mbt66
Chancellery Guard
Likes: 3,079 
|
Post by mbt66 on Apr 16, 2020 11:07:06 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: I like the idea of something radically changing the past for the Doctor. I know I have suggested previously that the Earth has been destroyed, so the Doctor never has the affinity with the planet and it’s people. The fact that it was destroyed in the Earth’s past, but in the Doctor’s future means his timeline has been altered to compensate. So he is now travelling with non-Earthlings and is a bit more nomadic as he has never found an Earth planet substitute to call home. But he has a nagging feeling that something is wrong. The multiple Doctors come together to correct their own timeline and restore the Earth. (This has probably already been done) |
|
|
|
Post by shallacatop on Apr 16, 2020 17:13:18 GMT
I’d be keen for an anthology release featuring their many Doctors, or a linking arc. I think any time Big Finish attempt a multi-Doctor story (admittedly I haven’t heard The Four Doctors), it just ends up being a load of generic dialogue that could be said by any one of them. The major exception is Daughter of the Gods, which really highlights their differences, but is perhaps easier to handle with just two Doctors.
The post about it being the same story but with different Doctors is a good idea on paper, but The Light at the End tried that to a degree. “What is that red light?” eight times over still gives me nightmares for being so excruciating!
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2020 4:34:25 GMT
Oh, I can already think of a title and tagline for the first scenario: I like the idea of something radically changing the past for the Doctor. I know I have suggested previously that the Earth has been destroyed, so the Doctor never has the affinity with the planet and it’s people. The fact that it was destroyed in the Earth’s past, but in the Doctor’s future means his timeline has been altered to compensate. So he is now travelling with non-Earthlings and is a bit more nomadic as he has never found an Earth planet substitute to call home. But he has a nagging feeling that something is wrong. The multiple Doctors come together to correct their own timeline and restore the Earth. (This has probably already been done) Wouldn't it be interesting if instead of his companions choosing to stay on various other worlds and times, they instead departed further into the depths of the TARDIS? A vast internal landscape populated by retired companions. Come a story like Castrovalva and, well... |
|
mbt66
Chancellery Guard
Likes: 3,079
|
Post by mbt66 on Apr 17, 2020 9:22:03 GMT
I like the idea of something radically changing the past for the Doctor. I know I have suggested previously that the Earth has been destroyed, so the Doctor never has the affinity with the planet and it’s people. The fact that it was destroyed in the Earth’s past, but in the Doctor’s future means his timeline has been altered to compensate. So he is now travelling with non-Earthlings and is a bit more nomadic as he has never found an Earth planet substitute to call home. But he has a nagging feeling that something is wrong. The multiple Doctors come together to correct their own timeline and restore the Earth. (This has probably already been done) Wouldn't it be interesting if instead of his companions choosing to stay on various other worlds and times, they instead departed further into the depths of the TARDIS? A vast internal landscape populated by retired companions. Come a story like Castrovalva and, well... Have you seen Jonathan Morris latest blog entry underthreehundred.blogspot.com Where he writes about having to change his initial comic strip idea with the Tardis bcuase of the Doctor’s wife? It would be interesting if the Tardis takes a memento of her travels by recreating something from the many and varied places that she has visited with the Doctor. We would take a photograph, a Tardis would take a full panorama. Obviously she takes/recreates something that causes a problem - The Evil Within. |
|
|
|
Post by dannybl on Apr 17, 2020 11:56:35 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!) I prefer the second one but I like the first as a piece on cause and effect. I'd love to put the Fourth Doctor in the Death Zone as he missed out in 1983. Here's one I wrote last year: THE DALEK MANIPULATION OF TIME 1 : MENACE OF THE DALEKS Starring DAVID WARNER as the Unbound Doctor, ALEX KINGSTON as River Song, PAUL McGANN as the Eighth Doctor, DEREK JACOBI as the Master and NICHOLAS BRIGGS as the Daleks After dropping off Benny once more, the Unbound Doctor is tracked down by River Song who tells him the universe is in grave danger. The Daleks are working on a device that will rewrite a Time Lords’ personal history – and the Doctor is the target! This Unbound Doctor, being from a parallel universe, is immune from the devices’ effects. The Unbound Doctor must go down the timeline to rescue his alternate selves. 2 : THE JUNKYARD OF DEATH Starring DAVID WARNER as the Unbound Doctor, DAVID BRADLEY as the First Doctor, CAROLE ANN FORD as Susan and FRAZER HINES as the Second Doctor The Unbound Doctor traces the Second Doctor to 1960s London, where the First Doctor and Susan are staying prior to An Unearthly Child. The Unbound and Second Doctors have found a Dalek time bomb which they must diffuse. 3 : THE ETERNAL EXILE Starring DAVID WARNER as the Unbound Doctor, ALEX KINGSTON as River Song, TIM TREOLAR as the Third Doctor, KATY MANNING as Jo Grant and JOHN BARROWMAN as Captain Jack The Unbound Doctor arrives at UNIT HQ where he sees the life he could have led. River arrives and notifies him the timeline’s been changed! 4 : AN UNBOUND ARRANGEMENT Starring DAVID WARNER as the Unbound Doctor, PETER DAVISON as the Fifth Doctor, JANET FIELDING as Tegan, DAVID TENNANT as the Tenth Doctor, GEORGIA TENNANT as Jenny, DAVID BANKS as the CyberLeader The Unbound Doctor uses River’s Vortex Manipulator to travel to a warped future world ruled by the Cybermen. He Fifth and Tenth Doctor, as well as their daughter Jenny, are both in a band of rebels trying to save the world. 5 : BATTLE IN THE DEATH ZONE Starring DAVID WARNER as the Unbound Doctor, TOM BAKER as the Fourth Doctor, LALLA WARD as Romana II, DAN STARKEY as Commander Skorg The Unbound Doctor arrives in the Death Zone! His fourth incarnation and Romana are there, having finally arrived following their time in an Eddy following The Five Doctors. Is this a ruse by the Daleks to keep him out of the way? 6 : THE ULTIMATE WEAPON Starring DAVID WARNER as the Unbound Doctor, ALEX KINGSTON as River Song, COLIN BAKER as the Sixth Doctor, SYLVESTER McCOY as the Seventh Doctor, LISA BOWERMAN as Benny The Unbound Doctor is finally reunited with his TARDIS on a Dalek space station, where the Sixth and seventh Dctors are being held captive. The Unbound Doctor must destroy the time Device and restore the timeline – even if he cannot stop the Time War. And some covers I had designed for it: |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2020 12:48:01 GMT
Wouldn't it be interesting if instead of his companions choosing to stay on various other worlds and times, they instead departed further into the depths of the TARDIS? A vast internal landscape populated by retired companions. Come a story like Castrovalva and, well... Have you seen Jonathan Morris latest blog entry underthreehundred.blogspot.com Where he writes about having to change his initial comic strip idea with the Tardis bcuase of the Doctor’s wife? It would be interesting if the Tardis takes a memento of her travels by recreating something from the many and varied places that she has visited with the Doctor. We would take a photograph, a Tardis would take a full panorama. Obviously she takes/recreates something that causes a problem - The Evil Within. That could work. Nope, hadn't read it, but it makes for very interesting reading. Funny how some of the old ideas resurface in new ways. Jim Mortimore, back in the days that he was doing stories for Audio Visuals, wrote a story called Blood Circuit. In the course of that adventure, the TARDIS's central column becomes fractured and it becomes necessary for the Doctor to visit out onto the surface of a world... well, it looks like Ceti Alpha V from The Wrath of Khan. Nothing but a ravaged wasteland with roaring duststorms thicker than your fist. There are creatures on that world called Screamers, which are frequently hunted and killed for the pearls in their craniums. Fortunately, the material these pearls are made of bear a close enough approximation to the material of the column to make repairs. Unfortunately, the pearls are analogous to embryos. When they're injected and synthesised with the TARDIS's systems, it undergoes a mutation, turning the Ship into one of the creatures -- with the Doctor trapped inside. It seems to be a recurring idea that the TARDIS takes something of its travels with it. There's a really nice fan story from The Doctor Who Project which unfortunately I think is "out of print", but it had the Doctor's companions stumble across a room filled with pedestals. On each pedestal was one of his incarnations with a final plinth left blank for his time. It's an incredibly personal space, one the TARDIS shouldn't have let them access to, but did so anyway. It's funny you say panorama too. Outside of that is the Memory Vault, which Peri and Frobisher stumble across in the comic, Changes. A "simulation gallery" where the Ship stores all the places she's been over the years. And in Time's Champion, Mel finds a portrait gallery of companions that leads all the way up to her. She's a bit sentimental, the old girl, and going by Mila, she doesn't always tell the Doctor about everything she acquires on their travels. It could have been sitting there for a very long time. |
|
|
|
Post by dannybl on Apr 26, 2020 16:18:28 GMT
Now that they have Tim Treloar and David Bradley I wonder if they'll consider doing Robert Holmes' The Six Doctors as the 2023 "Lost Stories" entry?
I know it's just a synopsis but they could try and develop it.
|
|
|
|
Post by theillusiveman on Apr 27, 2020 9:31:29 GMT
Apparently there isnt much of The six doctors they can use
shame though wonder if there is an actual script
|
|
