User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20200517150418/@comment-6032121-20200517165259

I mean, they are stories, just short ones. They're stories to about the same extent as Tardisodes, or Prequel (The Wedding of River Song), though with more fourth-wall-breaking in the case of United we stand. In fact, there's an ongoing inclusion debate for Message from the Doctor in particular.

(The reason Friend from the Future is invalid is actually that it was decided that it was, weirdly, a deleted scene from The Pilot, of sorts; details of the editing were changed when footage was incorporated into the finished product of The Pilot. But minisodes and prequels can veryu much be valid stories. And even when you've got stories too promotional to be valid stories, that doesn't stop them being stories, e.g. Jo Grant Returns.)

I'm not sure why we shouldn't put them on the "BBC" list; they are by the BBC, after all, especially United we stand, which we know from the last DWM was commissioned by the BBC rather than pitched to them by Chris Chibnall.