I do find I "count" the extra scene things on the S5/S6 DVD sets. If they got contradicted I'd be okay with ditching them in favour of the actual telly, but they're quite fun and do add a wee bit.
Deleted scenes - nope, they were deleted for a reason
If the actors are being filmed by the BBC Doctor Who team and there's no reason why it isn't canon (say, a certain RTD written mini-story in which David Tennant is playing himself), I consider it to be. So, the tardisodes, the CiN and Red Nose stuff, and the Night series all count just as much as any full length episodes to me
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every so often Big Finish has a "five pound" sale. They just put a bunch of random stories on sale for a limited time. I just select from those. My family really enjoys listening to Big Finish Adventures in the car when we go on long trips.
Two I've really enjoyed are:
Shada, starring Romana and Eight -- it makes a pretty good stab at dramatizing the Dougas Adams script ( I have the new book but haven't read it yet)
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Here there be Monster, starring Carole Ann Ford as Susan.
The Big Finish adventures are cool because most are fully dramatized audio plays, not a story just read by one person. (Though, yeah, David Tennant could read me ANYTHING).
I read the novel "Lungbarrow" and I think it's a pretty neat concept for the Doctor's backstory, his ooky family, the Gallifreyan backtime etc. I also really liked "Cat's Cradle, Time's Crucible" for backstory about the Sisters of Pythia and Rassilon. So I go by those stories pretty much. They also explain the looms, which is a cool concept for Gallifreyans vs. Time Lord Society, as well as the Houses (which were kind of like landbound Tardises, in that they were sentient dwellingplaces bonded to their Gallifreyans).
Anyway, there's a lot of awesome in just those two books. They are both a mess, but they are so INTERESTING. I like those two books because I think that Marc Platt tried to fill in some of the intriguing questions that were left hanging from the original run with imaginative answers.
I've listened to a few Audio Adventures, and they haven't really impinged on canon for me.
I consider the Shada episode written by Adams as canon as he was still writing for the show at the time--and I actually listened to it on the BBC Classic Who site. I consider anything stamped with BBC as canon, therefore most of the novels, as the Virgin novels were included on the Classic site at one time. I think it's all fair game and in a universe that can become AU on the whim of the Doctors it all works for me.
In general, as long as it's not something like, say "The Curse of Fatal Death," I would consider it canon.
If I wanted to narrow it down, though, I would consider all the aired episodes of Who, classic and new, Tardisodes and featurette things (e.g. "Pond Life") canon. As long as the featurettes somehow tie into the main show storyline, it's canon to me.
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I do find I "count" the extra scene things on the S5/S6 DVD sets. If they got contradicted I'd be okay with ditching them in favour of the actual telly, but they're quite fun and do add a wee bit.
Deleted scenes - nope, they were deleted for a reason
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I don't care what anyone says, that was so cannon!
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Two I've really enjoyed are:
Shada, starring Romana and Eight -- it makes a pretty good stab at dramatizing the Dougas Adams script ( I have the new book but haven't read it yet)
and
Here there be Monster, starring Carole Ann Ford as Susan.
The Big Finish adventures are cool because most are fully dramatized audio plays, not a story just read by one person. (Though, yeah, David Tennant could read me ANYTHING).
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Anyway, there's a lot of awesome in just those two books. They are both a mess, but they are so INTERESTING. I like those two books because I think that Marc Platt tried to fill in some of the intriguing questions that were left hanging from the original run with imaginative answers.
I've listened to a few Audio Adventures, and they haven't really impinged on canon for me.
The new Who novels, ditto.
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If I wanted to narrow it down, though, I would consider all the aired episodes of Who, classic and new, Tardisodes and featurette things (e.g. "Pond Life") canon. As long as the featurettes somehow tie into the main show storyline, it's canon to me.
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