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The Expanded Universe has branched in diverse ways into separate fully licensed and semi-official sub-continuities, divided (in some cases) by copyright restrictions. This is further complicated by the fact that no one person or company, including Creator/TheBBC, owns all the rights to the monsters and characters which have appeared in the Whoniverse - the Doctor and the TARDIS are pretty much the only elements undeniably locked up by the BBC. Sometimes the varying strands acknowledge each other, sometimes they ignore each other, DependingOnTheWriter. Just how strongly linked any given series is to the TV series is debatable and can be very, very complicated. Unlike, for example, Creator/ViacomCBS and ''Franchise/StarTrek'' or Creator/{{Lucasfilm}}[=/=]Creator/{{Disney}} and ''Franchise/StarWars'' the BBC has never come out and made a direct edict as to what is canonical and what isn't. As Creator/PaulCornell wrote about [[https://www.paulcornell.com/2007/02/canonicity-in-doctor-who/ here]], the BBC have no interest in fannish conceptions like a fictional canon - to the BBC, "official" ''Doctor Who'' is ''Doctor Who'' made by them or by licensees, and "canon" doesn't come into it. [[note]]Paul also noted that as famous sticklers for grammar they'd object to people using "canon" as an adjective when it should be "canonical"![[/note]]) The main limitation is that the BBC charter, as a public UsefulNotes/StateBroadcaster, means that you must not be required to spend money to "complete the story", which the modern ''Doctor Who'' showrunners have interpreted as meaning no viewer [[ContinuityLockout should be]] '''[[ContinuityLockout required]]''' [[ContinuityLockout to know a story outside the TV series or more than a few years old]] to understand this week's episode. Revived series showrunners Creator/RussellTDavies and Creator/StevenMoffat have both ridiculed the idea that the novels, audios and comics are not "real ''Doctor Who''". This is helped along by the fact that (unlike, say, ''Star Trek'') ''Doctor Who'' writers are rarely limited to one particular medium. TV writers have gone on to write novels or comics or for Creator/BigFinish and vice versa. Many writers have taken the characters they created and own into their own spinoffs with little or no mention of their common TARDIS-shaped ancestor.

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The Expanded Universe has branched in diverse ways into separate fully licensed and semi-official sub-continuities, divided (in some cases) by copyright restrictions. This is further complicated by the fact that no one person or company, including Creator/TheBBC, owns all the rights to the monsters and characters which have appeared in the Whoniverse - the Doctor and the TARDIS are pretty much the only elements undeniably locked up by the BBC. Sometimes the varying strands acknowledge each other, sometimes they ignore each other, DependingOnTheWriter. Just how strongly linked any given series is to the TV series is debatable and can be very, very complicated. Unlike, for example, Creator/ViacomCBS and ''Franchise/StarTrek'' or Creator/{{Lucasfilm}}[=/=]Creator/{{Disney}} and ''Franchise/StarWars'' the BBC has never come out and made a direct edict as to what is canonical and what isn't. As Creator/PaulCornell wrote about [[https://www.paulcornell.com/2007/02/canonicity-in-doctor-who/ here]], the BBC have no interest in fannish conceptions like a fictional canon - to the BBC, "official" ''Doctor Who'' is ''Doctor Who'' made by them or by licensees, and "canon" doesn't come into it. [[note]]Paul also noted that as famous sticklers for grammar they'd object to people using "canon" as an adjective when it should be "canonical"![[/note]]) The main limitation is that the BBC charter, as a public UsefulNotes/StateBroadcaster, MediaNotes/StateBroadcaster, means that you must not be required to spend money to "complete the story", which the modern ''Doctor Who'' showrunners have interpreted as meaning no viewer [[ContinuityLockout should be]] '''[[ContinuityLockout required]]''' [[ContinuityLockout to know a story outside the TV series or more than a few years old]] to understand this week's episode. Revived series showrunners Creator/RussellTDavies and Creator/StevenMoffat have both ridiculed the idea that the novels, audios and comics are not "real ''Doctor Who''". This is helped along by the fact that (unlike, say, ''Star Trek'') ''Doctor Who'' writers are rarely limited to one particular medium. TV writers have gone on to write novels or comics or for Creator/BigFinish and vice versa. Many writers have taken the characters they created and own into their own spinoffs with little or no mention of their common TARDIS-shaped ancestor.



* ''ComicStrip/TheDalekChronicles''. This comic ran in the [[{{UsefulNotes/Supermarionation}} Gerry Anderson]]-linked anthology title ''TV Century 21'' from 1965 to 1967, featuring the Daleks in general and the Emperor Dalek in particular as the {{Villain Protagonist}}s, killing and destroying everything in sight. This strip owed its existence to the fact that Creator/TerryNation personally owned the copyright in the Daleks and initially licensed them separately. For its time it was distinctly DarkerAndEdgier than the main ''Doctor Who'' strip, and was partially written by the first script editor of ''Doctor Who'', Creator/DavidWhitaker. It has a much higher reputation among fans than the early ''Doctor Who'' strips, and parts of its content undoubtedly influenced plots and Dalek characterisation and tech in later TV stories. Examples include the Emperor Dalek and, of course, the storyline about the nonconformist (though still violent) hippy Dalek who decided to go against the Emperor and defend pretty things -- to the death! (The latter storyline appeared, minus the silliness, in the television story "The Evil of the Daleks".) The later ones have some excellent artwork by Ron Turner.

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* ''ComicStrip/TheDalekChronicles''. This comic ran in the [[{{UsefulNotes/Supermarionation}} [[{{MediaNotes/Supermarionation}} Gerry Anderson]]-linked anthology title ''TV Century 21'' from 1965 to 1967, featuring the Daleks in general and the Emperor Dalek in particular as the {{Villain Protagonist}}s, killing and destroying everything in sight. This strip owed its existence to the fact that Creator/TerryNation personally owned the copyright in the Daleks and initially licensed them separately. For its time it was distinctly DarkerAndEdgier than the main ''Doctor Who'' strip, and was partially written by the first script editor of ''Doctor Who'', Creator/DavidWhitaker. It has a much higher reputation among fans than the early ''Doctor Who'' strips, and parts of its content undoubtedly influenced plots and Dalek characterisation and tech in later TV stories. Examples include the Emperor Dalek and, of course, the storyline about the nonconformist (though still violent) hippy Dalek who decided to go against the Emperor and defend pretty things -- to the death! (The latter storyline appeared, minus the silliness, in the television story "The Evil of the Daleks".) The later ones have some excellent artwork by Ron Turner.
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* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' novels: Many of which were also adapted into audio books, which in turn spawned more novels, etc. See Website/TheOtherWiki for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Torchwood_novels_and_audio_books a full list]].

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* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' ''Literature/{{Torchwood}}'' novels: Many of which were also adapted into audio books, which in turn spawned more novels, etc. See Website/TheOtherWiki for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Torchwood_novels_and_audio_books a full list]].
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** ''Literature/BerniceSummerfield'': A SpinOff-cum-continuation of the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' (not featuring the Doctor), starring a 26th century (later 27th century) AdventurerArchaeologist (and, these days, single ActionMom to her [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] son). Bernice had been the first original companion created for the novel series, after Ace's departure. Her solo series began after Virgin lost their license following the TV Movie. Has the odd WritingAroundTrademarks and LawyerFriendlyCameo when needed. Under the auspices of Creator/BigFinish, the series still continues, and inspired Creator/BigFinish's extremely long run of Franchise/BerniceSummerfield audios.

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** ''Literature/BerniceSummerfield'': A SpinOff-cum-continuation of the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' (not featuring the Doctor), starring a 26th century (later 27th century) AdventurerArchaeologist (and, these days, single ActionMom to her [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] son). Bernice had been the first original companion created for the novel series, after Ace's departure. Her solo series began after Virgin lost their license following the TV Movie. Has the odd WritingAroundTrademarks and LawyerFriendlyCameo when needed. Under the auspices of Creator/BigFinish, the series still continues, and inspired Creator/BigFinish's extremely long run of Franchise/BerniceSummerfield audios.
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Wasn't exactly fanmade in the traditional sense, so it's more concise to just say "non-BBC"


ExpandedUniverse series in general, and those without the Doctor in particular, tend to be DarkerAndEdgier and skew more towards the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism than their parent series. The different Sarah Jane spin-offs serve as an example in how you can spin off the same character in different ways, using different tropes and for different audiences: the Radio/ThirdDoctorRadioDramas have her as a DamselInDistress; ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' and ''Series/K9AndCompany'' are notably fluffy and sweet (with still pretty dark themes for children's television of their respective times); the semi-professional direct-to-video fanmade production ''Downtime'' tackled a few more serious issues; the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio adaptation series ''AudioPlay/SarahJaneSmith'' is dark, mature and complex.

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ExpandedUniverse series in general, and those without the Doctor in particular, tend to be DarkerAndEdgier and skew more towards the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism than their parent series. The different Sarah Jane spin-offs serve as an example in how you can spin off the same character in different ways, using different tropes and for different audiences: the Radio/ThirdDoctorRadioDramas have her as a DamselInDistress; ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' and ''Series/K9AndCompany'' are notably fluffy and sweet (with still pretty dark themes for children's television of their respective times); the semi-professional direct-to-video fanmade non-BBC production ''Downtime'' tackled a few more serious issues; the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio adaptation series ''AudioPlay/SarahJaneSmith'' is dark, mature and complex.
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** ''The First Adventure'': A Fifth Doctor mini-game compilation for the UsefulNotes/BBCMicro.

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** ''The First Adventure'': A Fifth Doctor mini-game compilation for the UsefulNotes/BBCMicro.Platform/BBCMicro.



** ''VideoGame/DoctorWhoAndTheMinesOfTerror'': A platformer with the Sixth Doctor for the BBC Micro, UsefulNotes/AmstradCPC and UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}}.

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** ''VideoGame/DoctorWhoAndTheMinesOfTerror'': A platformer with the Sixth Doctor for the BBC Micro, UsefulNotes/AmstradCPC Platform/AmstradCPC and UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}}.Platform/Commodore64.



** ''Evacuation Earth'': A ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton''-style puzzle game for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS
** ''VideoGame/DoctorWhoReturnToEarth'': An action game for UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}.
** ''The Eternity Clock'': Yet another platformer, released on the Playstation 3, Playstation Vita and PC and featuring the Eleventh Doctor and River Song.

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** ''Evacuation Earth'': A ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton''-style puzzle game for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS
Platform/NintendoDS
** ''VideoGame/DoctorWhoReturnToEarth'': An action game for UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}.
Platform/{{Wii}}.
** ''The Eternity Clock'': Yet another platformer, released on the Playstation 3, Platform/Playstation3, Playstation Vita and PC and featuring the Eleventh Doctor and River Song.
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In short: the ''Doctor Who'' Expanded Universe is a never-ending rabbit hole of stories. It's all tangled and full of BroadStrokes, and those who expect consistency, or even, in some cases, sanity, are in for a confusing ride. But the sheer importance and impact of the ExpandedUniverse to the TV series proper is tremendous: numerous post-2005 Franchise/{{Whoniverse}} writers (and quite a few actors) got their start in ''Doctor Who'' in its expanded universe, and everyone involved with the current TV show has been heavily influenced by the EU's stories. In the years since the 50th Anniversary, the production team at the BBC have even aided the slow erasure of the boundaries between the "old" and "new" series, so that, for instance, Series 5 of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' is produced by Creator/BigFinish, [[Franchise/BerniceSummerfield Benny Summerfield]] can meet the Characters/TwelfthDoctor, and [[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine Abslom Daak]] can get a quick cameo [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist on the TV]].

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In short: the ''Doctor Who'' Expanded Universe is a never-ending rabbit hole of stories. It's all tangled and full of BroadStrokes, and those who expect consistency, or even, in some cases, sanity, are in for a confusing ride. But the sheer importance and impact of the ExpandedUniverse to the TV series proper is tremendous: numerous post-2005 Franchise/{{Whoniverse}} writers (and quite a few actors) got their start in ''Doctor Who'' in its expanded universe, and everyone involved with the current TV show has been heavily influenced by the EU's stories. In the years since the 50th Anniversary, the production team at the BBC have even aided the slow erasure of the boundaries between the "old" and "new" series, so that, for instance, Series 5 of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' is produced by Creator/BigFinish, [[Franchise/BerniceSummerfield [[Literature/BerniceSummerfield Benny Summerfield]] can meet the Characters/TwelfthDoctor, and [[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine Abslom Daak]] can get a quick cameo [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist on the TV]].



** ''ComicStrip/AbslomDaakDalekKiller'': Published in ''Doctor Who Magazine''. A BarbarianHero InSpace, doubling as both SpaceOpera and a partial {{Deconstruction}} of AntiHero tropes. It starred a rather dim-witted AxCrazy[=/=]IneffectualLoner on a perpetual RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the Daleks, who had exterminated his lover, a RichBitch FallenPrincess (''literally'' a princess, in her case. After her extermination she ended up unalive in a cryo-chamber.). He lived during the same 26th century time period as Characters/BerniceSummerfield, and met her twice.

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** ''ComicStrip/AbslomDaakDalekKiller'': Published in ''Doctor Who Magazine''. A BarbarianHero InSpace, doubling as both SpaceOpera and a partial {{Deconstruction}} of AntiHero tropes. It starred a rather dim-witted AxCrazy[=/=]IneffectualLoner on a perpetual RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the Daleks, who had exterminated his lover, a RichBitch FallenPrincess (''literally'' a princess, in her case. After her extermination she ended up unalive in a cryo-chamber.). He lived during the same 26th century time period as Characters/BerniceSummerfield, Bernice Summerfield, and met her twice.



* Various unlicensed productions: These were shot in various circumstances over the years, typically by members of the cast and crew just goofing around without the BBC's permission. This category notably includes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBCx6x5YaQg "The Crystal Conundrum"]], which is the only ''filmed'' adventure to date in which companion Franchise/BerniceSummerfield accompanies the Doctor. (Bernice later also briefly appeared in live-action format alone, in a [[https://youtu.be/6qIUMVFM7pY Big Finish video trailer.]])

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* Various unlicensed productions: These were shot in various circumstances over the years, typically by members of the cast and crew just goofing around without the BBC's permission. This category notably includes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBCx6x5YaQg "The Crystal Conundrum"]], which is the only ''filmed'' adventure to date in which companion Franchise/BerniceSummerfield companio Literature/BerniceSummerfield accompanies the Doctor. (Bernice later also briefly appeared in live-action format alone, in a [[https://youtu.be/6qIUMVFM7pY Big Finish video trailer.]])



** ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'': A SpinOff-cum-continuation of the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' (not featuring the Doctor), starring a 26th century (later 27th century) AdventurerArchaeologist (and, these days, single ActionMom to her [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] son). Bernice had been the first original companion created for the novel series, after Ace's departure. Her solo series began after Virgin lost their license following the TV Movie. Has the odd WritingAroundTrademarks and LawyerFriendlyCameo when needed. Under the auspices of Creator/BigFinish, the series still continues, and inspired Creator/BigFinish's extremely long run of Franchise/BerniceSummerfield audios.

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** ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'': ''Literature/BerniceSummerfield'': A SpinOff-cum-continuation of the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' (not featuring the Doctor), starring a 26th century (later 27th century) AdventurerArchaeologist (and, these days, single ActionMom to her [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] son). Bernice had been the first original companion created for the novel series, after Ace's departure. Her solo series began after Virgin lost their license following the TV Movie. Has the odd WritingAroundTrademarks and LawyerFriendlyCameo when needed. Under the auspices of Creator/BigFinish, the series still continues, and inspired Creator/BigFinish's extremely long run of Franchise/BerniceSummerfield audios.



* CanonForeigner: Most works feature at least one original companion, and they tend to stick around for a very long time and appear in other media as well. For example, ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comics companion Frobisher showed up in Creator/BigFinish as well, and eventually in IDW comics. ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' companion Characters/BerniceSummerfield has appeared in more novels and audios than can be sensibly listed anywhere. Creator/BigFinish companion Dr. Evelyn Smythe has even appeared in the official BBC web animation "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsRealTime Real Time]]". During 2009, when the Doctor was companion-less on TV, ''DWA'' gave him Heather [=McCrimmon=], a descendant of Jamie. And so on.

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* CanonForeigner: Most works feature at least one original companion, and they tend to stick around for a very long time and appear in other media as well. For example, ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comics companion Frobisher showed up in Creator/BigFinish as well, and eventually in IDW comics. ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' companion Characters/BerniceSummerfield Literature/BerniceSummerfield has appeared in more novels and audios than can be sensibly listed anywhere. Creator/BigFinish companion Dr. Evelyn Smythe has even appeared in the official BBC web animation "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsRealTime Real Time]]". During 2009, when the Doctor was companion-less on TV, ''DWA'' gave him Heather [=McCrimmon=], a descendant of Jamie. And so on.
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-->-- '''The Eighth Doctor''', ''[[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures Camera Obscura]]''

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-->-- '''The Eighth Doctor''', ''[[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'', "[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresCameraObscura Camera Obscura]]''
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Since the return of the TV series, ideas from a diverse range of audio dramas, novels, and licensed DirectToVideo films have all been [[CallBack referenced]], [[MythologyGag alluded to]], [[CanonImmigrant directly imported]] (most notably [[Characters/DoctorWhoUNITStaff Kate Stewart]]) and in some rare cases [[RecursiveAdaptation directly adapted]][[note]]Amusingly, the only direct, unambiguous adaptation of an old story to TV is Paul Cornell's own [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]][[/note]] in TV series episodes. And many ExpandedUniverse stories and characters are adapted into ''other'' ExpandedUniverse stories and characters, which are then adapted for TV, which then spin off into more ExpandedUniverse stories... you get the idea. The TimeyWimeyBall, BroadStrokes and especially the MST3KMantra apply where necessary.

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Since the return of the TV series, ideas from a diverse range of audio dramas, novels, and licensed DirectToVideo films have all been [[CallBack referenced]], [[MythologyGag alluded to]], [[CanonImmigrant directly imported]] (most notably [[Characters/DoctorWhoUNITStaff Kate Stewart]]) and in some rare cases [[RecursiveAdaptation directly adapted]][[note]]Amusingly, the only direct, unambiguous adaptation of an old story to TV is Paul Cornell's own [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]][[/note]] adapted]] in TV series episodes. And many ExpandedUniverse stories and characters are adapted into ''other'' ExpandedUniverse stories and characters, which are then adapted for TV, which then spin off into more ExpandedUniverse stories... you get the idea. The TimeyWimeyBall, BroadStrokes and especially the MST3KMantra apply where necessary.
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** ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoSupremacyOfTheCybermen'': A five-part miniseries released bi-weekly in July-September 2016, crossing over the 9th, 10th, 11th ''and'' 12th Doctor series in a story that follows on from certain events in "Hell Bent", the Series 9 finale of the television series. (Beware {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s!)

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** ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoSupremacyOfTheCybermen'': A five-part miniseries released bi-weekly in July-September 2016, crossing over the 9th, 10th, 11th ''and'' 12th Doctor series in a story that follows on from certain events in "Hell Bent", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]", the Series 9 finale of the television series. (Beware {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s!)



* ''Literature/ABriefHistoryOfTimeLords'': A book that covers Time Lord history from both the series and the various aspects of the Expanded Universe. It also claims that Susan is ''not'' the Doctor's granddaughter but rather the daughter of a Time Lord President, riffing off "Hell Bent".

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* ''Literature/ABriefHistoryOfTimeLords'': A book that covers Time Lord history from both the series and the various aspects of the Expanded Universe. It also claims that Susan is ''not'' the Doctor's granddaughter but rather the daughter of a Time Lord President, riffing off "Hell Bent"."[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]".
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* Prologue/trailer: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i62oNmyEyw Meet Doom - The Universe's Greatest Assassin]]'' on the official YouTube channel.

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* Prologue/trailer: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i62oNmyEyw Meet Doom - The Universe's Greatest Assassin]]'' on the official YouTube [=YouTube=] channel.
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* [[ComicBook/BBCBooksDoctorWhoGraphicNovels Doctor Who graphic novels]]: During the Eleventh Doctor's era, the BBC published two hardbound graphic novels, ''The Only Good Dalek'' and ''The Dalek Project''. Both were by writer Justin Richards and artist Mike Collins, who had worked on the ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comics, and have a general flavour very similar to those.
* [[ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan Titan Doctor Who comics]]: After IDW lost the US ''Doctor Who'' comics license, Titan Books, previously known mostly for publishing ''[[ComicBook/TwoThousandAD 2000 AD]]'' strip collections, were the next recipients. Having previously published three separate ongoing series featuring the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors, with both Ten and Eleven having original companions, they then did a single ongoing featuring the Thirteenth Doctor, then went on to do a series of miniseries with a rotating cast (Missy, the Fugitive Doctor, an Eighth, Eleventh and Rose Tyler team-up, etc.). They also did miniseries featuring the previous Doctors, including the first full Ninth Doctor comic story since his era originally ended, released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the revival. This was then expanded into a Ninth Doctor ongoing series. All the comics were combined into two anthologies for UK consumption: ''Doctor Who Comic'', which launched in February 2015 (initially featuring all three on-going titles, later covering the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctor comics and ''Four Doctors''), and ''Tales From the TARDIS'' (featuring the later Tenth Doctor comics and the other miniseries). With Titan's reduction in output, only ''Doctor Who Comic'' was left, reprinting the current US comic.

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* [[ComicBook/BBCBooksDoctorWhoGraphicNovels Doctor Who graphic novels]]: ''ComicBook/BBCBooksDoctorWhoGraphicNovels'': During the Eleventh Doctor's era, the BBC published two hardbound graphic novels, ''The Only Good Dalek'' and ''The Dalek Project''. Both were by writer Justin Richards and artist Mike Collins, who had worked on the ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comics, and have a general flavour very similar to those.
* [[ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan Titan Doctor Who comics]]: ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'': After IDW lost the US ''Doctor Who'' comics license, Titan Books, previously known mostly for publishing ''[[ComicBook/TwoThousandAD 2000 AD]]'' ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' strip collections, were the next recipients. Having previously published three separate ongoing series featuring the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors, with both Ten and Eleven having original companions, they then did a single ongoing featuring the Thirteenth Doctor, then went on to do a series of miniseries with a rotating cast (Missy, the Fugitive Doctor, an Eighth, Eleventh and Rose Tyler team-up, etc.). They also did miniseries featuring the previous Doctors, including the first full Ninth Doctor comic story since his era originally ended, released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the revival. This was then expanded into a Ninth Doctor ongoing series. All the comics were combined into two anthologies for UK consumption: ''Doctor Who Comic'', which launched in February 2015 (initially featuring all three on-going titles, later covering the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctor comics and ''Four Doctors''), and ''Tales From the TARDIS'' (featuring the later Tenth Doctor comics and the other miniseries). With Titan's reduction in output, only ''Doctor Who Comic'' was left, reprinting the current US comic.
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-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''[[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures Camera Obscura]]''

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-->-- '''The Eighth Doctor''', ''[[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures Camera Obscura]]''
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* ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka'': A 2003 anniversary special by [=BBCi=], which featured a Ninth Doctor played by Creator/RichardEGrant. The TV series' return (announced two months earlier), however, meant the Shalka Doctor got overwritten in continuity. It also featured a {{cameo}} by [[Creator/DavidTennant a now somewhat well-known Who fan]] who basically insisted on having a part written just for him after hearing about the production from down the hall. It eventually was released on DVD in the fall of 2013.

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* ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka'': A 2003 anniversary special by [=BBCi=], which featured a Ninth Doctor played by Creator/RichardEGrant. The TV series' return (announced two months earlier), however, meant the Shalka Doctor got overwritten in continuity. It also featured a {{cameo}} cameo by [[Creator/DavidTennant a now somewhat well-known Who fan]] who basically insisted on having a part written just for him after hearing about the production from down the hall. It eventually was released on DVD in the fall of 2013.
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* Prologue/trailer: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i62oNmyEyw Meet Doom - The Universe's Greatest Assassin]]'' on the official YouTube channel.
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* Hours 2-5: ''Four Hours of Doom's Day'', a ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' back-up strip (June 2023)

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* Hours 2-5: ''Four Hours of Doom's Day'', a ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' back-up strip comic supplement (June 2023)
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* [[BookEnds Hours 1 and 24]]: "[[https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/dooms-day-hour-one-full-story-read-now-sooz-kempner-james-goss Hour One]]" (July 2023) and "Out of Time" (September 2023), two text stories by James Goss on the ''Doctor Who'' website

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* [[BookEnds Hours 1 and 24]]: "[[https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/dooms-day-hour-one-full-story-read-now-sooz-kempner-james-goss Hour One]]" (July (June 2023) and "Out of Time" (September 2023), two text stories by James Goss on the ''Doctor Who'' website
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* Hour 10 and 15: "AI am the Doctor" and "Wrong Place at the Right Time", events in the mobile game ''Doctor Who: Lost in Time''

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Another multi-platform story to celebrate the 60th anniversary, with the main story playing out on BBC Digital and other strands including audios from Big Finish ''and'' BBC Audio, a Titan comic book, a DWM comic strip, a novel, and a mobile game.

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Another multi-platform story to celebrate the 60th anniversary, with this consists of a full day in the main story playing out life of the assassin Doom, as she searches for the Doctor, and comprises:
* [[BookEnds Hours 1 and 24]]: "[[https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/dooms-day-hour-one-full-story-read-now-sooz-kempner-james-goss Hour One]]" (July 2023) and "Out of Time" (September 2023), two text stories by James Goss
on the ''Doctor Who'' website
* Hours 2-5: ''Four Hours of Doom's Day'', a ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' back-up strip (June 2023)
* Hours 6-9: ''Doom's Day: A Doctor in the House?'' a two issue miniseries from Titan Comics (July 2023)
* Hour 10 and 15: "AI am the Doctor" and "Wrong Place at the Right Time", events in the mobile game ''Doctor Who: Lost in Time''
* Hours 11-14: ''Extraction Point'', a novel by James Goss (August 2023)
* Hours 16-19: ''Four From Doom's Day'', four audio dramas from
BBC Digital and other strands including audios Audio (August 2023)
* Hours 20-23: ''Dying Hours'', four audio dramas
from Big Finish ''and'' BBC Audio, a Titan comic book, a DWM comic strip, a novel, and a mobile game. (September 2023)
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** The post-cancellation novels and audios make changes and reveal great swathes of history. Much of which has to be ignored after the TV series gets a revival over a decade later. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean it's a {{retcon}}, what with the setting having considerable TemporalMutability. On some occasions, WordOfGod has confirmed that "everything is canon", we're just seeing different possible timelines. For example, one of the post-revival episodes is an explicit retelling of the novel ''Human Nature'', written by Creator/PaulCornell. Likewise in the case of the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strips as well as the [[ComicBook/DoctorWhoIDW IDW]] and [[ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan Titan]] comics have been through it in the revival.
** On July 5, 1969 --two weeks after "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]" aired-- Creator/TVComic begins a series of stories where the Second Doctor is exiled to Earth. During this period, the Doctor lives in the Carlton Grange Hotel and becomes a newspaper-headlining celebrity. In "The Night Walkers" (November 8-22, 1969), the Doctor investigates a story about scarecrows that walk at night that turns out to be a trap by the Time Lords so they can enforce the second half of his sentence. The scarecrows begin the regeneration process and set the TARDIS controls to dematerialise, leading seamlessly into "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace Spearhead from Space]]" six weeks later. So, {{averted}} in that case.
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* TheKrampus: Big Finish, the Titan ''Doctor Who'' comics, and the ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comic strip have all featured completely different and incompatible versions of the Krampus as one-shot villains. ''DWM'' has actually had two completely different versions in different stories!
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* ''Film/DrWhoAndTheDaleks'' (based on "The Daleks") and ''[[Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'' (based on "The Dalek Invasion of Earth"): Two colour, relatively high budgeted ''Doctor Who'' [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptations]] from the 1960s. The films, starring Creator/PeterCushing, [[CompressedAdaptation shortened]] and dumbed down the stories, meaning that they cut out much {{Padding}}, but simplified the themes, softened the characters and overall made things LighterAndSofter. The Doctor underwent {{Flanderization}} into a human AbsentMindedProfessor ''[[IAmNotShazam literally]]'' [[IAmNotShazam called Dr. Who]] who had invented a time machine called ''TARDIS'' (no "the"). His grand-daughter Susan was de-aged to prepubescence and Barbara and Ian were changed from teachers to Doctor Who's grown-up elder grand-daughter and her incompetent PluckyComicRelief boyfriend. The second film replaced Barbara and Ian with Doctor Who's niece Louise and Tom Campbell, a bumbling policeman who anticipated a couple of TV companions by stumbling into ''TARDIS'' thinking it was a real police box. At least one comic and one prose spin-off short story have been officially published featuring the movieverse characters. Creator/BernardCribbins, who played Campbell, played Donna's grandfather Wilfred Mott in several Davies-era TV stories, decades later. Creator/StevenMoffat, showrunner of the main series, has cited the movie Daleks as inspiration for the Dalek design of series 5. Needless to say, they occur in a AlternateContinuity from the series, although more than one mainstream story has [[ATrueStoryInMyUniverse claimed they were actually in-universe films]] based on Ian and Barbara pitching their experiences as "fiction". The idea [[CanonImmigrant nearly became official]] in "Day Of The Doctor" but they couldn't get clearance to use the posters in time. Then the novelization of that episode restored it, and even added that the actual Doctor lent Creator/PeterCushing one of his coats and gave him a trip in the TARDIS to perform in ''Film/RogueOne'' in place of his CGI FakeShemp because he was a big fan!

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* ''Film/DrWhoAndTheDaleks'' (based on "The Daleks") and ''[[Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'' (based on "The Dalek Invasion of Earth"): Two colour, relatively high budgeted ''Doctor Who'' [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptations]] from the 1960s. The films, starring Creator/PeterCushing, [[CompressedAdaptation shortened]] and dumbed down the stories, meaning that they cut out much {{Padding}}, but simplified the themes, softened the characters and overall made things LighterAndSofter. The Doctor underwent {{Flanderization}} into a human AbsentMindedProfessor ''[[IAmNotShazam literally]]'' [[IAmNotShazam called Dr. Who]] who had invented a time machine called ''TARDIS'' (no "the"). His grand-daughter Susan was de-aged to prepubescence and Barbara and Ian were changed from teachers to Doctor Who's grown-up elder grand-daughter and her incompetent PluckyComicRelief boyfriend. The second film replaced Barbara and Ian with Doctor Who's niece Louise and Tom Campbell, a bumbling policeman who anticipated a couple of TV companions by stumbling into ''TARDIS'' thinking it was a real police box. At least one comic two comics and one prose spin-off short story have been officially published featuring the movieverse characters. Creator/BernardCribbins, who played Campbell, played Donna's grandfather Wilfred Mott in several Davies-era TV stories, decades later. Creator/StevenMoffat, showrunner of the main series, has cited the movie Daleks as inspiration for the Dalek design of series 5. Needless to say, they occur in a AlternateContinuity from the series, although more than one mainstream story has [[ATrueStoryInMyUniverse claimed they were actually in-universe films]] based on Ian and Barbara pitching their experiences as "fiction". The idea [[CanonImmigrant nearly became official]] in "Day Of The Doctor" but they couldn't get clearance to use the posters in time. Then the novelization of that episode restored it, and even added that the actual Doctor lent Creator/PeterCushing one of his coats and gave him a trip in the TARDIS to perform in ''Film/RogueOne'' in place of his CGI FakeShemp because he was a big fan!



** The release of the [[UpdatedReRelease Season 22 Blu-Ray]] unbanned the episode by removing the Savile segments of the episode and adding a less continuity destroying ending[[note]]The lead-in to Saville's appearance is young Gareth revealing that he watches the Doctor on TV, which is how he knew how to pilot the TARDIS. Since this is kept intact in this new version it still makes placing it in continuity a question mark[[/note]], managing to not only get around the main issue everyone had with the short but also allowing the viewer to treat it's canonicity just like every other example on the list.

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** The release of the [[UpdatedReRelease Season 22 Blu-Ray]] unbanned the episode by removing the Savile segments of the episode and adding a less continuity destroying ending[[note]]The lead-in to Saville's Savile's appearance is young Gareth revealing that he watches the Doctor on TV, which is how he knew how to pilot the TARDIS. Since this is kept intact in this new version it still makes placing it in continuity a question mark[[/note]], managing to not only get around the main issue everyone had with the short but also allowing the viewer to treat it's its canonicity just like every other example on the list.



* ''Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations'': By Target. During the 70s and 80s, in the days before video took off, these were '''the''' way to catch up on previous ''Doctor Who'' stories. They retold (and frequently expanded on) the stories on TV, and several of them are highly acclaimed. Usually also available as audiobooks, read by the TV series actor(s). Almost every story from the classic series got a novelisation, with the TV Movie's being done by BBC Books; the five that didn't get one ("The Pirate Planet", "City of Death", "Shada", "Resurrection of the Daleks" and "Revelation of the Daleks") received fan novelisations courtesy of the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club. (If you noticed that three of the five are Douglas Adams stories, you're right. Adams wouldn't allow others to novelise his scripts, and - notorious procrastinator that he was - never did them himself. Also, with ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' having taken off in the meantime, Target Books was no longer able to afford the advances he commanded.) "Shada" eventually received an official novelisation by BBC Books in 2012, written by Gareth Roberts. "City of Death" also received a BBC novelisation in 2015; initially it was announced that it would again be by Roberts, but it was eventually written by ''Torchwood'' writer James Goss. A novelisation of "The Pirate Planet" by Goss came out in 2017, followed by his novelisation of another Adams-written work - the never-produced film ''Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen'' - in 2018. Novelisations of the other two "missing" stories, by their original writer Creator/EricSaward, were finally published in 2019. The first full novelisations of stories from the revival series were released in 2018: "Rose", written by Creator/RussellTDavies, "The Christmas Invasion", written by Jenny Colgan, "The Day of the Doctor", written by Creator/StevenMoffat, and "Twice Upon a Time", written by Creator/PaulCornell.

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* ''Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations'': By Target. During the 70s and 80s, in the days before video took off, these were '''the''' way to catch up on previous ''Doctor Who'' stories. They retold (and frequently expanded on) the stories on TV, and several of them are highly acclaimed. Usually also available as audiobooks, read by the TV series actor(s). Almost every story from the classic series got a novelisation, with the TV Movie's being done by BBC Books; the five that didn't get one ("The Pirate Planet", "City of Death", "Shada", "Resurrection of the Daleks" and "Revelation of the Daleks") received fan novelisations courtesy of the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club. (If you noticed that three of the five are Douglas Adams stories, you're right. Adams wouldn't allow others to novelise his scripts, and - notorious procrastinator that he was - never did them himself. Also, with ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' having taken off in the meantime, Target Books was no longer able to afford the advances he commanded.) "Shada" eventually received an official novelisation by BBC Books in 2012, written by Gareth Roberts. "City of Death" also received a BBC novelisation in 2015; initially it was announced that it would again be by Roberts, but it was eventually written by ''Torchwood'' writer James Goss. A novelisation of "The Pirate Planet" by Goss came out in 2017, followed by his novelisation of another Adams-written work - the never-produced film ''Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen'' - in 2018. Novelisations of the other two "missing" stories, by their original writer Creator/EricSaward, were finally published in 2019. The first full novelisations of stories from the revival series were released in 2018: "Rose", written by Creator/RussellTDavies, "The Christmas Invasion", written by Jenny Colgan, "The Day of the Doctor", written by Creator/StevenMoffat, and "Twice Upon a Time", written by Creator/PaulCornell.2018, with more following later.



* ''Literature/NewSeriesAdventures'': 2005 onwards. These feature the current TV Doctor and aim themselves towards a more general and kid-inclusive audience. However, the writers like to sneak in references to DarkerAndEdgier works from the ''Doctor Who Expanded Universe''. These new books appear to be in continuity with the TV series, being referenced (in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown "Boom Town"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]] Part One) in the TV show itself.

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* ''Literature/NewSeriesAdventures'': 2005 onwards. These feature the current TV Doctor and aim themselves towards a more general and kid-inclusive audience. However, the writers like to sneak in references to DarkerAndEdgier works from the ''Doctor Who Expanded Universe''. These new books appear to be in continuity with the TV series, being referenced (in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown "Boom Town"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]] Part One) in the TV show itself. Trailed off during the Twelfth Doctor's era.



* ''[[Literature/DalekTheAstoundingUntoldHistoryOfTheGreatestEnemiesOfTheUniverse Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'': A book that covers Dalek history with additional feautres including short prose and comic stories.

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* ''[[Literature/DalekTheAstoundingUntoldHistoryOfTheGreatestEnemiesOfTheUniverse Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'': A book that covers Dalek history with additional feautres features including short prose and comic stories.



* ''Literature/DoctorWhoTheTargetStorybook'': A series of short stories for various Doctors written by various authors. Includes the last story by [[Creator/TerranceDicks Terrance Dicks]].

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* ''Literature/DoctorWhoTheTargetStorybook'': A series of short stories for various Doctors written by various authors.authors, InTheStyleOf the Target novelisations. Includes the last story by [[Creator/TerranceDicks Terrance Dicks]].



A multi-platform story featuring the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors, utilising most of the above platforms, designed so each strand can be followed as a standalone; so if you only read the novels, or get the Big Finish audios, you will get a complete story, but you will get more out of it if you follow the other release lines. Currently announced are:

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* ''Daleks!'' an animated series on [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKEzuOOEQvYOYZ35xuuR-bqIWC7j1Efjj the official YouTube channel]] (November-December 2020)

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* ''Daleks!'' ''Daleks!'', an animated series on [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKEzuOOEQvYOYZ35xuuR-bqIWC7j1Efjj the official YouTube channel]] (November-December 2020)



* ''Tales of the Dark Times'', a comic written by the events lead producer on the official Doctor Who: Comic Reader app

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* [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext And one T-shirt detailing one characters backstory]]. When they said multi-media [[NoKillLikeOverkill they really meant it]]

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Another multi-platform story to celebrate the 60th anniversary, with the main story playing out on BBC Digital and other strands including audios from Big Finish ''and'' BBC Audio, a Titan comic book, a DWM comic strip, novels, and a mobile game.

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** The version of [[FounderOfTheKingdom Rassilon]] who appears in a few AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio dramas is played by Don Warrington, a black actor, although given the medium it's unknown whether the character shares the actor's appearance.

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** ''Doctor Who: Lost in Time'': An IdleGame starring the Fourth, Tenth, Twelfth and Thirteenth Doctors, in which a mysterious influx of vortex energy is affecting the Doctor's timeline, leading to more ContinuityPorn as the Doctors revisit their past.


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* EntryPoint: Two of the Alternate Reality sites for the first Creator/RussellTDavies era are simply shown on-screen: Clive's webpage in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]", and the UNIT webpage in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree World War Three]]".
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* ''Literature/DoctorWhoPuffinClassicLiteratureCrossovers'': A series of novels in which the various Doctors cross over with famous literature, including Myth/RobinHood, ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', ''Literature/TreasureIsland'', and Myth/KingArthur.
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* ''Tales of the Dark Times'', a comic written by the events lead producer on the official Doctor Who: Comic Reader app
* Some toys visualising various characters from the different works
* [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext And one T-shirt detailing one characters backstory]]. When they said multi-media [[NoKillLikeOverkill they really meant it]]
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* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' audio books and radio dramas: See Wiki/TheOtherWiki for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Torchwood_novels_and_audio_books a full list]].

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* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' novels: Many of which were also adapted into audio books, which in turn spawned more novels, etc. See Wiki/TheOtherWiki for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Torchwood_novels_and_audio_books a full list]].

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** The release of the [[UpdatedReRelease Season 22 Blu-Ray]] unbanned the episode by removing the Savile segments of the episode and adding a less continuity destroying ending[[note]]The lead-in to Saville's appearance is young Gareth revealing that he watches the Doctor on TV, which is how he knew how to pilot the TARDIS. Since this is kept intact in this new version it still makes placing it in continuity a question mark[[/note]], managing to not only get around the main issue everyone had with the short but also allowing the viewer to treat it's canonicity just like every other example on the list.

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* ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoIDW'': American company Creator/IDWPublishing picked up the licence for US ''Doctor Who'' comics after the export success of the 21st-century revived series, reprinting the ''Doctor Who Magazine'' run from the beginning as ''Doctor Who Classics'', producing their own one-shots and miniseries, and eventually launching their own separate ongoing series featuring the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors - Ten with original companions, Eleven with his TV companions. IDW's issues are officially NoExportForYou to the UK, for licencing reasons, although it's easy to find the [=TPBs=] in comic shops. Their ''Doctor Who'' licence ended at the same time as Creator/MattSmith's tenure on the show. Their releases included, but are not limited to:

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* ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoIDW'': American company Creator/IDWPublishing picked up the licence for US ''Doctor Who'' comics after the export success of the 21st-century revived series, reprinting the ''Doctor Who Magazine'' run from the beginning as ''Doctor Who Classics'', producing their own one-shots and miniseries, and eventually launching their own separate ongoing series featuring the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors - Ten with original companions, Eleven with his TV companions. IDW's issues are officially NoExportForYou [[invoked]]NoExportForYou to the UK, for licencing reasons, although it's easy to find the [=TPBs=] in comic shops. Their ''Doctor Who'' licence ended at the same time as Creator/MattSmith's tenure on the show. Their releases included, but are not limited to:



* "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]": A crossover mini-episode which appeared as a segment of the once-popular ''Jim'll Fix It''. It became a BannedEpisode after its host, Creator/JimmySavile, was posthumously outed as a serial rapist.

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* "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]": A crossover mini-episode which appeared as a segment of the once-popular ''Jim'll Fix It''. It became a BannedEpisode [[invoked]]BannedEpisode after its host, Creator/JimmySavile, was posthumously outed as a serial rapist.



* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]": A TV episode that got stuck in DevelopmentHell and was later recorded by Creator/BigFinish, with the Eighth Doctor taking the place of the Fourth.
* "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsRealTime Real Time]]": recorded by Creator/BigFinish, starring the Sixth Doctor and Creator/BigFinish companion Evelyn. Notably the first cooperation between Creator/ColinBaker and the BBC since he got ScrewedByTheNetwork.

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* "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsRealTime Real Time]]": recorded by Creator/BigFinish, starring the Sixth Doctor and Creator/BigFinish companion Evelyn. Notably the first cooperation between Creator/ColinBaker and the BBC since he got ScrewedByTheNetwork.[[invoked]]ScrewedByTheNetwork.



* ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'': Created after the show was cancelled, as an official continuation of the adventures of the Seventh Doctor and, initially, Ace. Also known as "Virgin New Adventures", after their publisher. Choosing to aim for an audience of 25 and up fans and readers of ScienceFiction (versus targeting a younger, less reverent demographic, as they also considered), they made both the Doctor and the tone of the entire franchise DarkerAndEdgier. They also made the stories a harder science fiction. The novels (more because of the creativity of the fans-turned-authors RunningTheAsylum than by ExecutiveMeddling) riffed over each other's contributions. Future ShowRunner Creator/RussellTDavies contributed one of the novels, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresDamagedGoods Damaged Goods]]''. Other writers for the New Adventures would later write for the 2005 revival series. The penultimate New Adventures novel featuring the Doctor, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresLungbarrow Lungbarrow]]'' by Creator/MarcPlatt, also went into the Doctor's secret BackStory, hinted about onscreen. After Virgin lost the licence, they decided they'd accumulated enough world-building to continue without him, and continued for two more years to release "New Adventures" novels (without the "Doctor Who") featuring characters original to the series; in particular, the series shifted its focus to:

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* ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'': Created after the show was cancelled, as an official continuation of the adventures of the Seventh Doctor and, initially, Ace. Also known as "Virgin New Adventures", after their publisher. Choosing to aim for an audience of 25 and up fans and readers of ScienceFiction (versus targeting a younger, less reverent demographic, as they also considered), they made both the Doctor and the tone of the entire franchise DarkerAndEdgier. They also made the stories a harder science fiction. The novels (more because of the creativity of the fans-turned-authors RunningTheAsylum [[invoked]]RunningTheAsylum than by ExecutiveMeddling) riffed over each other's contributions. Future ShowRunner Creator/RussellTDavies contributed one of the novels, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresDamagedGoods Damaged Goods]]''. Other writers for the New Adventures would later write for the 2005 revival series. The penultimate New Adventures novel featuring the Doctor, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresLungbarrow Lungbarrow]]'' by Creator/MarcPlatt, also went into the Doctor's secret BackStory, hinted about onscreen. After Virgin lost the licence, they decided they'd accumulated enough world-building to continue without him, and continued for two more years to release "New Adventures" novels (without the "Doctor Who") featuring characters original to the series; in particular, the series shifted its focus to:



* ''Franchise/FactionParadox'': An EvilCounterpart (or more precisely, ChaoticNeutral counterpart) of the Time Lords who use {{Temporal Paradox}}es as a weapon. Introduced in the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' and later brought back in the ''Eighth Doctor Adventures'' published by the BBC, they spun off into their own series of novels, comic books and audios in which various DiabolicalMastermind types square off against each other. This sub-universe seemed to have died, though is now putting out books and audio adventures again after a change of publisher. More adult SpeculativeFiction, this sub-universe engages in BlackAndGrayMorality, EvilVersusEvil and MindScrew at regular intervals. Also much cheeky use of mainstream Whoniverse continuity.

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* ''Franchise/FactionParadox'': An EvilCounterpart (or more precisely, ChaoticNeutral [[invoked]]ChaoticNeutral counterpart) of the Time Lords who use {{Temporal Paradox}}es as a weapon. Introduced in the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' and later brought back in the ''Eighth Doctor Adventures'' published by the BBC, they spun off into their own series of novels, comic books and audios in which various DiabolicalMastermind types square off against each other. This sub-universe seemed to have died, though is now putting out books and audio adventures again after a change of publisher. More adult SpeculativeFiction, this sub-universe engages in BlackAndGrayMorality, EvilVersusEvil and MindScrew at regular intervals. Also much cheeky use of mainstream Whoniverse continuity.



* ''AudioPlay/DoctorWhoAudioVisuals'': A not-at-all official FanWork series created by Creator/NicholasBriggs, starring Creator/NicholasBriggs as the Doctor. Written, composed and produced by Creator/NicholasBriggs and a handful of friends with a few dozen pseudonyms. Technically violated BBC copyright, but the BBC choose to look the other way. The series went on for four seasons and ended up influencing ''Doctor Who'' as a whole -- many of its elements (including its Doctor!) later became AscendedFanon both in the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comics and in Creator/BigFinish (the latter of which is [[AscendedFanboy also run by Briggs]]).

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* ''AudioPlay/DoctorWhoAudioVisuals'': A not-at-all official FanWork series created by Creator/NicholasBriggs, starring Creator/NicholasBriggs as the Doctor. Written, composed and produced by Creator/NicholasBriggs and a handful of friends with a few dozen pseudonyms. Technically violated BBC copyright, but the BBC choose to look the other way. The series went on for four seasons and ended up influencing ''Doctor Who'' as a whole -- many of its elements (including its Doctor!) later became AscendedFanon [[invoked]]AscendedFanon both in the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comics and in Creator/BigFinish (the latter of which is [[AscendedFanboy also run by Briggs]]).



* ''TabletopGame/TheDoctorWhoRoleplayingGame'': A tabletop RPG made by FASA in the 80s. Marred by poor research, which unintentionally generated {{Fanon}}. FASA put out several supplements, along with two {{Gamebooks}}.

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* ''TabletopGame/TheDoctorWhoRoleplayingGame'': A tabletop RPG made by FASA in the 80s. Marred by poor research, which unintentionally generated {{Fanon}}.[[invoked]]{{Fanon}}. FASA put out several supplements, along with two {{Gamebooks}}.



* LicensedGame:
** The "adventure games" which are tied to series 5 and 6.
** Previously there was ''Destiny of the Doctors'' in the late 1990s and a couple of simple games for the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum.

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