Doctor Who audio books

[ByAsura]

I've heard there's no real established canon for Doctor Who, but does anyone have any information for about them being "canon", secondary to the series, or contradicted?

I've also heard about some of them being able to fit into the time line and some not, so i'll say a specific story. Is Eldrad Must Die! contradicted by the events in the TV show?

 

[The_Everlasting]

Doctor Who canon is literally "Whatever you want it to be" as per Word of God.

BBC doesn't actually own everything in Doctor Who (Hell, they don't even own the Daleks), so a bunch of authors can use material from them in their own stories without issue. There is no canon because they can't even have one to begin with.

 

[WeeklyBattles]

People have problems with SCP but not with Dr. Who ovo

 

[ByAsura]

Ok. Thank you.

 

[Follow_Doctor_Freeman]

Will link some canon audio books presently.

 

[Follow_Doctor_Freeman]

https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/sets/complete-free-big-finish

http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/30-hours-of-doctor-who-audio-dramas-now-streaming-on-spotify.html

Plenty more on Soundcloud if you know where to look. And I mostly agree with Ever. Virgin, BCC, Big Finish, FASA's role-playing game, various liscensed reference books, Lawrence Miles' books, the Benny adventures, and the comics in Doctor Who magazine are all on the table. It's frightening how consistent they are, too. Most completely unreliable sources can be spotted a mile away due to no one associated with the show or the aforementioned sources being tied to them; that and the fact that these fan-works almost invariable broadcast themselves as such and are free make them surprisingly easy to differentiate from the sources we should consider legitimate.

@Weekly - I feel for you and think we're too harsh on SCP, but I hope I just proved how many issues in Doctor Who are much more certain than a webpage that can be edited.

 

[ByAsura]

Thank you for the imput. I'll have to read those some time. They seem interesting.

 

[Follow_Doctor_Freeman]

I'm glad you brought these up since I forgot about them; I'll have to give them a listen after finishing my Russian Film Challenge.