The document discusses the concept of canon in Doctor Who and the difficulties in defining it. It notes that while the BBC licensed TV series is widely accepted as canonical, other mediums like novels, audio dramas and spinoffs make canon unclear. Adaptations between mediums, like a novel becoming an episode, create competing narratives. The constantly expanding Whoniverse means canon is never fixed. Different fans have varying views on what is considered canon.

1. Nekanonický Doctor
Nekanonické spinoffy
Pavel Vachtl
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3. Kánon = oficiální whoniversum, konsensus
Ale co to je? BBC oficiálně žádný nevyhlásila.
Fanon? (Master=Meddling Monk) Někdy koncept
zamíří z fanonu do canonu.
I na kánon lze mít jakýsi “kanonický” nebo
nekanonický názor
Kánon = to, co licencovala BBC? ČASTO, ALE
NE VŽDY !
Whoniversum a jeho pravidla

4. In August 2010 however, the BBC did make a fleeting reference to canon, in
relation to their Doctor Who: The Adventure Games stating in their press
release that "Players will encounter new and original monsters, in stories which
form part of the overall Doctor Who canon".
A large issue when attempting to construct a definition of canon for Doctor Who
is that it is never finished, Doctor Who has been in more or less constant
production in one way or another since 1963, with TV stories, novelisations,
novels, radio dramas, audio stories, toys, comic stories etc.
Some fans want a complete narrative, they want to collect and arbitrate in
hefty canonical debates, but Doctor Who is never complete.
Other examples are evidenced with an official shift in definition, 2003's Scream
of the Shalka was to have been the continuation of Doctor Who, with Richard E.
Grant promoted as the "new" Ninth Doctor. The BBC's first edition of Doctor
Who: The Legend even has several pages which details the "Ninth Doctor". But
this detail was changed and the "Shalka Doctor" shifted away

5. The TV Series 1963-1989, 1996, 2005 only thing which is universally
accepted as canonical by fans, and forms the basis of every continuity
reference of note.
K9 and Company as part of the TV series, and count the 1996 TV Movie (semi-
officially titled Enemy Within) and the new series (including Christmas
Specials and in-continuity scenes from Children in Need) as of equal weight,
and will probably do the same with spin-off series Torchwood. The unfinished
story Shada also counts, although it has to be interpreted within the context
of the webcast version - the original version was written out of the Doctor's
timeline during The Five Doctors and "replaced" by the webcast version. We
also include Attack of the Graske - the interactive episode shown via digital
TV after The Christmas Invasion On the other hand, we don't count the
Children in Need special Dimensions in Time, which is just silly, contributes
nothing important, and is impossible to get hold of (at least legally) - and, in
any case, the New Adventure First Frontier established that it was a
nightmare of the Doctor's. We also don't count The Curse of the Fatal Death
because it's a parody. We also don't count any in-character appearances by
the Doctor or other Who characters on other TV shows.

8. Torchwood (2006-2011)
Sarah Jane Adventures (2007-2011)
K9 and Company (1981, jen pilotní díl "A Girl's
Best Friend", Sarah Jane Smith/Elisabeth Sladen,
K9 Mk III/John Leeson)
Big Finish (audio)
Spinoffy kanonické

11. K9 (Disney - Austrálie, 2010-11)
Próza
- Virgin New Adventures (Bernice Summerfield
New Adventures - společnice 7. a 8. v prózách
a audio příbězích)
-Telos Publishing (Time Hunter,
nespecifikovaný Doctor - The Cabinet of Light)
Spinoffy polokanonické

14. Peter Cushing - 2 filmy s Daleky, kopie
dvou seriálových příběhů - velké plátno,
barva
Nekanonický Doctor

15. Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
podle: The Daleks (1963) (Susan/Barbara/Ian)
Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)
podle: The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964)
(Susan/Louise/konstábl Tom Campbell)
nerealizováno:
The Chase (1965)

23. Reeltime Pictures (Nicholas Briggs, hlas Daleků, CM, Judoonů apod.)
Wartime (1988) - first ever independent spin-off production from Doctor Who, and
the only one released while the series was still broadcasting. The storyline features
UNIT soldier John Benton finding himself trapped in an alternate reality.
Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans (1994) - Reeltime Pictures' second
production involved the return of popular Doctor Who monsters the Sontarans and
the Rutans. It starred Sophie Aldred, who played Ace in Doctor Who, and Carole
Ann Ford, who played Susan. One of two "unofficial" spinoffs to be adapted as an
officially licenced Doctor Who novel. The novel Shakedown was expanded to
include the Seventh Doctor and released as part of the Virgin New Adventures line.
Downtime (1995) - More popular characters were revived, as The Brigadier
(Nicholas Courtney), Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and Victoria Waterfield
(Deborah Watling) all reprised their roles. The Yeti also made a comeback. (Great
Intelligence) Directed by Christopher Barry. As with Shakedown, it too was adapted
as a novel, this time for the Virgin Missing Adventures line
Nekanonické spinoffy

26. Reeltime Pictures is a British
video production company
known for its many
documentaries about Doctor
Who, particularly the Myth
Makers series of interviews.

29. Mindgame (1998) - A Sontaran, a Draconian and a Human are trapped together by
an unknown enemy. Sophie Aldred, who had played Ace in Doctor Who, stars
alongside the villainous Sontarans and Draconians.
Mindgame: Trilogy (1999) - Following up from Mindgame with 3 separate shorts
showing what happened to the characters after their escape.
Dæmos Rising (2004) - The only Reeltime Pictures independent drama to be
released on DVD first. The story features Doctor Who monsters The Daemons and
was written by David J. Howe, previously known for writing many successful
nonfiction Doctor Who books, and for publishing Doctor Who fiction under the Telos
Publishing imprint. A sequel to Downtime, the return of the Brigadier's daughter.
White Witch of Devil's End (2013) - This is a Reeltime Pictures independent drama
starring Damaris Hayman as Olive Hawthorne, who made her original appearance in
Doctor Who in the Jon Pertwee story The Daemons. This DVD is a collection of
monologue stories. Writers are Sam Stone, David J. Howe, Raven Dane, Suzanne
Barbieri, Debbie Bennett and Jan Edwards. Script editors Sam Stone, David Howe,
Matt Fitton
Reeltime pictures

31. BBV's Professor and Ace stories don't count, and neither do
their Stranger stories. In both cases, these are attempts to
use a Doctor/companion team without a license by thinly
disguising the fact. Any other such series we've forgotten
about are in the same category.
PRoBe series featuring Liz Shaw is also worthy of being
counted.
RPs more direct (and licensed) Doctor Who stories
Wartime, Downtime, Shakedown, and the Auton trilogy do
count - after all, two of these stories also happen to have
been novelised as part of the Missing Adventures and New
Adventures series.

32. AUTON TRILOGY Featured the Auton and Nestene. It also featured UNIT. Though
there were no 'recognisable' characters from Doctor Who.
P.R.O.B.E. Featured Caroline John reprising her role of Doctor Elizabeth Shaw
working with P.R.O.B.E.
The Zero Imperative, The Devil of Winterborne, Unnatural Selection, Ghosts of
Winterborne, former Doctors Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and
Sylvester McCoy (Due to licensing restrictions, no overt reference to The Doctor
is permitted.) Louise Jameson co-stars with Caroline John in all four films, as
Patricia Haggard.
THE AIRZONE SOLUTION it doesn't have any narrative connection with Doctor Who,
it does feature Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Nicola
Bryant. In the DVD featurette The Wilderness Years, of the 2010 DVD release of the
1996 TV movie, reveals that Jon Pertwee was not cast until after production had
begun, after calling the director and complaining that a Doctor Who movie was
being made with the other Doctors and he wasn't in it. It was one of Jon Pertwee's
final appearances (in film) before his death.
BBV

34. THE STRANGER A series featuring Colin Baker as 'The Stranger' (a.k.a.
Soloman) and his companion 'Miss Brown' played by Nicola Bryant. Originally
intended as a Doctor Who pastiche -- the second film, More Than a Messiah
was even based upon an Audio Visuals Doctor Who story -- any similarities to
the TV series were erased beginning with The Terror Game. Louise Jameson,
David Troughton, Sophie Aldred
Summoned by Shadows, More Than a Messiah, In Memory Alone, The Terror
Game, Breach of the Peace, Eye of the Beholder
DO YOU HAVE A LICENCE TO SAVE THIS PLANET? A parody of Doctor Who
produced to mark BBV's 10th anniversary, this short film featured Sylvester
McCoy as "The Foot Doctor" and poked fun at not only Doctor Who, but also
BBV's line of spinoff dramas and the whole "fan film" genre. The film also
included appearances by Autons, Sontarans and BBV's Cyberons.
Cyberon (náhrada za Cybermen), Zygon, Documentary: Stranger Than
Fiction, Stranger Than Fiction 2: From Script To Screen
BBV

37. Adventure Games which in its second series brought us the story of ‘The
Gunpowder Plot’ which, needless to say, tells the story of the 11th Doctor,
Amy and Rory’s role in the events of the Gunpowder Plot.
However, the Virgin Missing Adventure ‘The Plotters’ gave an account of the
1st Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki’s involvement in these same events in such
a way that the two cannot possibly be reconciled to fit in with one another.
Therefore, it could easily be argued that only one of these can be considered
canon, but which one? The true answer to this question we may never know,
so all that can be done in these circumstances is for the individual fan to
decide for themselves what is and isn’t canon.
Hry, novely, audio story - chaos

41. stories from the expanded universe which have been adapted into TV stories.
Take for example the Virgin New Adventure ‘Human Nature’. In this story the
7th Doctor found himself being pursued by an evil family of aliens. His only
means of escape was to remove his Time Lord essence and replace any memories
he has of being a Time Lord with memories of being an English boarding school
teacher in 1914. Sound familiar?
Well it should do, because in 2007 it was adapted into the two-part, 10th Doctor
television story ‘Human Nature’ and ‘The Family of Blood’, leaving fans with a
dilemma. Both stories were important in the lives of their corresponding
Doctors, but only one can be canon. Are we really to believe that the same thing
happened to the Doctor twice and he never realised?
Throughout Doctor Who's production there have always been 'competing
narratives'; stories produced across several mediums that used the TV-created
characters, in the 1960s and 70s these took the form of short stories and comic
stories produced in annuals and comic strips. In the 1980s Doctor Who Magazine
joined the fray with their own comic strip based stories and as the annuals did
and continued to do short fiction was also produced for the magazine.

42. A similar problem is presented with the Big Finish 6th
Doctor story ‘Jubilee’ which later became the 9th Doctor
story ‘Dalek’, and the 10th Doctor comic story ‘The
Lodger’ which later became a television story of the same
name featuring the 11th Doctor.
Similarly there’s the unfinished 4th Doctor TV serial
‘Shada’ which was later adapted into an 8th Doctor
webcast of the same name. It might just be easiest to
consider the televised story the canon one in these cases,
but can we even consider the TV series canon?

43. Believe it or not though, there is evidence to suggest that this is in fact the
case. The new series isn’t canon. Aside from the issues created, once again,
by the Doctor’s age, there’s also the issue of the Human / Time Lord
Metacrisis. In the series 4 finale ‘Journey’s End’, the Doctor says that it’s
impossible and should never happen, even going as far as to say what a
terrible thing it is, but then during the 1996 movie (which may or may not be
considered part of the classic series), the Doctor states that he himself is half
human.
Since then, the IDW comic series ‘The Forgotten’ has attempted to fix this by
saying that the 8th Doctor was lying, but this solution is still problematic at
best. And there’s the issue of the entirely different accounts of Mars space
program in the late 21st century as first depicted in ‘The Seeds of Death’ and
then once again in ‘The Waters of Mars’, both stories having vastly different
views on it.
Nový Doctor - také mimo kánon?

44. Then there’s a little story called ‘Death Comes to Time’.
Starring Sylvester McCoy, this flash story was released as a
webcast on the BBC’s website. What’s so important about
this story? Only the minor fact that the Doctor dies at the
end of it.
So obviously it’s non-canon right?
Well it may surprise you to know that some fans actually
consider this story to be canon and therefore see the TV
movie and therefore the revived series as non-canon.
“Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey”

45. This is a show about time travel after all.
What’s to say that with all the paradoxes, aborted timelines and alternate
universes, plus all that time meddling and interfering that the Doctor is
famous for, that stories can’t repeat themselves?
Who’s to say that the Doctor didn’t meet Guy Fawkes in his 1st incarnation
and then again in his 11th incarnation and that somewhere in between, one
of his adventures altered the original cause of events? Maybe he or someone
else has even altered his own timeline a little, whether intentionally or
otherwise, so that he found himself living through the events of ‘Human
Nature’ twice.
We may never know the truth about canon, and this debate may go on
forever, but at least we can be thankful for the wide range of stories that
we’ve received over these almost 50 years of Doctor Who.

46. the Minister of Chance, appeared in the 2001 webcast Doctor Who: Death
Comes to Time, where he was played by TV legend, Stephen Fry. The Minister
has now, just like the Doctor, had his own face-lift, and is now portrayed by
Julian Wadham.
The cast of the series includes other familiar faces to the world of Doctor
Who, such as Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann, who both played the Doctor
before the show's return in 2005.
Připravovaný spinoff