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Latest revision as of 01:50, 7 November 2024

Doctor Who doesn't have a canon. All the prominent showrunners and writers agree.

However... there have been some aberrations where media has been called canonical. This list means to compile them all, however if a fan were to actually only consider these works to be canonical, they'd be missing the trick. This list, therefore, seeks to show how if Doctor Who did have a canon, it would be stupid.

Just have fun with Doctor Who, reject the 21st century ideas ingrained in your gooey brain by the fandom, and have fun. That's what it's all about, in the end; have fun.

Source/Concept Medium Series Author Release date Info
Mindwarp/Sil TV Doctor Who Philip Martin 4 October 1986 "Both Nathan-Turner and Saward were keen that this story still include Sil, who they felt had been a very successful addition to Doctor Who's canon."[1]
Big Finish Productions's Doctor Who stories Audio N/A Various 1999+ "As far as the BBC is concerned, these new stories are seen as part of the official Doctor Who canon."[2]
Time Crash TV Children in Need Steven Moffat 16 November 2007 DWM: "Is it canon?"
SM: "Oh. [Laughs] Yes, absolutely. Time Crash empatically happens within the... well, people can make up their own minds about what's canon, but it's intended by us to actually happen... unless if you don't want it to."[3][4]
The Adventure Games Game N/A Phil Ford, James Moran 5 June 2010 "Players will encounter new and original monsters, in stories which form part of the overall Doctor Who canon."[5]
Infinity N/A Various 8 August 2018 "The first is to have gaming-led content. Doctor Who Infinity would fit into that category. So it’s taking content from our major brands and delivering gaming experiences that actually form part of the canon."[6]
The Timeless Children TV Doctor Who Series 12 Chris Chibnall 1 March 2020 RTD: "Let’s stare that question right in the eye. I’m not going to unwrite my good friend Chris Chibnall’s work on ‘The Timeless Children’. I’m not going to deny what he wrote. I’m going with it. It’s absolutely fine. It’s canon, it happened. It was transmitted. You cannot unwrite things, that would be absolutely rude to a great colleague and a lovely friend."[7]
Knock! Knock! Who's There? Novel N/A Chris Farnell 23 July 2020 "I wrote the Doctor Who jokebook to be canon according to TARDIS wiki."[8]
Time Traveller's Diary/Billie Eilish N/A 5 November 2020 "In a separate incident, I also made Billie Eilish canon."[9]
Tales of the TARDIS TV N/A Various 1 November 2023 SFX: "Can we confirm TOTT is canon?"
RTD: "ABSOLUTELY! Good god almighty! What the flip?!"[10]
Back to the Future: The Musical Stage
play 		Back to the Future Glen Ballard (lyrics)
Bob Gale & Robert Zemeckis 		20 February 2020 RTD: "PLUS! It has a Tardis! As the DeLorean flies through time, a proper accurate Tardis whizzes past. Therefore making BTTF canon!"[11]
"Morbius" Doctors N/A N/A Created by "Robin Bland" 3 January 1976 Chris Chibnall: "I most recently emailed [Philip Hinchcliffe] to explain that we had canonised him, and others, as the Doctor in The Timeless Children,"
"It wasn't driven by canonising Philip, but that was a nice grace note."[12]
Long story short, only a few random things have been called canonical, and even then, mostly in either unserious situations and/or the person saying it also admitting that canon is subjective anyway. Again, don't take this list seriously.

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Doctor Who: The Collection — Season 23 booklet
  2. ↑ DWM 275
  3. ↑ Some 2007 issue of DWM
  4. ↑ @DrWhoMoment on twitter.com
  5. ↑ BBC unveils Doctor Who – The Adventure Games on bbc.co.uk
  6. ↑ BBC new ‘Gaming First’ initiative to turn game IPs into ‘bigger franchises’ on mcvuk.com
  7. ↑ SFX 372 - Spilling the T, Page 28
  8. ↑ @thebrainofchris on twitter.com
  9. ↑ @thebrainofchris on twitter.com
  10. ↑ SFX 372 - History Repeating, Page 44
  11. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/C6lse18LoAR/
  12. ↑ DWM 610 - The Greatest Showmen, Page 16
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