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== Novelisation character names ==
This is a list of pages that could be renamed under the policy change I suggested in [[Thread:231243]]. By no means is it complete!
* [[Abigail (The Crimson Horror)]] to [[Abigail Blench]]
* [[Abigail's friend (The Crimson Horror)]] to [[Sissy Roper]]
* [[Barclay (The Tenth Planet)]] to [[Tom Barclay]]
* [[Bates (Attack of the Cybermen)]] to [[Eregous Bates]]
* [[Bruce (Doctor Who)]] to [[Bruce Gerhardt]]
* [[Captain (The Rescue)]] to [[Smith (The Rescue)]]
* [[Caretaker (Scream of the Shalka)]] to [[Mitch Stannard]]
* [[Cashier (Warriors of Kudlak)]] to [[Pam (Warriors of Kudlak)]]
* [[Chamberlain (The Twin Dilemma)]] to [[Slarn (The Twin Dilemma)]]
* [[Clark (The Sea Devils)]] to [[Alan Clark]]
* [[Collins (Pyramids of Mars)]] to [[Josiah Collins]]
* [[Co-pilot (The Horns of Nimon)]] to [[Sardor]]
* [[Crewmember (Resurrection of the Daleks)]] to [[Baz Seaton]]
* [[Curly (The Enemy of the World)]] to [[Tibor]]
* [[Curtis (Doctor Who)]] to [[Shelly Curtis]]
* [[Detective-Inspector (The Daleks' Master Plan)]] to [[Windsor (The Daleks' Master Plan)]]
* [[Digby (Black Orchid)]] to [[Raymond Digby]]
* [[Edmund (The Crimson Horror)]] to [[Edmund Thursday]]
* [[Effie (The Crimson Horror)]] to [[Effie Thursday]]
* [[Female art lover (City of Death)]] to [[Elena (City of Death)]]
* [[First policeman (The Daleks' Master Plan)]] to [[Welland]]
* [[Forester (Planet of Giants)]] to [[Mark Forester]]
* [[Fortune teller (Snakedance)]] to [[Zara (Snakedance)]]
* [[Gareth (Doctor Who)]] to [[Gareth Fitzpatrick]]
* [[Heath (The Sontaran Experiment)]] to [[Warra]]
* [[Interviewer (The Daleks' Master Plan)]] to [[Jim Grant]]
* [[Jim (The Dæmons)]] to [[Josh Wilkins]]
* [[Joe (Scream of the Shalka)]] to [[Joe Latham]]
* [[Lavel]] to [[Françoise Lavel]]
* [[Louvre guide]] to [[Henriette (City of Death)]]
* [[Mackenzie (Ghost Light)]] to [[Alfred Mackenzie]]
* [[Male art lover (City of Death)]] to [[Harrison Mandel]]
* [[Matron (Mawdryn Undead)]] to [[Cassidy]]
* [[Miranda (Doctor Who)]] to [[Miranda Gerhardt]]
* [[Mitchell (The Sea Devils)]] to [[Tony Mitchell (The Sea Devils)]]
* [[Morok commander]] to [[Ogrek]]
* [[Morok guard 2]] to [[Pluton]]
* [[Munro (Terror of the Zygons)]] to [[Jock Munro]]
* [[One (The Ark)]] to [[One XVII]]
* [[Parisian artist]] to [[Bourget]]
* [[Perkins (Fury from the Deep)]] to [[Ronald Perkins]]
* [[Pete (Doctor Who)]] to [[Pete Callahan]]
* [[Pilot (The Horns of Nimon)]] to [[Sekkoth]]
* [[Policeman 1 (Logopolis)]] to [[Donald Seagrave]]
* [[Presidential bodyguard (The Invasion of Time)]] to [[Varn]]
* [[Price (Fury from the Deep)]] to [[David Price]]
* [[Registrar (The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)]] to [[Sandra Cho]]
* [[Roberts (Doctor Who and the Silurians)]] to [[George Roberts]]
* [[Second policeman (The Daleks' Master Plan)]] to [[Blessed]]
* [[Sergeant (The Highlanders)]] to [[Klegg]]
* [[Shrinking Guardian]] to [[Niash]]
* [[Simmons (Dalek)]] to [[Danny Simmons]]<!--
* [[Soldier (Planet of the Spiders)]] to [[Hodges (Planet of the Spiders)]]-->
* [[Station sergeant]] to [[Ellis (The Daleks' Master Plan)]]
* [[Steward (Slipback)]] to [[Velsper]]
* [[The Squire (The Visitation)]] to [[John (The Visitation)]]
* [[Ted (Doctor Who)]] to [[Ted Kriechel]]
* [[Teresa (The Talons of Weng-Chiang)]] to [[Teresa Hart]]
* [[Thursday (The Crimson Horror)]] to [[Jonas Thursday]]
The above grouping only includes characters whose names are currently not unique on the wiki. Characters whose names were already unique are listed below; the issue of whether the longer titles should be used regardless as [[Tardis:Characters with one name#Future proofing|"future-proofing"]] is probably best decided case-by-case, as described in the policy about "[[Tardis:Characters with one name#When not to disambiguate|When not to disambiguate]]".
* [[Abbott]] to [[Tom Abbott]]
* [[Carney]] to [[Mick Carney]]
* [[Fedorin]] to [[Nicholas Fedorin]]
* [[Griffiths]] to [[Charles Griffiths]]
* [[Katz]] to [[Katz Makrif]]
* [[Ollis]] to [[Mary Hollis]]
* [[Ridgeway]] to [[Robin Ridgeway]]
* [[Robbins]] to [[Thomas Robbins]]
* [[Salinger]] to [[Jim Salinger]]
* [[Swift]] to [[Roger Swift]]
* [[Van Lutyens]] to [[Pieter Van Lutyens]]
* [[Wagg]] to [[Joseph Wagg]]
* [[Wheeler]] to [[Angela Wheeler]]
* [[Wigner]] to [[Robert Wigner]]
* [[Zaroff]] to [[Hermann Zaroff]]
It's worth noting that there are already a ton of pages which use names from novelisations. An incomplete sample: [[Archie Sylvest]]; [[August Lilt]]; [[Cairn]]; [[Cass Fermazzi]]; [[Cedric (The King's Demons)]]; [[Colin Redmayne]]; [[Derek Johnson]]; [[ECCO]]; [[Edith Randall]]; [[Fariah Neguib]]; [[Frank Harris]]; [[Fyodor Nikolai Kerensky]]; [[George Morris]]; [[Heidi Scarlioni]]; [[Jason Overton]]; [[Jebal]]; [[Joanna (Doctor Who)|Joanna]]; [[Joshua Jobel]]; [[Justin Vogel]]; [[Lancelot Takis]]; [[Lee Lin]]; [[Mary Smith]]; [[Megara One]]; [[Megara Two]]; [[Odessa Smith]]; [[Owen Bywater]]; [[Owen Watson]]; [[Palmer (Terror of the Zygons)|Palmer]]; [[Ram Vermas]]; [[Robert Lines]]; [[Sakkib (Invasion of the Bane)|Sakkib]]; [[Simon Metcalf]]; [[Smith (The Dinosaur Invasion)|Smith]]; [[Sylvia Gribbins]]; [[Tasambeker Brown]]; [[Theodore Benik]]; [[Vincent Russell]]; [[Vorn (The Mutants)|Vorn]]; and [[Wilkins (The Dinosaur Invasion)|Wilkins]]. Let them serve as not only demonstrations of the practicality of novelisation names being used more generally but also prompts for us to reconsider the current policy which forbids their existence!
== Thinly-veiled characters ==
== Thinly-veiled characters ==
=== Doctors ===
=== Doctors ===
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* [[El Jefe]] (Hartnell Doctor)
* [[El Jefe]] (Hartnell Doctor)
* [[Dr Oho]] (Cushing Doctor)
* [[Dr Oho]] (Cushing Doctor)
* [[Ninth Doctor 4 (The Tomorrow Windows)]] (Shalka Doctor)
* [[Grandfather Halfling]] (Relic Doctor)
* [[Grandfather Halfling]] (Relic Doctor)
* [[Lethean Campaign assassin]] (Relic Doctor)
* [[The Doctor (The Cabinet of Light)|"Dr. Smith"]]
* [[The Doctor (The Cabinet of Light)|"Dr. Smith"]]
* [[The Evil Renegade]]
* [[The Evil Renegade]]
<!-- Below are listed connections which are only guessable via invalid sources -->
* [[The Dominie]] (alternative Seventh Doctor, sort of; but also Doctor Omega)
* [[Trickster God]]
* [[The President Kodachrome]] (Sixth Doctor)
<!-- Below are listed connections which can only be deduced through invalid sources -->
* [[Doctor Moon]] ([[45th Doctor]])
* [[Doctor Moon]] ([[45th Doctor]])
* [[Old man (Beige Planet Mars)|Old man]] (42nd Doctor)
* [[Old man (Beige Planet Mars)|Old man]] (42nd Doctor)
* [[w:c:whoniverse:The Stranger (novel)|Paul Bowman]] (Eighth Doctor)
* [[User:NateBumber/Sandbox/The Stranger (novel)|Paul Bowman]] (Eighth Doctor)
* [[War veteran (Now or Thereabouts)]] (Eighth Doctor)
* [[War veteran (Now or Thereabouts)]] (Eighth Doctor)
* [[Drunk man (Now or Thereabouts)]] (Shalka Doctor)
* [[Drunk man (Now or Thereabouts)]] (Shalka Doctor)
* [[Singing man (Now or Thereabouts)]] (Ninth Doctor)
* [[Singing man (Now or Thereabouts)]] (Ninth Doctor)
* "[[John Polidori]]" (Eleventh Doctor)
* [[Midwife (Lucy Wilson & the Bledoe Cadets)]] (Thirteenth Doctor)
<!-- And I'm not really sure about these: -->
<!-- And I'm not really sure about these: -->
* [[Rivera Manuscript renegade]] (Relic Doctor?)
* [[Lethean Campaign assassin]] and [[Rivera Manuscript renegade]] (Relic Doctor?)
* [[Shift (Head of State)]] ([[The Other]]?)
* [[Shift (Head of State)]] (The Other?)
* [[The Gestalt]] (?!?)
* [[The Gestalt]] (?!?)


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=== Other DWU characters ===
=== Other DWU characters ===
* [[Ashlyn (Birthdays are Made for Memories)|Ashlyn]] ([[Clara Oswald|Clara]] splinter)
* [[Alice]] (temporally-altered [[Ace]])
* [[Auteur]] ([[Astrolabus]])
* [[Ashlyn (Birthdays are Made for Memories)|Ashlyn]] ([[Clara Oswald|Clara]] [[Clara Oswald splinters|splinter]])
* [[Auteur]]/[[Last of the Mappers]] ([[Astrolabus]])
* [[Ceol]] ([[Kelsey Hooper]])
* [[Ceol]] ([[Kelsey Hooper]])
* [[Companion (The Blue Angel)]] ([[Cedric (Search Out Space)]])
* [[The Corsair (The Bloodletters)|The Corsair]] ([[The Corsair]], but also the public domain characters of "the Corsair, John Gallant" and {{iw|pdsh|Corsair Queen (Quality)|"the Corsair Queen"}})
* [[The Gamemaster]] ([[The Toymaker]]?)
* [[Ganeida]] ([[The Doctor's sisters|The Doctor's sister]])
* [[The Imperator]] ([[First Morbius|Morbius I]])
* [[The Imperator]] ([[First Morbius|Morbius I]])
* [[John Scanlon]] ([[First Monk]])
* [[John Scanlon]] ([[First Monk]] (?))
* [[Lolita]] ([[The Master's first TARDIS]])
* [[Lolita]] ([[The Master's first TARDIS]])
* [[Machine (Newtons Sleep)|Mademoiselle Machine]] ([[Ace]])
* [[Machine (Newtons Sleep)|Mademoiselle Machine]] ([[Ace]])
* [[The Minister]] ([[Minister of Chance]] + [[Minister of War]])
* [[Malakh Imperium]] ([[Malakh Empire]])
* [[Man with a bent nose (The Tomorrow Windows)|Man with a bent nose]] ([[Minister of Chance]])
* [[Maria (Now or Thereabouts)]] ([[Maria Jackson]])
* [[Maria (Now or Thereabouts)]] ([[Maria Jackson]])
* [[Merlin's father]] ([[Ulysses]])
* [[The Mistress (The Choice)]] ([[Romana II]])
* [[The Mistress (The Choice)]] ([[Romana II]])
* [[The Monk (The Bloodletters)|The Monk]] (''possibly'' [[the Monk]], but also the public domain character {{iw|pdsh|Corsair Queen (Quality)|"Monk"}})
* [[Nari]] ([[The Rani]])
* [[Nari]] ([[The Rani]])
* [[Noble-woman (Resurrection of the Author)|Noble-woman]] ([[Donna Noble]])
* [[Noble-woman (Resurrection of the Author)|Noble-woman]] ([[Donna Noble]])
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* [[V. M. McCrimmon]] ([[Victoria Waterfield]])
* [[V. M. McCrimmon]] ([[Victoria Waterfield]])
* [[Weapon (The Eyeless)]] ([[The Moment]])
* [[Weapon (The Eyeless)]] ([[The Moment]])
* [[Agent (Is anyone receiving these transmissions?)]] ([[Zoria]])
* [[Josephine (The Llanfairfach Rebellion)]] ([[Jo Grant]])


=== Non-DWU characters ===
=== Non-DWU characters ===
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* [[The Professor (Republica)|The Professor]] ([[Doctor Omega]])
* [[The Professor (Republica)|The Professor]] ([[Doctor Omega]])
* [[Cococyte]] ([[Doctor Omega]])
* [[Cococyte]] ([[Doctor Omega]])
* [[Pyke-Xi Raul]] ({{iw|harrypotter|Pike}} from ''Harry Potter'')
* [[Victor (Wringing Off)|Victor]] ({{iw|harrypotter|Viktor Krum}})
* "Young Miss Watson" ({{iw|harrypotter|Hermione Granger}})
* [[Nosferatu]] ([[Dracula]])


==== Gerry Anderson universe ====
==== Gerry Anderson universe ====
{{main|Talk: The Indestructible Man (novel)#Parallels}}
{{main|Talk:The Indestructible Man (novel)#Parallels}}


==== ''Blake's 7'' ====
==== ''Blake's 7'' ====
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* [[Jennifer Alistoun]] ([[Ellen Ripley]])
* [[Jennifer Alistoun]] ([[Ellen Ripley]])


== Valid references to invalid stories ==
== Valid references to non-valid stories ==
=== "[[The Pilot Episode]]" ===
An index of topics on this wiki which would be easier to cover using {{tlx|NCmaterial}} and [[T:SUBPAGE|my subpage proposal]]. Per [[Tardis:Valid sources#Terminology]], I've divided them between "invalid" and "not covered". Please feel free to add to this list!
* ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', ''[[Escape Velocity (novel)|Escape Velocity]]'', and ''[[Deadline (audio story)|Deadline]]'' mention the Doctor's possible origin in the [[49th century]]


=== ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'' ===
=== Invalid stories ===
Too many to name, including
{| {{prettytable}}
* Iris mentions or revisits the Cushing version of the adventure, specifically, in ''[[Bafflement and Devotion (short story)|Bafflement and Devotion]]'' and ''[[From Wildthyme with Love (novel)|From Wildthyme with Love]]''
|-
 
! width="25%"| Invalid story
=== ''[[A Fix with Sontarans (TV story)|A Fix with Sontarans]]'' ===
! Reference
* ''[[Fixing a Hole (short story)|Fixing a Hole]]'' is a sequel
! Incorporated?
 
|-
=== ''[[Search Out Space]]'' ===
|"[[The Pilot Episode]]"
* ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'' references [[Cedric (Search Out Space)|Cedric]] as [[the Doctor (The Blue Angel)|the Doctor]]'s [[companion (The Blue Angel)|companion]]
|''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', ''[[Escape Velocity (novel)|Escape Velocity]]'', and ''[[Deadline (audio story)|Deadline]]'' mention the Doctor's possible origin in the [[49th century]]
* ''[[Storm in a Tikka (short story)|Storm in a Tikka]]'' is a prequel
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
 
|-
=== ''[[Dimensions in Time (TV story)|Dimensions in Time]]'' ===
|''[[Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet? (home video)|Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?]]''
* ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'' mentions it as a "nightmare"
|''[[The Bloodletters (novel)|The Bloodletters]]'' mentions [[the Chiropodist]]
* ''[[Storm in a Tikka (short story)|Storm in a Tikka]]'' is a sequel
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
 
|-
=== ''[[The Skivers (audio skit)|The Skivers]]'' (1995) ===
|rowspan=4|''[[Attack of the Graske (video game)|Attack of the Graske]]''
* ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'' mentions [[Jemima-Katy]] as one of the Doctor's [[companion]]s
|''[[Opera of Doom! (comic story)|Opera of Doom!]]'' references the [[ABBA]] [[concert]]
 
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
=== ''[[Death Comes to Time (webcast)|Death Comes to Time]]'' ===
|-
* ''[[Relative Dementias (novel)|Relative Dementias]]'' and ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'' mention [[Anima Persis]]
|''[[Monster File: Christmas (webcast)|Monster File: Christmas]]'' references the [[changeling]]s
* ''[[Trading Futures (novel)|Trading Futures]]'' references the [[Canisian]] invasion
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
* ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'' mentions [[Tannis]] and features [[Man with a bent nose (The Tomorrow Windows)|the Minister of Chance]]
|-
* ''[[The Three Paths (short story)|The Three Paths]]'' mentions [[Mount Plutarch]]
|''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'' references "the Graske activity on Earth a few years ago"
* ''[[Celestial Intervention (audio story)|Celestial Intervention]]'' references the [[Lune Forest]]
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
 
|-
=== ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'' ===
|''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'' and ''[[SJAF 1]]'' reference [[Griffoth]]
* ''[[Childhood Living (short story)|Childhood Living]]'' features the [[Slarvian]]s from ''[[The Feast of the Stone (short story)|The Feast of the Stone]]''
|[[Image:Tardis Blue check mark.png|15px]]
* ''[[Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme? (audio story)|Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme?]]'' repeats the [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|Shalka Doctor]]'s joke about the [[Slarvian]]s
|-
* ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'' references [[The Master (Scream of the Shalka)|the android Master]]
|''[[The Twelfth Doctor Interactive Story]]''
 
|''[[Big Bang Generation (novel)|Big Bang Generation]]'' mentions [[Time Squid]]s and [[Crinis]]
=== [[whoisdoctorwho.co.uk]] ===
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
* ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'' mentions the Doctor's meeting with [[Arthur Dent]], which was first reported on the website
|-
 
|''[[Time Fracture (stage play)|Time Fracture]]''
=== ''[[Attack of the Graske (video game)|Attack of the Graske]]'' ===
|''[[Time Fracture Show Companion]]'', ''[[UNIT Field Log]]'', ''[[This is Sergeant Robert Dudley. (webcast)|This is Sergeant Robert Dudley.]]'', et al.
* ''[[Opera of Doom! (comic story)|Opera of Doom!]]'' references the [[ABBA]] [[concert]]
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
* ''[[Monster File: Christmas (webcast)|Monster File: Christmas]]'' references the [[changeling]]s
|}
* ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'' references "the Graske activity on Earth a few years ago"
* ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'' and ''[[SJAF 1]]'' reference [[Griffoth]]
 
=== ''[[The Twelfth Doctor Interactive Story]]'' ===
* ''[[Big Bang Generation (novel)|Big Bang Generation]]'' mentions [[Time Squid]]s and [[Crinis]]
 
=== ''[[Time Fracture (stage play)|Time Fracture]]'' ===
* ''[[Time Fracture Show Companion]]'', ''[[UNIT Field Log]]'', ''[[This is Sergeant Robert Dudley. (webcast)|This is Sergeant Robert Dudley.]]'', et al.
 
== Realities ==
When it comes to continuity, tone, and worldview, the ''Doctor Who'' universe's many spin-offs and sub-series have usually been more concerned with themselves than each other. For instance, within a series such as ''[[The Monthly Adventures]]'', one can expect to find more references to previous audios and the Classic show than the [[Virgin Decalogs]] or [[Doctor Who annual]]s. As a result, each series presents a relatively self-contained chunk of [[the Doctor's reality]]. Sometimes these pieces have ebbed and flowed into each other through shared characters or references; other times, they have gone out of their way to paint each other as separate timelines or universes.


While acknowleding that most sources suggest these chunks all to be the same reality, covering them separately helps to highlight the ways in which they stand on their own. [[User:TheChampionOfTime|TheChampionOfTime]] has paved the way for this with the creation of pages like [[Virgin reality]].<ref>To emphasize the fact that these are ''not'' necessarily separate realities, perhaps it would be better to use subpages such as [[The Doctor's reality/Virgin reality]] etc.</ref> To help myself keep it all straight, this table matches the "reality" pages, both created and relinked, with the approximate stories and series they cover.
=== Not covered stories ===
Here I'm considering specifically ''licensed'' crossovers, not unofficial crossovers like the various appearances of [[Sherlock Holmes]].
{| {{prettytable}}
{| {{prettytable}}
! Page || Series
|-
|-
|[[The Doctor's reality (The Not-So-Sinister Sponge)]]
! width="25%"| Concept
|[[Doctor Who annual]]s<br />"Special Occasions" from ''[[Short Trips and Side Steps]]''
! Relevant NC appearances
! Incorporated?
|-
|[[Kemble]]<!-- 1966 -->
|''[[Fireball XL5 (series)|Fireball XL5]]'' episode ''{{iw|gerryanderson|Space Vacation}}''
|[[Image:Tardis Blue check mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Special Executive]]
|Captain Britain (''The Daredevils'', ''Captain Britain Monthly'', ''Excalibur'')
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|{{tlx|Hitchhikers}}
|''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (series)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''
|[[Image:Tardis Blue check mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Chronotis]]
|''Dirk Gently''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Richard Mace]]
|[[Eric Saward]] radio plays ''The Assassin'' (1974), ''Pegasus'' (1975), ''The Nemesis Machine'' (1976)
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Gwanzulum]]<!-- 1988 -->
|Other [[Marvel UK]] comics at the time, including ''Combat Colin'', ''Thundercats'', and ''The Real Ghostbusters''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Fred]], {{tlx|Audio Visuals}}
|''[[Audio Visuals]]''; ''[[Audio Adventures in Time & Space|The Wanderer]]''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Cyberon]]s, [[Lauren Anderson]]
|''[[Cyberon (series)|Cyberon]]'': ''Cyber-Hunt'', ''Cybergeddon'', ''Cyberon'', ''The Planet That Armageddon Forgot''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Adrienne Kramer]]
|''[[Time Rift (fan work)|Time Rift]]'' fan film
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Phoenix Court]] characters
|''[[Phoenix Court (series)|Phoenix Court]]'' series
|[[Image:Tardis Blue check mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Carnell]]
|''[[Blake's 7 (series)|Blake's 7]]'': ''{{iw|Blakes7|Weapon (episode)|Weapon}}''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Gauda Prime]]
|''Blake's 7'': ''{{iw|Blakes7|Blake (episode)|Blake}}''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Quantum mnemonics]]
|rowspan=3|[[Adrian Middleton]]'s ''[[Apocrypha (fanzine)|Apocrypha]]''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Tegorak]]
|[[Image:Tardis Blue check mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Pengallia]]
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Zargath]]ons
|''The Zargathon Menace'' in ''[[Perfect Timing]]''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Grant Markham]]
|''Wish Upon a Star Beast'' and ''Schrodinger's Botanist'' in ''[[Perfect Timing]]''
|[[Image:Tardis Blue check mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Carmen Yeh]]
|''Schrodinger's Botanist'' in ''[[Perfect Timing]]''
|[[Image:Tardis Blue check mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Johnny Chess]]
|''Chain Male'' in ''[[Perfect Timing]]''; ''Disturbance at the Heron House'' in ''[[Missing Pieces]]''; [https://web.archive.org/web/20000516193736/www.best.com/~lisag/keith/yen1.txt et al.]
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Venusian (Venusian Lullaby)|Venusian]]s
|''Venusian Sunset'' in ''[[Perfect Timing]]''; ''Blue Venus'' in ''[[Charity publication#Tales of the Solar System|Tales of the Solar System]]''; ''[[By the Time I Get to Venus (novel)|By the Time I Get to Venus]]''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Miranda Dawkins]], [[Last Contact]]
|[[Lance Parkin]]'s charity stories ''Fishy Business'', ''Iris Explains'', ''The School of Doom''
|[[Image:Tardis Blue check mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Klade]]
|[[Philip Purser-Hallard]]'s ''Retrogenesis'' (in ''Forgotten Lives II'', with permission of Lance Parkin)
|-
|[[Gallowglass]]
|''Commune'' in ''[[Myth Makers (fanzine)|Myth Makers 13]]''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Alcestis]]
|''False Gods'' in ''[[Myth Makers (fanzine)|Myth Makers Presents: Essentials]]''
|[[Image:Tardis Blue check mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Joel Mintz]]
|''Room With No Doors – A Cutaway'' in ''[[Missing Pieces]]''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Fitz Kreiner]]
|[[Stephen Cole]]'s ''Fitz Kreiner and the Onion of Doom'' in ''[[Missing Pieces]]''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Jacqueline Maguire]]
|''All the Time in the World'' in ''[[Missing Pieces]]''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Charlotte Pollard]]
|''Head in the Sand'' in ''[[Missing Pieces]]''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Anji Kapoor]]
|''Going Home'' in ''[[Missing Pieces]]''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Craig Hinton]]'s mythos
|''Aspects of Evil'' in ''[[Missing Pieces]]''; ''The Quantum Archangel Notes'' in ''[[Charity publication#Shelf Life|Shelf Life]]''; ''[[Time's Champion (novel)|Time's Champion]]''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Patience's husband]]<br />[[Rassilon]]'s purge of the [[Loom]]-born
|''Executive Action'' in ''[[Walking in Eternity]]''; ''Past Lives'' in ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Forgotten Lives]]''
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Old man (Beige Planet Mars)|Old man]], [[Iphegenia]]
|''Analysis'' in ''[[Walking in Eternity]]'', et al.
|[[file:Tardis Red x mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Spiderweiss]]
|''Man of Smoke and Dust'' in ''[[Walking in Eternity]]''
|[[Image:Tardis Blue check mark.png|15px]]
|-
|[[Sebastian Grayle]]
|''Seasons of Fear'' novelisation in ''[[Charity publication#LifeDeath|LifeDeath]]''
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|[[Iris Wildthyme]]
|''[[Bafflement & Devotion: Iris at the Edges (anthology)|Bafflement & Devotion]]''; ''The Runaway Hi-Fi'' in ''[[Charity publication#A Second Target for Tommy|A Second Target for Tommy]]''
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|[[Brenda]] and [[Effie Jacobs]]
|''[[The Brenda and Effie Mysteries (series)|The Brenda and Effie Mysteries]]''
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|[[The Cold (Time and Relative)|The Cold]]
|''Cold Snap'' in [[Kim Newman]]'s {{wi|Diogenes Club series}}
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|[[Reginald Forthman]], [[Pik Lim]]
|''[[Bibliophage (short story)|Bibliophage]]'' (covered, but see talk page; see also the rest of ''[[Decalog 5: Wonders]]'')
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|[[Claudia Marwood]]
|''[[User:NateBumber/Sandbox/The Stranger (novel)|The Stranger]]''
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|[[Minka]]
|[[BBC One]]'s {{wi|Warriors (1999 TV series)|Warriors}}
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|[[Marcie Hatter]]
|[[Russell T Davies]]' {{wi|Dark Season}}
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|[[Sandra Mitchell]]
|Russell T Davies' {{wi|Children's Ward}}
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|[[Vivaldi inheritance]]
|Russell T Davies' {{wi|Mine All Mine}}; see also that series' [[Yanto Jones]]
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|[[2-D universe]]
|[[Guinevere One]]
|''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comics
|Russell T Davies' {{wi|Years and Years (TV series)|Years and Years}}
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|[[Virgin reality]]
|[[The Rose & Crown (The Snowmen)|The Rose & Crown]]
|[[Virgin Books|Virgin]] ''[[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]]'', ''[[Virgin Missing Adventures|Missing Adventures]]'', and ''[[Virgin Decalogs|Decalogs]]''
|[[Steven Moffat]]'s {{wi|Dracula (2020 TV series)|Dracula}}
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|[[Braxiatel Collection's revised timeline]]
|[[Harold Chorley]] (?)
|''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]''
|Steven Moffat's {{wi|Sherlock (TV series)|Sherlock}}
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|[[Barusa's universe]]
|[[Drunk man (Now or Thereabouts)|Drunk man]] et al.
|[[Leekley Bible]]
|[https://haribeaux.tumblr.com/post/173834772418/with-all-awry ''With All Awry''] from ''[[Myth Makers (fanzine)|Mythmakers Presents: Golden Years 1963-2013]]''
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|[[Infinity Doctor's reality]]
|[[Señor 105]]
|''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]''
|''[[The Periodic Adventures of Señor 105]]''; ''The Time Wrestlers'' in ''[[Charity publication#A Target for Tommy|A Target for Tommy]]''
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|[[The Doctor's reality (The Eight Doctors)]]
|[[Sentient (species)|Sentient]]s
|rowspan=3|[[BBC Books|BBC]] ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures (prose series)|Eighth Doctor Adventures]]''<br />Perhaps the ''[[BBC Past Doctor Adventures|Past Doctor Adventures]]'' as well?
|"Scene to Uncover" in ''Forgotten Lives 2''
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|[[Post-War universe]]
|[[Manleigh Halt Irregulars]]
|[[Obverse Books]]' charity anthology ''Storyteller''
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|[[Council of Eight's universe]]
|[[Theo Possible]]
|[https://battlefieldbythemeadow.blogspot.com/2014/12/grumpy-auld-men.html ''Significant Others'']; ''Grumpy Auld Men'' in ''[[Charity publication#A Target for Tommy|A Target for Tommy]]''
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|[[War in Heaven]]
|[[Butterfly room]]
|''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]''?
|''The Caterpillar Room'' in ''[[Charity publication#A Second Target for Tommy|A Second Target for Tommy]]''
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|[[Positive-time universe]]
|[[Clockwork owl]]
|[[Big Finish]]'s ''[[The Monthly Adventures|Monthly Adventures]]'' and so on
|''[[Newbury & Hobbes]]'': ''The Osiris Ritual''
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|[[Unbound Universe]]
|[[Jerry Cornelius]]
|''[[Sympathy for the Devil (audio story)|Sympathy for the Devil]]'' and so on
|[[Michael Moorcock]]'s {{w|Multiverse (Michael Moorcock)|Multiverse}}
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|[[Parallel universe (Full Fathom Five)]]
|[[Vince Cosmos]], et al.
|''[[Full Fathom Five (audio story)|Full Fathom Five]]''
|''[[Baker's End (audio series)|Baker's End]]''
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|[[2040 timeline (The Nuclear Option)]]
|[[The Ninnies on Putney Common (short story)|The Ninnies on Putney Common]]
|''[[Short Trips: 2040]]''
|[[Paul Magrs]]' ''[https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/the-ninnies-paul-magrs/ The Ninnies]''
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|[[Post-Time War universe]]
|[[Raithaduine]], [[Judy Collins]], [[Enigma Tree]]
|rowspan=3|''[[Doctor Who]]'' (2005–)
|[[Rachel Redhead]]'s ''Refugees of the Raithaduine''; ''Orphans of the Raithaduine''; ''The Enigma Variations''; ''The Inferior Comedy''; ''The Wander Years''; ''Time's Enema''; ''Breaking the Fourth'' in ''[[Charity publication#Nine Lives|Nine Lives]]''
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|[[Cracked universe (The Eleventh Hour)]]
|[[Archon (The Nameless City)|Archon]]s
|{{wi|The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel}}
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|[[Rebooted universe (The Big Bang)]]
|[[Kaston Iago|Frank Archer]]
|[[Magic Bullet Productions]]' ''The Time Waster'' and ''Radio Bastard''
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|[[Lethbridge-Stewart's universe (The Forgotten Son)]]
|[[Slarvian]]s
|''[[Lethbridge-Stewart (series)|Lethbridge-Stewart]]''
|''The Slarvian Menace'' and ''Queen of Slarvos'' in [[Big Finish]]'s ''[[The Tomorrow People (audio series)|The Tomorrow People]]''
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|[[Collapsing Universe]]
|[[Samuel Barnett]]'s [[Cicero]]
|''[[Collapsing Universe Cycle]]''
|[[Big Finish]]'s ''[[Cicero (audio series)|Cicero]]''
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|[[Alexander Vlahos]]' [[Dorian Gray]]
|[[Big Finish]]'s ''[[The Confessions of Dorian Gray]]''
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|[[Nicholas Briggs]]' [[Sherlock Holmes]]
|[[Big Finish]]'s ''[[Sherlock Holmes (audio series)|Sherlock Holmes]]''
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|''[[Return of the Repressed (audio story)|Return of the Repressed]]''{{'}}s [[Sigmund Freud]]
|[[Big Finish]]'s ''[https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-sigmund-freud-files The Sigmund Freud Files]'' (they totally implied this in an ad once or something! (?) (!!))
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|[[Kerides]]
|The ''Kerides the Thinker'' series
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|[[Cinder]], [[Sarkovian]]s
|''The Moments In Between'' in ''[[Seasons of War]]''
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|[[Kalkrav]]
|''Climbing the Mountain'' in ''[[Seasons of War]]''
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|"[[Time Lord|Chronosmiths]]"
|''The Chronosmith Chronicles'', per the "Chronosmith" alias established in ''[[Seasons of War]]''? Edge case
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|[[Rachel Edwards]], [[Auteur]], et al.
|''[[10,000 Dawns]]''
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|[[Erimem]]
|''Splinter of Eternity'' in ''[[Charity publication#Master Pieces|Master Pieces]]''
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|[[John Polidori]]
|''Valour and Vanity'' (via ''[[Wringing Off (novel)|Wringing Off]]'')
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|[[Mocata Grange]]
|''The Breath of God'', one of the [[Titan Sherlock Holmes books]]
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|[[The Brigadier]]
|''When Times Change…''
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|[[Perdix (Daylight Savings)|Perdix]]
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20210729011731/http://posthypnotic.randomstatic.net/thestacks/apocrypha/seconds.shtml ''Seconds'']
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|[[Man in black (Cyber-Hunt)|The Man in Black]]
|See also {{iw|jennyeverywhere|The Man in Grey}}
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== Footnotes ==
== Realities ==
{{reflist}}
Every ''Doctor Who'' story gives us a new picture of the Doctor's reality. Technically speaking, we could create <nowiki>[[The Doctor's reality (Story Name)]]</nowiki> for every story on the wiki which features the Doctor. But the primary question I believe we should be asking in merge-related conversations is "Is it useful to our readers to have separate pages?" In most cases, there's no reason to doubt that a story depicts the same reality as its predecessor, whether that's the previous [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel, [[The Monthly Adventures (audio series)|Monthly Adventures]] audio, or TV episode.
 
But there are several notable exceptions preventing us from merging everything into a single [[The Doctor's reality]]. When it comes to continuity, tone, and worldview, the ''Doctor Who'' universe's many spin-offs and sub-series have usually been more concerned with themselves than each other. For instance, within a series such as ''[[The Monthly Adventures (audio series)|The Monthly Adventures]]'', one can expect to find more references to previous audios and the Classic show than the [[Virgin Decalogs]] or [[Doctor Who annual]]s. As a result, a story's predecessor often simply isn't clear. Is the first Virgin ''New Adventures'' novel, ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)|Timewyrm: Genesys]]'', best understood as a continuation of the prior TV episode, ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'', or the prior novel(isation), ''[[The Curse of Fenric (novelisation)|The Curse of Fenric]]''?
 
The result of this thought process is a discrete number of relatively self-contained chunks of [[the Doctor's reality]], roughly mapping onto the real-world series or sets of series. It's natural that this would be the most helpful to our readers. Sometimes these pieces have ebbed and flowed into each other through shared characters or references; other times, they have gone out of their way to paint each other as separate timelines or universes. While acknowleding that most sources indicate these chunks to be the same reality, covering them separately helps to highlight the ways in which they stand on their own. [[User:TheChampionOfTime|TheChampionOfTime]] and [[User:MrThermomanPreacher|MrThermomanPreacher]] have paved the way for this with the creation of pages like [[Virgin reality]] and [[The Doctor's reality (An Unearthly Child)]]. I've contributed to MrThermomanPreacher's [[User:MrThermomanPreacher/Sandbox/Disputed realities|collaborative chart]] of these "reality" pages.
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Other DWU characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Non-DWU characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gerry Anderson universe[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Talk:The Indestructible Man (novel)#Parallels

Blake's 7[[edit] | [edit source]]

Alien[[edit] | [edit source]]

Valid references to non-valid stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

An index of topics on this wiki which would be easier to cover using {{NCmaterial}} and my subpage proposal. Per Tardis:Valid sources#Terminology, I've divided them between "invalid" and "not covered". Please feel free to add to this list!

Invalid stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Invalid story Reference Incorporated?
"The Pilot Episode" Unnatural History, Escape Velocity, and Deadline mention the Doctor's possible origin in the 49th century Tardis Red x mark.png
Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet? The Bloodletters mentions the Chiropodist Tardis Red x mark.png
Attack of the Graske Opera of Doom! references the ABBA concert Tardis Red x mark.png
Monster File: Christmas references the changelings Tardis Red x mark.png
Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? references "the Graske activity on Earth a few years ago" Tardis Red x mark.png
Journey's End and SJAF 1 reference Griffoth Tardis Blue check mark.png
The Twelfth Doctor Interactive Story Big Bang Generation mentions Time Squids and Crinis Tardis Red x mark.png
Time Fracture Time Fracture Show Companion, UNIT Field Log, This is Sergeant Robert Dudley., et al. Tardis Red x mark.png

Not covered stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Here I'm considering specifically licensed crossovers, not unofficial crossovers like the various appearances of Sherlock Holmes.

Concept Relevant NC appearances Incorporated?
Kemble Fireball XL5 episode Space Vacation Tardis Blue check mark.png
Special Executive Captain Britain (The Daredevils, Captain Britain Monthly, Excalibur) Tardis Red x mark.png
{{Hitchhikers}} The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tardis Blue check mark.png
Chronotis Dirk Gently Tardis Red x mark.png
Richard Mace Eric Saward radio plays The Assassin (1974), Pegasus (1975), The Nemesis Machine (1976) Tardis Red x mark.png
Gwanzulum Other Marvel UK comics at the time, including Combat Colin, Thundercats, and The Real Ghostbusters Tardis Red x mark.png
Fred, {{Audio Visuals}} Audio Visuals; The Wanderer Tardis Red x mark.png
Cyberons, Lauren Anderson Cyberon: Cyber-Hunt, Cybergeddon, Cyberon, The Planet That Armageddon Forgot Tardis Red x mark.png
Adrienne Kramer Time Rift fan film Tardis Red x mark.png
Phoenix Court characters Phoenix Court series Tardis Blue check mark.png
Carnell Blake's 7: Weapon Tardis Red x mark.png
Gauda Prime Blake's 7: Blake Tardis Red x mark.png
Quantum mnemonics Adrian Middleton's Apocrypha Tardis Red x mark.png
Tegorak Tardis Blue check mark.png
Pengallia Tardis Red x mark.png
Zargathons The Zargathon Menace in Perfect Timing Tardis Red x mark.png
Grant Markham Wish Upon a Star Beast and Schrodinger's Botanist in Perfect Timing Tardis Blue check mark.png
Carmen Yeh Schrodinger's Botanist in Perfect Timing Tardis Blue check mark.png
Johnny Chess Chain Male in Perfect Timing; Disturbance at the Heron House in Missing Pieces; et al. Tardis Red x mark.png
Venusians Venusian Sunset in Perfect Timing; Blue Venus in Tales of the Solar System; By the Time I Get to Venus Tardis Red x mark.png
Miranda Dawkins, Last Contact Lance Parkin's charity stories Fishy Business, Iris Explains, The School of Doom Tardis Blue check mark.png
Klade Philip Purser-Hallard's Retrogenesis (in Forgotten Lives II, with permission of Lance Parkin)
Gallowglass Commune in Myth Makers 13 Tardis Red x mark.png
Alcestis False Gods in Myth Makers Presents: Essentials Tardis Blue check mark.png
Joel Mintz Room With No Doors – A Cutaway in Missing Pieces Tardis Red x mark.png
Fitz Kreiner Stephen Cole's Fitz Kreiner and the Onion of Doom in Missing Pieces Tardis Red x mark.png
Jacqueline Maguire All the Time in the World in Missing Pieces Tardis Red x mark.png
Charlotte Pollard Head in the Sand in Missing Pieces Tardis Red x mark.png
Anji Kapoor Going Home in Missing Pieces Tardis Red x mark.png
Craig Hinton's mythos Aspects of Evil in Missing Pieces; The Quantum Archangel Notes in Shelf Life; Time's Champion Tardis Red x mark.png
Patience's husband
Rassilon's purge of the Loom-born
Executive Action in Walking in Eternity; Past Lives in Forgotten Lives Tardis Red x mark.png
Old man, Iphegenia Analysis in Walking in Eternity, et al. Tardis Red x mark.png
Spiderweiss Man of Smoke and Dust in Walking in Eternity Tardis Blue check mark.png
Sebastian Grayle Seasons of Fear novelisation in LifeDeath Tardis Red x mark.png
Iris Wildthyme Bafflement & Devotion; The Runaway Hi-Fi in A Second Target for Tommy Tardis Red x mark.png
Brenda and Effie Jacobs The Brenda and Effie Mysteries Tardis Red x mark.png
The Cold Cold Snap in Kim Newman's Diogenes Club series Tardis Red x mark.png
Reginald Forthman, Pik Lim Bibliophage (covered, but see talk page; see also the rest of Decalog 5: Wonders) Tardis Blue check mark.png
Claudia Marwood The Stranger Tardis Red x mark.png
Minka BBC One's Warriors Tardis Red x mark.png
Marcie Hatter Russell T Davies' Dark Season Tardis Red x mark.png
Sandra Mitchell Russell T Davies' Children's Ward Tardis Red x mark.png
Vivaldi inheritance Russell T Davies' Mine All Mine; see also that series' Yanto Jones Tardis Red x mark.png
Guinevere One Russell T Davies' Years and Years Tardis Red x mark.png
The Rose & Crown Steven Moffat's Dracula Tardis Blue check mark.png
Harold Chorley (?) Steven Moffat's Sherlock Tardis Red x mark.png
Drunk man et al. With All Awry from Mythmakers Presents: Golden Years 1963-2013 Tardis Red x mark.png
Señor 105 The Periodic Adventures of Señor 105; The Time Wrestlers in A Target for Tommy Tardis Red x mark.png
Sentients "Scene to Uncover" in Forgotten Lives 2 Tardis Red x mark.png
Manleigh Halt Irregulars Obverse Books' charity anthology Storyteller Tardis Red x mark.png
Theo Possible Significant Others; Grumpy Auld Men in A Target for Tommy Tardis Red x mark.png
Butterfly room The Caterpillar Room in A Second Target for Tommy Tardis Red x mark.png
Clockwork owl Newbury & Hobbes: The Osiris Ritual Tardis Red x mark.png
Jerry Cornelius Michael Moorcock's Multiverse Tardis Red x mark.png
Vince Cosmos, et al. Baker's End Tardis Red x mark.png
The Ninnies on Putney Common Paul Magrs' The Ninnies Tardis Red x mark.png
Raithaduine, Judy Collins, Enigma Tree Rachel Redhead's Refugees of the Raithaduine; Orphans of the Raithaduine; The Enigma Variations; The Inferior Comedy; The Wander Years; Time's Enema; Breaking the Fourth in Nine Lives Tardis Red x mark.png
Archons The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Tardis Red x mark.png
Frank Archer Magic Bullet Productions' The Time Waster and Radio Bastard Tardis Red x mark.png
Slarvians The Slarvian Menace and Queen of Slarvos in Big Finish's The Tomorrow People Tardis Red x mark.png
Samuel Barnett's Cicero Big Finish's Cicero Tardis Red x mark.png
Alexander Vlahos' Dorian Gray Big Finish's The Confessions of Dorian Gray Tardis Red x mark.png
Nicholas Briggs' Sherlock Holmes Big Finish's Sherlock Holmes Tardis Red x mark.png
Return of the Repressed's Sigmund Freud Big Finish's The Sigmund Freud Files (they totally implied this in an ad once or something! (?) (!!)) Tardis Red x mark.png
Kerides The Kerides the Thinker series Tardis Red x mark.png
Cinder, Sarkovians The Moments In Between in Seasons of War Tardis Blue check mark.png
Kalkrav Climbing the Mountain in Seasons of War Tardis Blue check mark.png
"Chronosmiths" The Chronosmith Chronicles, per the "Chronosmith" alias established in Seasons of War? Edge case Tardis Red x mark.png
Rachel Edwards, Auteur, et al. 10,000 Dawns Tardis Red x mark.png
Erimem Splinter of Eternity in Master Pieces Tardis Red x mark.png
John Polidori Valour and Vanity (via Wringing Off) Tardis Red x mark.png
Mocata Grange The Breath of God, one of the Titan Sherlock Holmes books Tardis Blue check mark.png
The Brigadier When Times Change… Tardis Red x mark.png
Perdix Seconds Tardis Red x mark.png
The Man in Black See also The Man in Grey Tardis Red x mark.png

Realities[[edit] | [edit source]]

Every Doctor Who story gives us a new picture of the Doctor's reality. Technically speaking, we could create [[The Doctor's reality (Story Name)]] for every story on the wiki which features the Doctor. But the primary question I believe we should be asking in merge-related conversations is "Is it useful to our readers to have separate pages?" In most cases, there's no reason to doubt that a story depicts the same reality as its predecessor, whether that's the previous Virgin New Adventures novel, Monthly Adventures audio, or TV episode.

But there are several notable exceptions preventing us from merging everything into a single The Doctor's reality. When it comes to continuity, tone, and worldview, the Doctor Who universe's many spin-offs and sub-series have usually been more concerned with themselves than each other. For instance, within a series such as The Monthly Adventures, one can expect to find more references to previous audios and the Classic show than the Virgin Decalogs or Doctor Who annuals. As a result, a story's predecessor often simply isn't clear. Is the first Virgin New Adventures novel, Timewyrm: Genesys, best understood as a continuation of the prior TV episode, Survival, or the prior novel(isation), The Curse of Fenric?

The result of this thought process is a discrete number of relatively self-contained chunks of the Doctor's reality, roughly mapping onto the real-world series or sets of series. It's natural that this would be the most helpful to our readers. Sometimes these pieces have ebbed and flowed into each other through shared characters or references; other times, they have gone out of their way to paint each other as separate timelines or universes. While acknowleding that most sources indicate these chunks to be the same reality, covering them separately helps to highlight the ways in which they stand on their own. TheChampionOfTime and MrThermomanPreacher have paved the way for this with the creation of pages like Virgin reality and The Doctor's reality (An Unearthly Child). I've contributed to MrThermomanPreacher's collaborative chart of these "reality" pages.

A rough list of potential and disputed diverging continuities/timelines/universes to keep track of things. Generally speaking, simple alternate timelines caused by clear changes to history (Day of the Daleks etc.) and explicit parallel universes separate from "N-Space" such as Pete's World and the Unbound Universe should not be included here; to see them go to User:Chubby Potato/Sandbox/List of realities, though that's not to say that the realities listed below may not be added there if so desired.

This page is very much a work in progress. Feel free to add or edit. Suggestions or recommendations are welcome.

Name First Appearance Notes
The Doctor's universe TV: An Unearthly Child (1963) The world of which all these realities are differing accounts or alternative versions. Per T:NPOV, each disputed reality has approximately equal claim to representing the "real" account of the Doctor's universe.
Original palimpsest universe NOTVALID: The Pilot Episode (1963) An overwritten reality and potentially the original version of history, suggested by the boy, in which the Doctor was a human who came from "some planet" in the 49th century. (PROSE: Unnatural History)
The Doctor's reality (An Unearthly Child) ("Hartnellverse") TV: An Unearthly Child (1963) The original "continuity" which begins in the very first episode with the First Doctor played by William Hartnell in Totter's Lane. Later developments establish his ability to regenerate, his disputed origin as a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey and the conflicting accounts of incarnations preceding the First Doctor.
John and Gillian's world COMIC: The Klepton Parasites Disputed TV Comic continuity in which "Dr. Who", based on the First Doctor (William Hartnell) then the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), travels with grandchildren John and Gillian.
Yarvelling's reality COMIC: Genesis of Evil Disputed TV Century 21 continuity in which the Daleks humanoid "forefathers" are the blue-skinned Daleks and the Dalek War Machines were created by Yarvelling. Most notably disputed by the introduction of Davros and the Kaleds in Genesis of the Daleks. Potential connections to both the Hartnellverse and the Cushingverse.
Dr. Who's reality (Dr. Who and the Daleks) ("Cushingverse") TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks The alternative continuity home to the human Dr. Who, played by Peter Cushing.[1]
The Doctor's reality (Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks) PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks Disputed Target novelisation continuity in which the Doctor and Susan settled in Barnes Common, along with many other slight or major differences.
"Dalek timeline" TV: Genesis of the Daleks (mentioned only) A potential future in which the Daleks have exterminated all other life, motivating the Time Lords to prevent this from happening by enacting the Genesis Incident.
Genesis timeline TV: Genesis of the Daleks The disputed results of the Fourth Doctor's interference in the Daleks' early history.
2-D universe COMIC: The Iron Legion The reality of the Doctor Who Magazine comic stories.
Virgin reality PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys The reality of the Virgin Books New Adventures, Missing Adventures, and Decalogs.
Braxiatel Collection's revised timeline The divergent continuity of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield series,
Barusa's universe PROSE: The Chronicles of Doctor Who? The universe of the Leekley Bible.
The Doctor's reality (The Eight Doctors) PROSE: The Eight Doctors The reality of the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novels.[2]
Infinity Doctor's reality PROSE: The Infinity Doctors (1998) The unique state of reality home to the Infinity Doctor.
The Doctor's reality (The Curse of Fatal Death) TV: The Curse of Fatal Death (1999) The divergent continuity home to the Ninth Doctor (Rowan Atkinson) and beyond.
Positive-time universe The reality of Big Finish Productions' Monthly Adventures, including Eighth Doctor's travels with Charley Pollard.
Reality (Auton) TV: Auton The reality of the Auton Trilogy.
The Doctor's reality (Scream of the Shalka) NOTVALID: Scream of the Shalka (2003) The divergent continuity home to the Ninth Doctor as played by Richard E Grant.
Auld Mortality's universe AUDIO: Auld Mortality [3]
Cyberverse TV: Real Time A divergent continuity where Cybermen become dominant in the universe, depicted as an alternate reality in PROSE: Spiral Scratch.
The Doctor's reality (The Not-So-Sinister Sponge) The reality of the "Special Occasions" stories in Short Trips and Side Steps, based on the Doctor Who annuals.
Infected timeline (Interference) PROSE: Interference et al. The timeline established by the rewriting of the Third Doctor's death.
War Era universe PROSE: Alien Bodies et al. The War in Heaven.
Post-War universe PROSE: The Burning et al. The reality following the War in Heaven. One of several competing versions of the post-War universe is the Council of Eight's universe.
Pre-Time War universe TV: An Unearthly Child[source needed] The state of reality prior to the Last Great Time War, primarily seen in the "classic series" and spin-off works prior to the introduction of the "new series".
Time War timeline The distinct, fluctuating state of reality during the Last Great Time War. Mostly sealed off from the normal universe by time lock.
Gallifrey's history (The Day of the Doctor) A potential history in which Gallifrey was in fact destroyed at the end of the Time War before history was changed so that it survived in The Day of the Doctor (2013). May or may not be related to that seen in Doctor Who and the Time War.
Post-Time War universe TV: Rose (2005) The state of reality in the "new series" in which the "Ninth Doctor" (Christopher Eccleston) follows the War Doctor, who himself followed the Eighth Doctor. Lasts at least up to the end of the Tenth Doctor's life (the RTD era).
Cracked universe (The Eleventh Hour) TV: The Eleventh Hour (2010) The damaged universe seen throughout Series 5 (the Eleventh Doctor's first series).
Starless world TV: The Big Bang (2010) The last stage of the cracked universe before Big Bang Two.
Rebooted universe (The Big Bang) TV: The Big Bang (2010) The restored universe introduced in the Series 5 finale. Presumably the current state of reality at least as far as the television series is concerned.
Lethbridge-Stewart's universe (The Forgotten Son) PROSE: The Forgotten Son The alternate timeline setting of Candy Jar Books' Lethbridge-Stewart series.
Collapsing Universe PROSE: Blood Heat Second Iteration The setting of Jim Mortimore's "Director's Cut" novels.
Cutaway universe COMIC: Down These Mean Streets A Man Must Go Continuity of Cutaway Comics' Lytton.

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  1. Including not just the theatrical films but also The House on Oldark Moor.
  2. Divided into a countable number of epochs, including the Blonde Sam timeline, The Relic's timeline, and Infected timeline (Interference).
  3. Compare other Doctor Who Unbound universes, such as the Unbound Universe, Parallel universe (Deadline), and particularly Parallel universe (Full Fathom Five), which ties into the main-continuity 2040 timeline (The Nuclear Option) from Short Trips: 2040.