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Post by whiskeybrewer on Nov 12, 2016 13:15:00 GMT
Yeah I'd say it would be a mix of Late Troughton/ Early Pertwee. The first serial would probably be a version of Rose with a dash of Aliens of London/World War Three. Then the second or third serial would be the Cybermen. I was thinking something very much in the vein of Red Dawn which feels very strongly like a 1990s story in a way that other stories rarely do. A story that's a mix of Contact and The X-Files with the wonders of the universe and a human conspiracy. Pre-millennium when we had that sixties sense of fun in our fiction still. I think there's a strong probability that the Fifth Doctor would have regenerated on an alien world and fallen in with them for a little while or been similarly done in at some point in Earth's future. Given that particular decade's love for worldbuilding, we'd have seen quite a lot of detail from either scenario. Actually I like the sound of that. That could work |
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Nov 12, 2016 19:38:24 GMT
I think audiences will have grown bored of Tom Baker's Doctor. Viewing figures would have dropped and depending how long Tom Baker would stay as the Doctor in this timeline, it could have resulted in the end of the classic series before the classic series even managed to reach its sixth Doctor (there's a possibility they could have tried a fifth Doctor rather than giving up completely).
John Nathan Turner's infamous stunt casting would have happened earlier too. Ken Dodd would have been in a fourth Doctor story rather than a seventh Doctor one.
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Post by kalendorf on Nov 13, 2016 3:23:24 GMT
I think audiences will have grown bored of Tom Baker's Doctor. Viewing figures would have dropped and depending how long Tom Baker would stay as the Doctor in this timeline, it could have resulted in the end of the classic series before the classic series even managed to reach its sixth Doctor Not necessarily a bad thing in my view. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 6:14:50 GMT
I think audiences will have grown bored of Tom Baker's Doctor. Viewing figures would have dropped and depending how long Tom Baker would stay as the Doctor in this timeline, it could have resulted in the end of the classic series before the classic series even managed to reach its sixth Doctor Not necessarily a bad thing in my view. Sad though because we'd miss out on Peter, Colin, Sylvester, Paul and David in the audios now. It's tragic that Sixy never got his dues on television, but I think under the circumstances I'm happy we got that Big Finish renaissance. Even if the cost was Season 24 and maybe the TV Movie (depending on how you feel about it in particular). |
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Post by Timelord007 on Nov 13, 2016 9:24:58 GMT
Scheduling Tom's final season against Buck Rogers on ITV didn't help viewing figures, but it was time for Tom to hang up hs scarf he looks completely disinterested & the twinkle in his eyes from previous seasons had gone.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Nov 13, 2016 15:02:08 GMT
I think audiences will have grown bored of Tom Baker's Doctor. Viewing figures would have dropped and depending how long Tom Baker would stay as the Doctor in this timeline, it could have resulted in the end of the classic series before the classic series even managed to reach its sixth Doctor Not necessarily a bad thing in my view. I disagree. It might have meant no Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, John Hurt, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith or Peter Capaldi as the Doctor. We might not even have had the same fifth Doctor. |
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Post by J.A. Prentice on Nov 15, 2016 6:03:43 GMT
I think that it could have killed the show. Tom Baker already cast a long shadow over the rest of the classic era and keeping him on longer would have only prolonged that. Change is an essential part of what makes Doctor Who work and if any Doctor or companion stays too long, I think the show starts to lose that. Seven years is probably the maximum a Doctor should be allowed to stay.
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