History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWho169TheWrongDoctors

* HeroesWantRedHeads: Jedediah has a thing for Melanie Bush [[spoiler: several times over]], and when he gets [[spoiler: brought back to his original timeline he marries a redhead]].

* TimeyWimeyBall: The Sixth Doctor drops off Mel after not having met her yet, so that the Sixth Doctor who knows he still has to meet her comes back to collect her. Except he turns up at the wrong time. So technically you've got the "present", blue-coated Doctor, his past self who arrived with Future Mel, and the "local present" Mel, who's really a Past Mel that hasn't met any Doctor yet to the other three.

-->'''Mel:''' You're the wrong Doctors in the wrong place at the the wrong time!
''The Doctors:''' Story of our lives.

-->'''Mel A:''' What are they? Robbers? Arms dealers? ''Pirates''?

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Unless they're in the rhododendrons.

--> '''Mel A''': "What are they? Robbers? Arms dealers? ''Pirates''?
--> '''The younger Doctor''': "Worse. [[EvilLawyerJoke Business consultants]].

--->'''Doctor:''' Note to self - never, ever drive a taxi.

* IHatePastMe: The older Sixth Doctor has undergone quite a bit of CharacterDevelopment, especially after the time he has spent with Evelyn, and become OlderAndWiser and quite a bit more mellow and down to earth as a result. He therefore quickly finds the younger and more brash and pompous Sixth Doctor pretty annoying.

--> '''Mel:'''"You're the wrong Doctors in the wrong place at the the wrong time!"
--> '''The Doctors''': [[invoked]][[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Story of our lives.]]

* IHatePastMe: The older Sixth Doctor is a lot more mellow, after having spent time with Evelyn, and as a result he finds the younger and more brash Sixth Doctor pretty annoying.

The Sixth Doctor is lamenting the departure of [[CoolOldLady Evelyn]] [[NoodleIncident Smythe]], as he's eating the last piece of [[SweetTooth chocolate cake]] she'd baked him. As he's feeling blue, he decides to pick up [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E3TerrorOfTheVervoids Melanie Bush]], someone he knows [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E4TheUltimateFoe he'll travel]] / [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble have traveled with]] [[TimeyWimeyBall (but hasn't yet)]] and [[Film/AustinPowers oh dear I seem to have gone crosseyed]].

* HumanAlien: The Mardacks are basically purple humanoids. They used to be grey, but bio-engineered themselves to a colour they thought would be more appealing. [[FashionVictimVillain The fact they they shouldn't wear beige suits with this doesn't occur to them, incidentally]].

--> '''The Doctors''': [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Story of our lives.]]

* ActorAllusion: Mel, who's [[InformedAbility actually a programmer]], is first encountered in a panto rehearsal. Actress Bonnie Langford was actually a stage actress before she joined ''Series/DoctorWho''.

** Petherbridge mentions [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster Chronovores]], [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho016StormWarning Vortisaurs]] and the [[BigFinishDoctorWhoTLSFDBE1TheFoeFromTheFuture Pantophagen]], all several kinds of ClockRoaches.

** Petherbridge mentions [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster Chronovores]], [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho016StormWarning Vortisaurs]] and the Pantophagen, all several kinds of ClockRoaches.

* ContinuitySnarl: It just wouldn't be Mel without adding some ''more'' ContinuitySnarl. Mel says she's ''supposed'' to meet the Doctor on [[Literature/PastDoctorAdventures Oxyveguramosa]], in the novel ''Business Unusual''. Which is the middle part of a trilogy - ''Business Unusual'' features [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho009TheSpectreOfLanyonMoor an entirely different first meeting between Six and the Brig]], and the third, ''Instruments of Darkness'', [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho073ThickerThanWater an entirely different meeting between Evelyn and Mel.]]
** That said, the timelines are reconcilable; ''Business Unusual'' told of Six and the Brig's first meeting from the perspective of the ''Brigadier'', while ''Spectre'' features their first meeting in that incarnation as far as ''the Doctor'' is concerned (although the Evelyn and Mel paradox relies on someone losing their memory to be reconcilable)

* InsistentTerminology: The Mardacks speak entirely in corporate bullshit-speak. They're not "slaves", they're "[[ExospeakGag non-voluntary microbudget fuctionary stakeholders.]]"

* InsistentTerminology: The Mardacks use business terms for things like Slave Labour.

As the TARDIS [[MostWonderfulSound vwoarps]] in, the Sixth Doctor steps out, and... so does Mel? Ah, of course. Fresh out of his [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E1TheMysteriousPlanet trial]] the Sixth Doctor took Mel along to bring her back where she would first meet his future self. Hushing her when she mentions [[TimeParadox where that will happen]]. The young Doctor, satisfied, walks off and suddenly notices something very, very wrong. A black truck cab, crushed, driver included.

* AlienInvasion
* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: The Mardacks all have one, probably to sound more slick as they're all part of a MegaCorp.

--> '''The Doctors''': [[FunnyMoments Story of our lives.]]

The Sixth Doctor is lamenting the departure of [[CoolOldLady Evelyn]] [[NoodleIncident Smythe]], as he's eating the last piece of [[SweetTooth Chocolate Cake]] she'd baked him. As he's feeling blue, he decides to pick up [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E3TerrorOfTheVervoids Melanie Bush]], someone he knows [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E4TheUltimateFoe he'll travel]] / [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble have traveled with]] [[TimeyWimeyBall (but hasn't yet)]] and [[Film/AustinPowers oh dear I seem to have gone crosseyed]].

** The Doctor namedrops HarryHoudini.

** The younger Doctor refuses to listen when Mel tells him they're supposed to meet for the first time (from her perspective) on [[Literature/PastDoctorAdventures Oxyveguramosa]][[note]] In the novel ''Business Unusual'', in other words[[/note]], not Pease Pottage. Maybe if he'd listened to her and not insisted on returning to Pease Pottage...

As the older Doctor sees the younger Doctor, he runs to stop him from interfering, and winds up in a snare. The younger Doctor scoffs at the older Doctor, wondering why he didn't see what was ''obviously'' there. After some [[IHatePastMe bickering]] the Sixth Doctor and, uhhh, the Sixth Doctor trace their steps back to their respective TARDISes only to find them... [[OhCrap gone?]] Meanwhile, Mel is with Mrs. Wilberforce, a friend of the family, when a loud noise alerts them to the backyard. There, they are eye to eye with an ''Iguanadon''. A herbivore. That's good. And a Baryonyx. A carnivore. That's bad. As they run off, Jedediah beckons them into an open building, and barricades the door.