User:EnyapCo

Introduction
Howdy, I'm EnyapCo, and welcome to my profile. I enjoy the Doctor Who franchise and most media that comes out of it.

I own the full run of DVDs, including spin-offs like The Sarah Jane Adventures and Class, and more obscure releases like TV: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. and HOMEVID: Downtime. I've also been getting into the Blu-rays lately (because of the new VAM), which is a dangerous game to play, but at least there aren't as many to buy. Because of all this, I edit the Doctor Who DVD Special Features Wiki.

My great pilgrimage
I'm currently taking what I call "the long way round" by making my way through every story I possibly can in narrative order, including TV stories, films, webcasts, audios, novels, short stories, poems, comics, and even a few games.

For example, rather than beginning with TV: An Unearthly Child, I instead started with all the pre-Season 1 stories, including AUDIO: The Beginning, PROSE: Bide-a-Wee, and PROSE: Time and Relative.

I love a good spreadsheet, so I've been working on this since July 2019. I'm just about to make it to Season 23, so I still have a ways to go. 60 years of history makes for a lot of continuity.

Here's a few lists I used to compile the total continuity:
 * Clive Banks Episode Guide -
 * doesn't include comics or anything tied to them (such as Izzy's Story or Countdown to TV Action), with a few exceptions
 * Eyespider Complete Adventures -
 * Doctor Who Reference Guide -
 * last updated in 2013

All these guides compile narrative continuity only from the Doctor's perspective, so for any stories featuring only companions (such as PROSE: Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma, god-awful as it is) or villains (like AUDIO: Master Thief), I made the decision where they best fit in.

Free Doctor Who
When I started, I was always wanting to try new series but wasn't sure I would enjoy them, so I was always on the lookout for free stories available. Here are some places where you can legally find stories for free:
 * YouTube - The official Doctor Who and BBC Youtube channels have made a number of webcasts, prequels, and mini-episodes available.
 * BBC website - Usually the stories on their site are short stories or, more recently, the podcast-format audio story Redacted
 * Big Finish - They offer some audio stories for free on their website. Usually these are Short Trips or only the first part of a story.
 * Big Finish SoundCloud - A handful of stories are available on Big Finish's SoundCloud account:
 *  Fanfare for the Common Men Part 1
 * Cuddlesome
 * The Burning Prince Part 1
 * Mission of the Viyrans
 * Urgent Calls
 * The Veiled Leopard
 * Audiobook sites - These sites will let you download 1 or 2 audiobooks as part of a free trial and have a number of Doctor Who stories in their library. Once you create a free account and get the stories, you can still access them once your trial is over.
 * audiobooks.com - 1 free book
 * Audible - 2 free books
 * Rakuten Kobo - 1 free book
 * Spotify - If you have a Spotify accout, you can access a ton of Big Finish releases, including:
 * The first 50 Main Range stories
 * Series 1 of The Fourth Doctor Adventures
 * Series 2 of The Companion Chronicles
 * Series 1 of The Lost Stories, and The Fourth Doctor Box Set
 * Destiny of the Doctor
 * I, Davros and The Davros Mission
 * The Stageplays
 * Series 1 - 3 of Graceless
 * Series 1 - 5 of Jago & Litefoot
 * Series 1 - 4 of Iris Wildthyme, and Wildthyme Reloaded
 * Series 1 of UNIT, and Dominion
 * Charlotte Pollard: Series One
 * Series 1 of The Eighth Doctor Adventures
 * Series 1 - 2 of Dalek Empire
 * The ArcHive Tapes
 * Cyberman
 * The Worlds of Big Finish
 * Series 1 - 2 of Counter-Measures
 * A number of anthologies from Bernice Summerfield:
 * Epoch
 * Road Trip
 * Legion
 * New Frontiers
 * Missing Persons
 * Hoopla - This site links to your local library account and has a ton of Big Finish releases and comics, including:
 * Series 2 of The Lost Stories
 * Volume 1 of Philip Hinchcliffe Presents
 * Series 2 of The Fourth Doctor Adventures
 * Voyage to Venus and Voyage to the New World
 * The Worlds of Doctor Who
 * Wildthyme Reloaded
 * Series 3 of Counter-Measures
 * Series 1 - 2 of The Eighth Doctor Adventures
 * Series 3 of The Companion Chronicles
 * Series 1 - 4 of Dalek Empire
 * Series 1 of The Early Adventures
 * Series 1 - 8 of Jago & Litefoot
 * Series 1 - 5 of Short Trips
 * Most Titan comic releases
 * Internet Archive - Several series have been made available here as their original releases have gone out of print, websites have been taken down, etc.
 * Eighth Doctor Radio Times comic series -
 * Issues 1 - 200 of Doctor Who Magazine -
 * Whopix comics - The entire run of TV Comic, Countdown, and TV Action have been made available thanks to Christopher McElroy, Ian Gettings, Christoper Grayling, Steven Flanagan, and Luke Andrew -
 * Complete BBC Micro Games Archive - This site has restored games released by the BBC from the 1980s onwards, including The First Adventure, Doctor Who and the Warlord, and Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror -