The Whoniverse, a portmanteau of Doctor Who and universe, is the fictional universe in which Doctor Who, Torchwood and other related stories take place.^[1] The term is used most widely to categorise characters or other items which are involved in multiple media, such as Sarah Jane Smith from Doctor Who, K-9 and Company and Sarah Jane Adventures, or Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who and Torchwood. Look up Portmanteau word in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is becoming very long. ... The deepest visible-light image of the cosmos, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. ... A fictional universe is a cohesive imaginary world that serves as the setting or backdrop for one or (more commonly) multiple works of fiction. ... Torchwood is a British television science fiction and crime drama created by Russell T. Davies and starring John Barrowman and Eve Myles dealing with the machinations and activities of the fictional Torchwood Institute. ... // The Whoniverse, a portmanteau of Doctor Who and universe, is the fictional universe in which Doctor Who, Torchwood and other related stories take place. ... Sarah Jane Smith is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and K-9. ... The Sarah Jane Adventures is a forthcoming British childrens television series, produced by BBC Wales for CBBC, to star Elisabeth Sladen and created by Russell T. Davies. ... Captain Jack Harkness, also known as Captain Jack, is a fictional character played by John Barrowman in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

It is similar to the popular term "Buffyverse" used to describe the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel and the term "Xenaverse" used to describe the setting of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. Buffyverse is a term coined by fans of Joss Whedons first two television shows to refer to the shared fictional universe in which they are set. ... Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American cult television series that aired from March 10, 1997, until May 20, 2003. ... The Annunciation - the Angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will bear Jesus (El Greco, 1575) An angel is a supernatural being found in many religions. ... Hercules: The Legendary Journeys was a television series produced from 1995 to 1999, very loosely based on the tales of the classical culture hero Hercules. ... Xena. ...

Overview

Whereas the original series of Doctor Who kept exploration of its fictional universe to a minimum, simply following the Doctor wherever he went, the revived series is a different matter. During the show's absence between 1989-2005, much of the audio plays and books were of unknown canonicity. Russell T Davies began including concepts from this material however, such as in the backstory to the Time War. Russell T. Davies, pictured in 2003. ... The Time War is an event referred to on several occasions in the 2005 series of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Various events in the current series are also recurring elements, such as Aliens of London, The Christmas Invasion and Doomsday, being alluded to many times in Love & Monsters and the spin-off Torchwood. Aliens of London is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 16, 2005. ... The Christmas Invasion is a 60-minute special episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Doomsday is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Love & Monsters is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Torchwood is a British television science fiction and crime drama created by Russell T. Davies and starring John Barrowman and Eve Myles dealing with the machinations and activities of the fictional Torchwood Institute. ...

Features

Typical features of the Whoniverse are planets inhabited by human-resembling species (e.g. Mondas, Skaro, Gallifrey etc.) and other humanoid species. Time travel is possible, as was interdimensional travel, but since the fall of the Time Lords it is noted as being significantly more difficult.^[2] Alien technology is often far more advanced than Earth technology, often creating seemingly magical feats such as resurrecting the dead and retrocognition. There seems to be - or have at a time been, some order to the universe, with rules regulating time travel, and the Celestial Intervention Agency occasionally intervening. A political code of conduct exists between many alien races, with mentions of the "Shadow Proclamation",^[3] and also evidenced when the Daleks and Time Lords cooperated in the execution of the Master.^[4] The universe itself seems to have some natural agents to clean up problems such as Reapers who appear to clean up time paradoxes.^[5] There also exists a "Black Guardian" and "White Guardian" who serve as personifications of chaos and order respectively, balancing the forces of the universe. Mondas as it appeared in The Tenth Planet. ... Skaro from space (from the 1996 Doctor Who television movie. ... A Vardan spaceship approaches Gallifrey from space (from The Invasion of Time). ... The term humanoid refers to any being whose body structure resembles that of a human. ... Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ... This article is about the Time Lords from Doctor Who. ... This is a list of monsters and aliens from the television series Doctor Who. ... Retrocognition, also called postcognition, is the supposed ability to know something about a situation after its occurrence through psychic means. ... The Celestial Intervention Agency is a fictional organization of Time Lords in the universe of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Daleks (pronounced DAH-lecks; IPA: ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Master is a supporting fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... This is a list of monsters and aliens from the television series Doctor Who. ... The grandfather paradox is a paradox of time travel, first conceived by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book Le voyageur imprudent (The imprudent traveller) [1]. The paradox, stated in the second person, is this: Suppose you travelled back in time and killed your biological grandfather before... The Black Guardian is a character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The White Guardian is a character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

There appears to be at least some indication that there is a monotheistic deity and adversary^[6] with some place in the universe, despite atheistic themes in Torchwood touched upon in its pilot and elsewhere, with the suggestion that there is in fact no afterlife. However, contradicting this, Random Shoes featured a principle character who appeared to become a ghost after his death due to an alien artifact.^[7] He appeared to visibly "move on", possibly to an afterlife, after returning to the physical world momentarily. In theology, monotheism (Greek μόνος(monos) = single and θεός(theos) = God) is the belief in the existence of one deity or God, or in the oneness of God. ... The Devil is a title given to a supernatural entity, who, in most interpretations of the Abrahamic faiths, is the central embodiment of evil. ... Everything Changes is an episode in the British science fiction television series Torchwood, which was first broadcast on 22 October 2006. ... They Keep Killing Suzie is an episode in the British science fiction television series Torchwood. ... The afterlife (or life after death) is a generic term referring to a continuation of existence, typically spiritual, experiential, or ghost-like, beyond this world, or after death. ... Random Shoes is an episode in the British science fiction television series Torchwood, which was broadcast on 10 December 2006. ... A manufactured image of a ghostly woman ascending a staircase. ...

Typically, people on Earth are at least to some extent aware of alien life. The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce and Torchwood Institute are examples of federal responses to the knowledge of extraterrestrial life. Aliens have invaded Earth many times, most notably in recent years as part of The Christmas Invasion and Doomsday. People, as put by the Doctor have "an amazing capacity for self-deception" (Sunnydale Syndrome). Some people explain the events of these invasions as "mass hallucinations" caused by psychotropic drugs planted by terrorists in our water. ^[8] However others form conspiracy groups, having figured out the presence of The Doctor and alien life.^{[3] [9]} Earth (IPA: , often referred to as the Earth, Terra, the World or Planet Earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. ... The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (also known as UNIT) is a fictional military organization from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Torchwood Institute is a fictional organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. ... The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, currently used by the SETI project in the search for extraterrestrial life Extraterrestrial life is life that may exist and originate outside the planet Earth, the only place in the universe currently known by humans to support life. ... The Christmas Invasion is a 60-minute special episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Doomsday is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Sunnydale Sunnydale, California, is the fictional suburban setting for the popular television drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... A mass hallucination is a phenomenon in which a large group of people, usually in physical proximity to each other, all experience the same hallucination simultaneously. ... A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical substance that acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, mood, consciousness and behavior. ...

Unique aspects of Earth itself in the fictional universe are also expanded upon. It is explained that supernatural entities have always inhabited Earth^[10] in addition to extraterrestrial visitors. The planet Earth was also once one of twin planets, with its sister Mondas. 21st Century Earth is also portrayed in recent depictions as possessing technology above reality's own, most commonly associated with UNIT and moreso the Torchwood Institute - the planet even is described as being "armed" in The Christmas Invasion. Earth's future has been portrayed in many different ways, sometimes with little difference to the present and others as a greedy hyper-industrialised world and other times a Utopia or dying planet. By the 51st century, it appears that humans have acquired time travel, with Captain Jack Harkness originally thinking that the Ninth Doctor and Rose were "time agents" like himself. ^[11] This is a list of monsters and aliens from the television series Torchwood. ... This is a list of items from BBC science-fiction drama Torchwood. ... This is a list of items from BBC science-fiction drama Torchwood. ... The following is a list of Doctor Who episodes by their era and date, when known. ... Left panel (The Earthly Paradise, Garden of Eden), from Hieronymus Boschs The Garden of Earthly Delights. ... This article is about the fictional character from Doctor Who and Torchwood. ... The Ninth Doctor refers to the ninth official incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor, in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Rose Tyler is a fictional character played by Billie Piper in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Inclusion

It can be considered debatable what is canon to the series and which is not, and whether canonicity and Whoniverse inclusion are the same things. While it is established that the classic Doctor Who series (Doctors One to Seven), the television movie (Eighth Doctor), the new Doctor Who series (Doctors Nine and Ten) and the official three of the program's four spin-off series Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and K-9 and Company are definitely the canon and the mainstay of the Whoniverse, the other spin-off media's inclusion is unclear. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The First Doctor is the name given to the first incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Seventh Doctor is the name given to the seventh incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Doctor Who is a television movie based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Eighth Doctor is the name given to the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Ninth Doctor refers to the ninth official incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor, in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Tenth Doctor is the name given to the tenth and current incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Torchwood is a British television science fiction and crime drama created by Russell T. Davies and starring John Barrowman and Eve Myles dealing with the machinations and activities of the fictional Torchwood Institute. ... The Sarah Jane Adventures is a forthcoming British childrens television series, produced by BBC Wales for CBBC, to star Elisabeth Sladen and created by Russell T. Davies. ... Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and K-9. ... Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Boom Town seemed to suggest that at least some spin-off media is part of the canon story, referencing The Monsters Inside.^[12] And some spin-off media while not referred to by the canon, does not contradict it. Furthermore, as is part of the nature of a fictional universe in which time travel is possible, alternate timelines become possible, which gives the possibility of literally retconning events by writing over them within the universe's fictional history. This creates an inherent flexibility in what can count. Boom Town is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on June 4, 2005. ... The Monsters Inside is a BBC Books original novel written by Stephen Cole and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Alternate history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

The Gallifrey Chronicles also suggest that perhaps, the Eighth Doctor's three spin-off media series of adventures would lead to three separate incarnations of the Ninth Doctor: portrayed by Rowan Atkinson (Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death), Richard E. Grant (Scream of the Shalka) and Christopher Eccleston respectively.^[13] The Tenth Doctor stated in Doomsday that every decision we make creates a fractured alternate universe, which would comply with this theory.^[14] The Gallifrey Chronicles is the title of two books related to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Eighth Doctor is the name given to the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Ninth Doctor refers to the ninth official incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor, in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death was a four-episode special of Doctor Who made for the Red Nose Day charity telethon in the United Kingdom, and broadcast on BBC One on 12 March 1999. ... Richard E. Grant depicted as the unofficial Ninth Doctor. ... Scream of the Shalka was a flash-animated serial based on the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ... Christopher Eccleston (born on February 16, 1964) is an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and other work in television, and for his roles in several high-profile low-budget films. ... The Tenth Doctor is the name given to the tenth and current incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Doomsday is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... A parallel universe, also sometimes called an alternate universe, is a hypothetical universe which exists separately from our own. ...

While spin-off media may be considered by some part of a fictional multiverse, and the core canon only describing the fictional universe, some Doctor Who media seem to contradict both canon and the basic laws established in the fictional universe, more of a work based on the original Doctor Who, most notably Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD which therefore cannot exist in the Whoniverse. Also the fourth spin-off series K-9 Adventures is not produced by the BBC but by Jetix Europe with no BBC involvement, it remains to be seen if this series will fit into series canon, or be only loosely based upon its titular character, K-9. A multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes (including our universe) that together comprise all of physical reality. ... Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) was the first of two Doctor Who films made in the 1960s, and was followed by Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD. The film features Peter Cushing as Dr. Who, Roberta Tovey, Jennie Linden and noted Carry On star Roy Castle. ... Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966) is the second of two Doctor Who films made during the 1960s to feature Peter Cushing as the time traveller Dr. Who (unlike the television series, where the character is simply called the Doctor). ... K-9 Adventures will be a 26-part comedy/adventure series focusing on the adventures of the robot dog K-9, done in a mixture of computer animation and live action. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... This article treats about history of the brand Jetix and the brand in the United States. ... K-9, or K9, is the name of several robotic dogs in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ...

On another level, Russell T. Davies himself contributed to spin-off media during Doctor Who's absence, and the show does make occasional references to this grey area. Oblique references to the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip ("kronkburgers" in The Long Game) and the Virgin New Adventures (the planets Lucifer and Arcadia, mentioned in Bad Wolf and Doomsday respectively, and the Doctor's title "The Oncoming Storm", mentioned in The Parting Of The Ways) but these are most likely playful tributes rather than deliberate attempts to dictate a Doctor Who canon. Still, these references are innovations peculiar to the 2005 series; the original 1963–1989 series never referred to adventures published in other media. Overall, Davies has said that he is "usually happy for old and new fans to invent the Complete History of the Doctor in their heads, completely free of the production team's hot and heavy hands."^[15] Russell T. Davies, interviewed for the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential in 2005. ... The Long Game is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on May 7, 2005. ... The Virgin New Adventures (often referred to simply as NAs within fandom) were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, continuing the story of the series from where the television programme had left off. ... Bad Wolf is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on June 11, 2005. ... Look up doomsday in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Parting of the Ways is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on June 18, 2005. ...

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