Board Thread:The Reference Desk/@comment-24354550-20131229194352/@comment-88790-20131230133807

I seem to recall this was discussed a long time ago. I've found it it's in the old forums Forum:Story Numbering.

As CzechOut alludes to it's complicated and there's a lot of disagreement. Some of the problems I'll attempt to summarise.

At the moment Shada (TV story) still doesn't have a story number. With The Leisure Hive (TV story) being 109.

If you look at the List of Doctor Who television stories list it becomes clearer and more complicated.

Shada isn't the only issue in this list, not are the '2 parters that aren't' in the new series. There's also The Trial of a Time Lord which is counted as one story in that list, but treated as 4 stories.

But, if we look at our list we have 156 stories from the 63-89/96 Doctor Who. Plus 104 post-2005 stories. Which results in a total of 260.

Which isn't quite correct. In that list The End of Time (TV story) is counted as two stories but covered as 1.

So that brings the list down to 103 NewWho stories and 156 ClassicWho stories. So we're now at 259 stories.

Wikipedia's list of stories bunches up a lot of 2 parter stories and counts them as one.

Our list of DW TV stories counts them as single stories, something I think the infoboxes should reflect. They should be working with our own list. I'm not sure where this "b" numbering is coming from.