Whoniverse
The non-narrative name given to the fictional universe of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and the spin-off media, inclouding Torchwood, The Srah Jane Adventures and K-9. The word, a portmanteau of the words "Who" and "universe", has also been used to describe the show's production and fanbase. This entry mainly concentrates on "official" spin-offs, that is to say, material sanctioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which produces the series, as well as material sanctioned by the copyright holders of characters from the series.
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- CreatorDonald WilsonSydney NewmanStarsWilliam HartnellPatrick TroughtonJon PertweeThe adventures in time and space of the Doctor, a Time Lord who changes appearance and personality by regenerating when near death, and is joined by companions in battles against aliens and other megalomaniacs.
- DirectorGordon FlemyngStarsPeter CushingRoy CastleJennie LindenAn eccentric inventor and his companions travel in his TARDIS to the Planet Skaro and battle the evil menace of the Daleks.
- DirectorGordon FlemyngStarsPeter CushingBernard CribbinsRay BrooksDr. Who and his companions arrive on Earth in the year 2150 AD, only to discover that the planet has been invaded and its population enslaved by the dreaded Daleks.
- DirectorJohn BlackStarsElisabeth SladenJohn LeesonBill FraserOne time companion of the Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith returns to Earth and carries on with her journalist career. Now, in 1981, she has managed to rebuild her career and has come, a matter of days before Christmas, to her aunt Lavinia's (a famous scientist) house in the sleepy English village of Moreton Harwood to write a book and to rest after her world-travelling assignments. However, her journalist's nose sniffs out another mystery when she arrives to find Aunt Lavinia gone, and nobody knows where she is, but the local rumour is that she was the victim of a local witch coven. Worshipers of a pagan goddess Hecate gather to celebrate a festival by ritually murdering a friend of Sarah's. She needs help - and she gets it from a box from her friend "The Doctor." Inside the box is a metal robotic but almost human-like talking dog called K-9 that is built for Sarah Jane personally and together Sarah and K-9 sets out to solve the mystery and stop the killing of Sarah's friend.
- DirectorKeith BarnfatherStarsJohn LeveneMichael WisherMary GreenhalghWarrant Officer John Benton, a long-serving member of the United Nations Intelligence Taksforce (UNIT), is distracted from his mission to deliver valuable radioactive material to UNIT HQ by ghostly visions of his father, who was killed during World War 2, and his brother Chris, who died as a result of a childhood game that went wrong. Can Benton face these demons of his past and recover to prevent the theft of the radioactive material?
- DirectorBill BaggsStarsCaroline JohnJon PertweeSylvester McCoyFormer UNIT scientist Liz Shaw investigates a series of bizarre murders near a soon-to-be closed psychiatric hospital. When the hospital is suddenly saved by a wealthy businessman events seem to run out of Liz's control.
- DirectorBill BaggsStarsCaroline JohnLouise JamesonTerry MolloyP.R.O.B.E. are summoned to investigate a series of strange events linked to a private school. Liz Shaw comes under increasing pressure to solve the case as P.R.O.B.E. is threatened with closure just when it may be most needed.
- DirectorChristopher BarryKeith BarnfatherStarsNicholas CourtneyElisabeth SladenDeborah WatlingRetired commander of the United Nations' Intelligence Taskforce, and long-time associate of the mysterious time traveler the Doctor, Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart faces the toughest battle of his military career when he is embroiled in a plot unwittingly set in motion by university chancellor Victoria Waterfield, herself a former companion of the Doctor, to take over the Earth by an evil alien entity called the Great Intelligence, aided by its ferocious robot Yeti cohorts. Can the Brigadier defeat this menace to the Earth without the Doctor's help?
- DirectorBill BaggsStarsBill BaggsHazel BurrowsGeorgette EllisonWhen Liz Shaw returns from a working holiday in Spain a new and deeply disturbing case awaits. Corporal 7891Alpha has outlived his usefulness or rather the government can no longer afford to fund the medication. And that can mean only one thing... termination! At first glance a 'government authorised execution' is a simple enough task for the Preternatural Research Bureau (PROBE) team. But as events unfold, and the truth about Corporal 7891Alpha is revealed, the case becomes far more complex. Only Liz's wealth of experience, courage and determination can save the day - but not before her her moral compass is knocked off course.
- DirectorKevin DaviesStarsJan ChappellBrian CroucherCarole Ann FordThe space solar yacht Tiger Moth under the command of no-nonsense Captain Lisa Deranne is on a cruise taking some rich misfits on a voyage through space. Unfortunately on their travels they have picked a stowaway, a shape-changing Rutan, a race that has been at war with another race, the Sontarans, since the dawn of time. The Rutan has important news regarding the war and the Sontarans, and upon hearing the news, attack the Tiger Moth and take it over. The Rutan hides itself among the crew and one by one the Sontarans and the human crew are murdered by the Rutan. The Sontarans plan to destroy all life on the Tiger Moth. Can Lisa find out who the Rutan is before the Sontarans destroy her ship and her life?...
- DirectorBill BaggsStarsCaroline JohnLouise JamesonCharles KayA series of gruesome and bizarre murders leads P.R.O.B.E. to investigate a secret government project from the seventies.
- DirectorGeoffrey SaxStarsPaul McGannEric RobertsDaphne AshbrookThe newly-regenerated Doctor takes on the Master on the turn of the millennium, 31 December 1999.
- DirectorBill BaggsStarsReece ShearsmithDaniel MatthewsDavid HankinsonWhen the body of a victim from the Winterborne case goes missing and a black magic grimoire is stolen from a local museum Liz Shaw teams up with the disgraced former headmaster of Winterborne school, Gavin Purcell to fight it.
- DirectorNicholas BriggsStarsMichael WadeBryonie PritchardGeorge TelferIn a top-secret UNIT warehouse Dr Sally Arnold is studying a Nestene energy unit with little success. Until she subjects it to cosmic signals that activate it and it awakens several dormant Autons stored in the facility.
- DirectorNicholas BriggsStarsMichael WadeGeorge TelferJo CastletonTwo years after the incident at the UNIT warehouse a lorry transporting Autons from there to another UNIT facility is hijacked by it's cargo. Lockwood and another psychic, Natasha, trace the Autons to Sentinel Island.
- DirectorKeith BarnfatherStarsBryan RobsonSophie AldredToby AspinThree alien beings - a Sontaran officer, a Draconian nobleman and a Human mercenary - find themselves transported to a remote asteroid by a mysterious alien who wants to test their worthiness for his race's masterplan...
- DirectorBill BaggsPatricia MerrickStarsMichael WadeJo CastletonGeorge TelferLockwood and Natasha have returned to the mainland from Sentinel Island but find that the population of the town of Millhampton have vanished. The pair discover that the nearby hospital is the Nestene base of operations.
- DirectorKeith BarnfatherStarsSophie AldredMiles RichardsonJohn WadmoreSequel to "Mindgame" (1998) which follows the fate of the three prisoners after their escape from their asteroid prison cell. Sontaran Sarg faces death against overwhelming odds on a desolate battleground, Draconian Merq faces trial after receiving an unusual "gift" and the human pilot finds herself stranded in space in a crippled fighter and a rapidly depleting oxygen supply.
- StarsPaul McGannLalla WardJohn LeesonWould-be universe conqueror Skagra seeks out the location of the lost planet Shada, home to a Time Lord prison, from a Time Lord who's a professor at Cambridge and is old friends with the Doctor.
- StarsRichard E. GrantSophie OkonedoDerek JacobiThe Doctor, a time-travelling alien explorer, is sent by his people, the Time Lords, to liberate a small town in England from the tyrannical rule of a race of alien lava creatures called the Shalka. This full-length animated adventure, originally broadcast on-line on the BBC's official Doctor Who website, is the first adventure of the ninth Doctor, Richard E. Grant.
- DirectorKeith BarnfatherStarsBeverley CressmanMiles RichardsonAndrew WisherTrapped in an isolated cottage, Captain Cavendish thinks he is seeing ghosts. The only person who might understand and help is Kate Lethbridge-Stewart ... but when she arrives, she realises that Cavendish is key in a plot to summon the Daemons back to the Earth. With time running out, Kate discovers that sometimes even the familiar can turn out to be your worst nightmare.
- CreatorSydney NewmanStarsJodie WhittakerPeter CapaldiPearl MackieThe further adventures in time and space of the alien adventurer known as the Doctor and his companions from planet Earth.
- DirectorEuros LynStarsChristopher EcclestonBillie PiperDavid TennantRose must learn to accept the Doctor in his new, regenerated form.
- CreatorRussell T. DaviesStarsJohn BarrowmanEve MylesKai OwenThe members of the Torchwood Institute, a secret organization founded by the British Crown, fight to protect the Earth from extraterrestrial and supernatural threats.
- StarsBarney HarwoodDavid TennantLiz BarkerA magazine series for young viewers of Doctor Who (2005).
- CreatorRussell T. DaviesStarsElisabeth SladenDaniel AnthonyAlexander ArmstrongInvestigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith, with the help of her adopted son, his friends, and an intelligent supercomputer, combats evil alien forces here on Earth.
- StarsDavid TennantFreema AgyemanAnthony HeadThe Doctor and Martha Jones trek through space and time in a race against the galaxy's greatest despot, Baltazar, to follow a complex trail of clues to discover the location of the legendary lost spaceship, the Infinite, which, according to myth, can grant anybody their hearts desire.
- DirectorBill BaggsStarsJo CastletonDaniel HarcourtKeith DrinkelZygon Commander Kritakh and his second Torlakh have been stranded on Earth for 20 years. Kritakh has lost his sense of purpose, can his second get him back on track? Sexy psychiatrist Lauren Anderson complicates matters further.
- DirectorEuros LynStarsDavid TennantJimmy VeePhilip Hurd-WoodThe Doctor confronts a Graske as he poses a threat not just to the Doctor, but to the BBC Proms.
- CreatorShayne ArmstrongPaul TamsBob BakerStarsJohn LeesonRobert MoloneyKeegan JoyceSpin off TV show based on the adventures of the robot dog companion from "Doctor Who".
- StarsDavid TennantGeorgia TennantTim HowarWhile visiting a diner in Nevada in 1958, the Doctor finds an alien artifact and ends up on a mission to save the Rivesh Mantilax from the danger of the Viperox and the U.S. Military.
- 2007–20115mTV-PG6.1 (162)TV EpisodeDirectorJoss AgnewStarsElisabeth SladenTommy KnightDaniel AnthonySarah, Rani, Luke and Clyde get an unexpected visit from Ambassador Ranius (Ronnie Corbett) who claims to come from the Galactic Alliance. He brings gratitude but bestows strange gifts and why does his bottom burp when he sits?
- DirectorRichard SeniorStarsMatt SmithKaren GillanAfter Amy enters the TARDIS, Amy is awestruck when she sees what lies inside.
- StarsAlexander ArmstrongElisabeth SladenTommy KnightSarah Jane Smith creates a fact file on notable aliens, based on her experiences in The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007).
- DirectorRichard SeniorStarsMatt SmithKaren GillanFreema AgyemanAmy tries to flirt with The Doctor but he tries to ignore her advances.
- StarsArthur DarvillMatt SmithKaren GillanThe Doctor, Amy, and Rory get stuck in a time paradox within the TARDIS when another TARDIS materializes inside the ship itself. When a second Amy enters from outside, things get complicated.
- StarsEve MylesEliza DushkuJohn BarrowmanA ten episode companion series with events taking place during the Torchwood: Miracle Day series.
- StarsMatt SmithKaren GillanAlex KingstonThis series takes place in the TARDIS asks the question "what does the doctor do when his companions are asleep"?
- StarsKaren GillanArthur DarvillMatt SmithPrequel to series seven of Doctor Who (2005); five short films show the home life of Amy and Rory, while The Doctor has a few adventures of his own.
- DirectorSaul MetzsteinStarsElliot Barnes-WorrellKaren GillanSarah Louise MadisonSpecial mini-episode written via a competition in which junior schools were asked to write a script including the Eleventh Doctor and an enemy of his. In it, the Doctor and Amy land in the 2012 Olympic Games and encounter a Weeping Angel.
- DirectorKeith BarnfatherChristopher BarryStarsNicholas CourtneyBeverley CressmanDavid J. HoweSomewhere in deep space, someone is playing a manipulative game of chess involving the Doctor's former companions and his enemies.
- DirectorSteve HealeyStarsSophie AldredSimon BakerJohn BarrowmanDoctor Who fan-film, including multiples cameos of Doctor Who's characters.
- StarsKatherine KellyGreg AustinJordan RenzoThe sixth formers of Coal Hill Academy all have their own secrets and desires. They have to deal with the stresses of everyday life including friends, parents, school work, sex, and sorrow, but also the horrors that come from time travel.