Another random Who generator

which is more silly than viable.

"Clara asks to visit Planet UX-4732, and the Sonic Screwdriver detects unexpected particles. Clara and the Doctor learn more about humanity in a conflict with creatures of Time Lord legends. A nostalgic 90’s pop culture reference saves the day. Kim Wilde kisses Clara."

"This is just a bit of fun, we love the show really. Best viewed in November 1963."

I think that is not, in fact, indistinguishable from the current series.

Petri

Julius Richard Petri, born 161 years ago, bacteriologist and surgeon, celebrated with a Google Doodle. The Petri dish may not be the most exciting innovation, but it’s one of the most useful. And the Doctor occasionally shrinks down to bacteria size and goes on adventures through the human body...

The Eleven Susans

Infinite Claras and getting the TTC book got me thinking about what would happen if other notable Time Lords were as bad at controlling regeneration as the Doctor.

So, as the start of an occasional series, how about the Unearthly Child herself, Susan Foreman? What would she be like if she came in and out of the show, regenerating like her grandfather and reflecting his personality as she changes?

We know the First, of course.

The Second Susan could still be Carole Anne Ford, but changed in attitude, more like the Avengers-style version originally proposed before she was directed to be more of a normal teenager.

Can you hear the Whispermen?

Because there is a little more to know... A prologue introducing the prisoner, and showing some more of the power of Whispers.

Free Big Finish audio adventure, anyone?

Urgent Calls starring the Sixth Doctor, by Eddie Robson.

By the by, seen the trailer for The World's End? It may be relevant to our interests.

Questions from... miniature humans.

Commander Strax is friend to all children.

D'you wanna come with me?

Who chooses to step into a TARDIS and leave their life behind, potentially forever? Would you?

A different idea for a companion’s motivation from RPGnetter Shay Guy - she decides to go with the Doctor because she’s afraid. In game terms, obviously the character wouldn’t have Brave and might have to buy off Unadventurous - possibly repeatedly. But it’s certainly a good rationale for a Screamer! on the team.

So what about your companion characters? Why are they running for their lives in far-flung times and places? Is it for the hell of it, is it to see wonders, is it because of the personality of the pilot - love, perhaps, or fear for their safety?

And what criteria does the pilot have for taking people on?

And what happens when everything changes...?

The Name Of The Doctor

Six impossible things in forty-five minutes.

The Further Adventures Of...

Recurring characters (other than monsters) are more a feature of modern Doctor Who than any time since the UNIT exile era, so who might we see again? This year we have quite a few options.

Spoilers for the whole series so far, so y’know, tread with caution.

"It is NOT the secret about his head being too long and thin."

Strax on the next episode that we had been avoiding referring to by title.

Abnormal for Norfolk

Not cool, Norwich fandoms. Not cool.

The man who put the world in a box

... sounds like a high concept episode idea, but is the label given to Frank Hornby by the Guardian on the occasion of his 150th birthday, Google Doodled and all. (Favourite part of the illo is the inclusion of the classic set of figurines including the conductor, the well-dressed family and the poor guy who’s been running for the train for decades.)

As the creator of Meccano and Dinky as well, he had a hand in the development of plenty of classic special effects people (and probably a few special effects!) so how else might you mark the anniversary? A trip on the Great Northern Railway in 1920 perhaps, or a clash with the Celestial Toymaker, or a visit to a terraformed colony built by construction robots with a few overseers before the colonists arrive...

Timeslip!

As you may have heard, some pre-ordered DVD sets of the current series have already been shipped.

Oops.

(No, not to me, I wait for the full series sets with all the extras. Dash it all.)

Crisis Of Infinite Claras

We don’t yet know how many Doctors will really appear in the anniversary special. But we could see an unlimited number of Claras!

What if every Doctor had one?

Before the Clara we know, there was...

Clara 10, friend of Martha’s from Royal Hope who accompanied the Doctor to the 1920s...
Clara 9, Lancashire-born WREN in Blitz-Era London...
Clara 8, all-American heroine of the Eighth Doctor’s short-lived US TV series...
Clara 7, Perivale-based victim of the Seventh Doctor’s manipulations gone terribly wrong when he battled the Ice Warriors...
Clara 6, polytechnic Modern Studies student who faced Herne the Hunter...
Clara 5, one of the TARDIS gang who saw the origin of the Cybermen...
Clara 4, an attempt to bring in a “normal” companion after Romana and K-9 - lost during the shelving of Shada...
Clara 3, assistant to Professor Cornish of the British Rocket Group, happy to get stuck in against the Nemesis...
Clara 2, all of whose stories have been lost...
Clara 1, Susan’s only real friend at Coal Hill School, who helped defeat the Masters of Luxor...

(Yes, these are real stories that almost happened, although in Clara 9’s case it was an Eighth Doctor pilot plot hook, as not enough Ninth Doctor stories were lost...)