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The Whoniverse is the fictional setting of the television series Doctor Who, Torchwood, and The Sarah Jane Adventures, as well as other related media. The word, a portmanteau of the words "Who" and "universe", has also been used to describe the show's production and fanbase.

The term is used to link characters, ideas or items which are seen across multiple productions, such as Sarah Jane Smith from Doctor Who, K-9 and Company (1981) and The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007-2011), Jack Harkness from Doctor Who and Torchwood as well as K-9 from Doctor Who, K-9 and Company, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and K-9 (TV series).

Unlike the owners of other science fiction franchises, the BBC takes no position on canon, and recent producers of the show have expressed distaste for the idea. The term has recently begun to appear in mainstream press coverage following the popular success of the 2005 Doctor Who revival.

Features

The Whoniverse has given rise to a wide variety of lifeforms, including the Time Lords, the Daleks, and the Cybermen, as well as the Sontarans, Silurians, Ice Warriors, and the Weeping Angels, who have appeared in several episodes.

Due to the time travelling nature of the show, the Whoniverse setting has been covered across points from its formation in a big bang event (in 1983's Terminus and the 1985 audio drama Slipback), to its heat death in the year "100 trillion" ("Utopia" 2007). Important events shown include the Time War, the formation of the Earth and its eventual destruction in the year "5 billion" ("The End of the World" 2005), and the destruction and recreation of the universe ("The Pandorica Opens"/"The Big Bang").

Criticism

Tat Wood says of the term "The "correct" term for this rigidness is no longer "continuity" but "fanwank". And if people insisted on using terms like "Whoniverse", it might be said that they deserved to have stories like Attack of the Cybermen or The Two Doctors made for them, because nobody else does."

Original usage

In his 1983 book Doctor Who: A Celebration; Two Decades Through Time and Space, Peter Haining called his final chapter "The Whoniverse". The section assembled factual information about all the episodes to date, but also gave information about fan clubs and ancillary entertainments related to the programme. Thus, the term "Whoniverse" referred to everything connected with the programme behind-the-scenes. In this meaning, standing exhibitions, discussions about the filming of episodes and even fandom itself were considered part of the "Whoniverse". The term "Whoniverse" is still used with this definition today. including as the name of a Doctor Who convention in Australia.

See also

• List of Doctor Who planets
• List of Doctor Who serials by setting
• List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens
• List of science fiction universes

References

Citations

1. Lofficier (1992) Foreword
2. ^ Haining 1983
3. Davies, Russel T. (2005). Doctor Who Magazine (356): . {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
4. Morrison, Ryan (12 July 2007). "Battle of Flowers: Cybermen and Dalek for Battle". BBC Jersey.
5. Peter Capaldi’s Multiple Appearances In The Whoniverse To Be Explained By An Old Russell T Davies Idea - Bleeding Cool
6. Take the Quiz: Who - or What - in the Whoniverse are Are You? BBC America
7. BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The origins of the Time Lords. and BBC - Doctor Who - A Brief History of Time Lords
8. http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/dalekhistory1.shtml
9. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rryyj/profiles/cybermen and http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/characters/cybermen.shtml
10. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0103y2x/profiles/sontarans
11. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rs69w/profiles/silurians
12. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rryyj/profiles/ice-warriors
13. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00wqr12/profiles/weeping-angels
14. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01l185b
15. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qltt and http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/episodes/S3_11
16. Creation of the Earth - Doctor Who - The Runaway Bride, BBC Worldwide
17. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074dmp
18. Wood 2007
19. A message from Matt Smith: “To the Whoniverse, thanks a million. You’re the best. I’ll miss you. And I’ll miss the madness.”
20. The Sarah Jane Adventures
21. Save The Day
22. Jessica Simpson to Enter the Whoniverse?
23. Your Guide to the Whoniverse(BBC America)
24. http://www.thehubproductions.com/Events/Whoniverse/
25. http://matt-smith.org/2013/12/whoniverse-the-doctor-is-in-australia-2014-convention/

Bibliography

• Lofficier, Jean-Marc (1992). The Universal Databank. Virgin Publishing (Target). ISBN 0-426-20370-4. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Haining, Peter (1983). Doctor Who: A Celebration; Two Decades Through Time and Space. W.H. Allen. ISBN 978-0-491-03351-0. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

• Wood, Tat (2007). About Time 6:Season 22-26, The TV Movie. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 978-0-975-94465-3.

Further reading

• Howe, David J; Walker, Stephen James (1998, 2003), Doctor Who: The Television Companion {{citation}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)

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• Doctor Who
• Fictional universes