If you could write a Doctor Who episode...

Aren't you supposed write a wordy wall of text THEN say tl;dr?

I was using it flippantly, implying that the topic had already been exhausted when it was brought up previously.

Also, new episode idea: The Doctor walks for 500 miles. Then he walks 500 more.

edited 30th Oct '11 8:28:53 PM by Sporkaganza

Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember them, you are not alone.

His companion is Sue. From catering.

Exactly.

Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember them, you are not alone.

Ood Sigma makes an appearance, of course. He warns them of impending danger through interpretive dance and pelvic thrusts.

Imagining an episode exploring some common Steven Moffat elements, but from a different perspective:

It's set in the present day. [Person name] has a weird mix of bad and good luck. Ridiculously so. They'll walk across the road and suddenly a truck will swerve towards them, having skidded across a puddle of oil, only for the person (let's call him Rfwfr for now) to trip over a rock and roll into such a position that the truck passes over him safely. Or a bookcase will fall on him, but the books will fall out in such a way that they prevent the shelf from crushing him. Rfwfr has always been anxious, but now he's a nervous wreck.

The Doctor, notices some weird energy floating around due to this, and what's more, odd figures begin to appear in the background, watching him. They might look a bit like the Silence, I don't know. He swoops in to investigate, introducing himself to Rfwfr. Eventually, the Doctor tells him that something is following him, something dangerous - the figures that keep appearing in the background. He whips out some more brainy specs and changes their specifications to allow them to see the aliens. They're everywhere.

The Doctor and Rfwfr lock themselves in room, attempting to figure out a plan. Suddenly, the Doctor realises that he can see one of the aliens behind Rfwfr, but Rfwfr can only see one behind the Doctor. He quickly conjectures that the alien is normally unseen except in the corners of one's eye, but when they "lock on" to their prey, they're effectively in stealth mode for that one alone. You can't see them with anything. One for the Doctor, one for Rfwfr. The accidents are being caused by them to kill their prey; perhaps they enjoy making it suffer as the accidents become more and more dangerous.

A chase scene here with Rfwfr and Doctor trying desperately to count the aliens, while the Doctor tries to work out how to fight against the enemy that's locked onto you. Eventually, they're cornered in an office room. All the shelves and filing cabinets begin falling towards the Doctor, but Rfwfr dives towards him, pushing him out of the way. Miraculously, every falling object is deflected from them, but the only one that could have done that is the alien.

Doctor "Eureka!" moment - the aliens aren't trying to kill their prey; instead, they feed on fear*

, and so are creating accidents to scare him with. They always prevent him from being fatally injured. Normally these aliens only create minor accidents like harmless falls, but Rfwfr experiences so much panic and fear, they escalated the accidents for a feast. Once the Doctor realises this, the aliens stop trying to scare him and begin to communicate. He convinces them to dial it down; they can always ask Rfwfr to watch some horror movies or only make the occasional small accident ("We can't scare him when he knows we're here!" "If there's a shelf falling towards you, whether you know you can make it out or not, you run"). They agree, and the Doctor congratulates Rfwfr for his luck. "They're like guardian angels! Except, with fear and alien...stuff."

I think the conclusion is too abrupt, but without actually blocking it as a scene, I can't work out how to fix that.

"Doctor Who means never having to say you're kidding." - Bocaj

How about Doc runs into a guy living in a "Groundhog Day" Loop on a fixed point in time, and decides to try and bust him out?

Regarding Fear episode, seems a bit too meta to work, but I'm also not at full capacity at 11:30 at night.

edited 31st Oct '11 8:31:00 PM by moocow1452

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That could go several different ways. Disturbing, hilarious...or disturbingly hilarious. It would definitely work well as a Breather Episode.

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The Tardis lands in a warehouse. The warehouse is filled with clothes, machinery and masks of various alien looking creatures. He finds his way out of the warehouse - only to find himself on a 27th century filmset. As he looks around, he is spotted by the crew, who seize him - "How did a fan get in here? This is an insane security breach, the ether's gonna be filled with spoilers if he gets the word out on what he saw!" "Saw what?" "Don't play dumb - you gonna tell us you ended up here by accident, didn't you? Dressed like that?" Dressed like... And then he looks around. Costumes, props that, ridiculously camp as they are, he can't help but vaguely recognise. And then the poster removes all doubt. "A tall man, grinning widely, holding a stick with a green light on top, bahind him, a young woman, scantily clad, holding onto him veery tightly. Underneath, the title: "THE MAN WITH NO NAME - The Adventures of the Doctor". ...Oh.

Basically, Wormhole-X-Treme, but with an alien menace taking advantage of the shooting to wreak havoc. And, of course, the golden occasion to make meta jokes.

Change, my dear, and not a moment too soon.

Other idea: Cold open: Fancy dress party. Everyone in dinner clothes, clearly a high society event. Woman from the security service - elegantly dressed, beautiful, but you can see she's more business, and wears a small earpiece. Talks with another member of the team - "Has he spoken yet?" "Nothing, except for some banter with the others." "Where the hell did he come from? Find out who he is, I won't have this compromised." The other walks away, we follow him through a few corridors, and then down an elevator. This section is more sci-fi, with a "Government underground lair" kind of feel. He walks down a corridor, until he reaches a room with a heavily-reinforced door. After an elaborate scan, he is allowed through. A table with a single lamp, an empty chair on one side and a person sitting in the shadows on the other side, from the looks of it restrained. The security man speaks " I'm actually impressed. I wouldn't have though it possible for someone to get in. This is gonna leave an embarassing mark on our record... So. Who do I need to congratulate for this stunt?" The figure framed in the shadows comes forward, and whe see him for teh first time. His impeccable dinner jacket suits him perfectly, but has been roughed up by the restraining. The only unusual thing is, perhaps, a slighty oversized bow tie, which is now loosely hanging from his neck. Looking straight into his captor's eyes, the Doctor answers, with a smile worthy of Jack Harkness: The name's Smith. John Smith.

Credits, and then "How we got there + resolution. It's a spying/heist story, with an item with the potential to cause planetary genocide about to be sold off. And it requires an elite team - Lady Christina de Souza, "Jenny, the Doctor's Daughter" and of course, the Doctor himself. Possibly a two-parter or a holiday special.

Change, my dear, and not a moment too soon.

I don't know how I feel about having both of them come back in the same story (and a more episodic one, no less), but I can't deny that those would be the people to go to for such a plot. I'd watch that!

Love the meta idea, too. Would work very well for a more humorous breather plot.

Could totally see the Doctor attending his own movie premiere. Then being kicked out for making a ruckus.

"I would not invert polarity of the neutron flow if I needed to hop dimensions, I would reroute power through the Eye of Harmony if I couldn't find an existing path first. Inverting polarity of neutrons doesn't even make sense. They'd still be neutrons! And there is no way that I'd let a Time Lord get a jump on me, unless granted, they offered me food first, but I don't see that happening off screen, do you? Although the Dragon chasing the TARDIS through the Time Vortex is kinda cool, but even if it is chronosensitive or whatever he said, how is it following me? And what is a Sonic Shotgun anyway?"

My webzone.

Something involving Nostradamus.

Part 1: The Tardis lands on Captain James Cook's ship en-voyage to Australia and they meet the captain controlling the ship's crew, either that or a convict's ship. Naturally Amy gets too inquisitive, until a 'giant squid-like' (that looks like a blue ringed octopus) alien comes abroad in a twisted parody of Lovecraft and says "Your CREW are MINNNEEE."

The Doctor uses his Sonic Screwdriver, but it doesn't work again and saves the crew at the last minute by loading everyone into his Tardis. Including the hitch-hiker, the alien.

Part 2: Then they (Crew and trio) crash-land in C18th China entirely by mistake, making the Tardis go haywire because of the paradox... Amy has the bright idea to use FIREWORKS against the squid... One crew member faints because of the shock and the Doctor has to act like a real doctor. This causes the Doctor to regenerate into his 12th regeneration and... Run Credits!

edited 16th May '12 3:00:14 AM by sabrina_diamond

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A shapeshifter infiltrates the TARDIS as it wants to become all powerful by absorbing the Eye of Harmony. The Doctor and his companions become increasingly paranoid as the creature can look and act like any of them.

The shapeshifter is defeated when it absorbs the Eye of Harmony and blows up.

edited 17th May '12 6:38:05 AM by PurpleDalek

The Sinking Dream

The Doctor visits the year of 1982, and is excited to see the opening of one of his favorite places to laugh, EPCOT Center. But what was supposed to be just a funny vacation, ends up being a race for his own life as he discovers the true secret behind the creation of the park- a secret that may endanger not only the planet, but also the entire universe.

What, is there a giant monster living in the Spaceship Earth golfball or something?

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great

No, more like a superweapon. I kinda got this idea after watching the second episode of Series 4. When Donna and the Doctor go to Pompeii, and everything's in English, she says "what, are we in EPCOT?"

Also, one of the reasons people use when talking about why Horizons, a beloved attraction, closed: a sinkhole. The entire episode has the Doctor travelling through EPCOT's Utilidors (underground corridors), visiting different pavillions and trying to figure out the code to the superweapon before the enemies of the episode do. Complete with EPCOT jokes and different dangers every pavillion.

edited 24th May '12 10:51:55 AM by Stratofarius

Basic outline for a plot.

Receiving a signal direct into the TARDIS (in mores code) the Doctor is forced to make a detour from wherever he was planning on taking his companion. Landing, they arrive just outside the Vatican City, in the 16th century. Getting out of the TARDIS the Doctor explains that throughout human history aliens, have been coming to earth, it didn't all start in the 20th century, that would be absurd. Now throughout time, someone has had to pick up the pieces from all the aliens, visiting aliens are like rude customers at a restraint, they leave trash everywhere. First the Greeks and then the Romans had organisations dedicated to picking up the trash, in the 20th century UNIT came along, but for the medieval period there was one group who played garbage man to all the passing aliens, the Papacy. Within the Vatican City were stored countless artefacts, not just human, but also alien, even in modern times, the Vatican has a larger share of alien artefacts that most countries. But now they've managed to get their hands on something else, something that shouldn't be here, something that isn't due in Rome for almost half a century. As such the Doctor has to break into the Vatican City and retrieve it.

The basic idea is of the Doctor having to conduct a robbery of the Vatican, lots of chase scenes involving Swiss Guard would be a must. I have a few ideas for what could be the thing inside the Vatican; it could just be a MacGuffin or possibly more plot relevant , I’m thinking Captain Jack.

Edit: Another few ideas,

• The Doctor meets Nikola Tesla, possibly revolving around his plan for a Death Ray. The basic plot idea could be the Doctor talking him out of selling the Death Ray, to the US government and the two of them having to deal with the repercussions of this. The episode ends with the Doctor being given the Death Ray plans by Tesla and filing them away somewhere in the TARDIS.

• Sontarans kidnap the Doctor and use him to break though the Time Lock and into the Time War. The episode would be centred round a massive battle with the Doctor being 'rescued' by some Time Lords and having to flee before the hole that the Sontarans punched in the Time Lock fades. A proper glimpse of the Time War (would need a very big budget). It would also act as a way to have some additional escapes from the Time War. I have some more ideas for this actually.

• A proper historical episode. It would have to work on a similar premise to the Torchwood episode, Countryside but could be fantastic if done right. Maybe set in Saxon Age Brittan.

edited 29th May '12 2:09:35 PM by Silasw

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

The only episode I would even think about writing, assuming I had the skill to do so, would be the last one. I think he only has two more regenerations to go, so I would end it with the death of Thirteen, perishing in the act of beating the Dalek and Cybermen threat once and for all.

Fade to black.

He only has two more regenerations to go? Where did you get that?

Eleven regenerates into Twelve who regenerates into Thirteen. What's wrong with that? Time Lords regenerate 12 times, The Doctor has regenerated 10 times.

Fear is a superpower.

Time Lords regenerate 12 times.

Again, where did you get that?

That's been established Doctor Who canon for a long time. Here's what the TARDIS Index File (DW Wiki) says on the regeneration limit:

Fear is a superpower.

To bump this thread... I really want to see an episode where the Doctor meets Nostradamus... when he's a Plague Doctor. And something involving an alien parasite, too.

edited 5th Nov '13 5:24:13 PM by SantosLHalper