Doctor Who pastiches Many unauthorised versions and pastiches of " Doctor Who " and imitations of the Doctor have appeared . A great number of the video and audio - based pastiches of the Doctor and " Doctor Who " were produced during what is often called the " Wilderness Years " , the period when " Doctor Who " was not being produced in a video format post - 1989 to 1996 and post 1996 to 2005 . There have also been a few in - universe instances of " Doctor Who " parodying itself . The series known as " Professor X " is a broad pastiche of the Doctor and " Doctor Who " ; in the Virgin New Adventures novel " No Future " Bernice Summerfield even briefly visited a fictional universe where she met Professor X himself and travelled in his " TASID " , a ship that looks like a pillar box and can travel through time and space . In the later Virgin New Adventures " Head Games " a fictional version of the Doctor generated from the Land of Fiction appears , known as Dr . Who , broadly being a pastiche not just of the Doctor , but also of Dr . Who of the 1960s Dalek movies . BBV Productions . BBV Productions in particular created a number of pastiches of the Doctor for their productions in both audio and video , in particular " the Stranger " played by Colin Baker and " the Professor " ( later " the Dominie " ) played by Sylvester McCoy . " The Stranger " was a series of video dramas featuring Colin Baker as the title character , originally a loose pastiche of the Doctor . One episode , " More Than a Messiah " , was even based upon a fan - written " Doctor Who " audio drama . Nicola Bryant appeared in the first three stories as Miss Brown , a pastiche of her " Doctor Who " character Peri Brown ; however " Miss Brown " had an English accent rather than Peri ' s American . The roles this pair played was loosely similar to their roles in " Doctor Who " , but beginning with the fourth adventure of " The Stranger " BBV decided to explain away the Stranger as a different character , named Solomon , with an entirely different past . BBV also produced a series of audio stories featuring " The Professor " , who later was known as " the Dominie " due to legal reasons , played by Sylvester McCoy , along with Sophie Aldred playing a character called " Ace " which was later changed to " Alice . " Like " The Stranger " this was another series of thinly veiled versions of the Seventh Doctor and Ace . These stories were scripted by a number of writers who around their time of production had written " Doctor Who " stories or went on to write for " Doctor Who " in one medium or another such as ; Robert Shearman ( under a pseudonym ) , Mark Gatiss and Nigel Fairs . In the " Cyberon " series of audio adventures , Nicholas Briggs , who had played " the Doctor " in a series of fan audio series made by Audio Visuals , played a character called " The Wanderer " or " Fred " in the audio stories " Cyber - Hunt " and " Vital Signs " . Like " the Stranger " and " the Dommie " this was a loose interpretation of " the Doctor " this time based on Briggs ' own portrayal in the Audio Visuals series . BBV Productions did not just attempt pastiches of the Doctor . In 1999 two audio stories in a series called Adventures in a Pocket Universe were produced that featured K9 and " The Mistress " , played by John Leeson and Lalla Ward . While the producers of these audios were able to licence K9 , they couldn ' t licence Romana . As a result , she was never referred to by this name . Later , when Big Finish Productions obtained a full licence to produce " Doctor Who " - based audio dramas , Ward performed the character as Romana .