Mini-episode

Mini-episodes, or minisodes, are short episodes of Doctor Who usually released online, in a DVD set or broadcast during charity telethons such as Children in Need and Comic Relief.

The Sarah Jane Adventures was also granted minisodes, making it the only spin-off to do so.

List of Doctor Who mini-episodes

This list compiles most mini-episodes, regardless of this Wiki's decision on validity. The definition of minisode is broad. Such as trailers for The Collection sets are also described as minisodes. So ultimately this list can include any on screen content - be it prequel, intro, commercial, trailer, extra scene, linking material, sketch, in character short, live segment or ident - as long as it isn't full length

"Classic" era

• Disney Time 1975
• Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful
• Merry Christmas Doctor Who
• Step Into the 80's!
• On Through the 80's!
• A Fix with Sontarans
• Untitled
• The Shrink

"Wilderness" era

• Search Out Space
• Police 5: The Master
• UNIT Recruiting Film
• Dimensions in Time
• Time Is Everything
• Introduction to the Night
• The Web of Caves
• Children in Need 2003

Series 2

• Born Again
• Attack of the Graske
• Tardisodes
  • Tardisode 1
  • Tardisode 2
  • Tardisode 3
  • Tardisode 4
  • Tardisode 5
  • Tardisode 6
  • Tardisode 7
  • Tardisode 8
  • Tardisode 9
  • Tardisode 10
  • Tardisode 11
  • Tardisode 12
  • Tardisode 13

Series 4

• Time Crash

The Specials

• Music of the Spheres
• Tonight's the Night
• The Doctor and the Reindeer

Series 5

• Meanwhile in the TARDIS

Series 6

• Dermot and the Doctor
• Space / Time
• Prequel to The Impossible Astronaut
• Prequel to The Curse of the Black Spot
• Brain Trafficking
• Prequel to Let's Kill Hitler
• Prequel to The Wedding of River Song
• Death Is the Only Answer
• The Crash of the Elysium
• The Naked Truth
• Night and the Doctor
  • Good Night
  • Bad Night
  • First Night
  • Last Night
  • Up All Night

Series 7

• Prequel to The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• Good as Gold
• Pond Life
• Prequel to Asylum of the Daleks
• The Making of the Gunslinger
• P.S.
• The Great Detective
• Vastra Investigates
• BAFTA in the TARDIS
• One Born Every Minute
• The Bells of Saint John: A Prequel
• The Battle of Demon's Run: Two Days Later
• She Said, He Said
• Clarence and the Whispermen
• Bodyswap to the Proms
• Clara and the TARDIS
• The Inforarium
• Rain Gods
• Luckily for me, I have a time machine

50th specials

• A Night with the Stars
• The Night of the Doctor
• The History of the Doctor
• The Last Day
• Cinema Introduction

Series 8

• Prequel to Deep Breath

Series 9

• Prologue
• The Doctor's Meditation

Series 10

• Friend from the Future
• Looking for Pudsey

Series 11

• 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
• The Doctor needs YOUR help!

Series 12

• The Defence Drones

Series 13

• Welcome to the TARDIS...
• 2020: The Movie
• The Flux is Coming...

2022 Specials

• Acquaintances

2023 Specials

• Comic Relief

Lockdown mini-episodes

The following are the on screen mini-episodes of the Lockdown watchalongs.

• Strax Saves the Day
• Message from the Doctor
• The Raggedy Doctor by Amelia Pond
• United we stand, 2m apart
• Rory's Story
• Farewell, Sarah Jane
• Sven and the Scarf
• Pompadour
• The Zygon Isolation
• The Descendants of Pompeii
• Fear Is a Superpower
• Doctors Assemble!
• The Secret of Novice Hame
• The Best of Days
• U.N.I.T. On Call
• The Genuine Article

The Collection mini-episodes

The term of "mini-episodes" was also used by Pete McTighe in DWM 571 to refer to the short live-action Doctor Who stories whose creation he oversaw to accompany trailers for The Collection, noting that "calling them trailers feels a bit reductive". Some of these shorts broke the fourth wall while others were set in the Doctor Who universe. Contrary to traditional mini-episodes, these naturally did not tie in with the then-current season of Doctor Who on TV, but rather caught up with some element of the season being released in a Collection box-set at the time of release of the mini-episode.

• Jovanka Airlines
• Galactic Glitter
• Hello Boys!
• The Trial
• The Promise
• Home Assistant
• Return of the Autons
• 24 Carat
• Risen
• The Eternal Mystery
• The Storyteller
• Defenders of Earth

2022, for the first time, saw a new, recut edition of a previously released minisode, A Fix with Sontarans.

• A Fix with Sontarans

List of The Sarah Jane Adventures mini-episodes

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The Sarah Jane Adventures Special

• Clyde Introduces...
• Introduction to SJA
• Attic Padz
• Rani and Clyde
• Chris Meets...