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Josiah Rowe wrote: I can see both sides of this. On the one hand, the David Warner stories are now, thanks to Bernice Summerfield, clearly an alternate universe. And conceptually, it's certainly possible to see and treat the others (excepting Deadline) as alternate universes.

But as far as I know, we don't have any statements from Big Finish saying that the Unbound stories are alternate universes. Instead, we have (I believe) statements strongly indicating that the Unbound plays were intended to be outside of the Doctor Who universe.

Now, there may be an argument to be made that every Doctor Who story, even those deliberately set outside of the Doctor's usual narrative universe, takes place in what we might call "the Doctor Who omniverse", as depicted in stories such as The Glorious Dead and Zagreus. But to me, that argument has a whiff of what they call "original research" on Wikipedia.

In short, I think that somebody needs to find some quotes from Big Finish production personnel talking about the original Unbound stories before we can go any further with this discussion. BF advertises the series as "alternative realities".