Virtual Season

Synonyms:	fanfiction season, alternate season, unaired season
See also:	Denialfic, Futurefic, fix-it
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	Contents 1 Origins; 2 Some Fan Comments; 3 Further Reading and Meta; 4 Sites Listing Virtual Seasons; 5 List of Shows with Virtual Seasons 5.1 The Adventures of Sinbad; 5.2 Alias Smith and Jones; 5.3 Almost Human; 5.4 American Gothic; 5.5 Angel; 5.6 Battlestar Galactica (1978); 5.7 Beast Wars; 5.8 Beauty and the Beast; 5.9 Blake's 7; 5.10 Blood Ties; 5.11 Brimstone; 5.12 Buffy the Vampire Slayer; 5.13 Cold Case; 5.14 Dark Angel; 5.15 Dark Matter; 5.16 Dark Shadows; 5.17 Doctor Who; 5.18 Due South; 5.19 Farscape; 5.20 Firefly; 5.21 Forever Knight; 5.22 Gargoyles; 5.23 Guiding Light; 5.24 Harsh Realm; 5.25 Hercules; 5.26 Highlander; 5.27 Invisible Man; 5.28 JAG; 5.29 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues; 5.30 Legend of the Seeker; 5.31 Lois & Clark; 5.32 The Lone Gunmen; 5.33 MacGyver; 5.34 Magnificent 7; 5.35 Millennium; 5.36 Once Upon a Time; 5.37 Quantum Leap; 5.38 The Pretender; 5.39 Prey; 5.40 The Sentinel; 5.41 Sliders; 5.42 Space: Above and Beyond; 5.43 Sports Night; 5.44 Spy Game; 5.45 Star Trek: Voyager; 5.46 Stargate Atlantis; 5.47 Stargate SG-1; 5.48 Starsky & Hutch; 5.49 Strange Luck; 5.50 Supernatural; 5.51 Supergirl; 5.52 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; 5.53 Transformers; 5.54 Women's Murder Club; 5.55 X-Files; 5.56 Xena: Warrior Princess; 5.57 Young Americans; ; 6 References;

Virtual seasons are a form of fan activity where fic writers create an unofficial continuation of a show that has been cancelled, is on hiatus, or to replace a season which is considered to have jumped the shark, or needs denying.

They are often done as collaborations with different writers contributing individual stories as episodes, often with the new episodes "airing" at the same time the show would've aired. Sometimes they are multimedia projects with accompanying fanart or trailers. Some fans go as far as to make fan films such as Star Trek, The New Voyages.

Sometimes virtual seasons can be the project of a single author. One famous example is the Buffy Season Noir by Anna S.

Many virtual seasons are presented with elaborate ancillary apparatus. These vary widely, but frequently include character descriptions, title pages, brief synopses of episodes (similar to those in television program guides), and background on the world of the series. In some instances, the episodes of a virtual season are published weekly or biweekly in a semblance of the schedule of an actual television series. In such a case, promotional "ads" may be created for upcoming episodes.

Origins

detail from flyer for Moonbeam #5/6, click to read

The very first virtual season was in 1979 in the print zine Moonbeam #5/6. It was a zine that took Space: 1999 into its third season. From the flyer for that issue: "We're aiming for 24 different episodes, at about 20 pages each (typed and double-spaced). Stories exceeding that length may be considered as 2-part episodes."

Virtual Season

Origins

Some Fan Comments

Further Reading and Meta

Sites Listing Virtual Seasons

List of Shows with Virtual Seasons

References

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