Doctor Who universe
The Doctor Who universe, or Whoniverse, is a term used by fans, and increasingly the mainstream press, to describe the shared fictional universe in which the stories of Doctor Who, K9 and Company, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and K9 take place.
Integrating elements into canon
Fans have tended to not accept older elements, such as material presented in the Doctor Who Annual, the comics published in TV Action into canon. The theatrical films Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD, which portray a Human "Dr. Who" played by Peter Cushing are generally considered not canon, but a number of attempts have appeared to explain them away. The short story The Five O'Clock Shadow, the universe of the Dalek movies is described to be a sort of fairy tale that the First Doctor tells to Susan. Thus, while the Dalek movies are not set in the Whoniverse, some writers have chosen to consider them loosely canonical.
Likewise, the comic characters of John and Gillian are not generally regarded as inhabitants of the Whoniverse, but they have been made canonical by later writers' efforts to explain them as products of the Land of Fiction or dreams of the Eighth Doctor. (DWM: The Land of Happy Endings)
See also
- Dr. Who (Land of Fiction)
- Doctor Who Universe in other continuities
- Inconsistencies and Retcons
- Canon
