Doctor Who: The Fan Show was a YouTube series on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel. It was hosted by Christel Dee and later also with Luke Spillane. Every week, they talked about Doctor Who and its many spin-offs with a special guest, usually a fan, although interviews with a member of the cast or crew were not unheard of. Some episodes also featured, or entirely consisted of, in-character skits, usually of a parodical nature.
The pilot, Meet Christel, was first released on YouTube on 8 May 2015 on the especially-created Doctor Who: The Fan Show YouTube channel. All following episodes were released directly on the parent Doctor Who channel, with the exception of the minisode Incoming Transmission, a prequel to The Finale (the finale of Season 1), which was instead released on Facebook.
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Series 1[]
How You Know You're a Doctor Who Fan[]
An element of The Fan Show in its first series was adding to the list of "How You Know You're a Doctor Who Fan".
- 27: You talk in episode titles (Doctor Who Titles Challenge)
- 42: You Vote in the Universal Song Contest (The Universal Song Contest & Symphonic Spectacular!)
- 137: You Underscore Your Life With Murray Gold (The Universal Song Contest & Symphonic Spectacular!)
- 173: Doctor Who Music Is Dancing Music (The Universal Song Contest & Symphonic Spectacular!)
| # | Name | Subject | Interviewed | Skit | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Meet Christel | – | Christel Dee | Christel passes a mug of tea through the screen to a watching Doctor Who fan, then later asks for its return. | 8 May 2015 |
| 1 | Zygons & Osgood In Series 9! | Zygons, Osgood, Kate Stewart, Rufus Hound, Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular | – | The Old Doctor Who Monsters' Home | 8 May 2015 |
| 2 | Doctor Who Titles Challenge | – | – | Christel and Thomas Rees-Kaye use as many Doctor Who episode titles as possible to answer where the toilets are. | 15 May 2015 |
| 3 | The Magician's Apprentice: What We Know So Far | All known about The Magician's Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar, and news about Maisie Williams | Pete Lannister & Gendry Temple-Noble in a sports news-style sketch | Player profiles on Maisie Williams and Mark Gatiss, and "player transfers" between franchises | 15 May 2015 |
| 4 | The Universal Song Contest & Symphonic Spectacular! | The Doctor Who Fan Orchestra, Legs Nose Robinson, and other Doctor Who-inspired musical groups; Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular | Crispy Pro on Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular in Australia | The Universal Song Contest | 22 May 2015 |
| 5 | We Need You! - San Diego Comic Con | Plans for San Diego Comic-Con 2015 | – | – | 27 May 2015 |
| 6 | Doctor Who is Invading The World! | Mumbai Comic-Con | Indian fans on what they love about Doctor Who | If Doctor Who was a Disney comedy: The Princess and the Doctor | 29 May 2015 |
| 7 | The Doctor Who Festival | Doctor Who Festival | – | Luke Spillane looks for Christel, who expects more than she should for the Doctor Who Festival. | 4 June 2015 |
| 8 | Meeting Doctor Who Cosplayers | Cosplay | Various cosplayers at MCM London Comic-Con | – | 5 June 2015 |
| 9 | Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who | Dr Marek Kukula
Kezia Newson |
– | 12 June 2015 | |
| 10 | Full Interview with Dr Marek Kukula | The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who by Simon Guerrier and Dr Marek Kukula | Dr Marek Kukula | – | 12 June 2015 |
| 11 | Stealing Series 9 Scripts | Everything known about Doctor Who series 9 | – | Christel enters Steven Moffat's secret writing layer to steal the series 9 scripts. | 19 June 2015 |
| 12 | Christel Gets Caught! | – | – | Christel's caught in Steven Moffat's cabinet | 19 June 2015 |
| 13 | Doctor Who Minecraft | Minecraft Doctor Who rollercoaster
Ben's work in Minecraft |
Nuro and River
Ben (A&V Artwork) |
Christel enters the TARDIS only to find herself in a Minecraft world. She lands on Minecrafia, where she goes on the rollercoaster. | 26 June 2015 |
| 14 | Minecraft Rollercoaster Full Interview | Minecraft Doctor Who rollercoaster | Nuro and River | – | 26 June 2015 |
| 15 | Fanwatch | Fan behaviour | "Michaela Traken", "Chris Akhaten" and "Nigel Voord-Karabaxos" | In a mock nature documentary, the three describe types of human fans, noting their common behaviours. | 3 July 2015 |
| 16 | We've Landed At Comic-Con! | San Diego Comic-Con announcement | – | – | 7 July 2015 |
| 17 | First Look At LEGO Dimensions Gameplay | LEGO Dimensions trailer and gameplay | Louis Moffat, Anthony Carboni | – | 9 July 2015 |
| 18 | Comic-Con Reacts to Series 9 | Series 9 trailer | Doctor Who fans at San Diego Comic-Con | – | 10 July 2015 |
| 19 | Doctor Who Fan Meet-Up | What fans love about Doctor Who | Doctor Who fans at San Diego Comic-Con | – | 13 July 2015 |
| 20 | EXCLUSIVE Behind Wholock And More | Fan videos Wholock, Rain, 50th Anniversary Trailer | "John Smith" | – | 17 July 2015 |
| 21 | Peter Capaldi On Being A Doctor Who Fan | Peter Capaldi as a Doctor Who fan | Peter Capaldi | – | 24 July 2015 |
| 22 | Charlieissocoollike In The TARDIS | The Doctor's TARDIS and the roundels | Charlie McDonnell | A Time Lady resembling Christel tries selling Charlie the TARDIS | 31 July 2015 |
| 23 | Behind Doctor Puppet | Doctor Puppet and the process of stop-motion animation | Alisa Stern | The Socktor interviews Alisa Stern. | 7 August 2015 |
| 24 | Doctor Who Comics Day! | – | 14 August 2015 | ||
| 25 | Meet Michelle "Missy" Gomez | Missy | Michelle Gomez | – | 21 August 2015 |
| 26 | Jenna Coleman On What It Takes To Be A Companion | Clara Oswald | Jenna Coleman | UNIT Employment Training Series: Health and Safety with Captain Derek Latimer (Chris Thomson), including how to recognise the Doctor | 28 August 2015 |
| 27 | Millennium FX Makeover & Doctor Who Festival Updates | – | 4 September 2015 | ||
| 28 | How To Make A TARDIS Cake | How to make a TARDIS Battenburg cake | Edd Kimber | – | 11 September 2015 |
| 29 | The Finale | – | A Time Lord comes to warn Christel of the future where The Fan Show "becomes self-aware, destroys other Doctor Who-related stuff, and triggers the end of the universe itself". She has to go back in time to change the show's development. The Moment gives her two iPhone wires, that if touched, would erase The Fan Show from history. The show rewinds. | 18 September 2015 |
Series 2[]
Series 2 introduced a new format, and mostly focused on TV story reactions and reviews, with guests coming on to talk about a given episode of serial of the show.
| # | Name | Subject | Interviewed | Skit | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | The Magician's Apprentice Reactions | The Magician's Apprentice | Cameron K McEwan and Chris Johnson | The Old Doctor Who Monsters' Home | 22 September 2015 |
| 32 | The Witch's Familiar Reactions | The Witch's Familiar | Tom Spilsbury and Bec Hill | – | 29 September 2015 |
| 33 | Under The Lake Reactions | Under the Lake | Cherry Wallis | – | 6 October 2015 |
| 34 | Before The Flood Reactions | Before the Flood | Rebecca Brown and Jake Dudman | – | 13 October 2015 |
| 35 | The Girl Who Died Reactions | The Girl Who Died | Joe from TARDISArchives | – | 20 October 2015 |
| 36 | The Woman Who Lived Reactions | The Woman Who Lived | Dan Slott and Kezia Newson | – | 27 October 2015 |
| 37 | The Zygon Invasion Reactions | The Zygon Invasion | Jenny Colgan and Morgan Jeffery | – | 3 November 2015 |
| 38 | The Zygon Inversion Reactions | The Zygon Inversion | Rachael Stott and Crispy Pro | – | 10 November 2015 |
| 39 | Sleep No More Reactions | Sleep No More | Carrie Hope Fletcher and Stuart Ashen (in front of a live audience) | – | 17 November 2015 |
| 40 | Face The Raven Reactions | Rosianna Halse Rojas and Paul Cornell | – | 24 November 2015 | |
| 41 | A Doctor Who LEGO Set Adventure! | The Doctor Who LEGO set | Andrew Clark and Sam Johnson | Stop-motion adventure with the Twelfth Doctor and Christel. At the end, a Weeping Angel and two Daleks appear in the TARDIS, and the Eleventh Doctor shows up to help. | 1 December 2015 |
| 42 | Heaven Sent Reactions | Heaven Sent | Amy and Mary from the ChiqueGeeks | – | 1 December 2015 |
| 43 | Hell Bent Reactions | Hell Bent | Benjamin Cook and Blair Mowat | – | 8 December 2015 |
| 44 | The Husbands of River Song Reactions | The Husbands of River Song | Bethany Black and Jake Yapp | – | 25 December 2015 |
| 45 | What Happened In Series 9? With Jake Yapp | Series 9 | Jake Yapp | – | 15 January 2016 |
| 46 | LEGO Dimensions Easter Eggs | Easter eggs in LEGO Dimensions | Game Unboxing Reviews | – | 22 January 2016 |
| 47 | Spearhead From Space Review | Spearhead from Space | – | 29 January 2016 | |
| 48 | The Old Monsters Home | Monster suggestions for series 10 | – | The Old Doctor Who Monsters' Home | 5 February 2016 |
| 49 | Amazing Audio Adventures | History of Big Finish
Fan-made audio stories |
– | 12 February 2016 | |
| 50 | Gallifrey One 2016 | Gallifrey One 2016 | Shaun Lyon, Peter Davison, Paul Cornell, Sarah Dollard, Steven Schapansky, numerous Doctor Who fans including Laura Sirikul | – | 16 February 2016 |
| 51 | Cosplay at Gallifrey One | Cosplay at Gallifrey One; the iron costumer competition; the costume repair shop | Many cosplayers | – | 17 February 2016 |
| 52 | What Are Ribbons At Gallifrey One? | The ribbons at Gallifrey One | Numerous Doctor Who fans, Peter Davison | – | 19 February 2016 |
| 53 | The Silurians Review | Doctor Who and the Silurians | Simon Guerrier and Jenny Lippmann | – | 26 February 2016 |
| 54 | Michelle Gomez's Guide To Monsters | Michelle Gomez has to name Doctor Who monsters | Michelle Gomez | – | 4 March 2016 |
| 55 | Peter Capaldi Talks Series 9 and 10 | Peter Capaldi | – | 11 March 2016 | |
| 56 | Peter Capaldi: Draw My Life | Peter Capaldi draws his Doctors, and his own memories watching and reading Doctor Who | Peter Capaldi | – | 11 March 2016 |
| 57 | Top 10 Tips For Being A Companion | Tips for being the Doctor's companions | – | – | 18 March 2016 |
| 58 | Doctor Who Fans' Guinness World Record! | Doctor Who in Latin America
492 fans in Mexico City break "Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Doctor Who Characters" world record |
Bullysteria, many fans in Mexico | – | 25 March 2016 |
| 59 | Blink Review | Blink | Tony Lee and Tom Dix | Christel responds to the Tenth Doctor's video left for Sally Sparrow, and finds herself faced with a Weeping Angel. | 1 April 2016 |
| 60 |
The Impossible Astronaut Review |
The Impossible Astronaut | Hilly & Hannah Hindi from The Hillywood Show | – | 22 April 2016 |
| 61 | New Companion Reaction | Friend from the Future and the reveal of Bill Potts | 24 April 2016 | ||
| 62 | Target Book Exhibition ft. Peter Capaldi | Tom Spilsbury, Peter Ware, Jenny Colgan, Andrew Skilleter, Steven Moffat, Peter Capaldi, Chris Achilleos, Terrance Dicks, Jeff Cummins | – | 6 May 2016 | |
| 63 | The New Sonic Screwdriver Toy | The making of the new sonic screwdriver toy | Alasdair Dewar | – | 13 May 2016 |
| 64 | Planet Of The Ood Review | Planet of the Ood | Sarah Dollard and Chris Foxx | – | 20 May 2016 |
| 65 | The 500th Doctor Who Magazine | DWM 500 | Emily Cook, Scott Gray, Richard Atkinson | Christel goes back in time via vortex manipulator with a copy of DWM 500, and the tea, behind Doctor Who Magazine are really struggling. She leaves, accidentally leaving the magazine behind. They find it, and decide to just publish what they've found, effectively a bootstrap paradox. | 27 May 2016 |
| 66 | Davros Review | Davros | – | – | 22 June 2016 |
| 67 | Meeting Fans At VidCon | VidCon 2016
Doctor Who fan videos Christel does a laminar flow experiment with Presley |
Alisa Stern from Doctor Puppet, Mike Rugnetta from PBS Idea Channel, Presley, multiple Doctor Who fans | – | 1 July 2016 |
| 68 | Series 10 What We Know So Far | Series 10 | – | – | 12 July 2016 |
| 69 | The Master Review | The Master | – | – | 29 July 2016 |
| 70 | How To Make Doctor Who Cookies | The Official Cookbook | – | "Lady Estelle" from Time Tasties on the Gallifrey Cooking Channel demonstrates the gingerbread Doctors recipe from The Official Cookbook. | 11 August 2016 |
| 71 | How to Cosplay as Bill | Bill Potts cosplay | Dom (The Whovian Chaser) | 19 August 2016 | |
| 72 |
The Zygons Review ft. Ingrid Oliver |
Zygons, Osgood | Ingrid Oliver | – | 26 August 2016 |
| 73 | Restoring Classic Monsters | Restoring Morbius and a Mandrel for Doctor Who Experience | Mike Tucker of the Model Unit | – | 2 September 2016 |
| 74 |
Series 10 Production Update |
Series 10 | – | – | 9 September 2016 |
| 75 | The Sontarans Review ft. Dan Starkey | Sontarans | Dan Starkey | – | 23 September 2016 |
| 76 | Christmas Read-through Reaction | Christmas special read-through | – | – | 30 September 2016 |
| 77 | Series 10 & Class #NYCC Round-Up | Series 10 and Class | – | – | 14 October 2016 |
| 78 | Meeting The Class Cast | The cast of Class | Greg Austin, Sophie Hopkins, Fady Elsayed, Vivian Oparah, Jordan Renzo | – | 20 October 2016 |
| 79 | The Cybermen Review | Cybermen | – | – | 28 October 2016 |
| 80 | The Power of the Daleks | The Power of the Daleks animation preview
Animation restoration process |
Charles Norton, producer of the animation | Christel and Luke take a trip in the Second Doctor's animated TARDIS to Vulcan. They visit the mercury swamps, the colony and a Dalek control room. | 4 November 2016 |
| 81 | The Daleks Review ft. Nicholas Briggs | Daleks | Nicholas Briggs | – | 18 November 2016 |
| 82 | Series 10 Filming, Writing, and Missy! | Series 10 filming and writing, and the return of Missy | 2 December 2016 | ||
| 83 | The Gift (A Christmas Story) With Frances Barber | The Gift, a short story from Twelve Doctors of Christmas | Frances Barber | – | 12 December 2016 |
| 84 | The Return of Doctor Mysterio Reactions | The Return of Doctor Mysterio | – | – | 25 December 2016 |
| 85 | Series 10 Trailer, The Pirate Planet and More! | – | – | 27 January 2017 | |
| 86 | Peter Capaldi Is Leaving Doctor Who | Peter Capaldi's BBC Radio 2 announcement that he's leaving Doctor Who at the end of 2017 | – | – | 31 January 2017 |
| 87 | The Ice Warriors Are Back! | Return of the Ice Warriors | – | The Old Doctor Who Monsters' Home (trying to bring back Morbius) | 3 February 2017 |
| 88 | Ice Warriors, Series 10 Latest & LEGO Daleks! | First look at Ice Warriors in Empress of Mars
Return of Missy The Monks, Memory Police footage The Lego Batman Movie John Hurt's passing |
– | LEGO Daleks as British Robots | 17 February 2017 |
| 89 | John Barrowman Talks Captain Jack | John Barrowman | – | 10 March 2017 | |
| 90 | 10 Things From The Series 10 Trailer! | The series 10 trailer | – | – | 13 March 2017 |
| 91 | Animating Series 10 Poster ft. Lucy Crewe | Lucy Crewe's animated trailer based on the series 10 poster | Lucy Crewe | – | 17 March 2017 |
| 92 | Series 10 Is Almost Here! - Doctor Who: The Fan Show | Series 10 broadcast date, trailers and official image
Filming of World Enough and Time and The Doctor Falls |
– | – | 31 March 2017 |
| 93 | Visiting The Doctor Who Set (ft. Jake Dudman, Bully & Maude Garrett) | Maude Garrett
Bully (Héctor Trejo) Jake Dudman |
– | 14 April 2017 |
The Aftershow[]
With the start of series 10 of Doctor Who came a new format for The Fan Show. Doctor Who: The Fan Show - The Aftershow was a new series which released "Aftershows" immediately after an episode of Doctor Who was finished broadcasting in the UK.
Bringing in people who've actually worked on the show, rather than a variety of outsiders giving their reactions, The Aftershow was the closest series 10 got to a Doctor Who Confidential or Doctor Who Extra, the latter of which ended with series 9. Also released during this period was Doctor Who meets Mr. Men, which tied in with the release of the Dr. Men books.
| # | Name | Subject | Interviewed | Video | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94 | Pearl Mackie & Steven Moffat - The Aftershow | The Pilot | 
|
15 April 2017 | |
| 95 | EXCLUSIVE Peter Capaldi & Brian Minchin Interview - The Aftershow | Smile | 
|
22 April 2017 | |
| 96 | Doctor Who meets Mr. Men | Dr. Men | Adam Hargreaves | 
|
25 April 2017 |
| 97 | Sarah Dollard and Hayley Nebauer - The Aftershow | Thin Ice |
|
29 April 2017 | |
| 98 | David Suchet and Mike Bartlett - The Aftershow | Knock Knock | 
|
6 May 2017 | |
| 99 | Jamie Mathieson, Mimi Ndiweni & Kieran Bew - The Aftershow | Oxygen | 
|
13 May 2017 | |
| 100 | Michelle Gomez and Nick Lambon - The Aftershow | Extremis | 
|
20 May 2017 | |
| 101 | Rachel Denning and Jamie Hill - The Aftershow | The Pyramid at the End of the World |
|
27 May 2017 | |
| 102 | Millennium FX's Gary Pollard Talks Series 10 Monsters - The Aftershow | The Lie of the Land | 
|
3 June 2017 | |
| 103 | Matt Lucas and Mark Gatiss - The Aftershow | Empress of Mars | 
|
10 June 2017 | |
| 104 | Rebecca Benson Talks The Eaters of Light - The Aftershow | The Eaters of Light | Rebecca Benson | 
|
17 June 2017 |
| 105 | Brian Minchin Talks World Enough And Time - The Aftershow | World Enough and Time | Brian Minchin | 
|
24 June 2017 |
| 106 | Steven Moffat & Rachel Talalay - The Aftershow | The Doctor Falls | 
|
1 July 2017 | |
| 107 | Series 10 Review - The Aftershow | Series 10 overview | 
|
7 July 2017 |
Series 4[]
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Following the Aftershows, The Fan Show continued the panel format, beginning with their reaction to the Thirteenth Doctor, and an episode on LGBTQ in Doctor Who.
| # | Name | Subject | Interviewed | Video | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 108 | Thirteenth Doctor Reaction | Thirteenth Doctor announcement reaction (Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor) |
|
16 July 2017 | |
| 109 | LGBTQ In The Worlds Of Doctor Who | Queer analysis of Doctor Who. Gender and sexuality in the Doctor Who universe as a whole, and working on Doctor Who as a queer person. Waris Hussein formally comes out in this video. | 
|
28 July 2017 | |
| 110 | Jake Dudman Voices The Doctor | Jacob Dudman Voices The Doctor | File:Jake Dudman Voices The Doctor - Doctor Who: The Fan Show | 8 September 2017 | |
| 111 | Russell T Davies Draws Daleks, The Tenth Doctor & MORE! | Russell T Davies Draws Daleks, The Tenth Doctor & MORE! | File:Russell T Davies Draws Daleks, The Tenth Doctor & MORE! - Doctor Who: The Fan Show | 28 September 2017 | |
