The Fan Show
Doctor Who: The Fan Show was a YouTube series on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel. It was hosted by Christel Dee and later also with Luke Spillane. Every week, they talked about Doctor Who and its many spin-offs with a special guest, usually a fan, although interviews with a member of the cast or crew were not unheard of. Some episodes also featured, or entirely consisted of, in-character skits, usually of a parodical nature.
The pilot, Meet Christel, was first released on YouTube on 8 May 2015 on the especially-created Doctor Who: The Fan Show YouTube channel. All following episodes were released directly on the parent Doctor Who channel, with the exception of the minisode Incoming Transmission, a prequel to The Finale (the finale of Season 1), which was instead released on Facebook.
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Series 1[[edit] | [edit source]]
How You Know You're a Doctor Who Fan[[edit] | [edit source]]
An element of The Fan Show in its first series was adding to the list of "How You Know You're a Doctor Who Fan".
- 27: You talk in episode titles (Doctor Who Titles Challenge)
- 42: You Vote in the Universal Song Contest (The Universal Song Contest & Symphonic Spectacular!)
- 137: You Underscore Your Life With Murray Gold (The Universal Song Contest & Symphonic Spectacular!)
- 173: Doctor Who Music Is Dancing Music (The Universal Song Contest & Symphonic Spectacular!)
| # | Name | Subject | Interviewed | Skit | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Meet Christel | – | Christel Dee | Christel passes a mug of tea through the screen to a watching Doctor Who fan, then later asks for its return. | 8 May 2015 |
| 1 | Zygons & Osgood In Series 9! | Zygons, Osgood, Kate Stewart, Rufus Hound, Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular | – | The Old Doctor Who Monsters' Home | 8 May 2015 |
| 2 | Doctor Who Titles Challenge | – | – | Christel and Thomas Rees-Kaye use as many Doctor Who episode titles as possible to answer where the toilets are. | 15 May 2015 |
| 3 | The Magician's Apprentice: What We Know So Far | All known about The Magician's Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar, and news about Maisie Williams | Pete Lannister & Gendry Temple-Noble in a sports news-style sketch | Player profiles on Maisie Williams and Mark Gatiss, and "player transfers" between franchises | 15 May 2015 |
| 4 | The Universal Song Contest & Symphonic Spectacular! | The Doctor Who Fan Orchestra, Legs Nose Robinson, and other Doctor Who-inspired musical groups; Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular | Crispy Pro on Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular in Australia | The Universal Song Contest | 22 May 2015 |
| 5 | We Need You! - San Diego Comic Con | Plans for San Diego Comic-Con 2015 | – | – | 27 May 2015 |
| 6 | Doctor Who is Invading The World! | Mumbai Comic-Con | Indian fans on what they love about Doctor Who | If Doctor Who was a Disney comedy: The Princess and the Doctor | 29 May 2015 |
| 7 | The Doctor Who Festival | Doctor Who Festival | – | Luke Spillane looks for Christel, who expects more than she should for the Doctor Who Festival. | 4 June 2015 |
| 8 | Meeting Doctor Who Cosplayers | Cosplay | Various cosplayers at MCM London Comic-Con | – | 5 June 2015 |
| 9 | Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who | Dr Marek Kukula
Kezia Newson |
– | 12 June 2015 | |
| 10 | Full Interview with Dr Marek Kukula | The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who by Simon Guerrier and Dr Marek Kukula | Dr Marek Kukula | – | 12 June 2015 |
| 11 | Stealing Series 9 Scripts | Everything known about Doctor Who series 9 | – | Christel enters Steven Moffat's secret writing layer to steal the series 9 scripts. | 19 June 2015 |
| 12 | Christel Gets Caught! | – | – | Christel's caught in Steven Moffat's cabinet | 19 June 2015 |
| 13 | Doctor Who Minecraft | Minecraft Doctor Who rollercoaster
Ben's work in Minecraft |
Nuro and River
Ben (A&V Artwork) |
Christel enters the TARDIS only to find herself in a Minecraft world. She lands on Minecrafia, where she goes on the rollercoaster. | 26 June 2015 |
| 14 | Minecraft Rollercoaster Full Interview | Minecraft Doctor Who rollercoaster | Nuro and River | – | 26 June 2015 |
| 15 | Fanwatch | Fan behaviour | "Michaela Traken", "Chris Akhaten" and "Nigel Voord-Karabaxos" | In a mock nature documentary, the three describe types of human fans, noting their common behaviours. | 3 July 2015 |
| 16 | We've Landed At Comic-Con! | San Diego Comic-Con announcement | – | – | 7 July 2015 |
| 17 | First Look At LEGO Dimensions Gameplay | LEGO Dimensions trailer and gameplay | Louis Moffat, Anthony Carboni | – | 9 July 2015 |
| 18 | Comic-Con Reacts to Series 9 | Series 9 trailer | Doctor Who fans at San Diego Comic-Con | – | 10 July 2015 |
| 19 | Doctor Who Fan Meet-Up | What fans love about Doctor Who | Doctor Who fans at San Diego Comic-Con | – | 13 July 2015 |
| 20 | EXCLUSIVE Behind Wholock And More | Fan videos Wholock, Rain, 50th Anniversary Trailer | "John Smith" | – | 17 July 2015 |
| 21 | Peter Capaldi On Being A Doctor Who Fan | Peter Capaldi as a Doctor Who fan | Peter Capaldi | – | 24 July 2015 |
| 22 | Charlieissocoollike In The TARDIS | The Doctor's TARDIS and the roundels | Charlie McDonnell | A Time Lady resembling Christel tries selling Charlie the TARDIS | 31 July 2015 |
| 23 | Behind Doctor Puppet | Doctor Puppet and the process of stop-motion animation | Alisa Stern | The Socktor interviews Alisa Stern. | 7 August 2015 |
| 24 | Doctor Who Comics Day! | Second annual Doctor Who Comics Day: 15 August 2015
Guide to Doctor Who comics Comic book art production |
– | 14 August 2015 | |
| 25 | Meet Michelle "Missy" Gomez | Missy | Michelle Gomez | – | 21 August 2015 |
| 26 | Jenna Coleman On What It Takes To Be A Companion | Clara Oswald | Jenna Coleman | UNIT Employment Training Series: Health and Safety with Captain Derek Latimer (Chris Thomson), including how to recognise the Doctor | 28 August 2015 |
| 27 | Millennium FX Makeover & Doctor Who Festival Updates | – | 4 September 2015 | ||
| 28 | How To Make A TARDIS Cake | How to make a TARDIS Battenburg cake | Edd Kimber | – | 11 September 2015 |
| 29 | The Finale | – | A Time Lord comes to warn Christel of the future where The Fan Show "becomes self-aware, destroys other Doctor Who-related stuff, and triggers the end of the universe itself". She has to go back in time to change the show's development. The Moment gives her two iPhone wires, that if touched, would erase The Fan Show from history. The show rewinds. | 18 September 2015 |
Series 2[[edit] | [edit source]]
Series 2 introduced a new format, and mostly focused on TV story reactions and reviews, with guests coming on to talk about a given episode of serial of the show.
The Aftershow[[edit] | [edit source]]
With the start of series 10 of Doctor Who came a new format for The Fan Show. Doctor Who: The Fan Show - The Aftershow was a new series which released "Aftershows" immediately after an episode of Doctor Who was finished broadcasting in the UK.
Bringing in people who've actually worked on the show, rather than a variety of outsiders giving their reactions, The Aftershow was the closest series 10 got to a Doctor Who Confidential or Doctor Who Extra, the latter of which ended with series 9. Also released during this period was Doctor Who meets Mr. Men, which tied in with the release of the Dr. Men books.
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Following the Aftershows, The Fan Show continued the panel format, beginning with their reaction to the Thirteenth Doctor, and an episode on LGBTQ in Doctor Who.
| # | Name | Subject | Interviewed | Video | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 107 | Thirteenth Doctor Reaction | Thirteenth Doctor announcement reaction (Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor) |
16 July 2017 | ||
| 108 | LGBTQ In The Worlds Of Doctor Who | Queer analysis of Doctor Who. Gender and sexuality in the Doctor Who universe as a whole, and working on Doctor Who as a queer person. Waris Hussein formally comes out in this video. | 28 July 2017 |
