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Post by mbt66 on May 25, 2019 10:48:02 GMT
A few thoughts struck me after I listened to the Missy boxset.
Firstly how absolutely marvellous that Missy series was.
Secondly how wonderful our Big Finish writers are.
Since the return of Doctor Who to TV it seems to be defined by the head writer/show producer and their vision of Doctor Who.
To date, on audio, it has only been Nick Briggs who has been given that same responsibility, having written a four disc series for a pair of Doctors. The Seventh in Dominion and then the Eighth in Dark Eyes. but I wonder what a writer like Nev Fountain would do with their very own “series” of Doctor Who.
Which Doctor would they choose, would they have an existing or all new companion(s) and what would be the structure of the series - standalone stories that form a loose arc or one major story or something else entirely.
They would be the show runner with complete creative freedom for a four hour series. If necessary it could even be alternative timeline/universe.
I guess in a lot of ways Matt Fitton & John Dorney in partnership are already doing this with the on going Eighth Doctor boxsets, but I am thinking about Doctors Four, Five, Six and Seven; and just the one writers vision for that Doctor.
Most of the time a writer will be writing to a brief or have to incorporate elements that are given and/or need to fit in with other stories and writers in the series.
But would something like “Jonathan Morris’ The Fourth Doctor” boxset not be a good enough seller in it’s own right?
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Post by Timelord007 on May 25, 2019 11:53:41 GMT
I think a occasional release with various Doctor's be a great idea, i loved Dominion & i can't see why another Doctor can't have a four hour mini series.
Obviously the Fourth Doctor for me travelling solo between Deadly Assassin & Robots Of Death or the Sixth Doctor with Peri & Mel.
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Post by Whovitt on May 25, 2019 12:21:09 GMT
I think a occasional release with various Doctor's be a great idea, i loved Dominion & i can't see why another Doctor can't have a four hour mini series. Obviously the Fourth Doctor for me travelling solo between Deadly Assassin & Robots Of Death or the Sixth Doctor with Peri & Mel. I think some solo Four stories would be great. Or maybe just Four and K9 between Ann and The Key to Time. Just something a bit different by giving us a look into a section of Four's life that we've never really seen before (I loved Night of the Vashta Nerada from the Classic Doctors, New Monsters set). |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on May 25, 2019 16:52:01 GMT
I'd love more of Solo 7 near the end of his years. That as a boxset or whatever would be brilliant if handled right.
With Death as the over arching antagonist
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Post by Audio Watchdog on May 25, 2019 17:18:46 GMT
I think a occasional release with various Doctor's be a great idea, i loved Dominion & i can't see why another Doctor can't have a four hour mini series. Obviously the Fourth Doctor for me travelling solo between Deadly Assassin & Robots Of Death or the Sixth Doctor with Peri & Mel. I think some solo Four stories would be great. Or maybe just Four and K9 between Ann and The Key to Time. Just something a bit different by giving us a look into a section of Four's life that we've never really seen before (I loved Night of the Vashta Nerada from the Classic Doctors, New Monsters set). One of the things that The Iron Legion & Night of the Vashta Nerada shows us was that Tom Baker was right 40 years ago when he said his Doctor could sustain the story by traveling alone. |
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Post by Timelord007 on May 26, 2019 6:52:31 GMT
Maybe a four hour mini series story arc featuring 4 incarnations of the Doctor set over the centuries on a pacific planet & how the plot evolves over time.
Example (peace/war/apocalypse/resurrection).
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Post by kennysmith on May 26, 2019 9:32:37 GMT
Maybe a four hour mini series story arc featuring 4 incarnations of the Doctor set over the centuries on a pacific planet & how the plot evolves over time. Example (peace/war/apocalypse/resurrection). Like Excelis, then? |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2019 11:10:55 GMT
I know this may come across as divisive, but how about Ashildr/Me encountering Classic incarnations whilst based on Earth? Shouldn't expect it to be similar to The Diary of River Song though. Bet Maisie Williams would be willing to reprise the role for BF, as GoT is now over.
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Post by constonks on May 26, 2019 20:40:00 GMT
Maybe a four hour mini series story arc featuring 4 incarnations of the Doctor set over the centuries on a pacific planet & how the plot evolves over time. Example (peace/war/apocalypse/resurrection). Like Excelis, then? Like the Burning Heart trilogy? |
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Post by bobod on May 27, 2019 21:40:37 GMT
Bet Maisie Williams would be willing to reprise the role for BF, as GoT is now over. Must she? The performance was flat enough on TV. |
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Post by Hieronymus on May 27, 2019 23:12:42 GMT
A four-story run set between Fury from the Deep and The Wheel in Space, with a new companion for the 2nd Doctor?
A similar run for the 3rd Doctor set between Inferno and Terror of the Autons, or between The Green Death and The Time Warrior, but not necessarily featuring any new companion.
And I'm still hoping for a run with only Adric and the 4th Doctor. Their time together in The Keeper of Traken worked very well. Adric was less snooty with the 4th than with the 5th Doctor, in story terms perhaps because the apparently older Doctor commanded more respect from Adric than did his younger appearing but later incarnation.
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Post by bobod on May 28, 2019 0:14:18 GMT
A four-story run set between Fury from the Deep and The Wheel in Space, with a new companion for the 2nd Doctor There's literally no gap. Victoria is seen on screen in Wheel episode one. |
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Post by bobod on May 28, 2019 0:18:21 GMT
And I'm still hoping for a run with only Adric and the 4th Doctor. Me too. And we know there's a gap between Warriors' Gate and Keeper of Traken. (They've no N-Space image translator after Romana breaks it in Full Circle, and in Traken they're looking at N-Space on the scanner - so they have to have been somewhere in N-Space before the opening of Traken.) |
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Post by Hieronymus on May 28, 2019 0:33:15 GMT
A four-story run set between Fury from the Deep and The Wheel in Space, with a new companion for the 2nd Doctor There's literally no gap. Victoria is seen on screen in Wheel episode one. More's the pity then.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2019 1:45:40 GMT
There's literally no gap. Victoria is seen on screen in Wheel episode one. More's the pity then. Well, there is a highly-contested solution to that... *taps fingers together* Personally, I've always wanted to see a retinue of stories with 6B!Two and his two companions dealing with the direct aftermath of The Three Doctors. Specifically, the consequences of the energy loss that Gallifrey has suffered due to the black hole. I'd be very interested in seeing a suite of interational UNIT stories roping the Third Doctor in across the then-contemporary world. After Liz leaves and before Jo arrives would be ideal. It could start off with him on missions with UNIT's blessing, him taking the initiative here and there... until finally, he starts acting out completely beyond his orders (as the Doctor would). |
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Post by Whovitt on May 28, 2019 3:21:39 GMT
A four-story run set between Fury from the Deep and The Wheel in Space, with a new companion for the 2nd Doctor There's literally no gap. Victoria is seen on screen in Wheel episode one. Not exactly. Victoria is seen in a refilmed recap of the end of Fury from the Deep. There's a fade out after that to suggest a passage of time, at which point the Doctor wakes Jamie from a nap. Any number of stories could technically be slotted into this gap. Big Finish have done it before - the only place where Steven and Dodo stories can logically take place are between The Gunfighters and The Savages (and several of the audios featuring them make this out to be the case). Going by the logic that "there is no gap" if a televised story shows the setup of the next, nothing could go here as The Gunfighters ends with the TARDIS having landed and one of the Savages appearing on the scanner. As such, it's actually perfectly possible for there to be stories slotted between Fury and Wheel. I'd like to add here that I personally don't think it makes any sense to put stories in the space, as Jamie's questions about Victoria in Wheel: Episode One strongly suggest that they've only just said goodbye to her. Again though, this hasn't stopped BF before - Planet of Fire opens with the Doctor still slightly in shock by Tegan having left. Given the number of Five/Turlough stories BF have subsequently made, that reaction doesn't seem to make that much sense once the stories have been slotted in. At this point it's up to the individual what they think, though I believe that it doesn't make that much sense to have stories between Fury and Wheel. |
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