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Doctors , there’s got to be an appeal to clarity in storytelling. With so many Doctor Who stories in existence, it’s almost impossible to tell a new one that doesn’t explicitly contradict an earlier story, let alone implicitly. The reason no-one, say, remarks that the second Doctor looks like Salamander except in The Enemy of the World is the same reason that no-one ever says Rose looks like the girl who married Chris Evans - it gets in the way of the story, and doesn’t help it along.

    The Stories
    This book restricts itself to events described in the BBC television series Doctor Who , and its original full-length fiction, audio plays and comics; the spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures , Torchwood , K9 and their full-length fiction, audio plays and comics; and any spin-off books, audios, comics and direct-to-video/DVD films involving characters that originated in the above, and were used with permission by their rights holders (see Section No. 4 below). To be included in this Third Edition of Ahistory , a story had to be released before 31st December, 2011.
    This is not an attempt to enter the debate about which stories are “canon” (although we have been compelled to make such determinations at times), it is simply an attempt to limit the length and scale of this book. There are two types of information in this book - evidence given in TV stories, and anything provided in another format - and these are distinguished by different typefaces.
    1. The Television Series. Included are the episodes and on-screen credits of the BBC television series Doctor Who from An Unearthly Child (1963) to The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (2011), the K9 and Company pilot episode (1981), Torchwood (2006-2011), The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007-2011), the K9 TV series (2009-2010), and extended or unbroadcast versions that have since been commercially released or broadcast anywhere in the world - there are few cases of “extended” material contradicting the original story.
    Priority is given to sources closest to the finished product or the production team of the time the story was made. In descending order of authority are the following: the programme as broadcast; the official series websites; official guidebooks made in support of the series ( Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia , etc.), the Radio Times and other contemporary BBC publicity material (which was often written by the producer or script editor); the camera script; the novelisation of a story by the original author or an author working closely from the camera script; contemporary interviews with members of the production team; televised trailers; rehearsal and draft scripts; novelisations by people other than the original author; storylines and writers’ guides (which often contradict on-screen information); interviews with members of the production team after the story was broadcast; and finally any other material, such as fan speculation.
    Scenes cut from broadcast were considered if they were incorporated back into a story at a later time (as with those in The Curse of Fenric VHS and DVD). Not included is information from unreleased material that exists, is in release but was kept separate from the story (for instance, the extra scenes on the Ghost Light DVD) or that no longer exists (such as with Terror of the Autons , Terror of the Zygons and The Hand of Fear ). Neither does the first version of An Unearthly Child to be filmed (the so-called “pilot episode”) count, nor “In character” appearances by the Doctor interacting with the real world on other programmes (e.g.: on Animal Magic , Children in Need , Blue Peter etc.).
    2. The Doctor Who , The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood books, audios and webcasts. This present volume encompasses the Doctor Who New and Missing Adventures published by Virgin (1991-1997), the BBC’s Eighth Doctor Adventures (1997-2005), the BBC’s Past Doctor Adventures (1997-2005), the BBC’s New Series Adventures (up through