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* In the 1980s, FASA released a TabletopRPG (imaginatively called ''TabletopGame/TheDoctorWhoRoleplayingGame''), marred by [[DidNotDoTheResearch poor research]], which unintentionally generated {{Fanon}}. FASA put out several supplements, along with two choose-your-own-adventure books. Virgin Publishing (the publishers of the New and Missing Adventures lines of novels) did a second RPG in the 90s, called ''Time Lord''. A third game from Cubicle 7, ''Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space'', came out in winter 2009.
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* In the 1980s, FASA released a TabletopRPG (imaginatively called ''TabletopGame/TheDoctorWhoRoleplayingGame''), marred by [[DidNotDoTheResearch poor research]], research, which unintentionally generated {{Fanon}}. FASA put out several supplements, along with two choose-your-own-adventure books. Virgin Publishing (the publishers of the New and Missing Adventures lines of novels) did a second RPG in the 90s, called ''Time Lord''. A third game from Cubicle 7, ''Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space'', came out in winter 2009.
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By the time ''Doctor Who'' came back following the "wilderness years", the books and two WebOriginal stories, ''Death Comes to Time'' and ''ScreamOfTheShalka'', had all independently written out the Time Lords. When the TV series returned, it did the same thing, but deemed the previous stories AlternateContinuity.
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By the time ''Doctor Who'' came back following the "wilderness years", years" of cancellation, the books and two WebOriginal stories, ''Death Comes to Time'' and ''ScreamOfTheShalka'', had all independently written out the Time Lords. When the TV series returned, it did the same thing, but deemed the previous stories AlternateContinuity.
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Doctor Who doesn\'t have a canon. The 1963-1989 series has contradicted other parts of the 1963-1989 series several times.
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During the "wilderness years" (1989-1996 and 1996-2005), ''DoctorWho'' existed only in its ExpandedUniverse. These various spinoffs typically developed their own canon. Rule of thumb is that the TV show (including the 1996 movie) counts as the main canon that the spinoffs can build on. The ExpandedUniverse is still free to experiment with different storylines, without the revived TV show having to adhere to its canon.
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The Expanded Whoniverse has branched in diverse ways into separate fully licensed and semi-official sub-continuities, divided (in some cases) by the BBC's copyright restrictions. This is further complicated by the fact that no one person, including the BBC, owns all the rights to the monsters and characters which have appeared in the Whoniverse. Sometimes they acknowledge each other, sometimes they ignore each other, DependingOnTheWriter. In one notable instance, BigFinishDoctorWho explicitly names the storylines of half a dozen novels as an alternate timeline that takes place in an AlternateContinuity. Those who expect consistency, or even, in some cases, sanity, are in for a confusing ride.
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The Expanded Whoniverse has branched in diverse ways into separate fully licensed and semi-official sub-continuities, divided (in some cases) by the BBC's copyright restrictions. This is further complicated by the fact that no one person, including the BBC, owns all the rights to the monsters and characters which have appeared in the Whoniverse. Sometimes they acknowledge each other, sometimes they ignore each other, DependingOnTheWriter. In one notable instance, BigFinishDoctorWho explicitly names named the storylines of half a dozen novels as an alternate timeline that takes place in an AlternateContinuity. Those who expect consistency, or even, in some cases, sanity, are in for a confusing ride.
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During the "wilderness years" (1989-1996 and 1996-2005), ''DoctorWho'' existed only in its ExpandedUniverse. These various spinoffs typically developed their own canon. The rule Rule of thumb is that the TV show (including the 1996 movie) count counts as the main canon that the spinoffs can build on. The ExpandedUniverse is still free to experiment with different storylines, without the revived TV show having to adhere to its canon.
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By the time ''Doctor Who'' came back following the "wilderness years", the books and two WebOriginal stories, ''Death Comes to Time'' and ''ScreamOfTheShalka'' ''ScreamOfTheShalka'', had both all independently written out the Time Lords. When the TV series returned, it did the same thing, but deemed the previous stories AlternateContinuity.
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The Expanded Whoniverse has branched in diverse ways into separate fully licensed and semi-official sub-continuities, divided (in some cases) by the BBC's copyright restrictions. This is further complicated by the fact that no one person, including the BBC, owns all the rights to the monsters and characters which have appeared in the Whoniverse. Sometimes they acknowledge each other, sometimes they ignore each other, DependingOnTheWriter. In one notable instance, BigFinishDoctorWho explicitly names the storylines of half a dozen novels as an alternate timeline that takes place in an AlternateContinuity. Those who expect consistency, or even, in some cases, sanity, will find themselves sorely disappointed.
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The Expanded Whoniverse has branched in diverse ways into separate fully licensed and semi-official sub-continuities, divided (in some cases) by the BBC's copyright restrictions. This is further complicated by the fact that no one person, including the BBC, owns all the rights to the monsters and characters which have appeared in the Whoniverse. Sometimes they acknowledge each other, sometimes they ignore each other, DependingOnTheWriter. In one notable instance, BigFinishDoctorWho explicitly names the storylines of half a dozen novels as an alternate timeline that takes place in an AlternateContinuity. Those who expect consistency, or even, in some cases, sanity, will find themselves sorely disappointed.
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The "wilderness years" also spawned numerous FanWork stories, typically involving the TV series' actors and crew in some way. The most notable of these are the DoctorWhoAudioVisuals, which eventually became BigFinish productions. Its cast and crew started out as fans, but are currently all involved in ''DoctorWho'' proper.
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The "wilderness years" also spawned numerous FanWork stories, typically involving the TV series' actors and crew in some way. The most notable of these are the DoctorWhoAudioVisuals, which eventually became the BigFinish productions.production studio. Its cast and crew started out as fans, but are currently all involved in ''DoctorWho'' proper.
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During the "wilderness years" (1989-1996 and 1996-2005), ''DoctorWho'' existed only in its ExpandedUniverse. These various spinoffs typically developed their own canon. The rule of thumb is that the TV show (plus (including the 1996 movie) count as the main canon that the spinoffs can build on. The ExpandedUniverse is still free to experiment with different storylines, without the revived TV show having to adhere to its canon.
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During the "wilderness years" (1989-1996 and 1996-2003), 1996-2005), ''DoctorWho'' existed only in its ExpandedUniverse. These various spinoffs typically developed their own canon. The rule of thumb is that the TV show (plus the movie) count as the main canon that the spinoffs can build on. The ExpandedUniverse is free to experiment with different storylines, without the TV show having to adhere to its canon.
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The three different Sarah Jane spin-offs serve as a lesson in how you can spin off the same character in different ways, using different tropes and for different audiences. ExpandedUniverse material in general and without the Doctor, in particular, tend to be DarkerAndEdgier and skew more towards the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism than their parent series. ''TheSarahJaneAdventures'' and ''K-9 & Company'' stand out as notable exceptions. (Sarah also appeared in the semi-professional direct-to-video production ''Downtime''.)
Up to the present, the franchise's ExpandedUniverse continued usually in the form of comics and novelisations. During the "wilderness years", though, following the cancellation of the original regular series in 1989, and its revival in 2005 (it also came back for a television movie/BackdoorPilot in 1996), a number of other spin-offs in the form of original novels, audios and webcasts have picked up the slack, some of them involving characters other than the Doctor. Over time, a number of these have evolved into their own sub-continuities.
Notably, by the time ''Doctor Who'' came back following the wilderness years, the books and two WebOriginal stories, ''Death Comes to Time'' and ''ScreamOfTheShalka'', (which existed in [[AlternateContinuity Alternative Continuities]] from each other and, in the case of the former from the t.v. series) had written out the Time Lords; when the TV series returned, it did the same thing.
The Expanded Whoniverse has branched in diverse ways into separate fully licensed and semi-official sub-continuities, divided (in some cases) by the BBC's copyright restrictions, further complicated that no one person, including the BBC, owns all the rights to the monsters and characters which have appeared in the Whoniverse. Sometimes they acknowledge each other, sometimes they ignore each other, DependingOnTheWriter. Those who expect consistency, or even, in some cases, sanity, will find themselves sorely disappointed.
Up to the present, the franchise's ExpandedUniverse continued usually in the form of comics and novelisations. During the "wilderness years", though, following the cancellation of the original regular series in 1989, and its revival in 2005 (it also came back for a television movie/BackdoorPilot in 1996), a number of other spin-offs in the form of original novels, audios and webcasts have picked up the slack, some of them involving characters other than the Doctor. Over time, a number of these have evolved into their own sub-continuities.
Notably, by the time ''Doctor Who'' came back following the wilderness years, the books and two WebOriginal stories, ''Death Comes to Time'' and ''ScreamOfTheShalka'', (which existed in [[AlternateContinuity Alternative Continuities]] from each other and, in the case of the former from the t.v. series) had written out the Time Lords; when the TV series returned, it did the same thing.
The Expanded Whoniverse has branched in diverse ways into separate fully licensed and semi-official sub-continuities, divided (in some cases) by the BBC's copyright restrictions, further complicated that no one person, including the BBC, owns all the rights to the monsters and characters which have appeared in the Whoniverse. Sometimes they acknowledge each other, sometimes they ignore each other, DependingOnTheWriter. Those who expect consistency, or even, in some cases, sanity, will find themselves sorely disappointed.
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During the "wilderness years" (1989-1996 and 1996-2003), ''DoctorWho'' existed only in its ExpandedUniverse. These various spinoffs typically developed their own canon. The rule of thumb is that the TV show (plus the movie) count as the main canon that the spinoffs can build on. The ExpandedUniverse is free to experiment with different storylines, without the TV show having to adhere to its canon.
By the time ''Doctor Who'' came back following the "wilderness years", the books and two WebOriginal stories, ''Death Comes to Time'' and ''ScreamOfTheShalka'' had both independently written out the Time Lords. When the TV series returned, it did the same thing, but deemed the previous stories AlternateContinuity.
The "wilderness years" also spawned numerous FanWork stories, typically involving the TV series' actors and crew in some way. The most notable of these are the DoctorWhoAudioVisuals, which eventually became BigFinish productions. Its cast and crew started out as fans, but are currently all involved in ''DoctorWho'' proper.
The three different Sarah Jane spin-offs serve as a lesson in how you can spin off the same character in different ways, using different tropes and for different audiences. ExpandedUniverse material in general and without the Doctor, in particular, tend to be DarkerAndEdgier and skew more towards the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism than their parent series. ''TheSarahJaneAdventures'' and ''K-9 & Company'' stand out as notable fluffy exceptions. (Sarah also appeared in the semi-professional direct-to-video production ''Downtime''.)
Up to the present, the franchise's ExpandedUniverse continued usually in the form of comics and novelisations. During the "wilderness years", though, following the cancellation of the original regular series in 1989, and its revival in 2005 (it also came back for a television movie/BackdoorPilot in 1996), a number of other spin-offs in the form of original novels, audios and webcasts have picked up the slack, some of them involving characters other than the Doctor. Over time, a number of these have evolved into their own sub-continuities.
Notably, by the time ''Doctor Who'' came back following the wilderness years, the books and two WebOriginal stories, ''Death Comes to Time'' and ''ScreamOfTheShalka'', (which existed in [[AlternateContinuity Alternative Continuities]] from each other and, in the case of the former from the t.v. series) had written out the Time Lords; when the TV series returned, it did the same thing.
The Expanded Whoniverse has branched in diverse ways into separate fully licensed and semi-official sub-continuities, divided (in some cases) by the BBC's copyright restrictions, restrictions. This is further complicated by the fact that no one person, including the BBC, owns all the rights to the monsters and characters which have appeared in the Whoniverse. Sometimes they acknowledge each other, sometimes they ignore each other, DependingOnTheWriter. In one notable instance, BigFinishDoctorWho explicitly names the storylines of half a dozen novels as an alternate timeline that takes place in an AlternateContinuity. Those who expect consistency, or even, in some cases, sanity, will find themselves sorely disappointed.
By the time ''Doctor Who'' came back following the "wilderness years", the books and two WebOriginal stories, ''Death Comes to Time'' and ''ScreamOfTheShalka'' had both independently written out the Time Lords. When the TV series returned, it did the same thing, but deemed the previous stories AlternateContinuity.
The "wilderness years" also spawned numerous FanWork stories, typically involving the TV series' actors and crew in some way. The most notable of these are the DoctorWhoAudioVisuals, which eventually became BigFinish productions. Its cast and crew started out as fans, but are currently all involved in ''DoctorWho'' proper.
The three different Sarah Jane spin-offs serve as a lesson in how you can spin off the same character in different ways, using different tropes and for different audiences. ExpandedUniverse material in general and without the Doctor, in particular, tend to be DarkerAndEdgier and skew more towards the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism than their parent series. ''TheSarahJaneAdventures'' and ''K-9 & Company'' stand out as notable fluffy exceptions. (Sarah also appeared in the semi-professional direct-to-video production ''Downtime''.)
Notably, by the time ''Doctor Who'' came back following the wilderness years, the books and two WebOriginal stories, ''Death Comes to Time'' and ''ScreamOfTheShalka'', (which existed in [[AlternateContinuity Alternative Continuities]] from each other and, in the case of the former from the t.v. series) had written out the Time Lords; when the TV series returned, it did the same thing.
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** 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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** 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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* In the 1980s, FASA released a TabletopRPG (imaginatively called ''TheDoctorWhoRoleplayingGame''), marred by [[DidNotDoTheResearch poor research]], which unintentionally generated {{Fanon}}. FASA put out several supplements, along with two choose-your-own-adventure books. Virgin Publishing (the publishers of the New and Missing Adventures lines of novels) did a second RPG in the 90s, called ''Time Lord''. A third game from Cubicle 7, ''Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space'', came out in winter 2009.
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* In the 1980s, FASA released a TabletopRPG (imaginatively called ''TheDoctorWhoRoleplayingGame''), ''TabletopGame/TheDoctorWhoRoleplayingGame''), marred by [[DidNotDoTheResearch poor research]], which unintentionally generated {{Fanon}}. FASA put out several supplements, along with two choose-your-own-adventure books. Virgin Publishing (the publishers of the New and Missing Adventures lines of novels) did a second RPG in the 90s, called ''Time Lord''. A third game from Cubicle 7, ''Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space'', came out in winter 2009.
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* GottaCatchEmAll: ''The Adventure Games'' features a card collecting sidequest, in which you find and collect various cards featuring the Doctor's allies, his enemies, [[TheNthDoctor incarnations of the Doctor himself]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking different flavours of Jellybabies]].
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* GottaCatchEmAll: ''The Adventure Games'' features a card collecting sidequest, in which you find and collect various cards featuring the Doctor's allies, his enemies, [[TheNthDoctor incarnations of the Doctor himself]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking different flavours of Jellybabies]].Jellybabies]].
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** 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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** 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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Hottip cleanup.
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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'')[[hottip:*: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.)]] received fan novelisations courtesy of the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club. ''Shada'' eventually received an official novelisation by BBC Books in 2012, written by Gareth Roberts. However, there've been no official novelisations of the new series' stories, and it looks unlikely there will be.
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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'')[[hottip:*:If Daleks'')[[note]]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.)]] )[[/note]] received fan novelisations courtesy of the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club. ''Shada'' eventually received an official novelisation by BBC Books in 2012, written by Gareth Roberts. However, there've been no official novelisations of the new series' stories, and it looks unlikely there will be.
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It just applies to the VN As, so I;ve moved it there.
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* ImmortalProcreationClause: The New Adventures invented an elaborate backstory for Gallifrey based on the ImmortalProcreationClause, establishing that Time Lords are sterile and reproduce with giant machines called Looms. The new series has disregarded this, with the Doctor openly stating that he had been a father (in "Fear Her") and talking about his children (in "The Doctor's Daughter").
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*ImmortalProcreationClause: The New Adventures invented an elaborate backstory for Gallifrey based on the ImmortalProcreationClause, establishing that Time Lords are sterile and reproduce with giant machines called Looms. The new series has disregarded this, with the Doctor openly stating that he had been a father (in "Fear Her") and talking about his children (in "The Doctor's Daughter").
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* ''KaldorCity'': Stories set in the culture seen in the Fourth Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]". Either an IntercontinuityCrossover or proof that ''Doctor Who'' and ''BlakesSeven'' [[CanonWelding take place in the same universe]]. An earlier PastDoctorAdventures novel, ''Corpse Marker'', by former ''Who'' writer and ''Blake's Seven'' script editor Chris Boucher had already crossed this over. In fact, these act as loose sequels to that novel. These have more grounding in the Whoniverse than the ''B7'' universe, though, and featured the surprise return of an old baddy.
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* ''KaldorCity'': Stories set in the culture seen in the Fourth Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]". Either an IntercontinuityCrossover or proof that ''Doctor Who'' and ''BlakesSeven'' ''Series/BlakesSeven'' [[CanonWelding take place in the same universe]]. An earlier PastDoctorAdventures novel, ''Corpse Marker'', by former ''Who'' writer and ''Blake's Seven'' script editor Chris Boucher had already crossed this over. In fact, these act as loose sequels to that novel. These have more grounding in the Whoniverse than the ''B7'' universe, though, and featured the surprise return of an old baddy.
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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'')[[hottip:*: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 ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' having taken off in the meantime, Target Books was no longer able to afford the advances he commanded.)]] received fan novelisations courtesy of the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club. ''Shada'' eventually received an official novelisation by BBC Books in 2012, written by Gareth Roberts. However, there've been no official novelisations of the new series' stories, and it looks unlikely there will be.
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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'')[[hottip:*: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 ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' having taken off in the meantime, Target Books was no longer able to afford the advances he commanded.)]] received fan novelisations courtesy of the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club. ''Shada'' eventually received an official novelisation by BBC Books in 2012, written by Gareth Roberts. However, there've been no official novelisations of the new series' stories, and it looks unlikely there will be.
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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'')[[hottip:*:If you noticed that three of the five are DouglasAdams 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 [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] having taken off in the meantime, Target Books was no longer able to afford the advances he commanded.)]] received fan novelisations courtesy of the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club. ''Shada'' eventually received an official novelisation by BBC Books in 2012, written by Gareth Roberts. However, there've been no official novelisations of the new series' stories, and it looks unlikely there will be.
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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'')[[hottip:*:If you noticed that three of the five are DouglasAdams 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 [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy The ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] Galaxy'' having taken off in the meantime, Target Books was no longer able to afford the advances he commanded.)]] received fan novelisations courtesy of the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club. ''Shada'' eventually received an official novelisation by BBC Books in 2012, written by Gareth Roberts. However, there've been no official novelisations of the new series' stories, and it looks unlikely there will be.
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About a decade after ''Series/DoctorWho'' went off the air, [=BBCi=] started experimenting with the series, doing webcast dramas with animated elements - most notable of these is ''Death Comes to Time'', set in an apparent AlternativeContinuity. It ends with [[spoiler:the Doctor (seemingly) KilledOffForReal]], and might have paved the way for a series {{revival}} (with [[spoiler:another Time Lord now having assumed the place of the Doctor]]), but that didn't happen. They also did an adaptation of aborted TV story ''Shada'', with the Eighth Doctor taking the place of the Fourth, and an original Sixth Doctor story, ''Real Time''.
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About a decade after ''Series/DoctorWho'' went off the air, [=BBCi=] started experimenting with the series, doing webcast dramas with animated elements - most elements. Most notable of these is ''Death Comes to Time'', set in an apparent AlternativeContinuity. AlternativeContinuity which ignores the TV Movie with the Eighth Doctor as well as the novels. It ends with [[spoiler:the Doctor (seemingly) KilledOffForReal]], and might have paved the way for a series {{revival}} (with [[spoiler:another Time Lord Lord, the Minister of Chance, now having assumed the place title and legacy of the Doctor]]), but that didn't happen. They also did an adaptation of aborted TV story ''Shada'', with the Eighth Doctor taking the place of the Fourth, and an original Sixth Doctor story, ''Real Time''.
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* ''TimeHunter''. The adventures of two time-travelling private eyes, first introduced in a Telos novella.
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* ''TimeHunter''. The adventures of two time-travelling private eyes, first introduced in a Telos novella. The series has now concluded.
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* ''TheDalekChronicles''. This comic ran in the [[{{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 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'', David Whitaker. 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, such as 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 later ones actually have some excellent artwork by Ron Turner.
* ''AbslomDaakDalekKiller'': 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, too). After her extermination she ended up un-alive in a cryo-chamber. He lived during the same 26th century time period as BerniceSummerfield, and met her a couple of times.
* ''AbslomDaakDalekKiller'': 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, too). After her extermination she ended up un-alive in a cryo-chamber. He lived during the same 26th century time period as BerniceSummerfield, and met her a couple of times.
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* ''TheDalekChronicles''. This comic ran in the [[{{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 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'', David Whitaker. 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, such as 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 actually have some excellent artwork by Ron Turner.
* ''AbslomDaakDalekKiller'': 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 (''literally'' a princess, too). in her case. After her extermination she ended up un-alive unalive in a cryo-chamber. He lived during the same 26th century time period as BerniceSummerfield, and met her a couple of times.twice.
* ''AbslomDaakDalekKiller'': 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
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After the TV series' return in 2005, a new magazine aimed at kids, ''DoctorWhoAdventures'', came out alongside DWM, with its own LighterAndSofter comic. comic.
Meanwhile, American comics company IDW picked up the licence for US ''Doctor Who'' comics, 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.(Officially In 2012, IDW published the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' crossover miniseries ''StarTrekTheNextGenerationDoctorWhoAssimilation2''.
(IDW's issues are officially NoExportForYou to the UK, for licencing reasons, although it's easy to find the [=TPBs=] in comic shops.)
Meanwhile, American comics company IDW picked up the licence for US ''Doctor Who'' comics, 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.
(IDW's issues are officially NoExportForYou to the UK, for licencing reasons, although it's easy to find the [=TPBs=] in comic shops.)
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* ''KaldorCity'': Stories set in the culture seen in the Fourth Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]". Either an IntercontinuityCrossover or proof that ''Doctor Who'' and ''[=~Blake's Seven~=]'' [[CanonWelding take place in the same universe]]. An earlier PastDoctorAdventures novel, ''Corpse Marker'', by former ''Who'' writer and ''Blake's Seven'' script editor Chris Boucher had already crossed this over. In fact, these act as loose sequels to that novel. These have more grounding in the Whoniverse than the ''B7'' universe, though, and featured the surprise return of an old baddy.
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* ''KaldorCity'': Stories set in the culture seen in the Fourth Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]". Either an IntercontinuityCrossover or proof that ''Doctor Who'' and ''[=~Blake's Seven~=]'' ''BlakesSeven'' [[CanonWelding take place in the same universe]]. An earlier PastDoctorAdventures novel, ''Corpse Marker'', by former ''Who'' writer and ''Blake's Seven'' script editor Chris Boucher had already crossed this over. In fact, these act as loose sequels to that novel. These have more grounding in the Whoniverse than the ''B7'' universe, though, and featured the surprise return of an old baddy.
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In late 1963 we had ''Series/DoctorWho'', the series which spawned the {{Whoniverse}}. Then in 1964, in the pages of ''TV Comic'', the first ''Doctor Who'' spin-off comic started. Overall, the Whoniverse has encompassed three stage plays, webcasts, animation, choose-your-own-adventure books, novels, novelisations, audio dramas, comics and feature films (adapting two of the earlier television stories).
The three different Sarah Jane spin-offs serve as a lesson in how you can spin off the same character in different ways, using different tropes and for different audiences. ExpandedUniverse material in general and without the Doctor, in particular, tend to be DarkerAndEdgier and skew more towards the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism than their parent series. ''TheSarahJaneAdventures'' and ''K-9 & Company'' stand out as notable exceptions. (Sarah also appeared in the semi-professional direct-to-video production ''Downtime''.)
Up to the present, the franchise's ExpandedUniverse continued usually in the form of comics and novelisations. During the "wilderness years", though, following the cancellation of the original regular series in 1989, and its revival in 2005 (it also came back for a television movie/BackdoorPilot in 1996), a number of other spin-offs in the form of original novels, audios and webcasts have picked up the slack, some of them involving characters other than the Doctor. Over time, a number of these have evolved into their own sub-continuities.
Notably, by the time ''Doctor Who'' came back following the wilderness years, the books and two WebOriginal stories, ''Death Comes to Time'' and ''ScreamOfTheShalka'' (which existed in an AlternateContinuity from each other), had all written out the Time Lords; when the TV series returned, it did the same thing.
The Expanded Whoniverse has branched in diverse ways into separate fully licensed and semi-official sub-continuities, divided (in some cases) by the BBC's copyright restrictions, further complicated that no one person, including the BBC, owns all the rights to the monsters and characters which have appeared in the Whoniverse. Sometimes they acknowledge each other, sometimes they ignore each other, DependingOnTheWriter. Those who expect consistency, or even, in some cases, sanity, will find themselves sorely disappointed.
!Comics
The comics started off in the SilverAge, with a strip in the British TV adaptation anthology comic ''TV Comic''. This ran from 1964 to 1979, with a break during 1971-3 when the ''Doctor Who'' strip appeared in a sister title called ''Countdown'' and later ''TV Action'', aimed at a slightly older audience. However all these strips were definitely commercial publications aimed at a child audience, and the stories featuring "Dr. Who" and his companions (who in the early days were entirely different from the TV characters, due to the publishers only paying the fee to use the Doctor himself) reflected this. Apart from sharing very basic elements, they didn't have much in common with the television series. At one point, the Doctor joins forces with SantaClaus to battle an evil wizard and save Christmas.
The "modern" comics (in the minds of fans), though, started with the comic in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' in 1979. By and large, the DWM comics have tended to reference their own sub-continuity more than other media. However, during the early 1990s, they shared the same continuity as the [[VirginNewAdventures New Adventures]]; in the mid-90s, around the time of the TV Movie, they made a break with the novels' continuity by killing off the Doctor's companion Ace as a teenager after the books had shown her age, turn into a NinetiesAntiHero and finally leave the Doctor for good.
After the TV series' return in 2005, a new magazine aimed at kids, ''DoctorWhoAdventures'', came out alongside DWM, with its own LighterAndSofter comic. Meanwhile, American comics company IDW picked up the licence for US ''Doctor Who'' comics, 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. (Officially NoExportForYou to the UK, for licencing reasons, although it's easy to find the [=TPBs=] in comic shops.)
!!Some comics works
* ''TheDalekChronicles''. This comic ran in the [[{{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 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'', David Whitaker. 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, such as 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 later ones actually have some excellent artwork by Ron Turner.
* ''AbslomDaakDalekKiller'': 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, too). After her extermination she ended up un-alive in a cryo-chamber. He lived during the same 26th century time period as BerniceSummerfield, and met her a couple of times.
!!Tropes used in the comics:
* See our ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' page for tropes used in their specific comics.
!!Tropes used in ''Doctor Who Adventures''
* CanonForeigner: During 2009, when the Doctor was companion-less on TV, ''DWA'' gave him Heather [=McCrimmon=], a descendent of Jamie. It's tempting to suggest a later [[KarenGillan red-haired companion from the Highlands]] was an {{Expy}}, but it's probably just coincidence.
!Film
Two color, relatively high budgeted ''Doctor Who'' [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptations]], DrWhoAndTheDaleks (based on the Season 1 Dalek debut story "The Daleks") and ''[[DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'' (based on the second Dalek story "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" from Season 2) came out in the 1960s. The films, starring PeterCushing, [[CompressedAdaptation shortened]] and [[ViewersAreMorons 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. Needless to say, they occur in a AlternateContinuity from the series. At least one official prose spin-off short story has been published featuring the movieverse characters. Bernard Cribbins, who played Campbell, later played Wilfred Mott in the TV series forty years later. StevenMoffat, current showrunner of the main series has cited the movie Daleks as inspiration for the Dalek design of series 5.
!!Tropes used in ''Doctor Who'' films:
* See ''DrWhoAndTheDaleks'' and ''DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD'' for tropes specific to the movies.
!Animation/Web Original
In the 1980s, Canadian company Nelvana planned to produce an animated ''Who'' series for American network CBS, which fell through. Early concept art for the series featured a Doctor who bore a striking resemblance to Egon Spengler, from ''TheRealGhostbusters''.
About a decade after ''Series/DoctorWho'' went off the air, [=BBCi=] started experimenting with the series, doing webcast dramas with animated elements - most notable of these is ''Death Comes to Time'', set in an apparent AlternativeContinuity. It ends with [[spoiler:the Doctor (seemingly) KilledOffForReal]], and might have paved the way for a series {{revival}} (with [[spoiler:another Time Lord now having assumed the place of the Doctor]]), but that didn't happen. They also did an adaptation of aborted TV story ''Shada'', with the Eighth Doctor taking the place of the Fourth, and an original Sixth Doctor story, ''Real Time''.
[=BBCi=] eventually did an full-on animated webcast for the fortieth anniversary in November 2003, ''ScreamOfTheShalka'', which featured a Ninth Doctor played by RichardEGrant. The TV series' return (announced two months earlier), however, meant the Shalka Doctor got overwritten in continuity. It also had a {{cameo}} by [[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. Little did we know...
The series' return saw animated Who finally make the jump to TV in 2007, with ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2007TDWASTheInfiniteQuest The Infinite Quest]]'', a 13-part serial featuring the Tenth Doctor and Martha, broadcast as part of the BBC kids' series ''Totally Doctor Who''. It was followed up in late 2009 with the [[AllCGICartoon CGI-animated]] serial ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2009ASDreamland Dreamland]]'', featuring Ten solo with 'guest companions'. Initially, it was shown on digital and online, before appearing on BBC Two.
!!Tropes used in ''Doctor Who'' animation:
* BackFromTheDead: The Master, in ''Scream of the Shalka''.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The giant aphids in ''The Infinite Quest''.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The list of the Doctor's "outstanding convictions" in ''The Infinite Quest''.
* DoesNotLikeGuns: The RichardEGrant Doctor.
* HistoricalInJoke: Several, in ''Scream of the Shalka''.
* MakeMeWannaShout: The Shalka, and their mind controlled humans, in ''Scream of the Shalka''.
* OurWormholesAreDifferent[=/=]UnrealisticBlackHole: The billion-world Shalka Confederacy can turn an orange wormhole into a blue black hole with lightning storms at a moment's notice. The black hole also appears to have "settings".
* PsychicNosebleed: The Shalka's sonic abilities.
* TechnicalPacifist: Lampshaded by the RichardEGrant Doctor, when he refuses guns, but then goes on to kill thousands.
!Literature
During the 70s and 80s, in the days before video took off, '''the''' way to catch up on previous ''Doctor Who'' stories were the [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelisations from Target Books]], which retold (and frequently expanded on) the stories on TV.
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'')[[hottip:*:If you noticed that three of the five are DouglasAdams 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 [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] having taken off in the meantime, Target Books was no longer able to afford the advances he commanded.)]] received fan novelisations courtesy of the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club. ''Shada'' eventually received an official novelisation by BBC Books in 2012, written by Gareth Roberts. However, there've been no official novelisations of the new series' stories, and it looks unlikely there will be.
In the early 1990s, after ''Doctor Who'' had gone off the air, [[VirginNewAdventures Virgin Publishing's New Adventures]] novels filled the gap. 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 Whoniverse more GrimDark. They also made the stories a bit harder on the MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness (the television series had gone in that direction anyway). The novels (more because of the creativity of the fans-turned-authors RunningTheAsylum than by ExecutiveMeddling) riffed over each other's contributions. Future ShowRunner RussellTDavies contributed one of the novels, ''Damaged Goods''. Other writers for the [[VirginNewAdventures New Adventures]] would later write for the new series. The penultimate New Adventures novel (before it changed its format and concentrated on the Doctor's companion), ''Lungbarrow'', by Marc Platt, also went into the Doctor's secret BackStory, hinted about onscreen.
The [[VirginMissingAdventures Missing Adventures]], starring the first six Doctors, later appeared using the same format.
Then the series, in effect, bifurcated. After Virgin lost their license following the TV Movie, the New Adventures evolved (by design and with the groundwork laid by writers and editors) into a Doctor-less SpinOff series still set (nominally) in the Whoniverse starring ex-companion and AdventurerArchaeologist BerniceSummerfield (not owned by the BBC), with the odd WritingAroundTrademarks and LawyerFriendlyCameo when needed. Under the auspices of BigFinish, the series still continues.
The EighthDoctorAdventures continued on, this time published by the BBC. The authors ''really'' had a field day with the Eighth Doctor, who had only appeared in the MadeForTVMovie. Since his run in the TV series was so short, nearly all of his adventures had to be shown in the Expanded Universe, in the novels, audio plays and comics. General consensus says that both book series took place in the same universe, though some writers disagreed. At any rate, the Eighth Doctor novels started off LighterAndSofter then before and then got DarkerAndEdgier again and engaged in heavy [[StoryArc Story Arcs]] leading to (arguably) ContinuityLockOut and eventually CosmicRetcon, which in turn led to... etc., etc.
The BBC also did their own PastDoctorAdventures range, featuring the first seven Doctors.
For a brief period, Telos got the licence to do ''Doctor Who'' novellas, featuring all the Doctors. These eventually spawned another SpinOff, ''TimeHunter''.
With the revival of ''Doctor Who'', the books changed format completely. The NewSeriesAdventures featured the current TV Doctor and aimed themselves towards a more general and kid-inclusive audience. The Past Doctor range was dropped in 2005, shortly after the debut of the new series, and will be revived with "Harvest of Time" [[http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/07/dwn210711121508-bbc-books-harvest-of.html in 2013]], an 8-year release gap. These new books appear to be in continuity with the TV series, being referenced (in ''Boom Town'' and ''The End of Time'' Part One) in the TV show itself.
!!Spin-offs originating in the books
* ''BerniceSummerfield'': 26th century (later 27th century) AdventurerArchaeologist (and, these days, single ActionMom to her [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] son) who had traveled with the Doctor in the New Adventures novels. She's from an Earth colony destroyed when the Daleks attacked it, killing her mother. Currently having adventures in audio and novel form; one of the expanded universe's most successful spin-offs.
* ''FactionParadox'': An EvilCounterpart (or more precisely, ChaoticNeutral counterpart) of the Time Lords who use {{Temporal Paradox}}es as a weapon. Introduced in the Eighth Doctor Adventures published by the BBC, they spun off into their own series of novels, comics 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.
* ''IrisWildthyme'': Rogue Time Lady, voiced by Katy Manning in the audios (she played the Third Doctor's companion Jo Grant in the classic series), whose TARDIS looks like a red double-decker London bus, smaller on the inside. She actually originated outside the {{Whoniverse}} in a few [[MagicalRealism Magical Realist]] novels by Paul Magrs and got {{transplant}}ed into it.
* ''TimeHunter''. The adventures of two time-travelling private eyes, first introduced in a Telos novella.
!!Tropes used in ''Doctor Who'' books:
* See our Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations, VirginNewAdventures, VirginMissingAdventures, EighthDoctorAdventures and PastDoctorAdventures pages for tropes used in those ranges.
* AlternativeNumberSystem: It's never mentioned in the books themselves, or the series, but the "Gallifreyan numerals" used on the spines and chapter headings of the New Series Adventures are in base 7.
* CargoCult: In the Eleventh Doctor novel ''Night of the Humans'', the Doctor and Amy Pond find themselves on a giant space junkyard in the year 250,339. They find a primitive group of humans living in the shadow of the Tower of Gobo, the hulk of a spaceship of the Gobo Corporation (or [[WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture Gobocorp]]) that crashed there thousands of years ago. The humans are the descendants of the surviving crewmembers, having regressed into savagery. They worship Gobo, the clown mascot of Gobocorp proudly painted on the side of the ship, as their deity, believing him to have created them on Earth (yes, they believe they're on Earth) and who will eventually take them away to the mythical land of El Paso.
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!{{Audio|Adaptation}}
''Doctor Who'' started venturing into original audio stories back in the 1970s, with ''Doctor Who and the Pescatons'', a Fourth Doctor story on vinyl LP. The 80s saw Sixth Doctor story ''Slipback'' on Radio 4, while the 90s saw two new Third Doctor stories, ''The Paradise of Death'' (for Radio 5) and ''The Ghosts of N-Space'' (for Radio 2).
In 1995, BigFinish started a series of audio plays based on New Adventures star BerniceSummerfield. In 1999, they got the license to [[BigFinishDoctorWho produce new audio Who stories which continue to the present]], involving Doctors Five through Eight. The Fourth Doctor joined the lineup come 2012. They also do a ''Lost Stories'' series, adapting unmade stories from the original TV series. [[ExiledFromContinuity Big Finish can't legally use elements from or mention events in the new series]] because of BBC Audio (see below), though the occasional sneaky reference snuck its way through.
The BerniceSummerfield series, also set in the Whoniverse, continues. For several years, Big Finish had the license to do short story anthologies (the ''Short Trips'' range).
BBC Audio, meanwhile, have been doing original audio books featuring the current TV Doctor, and recruited Fourth Doctor TomBaker to do several series of audio plays for them.
!!Audio spin-offs
* ''SarahJaneSmith'': Yes, another spinoff with everyone's favourite intrepid journalist, though DarkerAndEdgier than the others. Two series of audio adventures, set well between ''K9 & Company'' and ''TheSarahJaneAdventures''.
* ''Dalek Empire'': Four audio play miniseries revolving around the Daleks' invasion of our galaxy (after events in the main audio series gave them their own to play with). Without the Doctor around to handle things, the series sits comfortably on the [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism cynical side]] of things. Also features appearances from a certain [[DavidTennant poofy-haired Scottish bloke]] and [[TookALevelInBadass Mickey Smith's badass cousin]].
* ''[[IDavros I, Davros]]'': A StartOfDarkness story for Davros.
* ''[[{{UNIT}} U.N.I.T.]]'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''{{Cyberman}}'': Two audio play miniseries (again spun off from a story in the main line) involving a XanatosGambit aimed at, what else, [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the galaxy]].
* {{Gallifrey}}: Four series of political intrigue on Gallifrey, the Doctor's homeworld, with more on the way. Stars Lalla Ward as Romana II (now Lady President Romana), Louise Jameson as Leela and John Leeson as the two K-9s.
* ''DoctorWhoUnbound'': A short series of {{Elseworlds}} and WhatIf stories starring actors who hadn't played the Doctor before. (Except for Michael Jayston as the FutureMeScaresMe future alternative Doctor, who had originated on television in "The Trial of a Time Lord" story arc.)
* ''TheCompanionChronicles'': Former companions and friends recount unseen adventures with the Doctor.
* ''JagoAndLitefoot'': The further adventures of ThoseTwoGuys from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]".
* ''KaldorCity'': Stories set in the culture seen in the Fourth Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]". Either an IntercontinuityCrossover or proof that ''Doctor Who'' and ''[=~Blake's Seven~=]'' [[CanonWelding take place in the same universe]]. An earlier PastDoctorAdventures novel, ''Corpse Marker'', by former ''Who'' writer and ''Blake's Seven'' script editor Chris Boucher had already crossed this over. In fact, these act as loose sequels to that novel. These have more grounding in the Whoniverse than the ''B7'' universe, though, and featured the surprise return of an old baddy.
!!Tropes used in ''Doctor Who'' audio plays:
* See our ''BigFinishDoctorWho'' page for tropes specific to that range.
!Other
The Whoniverse has also appeared in many other formats.
!!Examples
* ''Theatre/TheCurseOfTheDaleks''. A stage play serving as an {{Interquel}} between the first Dalek story, "The Daleks", and their second, "The Dalek Invasion of Earth". (The earlier ''The Dalek Chronicles'' comics had done the same.) It did not feature the Doctor or any of his companions.
* ''Theatre/DoctorWhoAndTheDaleksInTheSevenKeysToDoomsday'', a stage play with a long title, a fake Doctor (the real Fourth Doctor had yet to appear on television) and also Daleks. And, as you would expect, the Seven Keys to Doomsday.
* ''[[Theatre/DoctorWhoTheUltimateAdventure Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure]]'', a musical! With singing! And Daleks and Cybermen teaming up! And real Doctors! (Though not in the same production.) And MargaretThatcher! (Or at least an actress playing her.) It came out in the 1980s. The Daleks and Cybermen did not team up with Margaret Thatcher. EvenEvilHasStandards.
* After the cancellation of the original ''Doctor Who'' series, a number of semi-pro direct-to-video licensed videos like ''Wartime'', ''Downtime'' and ''Shakedown: The Return of the Sontarans'', among others, came out. Some even starred actors from the series. ''Shakedown'' was also integrated into the New Adventures continuity (and ''Downtime'' into the Missing Adventures). Note that these didn't feature the Doctor -- they only had the rights to the monsters and companions.
* In the 1980s, FASA released a TabletopRPG (imaginatively called ''TheDoctorWhoRoleplayingGame''), marred by [[DidNotDoTheResearch poor research]], which unintentionally generated {{Fanon}}. FASA put out several supplements, along with two choose-your-own-adventure books. Virgin Publishing (the publishers of the New and Missing Adventures lines of novels) did a second RPG in the 90s, called ''Time Lord''. A third game from Cubicle 7, ''Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space'', came out in winter 2009.
* The ''MakeYourOwnAdventureWithDoctorWho'' series (''FindYourFate'' in the US), six choose-your-own-adventure books with the Sixth Doctor released in the 1980s by Severn House (UK)/Ballantine (US). BBC Books did their own choose-your-own-adventure books for the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors with the ''Decide Your Destiny'' books.
* [[VideoGames Computer games]] of varying genres:
** ''VideoGame/DoctorWhoAndTheMinesOfTerror'' (a platformer)
** ''VideoGame/DalekAttack'' (another platformer, featuring an OutOfCharacter Seventh Doctor shooting and blowing things up with his sonic screwdriver and ''grenades'')
** ''VideoGame/DestinyOfTheDoctors'' (in which you play a jellyish-esque creature who must rescue the first seven Doctors from the Master)
** A Tenth Doctor ''Top Trumps'' game
** All the minigames on the BBC's ''Who'' website.
** ''[[VideoGame/DoctorWhoTheAdventureGames The Adventure Games]]'', which are a set of episodic {{adventure game}}s with the Eleventh Doctor, headed by [[BrokenSword Charles Cecil]] and developed by Sumo Digital. Said to be part of series 5 and 6, four were released in mid-to-late 2010 and one was released in late 2011.
** ''[[VideoGame/DoctorWhoWorldsInTime Doctor Who: Worlds in Time]]'', an MMO in which time is breaking apart (again), and the Doctor is recruiting a vast network of assistants to help find and repair damaged patches of time, and defeat the alien menaces that plan to use the situation for their own benefit. Each assistant gets their own sonic screwdriver.
!!Tropes used in other ''Doctor Who'' Expanded Universe media:
* ExpositionFairy: Amy falls into this role for much of ''City of the Daleks.''
* ContinuityNod: In ''City Of The Daleks'', the Doctor mentions meeting [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear yetis]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs dinosaurs]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang giant rats]] in the London Underground.
* CursedWithAwesome: Due to [[spoiler: the destruction of the human race]] in 1963 in ''City of the Daleks'', Amy is slowly fading from existence. While this is certainly a bad thing, it also affords her occasional invisiblity, which can come in quite handy during stealth sequences.
* GottaCatchEmAll: ''The Adventure Games'' features a card collecting sidequest, in which you find and collect various cards featuring the Doctor's allies, his enemies, [[TheNthDoctor incarnations of the Doctor himself]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking different flavours of Jellybabies]].
The three different Sarah Jane spin-offs serve as a lesson in how you can spin off the same character in different ways, using different tropes and for different audiences. ExpandedUniverse material in general and without the Doctor, in particular, tend to be DarkerAndEdgier and skew more towards the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism than their parent series. ''TheSarahJaneAdventures'' and ''K-9 & Company'' stand out as notable exceptions. (Sarah also appeared in the semi-professional direct-to-video production ''Downtime''.)
Up to the present, the franchise's ExpandedUniverse continued usually in the form of comics and novelisations. During the "wilderness years", though, following the cancellation of the original regular series in 1989, and its revival in 2005 (it also came back for a television movie/BackdoorPilot in 1996), a number of other spin-offs in the form of original novels, audios and webcasts have picked up the slack, some of them involving characters other than the Doctor. Over time, a number of these have evolved into their own sub-continuities.
Notably, by the time ''Doctor Who'' came back following the wilderness years, the books and two WebOriginal stories, ''Death Comes to Time'' and ''ScreamOfTheShalka'' (which existed in an AlternateContinuity from each other), had all written out the Time Lords; when the TV series returned, it did the same thing.
The Expanded Whoniverse has branched in diverse ways into separate fully licensed and semi-official sub-continuities, divided (in some cases) by the BBC's copyright restrictions, further complicated that no one person, including the BBC, owns all the rights to the monsters and characters which have appeared in the Whoniverse. Sometimes they acknowledge each other, sometimes they ignore each other, DependingOnTheWriter. Those who expect consistency, or even, in some cases, sanity, will find themselves sorely disappointed.
!Comics
The comics started off in the SilverAge, with a strip in the British TV adaptation anthology comic ''TV Comic''. This ran from 1964 to 1979, with a break during 1971-3 when the ''Doctor Who'' strip appeared in a sister title called ''Countdown'' and later ''TV Action'', aimed at a slightly older audience. However all these strips were definitely commercial publications aimed at a child audience, and the stories featuring "Dr. Who" and his companions (who in the early days were entirely different from the TV characters, due to the publishers only paying the fee to use the Doctor himself) reflected this. Apart from sharing very basic elements, they didn't have much in common with the television series. At one point, the Doctor joins forces with SantaClaus to battle an evil wizard and save Christmas.
The "modern" comics (in the minds of fans), though, started with the comic in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' in 1979. By and large, the DWM comics have tended to reference their own sub-continuity more than other media. However, during the early 1990s, they shared the same continuity as the [[VirginNewAdventures New Adventures]]; in the mid-90s, around the time of the TV Movie, they made a break with the novels' continuity by killing off the Doctor's companion Ace as a teenager after the books had shown her age, turn into a NinetiesAntiHero and finally leave the Doctor for good.
After the TV series' return in 2005, a new magazine aimed at kids, ''DoctorWhoAdventures'', came out alongside DWM, with its own LighterAndSofter comic. Meanwhile, American comics company IDW picked up the licence for US ''Doctor Who'' comics, 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. (Officially NoExportForYou to the UK, for licencing reasons, although it's easy to find the [=TPBs=] in comic shops.)
!!Some comics works
* ''TheDalekChronicles''. This comic ran in the [[{{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 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'', David Whitaker. 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, such as 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 later ones actually have some excellent artwork by Ron Turner.
* ''AbslomDaakDalekKiller'': 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, too). After her extermination she ended up un-alive in a cryo-chamber. He lived during the same 26th century time period as BerniceSummerfield, and met her a couple of times.
!!Tropes used in the comics:
* See our ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' page for tropes used in their specific comics.
!!Tropes used in ''Doctor Who Adventures''
* CanonForeigner: During 2009, when the Doctor was companion-less on TV, ''DWA'' gave him Heather [=McCrimmon=], a descendent of Jamie. It's tempting to suggest a later [[KarenGillan red-haired companion from the Highlands]] was an {{Expy}}, but it's probably just coincidence.
!Film
Two color, relatively high budgeted ''Doctor Who'' [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptations]], DrWhoAndTheDaleks (based on the Season 1 Dalek debut story "The Daleks") and ''[[DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'' (based on the second Dalek story "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" from Season 2) came out in the 1960s. The films, starring PeterCushing, [[CompressedAdaptation shortened]] and [[ViewersAreMorons 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. Needless to say, they occur in a AlternateContinuity from the series. At least one official prose spin-off short story has been published featuring the movieverse characters. Bernard Cribbins, who played Campbell, later played Wilfred Mott in the TV series forty years later. StevenMoffat, current showrunner of the main series has cited the movie Daleks as inspiration for the Dalek design of series 5.
!!Tropes used in ''Doctor Who'' films:
* See ''DrWhoAndTheDaleks'' and ''DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD'' for tropes specific to the movies.
!Animation/Web Original
In the 1980s, Canadian company Nelvana planned to produce an animated ''Who'' series for American network CBS, which fell through. Early concept art for the series featured a Doctor who bore a striking resemblance to Egon Spengler, from ''TheRealGhostbusters''.
About a decade after ''Series/DoctorWho'' went off the air, [=BBCi=] started experimenting with the series, doing webcast dramas with animated elements - most notable of these is ''Death Comes to Time'', set in an apparent AlternativeContinuity. It ends with [[spoiler:the Doctor (seemingly) KilledOffForReal]], and might have paved the way for a series {{revival}} (with [[spoiler:another Time Lord now having assumed the place of the Doctor]]), but that didn't happen. They also did an adaptation of aborted TV story ''Shada'', with the Eighth Doctor taking the place of the Fourth, and an original Sixth Doctor story, ''Real Time''.
[=BBCi=] eventually did an full-on animated webcast for the fortieth anniversary in November 2003, ''ScreamOfTheShalka'', which featured a Ninth Doctor played by RichardEGrant. The TV series' return (announced two months earlier), however, meant the Shalka Doctor got overwritten in continuity. It also had a {{cameo}} by [[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. Little did we know...
The series' return saw animated Who finally make the jump to TV in 2007, with ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2007TDWASTheInfiniteQuest The Infinite Quest]]'', a 13-part serial featuring the Tenth Doctor and Martha, broadcast as part of the BBC kids' series ''Totally Doctor Who''. It was followed up in late 2009 with the [[AllCGICartoon CGI-animated]] serial ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2009ASDreamland Dreamland]]'', featuring Ten solo with 'guest companions'. Initially, it was shown on digital and online, before appearing on BBC Two.
!!Tropes used in ''Doctor Who'' animation:
* BackFromTheDead: The Master, in ''Scream of the Shalka''.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The giant aphids in ''The Infinite Quest''.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The list of the Doctor's "outstanding convictions" in ''The Infinite Quest''.
* DoesNotLikeGuns: The RichardEGrant Doctor.
* HistoricalInJoke: Several, in ''Scream of the Shalka''.
* MakeMeWannaShout: The Shalka, and their mind controlled humans, in ''Scream of the Shalka''.
* OurWormholesAreDifferent[=/=]UnrealisticBlackHole: The billion-world Shalka Confederacy can turn an orange wormhole into a blue black hole with lightning storms at a moment's notice. The black hole also appears to have "settings".
* PsychicNosebleed: The Shalka's sonic abilities.
* TechnicalPacifist: Lampshaded by the RichardEGrant Doctor, when he refuses guns, but then goes on to kill thousands.
!Literature
During the 70s and 80s, in the days before video took off, '''the''' way to catch up on previous ''Doctor Who'' stories were the [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelisations from Target Books]], which retold (and frequently expanded on) the stories on TV.
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'')[[hottip:*:If you noticed that three of the five are DouglasAdams 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 [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] having taken off in the meantime, Target Books was no longer able to afford the advances he commanded.)]] received fan novelisations courtesy of the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club. ''Shada'' eventually received an official novelisation by BBC Books in 2012, written by Gareth Roberts. However, there've been no official novelisations of the new series' stories, and it looks unlikely there will be.
In the early 1990s, after ''Doctor Who'' had gone off the air, [[VirginNewAdventures Virgin Publishing's New Adventures]] novels filled the gap. 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 Whoniverse more GrimDark. They also made the stories a bit harder on the MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness (the television series had gone in that direction anyway). The novels (more because of the creativity of the fans-turned-authors RunningTheAsylum than by ExecutiveMeddling) riffed over each other's contributions. Future ShowRunner RussellTDavies contributed one of the novels, ''Damaged Goods''. Other writers for the [[VirginNewAdventures New Adventures]] would later write for the new series. The penultimate New Adventures novel (before it changed its format and concentrated on the Doctor's companion), ''Lungbarrow'', by Marc Platt, also went into the Doctor's secret BackStory, hinted about onscreen.
The [[VirginMissingAdventures Missing Adventures]], starring the first six Doctors, later appeared using the same format.
Then the series, in effect, bifurcated. After Virgin lost their license following the TV Movie, the New Adventures evolved (by design and with the groundwork laid by writers and editors) into a Doctor-less SpinOff series still set (nominally) in the Whoniverse starring ex-companion and AdventurerArchaeologist BerniceSummerfield (not owned by the BBC), with the odd WritingAroundTrademarks and LawyerFriendlyCameo when needed. Under the auspices of BigFinish, the series still continues.
The EighthDoctorAdventures continued on, this time published by the BBC. The authors ''really'' had a field day with the Eighth Doctor, who had only appeared in the MadeForTVMovie. Since his run in the TV series was so short, nearly all of his adventures had to be shown in the Expanded Universe, in the novels, audio plays and comics. General consensus says that both book series took place in the same universe, though some writers disagreed. At any rate, the Eighth Doctor novels started off LighterAndSofter then before and then got DarkerAndEdgier again and engaged in heavy [[StoryArc Story Arcs]] leading to (arguably) ContinuityLockOut and eventually CosmicRetcon, which in turn led to... etc., etc.
The BBC also did their own PastDoctorAdventures range, featuring the first seven Doctors.
For a brief period, Telos got the licence to do ''Doctor Who'' novellas, featuring all the Doctors. These eventually spawned another SpinOff, ''TimeHunter''.
With the revival of ''Doctor Who'', the books changed format completely. The NewSeriesAdventures featured the current TV Doctor and aimed themselves towards a more general and kid-inclusive audience. The Past Doctor range was dropped in 2005, shortly after the debut of the new series, and will be revived with "Harvest of Time" [[http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/07/dwn210711121508-bbc-books-harvest-of.html in 2013]], an 8-year release gap. These new books appear to be in continuity with the TV series, being referenced (in ''Boom Town'' and ''The End of Time'' Part One) in the TV show itself.
!!Spin-offs originating in the books
* ''BerniceSummerfield'': 26th century (later 27th century) AdventurerArchaeologist (and, these days, single ActionMom to her [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] son) who had traveled with the Doctor in the New Adventures novels. She's from an Earth colony destroyed when the Daleks attacked it, killing her mother. Currently having adventures in audio and novel form; one of the expanded universe's most successful spin-offs.
* ''FactionParadox'': An EvilCounterpart (or more precisely, ChaoticNeutral counterpart) of the Time Lords who use {{Temporal Paradox}}es as a weapon. Introduced in the Eighth Doctor Adventures published by the BBC, they spun off into their own series of novels, comics 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.
* ''IrisWildthyme'': Rogue Time Lady, voiced by Katy Manning in the audios (she played the Third Doctor's companion Jo Grant in the classic series), whose TARDIS looks like a red double-decker London bus, smaller on the inside. She actually originated outside the {{Whoniverse}} in a few [[MagicalRealism Magical Realist]] novels by Paul Magrs and got {{transplant}}ed into it.
* ''TimeHunter''. The adventures of two time-travelling private eyes, first introduced in a Telos novella.
!!Tropes used in ''Doctor Who'' books:
* See our Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations, VirginNewAdventures, VirginMissingAdventures, EighthDoctorAdventures and PastDoctorAdventures pages for tropes used in those ranges.
* AlternativeNumberSystem: It's never mentioned in the books themselves, or the series, but the "Gallifreyan numerals" used on the spines and chapter headings of the New Series Adventures are in base 7.
* CargoCult: In the Eleventh Doctor novel ''Night of the Humans'', the Doctor and Amy Pond find themselves on a giant space junkyard in the year 250,339. They find a primitive group of humans living in the shadow of the Tower of Gobo, the hulk of a spaceship of the Gobo Corporation (or [[WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture Gobocorp]]) that crashed there thousands of years ago. The humans are the descendants of the surviving crewmembers, having regressed into savagery. They worship Gobo, the clown mascot of Gobocorp proudly painted on the side of the ship, as their deity, believing him to have created them on Earth (yes, they believe they're on Earth) and who will eventually take them away to the mythical land of El Paso.
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!{{Audio|Adaptation}}
''Doctor Who'' started venturing into original audio stories back in the 1970s, with ''Doctor Who and the Pescatons'', a Fourth Doctor story on vinyl LP. The 80s saw Sixth Doctor story ''Slipback'' on Radio 4, while the 90s saw two new Third Doctor stories, ''The Paradise of Death'' (for Radio 5) and ''The Ghosts of N-Space'' (for Radio 2).
In 1995, BigFinish started a series of audio plays based on New Adventures star BerniceSummerfield. In 1999, they got the license to [[BigFinishDoctorWho produce new audio Who stories which continue to the present]], involving Doctors Five through Eight. The Fourth Doctor joined the lineup come 2012. They also do a ''Lost Stories'' series, adapting unmade stories from the original TV series. [[ExiledFromContinuity Big Finish can't legally use elements from or mention events in the new series]] because of BBC Audio (see below), though the occasional sneaky reference snuck its way through.
The BerniceSummerfield series, also set in the Whoniverse, continues. For several years, Big Finish had the license to do short story anthologies (the ''Short Trips'' range).
BBC Audio, meanwhile, have been doing original audio books featuring the current TV Doctor, and recruited Fourth Doctor TomBaker to do several series of audio plays for them.
!!Audio spin-offs
* ''SarahJaneSmith'': Yes, another spinoff with everyone's favourite intrepid journalist, though DarkerAndEdgier than the others. Two series of audio adventures, set well between ''K9 & Company'' and ''TheSarahJaneAdventures''.
* ''Dalek Empire'': Four audio play miniseries revolving around the Daleks' invasion of our galaxy (after events in the main audio series gave them their own to play with). Without the Doctor around to handle things, the series sits comfortably on the [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism cynical side]] of things. Also features appearances from a certain [[DavidTennant poofy-haired Scottish bloke]] and [[TookALevelInBadass Mickey Smith's badass cousin]].
* ''[[IDavros I, Davros]]'': A StartOfDarkness story for Davros.
* ''[[{{UNIT}} U.N.I.T.]]'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''{{Cyberman}}'': Two audio play miniseries (again spun off from a story in the main line) involving a XanatosGambit aimed at, what else, [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the galaxy]].
* {{Gallifrey}}: Four series of political intrigue on Gallifrey, the Doctor's homeworld, with more on the way. Stars Lalla Ward as Romana II (now Lady President Romana), Louise Jameson as Leela and John Leeson as the two K-9s.
* ''DoctorWhoUnbound'': A short series of {{Elseworlds}} and WhatIf stories starring actors who hadn't played the Doctor before. (Except for Michael Jayston as the FutureMeScaresMe future alternative Doctor, who had originated on television in "The Trial of a Time Lord" story arc.)
* ''TheCompanionChronicles'': Former companions and friends recount unseen adventures with the Doctor.
* ''JagoAndLitefoot'': The further adventures of ThoseTwoGuys from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]".
* ''KaldorCity'': Stories set in the culture seen in the Fourth Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]". Either an IntercontinuityCrossover or proof that ''Doctor Who'' and ''[=~Blake's Seven~=]'' [[CanonWelding take place in the same universe]]. An earlier PastDoctorAdventures novel, ''Corpse Marker'', by former ''Who'' writer and ''Blake's Seven'' script editor Chris Boucher had already crossed this over. In fact, these act as loose sequels to that novel. These have more grounding in the Whoniverse than the ''B7'' universe, though, and featured the surprise return of an old baddy.
!!Tropes used in ''Doctor Who'' audio plays:
* See our ''BigFinishDoctorWho'' page for tropes specific to that range.
!Other
The Whoniverse has also appeared in many other formats.
!!Examples
* ''Theatre/TheCurseOfTheDaleks''. A stage play serving as an {{Interquel}} between the first Dalek story, "The Daleks", and their second, "The Dalek Invasion of Earth". (The earlier ''The Dalek Chronicles'' comics had done the same.) It did not feature the Doctor or any of his companions.
* ''Theatre/DoctorWhoAndTheDaleksInTheSevenKeysToDoomsday'', a stage play with a long title, a fake Doctor (the real Fourth Doctor had yet to appear on television) and also Daleks. And, as you would expect, the Seven Keys to Doomsday.
* ''[[Theatre/DoctorWhoTheUltimateAdventure Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure]]'', a musical! With singing! And Daleks and Cybermen teaming up! And real Doctors! (Though not in the same production.) And MargaretThatcher! (Or at least an actress playing her.) It came out in the 1980s. The Daleks and Cybermen did not team up with Margaret Thatcher. EvenEvilHasStandards.
* After the cancellation of the original ''Doctor Who'' series, a number of semi-pro direct-to-video licensed videos like ''Wartime'', ''Downtime'' and ''Shakedown: The Return of the Sontarans'', among others, came out. Some even starred actors from the series. ''Shakedown'' was also integrated into the New Adventures continuity (and ''Downtime'' into the Missing Adventures). Note that these didn't feature the Doctor -- they only had the rights to the monsters and companions.
* In the 1980s, FASA released a TabletopRPG (imaginatively called ''TheDoctorWhoRoleplayingGame''), marred by [[DidNotDoTheResearch poor research]], which unintentionally generated {{Fanon}}. FASA put out several supplements, along with two choose-your-own-adventure books. Virgin Publishing (the publishers of the New and Missing Adventures lines of novels) did a second RPG in the 90s, called ''Time Lord''. A third game from Cubicle 7, ''Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space'', came out in winter 2009.
* The ''MakeYourOwnAdventureWithDoctorWho'' series (''FindYourFate'' in the US), six choose-your-own-adventure books with the Sixth Doctor released in the 1980s by Severn House (UK)/Ballantine (US). BBC Books did their own choose-your-own-adventure books for the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors with the ''Decide Your Destiny'' books.
* [[VideoGames Computer games]] of varying genres:
** ''VideoGame/DoctorWhoAndTheMinesOfTerror'' (a platformer)
** ''VideoGame/DalekAttack'' (another platformer, featuring an OutOfCharacter Seventh Doctor shooting and blowing things up with his sonic screwdriver and ''grenades'')
** ''VideoGame/DestinyOfTheDoctors'' (in which you play a jellyish-esque creature who must rescue the first seven Doctors from the Master)
** A Tenth Doctor ''Top Trumps'' game
** All the minigames on the BBC's ''Who'' website.
** ''[[VideoGame/DoctorWhoTheAdventureGames The Adventure Games]]'', which are a set of episodic {{adventure game}}s with the Eleventh Doctor, headed by [[BrokenSword Charles Cecil]] and developed by Sumo Digital. Said to be part of series 5 and 6, four were released in mid-to-late 2010 and one was released in late 2011.
** ''[[VideoGame/DoctorWhoWorldsInTime Doctor Who: Worlds in Time]]'', an MMO in which time is breaking apart (again), and the Doctor is recruiting a vast network of assistants to help find and repair damaged patches of time, and defeat the alien menaces that plan to use the situation for their own benefit. Each assistant gets their own sonic screwdriver.
!!Tropes used in other ''Doctor Who'' Expanded Universe media:
* ExpositionFairy: Amy falls into this role for much of ''City of the Daleks.''
* ContinuityNod: In ''City Of The Daleks'', the Doctor mentions meeting [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear yetis]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs dinosaurs]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang giant rats]] in the London Underground.
* CursedWithAwesome: Due to [[spoiler: the destruction of the human race]] in 1963 in ''City of the Daleks'', Amy is slowly fading from existence. While this is certainly a bad thing, it also affords her occasional invisiblity, which can come in quite handy during stealth sequences.
* GottaCatchEmAll: ''The Adventure Games'' features a card collecting sidequest, in which you find and collect various cards featuring the Doctor's allies, his enemies, [[TheNthDoctor incarnations of the Doctor himself]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking different flavours of Jellybabies]].
