About this site

The TARDIS Library is the Internet's most comprehensive listing of all Doctor Who-related books, videos and audios ever released. The list of videos & audios includes all major formats such as DVDs, VHS videos, CDs, cassettes and vinyl LPs/singles — also "niche" formats such as Blu-ray, Laserdisc, UMD and MP3-CD.

This site lists a total of 5,161 Doctor Who items: 2,348 books, 832 videos / DVDs, and 1,981 audios.

If you count each edition separately (hardback vs. paperback, UK vs. US DVD release, etc), that number grows to 8,845 editions: 3,914 books, 2,662 videos / DVDs, and 2,269 audios.


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Site trivia

Site users have contributed a total of 66,279 votes (an average of 12.8 per item) and 4,107 reviews.

Most votes: The Caves of Androzani (359 votes)
Most reviews: The Clockwise Man (20 reviews)

Highest-rated items:
1The Collection: Season 12  The Collection Blu-ray box sets 9.7
2Wiped!  Miscellaneous factual books 9.5
3The Lost TV Episodes: Collection One  Lost TV Episodes audio box sets 9.5
4The War Games  BBC classic series DVDs/Blu-rays 9.4
5Lost in Time  BBC classic series DVDs/Blu-rays 9.4
6The Lost Stories: The Fourth Doctor Box Set  The Lost Stories audio dramas 9.4
7City of Death  BBC classic series videos 9.3
8The Invasion  BBC classic series DVDs/Blu-rays 9.3
9The Talons of Weng-Chiang  BBC classic series DVDs/Blu-rays 9.3
10Doctor Who and the Dæmons  Target novelisations 9.3
 
Lowest-rated items:
1:Divided Loyalties  BBC Past Doctor novels 2.8
2:The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel  Miscellaneous factual books 3.5
3:Time and the Rani  BBC classic series videos 3.6
4:The Horns of Nimon  BBC classic series videos 3.7
5:Timelash  BBC classic series videos 3.7
6:Heart of TARDIS  BBC Past Doctor novels 3.7
7:Silver Nemesis  Target novelisations 3.7
8:The Twin Dilemma  BBC classic series videos 3.8
9:Time and the Rani  Target novelisations 3.9
10:Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma  The Companions of Doctor Who novels 3.9

The above tables only show items with 10 votes or more, to display only "reliable" results. Visit the ratings page to view longer lists of most and least popular items.


Site history

This website was originally created in 1995 as The Doctor Who Books Page by Richard Atkinson. Dan O'Malley (that's me) took it over in 1996 and has run it ever since! In 1998 I changed the site's name to The TARDIS Library and the following year created a sister site The TARDIS Video Library to catalogue VHS and DVD releases (with audio releases being added too in early 2000). The two sites were merged in 2001.

Over the years the site has expanded dramatically -- at its beginning it just focused on current and upcoming releases (which at the time were the New Adventures and Missing Adventures) but over time a deeper and wider archive of past books, videos and audios was gradually added, leading to the comprehensive archive you see here today. Interactive features were also added gradually over the years -- starting with an entirely static HTML website where every page had to be hand-edited, to today's dynamic database-driven site with sophisticated searching, cataloguing and cross-referencing features.

Comments and feedback about the site are always welcome - please feel free to email me at: Email address hidden to deter spammers



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