Vienna (series)

Vienna was an audio series released by Big Finish Productions. It focused on the titular character of Vienna Salvatori, played by Chase Masterson.

Connections to the DWU
Vienna Salvatori debuted in the 2012 Seventh Doctor story The Shadow Heart. Based on the strength of the script, a spinoff series focusing on her character was announced before The Shadow Heart was even released.

Her first standalone story, The Memory Box, was released in 2013 and included a reference to Kylo Sorsha as well as brief appearances of a Pakhar and a Slithergee. Despite this, producer David Richardson said that he "did not see it as a Doctor Who spin-off. It's its own thing. It's not set in the Doctor Who world at all." Due to this, this wiki does not consider Vienna a valid source.

In 2015, Vienna once again crossed over with the DWU in The Worlds of Big Finish, which involved Vienna Salvatori alongside Bernice Summerfield. Big Finish executive producer Nicholas Briggs, when answering a fan question inspired by The Worlds of Big Finish about the relation of other Big Finish ranges that had crossed over with Doctor Who related works, commented that "It's all fictional. Which fictional world it all belongs to is entirely up to [individual listeners] and we don't have a firm policy on it." (VOR 73)

With the release of the third series of Vienna in 2016, Big Finish published a promotional article on their website that compared the Vienna series to various Doctor Who spin-offs such as Gallifrey, Charlotte Pollard, Jago & Litefoot, and Counter-Measures. Moreover, in a behind-the-scenes interview included with the 2018 release Vienna: Retribution, Chase Masterson herself referred to Vienna as being a Doctor Who spin-off.

Vienna appeared in the Doctor Who universe again in the 2021 anthology Master!, which referenced several characters and plotlines from Vienna including Jexie Reagan and their planned retirement from bounty hunting.

Cast connections
Many Doctor Who universe actors have appeared in Vienna including Sophie Aldred, Rachel Atkins, Annette Badland, John Banks, Sam Béart, Tim Beckmann, Donna Berlin, Dan Bottomley, Nigel Carrington, Michael Chance, Emma Cunniffe, Andrew Dickens, Harry Ditson, Stephen Fewell, Mark Frost, Kerry Gooderson, Mike Grady, Samuel Harris, Edward Harrison, James Hayward, Frazer Hines, Bernard Holley, Alex Jordan, Colin McFarlane, Terry Molloy, Elizabeth Morton, Tom Price, Regina Reagan, John Schwab, Alisdair Simpson, Alison Thea-Skot, Gemma Whelan and Duncan Wisbey. Chase Masterson also featured in Night of the Stormcrow as Peggy Brooks before she was cast as Vienna.