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. They can also serve as intros to other stories and be promotional videos.
The Sarah Jane Adventures was also granted minisodes, making it the only spin-off to do so.
List of Doctor Who mini-episodes
"Classic" era
- Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful
- Merry Christmas Doctor Who
- Step Into the 80's!
- On Through the 80's!
- A Fix with Sontarans
- Famine Appeal
- 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 1
Series 2
Series 4
The Specials
Series 5
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
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
Series 8
Series 9
Series 10
Series 11
Series 12
Series 13
2022 Specials
2023 Specials
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.
