Who is Doctor Who? (tie-in website)

Who is Doctor Who?, later titled Defending the Earth!, was a website released on 24 March 2005 to coincide with the the 2005 series of Doctor Who, one of several websites created at that time. On 24 March, the Doctor Who website added a link to Who is Doctor Who?, visible as "Lies", after the site updated to focus on Rose.
Everything on this website is told from an in-universe perspective, as if you were reading the very pages on the in-universe website itself.
In late September 2006, the Defending the Earth! website was nominated for a Y Design Award at the London Design Festival.Doctor Who Game impresses the judges at the Y Design Awards on sequence.co.uk via the Wayback Machine
== Contents ==
# 	Source 	Main character(s) 	Featuring 	Release Date 	Notes
Series One	Series One 	Series One 	Series One 	Series One 	Series One
1 	Have You Seen This Man? 	Clive Finch 	Ninth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Mike Yates, Arthur Dent, Peri Brown, Alastair Fergus, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk	24 March 2005 	A series of BBC-approved user-generated flash fiction, about fictional anecdotes of people who met the Doctor.
2 	Dummy Massacre 	Mickey Smith 	Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk 	27 March 2005 	The first short story on the website to feature Mickey Smith. Set in the aftermath of the Dummy Massacre.
3 	The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre	Mickey Smith 	Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Auton Mickey, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk 	3 April 2005 	This short story reveals more information about the Dummy Massacre.
4 	Rose sighting confirmed 	Mickey Smith 	Charles Dickens, Joseph Green, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk 	10 April 2005 	This short story coincided with The Unquiet Dead.
5 	Alien landing confirmed 	Mickey Smith 	Space pig, squidbaby23 readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk 	17 April 2005 	This short story coincided with Aliens of London.
6 	Hoax This! 	Mickey Smith 	Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk 	24 April 2005 	This story coincided with World War Three and features the UNIT website.
7 	Henry Van Statten 	Mickey Smith 	Henry van Statten, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk 	30 April 2005 	This story coincided with Dalek.
8 	Essay Competition 	Mickey Smith 	Rose Tyler, Ninth Doctor, Adam Mitchell 	8 May 2005 	This story coincided with Dalek and Father's Day.
9 	Rose's Dad? 	Mickey Smith 	Rose Tyler, Ninth Doctor, Jackie Tyler, Stuart Hoskins, Sarah Clark 	15 May 2005 	This story coincided with Father's Day.
10 	Amarillo Hoax 	Mickey Smith 	 	22 May 2005 	This story coincided with The Empty Child.
11 	Hitler's Last Secret? 	Mickey Smith 	 	29 May 2005 	This story coincided with The Doctor Dances.
12 	Meltdown 	Mickey Smith 	 	5 June 2005 	This story coincided with Boom Town.
13 	World Saved. Who Cares? 	Mickey Smith 	 	15 June 2005 	This story coincided with Bad Wolf.
14 	Mars 	Mickey Smith 	 	21 December 2005	This story coincided with The Christmas Invasion.
Series Two	Series Two 	Series Two 	Series Two 	Series Two 	Series Two
15 	Lifeboat Museum 	Mickey Smith 	 	April 2006 	This story is the first webcast on the now-rebranded Defending the Earth! website.
16 	Security Bot 	Mickey Smith 	 	April 2006 	This story is the first game on the now-rebranded Defending the Earth! website.
17 	Torchwood House 	Mickey Smith 	 	22 April 2006 	This duo of stories coincided with Tooth and Claw.
18 	Satellites 	Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk 	 	22 April 2006 	This duo of stories coincided with Tooth and Claw.
19 	Deffry Vale School 	Mickey Smith 	 	29 April 2006 	This duo of stories coincided with School Reunion.
20 	Defeat Deffry 	Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk 	Brother Lassar 	29 April 2006 	This duo of stories coincided with School Reunion.
21 	Tick Tock 	Mickey Smith 	 	6 May 2006 	This duo of stories coincided with The Girl in the Fireplace.
22 	Clockwork Quest 	Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk 	 	6 May 2006 	This duo of stories coincided with The Girl in the Fireplace.
23 	Secret Code 	Ricky Smith 	Mickey Smith 	13 May 2006 	This duo of stories coincided with Rise of the Cybermen
24 	Cybus Spy 	Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk 	 	13 May 2006 	This duo of stories coincided with Rise of the Cybermen
25 	Operation: Paris 	Mickey Smith 	 	20 May 2006 	This duo of stories coincided with The Age of Steel.
26 	Airships 	Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk 	Mickey Smith 	20 May 2006 	This duo of stories coincided with The Age of Steel.
27 	The Wire 	A friend, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk	The Wire 	27 May 2006 	This story coincided with The Idiot's Lantern.
28 	Take the Test 	A friend, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk	 	June 2006 	TBA
29 	Art Attack 	A friend, readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk	Tenth Doctor 	24 June 2006 	This story coincided with Fear Her.
== Notes ==
* While series one of Doctor Who was being broadcast, each short story was released on the homepage of the site, before being moved to a . For example: "/index1.shtml". The number would change for each story, so PROSE: Dummy Massacre, the second short story on the site, would be under "/index2.shtml", and so on. By 2 April 2006,Defending the Earth! via the Wayback Machine all of the stories had been filed under a subdirectory, and a new home page was released, and periodically accompanied by short, two-part webcasts. Unfortunately, these seem to be no longer accessible, and there are seemingly no copies online. The webcasts ceased to be released after Mickey's departure in TV: The Age of Steel, with only games being released afterwards.
* Along the span of time in which the website was updated with new prose material, there were several fictional "webmasters": Clive Finch, who appeared in one story until his death in TV: Rose; Mickey Smith, who appeared in eighteen stories, until his departure in TV: The Age of Steel; and David Roberts, identified only as "a friend", who appeared in three stories, but the site was left abandonded after the release of Art Attack, leaving David's fate unresolved.
* The website seems to have been registered by the BBC on 29 June 2004.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk on whois.com via the Wayback Machine
** The BBC's ownership of the domain is set to expire on 29 June 2023.
* The illustration of the Ninth Doctor at Krakatoa was mentioned to still be available to view on whoisdoctorwho.co.uk in Doctor Who Magazines The Fact of Fiction article about Inferno.DWM 436 - The Fact of Fiction: Inferno
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== Footnotes ==
Category:2005 tie-in websites
Category:2006 tie-in websites
Category:Video game platforms