86-547: The Eighth Doctor Adventures (sometimes abbreviated as EDA or referred to as the EDAs) are a series of spin off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and published under the BBC Books imprint. 73 books were published overall. Between 1991 and 1997, Virgin Publishing had been producing a successful series of spin off novels under
172-612: A 26-part animated children's series, K-9 , to be written by Bob Baker. The article in The Times also featured a picture of the redesigned K-9 for the animated series. Each episode will be 30 minutes long, made by Jetix Europe and London-based distribution unit Park Entertainment. According to a report in Broadcast magazine, the BBC opted out of involvement in order to focus on Torchwood , meaning that BBC-owned characters are unlikely to appear in
258-701: A Scientific Advisor, and for the Ministry of Incursions and Ontological Wonders (MIAOW). There is no indication of what relationship the character has with the new television series. In " The End of the World " (2005), the Doctor states that his homeworld had been destroyed and that he is the last of the Time Lords. Attempting to pin down the exact details of Iris's history is problematic because such details are not only kept deliberately vague by Magrs and other writers, but also because
344-491: A decade of televised Doctor Who , from the 1960s through to the 1990s. The 2012 release Iris Rides Out is a crossover with the out-of-copyright character Carnacki the Ghost-Finder . Although in some of her early appearances (including Verdigris and Wildthyme on Top ) Iris is accompanied by her companion Tom (played on audio by Ortis Deley ), her usual foil in her Big Finish, Obverse Books and Snowbooks appearances
430-456: A documentary series, Doctor Who Confidential , broadcast on BBC Three . Episodes were also edited to a 15-minute run time and rebroadcast with the title Doctor Who Confidential: Cut Down ; these edited versions were included on the Doctor Who DVD releases. In 2011, Confidential was among several shows cancelled by BBC Three to free up space for new programming. Following the success of
516-472: A fate for Ace that differed from later original novels, and Philip Martin 's adaptation of the Mindwarp segment of The Trial of a Time Lord included an ending that completely contradicted the scripted ending of the televised serial. After Virgin began its New Adventures and Missing Adventures line of original novels in 1991, it also published several additional novelisations both on their own and under
602-468: A guest star during the 2006 season, returned in a different role. A second major spin-off of Doctor Who was The Sarah Jane Adventures , created for a younger audience on CBBC , starring Elisabeth Sladen as the Doctor's former companion Sarah Jane Smith . It began with a 60-minute pilot episode co-written by Davies and Gareth Roberts , premiering on BBC One and the CBBC channel on New Year's Day 2007;
688-430: A lesbian novelist who has lived for far longer than a normal lifespan. At the end of the novel, Iris Wildthyme seems to die and then become a baby in a scene reminiscent of regeneration . The infant Iris appears in later books by Magrs taking place in the same Phoenix Court setting, and an apparently adult version re-appears in the story "Hospitality", in the collection Iris: Abroad . Iris's first Doctor Who appearance
774-466: A note Compassion slipped into his pocket a century before. Following that, the two are joined by Anji Kapoor , a London stock trader and the three leave Earth in the TARDIS. Much later, while on Earth in the eighteenth century, the Doctor, Fitz and Anji encounter Sabbath , a Secret Service operative who is aware of time travel and becomes the Doctor's personal nemesis. The Doctor loses his second heart, which
860-489: A record BBC Three (and all British cable television record for a locally produced non-sporting event) high rating of 2.4 million viewers. The first series (Oct '06 – Jan '07) comprised 13 episodes broadcast on BBC Three, and was followed by a second 13-part series (Jan '08 – Apr '08) broadcast on BBC Two. A third series was written as a five-part mini-series titled Torchwood: Children of Earth , airing on five consecutive nights from to 10 July 2009 on BBC One. A fourth series
946-567: A regular basis, initially based upon the then-current Third Doctor 's episodes, but soon expanding to include all past Doctors as well. The initial three novelisations had been published in various editions both inside and outside the United Kingdom (editions appeared in the Netherlands , Canada and the United States). Further foreign editions of the novelisations appeared from the 1970s, with
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#17328511121951032-465: A robot dog. The pilot, subtitled "A Girl's Best Friend", despite receiving high ratings of 8.4 million, was not commissioned for a development into a series, though Sarah Jane and K-9 would later reappear together on the main Doctor Who series and her adventures would be continued in audio form by Big Finish Productions in the 2000s. Since the return of Doctor Who in 2005, the show was accompanied by
1118-450: A series of new companions , who never appeared in the television programme. They are: Doctor Who spin-offs Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . Both during the main run of the series from 1963 to 1989 and after its cancellation, numerous novels, comic strips, comic books and other material were generated based on
1204-404: A time restricted to a maximum page length as they were considered children's literature. Not all Target novelisations faithfully followed the scripts. John Lucarotti 's The Massacre (1987) completely changed the plot of the source serial, The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve . Some guide books (notably 1999's A Critical Guide to Doctor Who on Television by Kenneth Muir) describe the plot of
1290-400: A very deliberate parody of Doctor Who . That's why she loves him so." In postmodernist style, Iris is portrayed as playfully aware that she is a character in a television programme (or a series of books and audio dramas spun off from a television programme). Even more so than the Doctor's TARDIS, Iris's bus is a device for moving her between fictional genres and even texts. In the context of
1376-484: A webcast in 2003) was finally released by BBC Books in 2012, adapted by Gareth Roberts . Adams' scripts for City of Death and The Pirate Planet were novelised by James Goss and published in 2015 and 2017, respectively. In 2018, BBC Books began a line adaptations of episodes from the 21st-century revival of Doctor Who as part of "The Target Collection". The earliest original Doctor Who spin-off fiction appeared in children's annuals from 1964, and over
1462-409: A while. They now continue to publish their own range of Short Trips collections as audios. In 2018, elements of the series were used in an officially licensed crossover story with the 10,000 Dawns series, titled White Canvas , alongside elements of Faction Paradox . This was later published in print form in the anthology, 10,000 Dawns: The Outer Universe Collection . Following the events of
1548-473: Is Panda, a 10-inch-tall sentient, stuffed toy (played on audio by David Benson ). Iris claims to have been raised by a House of Aunts (as opposed to Cousins), in the mountains of southern Gallifrey , and also that she has erased all of her records from the Matrix , explaining why the Time Lords know nothing about her. She is known to have survived the destruction of Gallifrey and the apparent retroactive wiping of
1634-404: Is and where he came from,". He instead suggested The Sarah Jane Adventures (see above). A further spin-off of Doctor Who — Rose Tyler: Earth Defence , a 90-minute special that could possibly become an annual event—was cancelled by Davies at a late stage of its development. He considered it to be "a spin-off too far", despite the production having been commissioned and budgeted by
1720-489: Is in the short story " Old Flames ", where she meets the Fourth Doctor and Sarah . The Doctor already knows Iris as an "old friend", and she is seen to be travelling in a 20th-century London AEC Routemaster double-decker bus (the route 22 to Putney Common ), which is, in reality, her TARDIS . The character was described as "a studied affront" to existing Doctor Who texts and "an ethical challenge" to some of
1806-443: Is slightly smaller on the inside, a fact attributed to the fact that her TARDIS was dying when she found it. She also claims to have stolen the TARDIS, and to be on the run from her "mysterious superiors". Iris has also argued that her adventures are more "true" than the Doctor's recollections because she writes them in her diaries while the Doctor does not. Magrs has explicitly stated that Iris "knows — of course she knows — that she's
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#17328511121951892-501: Is the earliest known original long-form prose Doctor Who adventure. Short stories also appeared in other venues such as two anniversary specials produced by the editors of the Radio Times . The first of these (1973) was Terry Nation 's "We Are the Daleks!" while the second (1983) had Eric Saward's "Birth of a Renegade". The former explains the origins of the Daleks and the latter reveals
1978-457: Is working for a group called the Council of Eight. The Council wants to collapse the alternate timelines of the multiverse into one, manageable timeline. To them, the Doctor is a rogue element that needs to be controlled or eliminated. They also begin to eliminate his previous companions from time. Trix comes out of hiding, joining the crew, and Anji leaves the TARDIS. Sabbath eventually realises that
2064-761: The New Adventures and Missing Adventures ranges. However, following the Doctor Who television movie which introduced the Eighth Doctor in 1996, the BBC did not renew Virgin Publishing 's license to continue publishing Doctor Who material, instead opting to publish their own range. Virgin's last New Adventures novel, The Dying Days by Lance Parkin , featured the Eighth Doctor. The Eighth Doctor Adventures began in 1997 with The Eight Doctors by Terrance Dicks and continued until 2005. These novels all feature
2150-560: The Eighth Doctor Adventures and the Past Doctor Adventures, the BBC also published three short story collections under the title of Short Trips which feature all eight (at the time of publication) Doctors. These were also inherited from Virgin, a version of their Decalog short story collections, and when the BBC ceased publishing them, a licence to continue was sought by Big Finish Productions , who published some for
2236-466: The Lost Stories series, with actress Jean Marsh reprising the role of Sara. There was some discussion about spinning off the characters of Henry Gordon Jago and Professor George Litefoot from the 1977 serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang into their own series, but this was not taken forward on television (although it has been produced on audio). The concept art for an animated Doctor Who series
2322-510: The Missing Adventures ), and such continuity has been broadly maintained. Virgin had distinguished the New and Missing Adventures with different cover designs . BBC Books, however, did not differentiate their novels featuring the current and past Doctors in this way, although they were listed separately within the books. Fans continued to distinguish the ongoing story of the Eighth Doctor from
2408-453: The New Wave mold, characterised by nonlinear, sometimes stream of consciousness narrative, intertextual references to the rest of Doctor Who and popular culture , and themes of unreliable narration . She has a playful, mischievous personality, delighting in baiting the Doctor and getting into trouble. Iris Wildthyme first appears in one of Magrs's non-genre novels, Marked for Life , as
2494-562: The Ninth Doctor , Tenth Doctor , Eleventh Doctor and Twelfth Doctor , and a hardback script book containing the shooting scripts for the 2005 series. Scripts for later seasons have not yet been published as of 2018, though 2005–2009 lead writer Russell T Davies has made his scripts available online. In 2007, Penguin Books revived the novelisations concept for the spin-off series, The Sarah Jane Adventures . As of early 2010, all stories from
2580-525: The TARDIS , and ends when the Titanic crashes into the TARDIS. For the 2011 Comic Relief Red Nose Day appeal a two-part story was shown. It starred Matt Smith , Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill and did not have any guest stars. The first attempt to produce a spin-off television series for Doctor Who occurred in the mid-1960s when Terry Nation attempted to launch a US-produced serialised series focusing on
2666-672: The first series of the revived Doctor Who , a new spin-off titled Torchwood became the first to be commissioned as a full television series. In contrast to its parent show, Torchwood was initially conceived by creator Russell T Davies as an "adult" programme to be broadcast post- watershed . It is set in modern-day Cardiff and revolves around a team investigating alien activities and crime. The series features John Barrowman , playing former Ninth Doctor companion Jack Harkness , police officer Gwen Cooper , computer expert Toshiko Sato , medic Owen Harper and "support man", Ianto Jones . The first episode aired 22 October 2006 and received
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2752-489: The "missing season" but never produced due to the 18-month hiatus in 1985–1986 ( The Nightmare Fair , The Ultimate Evil and Mission to Magnus ), the spin-off K-9 and Company , and even a 1976 children's story record ( The Pescatons ), which has the distinction of being the final Doctor Who book published under the Target imprint. (The Target logo was retained for later reprints and intermittent new titles up to 1994 and
2838-468: The 1990s, Marvel Comics commissioned the writers of the various original novels under Virgin's New and Missing Adventures lines (see below) to write short pieces entitled "Preludes" which were run in Doctor Who Magazine . These short stories (never more than one magazine page in length) usually focused on an event just prior to a particular novel, or on a character prior to his or her encounter with
2924-485: The 1990s, Virgin Publishing launched a series of Doctor Who -based short story anthologies titled Decalog . A total of five volumes were published, and the last two, Decalog 4 and Decalog 5 were published after Virgin had lost the Doctor Who franchise and did not feature the Doctor. Decalog 4 concentrated on the family of Roz Forrester—a companion introduced in the NAs—over a thousand-year time span. Also during
3010-467: The 1996 Doctor Who television movie , the Eighth Doctor picks up a British teenager from 1997, Samantha "Sam" Jones , and later a disaffected drifter in his late twenties named Fitz Kreiner from 1963. During their adventures, the threesome tangle with the Faction Paradox , a renegade voodoo cult of time travellers who believed in creating time paradoxes and altering history . They also meet
3096-557: The Curse of Fatal Death , a parody starring Rowan Atkinson as a future incarnation of the Doctor in his final battle with the Master ( Jonathan Pryce ), was created for the charity Comic Relief . During the parody's climax, when the Doctor regenerates several times, actors Richard E. Grant , Hugh Grant , Jim Broadbent and Joanna Lumley all had a chance to play the character. Richard E. Grant would go on to play another unofficial incarnation of
3182-466: The DWM comic strip.) Iris Wildthyme Iris Wildthyme is a fictional character created by writer Paul Magrs , who has appeared in short stories, novels and audio dramas from numerous publishers. She is best known from spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who , where she is sometimes depicted as a renegade Time Lord . Her stories are in
3268-522: The Daleks. A pilot-episode script entitled The Destroyers was written but no pilot film was ever produced. Years later, an outline of the story (which would have featured at least one character, Sara Kingdom , later featured in the parent series) appeared in The Official Doctor Who & the Daleks Book . The US Dalek pilot was released on audio by Big Finish Productions in 2010 as part of
3354-516: The Doctor (with Compassion's help) downloaded the contents of the Gallifreyan Matrix — the massive computer network containing the mental traces of every Time Lord living and dead — into his brain, with his own memories suppressed to make room for the data. Gallifrey had not actually been erased from history, but an event horizon in relative time prevented anyone from Gallifrey's past to travel beyond Gallifrey's destruction, and vice versa. Both
3440-515: The Doctor for the cataclysm, and takes him and the TARDIS captive while the insectoid alien Vore invade the Earth. After a cold fusion explosion guts the interior of the TARDIS, the Doctor discovers that K-9 Mark II had been aboard all along, with orders from Lady President Romana of Gallifrey to kill him. However, K-9 pauses once it scans the Doctor's mind and discovers the reason why the Doctor has lost his memory. Just prior to destroying Gallifrey,
3526-560: The Doctor for the webcast of Scream of the Shalka . BBC Video released the special in the same format as regular Doctor Who releases. A second Children in Need special, but one that was part of the series' continuity, was produced for the charity's 2005 appeal. This 7-minute "mini-episode" starred David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler , and filled in a gap between
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3612-448: The Doctor's old friend Iris Wildthyme , a Time Lady from Gallifrey who travels in a TARDIS shaped like a London double-decker bus . When Sam leaves the TARDIS, the Doctor and Fitz are joined by Compassion , a member of a once-human race called the Remote who slowly begins a conversion process into a living TARDIS . The Time Lords, led by his old companion Romana , now President of
3698-456: The Doctor. Some non-novel related short stories titled "Brief Encounters" were also written, including one in which the Seventh Doctor met a future incarnation of himself. (The illustration accompanying this story based the future Doctor on actor Nicholas Briggs , who had played the Doctor in unauthorised audio dramas produced by the fan group Audio Visuals . The Briggs Doctor also appeared in
3784-641: The Doomsday Weapon (based upon Colony in Space ) which as written depicts Jo Grant 's first adventure with the Doctor, even though the television series introduced her several serials earlier in Terror of the Autons (which was novelised at a later date and ignored the discrepancy). Authors sometimes added epilogues to their novelisations which were at odds with other material: The Curse of Fenric by Ian Briggs suggested
3870-654: The Eighth Doctor, as portrayed in the 1996 television movie by Paul McGann . It is unclear if the BBC line was originally intended to be a continuation of the continuity established in the New Adventures . However, as many of the writers for the Eighth Doctor Adventures had also written for the Virgin series, many elements from the New Adventures began to appear in both the EDAs and the Past Doctor Adventures (which replaced
3956-527: The Faction and causes major damage to the timeline by apparently wiping his homeworld and his people from history. Much later, it is revealed that four Time Lords had survived the catastrophe: The Doctor, the Master , Iris Wildthyme and Marnal. Meanwhile, having rescued the Doctor from near-death, Compassion leaves the now-amnesiac Doctor on Earth in the late 19th century while she drops Fitz off in 2001 to await
4042-470: The High Council, anxious to get their hands on this new TARDIS technology, pursue the Doctor, who loses his own TARDIS and continues to travel using Compassion. The conflict with Faction Paradox comes to a climax on Gallifrey, where the Doctor discovers his TARDIS in orbit around the planet, transformed into a giant structure of living bone by the Faction. The Doctor, faced with an impossible decision, destroys
4128-555: The Missing Adventures label. These were two Dalek stories from the Troughton era, The Power of the Daleks and The Evil of the Daleks , which—along with another radio novelisation The Paradise of Death —are considered to be the last of the Target run. Later novelisations tended to be included as part of the original novel series from Virgin. The Ghosts of N-Space , a second radio serial featuring Jon Pertwee produced in
4214-477: The Shalka . Adams' stories were never novelised, reportedly because he wanted to do the job himself. However, soon after his tenure with Doctor Who ended, the author had gained considerable popularity because of his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy franchise and became (depending upon the source of information) either too busy or too expensive (or both). Adams would later recycle elements of City of Death and
4300-603: The Time Lords from history that took place at the end of the novel The Ancestor Cell . Iris regenerates at the end of The Scarlet Empress (into a form resembling Jane Fonda in Barbarella ), and is known to have at least six other incarnations. One of these, Bianca (voiced by Maria McErlane ), appears in the Big Finish Productions audio play The Wormery and is similar to the Doctor's villainous Valeyard incarnation. Iris has also apparently worked for UNIT as
4386-425: The accounts of her adventures may not be reliable, in whole or in part. For example, some of her claimed exploits bear a remarkable similarity to those of the Doctor's, and some have suggested that it is the Doctor's adventures that are plagiarised from Iris's life, rather than the other way around. Her TARDIS is a double-decker red London bus, the number 22 to Putney Common. In contrast with other TARDISes, hers
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#17328511121954472-489: The background of Susan , but both contradict the series and many other stories on the subject. There were also stories in newspapers and comics, storybooks and even serials published on confectionery wrappers and trading cards. In 1979, Nation wrote "Daleks: The Secret Invasion", a novella included in Terry Nation's Dalek Special ; this was the first original Doctor Who -related fiction to be published by Target Books. During
4558-505: The books being translated for readers in the Netherlands, Brazil , Turkey , the US (where the texts were slightly tweaked to eliminate unfamiliar Anglicisms), Japan , West Germany , Portugal , France and Finland . By 1994, when the final Target book was published, all but six of the broadcast Doctor Who serials had been novelised, as well as a radio serial ( Slipback ), stories slated for
4644-400: The casting of Manning in the role, imagery of the character used by Big Finish (and, later, Obverse Books) on packaging and covers now depicts Manning's likeness. The character has appeared as the main character in five "seasons" of audio dramas, released respectively in 2005, 2009, 2012, 2013 and 2015, along with a 2009 Christmas special. Each release of the second season is a pastiche of
4730-553: The character has been the subject of a number of short story anthologies, edited by Magrs and others, published by Obverse Books and one by Big Finish Productions , and two novels published by Snowbooks . In 2001, Philip Purser-Hallard submitted a proposal for a novel, Iris Wildthyme in the City of the Saved , which would have seen Iris in a hedonistic artificial world at the end of time where all people are resurrected and made immortal. It
4816-478: The character since 1981), and more than a dozen former companions. Not meant to be taken seriously, the story had the Rani opening a hole in time, cycling the Doctor and his companions through his previous incarnations and menacing them with monsters from the show's past. It also featured a crossover with the soap opera EastEnders , the action taking place in the latter's Albert Square location. In 1999, Doctor Who and
4902-481: The characters and situations introduced in the show. These spin-offs continued to be produced even without a television series to support them and helped keep the show alive in the minds of its fans and the public until the programme was revived in 2005. This entry mainly concentrates on "official" spin-offs, that is to say, material sanctioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation , which produces
4988-529: The controller of BBC One. Novelisations based upon individual Doctor Who serials were first published in the mid-1960s, the first being Dr. Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks by David Whitaker , a loose adaptation of the show's second serial, The Daleks . Doctor Who novelisations became something of a tradition beginning in the early 1970s when Target Books (initially published by Universal-Tandem, later to become part of W.H. Allen & Co and then Virgin Publishing ) began publishing them on
5074-423: The council is not human and turns on his masters. Miranda, now a grown woman with a daughter, also returns to help her adopted father defeat the council, but both she and Sabbath die in the process. Eventually, the Doctor returns to Earth in 2005 and discovers that another Time Lord, Marnal, has also survived the destruction of Gallifrey. Marnal, who also claims to be the original owner of the Doctor's TARDIS, blames
5160-598: The episodes " The Parting of the Ways " and " The Christmas Invasion ". A third Children in Need special, but one that was part of the series' continuity, was produced for the charity's 2007 appeal. " Time Crash " starred David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor , and filled in a gap between the episodes " Last of the Time Lords " and " Voyage of the Damned ". This takes part directly after Martha leaves
5246-545: The events of the 2005 series has yet to be chronicled. The Eighth Doctor Adventures line ends with The Gallifrey Chronicles . Although one further novel featuring the Eighth Doctor ( Fear Itself by Nick Wallace ) was published under the Past Doctor Adventures line before BBC Books decided to retire the PDAs as well, that book takes place prior to Timeless . It remains to be seen if the events of The Gallifrey Chronicles will be followed up by any future novel. The Doctor has
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#17328511121955332-567: The fourth series in 2010. A second animated serial, Dreamland , aired on CBBC in Autumn 2009. David Tennant voiced the Tenth Doctor, and the serial also starred Georgia Tennant (who appeared in Doctor Who 's 2008 series as the Doctor's daughter, Jenny ). On 24 April 2006 The Independent , the Daily Star and The Times confirmed, following past rumours, that K-9 would be featured in
5418-455: The full series started on 24 September 2007, consisting of two-part serials with half-hour individual episodes. Five series were produced altogether, the first four series consisting of twelve episodes each; the fifth series was truncated with only six episodes having been produced before Sladen's death in 2011, as a result of which the programme was cancelled. Sarah Jane's Alien Files , a spin-off of The Sarah Jane Adventures , aired along with
5504-400: The long process of the Doctor's — and the now- embryonic TARDIS's — recovery. She then departs for parts unknown. The Doctor spends the next hundred years travelling the world and living through its history, eventually adopting Miranda , a young girl with two hearts . Miranda leaves the Doctor to face her own destiny in the far future, and the Doctor goes on to meet Fitz as arranged, thanks to
5590-475: The mid-1990s was novelised, as were several non BBC spin-off video productions such as Shakedown (as one section of a larger original novel) and Downtime , adding an air of official sanction to them. In 1996, BBC Books published a novelisation of the Doctor Who television movie . A one-time return to serial novelisations occurred in 2004 when BBC Books novelised the made-for-Internet adventure, Scream of
5676-534: The more stand-alone adventures of past Doctors, although some plot elements did cross over both ranges. With the revival of the television series, BBC Books ceased the regular Eighth Doctor Adventures in favour of a new range (the New Series Adventures ), featuring characters from the new series. One further novel featuring the Eighth Doctor ( Fear Itself ) was published under the Past Doctor Adventures line before it too ceased publication. In addition to
5762-416: The novel rather than the original serial due to the fact the original serial is one of the many that were lost. Also, when Target launched the novelisation line, there was no inkling that ultimately more than 150 of the show's storylines would be adapted; as a result, there are numerous continuity gaps between early Target books and the scripts and/or later published novelisations; one example is Doctor Who and
5848-467: The only way for these "lost" adventures to be experienced prior to the release of soundtracks for those episodes and/or recovery of lost episodes (the Pertwee era, in particular, has been rendered intact since the early 1990s, and several Hartnell and Troughton stories are once again complete). Although novelisations became more elaborate in later years, the early books usually followed a set formula and were for
5934-517: The planet and the Time Lords can be restored, along with the Doctor's memory, if a sufficiently sophisticated computer could be found to reconstruct them. Before that can be done, however, there is the problem of the Vore to contend with. At novel's end, the Doctor, Trix and Fitz are set to confront the Vore invasion force. The restoration of Gallifrey, in time for its second destruction in the Time War prior to
6020-403: The second serial of the programme if it had not been rejected. The story features the Doctor and his companions encountering an ancient civilisation of deactivated robots. Doctor Who was successfully brought back to television in 2005, but for many years there were no plans to novelise episodes from the 21st century version of the programme. Instead, the BBC published original novels featuring
6106-525: The series had been cancelled. A new animated series called Daleks! , which consists of five 10-minute long episodes, was released on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel in 2020. On 30 October 2023, it was announced that "The Whoniverse ", a new section on BBC iPlayer dedicated to Doctor Who content, would release spin-offs, with the first being Tales of the TARDIS which first premiered on 1 November 2023. On 27 January 2023, Russell T Davies confirmed that future Doctor Who spin-offs were in
6192-498: The series' "main inconsistencies". In 2011, SFX called Iris Wildthyme one of the 'Top 5 Spinoff Companions' and said 'her adventures (with the Doctor, and in her own line of books) are a joy'. Iris was featured at length in The Scarlet Empress and The Blue Angel , and went on to appear in several more short stories and novels in the BBC Books range, most recently Mad Dogs and Englishmen in 2002. Since then
6278-446: The series' first season, two from the second, and one from the third, have been adapted. The third-season novelisation, adapting " The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith ", marked the first appearance of the Doctor in a TV-based novelisation since the 1996 TV movie was adapted. Shada by Douglas Adams (not originally completed for broadcast after television production was postponed in 1979, but completed with narration for video, then remade as
6364-507: The series, as well as material sanctioned by the copyright holders of characters from the series. One aspect of Doctor Who spin-offs which makes them different from many spin-offs from other science fiction franchises is that many of the television writers and stars have been directly involved in the production of spin-offs. For example, it has become common for a former television actor to reprise their character for an audio play. The BBC holds no position on Doctor Who canon . Although
6450-535: The series. K-9 was first premiered on 31 October 2009. The 26th and final episode was aired on 25 September 2010. On 1 October 2015 the BBC announced a new spin-off titled, Class , which is set in Coal Hill School . It premièred on BBC Three on 22 October 2016. The eight-episode series is written by Patrick Ness . In March 2016, it was announced that Greg Austin would be cast as Charlie. On 7 September 2017, BBC Three controller Damian Kavanagh confirmed that
6536-414: The spin-offs generally do not intentionally contradict the television series, the various spin-off series do occasionally contradict each other. The first spin-off attempt that actually reached the production stage appeared in 1981, when a 50-minute pilot episode for a series to be called K-9 and Company was aired. It focused on the adventures of former Doctor Who companions Sarah Jane Smith and K-9 ,
6622-457: The unbroadcast Shada into his Dirk Gently novels. As for Saward's two Dalek serials, Target Books was unable to come to an agreement which would satisfy both Eric Saward and Terry Nation's estate for the novelisations. Virgin tried again at a later date and authors were assigned for both books, but again an agreement was not reached. Since the release of the last published book by Target in 1994, six titles remained as yet unpublished: Shada
6708-541: The works. One spin-off is centered around UNIT and starring Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart . Doctor Who also appeared on television in the form of special one-off productions to benefit charity. In 1993, Dimensions in Time was produced for the benefit of Children in Need , coinciding with the series' 30th anniversary. It was a special in two parts, running about 12 minutes in total, which featured all surviving Doctors (including Tom Baker in his first appearance as
6794-479: The years many short stories, novellas and full-length novels have been published. The earliest original Doctor Who fiction were short stories that appeared in the official BBC Doctor Who annuals, which were published from 1964 to 1985 (and later revived by Marvel Comics as Doctor Who Year Books and as annuals by the BBC in 2005). A 45-page novella titled Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space , published in 1966,
6880-468: Was by this time used exclusively for Doctor Who .) Most of these novelisations contained minimal amounts of original material and were (usually) adapted closely from the shooting scripts, with the intent of the books being souvenirs of previously aired shows in the pre-VCR era; the decision by the BBC to delete many episodes from the Hartnell, Troughton and Pertwee eras resulted in many of these books becoming
6966-401: Was presented by CBBC and Smile presenter Barney Harwood and Blue Peter presenter Liz Barker . For the show's second series Barker was replaced by SMart presenter Kirsten O'Brien . During the second series, an animated serial, The Infinite Quest , was featured. David Tennant and Freema Agyeman reprised their roles from the live-action television series while Anthony Head ,
7052-465: Was produced by the Canadian animation company Nelvana in the 1980s, but the series was not produced. CBBC originally expressed an interest in a Young Doctor Who series, chronicling the childhood of the Doctor. Russell T Davies vetoed this concept, saying "somehow, the idea of a fourteen-year-old Doctor , on Gallifrey inventing sonic screwdrivers , takes away from the mystery and intrigue of who he
7138-710: Was published on 15 March 2012 by BBC Books , and is still the only remaining book of the original show's run to not be published by Target Books . Target did publish City of Death on 5 April 2018. The Pirate Planet , Resurrection of the Daleks , Revelation of the Daleks , and The Doctor Who TV Movie , were all published on 11 March 2021 by Target Books. Three novels of the original run were rewritten as audiobook exclusives, but were later published in print, once again by Target: From 1988, Titan Books released script books of Doctor Who serials. This included an unproduced serial, The Masters of Luxor (written 1963–1964, published 1992) by Anthony Coburn , which would have been
7224-475: Was rejected as an Iris Wildthyme novel range was considered unviable at the time. Purser-Hallard reused elements of the story in 2002's The Book of the War (in which Iris appears as an unnamed traveller) and 2004's Of the City of the Saved... . In 2002, the character started appearing as an occasional crossover character in audio plays by Big Finish Productions , where she is voiced by Katy Manning . Following
7310-454: Was similarly structured as a single story told as a ten-part mini-series, titled Torchwood: Miracle Day ; unlike previous series, Miracle Day was a co-production between the BBC and the US cable television network Starz . The fourth series premiered on 8 July 2011 on Starz in the US and on July 14, 2011 on BBC One in the United Kingdom. The 2006 and 2007 series were companioned with a CBBC show entitled Totally Doctor Who . Series 1
7396-489: Was slowly killing him as it was his only link to his now-forgotten homeworld. Sabbath takes the heart and implants it in his own body, tying him and the Doctor together. Through several more adventures, the Doctor and his companions encounter Sabbath again and Trix MacMillan stows away aboard the TARDIS. Sabbath subsequently loses the Doctor's time-sensitive heart and the Doctor grows a new one. The Doctor also begins to recover fragments of his memory, and discovers that Sabbath
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