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There's no need to search [[Time]] and [[Space]] – it's all right here. From [[Auton]]s to [[Anne Droid]], from [[Sisters of Plenitude|Cat Nuns]] to [[Canary Wharf]], from [[the Moon]] to [[the Master]]... everything you need to know about everything you didn't know you needed to know about [[Doctor Who]].
There's no need to search [[Time]] and [[Space]] – it's all right here. From [[Auton]]s to [[Anne Droid]], from [[Sisters of Plenitude|Cat Nuns]] to [[Canary Wharf]], from [[the Moon]] to [[the Master]]... everything you need to know about everything you didn't know you needed to know about [[Doctor Who]].
=== Contents ===
* Introduction
* 1 ''[[0207 946000]] - [[Day Zero|8.02am]]''
* A ''[[ABBA]] - [[Axos|Axons]]''
* B ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to the Future]] - [[Owen Bywater|Bywater]]''
* C ''[[Dalek Caan|Caan, Dalek]] - [[Cyberman|The Cybermen]]''
* D ''[[D'Étiolles|d'Étiolles, Madame]] - [[Dynamite]]''
* E ''[[EarPod|Ear pods]] - [[Expelliarmus]]''
* F ''[[Family of Blood|Family of Blood, The]] - [[Futurekind]]''
* G ''[[Gaffabeque]] - [[Gwyneth (The Unquiet Dead)|Gwyneth]]''
* H ''[[H₂O scoop|H2O Scoop]] - [[Hyposlip Travel System]]s''
* I ''[[I Can't Decide|'I Can't Decide']] - [[ITV]]''
* J ''[[Jabe|Jabe Ceth Ceth Jafe]] - [[Judoon captain (Smith and Jones)|Judoon Captain]]''
* K ''[[K37 Gem 5|K 37 Gem 5]] - [[Kyoto]]''
* L ''La Viva - [[Jeff Lynne|Lynne, Jeff]]''
* M ''[[M4]] - [[The Mystery of Edwin Drood|Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Blue Elementals, The]]''
* N ''Naming, the - [[Nurse (School Reunion)|Nurse [2]]]''
* O ''O'Connor, Des - [[Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17|O'Brien Dot Delta Seventeen, Lady Cassandra]]''
* PQ ''[[Pa (Gridlock)|Pa]] - [[Quoldonity]]''
* R ''[[Racnoss]] - [[Ernest Rutherford|Rutherford, Ernest]]''
* S ''[[Sabre-Toothed Gorilla|Sabre-toothed gorillas]] - [[Sycoraxic]]''
* T ''[[Tainted Love|'Tainted Love']] - [[Rose Tyler]]''
* U ''[[Ultimate Upgrade™ project|Ultimate Upgrade]] - [[Utopia Project]]''
* V ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]] - Vulcan salute''
* W ''[[Wagner (School Reunion)|Wagner, Mr]] - Wristwatch''
* XYZ ''[[The X Factor|X-Factor, The]] - [[Yana|Professor Yana]]''
* Key to References


=== Publisher's summary (2011 edition) ===
=== Publisher's summary (2011 edition) ===

Revision as of 21:58, 2 November 2022

This is a work of non-fiction.

Unlike other fictional universes, the Doctor Who universe is created solely by fiction. To us, this is not a valid source. Information from this source can only be used in "behind the scenes" sections, or on pages about real world topics.

Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book) is a reference book, as well as an interactive reference app, about Doctor Who and its related programs.

Book version

The first version of the Encyclopedia was a reference book, containing an alphabetical list of everything in the first three years of televised Doctor Who after its revival. It included references from all episodes from the first three series, including the Christmas specials. It also included the Tardisodes of Series 2, the animated story The Infinite Quest, and the prologue to 42.

Publisher's summary (2007 edition)

2007 cover

There's no need to search Time and Space – it's all right here. From Autons to Anne Droid, from Cat Nuns to Canary Wharf, from the Moon to the Master... everything you need to know about everything you didn't know you needed to know about Doctor Who.

Contents

Publisher's summary (2011 edition)

  • River Song still a riddle?
  • Stumped by the stolen planets in the Medusa Cascade?
  • Forgotten what happened in the timelines that never happened?

Look no further...

Subject matter

Notable features

  • 1,700 entries and 90,000 words
  • Gary Russell's introduction includes a list of possible entries for a second edition, most likely teases as they are deemed worthy of inclusion.

2011 update

Notes

  • In DWM 388, Russell T. Davies in his regular page discusses the entry Cruciform. Gary had assumed from the Master's words, "I was there when the Dalek Emperor took control of the Cruciform," that it had occurred on Gallifrey because of the context. Russell T. Davies was clear in his own mind that it wasn't, that the Cruciform was "more terrible than I can say, of a scale and ferocity that's absolutely untransmittable on prime-time," a larger part of the "disgusting, horrific, temporal hell" that was the Time War.
  • This non-jacketed hardback with a photographic cover was priced £14.99 (UK).
  • In January 2014, the official website for Russell T Davies' book The Writer's Tale was discontinued, and the web domain redirected to that for the Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia app. After the app website's discontinuation, it instead redirected to Penguin Books' page for The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter.

Errors

  • Milton Ager was misspelled as Milton Agar.
  • Barcelona was referred to as the capital city of Spain.

Credits

App version

The app's entry about the Emperor Dalek.

In 2012, an app version of the book was made available for tablet devices. It featured an interactive reference guide with sections dedicated to specific areas of the TV show. An official website was launched for the app.

A new edition of the app was published in December 2012, incorporating material through Part 1 of Series 7. Despite neither the app nor website being updated for future series after this point, the website remained active until August 2015, after which point it redirected to Penguin Books' Doctor Who page.

External links

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