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.

The Door In Time 2025?

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

Flux: The Vanquishers

December 5th also has a special episode. Good for it!

Doctor Who can be a very oddly paced show at times. Flux is certainly an example.

And yes, a bunch of doors in time. Okay.

Sunday adventure hook New Year Special: Ring In The New

Looking forward to a video call Hogmanay, and having seen many a video call interview, game session, and the Zoom-based film Host, the result was, perhaps, inevitable...

Ring In The New

The travellers are separated and stuck on a video call, with the Stranger trying to locate them through the signal, several friends and family members involved, and what is going on in the background of every caller’s window...?

“They’re right, this is like a séance. Except not as reliable.”

Sunday adventure hook Christmas Special: Gift Of The Magi

With a New Year special on the way, we shall have our Christmas here. With the prior importance of Christmas specials I do go on about it, and on the general blog as well, and could probably do a whole series by now (the Twelve Specials Of Christmas?) but never mind...

Gift Of The Magi

The Door opens onto a street in medieval Baghdad and the travellers soon find themselves drawing the attention of a group of astronomers, whose leader has spotted a celestial event and believes that something strange and dangerous is on its way and the Stranger is involved.

“Of course I’m involved now! You changed the result by observing it!”

Sunday adventure hook: Those Old Familiar Faces

Inspired by Freaky, Doctor Who has done some body-swapping episodes now and then, but never, as far as I know...

Those Old Familiar Faces

Investigating an alien artefact, the Stranger is struck by a flash of artron energy and wakes to find herself in a previous incarnation.

On the day they die.

“Oh, this can’t be good. How did I die this time? It’s on the tip of my tongue...”

Sunday adventure hook: Of Two Minds

With the biggest TTRPG-based computer game ever coming out this week, stealing the main plot hook from it... with a back reference to an earlier example in 2000 A.D. and stealing a bit of D.O.A. as well...

Of Two Minds

Memory recording technology in the nearish future allows knowledge and even personality to survive physical death - as one of the travellers discovers upon accidentally downloading a murder victim’s mind. Now the group have a little over a day to solve the crime before his brain overloads.

“And we still don’t have flying cars?”

Sunday adventure hook: The Water Horse

To mark St. Andrew’s Day tomorrow:

The Water Horse

There are legends of mystical horses and other animals that will lead people astray in many cultures, such as the Kelpies in Scotland, that if mounted will take their riders to the water to drown. But while the cautionary nature of avoiding lonely water is well acknowledged, nobody has seen such a creature.

Until recently.

“Says something about us as a people that we have a myth about how you should look a gift horse in the mouth.”

Sunday adventure hook: Black Friday

Black Friday

How do you deal with an outbreak of rage in the middle of a flash sale? How do you even tell who has it?

“Everything. Must. Go.”

Sunday adventure hook: The Turret

In honour of the beginning of DALEKS!:

The Turret

One of the most important battles of Genghis Khan’s war with the Jin Dynasty, seemingly about to be lost due to a man-sized armoured turret armed with some kind of flame weapon.

Why is a Dalek trying to change history?

“This city will create such glorious destruction if it prospers. I would see that!”

“So you’re derailing history for an entire continent because you like fireworks?”

Sunday adventure hook: Son Of Kitten Kong

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Goodies...

Son Of Kitten Kong

1970, and the Stranger is called in to help some good friends with an episode of their new TV series, which deals with their attempts to thwart an alien invasion. They need help sorting out a likeness rights issue with the aliens, who they drove off a couple of years ago and don’t want to offend with their portrayal.

Sunday adventure hook: Please Look After This Time Lord

Inspired by the return of The Mandalorian: 

Please Look After This Time Lord

The travellers have to get into a fortress held by alien invaders, to find the thing they came to take.

It’s a baby.

It’s a Time Lord.

“Do they normally burp regeneration energy?”

Sunday adventure hook: Trick

Hallowe’en Special!

Trick

The travellers go to the Village Halloween Parade in New York in 1978, so they can see John Carpenter’s Halloween with an early audience as well. And the Stranger spots a familiar face in the crowd. And another. And another. Some of her alien enemies, mingling unnoticed and being praised for the quality of their masks and costumes...

“I expect this kind of thing from Zygons.”

Sunday adventure hook: The Burning City

Post 1666! ... was a couple of posts ago. But anyway...

Doctor Who hit the Great Fire of London in The Visitation, the first adventure I really remember clearly, but what the hey...

The Burning City

London is ablaze. Who can you save? And what might this be hiding in this most invaded city, about to awaken?

“If I get drowned by Matthew Hopkins, I blame you. And also obviously Matthew Hopkins.”

Sunday adventure hook: Message In A Bottle

Message In A Bottle

Influenced by... The Influence.

Someone trying to communicate through possession. A parent trying to save their child, even though the possessing being means no harm - but how do they communicate that?

“What are you trying to tell us?”

Sunday adventure hook: Faces From My Past

Faces From My Past

Inspired by the trailer for No Time To Die: 

The Stranger wakes to find herself in one of her previous bodies.

“Well... huh.”

Sunday adventure hook: Takers

Takers

Taking the above in a more horrible direction...

A group of young people are informed that members of their ancestors’ families plan to steal and live on in their bodies.

“What, like Being John Malkovich?”

“Yes! That’s a very helpful analogy that I wasn’t expecting any of you to get.”

Sunday adventure hook: Family Ties

Family Ties

The Stranger brings a group of modern people together with ancestors to team up against a cross-time threat trying to prevent them being born.

“Whoa, my great-granddad looks just like me!”

“Yeah? Mine doesn’t look much like me at all.”

“And technically you look like him.”

“Where’s mine?”

“That’s him, Miss.”

“Oh.”

Sunday adventure hook: The Bat

Inspired by Batman Day:

The Bat

1938, and New York is seemingly host to a real-life masked vigilante straight out of one of those newfangled comic books. What’s really going on? Who is this mysterious figure targeting? Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of a Time Lord?

“This is a long way to go to get your comics delivered!”

Sunday adventure hook: As You Wish

Inspired by the fundraiser cast reunion of The Princess Bride:

As You Wish

The monarch of a storybook realm (possibly literally in the Land of Fiction) seeks to marry one of the travellers, and will cheerfully imprison their companions to get their way.

“I’m only mostly dead.”