Mini-episode

Mini-episodes, or minisodes, are short episodes of Doctor Who usually released online, in a DVD set or broadcast during charity telethons such as Children in Need and Comic Relief.

The Sarah Jane Adventures was also granted minisodes, making it the only spin-off to do so.

List of Doctor Who mini-episodes
This list compiles most mini-episodes, regardless of this Wiki's decision on validity.

"Classic" era

 * Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful
 * A Fix with Sontarans
 * Untitled
 * The Shrink

"Wilderness" era

 * Search Out Space
 * Dimensions in Time
 * Introduction to the Night
 * The Web of Caves

Series 2

 * Born Again
 * Attack of the Graske
 * Tardisodes

Series 4

 * Time Crash
 * Music of the Spheres

Series 5

 * Meanwhile in the TARDIS

Series 6

 * Dermot and the Doctor
 * Space / Time
 * Prequel to The Impossible Astronaut
 * Prequel to The Curse of the Black Spot
 * Brain Trafficking
 * Prequel to Let's Kill Hitler
 * Prequel to The Wedding of River Song
 * Death Is the Only Answer
 * The Crash of the Elysium
 * Children in Need 2011
 * Night and the Doctor
 * Good Night
 * Bad Night
 * First Night
 * Last Night
 * Up All Night

Series 7

 * Prequel to The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
 * Good as Gold
 * Pond Life
 * Prequel to Asylum of the Daleks
 * The Making of the Gunslinger
 * P.S.
 * The Great Detective
 * Vastra Investigates
 * BAFTA in the TARDIS
 * One Born Every Minute
 * The Bells of Saint John: A Prequel
 * The Battle of Demon's Run: Two Days Later
 * She Said, He Said
 * Clarence and the Whispermen
 * Bodyswap to the Proms
 * Clara and the TARDIS
 * The Inforarium
 * Rain Gods

50th specials

 * A Night with the Stars
 * The Night of the Doctor
 * The History of the Doctor
 * The Last Day
 * Cinema Introduction

Series 8

 * Prequel to Deep Breath

Series 9

 * Prologue
 * The Doctor's Meditation

Series 10

 * Friend from the Future
 * Looking for Pudsey

Series 11

 *  'Twas the Night Before Christmas
 * The Doctor needs YOUR help!

Series 12

 * The Defence Drones

Lockdown mini-episodes
The following are the on screen mini-episodes of the Lockdown watchalongs.
 * Strax Saves the Day
 * Message from the Doctor
 * The Raggedy Doctor by Amelia Pond
 * United we stand, 2m apart
 * Rory's Story
 * Farewell, Sarah Jane
 * Sven and the Scarf
 * Pompadour
 * The Zygon Isolation
 * The Descendants of Pompeii
 * Fear Is a Superpower
 * Doctors Assemble!
 * The Secret of Novice Hame
 * The Best of Days
 * U.N.I.T. On Call
 * The Genuine Article

The Collection mini-episodes
The term of "mini-episodes" was also used by Pete McTighe in DWM 571 to refer to the short live-action Doctor Who stories whose creation he oversaw to accompany trailers for The Collection, noting that "calling them trailers feels a bit reductive". Some of these shorts broke the fourth wall while others were set in the Doctor Who universe. Contrary to traditional mini-episodes, these naturally did not tie in with the then-current season of Doctor Who on TV, but rather caught up with some element of the season being released in a Collection box-set at the time of release of the mini-episode.


 * Jovanka Airlines
 * Galactic Glitter
 * Hello Boys!
 * The Trial
 * The Promise
 * Home Assistant
 * Return of the Autons
 * 24 Carat
 * Risen
 * The Eternal Mystery
 * The Storyteller
 * Defenders of Earth

2022, for the first time, saw a new, recut edition of a previously released minisode, A Fix with Sontarans.
 * A Fix with Sontarans

List of The Sarah Jane Adventures mini-episodes

 * From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love 

The Sarah Jane Adventures Special

 * Clyde Introduces...
 * Introduction to SJA
 * Attic Padz
 * Rani and Clyde
 * Chris Meets...