Who is Doctor Who?, later titled Defending the Earth!, was a website released on 24 March 2005[1] to coincide with the the 2005 series of Doctor Who, one of several websites created at that time. On 24 March, the Doctor Who website added a link to Who is Doctor Who?, visible as "Lies", after the site updated to focus on Rose.[1]
Everything on this website is told from an in-universe perspective, as if you were reading the very pages on the in-universe website itself.
In late September 2006, the Defending the Earth! website was nominated for a Y Design Award at the London Design Festival.[3]
Contents
| # |
Source |
Main character(s) |
Featuring |
Release Date |
Notes
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| Series One
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| 1
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Have You Seen This Man?
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Clive Finch
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Ninth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Mike Yates, Arthur Dent, Peri Brown, Alastair Fergus, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
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24 March 2005
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A series of BBC-approved user-generated flash fiction, about fictional anecdotes of people who met the Doctor.
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| 2
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Dummy Massacre
|
Mickey Smith
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Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
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27 March 2005
|
The first short story on the website to feature Mickey Smith. Set in the aftermath of the Dummy Massacre.
|
| 3
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The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre
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Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Auton Mickey, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
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3 April 2005
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This short story reveals more information about the Dummy Massacre.
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| 4
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Rose sighting confirmed
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Charles Dickens, Joseph Green, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
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10 April 2005
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This short story coincided with The Unquiet Dead.
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| 5
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Alien landing confirmed
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Space pig, squidbaby23 readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
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17 April 2005
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This short story coincided with Aliens of London.
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| 6
|
Hoax This!
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Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
|
24 April 2005
|
This story coincided with World War Three and features the UNIT website.
|
| 7
|
Henry Van Statten
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Henry van Statten, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
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30 April 2005
|
This story coincided with Dalek.
|
| 8
|
Essay Competition
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Rose Tyler, Ninth Doctor, Adam Mitchell
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8 May 2005
|
This story coincided with Dalek and Father's Day.
|
| 9
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Rose's Dad?
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Rose Tyler, Ninth Doctor, Jackie Tyler, Stuart Hoskins, Sarah Clark
|
15 May 2005
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This story coincided with Father's Day.
|
| 10
|
Amarillo Hoax
|
|
22 May 2005
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This story coincided with The Empty Child.
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| 11
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Hitler's Last Secret?
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29 May 2005
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This story coincided with The Doctor Dances.
|
| 12
|
Meltdown
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5 June 2005
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This story coincided with Boom Town.
|
| 13
|
World Saved. Who Cares?
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15 June 2005
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This story coincided with Bad Wolf.
|
| 14
|
Mars
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21 December 2005
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This story coincided with The Christmas Invasion.
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| Series Two
|
| 15
|
Lifeboat Museum
|
Mickey Smith
|
|
April 2006
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This story is the first webcast on the now-rebranded Defending the Earth! website.
|
| 16
|
Security Bot
|
|
This story is the first game on the now-rebranded Defending the Earth! website.
|
| 17
|
Torchwood House
|
|
22 April 2006
|
This duo of stories coincided with Tooth and Claw.
|
| 18
|
Satellites
|
Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
|
|
| 19
|
Deffry Vale School
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Mickey Smith
|
|
29 April 2006
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This duo of stories coincided with School Reunion.
|
| 20
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Defeat Deffry
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Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
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Brother Lassar
|
| 21
|
Tick Tock
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Mickey Smith
|
|
6 May 2006
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This duo of stories coincided with The Girl in the Fireplace.
|
| 22
|
Clockwork Quest
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Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
|
|
| 23
|
Secret Code
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Ricky Smith
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Mickey Smith
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13 May 2006
|
This duo of stories coincided with Rise of the Cybermen
|
| 24
|
Cybus Spy
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Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
|
|
| 25
|
Operation: Paris
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Mickey Smith
|
|
20 May 2006
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This duo of stories coincided with The Age of Steel.
|
| 26
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Airships
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Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
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Mickey Smith
|
| 27
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The Wire
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A friend, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
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The Wire
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27 May 2006
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This story coincided with The Idiot's Lantern.
|
| 28
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Take the Test
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|
June 2006
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TBA
|
| 29
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Art Attack
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Tenth Doctor
|
24 June 2006
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This story coincided with Fear Her.
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Notes
- While series one of Doctor Who was being broadcast, each short story was released on the homepage of the site, before being moved to a subdirectory. For example: "/index1.shtml". The number would change for each story, so PROSE: Dummy Massacre, the second short story on the site, would be under "/index2.shtml", and so on. By 2 April 2006,[4] all of the stories had been filed under a subdirectory, and a new home page was released, and periodically accompanied by short, two-part webcasts. Unfortunately, these seem to be no longer accessible, and there are seemingly no copies online. The webcasts ceased to be released after Mickey's departure in TV: The Age of Steel, with only games being released afterwards.
- Along the span of time in which the website was updated with new prose material, there were several fictional "webmasters": Clive Finch, who appeared in one story until his death in TV: Rose; Mickey Smith, who appeared in eighteen stories, until his departure in TV: The Age of Steel; and David Roberts, identified only as "a friend", who appeared in three stories, but the site was left abandonded after the release of Art Attack, leaving David's fate unresolved.
- The website domain seems to have been registered by the BBC on 29 June 2004.[5]
- The BBC's ownership of the domain is set to expire on 29 June 2023.[5]
- The illustration of the Ninth Doctor at Krakatoa was mentioned to still be available to view on whoisdoctorwho.co.uk in Doctor Who Magazine's The Fact of Fiction article about Inferno.[6]
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