Who is Doctor Who? (tie-in website)

Who is Doctor Who?
Main character(s):	Clive Finch, Mickey Smith, David Roberts
Main setting:	Earth, 2005-2007
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC
Developer:	Sequence
Editor:	James Goss
Writer:	BBC webteam Joseph Lidster
Producer:	Rob Francis
Release details
Release date:	24 March 2005 - 24 June 2006
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Who is Doctor Who?, later titled Defending the Earth!, was a website released on 24 March 2005 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.

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.

Contents

#	Source	Main character(s)	Featuring	Release Date	Notes
Series One
1	Have You Seen This Man?	Clive Finch	Ninth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Mike Yates, Arthur Dent, Peri Brown, Alastair Fergus, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk	24 March 2005	A series of BBC-approved user-generated flash fiction, about fictional anecdotes of people who met the Doctor.
2	Dummy Massacre	Mickey Smith	Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk	27 March 2005	The first short story on the website to feature Mickey Smith. Set in the aftermath of the Dummy Massacre.
3	The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre		Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Auton Mickey, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk	3 April 2005	This short story reveals more information about the Dummy Massacre.
4	Rose sighting confirmed		Charles Dickens, Joseph Green, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk	10 April 2005	This short story coincided with The Unquiet Dead.
5	Alien landing confirmed		Space pig, squidbaby23 readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk	17 April 2005	This short story coincided with Aliens of London.
6	Hoax This!		Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk	24 April 2005	This story coincided with World War Three and features the UNIT website.
7	Henry Van Statten		Henry van Statten, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk	30 April 2005	This story coincided with Dalek.
8	Essay Competition		Rose Tyler, Ninth Doctor, Adam Mitchell	8 May 2005	This story coincided with Dalek and Father's Day.
9	Rose's Dad?		Rose Tyler, Ninth Doctor, Jackie Tyler, Stuart Hoskins, Sarah Clark	15 May 2005	This story coincided with Father's Day.
10	Amarillo Hoax			22 May 2005	This story coincided with The Empty Child.
11	Hitler's Last Secret?			29 May 2005	This story coincided with The Doctor Dances.
12	Meltdown			5 June 2005	This story coincided with Boom Town.
13	World Saved. Who Cares?			15 June 2005	This story coincided with Bad Wolf.
14	Mars			21 December 2005	This story coincided with The Christmas Invasion.
Series Two
15	Lifeboat Museum	Mickey Smith		April 2006	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	Mickey Smith		29 April 2006	This duo of stories coincided with School Reunion.
20	Defeat Deffry	Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk	Brother Lassar
21	Tick Tock	Mickey Smith		6 May 2006	This duo of stories coincided with The Girl in the Fireplace.
22	Clockwork Quest	Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
23	Secret Code	Ricky Smith	Mickey Smith	13 May 2006	This duo of stories coincided with Rise of the Cybermen
24	Cybus Spy	Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk
25	Operation: Paris	Mickey Smith		20 May 2006	This duo of stories coincided with The Age of Steel.
26	Airships	Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk	Mickey Smith
27	The Wire	A friend, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk	The Wire	27 May 2006	This story coincided with The Idiot's Lantern.
28	Take the Test			June 2006	TBA
29	Art Attack		Tenth Doctor	24 June 2006	This story coincided with Fear Her.

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, 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.
  • The BBC's ownership of the domain is set to expire on 29 June 2023.
• 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.

External links

• Who is Doctor Who? via the Wayback Machine
• Defending the Earth! via the Wayback Machine
• Defending the Earth! (all stories accessible) via the Wayback Machine