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.

"Classic" era

• Disney Time 1975
• Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful
• Merry Christmas Doctor Who
• A Fix with Sontarans
• Untitled
• The Shrink

"Wilderness" era

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

Series 2

• Born Again
• Attack of the Graske
• Tardisodes

Series 4

• Time Crash

The Specials

• Music of the Spheres
• Tonight's the Night

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
• Children in Need 2011
• 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

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

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...