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Post by theillusiveman on Apr 12, 2020 15:36:14 GMT
I know its extremely early but to think 3 years from now Doctor Who will enter its 60th Anniversary (Spooky to think that Light at The End will be 10 Years old) and there has been hints in the Podcast last year that Big Finish is formulating ideas for the event which makes me wonder what possibly could be in store especially thinking that this could potentially be the last Multi-Doctor story event for Tom (will be 90), Colin (will be 80) and Sylvester (will be 79)
Would it be like The Light at the end- a traditional multi-doctor story with Doctor/Companion pairings
or The Legacy of Time with Each Doctor having a story that connects together culminating into a finale with all the doctors meeting
Personally im hoping for a Light at the end type story
What are your thoughts?
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Post by Digi on Apr 12, 2020 15:39:05 GMT
Considering how far ahead Big Finish has recorded with Tom, I'd actually not be all that surprised that if they've already planned out his recording for it, if indeed they're intending to have him appear in it.
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Post by mbt66 on Apr 12, 2020 16:51:08 GMT
To my mind it makes sense if it is an anniversary relating to the TV show to have it as a multi-Doctor story, like the Five Doctors and indeed what they did with the Light at the End.
And if it is an anniversary for Big Finish, as a celebration of each if the Doctor’s to have individual stories that come together as a whole like The Legacy of Time.
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Post by fitzoliverj on Apr 12, 2020 17:58:52 GMT
Bit of a gloomy take on the prospect (particularly in light of the death today of Tim Brooke-Taylor, who was of a comparable age) but fingers crossed that BF will have material for a long time to come. But, yes, we'd all like at least one big multi-Doctor extravaganza in 2023.
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Post by cwm on Apr 12, 2020 18:07:59 GMT
It was stated on the podcast a while back that some material for the 60th anniversary special had already been recorded, IIRC.
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Post by dannybl on Apr 12, 2020 20:10:14 GMT
It was stated on the podcast a while back that some material for the 60th anniversary special had already been recorded, IIRC. definitely means Tom's done his bit PS: I'm really trying not to think about the 60th right now as I did 10 years ago with the 50th. Nearly drove me bonkers
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Post by theillusiveman on Apr 13, 2020 1:21:55 GMT
Bit of a gloomy take on the prospect (particularly in light of the death today of Tim Brooke-Taylor, who was of a comparable age) but fingers crossed that BF will have material for a long time to come. But, yes, we'd all like at least one big multi-Doctor extravaganza in 2023. Sorry didnt mean to put a downer on the whole Annivesary special
but regarding material for Tom with him currently recording and the new structure of 4DA boxsets its possible there is enough material with him to last till 2027
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Apr 13, 2020 8:37:46 GMT
It was stated on the podcast a while back that some material for the 60th anniversary special had already been recorded, IIRC. Ideally, or perhaps hopefully, thar’ll be the Tombo and William Russell parts.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Apr 13, 2020 8:41:42 GMT
I think “the life and times of Sir Ian Chesterton” would be fitting. Episode 1: Knight of Jaffa, set during his travels. Episode 2: Wizard of NASA, after travels with whomsoever is the “most recent” Doctor BF has available. Episode 3: Teacher of Science, set before Unearthly Child and guest starring River Song. Episode 4: Hero of All, set “today”, starring the Great Curator.
Jamie Glover can play Ian in all segments except 4 if necessary, but William Russell reslly should be in it in some form or another.
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Post by mbt66 on Apr 13, 2020 8:59:23 GMT
So do we expect the 25th Anniversary for Doctor Who at Big Finish to be a thing? 2024 isn’t very far away.
It is strange how I think that the 25th and the 75th are the only “odd number” anniversaries of note. Or should we be expecting the 35th and then 45th anniversaries to be notable enough to warrant a big anniversary release from Big Finish? (That’s as well as the 30th, 40th and 50th anniversaries)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 9:54:49 GMT
So do we expect the 25th Anniversary for Doctor Who at Big Finish to be a thing? 2024 isn’t very far away. It is strange how I think that the 25th and the 75th are the only “odd number” anniversaries of note. Or should we be expecting the 35th and then 45th anniversaries to be notable enough to warrant a big anniversary release from Big Finish? (That’s as well as the 30th, 40th and 50th anniversaries) The 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who will hopefully be a thing. The 25th Anniversary of Big Finish will hopefully be a thing too. Perhaps in that year the 50th Anniversary of the Fourth Doctor's first appearance will be marked as well. After that? Who knows..
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Post by Digi on Apr 13, 2020 9:58:18 GMT
I think “the life and times of Sir Ian Chesterton” would be fitting. Episode 1: Knight of Jaffa, set during his travels. Episode 2: Wizard of NASA, after travels with whomsoever is the “most recent” Doctor BF has available. Episode 3: Teacher of Science, set before Unearthly Child and guest starring River Song. Episode 4: Hero of All, set “today”, starring the Great Curator. Jamie Glover can play Ian in all segments except 4 if necessary, but William Russell reslly should be in it in some form or another. Companion Chronicles style would probably be the only way to satisfy that. Have William Russell do the framing narration and Jamie Glover do the younger Ian during the story that's being told, or something like that.
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Post by mbt66 on Apr 13, 2020 10:01:37 GMT
If/when we get the 25th Anniversary release i hope it has the Cybermen in it.
Not just as a homage to Silver Nemesis, but because they deserve to be in a big multiple Doctor adventure as the main villains.
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Post by dannybl on Apr 14, 2020 13:59:23 GMT
No doubt there will be a miulti-Doctor special, but my question is how will they make it different? The format?
Within the past 7 years we've had The Light at the End, arguably a more traditional multi-Doctor story (as well as Destiny of the Doctor and the Stoyn and 1963 trilogies), then The Legacy of Time - a Sirens of Time/The Worlds of Doctor Who hybrid with individual episodes before coming together at the end.
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Post by grinch on Apr 14, 2020 14:12:40 GMT
No doubt there will be a miulti-Doctor special, but my question is how will they make it different? The format? Within the past 7 years we've had The Light at the End, arguably a more traditional multi-Doctor story (as well as Destiny of the Doctor and the Stoyn and 1963 trilogies), then The Legacy of Time - a Sirens of Time/The Worlds of Doctor Who hybrid with individual episodes before coming together at the end. The same story but each instalment is told from the different perspective of a Doctor over the course of a few years? I dunno....
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Post by elkawho on Apr 14, 2020 14:28:12 GMT
No doubt there will be a miulti-Doctor special, but my question is how will they make it different? The format? Within the past 7 years we've had The Light at the End, arguably a more traditional multi-Doctor story (as well as Destiny of the Doctor and the Stoyn and 1963 trilogies), then The Legacy of Time - a Sirens of Time/The Worlds of Doctor Who hybrid with individual episodes before coming together at the end. The same story but each instalment is told from the different perspective of a Doctor over the course of a few years? I dunno.... That's a fantastic idea!!
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Post by mbt66 on Apr 14, 2020 14:49:34 GMT
No doubt there will be a miulti-Doctor special, but my question is how will they make it different? The format? Within the past 7 years we've had The Light at the End, arguably a more traditional multi-Doctor story (as well as Destiny of the Doctor and the Stoyn and 1963 trilogies), then The Legacy of Time - a Sirens of Time/The Worlds of Doctor Who hybrid with individual episodes before coming together at the end. The same story but each instalment is told from the different perspective of a Doctor over the course of a few years? I dunno.... I have wanted a main range story in the past where in each episode different Doctors are in the same story with the same characters. The overall threat is the same, but how each of them resolve the problem and how they interact with the people in the story would, to my mind, be fascinating. The linking device for this would be an anomaly in the Matrix.
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Post by dannybl on Apr 15, 2020 23:04:53 GMT
I had an idea which is basically an anthology of 10 minute monologues from various characters from down the years
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Post by constonks on Apr 16, 2020 4:34:33 GMT
Using the Legacy of Time model of a six-part boxset, I tried to think of a novel way to do multi-Doctor stories... What if the Eighth Doctor does something that majorly affects his past selves' established TV timelines in some way? Like, he saves one life in 1950...
But that guy ends up replacing the Brigadier, changing the Third Doctor's time on Earth...
He makes aliens public following the Loch Ness Monster incident...
He captures the newly formed Fifth Doctor following his fall from the Pharos tower...
He allies with and betrays the Cybermen during Attack of the Cybermen, gaining their time travel technology...
He shatters time completely and the Tenth Doctor comes to stop him (recognizing the mistake he made in his previous life) but the Doctor is killed... Leaving the Seventh Doctor to figure out what's gone wrong and plot a way to clean up the mess (using his past and future selves as pawns). Too similar to Legacy of Time? What about, instead, for sixty years of Doctor Who... You just go all out and celebrate every decade individually!
60s. The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe end up trapped in 1963 London and must avoid the Doctor's first incarnation.
70s. The Third and Fourth Doctors deal with the same UNIT crisis in two different years.
80s. The Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors are all time scooped, alongside their companions in an homage to The Five Doctors with some twists and turns.
90s. The Seventh Doctor, Chris and Roz end up crossing swords with an early Eighth Doctor.
00s. The Eighth Doctor and Lucie meet the Tenth Doctor when the TARDIS is summoned to Earth by Jack Harkness.
10s. If either of 11, 12 or 13 is on board with BF, they're the ones who sort out the Big Crisis! (Probably alongside Kate Stewart or the Paternosters!)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2020 10:19:52 GMT
Using the Legacy of Time model of a six-part boxset, I tried to think of a novel way to do multi-Doctor stories... What if the Eighth Doctor does something that majorly affects his past selves' established TV timelines in some way? Like, he saves one life in 1950...
But that guy ends up replacing the Brigadier, changing the Third Doctor's time on Earth...
He makes aliens public following the Loch Ness Monster incident...
He captures the newly formed Fifth Doctor following his fall from the Pharos tower...
He allies with and betrays the Cybermen during Attack of the Cybermen, gaining their time travel technology...
He shatters time completely and the Tenth Doctor comes to stop him (recognizing the mistake he made in his previous life) but the Doctor is killed... Leaving the Seventh Doctor to figure out what's gone wrong and plot a way to clean up the mess (using his past and future selves as pawns). Too similar to Legacy of Time? What about, instead, for sixty years of Doctor Who... You just go all out and celebrate every decade individually!
60s. The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe end up trapped in 1963 London and must avoid the Doctor's first incarnation.
70s. The Third and Fourth Doctors deal with the same UNIT crisis in two different years.
80s. The Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors are all time scooped, alongside their companions in an homage to The Five Doctors with some twists and turns.
90s. The Seventh Doctor, Chris and Roz end up crossing swords with an early Eighth Doctor.
00s. The Eighth Doctor and Lucie meet the Tenth Doctor when the TARDIS is summoned to Earth by Jack Harkness.
10s. If either of 11, 12 or 13 is on board with BF, they're the ones who sort out the Big Crisis! (Probably alongside Kate Stewart or the Paternosters!) Oh, I can already think of a title and tagline for the first scenario:
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