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|"[[Downtime (home video)|]]"
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|[[Bafflegab Productions]]
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|"[[Mystery Lady (audio story)|]]"
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|''[[The Minister of Chance (series)|]]''
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|[[Radio Static]] (audio series), [[Arcbeatle Press]] ([[The Minister of Chance (novelisation)|novelisation]])
|[[Radio Static]] (audio series), [[Arcbeatle Press]] ([[The Minister of Chance (novelisation)|novelisation]])
|[2011 (releases)|]], [[2022 (releases)|]]
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|"[[Children of the Circus (audio story)|]]" (Children of the Circus  (novelisation)|novelisation)
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|[[Candy Jar UNIT series|Candy Jar Books ''UNIT'' series]]
|[[Candy Jar UNIT series|Candy Jar ''UNIT'' series]]
|[[UNIT]]
|[[UNIT]]
|Anthologies
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|[[Candy Jar Books]]
|[[Candy Jar Books]]
|[[2021 (releases)|]]
|[[2021 (releases)|]]
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|[[Candy Jar ''Counter-Measures'' series]]
|[[Counter-Measures]]
|Novels
|[[Candy Jar Books
|[[4 January (releases)|]] [[2022 (releases)|]]
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|''[[Erimem (series)|]]''
|[[Erimem]]
|Novels
|[[Thebes Publishing]]
|[[9 June (releases)|]] [[2015 (releases)|]]
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|[[The Essential Book of K9 (anthology)|]]
|[[K9]]
|Anthology
|[[Meteoric Books]]
|[[July (releases)|]] [[2015 (releases)|]]
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|[[Megabytes (anthology)|]]
|[[K9]]
|Anthology
|[[Meteoric Books]]
|[[20 December (releases)|]] [[2020 (releases)|]]
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|[[Cwej: The Series]]
|[[Chris Cwej]]
|Anthologies, Novels
|[[Arcbeatle Press]]
|[[19 May (releases)|]] [[2020 (releases)|]]
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|[[Cyberon (anthology)|]]
|[[Preternatural Research Burea]]
|Anthology
|[[Arcbeatle Press]]
|[[21 September (releases)|]] [[2020 (releases)|]]
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|''[[Auteur (series)|]]''
|[[Auteur]]
|Short stories
|[[Arcbeatle Press]]
|[[29 October (releases)|]] [[2023 (releases)|]]
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|''[[Coloth (series)]]''
|[[Coloth]]
|Short stories
|[[Arcbeatle Press]]
|[[29 October (releases)|]] [[2023 (releases)|]]
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|"[[Fellowship of Ink (novel)|]]
|Concepts from {{cs|Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)}}
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|[[Snowbooks Ltd]]
|[[1 June (releases)|]] [[2017 (releases)|]]
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|"[[Golden Age (novel)|]]
|Concepts from {{cs|Against Nature (novel)}}
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|[[Ce Actl]]
|[[29 November (releases)|]] [[2019 (releases)|]]
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|"[[The Bloodletters (novel)|]]
|[[Gargelspike]], among many others
|Novella
|Self-published by [[Ryan Fogarty]]
|[[1 May (releases)|]] [[2020 (releases)|]]
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|"[[Wringing Off (novel)|]]
|[[Theo Possible]]
|Novella
|Self-published by [[Ryan Fogarty]]
|[[29 November (releases)|]] [[2020 (releases)|]]
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|''[[Novelisations in Time & Space]]''
|Various between entries
|Novelisations
|[[BBV Productions
|[[2021 (releases)|]]
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|''[[The Daleks]]''
|[[Dalek]]]s
|Comics, Audios, Short stories
|[[Century 21 Productions]] et al.
|[[30 January (releases)|]] [[1965 (releases)|]]
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|''[[Free-Fall Warriors (comic series)|]]''
|[[Freefall Warriors]]
|Comics
|[[Mavrel Comics]]
|[[1985 (releases)|]]
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|''[[The Forge (comic series)|]]''
|[[The Forge]]
|Comics
|[[Graveyard Shifts Comics]]
|[[12 November (releases)|]] [[2005 (releases)|]]
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|[[Devil's End: The Adventures of Olive Hawthorne]]
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|[[Lucky Comics]]
|[[5 May (releases)|]] [[2015 (releases)|]]
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|''[[Lytton (series)|]]''
|[[Gustave Lytton]]
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|[[Cutawy Comics]]
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|''[[Omega (series)|]]''
|[[Omega]]
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|[[Cutway Comics]]
|[[January (releases)|]] [[2021 (releases)|]]
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|''[[The Happiness Patrol (series)|]]''
|[[Happiness Patrol]]
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|[[Cutaway Comics]]
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|''[[Gods and Monsters (comic series)|]]''
|[[Sutekh]], [[Tharils]]
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|[[Cutaway Comics]]
|[[2023 (releases)|]]
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|[[Cutaway Comics]]
|[[23 August (releases)|]] [[2021 (releases)|]]
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|[[Cutaway Comics]]
|[[23 August (releases)|]] [[2021 (releases)|]]
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'Doctor Who'' franchise in 2005, several ongoing non-fiction series have been commissioned to supplement the main programmes. All primarily featured behind-the-scenes documentary coverage of production, but some also served as the venue for the release of some new licensed ''Doctor Who'' fiction: ''[[Totally Doctor Who]]'' included a serialised form of the animated serial ''[[The Infinite Quest (TV story)|The Infinite Quest]]'', and ''[[The Fan Show]]'' frequently included more-or-less developed humorous skits.
'Doctor Who'' franchise in 2005, several ongoing non-fiction series have been commissioned to supplement the main programmes. All primarily featured behind-the-scenes documentary coverage of production, but some also served as the venue for the release of some new licensed ''Doctor Who'' fiction: ''[[Totally Doctor Who]]'' included a serialised form of the animated serial ''[[The Infinite Quest (TV story)|The Infinite Quest]]'', and ''[[The Fan Show]]'' frequently included more-or-less developed humorous skits.

Revision as of 21:10, 4 March 2024

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Long after leaving televised Doctor Who, K9 was the subject of new stories unbound by the Doctor or the BBC — even on television!

Since its beginning in 1963, Doctor Who has spawned a number of spin-offs that do not feature the Doctor as the main character, or, indeed at all.

These can be separated into two distinct categories: productions officially licensed by the BBC, whose lack of use of the Doctor or their TARDIS are a stylistic choice; and ones created without BBC involvement, grown around an element of the DWU owned by another party.

While some series spin off directly from a Doctor Who-branded work, spinoffs can themselves engender spinoffs. The sum total of Doctor Who's licensed "descendance", provided they pass our four little rules of validity, comprise the DWU as we define it.

Pete McTighe stated in DWM 571 that he viewed each of his minisodes packaged with trailers for The Collection as "the opportunity for a brand-new Doctor Who spin-off (…) albeit on a budget of 59p", although these minisodes were still released under the Doctor Who name rather than having their own series names.

Officially licensed by the BBC

Television

K9 and Company

Main article: K9 and Company (TV series)

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

World Distributors Ltd

Target Books

BBC Books

Panini Comics

Audio

Silver Fist/Who Dares

Big Finish

Main article: Big Finish Doctor Who audio spin-offs

BBC Audio

Comics

Marvel UK

Main article: DWM backup comic stories

Multi-media

Home video

Officially licensed from individual copyright holders

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 BBC 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. However, unlike the Star Trek fan films, all of the productions listed below were fully licensed.

Television

Metal Mutt Productions

Video

Reeltime Pictures

BBV Productions

Audio

BBV Productions

Big Finish Productions

Magic Bullet Productions

BBC Radio 4

Bafflegab Productions

Storytel

Radio Static

AUK Studios

Prose

Sparrow Books

Virgin Books

Mad Norwegian Press

Allison & Busby

Random Static

Telos Publishing

Big Finish Productions

Obverse Books

The Berkeley Publishing Group

Firefly Press

Candy Jar Books

Thebes Publishing

Meteoric Books

Arcbeatle Press

Snowbooks Ltd

Ce Acatl

Ryan Fogarty

BBV Productions

Oak Tree Books & Chinbeard Books

Comics

TV Century 21

Marvel UK

Image Comics

Graveyard Shift Comics

Comeuppance Comics

Meteoric Books

Lucky Comics

Telos Publishing

Cutaway Comics

'Doctor Who franchise in 2005, several ongoing non-fiction series have been commissioned to supplement the main programmes. All primarily featured behind-the-scenes documentary coverage of production, but some also served as the venue for the release of some new licensed Doctor Who fiction: Totally Doctor Who included a serialised form of the animated serial The Infinite Quest, and The Fan Show frequently included more-or-less developed humorous skits.

Reeltime Pictures

Mad Norwegian Press

Obverse Books

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/trailer from the production, featuring the extant footage of Pertwee, and which cannot really be deemed a complete narrative in its own right, 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. It is not, however, by far, the only unlicensed spin-off project to have featured a DWU actor returning to their original part in an unauthorised context.

Non-valid and non-covered 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 considered valid; in some cases, their connection to Doctor Who is even so tenuous that they are not even covered on the Wiki at all.

BBV

Big Finish

Epic Comics

Snowbooks Ltd

Bafflegab Productions

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The BBC allowed for several characters, such as Sarah Jane Smith and Victoria Waterfield, to appear in the film.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The BBC authorised the use of Liz Shaw in the P.R.O.B.E. home video releases so long as they received an acknowledgement, but had no direct involvement with the production of the films. (REF: DWM 219) This license does not extend P.R.O.B.E. releases in other media, such as audio and prose, which have avoided using the character, and have only referenced her indirectly, for example through her BBV-owned married name of "Director Haggard".
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Spin-offs and connected series
 
Licensed by the BBC
TV
PROSE
Target Books
BBC Books
Panini Comics
AUDIO
Silver Fist/
Who Dares
Big Finish
BBC Audio
COMIC
Marvel UK
HOMEVID
BBV Productions
 
Licensed from copyright holders
TV
Metal Mutt
Productions
HOMEVID
Reeltime Pictures
BBV Productions
AUDIO
BBV Productions
(Audio Adventures
in Time & Space)
Magic Bullet
Productions
BBC Radio 4
Bafflegab
Productions
Storytel
Radio Static
AUK Studios
PROSE
Souvenir Press
World Distributors
Sparrow Books
Virgin Books
The New Adventures (1997-99) • Decalogs (1997)
Mad Norwegian
Press
Faction Paradox (2002-06, 13)
Allison & Busby
Random Static
Telos Publishing
Novelisations
Big Finish
New Worlds
Obverse Books
Obverse
Quarterly
Obverse
Sextet
Simon and
Schuster
Headline Review
The Berkley
Publishing Group
Candy Jar Books
Thebes Publishing
Meteoric Books
Arcbeatle Press
Snowbooks Ltd
Lethe Press
Salt Publishing
Harper Collins
Self-published
Mango
Ce Acatl
Trinitite Team
Titan Books
Titan Sherlock
Holmes books
Oak Tree Books &
Chinbeard Books
Odd Tales Productions
The Cheshire House
Overmorrow Publishing
COMIC
Souvenir Press
World Distributors
TV Century 21
Marvel UK
Image Comics
Graveyard Shift
Comics
Comeuppance
Comics
Self-published
Meteoric Books
Lucky Comics
Telos Publishing
Cutaway Comics
Unlikely Heroes Studios
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