Vampire (Doctor Who)

Vampires have featured a number of times in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its other media tie-ins. The canonicity of the non-television stories in relation to the television series is unclear, and the various media may not even be consistent with respect to each other.

The Claws of Axos
An entity known as Axos attempted to invade and consume the Earth in the Third Doctor serial The Claws of Axos. Extending itself into the forms of either beautiful golden-skinned humanoids or many-tentacled monsters, Axos was referred to by the Doctor as "a kind of space vampire". (A working title for this serial, dropped close to transmission, was Vampires from Space.)

State of Decay
The Fourth Doctor encountered vampires in whilst travelling in the universe known as E-Space in the serial State of Decay (1980). On a nameless planet, the Doctor, Romana, Adric and K-9 encountered three vampires, Aukon, Camilla and Zargo. It was revealed that the three were servants of the giant King Vampire, a member of a species who once fought a great war against the Time Lords, but were eventually defeated. By escaping to E-Space, the King Vampire was the sole surviving member of the Great Vampires. The Doctor defeated the King Vampire by launching the lesser vampire's tower and using it as a stake to pierce the giant vampire's heart.

Goth Opera
The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa encountered vampires in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel Goth Opera by Paul Cornell.

Blood Harvest
The Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice encountered vampires in the Virgin New Adventures novel Blood Harvest by Terrance Dicks.

Damaged Goods
The Seventh Doctor, Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester encountered the Great Vampire in the Virgin New Adventures novel Damaged Goods by Russell T. Davies.

The Eight Doctors
The Fourth Doctor segment of this story features vampires, as it is set straight after State of Decay.

Vampire Science
The Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones encountered vampires in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Vampire Science by Kate Orman.

Death Comes to Time
The Seventh Doctor encounters the vampire Nessican in London in the BBCi webcast Death Comes to Time by Colin Meek.

Project: Twilight
The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe became embroiled in a struggle between a vampire hunter and artifically created vampires in the Big Finish Productions audio drama Project: Twilight by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright. Scientists working for a black operations organisation known as the Forge had created a virus which would turn human beings into vampires to be used as super-soldiers. When the test-subjects escaped, the Forge's chief scientist Dr William Abberton injected himself with the virus, and became a vampire hunter going by the name of Nimrod. The Doctor found the Twilight vampires running a casino in South London, but Nimrod had also discovered their hideout.