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
"Classic" era
- Season 17 Launch Trailer
- 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
- Analysis Lessons
- 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
- Doctor Who Proms Film
- 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
2023 specials
An Adventure in Space and Time: Reconstructions
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.
