Doctor Who spin-offs

Since its beginning in 1963, Doctor Who has spawned a number of spin-offs. These can be separated into two distinct categories: productions officially licensed by the BBC, and other productions that contain a monster or element of Doctor Who licensed from the original holder without BBC involvement.

Officially licensed by the BBC

Television

K9 and Company

Main article: K9 and Company

Torchwood

Main article: Torchwood (TV series)

The Sarah Jane Adventures

Main article: The Sarah Jane Adventures

Class

Main article: Class (TV series)

Prose

Souvenir Press Ltd

• ‘’Dalek’’ books

World Distributors Ltd

• Dalek annuals

Target Books

• The Companions of Doctor Who

Virgin Books

• The New Adventures (1991-97)
• Missing Adventures
• Decalogs

BBC Books

• Short Trips
• The Legends of Ashildr
• The Legends of River Song
• The Missy Chronicles

Telos Publishing

• Doctor Who novellas

Panini Comics

• ‘’The Paternoster Gang Investigates’’

Audio

Big Finish

Main article: Big Finish Doctor Who audio spin-offs

BBC Audio

• The Nest Cottage Chronicles

Other Doctor Who spin offs

Beginning in 1987 with the release of Wartime by Reeltime Pictures, a number of professionally produced spin-off films and audio dramas have been produced. As noted above, these differ from BBC and Big Finish productions in that they usually only feature characters or monsters not owned by the BBC, but rather licensed from their creators. Some spin-offs are original works using original character strongly suggested by characters in Doctor Who (such as The Stranger). In many cases, original cast members from Doctor Who reprised their TV roles for these films and several involved behind-the-scenes veterans of the series (for example, Christopher Barry, who co-directed the very first Daleks story in 1963-64, directed Downtime).

A number of writers and actors involved in these productions later went on to work with fully licensed Doctor Who spinoffs such as the Big Finish Productions audio dramas, and even on the revived Doctor Who series itself when it returned to TV in 2005 (most notably Nicholas Briggs and Mark Gatiss). By way of comparison, these spin-off productions, often classified as fan films, are in spirit similar to the professionally made fan films based upon the Star Trek franchise that began to emerge in the early 2000s when the rights holders for Star Trek relaxed their restrictions; unlike the Doctor Who-related productions, however, no restrictions on character use have been imposed.

Video

Reeltime Pictures

• Wartime
• Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
• Downtime
• Mindgame Saga
• Dæmos Rising
• White Witch of Devil's End

BBV Productions

• Auton Trilogy
• P.R.O.B.E.
• Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?
• Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough

Metal Mutt Productions

• K9

Audio

BBV Productions

• Adventures in a Pocket Universe
• Zygon
• Krynoid
• Sontarans
• Rutans
• Wirrn
• The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind
• The Faction Paradox Protocols
• I Scream
• The Quality of Mercy

Magic Bullet Productions

• The True History of Faction Paradox
• Kaldor City

BBC Radio 4

• Imaginary Boys

Bafflegab Productions

• Vince Cosmos: Glam Rock Detective

Prose

Sparrow Books

• The Adventures of K9

Virgin Books

• The New Adventures (1997-99)

Mad Norwegian Press

• Faction Paradox

Telos Publishing

• Time Hunter
• Olive Hawthorne and the Dæmons of Devil's End

Obverse Books

• Iris Wildthyme
• Faction Paradox
• Señor 105 & the Elements of Danger
• The City of the Saved
• The Casebook of the Manleigh Halt Irregulars

Thebes Publishing

• Erimem

Candy Jar Books

• Lethbridge-Stewart
• The Lucy Wilson Mysteries

Snowbooks Ltd

• Iris Wildthyme novel trilogy
• Fellowship of the Ink

Comic

Marvel UK

• Free-Fall Warriors

Image Comics

• Faction Paradox

Graveyard Shift Comics

• The Forge

Comeuppance Comics

• Miranda

Lucky Comics

• Devil's End: The Adventures of Olive Hawthorne

Non-fiction spin-offs

BBC

Since the revival of the Doctor Who franchise in 2005, several ongoing non-fiction series have been commissioned to supplement the main programmes. All feature behind-the-scenes documentary coverage of production, with the exception of Totally Doctor Who, which also featured an animated serial, The Infinite Quest.

• Doctor Who Confidential (2005-11)
• Totally Doctor Who (2006-07)
• Torchwood Declassified (2006-11)
• Doctor Who Extra (2014-15)
• The Fan Show (2015-18)
• Inside Look (2017)
• Closer Look (2018)
• Access All Areas (2018-19)

Reeltime Pictures

• Myth Makers (1985-2016)

Mad Norwegian Press

• AHistory (2006-present)
• About Time (2006-present)

Obverse Books

• The Black Archive (2016-present)

Other

Devious

Devious is an incomplete privately made fan film notable for featuring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor in his final known performance in the role. Audio of Pertwee was reused by Big Finish Productions for the audio drama Zagreus. In 2009, a 12-minute excerpt from the production, featuring the extant footage of Pertwee, was released by BBC Video with the DVD release of The War Games. Notwithstanding a few Reeltime-produced comedy skits included in previous DVD sets, this makes Devious to date the only fan/unofficial spin-off to actually be released by the BBC, the only other fan production to feature a valid Doctor is Gene Genius which features Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and Sophie Aldred as Ace; however, as it was not officially licensed by the BBC, this wiki does not cover it.

Non-DWU spin-offs

Some series feature characters and/or elements that originated in a Doctor Who universe story but do not pass this wiki's four little rules and as such are not covered.

Obverse Books

• The Periodic Adventures of Señor 105 (featuring Señor 105)

Radio Static

• The Minister of Chance (featuring The Minister of Chance)

Big Finish

• The Confessions of Dorian Gray (featuring Dorian Gray)
• Vienna (featuring Vienna Salvatori)