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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 22:07:44 GMT
Step right up, ladies, gentlemen and others for an old, but fun game. Yes, just take a serial, any serial and swap it with a succeeding or preceding Doctor and companion team. Note the changes, mix, match and enjoy.
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Wrath of the War Machines
Absconding from the tedium of their regular duties at UNIT, the Third Doctor takes Jo to see the Will Operating Thought Analogue designed by Professor Brett, known as WOTAN one of the most sophisticated computer systems developed during the decade. Soon, under the ministrations of civil servant Sir Charles Summer, the machine will be joined to a world wide network ranging all across the globe -- from London to New York to Moscow to Tokyo.
However, the Doctor has his doubts that the machine's intentions are benevolent and soon discovers he is right when Jo and Mike Yates are reconditioned to serve in the production of the War Machines. But is Sir Charles Summer the genuine article? Or is he perhaps an old adversary the Doctor would recognise?
The Gift
A mysterious force draws an ailing First Doctor and Dodo to the planet Earth where a secretive sect of gilded aliens offer 1960s Britain the chance to never fear starvation ever again. The gift of Axonite, a material that can accelerate food production to the point where rampant crop destruction becomes little more than a triviality and in exchange, mankind will give them mineral rights in key positions across the globe. However, the Doctor senses a malevolence behind their Grecian benevolence and discovers through infiltration of a local atomic power station that these Axons may be just as dangerous as their covetous government collaborators.
Ironically, he receives assistance from a member of MI5, played by the dashing Marius Goering of Scarlet Pimpernel fame and is pitted against Peter Butterworth's the Monk (armed with a neutron rifle) who brought them to Earth in the first place, believing their lies to be genuine.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Aug 2, 2017 2:44:44 GMT
The Doctor's Daemons
Stuck in a rut after the TARDIS broke down in a rural English village, the Doctor (Christopher Eccelston) is ignorant of the machinations of the new local priest, Mister Magister (Derek Jacobi). Rose on the other hand strikes up a frienship with local witch (white, obviously). When she warns of disaster at the local barrow, the Doctor is finally motivated act ... because he recognises the danger, the last of the Time Lords (both of them) are involved with the return of the last of the Daemons.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Aug 2, 2017 5:09:32 GMT
Masterplan of the Daleks
Receiving a distress signal, the Doctor reluctantly takes Clara and Danny Pink, despite promising them a picnic after being bullied by Clara into attempting to build a better relationship with Danny, to the planet Kembel. The arrive in the middle of a pre-War Dalek scheme to conquer the universe, using an artefact from the Time War ... a Time Destructor. The Doctor steals the power core of the Time Destructor and escapes in the TARDIS, he has to balance keeping history intact with cleaning up from the Time War, the clash of egos between himself and Danny and escape the pursuing Dalek kill teams.
(obviously neither Clara nor Danny die).
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Post by newt5996 on Aug 11, 2017 16:49:01 GMT
The Frogs from Space:
The First Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki land on a space freighter ruled over by the Ubankans, giving both Ian and Barbara the chance to explain history and the science of robotics, while Vicki is put under hypnosis by Monarch and the Doctor faffs about for four comedy episodes.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 0:10:05 GMT
The Frogs from Space: The First Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki land on a space freighter ruled over by the Ubankans, giving both Ian and Barbara the chance to explain history and the science of robotics, while Vicki is put under hypnosis by Monarch and the Doctor faffs about for four comedy episodes. Known informally amongst fandom as Carry On Doomsday.  (As an aside, I've always loved how Monarch's two off-siders are called Enlightenment and Persuasion. I don't know what it is that makes those titles so cool, I think it might be the cliffhanger for Episode One. John Black was a fantastic director, I wish they'd brought him back after K9 and Company faltered.) The ZarbiFresh from their encounter on the planet Andromeda, the TARDIS is drawn from its rambling course to Earth through the Isop Galaxy down to the planet Vortis. Tegan and Adric suspect another devious ploy on the part of the Master, but the Doctor and Nyssa suspect a far greater force has caught the Ship in its web. Shapes and shadows move silently through the Airless Plain... The Ship falls all but silent... A dark power slaves Nyssa to its will in the Crater of Needles through a Traken keepsake, Adric becomes lost deep beneath the ground with the head of the Menopteran spearhead, Vrestin, and the Doctor finds himself afraid and alone -- the TARDIS and its last, frantic passenger travelling outward bound, far beyond the surface of hostile Vortis... Nestled deep in the Centre, the power of the Animus is absolute... A spider nestled in a heart of rotting soil, the Animus calls the Doctor into the vulnerable dark... |
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Post by newt5996 on Aug 12, 2017 3:28:48 GMT
The Frogs from Space: The First Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki land on a space freighter ruled over by the Ubankans, giving both Ian and Barbara the chance to explain history and the science of robotics, while Vicki is put under hypnosis by Monarch and the Doctor faffs about for four comedy episodes. Known informally amongst fandom as Carry On Doomsday. (As an aside, I've always loved how Monarch's two off-siders are called Enlightenment and Persuasion. I don't know what it is that makes those titles so cool, I think it might be the cliffhanger for Episode One. John Black was a fantastic director, I wish they'd brought him back after K9 and Company faltered.) The ZarbiFresh from their encounter on the planet Andromeda, the TARDIS is drawn from its rambling course to Earth through the Isop Galaxy down to the planet Vortis. Tegan and Adric suspect another devious ploy on the part of the Master, but the Doctor and Nyssa suspect a far greater force has caught the Ship in its web. Shapes and shadows move silently through the Airless Plain... The Ship falls all but silent... A dark power slaves Nyssa to its will in the Crater of Needles through a Traken keepsake, Adric becomes lost deep beneath the ground with the head of the Menopteran spearhead, Vrestin, and the Doctor finds himself afraid and alone -- the TARDIS and its last, frantic passenger travelling outward bound, far beyond the surface of hostile Vortis... Nestled deep in the Centre, the power of the Animus is absolute... A spider nestled in a heart of rotting soil, the Animus calls the Doctor into the vulnerable dark... [ But wouldn't Adric have to be with the Doctor because JNT didn't allow any possible contact between five and female companions? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 3:53:18 GMT
Known informally amongst fandom as Carry On Doomsday. (As an aside, I've always loved how Monarch's two off-siders are called Enlightenment and Persuasion. I don't know what it is that makes those titles so cool, I think it might be the cliffhanger for Episode One. John Black was a fantastic director, I wish they'd brought him back after K9 and Company faltered.) The ZarbiFresh from their encounter on the planet Andromeda, the TARDIS is drawn from its rambling course to Earth through the Isop Galaxy down to the planet Vortis. Tegan and Adric suspect another devious ploy on the part of the Master, but the Doctor and Nyssa suspect a far greater force has caught the Ship in its web. Shapes and shadows move silently through the Airless Plain... The Ship falls all but silent... A dark power slaves Nyssa to its will in the Crater of Needles through a Traken keepsake, Adric becomes lost deep beneath the ground with the head of the Menopteran spearhead, Vrestin, and the Doctor finds himself afraid and alone -- the TARDIS and its last, frantic passenger travelling outward bound, far beyond the surface of hostile Vortis... Nestled deep in the Centre, the power of the Animus is absolute... A spider nestled in a heart of rotting soil, the Animus calls the Doctor into the vulnerable dark... But wouldn't Adric have to be with the Doctor because JNT didn't allow any possible contact between five and female companions? Well, assuming that we go blow-by-blow and everything follows as in the original, Adric would still be with the Doctor for the majority of the first half anyway. Nyssa gets Barbara's role, Tegan gets Vicki's and Adric follows the same path as Ian, who accompanies the Doctor to the Centre. I rather like the idea of Adric (although Vrestin would probably mispronounce it as "Adronn" or something similar) falling in with the head of the invasion force like a Boys Own story and it adds a greater sense of jeopardy, narratively speaking, if Tegan is the one trapped aboard the TARDIS. Unlike the other two companions she has no clue how to operate it, so when it vanishes, we'd get the impression that it's not coming back. Nyssa's own mechanical skill makes her ideal for handling the isoptope, maybe even repairing it after it's damaged en route from Pictos. The only thing I can really see being a problem is the cliffhanger for "Invasion" with the Doctor and Tegan/Vicki hugging one another for comfort. If it were 1982, they'd have likely positioned the two of them kneeling side-by-side, their bodies contorted under the web. Less statuesque and more dynamic like Kinda's "Open the box" cliffhanger. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2017 23:57:52 GMT
But wouldn't Adric have to be with the Doctor because JNT didn't allow any possible contact between five and female companions? Wait... What? Physical contact, right? That's what I interpreted it as. Face-to-face contact happened a lot over JNT's run and still did occur during Season 19 with Nyssa and Tegan ( Castrovalva being the most obvious). |
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Post by newt5996 on Aug 15, 2017 0:06:02 GMT
[ But wouldn't Adric have to be with the Doctor because JNT didn't allow any possible contact between five and female companions? Wait... What? Yeah Peter Davison and Janet Fielding often go on about how JNT wanted zero sexual tension in the TARDIS so he wouldn't allow any contact between the Doctor and his female companions for fives run because of Davison's age. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2017 6:49:27 GMT
Yeah Peter Davison and Janet Fielding often go on about how JNT wanted zero sexual tension in the TARDIS so he wouldn't allow any contact between the Doctor and his female companions for fives run because of Davison's age. I think the most notable example was Terminus, it was why the Fifth Doctor didn't hug Nyssa when she left. They managed to play it into his character quite a bit, his reservedness being part of his general discomfort with physicality in general. You'll notice that he's not a terribly good physical fighter either whether it's Hindle or a Terileptil. Any other ideas for swaps? |
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Post by shutupbanks on Aug 15, 2017 8:25:29 GMT
Enemy Of The World Makers
Twelve, Bill and Nardole have left Marinus after discovering the remains of a Time Lord who appeared to have died from temporal acceleration. Remembering something that might be vital, they travel back in time to find Jamie McCrimmon. Unfortunately, the TARDIS materialises around Jamie, the Second Doctor and a man who is the spitting image of the Second Doctor. The Twelfth Doctor identifies the real McCoy (oops, sorry - wrong incarnation) quickly and Nardole manages to immobilise him, unfortunately hitting the "Fast Return" button in the process. The duplicate then escapes from Nardole's clutches and runs out onto the surface of Marinus. Nardole and Twelve race after him, into the clutches of the mutated Voord who are becoming Cybermen... It's up to Bill, Jamie and the Second Doctor to save the day...
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