Doctor Who spin-offs: Difference between revisions

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{{first pic|Megabytes (anthology).jpg|Long after leaving televised ''[[Doctor Who]]'', [[K9]] was the subject of new stories unbound by the Doctor or the BBC — even on television!}}

These can be separated into two distinct categories: productions officially licensed by the [[BBC]], whose lack of use of [[the Doctor]] or [[the Doctor's TARDIS|their TARDIS]] are a stylistic choice; and ones created without BBC involvement, grown around an [[List of DWU concepts not owned by the BBC|element of the DWU owned by another party]].

[[Pete McTighe]] stated in [[DWM 571]] that he viewed each of his minisodes packaged with trailers for ''[[The Collection]]'' as "the opportunity for a brand-new Doctor Who spin-off (…) albeit on a budget of 59p", although these minisodes were still released under the ''Doctor Who'' name rather than having their own series names.

A number of writers and actors involved in these productions later went on to work with BBC licensed ''Doctor Who'' spinoffs such as the [[Big Finish Productions]] audio dramas, and even on the revived ''Doctor Who'' series itself when it returned to TV in 2005 (most notably [[Nicholas Briggs]] and [[Mark Gatiss]]). By way of comparison, these spin-off productions, often classified as fan films, are in spirit similar to the professionally made fan films based upon the ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise that began to emerge in the early 2000s when the rights holders for ''Star Trek'' relaxed their restrictions. However, unlike the ''Star Trek ''fan films, all of the productions listed below were fully licensed.

{|class="wikitable sortable"

! class="unsortable" | Title

! Licensed connection

! Medium

! data-sort-type="iso-date" | Date of first release

|-

|[[31 October (releases)|31 October]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]]

|-

|[[John Benton]]

|Home video

|[[20 January (releases)|20 January]] [[1998 (releases)|1998]]

|-

|[[Sontaran]]s

|Home video

|[[1 December (releases)|1 December]] [[1998 (releases)|1998]]

|-

|[[Sarah Jane Smith]]

|Home video

|[[2 December (releases)|2 December]] [[1995 (releases)|1995]]

|-

|[[Draconian]]s and [[Sontaran]]s

|Home video

|[[1998 (releases)|1998]]

|-

|[[Dæmon]]s

|Home video

|[[2004 (releases)|2004]]

|-

|[[Dæmon]]s

|Home video

|[[13 November (releases)|13 November]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]]

|-

|[[Sil]]

|Home video

|[[Auton]]s

|Home video

|-

|[[Zygon]]s

|Home video

|[[27 February (releases)|27 February]] [[2008 (releases)|2008]]

|-

|[[Alternate timeline (Republica)|Alternate timeline]] first mentioned in {{cs|The Roundheads (novel)}}

|Audio

|[[May (releases)|May]] [[1998 (releases)|1998]]

|-

|[[K9]]

|Audio

|[[June (releases)|June]] [[1999 (releases)|1999]]

|-

|[[Zygon]]s

|Audio

|[[August (releases)|August]] [[1999 (releases)|1999]]

|-

|[[Krynoid]]s

|Audio

|[[October (releases)|October]] [[1999 (releases)|1999]]

|-

|[[Sontaran]]s

|Audio

|[[December (releases)|December]] [[1999 (releases)|1999]]

|-

|[[I (Seeing I)|I]]

|Audio

|[[August (releases)|August]] [[2000 (releases)|2000]]

|-

|[[The Rani]]

|Audio

|[[November (releases)|November]] [[2000 (releases)|2000]]

|-

|[[Wirrn]]

|Audio

|[[February (releases)|February]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]]

|-

|[[Faction Paradox]]

|Audio

|[[October (releases)|October]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]]

|-

|[[Faction Paradox]]

|Audio

|[[6 June (releases)|6 June]] [[2021 (releases)|2021]]

|-

|[[Rutan]]s

|Audio

|[[September (releases)|September]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]]

|-

|[[Guy de Carnac]]

|Audio

|[[September (releases)|September]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]]

|-

|[[Liz Shaw]]

|Home video, Audio

|[[1994 (releases)|1994]]

|-

|[[The Brigadier]]

|Audio

|[[28 June (releases)|28 June]] [[2021 (releases)|2021]]

|-

|[[Erimem]]

|Audio

|[[19 August (releases)|19 August]] [[2021 (releases)|2021]]

|-

|[[Vienna Salvatori]]

|Audio

|[[Kaldor City]]

|Audio

|[[September (releases)|September]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]]

|-

|[[Faction Paradox]]

|Audio

|[[23 July (releases)|23 July]] [[2003 (releases)|2003]]

|-

|[[David Taylor (Fanboys)|David Taylor]]

|Audio

|[[3 October (releases)|3 October]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]]

|-

|[[Vince Cosmos]]

|Audio

|[[3 February (releases)|3 February]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]]

|-

|[[Dodie Golightly]]

|Audio

|[[The Minister of Chance]]

|Audio, Novelisation

|[[2011 (releases)|2011]], [[2022 (releases)|2022]]

|-

|[[Psychic Circus]]

|Audio, Novelisation

|[[14 December (releases)|14 December]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]]

|-

|[[Faction Paradox]]

|Prose

|[[17 September (releases)|17 September]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]]

|-

|[[Cleavis]] and other concepts from {{cs|Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)}} & {{cs|Kept Safe and Sound (short story)}}

|Novel

|[[Iris Wildthyme]]

|Prose & Audio

|[[August (releases)|August]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]]

|-

|[[Bernice Summerfield]]

|Audio & Prose

|[[September (releases)|September]] [[1998 (releases)|1998]]

|-

|[[Erimem]]

|Novel

|[[13 October (releases)|13 October]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]]

|-

|[[William Abberton|William "Nimrod" Abberton]]

|Novel

|[[13 December (releases)|13 December]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]]

|-

|[[Faction Paradox]]

|Anthologies, Novel

|[[1 June (releases)|1 June]] [[2022 (releases)|2022]]

|-

|[[Señor 105]]

|Anthology, Novellas

|[[30 September (releases)|30 September]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]]

|-

|[[Manleigh Halt Irregulars]]

|Short story anthology

|[[February (releases)|February]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]]

|-

|[[Icnopilli]]

|Short story

|[[1 June (releases)|1 June]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]]

|-

|[[Panda]]

|[[Obverse Books]]

|[[2015 (releases)|2015]]

|-

|[[Manleigh Halt Irregulars]]

|Novel

|[[9 December (releases)|9 December]] [[2019 (releases)|2019]]

|-

|Anthologies, Comics

|[[Obverse Books]], [[Cutaway Comics]]

|-

|[[Panda]]

|Novel

|[[4 November (releases)|4 November]] [[2014 (releases)|2014]]

|-

|[[Celestial Omnibus]]es

|Novel series

|[[Lethbridge-Stewart family]]

|Prose

|[[26 February (releases)|26 February]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]]

|-

|Concepts from {{cs|Timelash (TV story)}}

|Short stories

|[[May (releases)|May]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]]

|-

|[[Lucy Wilson]]

|Prose

|[[15 August (releases)|15 August]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]]

|-

|[[UNIT]]

|Anthologies

|[[2021 (releases)|2021]]

|-

|[[Counter-Measures]]

|Novels

|[[4 January (releases)|4 January]] [[2022 (releases)|2022]]

|-

|[[9 June (releases)|9 June]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]]

|-

|[[K9]]

|Anthology

|[[July (releases)|July]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]]

|-

|[[K9]]

|Anthology

|[[20 December (releases)|20 December]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]]

|-

|[[Chris Cwej]]

|Anthologies, Novels

|[[19 May (releases)|19 May]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]]

|-

|[[P.R.O.B.E.]]

|Anthology

|[[21 September (releases)|21 September]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]]

|-

|''[[Auteur (series)|Auteur]]''

|[[Auteur]]

|Short stories

|[[29 October (releases)|29 October]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]]

|-

|[[Coloth]]

|Short stories

|[[29 October (releases)|29 October]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]]

|-

|Concepts from {{cs|Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)}}

|Novel

|[[1 June (releases)|1 June]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]]

|-

|Concepts from {{cs|Against Nature (novel)}}

|Novel

|[[29 November (releases)|29 November]] [[2019 (releases)|2019]]

|-

|[[Garglespike]], among many others

|Novella

|[[1 May (releases)|1 May]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]]

|-

|[[Theo Possible]]

|Novella

|[[29 November (releases)|29 November]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]]

|-

|Various between entries

|Novelisations

|[[2021 (releases)|2021]]

|-

|Comics, Audios, Short stories

|[[Century 21 Productions]] et al.

|[[Marvel Comics]]

|[[1985 (releases)|1985]]

|-

|''[[The Forge (comic series)|The Forge]]''

|[[12 November (releases)|12 November]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]]

|-

|[[Olive Hawthorne]]

|Comics

|[[Lucky Comics]]

|[[5 May (releases)|5 May]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]]

|-

|''[[Lytton (series)|Lytton]]''

|[[Gustave Lytton]]

|Comics

|[[September (releases)|September]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]]

|-

|''[[Omega (series)|Omega]]''

|[[Omega]]

|Comics

|[[January (releases)|January]] [[2021 (releases)|2021]]

|-

|[[Happiness Patrol]]

|Comics

|[[2021 (releases)|2021]]

|-

|''[[Gods and Monsters (comic series)|Gods and Monsters]]''

|Comics

|[[2023 (releases)|2023]]

|-

|[[Orcini]]

|Comics

|[[23 August (releases)|23 August]] [[2021 (releases)|2021]]

|-

|[[Eldrad]]

|Comics

|[[23 August (releases)|23 August]] [[2021 (releases)|2021]]

|}

* ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' (2005-11)

* ''[[Totally Doctor Who]]'' (2006-07)

* ''[[Closer Look]]'' (2018)

* ''[[Access All Areas]]'' (2018-19)

=== Reeltime Pictures ===

* ''[[The Black Archive]]'' (2016-present)

''[[w:c:dwexpanded:Devious|Devious]]'' is an incomplete privately made fan film notable for featuring [[Jon Pertwee]] as the [[Third Doctor]] in his final known performance in the role. Audio of Pertwee was reused by [[Big Finish Productions]] for the audio drama ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''. In 2009, a [[Devious (home video)|12-minute excerpt/trailer from the production]], featuring the extant footage of Pertwee, and which cannot really be deemed a complete narrative in its own right, was released by [[BBC Video]] with the DVD release of ''[[The War Games]]''.