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Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia is a reference book, as well as an interactive reference app, about Doctor Who and its related programs.

Book version[]

The first version of the Encyclopedia was a reference book, containing an alphabetical list of everything in the first three years of televised Doctor Who after its revival. It included references from all episodes from the first three series, including the Christmas specials. It also included the Tardisodes of Series 2, the animated story The Infinite Quest, and the prologue to 42.

Publisher's summary (2007 edition)[]

There's no need to search time and space – it's all right here. From Autons to Anne Droid, from Cat Nuns to Canary Wharf, from Plasmavores to Pig Slaves... everything you need to know about everything you didn't know you needed to know about Doctor Who.

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  • In DWM 388, Russell T. Davies in his regular page discusses the entry Cruciform. Gary had assumed from the Master's words, "I was there when the Dalek Emperor took control of the Cruciform," that it had occurred on Gallifrey because of the context. Russell T. Davies was clear in his own mind that it wasn't, that the Cruciform was "more terrible than I can say, of a scale and ferocity that's absolutely untransmittable on prime-time," a larger part of the "disgusting, horrific, temporal hell" that was the Time War.
  • This non-jacketed hardback with a photographic cover was priced £14.99 (UK).
  • In January 2014, the official website for Russell T Davies' book The Writer's Tale was discontinued, and the web domain redirected to that for the Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia app. After the app website's discontinuation, it instead redirected to Penguin Books' page for The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter.

Errors[]

  • Milton Ager was misspelled as Milton Agar.
  • Barcelona was referred to as the capital city of Spain.

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Publisher's summary (2011 edition)[]

  • River Song still a riddle?
  • Stumped by the stolen planets in the Medusa Cascade?
  • Forgotten what happened in the timelines that never happened?

Look no further...

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App version[]

DW The Encyclopedia app emperor dalek

The app's entry about the Emperor Dalek.

In 2012, an app version of the book was made available for tablet devices. It featured an interactive reference guide with sections dedicated to specific areas of the TV show. An official website was launched for the app.

A new edition of the app was published in December 2012, incorporating material through Part 1 of Series 7. Despite neither the app nor website being updated for future series after this point, the website remained active until August 2015, after which point it redirected to Penguin Books' Doctor Who page.

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