Obviously, characters like K9 or Benny have gone on to star in their own TV series, book ranges and/or audio releases, and the Daleks and Cybermen have had their own comic strips, but I can't think of many worlds or environments, excluding Gallifrey, which have provided as much inspiration as the world of 'The Robots of Death', which, for lack of any better idea, I'm going to call Kaldor.
To my knowledge, the tally stands at:
Steve Moore and John Stokes, 'Crisis on Kaldor' (Marvel, 1981) - a one-off DWM back-up strip
Chris Boucher, Corpse Marker (BBC, 1999) - a Past Doctor novel
Various, Kaldor City (Magic Bullet, 2001-11) - eight audioplays and a 2006 short story
Nicholas Briggs, Robophobia (Big Finish, 2011) - an audioplay
making a grand total of 12 stories.
It's competition, again relying on what I can think of checking off the top of my head, comprises
PELADON
Brian Hayles, 'The Monster of Peladon' (BBC, 1974)
Gary Russell, Legacy (Virgin, 1994) - a New Adventure novel
Barnaby Edwards, The Bride of Peladon (Big Finish, 2008) - an audioplay
Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, The Prisoner of Peladon (Big Finish, 2009) - a Companion Chronicle
[plus Colin Brake, Darksmith: The Graves of Mordane (BBC, 2009) - but this one's tenuous, more a reference than a spin-off, so I'm not having it]
so four stories after the first, and
VORTIS
Neville Main, 'On the Web Planet' (Polystyle Publications, 1965) - a six-part TV Comic strip
David Whitaker, 'The Lair of the Zarbi Supremo' (World Distributors, 1965) - the first story in the first Doctor Who annual (1966)
Unknown, 'The Lost Ones' (World Distributors, 1965) - the third story in the first Doctor Who annual (1966)
Warwick Gray and Charlie Adlard, 'The Naked Flame' (Marvel, 1994) - a comic strip in the Doctor Who Yearbook 1995
Christopher Bulis, Twilight of the Gods (Virgin, 1996) - a Missing Adventure novel
Daniel O'Mahony, Return to the Web Planet (Big Finish, 2008) - an audioplay
Unknown, 'The Dream' (BBC, 2014) - a short story from The Shakespeare Notebooks
which is seven on top of the initial TV story. And in neither case does anything resembling a range ever start to threaten.
I'd actual venture that the true winner of the spin-off competition was
FACTION PARADOX
Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV, 2001-4) - six audioplays
Various, Faction Paradox (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002-6) - six novels
Lawrence Miles, Faction Paradox (Image Comics, 2003) - two issues
Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet, 2005-9) - six audioplays
Daniel O'Mahony, Newton's Sleep (Random Static, 2008) - a novel
Various, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2011-8) - ten books (novels/short-story collections)
plus a spin-off from that: Various, The City of the Saved (Obverse Books, 2012-18) - six anthologies
but then I might actually have to count all the Benny stuff, anything involving UNIT and, frankly, all of Torchwood, so I might just let it lie there.
Anyway, Doctor Who and the Robots of Death...
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