Doctor Who merchandise

Did You Know?

• A set of six gamebooks featuring the Sixth Doctor was released during the 1985–86 hiatus, published by Severn House in the UK and Ballantine in the US.
• The Doctor Who Micro Universe collectable miniatures game used a spinner shaped like the TARDIS console instead of a die.
• A Dalek appeared on a 44p stamp in the Royal Mail's Millennium Series issued on 1 June 1999, part of the set named The Entertainers' Tale.

Board games

The earliest Doctor Who board game was Dodge The Daleks, released at Christmas 1964 and featuring William Hartnell as the Doctor. Players attempted to avoid Daleks while travelling around the gameboard; encountering a Dalek meant elimination. The following year saw two more Hartnell-era games: The Dalek Oracle, where a plastic Dalek model revealed answers to questions, and The Dalek Shooting Game, which used a small plastic gun loaded with pellets to shoot Daleks. The Dalek Oracle now fetches up to £350 on the second-hand market. In Christmas 1966, Daleks: The Great Escape appeared, a pinball-type machine moving a tiny Dalek model around a course. After a gap, Tom Baker games arrived in May 1975 with Doctor Who, where players moved around the universe using the TARDIS to skip time streams. The Game of Time And Space, from June 1980, involved collecting pieces of the Key To Time while encountering aliens and villains, with companions available to help. A role-playing game, The Doctor Who Role Playing Game: 1st Edition, was released in December 1985.

Card games

The Doctor Who Collectible Card Game, published by MMG in 1996, had players build decks from their collection and compete to remove an opponent's six Time cards before their own were removed. Attacks used cards representing Doctors, Assistants and monsters from the original 26 series. A later card game, Doctor Who – Battles in Time, ran as a fortnightly magazine and trading card partwork from GE Fabbri between 2005 and 2009, featuring Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant. Five sets were released: Exterminator (275 cards from the first and second series and the 2005 Christmas special), Annihilator (100 cards from the second series and the 2006 Christmas special), Invader (225 cards from the third series), Ultimate Monsters (225 cards, the first to include Classic Who monsters and all ten Doctors), and Devastator (250 cards from the 2007 Christmas special and the fourth series). An additional 31 cards were produced, including an exclusive 18-card Daleks vs. Cybermen mini-set, a 10-card Sarah Jane Adventures mini-set, and the rare Super Rose gold card found in 1 in every 1000 packs. Alien Armies, released in 2009 with David Tennant, replaced Battles in Time with less expensive cards and included limited edition cards of all ten Doctors. Monster Invasion ran from 2010 to 2014.

Computer games

The first Doctor Who computer games were produced for the BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC 464, ZX Spectrum and C64: Doctor Who: The First Adventure (1983), The Key To Time (1984), Doctor Who and the Warlord (1985) and Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror (1985). These featured the Fifth and Sixth Doctors and introduced a feline robot called Splinx. A planned sequel, Doctor Who 2, was cancelled due to production problems. In 1992, Midway under the Bally label released a Doctor Who pinball game designed by Bill Pfutzenreuter and Barry Oursler, with a Time Streams theme and a rearrangement of the theme tune by Jon Hey. Sylvester McCoy provided voice work, and a Dalek on the scoreboard was designed to move. Also in 1992, Admiral Software published Dalek Attack, allowing players to control the Second, Fourth or Seventh Doctors, with a second player taking Ace or Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, navigating environments to defeat Daleks. Destiny of the Doctors, a CD-ROM game from BBC Multimedia in 1997, cast the player as the Graak, a creature created by the Fourth Doctor, who must free seven imprisoned Doctor incarnations. It featured new clips of Anthony Ainley as the Master and voices of surviving Doctor actors and Nicholas Courtney. Top Trumps, a computer adaptation released in 2008 on PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, PC and Nintendo Wii, had the Doctor and companions battling enemies in card battles. The Adventure Games followed in 2010.

Action figures and costumes

The 1964 Scorpion Automotive Dalek costume, a joint venture between the BBC and Scorpion, is widely considered the holy grail of BBC authorized Doctor Who merchandise. Released in limited numbers for Christmas 1964, a fire at the Scorpion Automotive factory in Nottingham destroyed all remaining stock and the injection moulding tools. Only a handful of the several hundred costumes survive; the last known sale at a London Toy auctioneer in 2014 reached £5,000. In the mid-1970s, Denys Fisher and Mego released a selection of 9-inch figures including the Fourth Doctor, Leela, K-9 (released in 1978), the Giant Robot, a Cyberman, a Dalek, and a TARDIS. The Dalek and K-9 have friction drives for movement; the TARDIS has a self-propelled spinning top. The Doctor could be inserted into the TARDIS, and pressing the red button while the top spun made him disappear, while the green button made him reappear. These toys are extremely rare. The Tom Baker figure is the most common, worth $150–500 mint with box; the Italian box version may sell for $75–200. Other figures, excluding the TARDIS, are worth $500–1200 near mint with original box. In May 2006, a Denys Fisher Dalek with box sold for over $1150 on eBay. The TARDIS is usually cheaper at $200–350. A Leela without her loin cloth but with a damaged box sold for over $350 in May 2006.