Strax Field Report

Strax Field Report was an umbrella title for a series of in-character videos that had the intention of advertising in 2013 that featured Strax sending reports back to Sontar. Oddly, he was portrayed as still loyal to that planet, and explicly hostile towards people who he is typically portrayed as an ally of, albeit a reluctant one, such as Vastra, Jenny, and the Doctor, however the clearly parodic nature of the series excuses this. Later, several The Paternoster Gang Investigates short stories, published in Doctor Who Adventures in 2015 and 2016, used the format once more.
== Webisodes ==
The original "reports" were about episodes of Doctor Who that had not yet aired and thus served as advertisements. Indeed, in at least two of the reports, the character clearly was breaking the fourth wall to talk about out-of-universe things, such as the name of episodes and location filming. Most of the reports, however, did make somewhat of attempt to appear "in-universe", although in an obviously "tongue-in-cheek" manner. The "field reports" were all delivered to the public on the web.
=== Doctor Who Adventures ===
In 2015, Doctor Who Adventures magazine began incorporating in-universe Strax Field Reports into their Paternoster Gang Investigates short stories. Strax relayed events he experienced by himself and with Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint in transmissions to Sontar.
== Field Reports ==
=== Webcasts ===
#	Title 	Report # 	Episode 	Release date
1	Trafalgar Square 	1805/T 	The Day of the Doctor 	9 April 2013
2	The Name of the Doctor 	T713/D 	The Name of the Doctor	16 May 2013
3	A Glorious Day 	P137/B 	The Name of the Doctor	18 May 2013
4	The Doctor's Greatest Secret 	D895/O 	The Name of the Doctor	24 May 2013
5	The Zygons 	Z115/D 	The Day of the Doctor 	7 November 2013
6	Queen Elizabeth 	Q235/E 	The Day of the Doctor 	17 November 2013
7	The Doctors 	TCX11/13 	The Time of the Doctor	19 December 2013
8	A Sontaran's View of Christmas	XI225/MAS	The Time of the Doctor	22 December 2013
9	The Doctor has Regenerated! 	RE12/G 	The Time of the Doctor	25 December 2013
=== The Paternoster Gang Investigates ===
# 	Title 	Report #	Release date 	Published in
4 	The House of Sorrows 	D004/D 	16 July 2015 	DWA15 4
6 	The Tudor Engagement 	D006/B 	10 September 2015	DWA15 6
12	The Case of the Curious Fugitive	D0013/C 	3 March 2016 	DWA15 12
20	The Howling on the Hills 	D0011/C 	10 November 2016 	DWA15 20
=== Cinema introductions ===
In addition, cinema screenings of the television story The Day of the Doctor featured a cinema introduction by Strax, addressing the audience on the topic of cinema etiquette. In 2020, an additional prequel in the same style was webcast on Twitter by the official Doctor Who on BBC America Twitter account, written by Steven Moffat especially for the occasion, under the title of Strax Saves the Day.
The cinema screening of the series 8 premiere, Deep Breath, included a prequel to the episode featuring Strax and his fellow Paternoster Gang members Vastra and Jenny Flint, formatted similarly to a Strax Field Report, where Strax humorously recounts information about the first twelve incarnations of the Doctor to Sontar, making note of the War Doctor as well as the Tenth Doctor's aborted regeneration, before alerting them to the appearance of a new Doctor.
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