New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club - Fan Productions

Fan Productions

Like other genre which has developed a large following (Star Trek, Star Wars, Blake's 7 just to name a few), Doctor Who also has groups of fans developing their own productions based on the show. Like other fan productions, though, the legality of such unofficial productions is highly questionable. But this has not stopped fans from making their own brand of Doctor Who.

Unlike productions based on other genre, Doctor Who fandom create not only video, but also audio drama as well, audio drama being much more mainstream in the UK where Doctor Who is made by the BBC.

One of the most significant fan groups producing dramatised stories were Audio Visuals, who distributed their works on audio cassettes during the 1980s. Many involved in this group would later form the commercial company Big Finish Productions and be licenced by the BBC to produce official Doctor Who stories for a retail market on audio CD. Several of these productions were later broadcast by BBC Radio.

Many fans put a huge amount of work and effort varying from animation to live action films. A lot of them use villains from the real show, like Cybermen and Daleks, and attempt to remain within continuity.

The Youtube video channel WrightsProductionsYT produced unofficial Doctor Who episodes between 2005 and 2009 and started remastering them in HD from 2011. It was one of the long-serving fandom productions to contain full story-lines and original cast. Due to a new channel creation, all original views and comments were lost, but the show lives on. Many others have also made their own Doctor Who episodes.