moffat                                         107 stories

Paul Magrs                                              98 stories  

Matt Fitton                                              92 stories  

Simon Guerrier                                       90 stories  

Terry Nation                                           90 stories  

Nicholas Briggs                                       88 stories 

John Dorney                                            87 stories 

David Whitaker                                      85 stories           

Steve Lyons                                             82 stories 

Trevor Baxendale                                  78 stories  

Alan Barnes                                           71 stories   Climber!

Gareth Roberts                                      71 stories

Guy Adams                                              70 stories           

Eric Saward                                            67 stories

 

 

 

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