If Classic Who tales were told in the 21st century?

The obvious one would be the use of mobile phones in earth-based stories placing characters in less danger due to being able to be warned in time.
Another would be the internet allowing quicker research/ sharing of information - imagine the plot of The War Machines or The Green Death with WOTAN and BOSS being able to use the net.
The Seeds Of Doom would probably have a much more serious ecological subtext, as would the aforementioned Green Death.
The Peladon stories would possibly be more about the exploitation of resources and damage to the environment on Peladon.
Given the rise in awareness of indigenous populations, Frontier In Space and The Mutants would have slightly different plots (possibly).
The idea of the Cybermen would probably change: if I was writing them I'd have them based around some sort of story about the Singularity and the doing away with "meat suits" (rather like the Missy/ Cybermen story in Series 8) - there might be a Stephen Hawking type of character who welcomes the idea of doing away with the body (rather like Mr Lumic in Age Of Steel/ Rise Of The Cyberman).

We'd be meeting everyone's family.
We'd see the disintergration of Lethbridge-Stewart's marriage and he'd probably hit the bottle until some tough love from the Doctor.
Everyone would be slapping the Doctor.
jago and Litefoot would be lovers (or at the very least, the subtext of the J&L series of George buttering his bread on the other side would be text).

You're thinking Colony in Space. Frontier was the one with the Draconians. Mind you considering the demise of the Western genre in general, it's more likely that Colony would be done more towards the aesthete of something like Firefly than anything else. They'd go to great pains to demonstrate the sophistication of the aboriginal population's cultural values and the fact that it was the doomsday weapon that was preventing the colonist's crops from growing would tie in more heavily with how the humans ruined Earth on their way out. IMC seems ageless as an adversary though and the Master's appearance in the story would most likely have been much earlier on to prevent the plot from dragging on too much. We'd probably see the Master fire off the weapon at least once as well, if only to demonstrate what the stakes are.

I don't think The Mutants would exist really, it's very much a story of its time.

If I were to be cruel, I'd say that we'd spend a year of showing how cosmically special Adric is, how he comforted the Doctor in his youth on Gallifrey, taught him advanced mathematics and helped him steal away in the TARDIS at the very beginning of his adventures. He'd have died aboard the freighter, only for the Doctor to violate the Laws of Time and go back to save him from destruction. Given the quality of current stories, I'd say that any subtext you see in a story would be just forced into the foreground. The War Games would be trying to tell you that war is bad, The Ark in Space would be one Alien cliche after another with some gag about wi-fi thrown in, the UNIT troops would all be retrained by the Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy, the Gold Dalek trying to finish off Styles's peace conference would turn tail at the first sign of the Doctor turning up, the Ambassadors of Death would be just trying to find love, etc.

On the plus side, padding would be a thing of the past.

Doctor Who and The Silurians would be a deep exploration of immigration. 
The Time Meddler would show the Meddling Monk interfere with history in a more meaningful way, with lots of timey wimey stuff occurring.

Actually... Fun idea. Who would you cast for twenty-first century renditions of old classics?



The Seeds of Doom



David Tennant as the Doctor
I put it down to Douglas Camfield, but the Doctor has a real aggressive edge to him this story. Screaming at Scorby when he takes away Sarah, smashing through the skylight, snapping his neck in the garden, etc... It all seems to fit the rather energetic David Tennant.

Catherine Tate as Donna Noble
Judging from her performance in The Fires of Pompeii, Catherine Tate is very good at making dramatic situations real when she needs to, so I can definitely see her being the one to make being fed into the compost all that more horrific.

David Suchet as Harrison Chase
I can just see him saying: "Yes... Yes, the plants must win..." Outside of his role as Poirot, he's capable of a cold, rational incisiveness that seems perfect for Chase. I could see him taking the character's distaste with humanity to a whole new level with his performance.

Michelle Forbes as Scorby
Dave Bautista has the build, the menace and that general sense of thuggery which you would need for the part, but I thought it would be interesting to see what would happen if you gender-swapped the character. Considering her really nasty turn as Admiral Cain in Battlestar Galactica, I reckon she'd be able to pull off a gruff mercenary type. Someone who isn't afraid of kicking the Tenth Doctor to the curb.

Martin Freeman as Keeler
Someone who seems simultaneously cowardly and sympathetic. Yep. Freeman works.

Katy Manning as Amelia Ducat
I... Yeah, she just seems to fit. She has that old Bohemian quality and the touch of eccentricity which the part would need.

Would Matt Smith also wear a wig and pretend to be David Tennant?

Tom Baker in sonic shades, and Nyssa, Adric and Turlough revisioned as Earth girls in their early twenties?

I think I'm glad that classic DW is what it is, thanks. :-)

I can just see a reimagined Adric and Nyssa being like Fitz and Simmons from Agents of Shield.

The War Games is probably my favourite Classic serial (of the ones I've seen so far) and I adore pretty much every minute of it, repetitive padding and escape sequences included (I actually think the B+W works in it's favour), even so I wonder how they'd handle a story of that scale in New Who, would the CGI and pacing ruin it? Or would it make a truly epic miniseries with someone like Racheal Talalay directing?

Obviously the ending wouldn't work with the timelords gone, but I could picture the 12th Doctor coming across a similar situation and being forced to call in help...