Christmas 2025

Of relevance, the Doctor Who Annual and the DWM 15 and Ruby comic collection The Monster Makers.

All month on the regular blog I came up with adventure ideas and the like based on fairytales for my Adventure Calendar.

And could spin them around here to provide a festive adventure for The Door In Time except one of the stories in that comic collection is already about Hans Christian Andersen and the Snow Queen.

So to do another one...

King Of The Mice

The travellers arrive at a 19th century German Christmas and find themselves being asked for help by mice. Their king has gone missing!

You work with what you get

No Doctor Who special this year!

At least we get A Ghost Story For Christmas.

And also, er, Gladiators.

Okay, what are the Gladiators involved called? Maybe something will spark an idea.

Apollo and Athena

The travellers are tested by Greek gods, because if Star Trek can do it...

The War Between The Land And The Sea

Homo Aqua

An interesting slow start, could be a prologue to the kind of thing the Doctor deals with in a two-parter.

(Also Barclay notes meeting the Doctor, for a few seconds, and being amazed.)

Plastic Apocalypse

Good speech. Kate should know people can rise to the occasion without the Doctor there to help.

But also a twisting of words. The Sea side (sorry) is naturally sympathetic here but they aren’t playing fair.

There was a vodka advert eighteen years ago where everything dumped or lost at sea was hurled back to the land. The makers of Aquaman may have seen it. Just mentioning it here.

(Also Kate reflects how nice it would be to have the Doctor here.)

December

And a war is coming!

Introducing Guest Star as the Doctor

Daft celebratory thing for this year, idly thinking that almost as soon as Doctor Who came back it had guest stars who’d make great Doctors. Off the top of my head examples starting with where I got the idea:

2005: Zoë Wanamaker

2006: Don Warrington

2007: Christina Cole, Miranda Raison, Jessica Hynes (Mark Gatiss did it already and Carey Mulligan might as well for Blink)

2008: Peter Capaldi! Wait... Fenella Woolgar, Steve Pemberton

2009: Lindsay Duncan, David Harewood

2010: Iain Glen, Helen McCrory, Meera Syal, Neve McIntosh

2011: Sarah Smart

2012: Mitchell and/or Webb

2013: Jessica Raine, Rachel Stirling

2014: Jonathan Bailey, Keeley Hawes

2015: Reece Shearsmith

2016: Charity Wakefield

2017: Stephanie Hyam

2018: Alan Cumming (who was up for the role in one of the unmade 1990s versions)

2019: Charlotte Ritchie

2020: Maxim Baldry

2021: Jacob Anderson, Annabel Scholey

2022: Aisling Bea

2023: Davina McCall

2024: Majid Luke Mehdizadeh-Valoujerdy

2025: Ariyon Bakare

Whosday

The 62nd anniversary may not be the most significant, but it is the one happening today.

I can't answer why... just go with me...

Blackstar by David Bowie, the single released ten years ago today. Among other things, the video is an all-time classic episode of Doctor Who.

The War Between The Land And The Sea

Premiering December 7th

Telefantasy Time Jump 1963

Paul Cornell and Lizbeth Myles talk about the biggest new show on UK genre TV every year and guess what they talk about for 1963!

Wooooo!

Happy Halloween!

Hostile Dimensions

Hostile Dimensions review on the more general blog, a found footage movie about, hey, a mysterious door that leads to other times and places. A better found footage Doctor Who than the one the series actually made, if you don’t mind some blood and naughty words.

Only fourteen months to go

Doctor Who to return, without Disney money, for Christmas 2026. Which I suppose explains the DWM arguments about where it’s dead or not.

We’ll get The War Between The Land And The Sea in the meantime, sometime late this year apparently.

The Door In Time 2025?

Could run Doctor Who this academic year. I’d probably manage more than eight episodes.

40 years, 5000 sessions!

A GM talks about running Doctor Who for forty years! Starting with the FASA game and incorporating a variety of systems, outside adventures, players guest GMing sessions. In case you didn’t know how versatile a story engine Doctor Who is.

(My record is six years for Buffy The Vampire Slayer, which is pretty versatile as well, and players taking producer roles and running a couple of sessions factored in too.)

Doctor Who: the CBeebies cartoon

The Doctor coming to CBeebies, as announced today.