Doctor Who "Spearhead from Space", released in July 2013 and the 1996 TV film "Doctor Who" released in September 2016. Many early releases have been re-released as special editions, with more bonus features. There are two "Doctor Who" feature films: "Dr. Who and the Daleks", released in 1965 and "Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D." in 1966. Both are retellings of existing television stories (specifically, the first two Dalek serials, "The Daleks" and "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" respectively) with a larger budget and alterations to the series concept. In these films, Peter Cushing plays a human scientist named "Dr. Who", who travels
Doctor Who spin-offs late stage of its development. He considered it to be "a spin-off too far", despite the production having been commissioned and budgeted by the controller of BBC One. Novelisations based upon individual "Doctor Who" serials were first published in the mid-1960s, the first being "Dr. Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks" by David Whitaker, a loose adaptation of the show's second serial, "The Daleks". "Doctor Who" novelisations became something of a tradition beginning in the early 1970s when Target Books (initially published by Universal-Tandem, later to become part of W.H. Allen & Co and then Virgin Publishing) began