There are loads of useful and interesting Doctor Who web sites. These include reference works, reviews, image and sounds resources, conventions, news, and general larking about. A number of the other Doctor Who authors also have their own web sites. Here are my favourites. Each of these links will launch a new browser window.
BBC
Doctor Who Home page: Contains
links to merchandise news, trivia, and news. It’s the official site, and it has
no peer.
Torchwood
official site: Once
again, the best site for the show. If the animation is a bit much for you, use the html version instead.
Big
Finish Doctor Who: Home of the
officially-licensed audio productions, which star the original Doctors and
companions. They have a companion sites for Professor
Bernice Summerfield, The Tomorrow
People, and other lines.
BBV
Productions: News and information about more spin-offs from Doctor
Who, including recurring monsters and characters from the TV series and
novels for which the BBC, inconveniently for the Corporation but helpfully for
the rest of us, does not control the copyright.
Telos: Fantasy
novellas, top-notch reference, and tie-in material.
GallifreyOne: My favourite site for reference, forum discussion, reviews,
and articles.
Nitro9: The original huge links collection, and still very
impressive.
Doctor
Who Online: A news and reference site, with a new section on Torchwood.
The Doctor Who Bewildering Reference Guide: rather a
cluttered site when I last looked, but that’s because they have so much stuff
crammed in there. As you’ll gather from the title, it has a sense of humour too.
The Restoration Team: News and
information about the crack squad who scour the world for missing Doctor Who TV
programmes. When they find them, they lavish care and
attention on them to restore them to broadcast standard. They have done more
than any group to recover the original shows and make them widely available to
the general public. Their attention to detail borders on the
obsessive and the fanatical (fortunately for us Doctor Who fans).
Nicely designed site.
Telesnap
Reconstructions: the next best thing when
even the Restoration Team (see above) can’t track down the original is to see
these reconstructions, which use contemporary off-screen stills in an
imaginative way. They no longer distribute the reconstructions, however.
Doctor Who
Reference Site: The best and most
comprehensive summaries of all Doctor Who stories—TV, film, video,
novels, short fiction, comics, etc. A splendid piece of work
by Dominique Boies.
Earthbound Time Lords: scripts
of the TV show.
The cuttings archive: Electronic scissors and paste scrapbook for printed Doctor Who
press and magazine articles.
GallifreyOne remains your starting point for
most information, but the following are interesting too.
Broadsword: Once the doyen of Doctor Who book sites, now getting rather out of
date. Once merited a mention in a Paul Cornell novel.
Doctor Who books
page: A bit more up-to-date.
The
Tertiary Console Room: Simon Catlow’s
site about the Big Finish audio series
Varos: Jason Fraser’s site
contains a review section.
Happy Guy: Where cheerful Sean Gaffney reviews DW books.
The
Doctor Who Ratings Guide: Robert
Smith’s review site for all things DW. Reviews vary between thoughtful critique
to foaming rant, with everything in between.
Mistfall: Graham Nealon’s very impressive analysis site
for the online rankings for Doctor Who books (novels, primarily). This
is the site to which link for the
ratings you see on this site. Graham bases his analysis on data from...
Doctor Who Online
Rankings: Used to be published monthly by Shannon Patrick
Sullivan, this provided an unscientific but interesting cross-section of online
opinion about the books.
The Doctor Who Review:
Run by Roger Pocock, and reviews a wide range
of DW-related fiction.
TVZone:
Newsstand telefantasy magazine,
published monthly DW reviews.
amazon.co.uk: More
reviews, and another place to buy the books
amazon.com:
barnesandnoble.com:
The online version
of the big book store, biggest in the world, where there are reviews and you
can order the books.
Waterstones online: The
Last revised: 26 October 2006
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