Doctor Who

This is my theory on how the BBC should start making Doctor Who again,
please read, comment, evaluate, slag off, rubbish, whatever....

1. Just start the damn programme, episode one of the new series with the new
Doctor already cast and having adventures, no tedious episode with Paul
McGann or Sylvester McCoy or whoever, lasting about 5 minutes before being
stupidly killed off. If fans want a lead up to the regeneration from the
Eighth Doctor into the Ninth, the BBC can do it in the series of novels or
something. Only the fans will care, and only they will read the novels.

2. No irritating continuity references, like the New Doctor saying "Reverse
the polarity of the neutron flow" or going on about the last time he bumped
into George Stevenson or whatever. By all means use old monsters, like
Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans etc. but come up with some new ideas as well,
the format can accomodate it.

3. Cast a suitable Doctor. No Joanna Lumley or Nick Berry or other 'flavour
of the month' actor, simply because it will get ratings, but someone who
will actually fit the part. Rowan Atkinson was very good in the Comic
Relief thing or Ian Richarson who can do the drama and the comedy (qualities
essential for the Doctor)

4. A decent amount of money spent on it. Not a ridiculous amount, but just
enough that it looks good, without being overly flash.

Well, that's what I think anyway.....

Adam

I'd start virtually from scratch.

We have the Doctor - Ian Richardson of course. Everything we knew about
Doctor Who is gone - the entire Universe swept away in the Doctor's last
climatic battle with the Timelords. All that's left is a Doctor - armed
with 12 new regenerations from his exposure to energies released in the
destruction of Galifrey, a crippled TARDIS that has brought the new Doctor
to the only other place it calls home - Earth: England: London, and a series
of Alien foes waiting to prey on humanity.

(BTW - has anyone else yet had a look at the Jubilee Line Extension tunnels
at Waterloo ? That's where's I'd film the opening sequence....)

No UNIT for the Doctor to run to.
No Companions, no friends here who've met him before. Truly a man alone -
now separated from his people by death as well as time and space. The last
of his kind.
Nobody believes him - They think he's mad - the suggestion that aliens from
outer space are coming......

And then the dying starts.....

And behind it all - the knowledge that the Daleks - the only other race with
a memory of what came before the catastrophic events that wiped the time
stream clean - know that the Doctor is on Earth. And are coming for him
....

Now that's how to do it !

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Philip Ayres
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Good idea, though too many alien invasions might get a bit ridiculous, he
could spend his time trying to mend the TARDIS a la the UNIT years, it could
be like the old days when he never knew where he would end up next.
Not seen it.


Adam

The tunnels are done in a grey plastic with Roundels. I'm serious - we
need to get a group photo done in front of it on the next shopping trip.

Anyway you show Ian Richardson striding through these corridors - inference
is he's in the Tardis - but actually he's at Waterloo striding through
crowds of commuters, not sure how he got back to Earth but knowing that
danger is on it's way.....

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Philip Ayres
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Oh yes!

Speaking of which, on the trip I'm planning on splitting off from the rest
of the group to visit The Who Shop in East Ham. Anyone who wants to come
along is welcome to join me.
That's quite clever that is.

Adam