Doctor Who fan videos


This list includes video productions from wherever in the world fans have made them. Unfortunately for those of us who wish to collect these videos, that means contending with incompatible video standards used in different parts of the world. The United States and Canada use NTSC (which according to some stands for "Never Twice the Same Color") while the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand use PAL ("Picture Always Lousy"). I'm not aware of any Who fan videos having been made using the French SECAM ("System Essentially Contrary to American Method") so we won't worry about that here.

Generally speaking, you will not be able to play a PAL videotape in an NTSC VCR. There are multi-standard VCR's available, but they are rare in the United States. If you are in a PAL country you may be in luck, as many PAL VCRs can play NTSC tapes, outputting a PAL60 signal accepted by many PAL TV sets. Check your owner's manuals.

The other alternative is to have a tape professionally converted, but this is not an inexpensive proposition. Fortunately, the producers of some fan videos have already had this done and have distributors in various parts of the world. Be sure to check the relevant web page.

Some of these productions are starting to be released in a format called VideoCD, or VCD. VCD is a good choice for distributing fan videos, partly because it makes the issue of video standards largely irrelevant. A VCD will play on any computer capable of playing MPEG-1, and many DVD players will play VCD's as well.

This is the most complete list of Doctor Who fan videos I've been able to compile to date. If anyone has a correction to make, or additional information, please email me.

Colin Caulkins (colin@caulkins.org)



Latest updates:

13.Aug.06
Future Investment/JMKH Productions are now hosted on a different website.
Web Chick Productions added.
Distributor Rick Davis has a new email address.

14.Sep.03
Distributor Rick Davis has a new email address. (Apologies to Rick for not updating this sooner.)

17.Feb.03
Cheeky Monkey Pictures' Doctor Who and the Galentor Incident has been renamed Doctor Who and the Tyranny of the Daleks.
Meager Films has a new website and are working on a couple of new productions.
Dahk World Productions has a new website.

24.Dec.02
The producers of Doctor Who and the Galentor Incident have adopted the name Cheeky Monkey Pictures.
North American Timebase distributor Kathy Sullivan has a new email address and is newly listed as North American distributor for The Projection Room videos as well.

14.Oct.02
VortX Productions added.

29.Sep.02
Half-A-Dozen Lemmings have a new website.
Forthcoming production Doctor Who and the Galentor Incident added.

30.Jun.02
Trickshot Film Productions added.

14.Apr.02
Updated the link for Ashley X's Devious.

25.Mar.02
Updated the link for Bedlam Theatre Company.
The producers of Doctor Who - Trident (which is available again) are now called Timeline Productions
The former Skyriders Productions is now called Skyryder Entertainment and has a new site.
Little Hat Productions added.
The Legion of Rassilon's Prisoner and the Time Lord is now available.

12.Mar.02
HGP's Hidden Secrets is now available.
A2E Productions is now MEV Films.

4.Feb.02
Sacrafical Fantasy Productions have become Para Park Productions and now have a Yahoo discussion group.

3.Feb.02
New productions from BTR added.
New website (with downloadable video) for The Projection Room.
The New Doctor Who Amateur Videos added.
Doctor Who - Trident has been withdrawn from distribution.

9.Dec.01
Union of Nutcases In Time added.
The Projection Room added.

9.Oct.01
Doctor Who - Trident added. (Apologies to Chris Pocock for not adding this sooner.)
Evil Donkey Movies added.

9.Jul.01
Tower Video now has a website.

4.Jul.01
URL and email address for London Calling updated.

10.Jun.01
Vortex Studios added.
Added forthcoming 6M2's from BTR and Chronicles of Who.
Added Paul Ferry's full synopses for Timebase's productions.
Added short synopses for The Tardis Viewscreen's productions and updated their URL and email address.
Updated the email address for Ryan Thorson of London Calling.

1.Jun.01
Richard Davis is now a North American distributor for Mendicant Productions' "Time and Again".

29.May.01
Joseph Reinemann's "The Resurrection of Doctor Who" added.
Tempus Productions returns with new project "Time Lock".
Planet Video has a new website and several more of their productions are now listed.
Matthew Kopelke is now Timebase's Antipodean distributor; Kathy Sullivan is now their North American distributor.

22.May.01
TS Entertainment has a new website and email address.

9.Apr.01
BTR's "U.N.I.T Files: The Curse of the Vampire" added.

6.Apr.01
URL for Fusion Entertainment corrected.

29.Mar.01
Synopsis added for Back to Reality's "The Death Harvest"; other BTR info updated.

28.Mar.01
URL and email address for Back to Reality updated and forthcoming title "The Death Harvest" added.
OTW Productions, Chronicles of Who, TS Entertainment and AD-LIB Productions added.

11.Mar.01
Timebase Productions have a new website and email addresses.
Mark Humphries is now UK distributor for Mendicant Productions' "Time and Again".
URL and email address for JM&KH Productions updated. Their second video production, "Future Investment" has been completed.
Release date for Back to Reality's "Rapture the Heavens" pushed back to May 2001; BTR's email address updated.
Release date for Sacrafical Fantasy Productions' "Time Waits for No Man" pushed back to June 2001.

7.Jan.01
URL's and email addresses for The Federation updated.



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