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What this wiki allows as valid resources for "in-universe" articles
The following list is merely a different, simplified way of looking at out canon policy. Whereas out canon policy generally speaks in terms of things that we don't consider canon, this list examines the policy from the perspective of those things that are considered canon. Because this is the reduction of policy to list form, few explanations are given here as to why certain items are on the list. For that detail, please return to the main policy page.

Fully licensed narrative
A "fully licensed narrative" is a story which is released with the blessing of the British Broadcasting Corporation. They are fully licensed in that every detail within the narrative may be safely assumed to be what it appears to be. If it seems to be the character of the Doctor or Romana, or the TARDIS or Gallifrey, then that's what it is. This can be contrasted with semi-licensed stories, like The Choice, where the identity of some characters is obscured to avoid copyright problems, or the totally unlicensed Time Travellers series, where the characters are only approximations of Doctor Who characters.

Acceptable fully-licensed narratives are:


 * 1) All televised stories of Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood, K9 and Company, and K9 EXCEPT FOR:
 * 2) Dimensions in Time
 * 3) The Curse of Fatal Death
 * 4) the Tonight's the Night sketch
 * 5) the 2011 National Television Awards sketch
 * 6) any obviously parodic sketches in the future
 * 7) anything listed on the page, Doctor Who parodies.
 * 8)  Narrative  material in other media which has been officially licensed by the British Broadcasting Corporation or Metal Mutt Productions
 * 9) Novels
 * 10) BBC Books
 * 11) BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
 * 12) BBC Past Doctor Adventures
 * 13) BBC New Series Adventures
 * 14) The Darksmith Legacy
 * 15) The Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations
 * 16) Quick Reads
 * 17) Doctor Who Chapter Books
 * 18) Any other future ranges of  fiction  published by the BBC
 * 19) Sparrow Books
 * 20) The Adventures of K9
 * 21) Target Books
 * 22) Companions of Doctor Who
 * 23) Target Missing Episodes - only to the extent that they do not contradict The Lost Stories series by Big Finish Productions
 * 24) Target Novelisations — only to the extent that they do not contradict televised episodes.
 * 25) Virgin Books
 * 26) Virgin Missing Adventures
 * 27) Virgin New Adventures
 * 28) Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures
 * 29) Telos Publishing
 * 30) Telos Doctor Who Novellas
 * 31) Short stories
 * 32) Big Finish Productions
 * 33) Short Trips (series)
 * 34) Virgin Books
 * 35) Virgin Decalogs
 * 36) World Distributors (Manchester), Ltd, Marvel Comics, Panini Comics, Polystyle Publications, Ltd.
 * 37) Doctor Who Annuals
 * 38) Doctor Who material in TV Comic Annuals
 * 39) Doctor Who material in Countdown/TV Action Annuals
 * 40) Doctor Who Holiday Special (1973)
 * 41) Doctor Who Holiday Special (1974)
 * 42) Doctor Who Winter Special (1977)
 * 43) Doctor Who Yearbook 1992 - 1996
 * 44) Doctor Who Storybook 2007 - present
 * 45) Stories found in Doctor Who Magazine and special issues, including, the Brief Encounters range and any "one-shot" short stories.
 * 46) K9 Annual 1983
 * 47) Comics published in or by:
 * 48) Doctor Who Magazine EXCEPT the Tales from the TARDIS series of strips and any parodic/humour strips, such as work by Dicky Howett and Tim Quinn
 * 49) Doctor Who Adventures
 * 50) Doctor Who: Battles in Time
 * 51) TV Comic
 * 52) Countdown / TV Action
 * 53) Radio Times
 * 54) Torchwood Magazine
 * 55) any IDW Doctor Who publication
 * 56) any annual, yearbook, storybook, holiday special or seasonal publication — based upon any show in the Doctor Who universe — published by BBC Magazines, BBC Books, Panini Comics, IDW Publishing, Polystyle Publications, Ltd., Marvel Comics, or World Distributors (Manchester), Ltd
 * 57) any official BBC website, or the official K9 website.
 * 58) Audio
 * 59) BBC Radio Dramas
 * 60) Big Finish Productions
 * 61) Stories with the Doctor
 * 62) Big Finish special releases
 * 63) Companion Chronicles
 * 64) Doctor Who monthly audio stories
 * 65) Eighth Doctor Adventures audio stories
 * 66) Excelis Saga audio stories
 * 67) Lost Stories
 * 68) Stories without the Doctor
 * 69) Bernice Summerfield audio series
 * 70) Cyberman audio series
 * 71) Dalek Empire audio series
 * 72) Gallifrey audio series
 * 73) Graceless audio series
 * 74) I, Davros audio series
 * 75) Iris Wildthyme audio series
 * 76) Jago and Litefoot audio series
 * 77) Sarah Jane Smith audio series
 * 78) UNIT audio series
 * 79) Webcasts
 * 80) only Real Time
 * 81) Video games
 * 82) Doctor Who: The Adventure Games
 * 83) Things where the canonicity is unclear
 * 84) Everything at Doctor Who Make Your Own Adventure Books. It's unclear which version of events might be considered "true".

Semi-licensed narrative
A "semi-licensed narrative" is one in which the producers have obtained the permission of the copyright-holder of a character, but not the British Broadcasting Corporation.
 * 1) Abslom Daak stories published by Marvel Comics
 * 2) Bernice Summerfield stories, published by Big Finish and Virgin Books
 * 3) Kaldor City audio series, as licensed by Chris Boucher, writer of The Robots of Death
 * 4) The Time Hunter series which resulted from the BBC-licensed, TN: The Cabinet of Light
 * 5) The Miranda comic book, which arose from Lance Parkin's work on the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
 * 6) The Dalek Annuals, which resulted from Terry Nation's partial copyright on the Daleks
 * 7) Faction Paradox
 * 8) BBV: The Eleven Day Empire
 * 9) The Shadow Play
 * 10) Sabbath Dei
 * 11) In the Year of the Cat
 * 12) Movers
 * 13) A Labyrinth of Histories
 * 14) MB: Coming to Dust
 * 15) The Ship of a Billion Years
 * 16) Body Politic
 * 17) Words from Nine Divinities
 * 18) Ozymandias
 * 19) The Judgment of Sutekh
 * 20) Novels: The Book of the War
 * 21) This Town Will Never Let Us Go
 * 22) Of the City of the Saved...
 * 23) Warlords of Utopia
 * 24) Warring States
 * 25) Erasing Sherlock
 * 26) Newtons Sleep
 * 27) Comics: Political Animals
 * 28) Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses
 * 29) . . . and anything else which might be published with the consent of Lawrence Miles, unless it directly uses elements copyrighted by the BBC, and is published without the BBC's permission.
 * 30) Selected parts of the BBV Productions/Reeltime Pictures back-catalogue, strictly limited to that which had the assent of the character copyright holders. Thus the following are allowed:
 * 31) P.R.O.B.E.
 * 32) The Zero Imperative
 * 33) The Devil of Winterborne
 * 34) Unnatural Selection
 * 35) Ghosts of Winterborne
 * 36) Guy de Carnac, a character who appeared in Sanctuary, a BBC-licensed product
 * 37) The Quality of Mercy
 * 38) The "Auton Trilogy"
 * 39) Auton
 * 40) Auton 2: Sentinel
 * 41) Auton 3: Awakening
 * 42) Rutans
 * 43) In 2 Minds
 * 44) The Shakedown duology
 * 45) Shakedown
 * 46) Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
 * 47) The Krynoid duology
 * 48) Krynoids: The Root of All Evil
 * 49) Krynoids: The Green Man
 * 50) The I
 * 51) I Scream
 * 52) The Rani
 * 53) The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind
 * 54) Wirrn
 * 55) Wirrn: Race Memory
 * 56) Adventures in a Pocket Universe - these are complicated to assess, because the producers had the assent of the K9 copyright holders, but not the BBC, who own Romana. Thus, although Lalla Ward was the co-star of the series, she cannot be judged to be playing Romana II.  She is herein referred to only as "The Mistress".  The K9 herein is not K9 Mark II, who went with Romana II into E-Space, but another model of K9 altogether. Therefore, we allow coverage of these stories, but in a careful way that never refers back to either the characters of K9 Mark II or Romana II.
 * 57) The Choice
 * 58) The Search