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===Other appearances===
[[Big Finish Productions]] first used the Sontarans for their audio drama ''[[Heroes of Sontar]]'', a 2011 [[Fifth Doctor]] ([[Peter Davison]]) story, depicting the Doctor and his companions being forced to aid a Sontaran attack squad against a dangerous enemy that has threatened the Sontaran race by compromising their strategic methods. They next featured in [[The Five Companions]] and were stuck in an alternative version of the Death Zone with the Fifth Doctor and various companions. In 2012, ''[[The First Sontarans]]'' was released. A Sixth Doctor Lost Story from the mid-1980s, written by Andrew Smith,<ref group="note">The writer of the 1980 story [[Full Circle (Doctor Who)|''Full Circle'']]</ref> it features the Sontarans and the Rutans on nineteenth century Earth, tracking down a scientist named Jacob, who escaped through time and space. It is revealed that Jacob is from Sontar, and was responsible for genetically creating the Sontarans as a defence against a Rutan invasion. They were first developed on Sontar's gravity-heavy moon and quickly proved themselves to be at least on par with the unstoppable Rutan horde. However, believing themselves to be superior, the Sontarans turned on their creators to prevent their knowledge of Sontaran weaknesses being discovered and exploited by their enemies, conquering the planet Sontar and changing it to suit their biology. The audio ends with the Doctor and Peri helping Jacob and his wife fake their deaths so that they can go into hiding on a primitive, isolated planet to get away from their need for revenge on the Sontarans. The Sontarans also feature in the Early Adventures audio ''The Sontarans'', which depicts the [[First Doctor]] ([[William Hartnell]]), [[Steven Taylor (Doctor Who)|Steven Taylor]] and [[Sara Kingdom]] encountering the Sontarans during an invasion of an asteroid colony at some point before Sara's time, prompting Sara to observe that she is aware of how this confrontation will end from her own histories; this audio serves as the Doctor's chronologically earliest encounter with the Sontarans. The audio ''[[Terror of the Sontarans]]'' saw the [[Seventh Doctor]] ([[Sylvester McCoy]]) and [[Mel Bush]] ([[Bonnie Langford]]) meet the Sontarans on an old mining colony that had been used as a Sontaran outpost, until a complex chain of events unintentionally created a new life form that was psychically tortured by the pain of the Sontarans' victims, forcing the Doctor to destroy the colony in the hope that the non-corporeal entity will reform into something more benevolent. They also appear in the 2014 story ''The Sontaran Ordeal'' as part of the Classic Doctors New Monsters range. In this story, the [[Eighth Doctor]] ([[Paul McGann]]) comes against a group of Sontarans led by General Stenk ([[Christopher Ryan]]) who try to get into the greatest of all wars: the [[Time War (Doctor Who)|Time War]].

Other appearances by the Sontarans include the [[Doctor Who spin-offs|spin-off]] videos ''[[Mindgame (Doctor Who)|Mindgame]]'', ''[[Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans]]'' and ''Do You Have A License To Save This Planet?''; three audio plays by [[Bill & Ben Video|BBV]]: ''Silent Warrior'', ''Old Soldiers'' and ''Conduct Unbecoming''; the [[Faction Paradox]] audio ''The Shadow Play''; and a cameo appearance in ''Infidel's Comet''. ''Shakedown'' marks the only occasion in which the Sontarans and their Rutan foes appear on screen together, and was adapted into a [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel where the Seventh Doctor must prevent the Sontarans gained a clear advantage in the conflict.

They have also appeared in several spin-off novels, including ''[[Lords of the Storm]]'' by [[David A. McIntee]], where the Fifth Doctor and Turlough have to stop a Sontaran scheme to take control of a colony world where Tzun technology has been hidden. In ''The Infinity Doctors'' by [[Lance Parkin]], an apparently alternate version of [[the Doctor]] negotiated a peace between the Sontarans and the Rutan Host when two of them were left trapped in a TARDIS for several hours and got to talking due to their inability to kill each other. General Sontar also made an appearance in that novel. In ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus]]'' by [[Craig Hinton]], the name of their planet was given as Sontara. The Sontarans also briefly appear in ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'', sent to the Eye of Orion by an agent of the Celestial Intervention Agency to kill the [[Fifth Doctor|Fifth]] and [[Eighth Doctor]]s. The novel ''[[Warmonger (novel)|Warmonger]]'' sees the Sontarans join an alliance of alien races assembled by the Fifth Doctor to defeat the mercenary army of renegade Time Lord Morbius, although the Sontarans are unaware that they follow the Doctor as he adopts the alias of 'Supreme Coordinator', which is shortened to 'Supremo' by his [[Ogron]] bodyguards.

In 1982, [[Jean Airey]]'s novella ''The Doctor and the Enterprise'' featured a crossover between the universes of ''Doctor Who'' and ''[[Star Trek]]'', in which the [[Fourth Doctor]] ([[Tom Baker]]) finds himself on the USS ''[[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)|Enterprise]]''. The ''Enterprise'' is attacked by a Sontaran fleet (which is unrecognizable to Captain [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]] and crew), prompting the Doctor to urgently warn the crew to flee the area.

They appear in 2009, in the novella ''[[The Sontaran Games]]'' by [[Jacqueline Rayner]], featuring the [[Tenth Doctor]] and appeared in the [[New Series Adventures (Doctor Who)]] book ''[[The Taking of Chelsea 426]]'' by [[David Llewellyn (author)|David Llewellyn]], featuring the [[Tenth Doctor]], fighting both times against the [[Rutan Host]].

In 2008, as part of Character options first series 4 2008 wave of action figures, they released some Sontaran action figures. These include General Staal, Commander Skorr and several Sontaran soldiers.

The Sontarans are mentioned in the audio book [[Wraith World]], when [[Clyde Langer]] ([[Daniel Anthony (actor)|Daniel Anthony]]) remarks he cannot understand why [[Luke Smith (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|Luke Smith]] ([[Tommy Knight]]) and [[Rani Chandra (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|Rani Chandra]] ([[Anjli Mohindra]]) would want to read about made up adventures, when they have faced Sontarans.