User:EnyapCo
Introduction[[edit] | [edit source]]
Howdy, I'm EnyapCo, and welcome to my profile. I enjoy the Doctor Who franchise and most media that comes out of it.
I own the full run of DVDs, including spin-offs like The Sarah Jane Adventures and Class, and more obscure releases like TV: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. and HOMEVID: Downtime. I've also been getting into the Blu-rays lately (because of the new VAM), which is a dangerous game to play, but at least there aren't as many to buy. Because of all this, I edit the Doctor Who DVD Special Features Wiki.
My great pilgrimage[[edit] | [edit source]]
I'm currently taking what I call "the long way round" by making my way through every story I possibly can in narrative order, including TV stories, films, webcasts, audios, novels, short stories, poems, comics, and even a few games.
For example, rather than beginning with TV: An Unearthly Child, I instead started with all the pre-Season 1 stories, including AUDIO: The Beginning, PROSE: Bide-a-Wee, and PROSE: Time and Relative.
I love a good spreadsheet, so I've been working on this since July 2019. I'm just about to make it to Season 23, so I still have a ways to go. 60 years of history makes for a lot of continuity.
Here's a few lists I used to compile the total continuity:
- Clive Banks Episode Guide - [1]
- doesn't include comics or anything tied to them (such as Izzy's Story or Countdown to TV Action), with a few exceptions
- Eyespider Complete Adventures - [2]
- Doctor Who Reference Guide - [3]
- last updated in 2013
All these guides compile narrative continuity only from the Doctor's perspective, so for any stories featuring only companions (such as PROSE: Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma, god-awful as it is) or villains (like AUDIO: Master Thief), I made the decision where they best fit in.
Free Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]
When I started, I was always wanting to try new series but wasn't sure I would enjoy them, so I was always on the lookout for free stories available. Here are some places where you can legally find stories for free:
- YouTube - The official Doctor Who and BBC Youtube channels have made a number of webcasts, prequels, and mini-episodes available.
- BBC website - Usually the stories on their site are short stories or, more recently, the podcast-format audio story Redacted
- Big Finish - They offer some audio stories for free on their website. Usually these are Short Trips or only the first part of a story.
- Big Finish SoundCloud - A handful of stories are available on Big Finish's SoundCloud account:
- Audiobook sites - These sites will let you download 1 or 2 audiobooks as part of a free trial and have a number of Doctor Who stories in their library. Once you create a free account and get the stories, you can still access them once your trial is over.
- audiobooks.com - 1 free book
- Audible - 2 free books
- Rakuten Kobo - 1 free book
- Spotify - If you have a Spotify accout, you can access a ton of Big Finish releases, including:
- The first 50 Main Range stories
- Series 1 of The Fourth Doctor Adventures
- Series 2 of The Companion Chronicles
- Series 1 of The Lost Stories, and The Fourth Doctor Box Set
- Destiny of the Doctor
- I, Davros and The Davros Mission
- The Stageplays
- Series 1 - 3 of Graceless
- Series 1 - 5 of Jago & Litefoot
- Series 1 - 4 of Iris Wildthyme, and Wildthyme Reloaded
- Series 1 of UNIT, and Dominion
- Charlotte Pollard: Series One
- Series 1 of The Eighth Doctor Adventures
- Series 1 - 2 of Dalek Empire
- The ArcHive Tapes
- Cyberman
- The Worlds of Big Finish
- Series 1 - 2 of Counter-Measures
- A number of anthologies from Bernice Summerfield:
- Hoopla - This site links to your local library account and has a ton of Big Finish releases and comics, including:
- Series 2 of The Lost Stories
- Volume 1 of Philip Hinchcliffe Presents
- Series 2 of The Fourth Doctor Adventures
- Voyage to Venus and Voyage to the New World
- The Worlds of Doctor Who
- Wildthyme Reloaded
- Series 3 of Counter-Measures
- Series 1 - 2 of The Eighth Doctor Adventures
- Series 3 of The Companion Chronicles
- Series 1 - 4 of Dalek Empire
- Series 1 of The Early Adventures
- Series 1 - 8 of Jago & Litefoot
- Series 1 - 5 of Short Trips
- Most Titan comic releases
- Internet Archive - Several series have been made available here as their original releases have gone out of print, websites have been taken down, etc.
- Whopix comics - The entire run of TV Comic, Countdown, and TV Action have been made available thanks to Christopher McElroy, Ian Gettings, Christoper Grayling, Steven Flanagan, and Luke Andrew - [6]
- Complete BBC Micro Games Archive - This site has restored games released by the BBC from the 1980s onwards, including The First Adventure, Doctor Who and the Warlord, and Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror - [7]
