The Fan Show

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.
== Presenters ==
* Christel Dee
* Luke Spillane
== Ratings ==
To be added
== Episodes ==
=== 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 	 	 	– 	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 	 	 	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 	 	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 	
Face the Raven 	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 	
Peter Ware and Tom Webster 	– 	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 	 	 	– 	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! 	 	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 	 	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 	 	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 	 	 	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! 	 	– 	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 	 	– 	– 	31 March 2017
93	Visiting The Doctor Who Set (ft. Jake Dudman, Bully & Maude Garrett)	 	 	– 	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 	 	200px	15 April 2017
95 	EXCLUSIVE Peter Capaldi & Brian Minchin Interview - The Aftershow 	Smile 	 	200px	22 April 2017
96 	Doctor Who meets Mr. Men 	Dr. Men 	Adam Hargreaves	200px	25 April 2017
97 	Sarah Dollard and Hayley Nebauer - The Aftershow 	Thin Ice 	 	
200px	29 April 2017
98 	David Suchet and Mike Bartlett - The Aftershow 	Knock Knock 	 	200px	6 May 2017
99 	Jamie Mathieson, Mimi Ndiweni & Kieran Bew - The Aftershow 	Oxygen 	 	200px	13 May 2017
100	Michelle Gomez and Nick Lambon - The Aftershow 	Extremis 	 	200px	20 May 2017
101	Rachel Denning and Jamie Hill - The Aftershow 	The Pyramid at the Endof the World	 	200px	27 May 2017
102	Millennium FX's Gary Pollard Talks Series 10 Monsters - The Aftershow	The Lie of the Land 	 	200px	3 June 2017
103	Matt Lucas and Mark Gatiss - The Aftershow 	Empress of Mars 	 	200px	10 June 2017
104	Rebecca Benson Talks The Eaters of Light - The Aftershow 	The Eaters of Light 	Rebecca Benson 	200px	17 June 2017
105	Brian Minchin Talks World Enough And Time - The Aftershow 	World Enough and Time 	Brian Minchin 	200px	24 June 2017
106	Steven Moffat & Rachel Talalay - The Aftershow 	The Doctor Falls 	 	200px	1 July 2017
107	Series 10 Review - The Aftershow 	Series 10 overview 	 	200px	7 July 2017
===Series 4===
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
107	Thirteenth Doctor Reaction 	Thirteenth Doctor announcement reaction(Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor) 	 	200px	16 July 2017
108	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.	 	200px	28 July 2017
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