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.”

Got an annual!

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!”

An adventure by Russell T Davies

As part of tonight’s tweetalong of The Runaway Bride, Russell T Davies included some of his script including bits cut for time and CG budget. And also...

HERE IT IS. In preparation for today’s tweetalong, I went through some old papers to find the script and found… the VERY FIRST DOCTOR WHO SCRIPT I ever wrote!! On a manual typewriter! In 1985! 1986? Sixth Doctor and Mel!

Russell on the Twitter

Mind Of The Hodiac

by Russell T Davies

A financial empire controlled by someone who has lived far beyond his lifespan. A devoted servant. Ruthless stockbrokers - space yuppies. And a need for the Doctor.

“It does no harm to keep in touch with a little magic.”

Six pages out of sixty-two for the first episode, not enough to reverse-engineer an entire plot, but a good taste of the villains of the piece...

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...”

DALEKS! episode five

DALEKS! 05: Day of Reckoning

Not the soundest strategy there, Mechanoids...

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?”

DALEKS! episode four

DALEKS! 04: The Deadly Ally

Which is a better use of Deadly in a story or episode title than The Deadly Assassin.

Revolution Of The Daleks

New Year’s Day!

New Daleks...

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.”

DALEKS! episode three

DALEKS! 03: Planet Of The Mechanoids

Continuing to lean into the animation style with a visit to the Mechanoids, noted attempts to have more Dalek-y things in the Whoniverse.

Doctor Who Day

Happy anniversary, Doctor Who.

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.”

DALEKS! episode two

DALEKS! 02: The Sentinel Of The Fifth Galaxy

Doctor Who Comic

Doctor Who Comic, a new series from Titan, launching on the anniversary-adjacent Doctor Who Comics Day. DWM began as Doctor Who Weekly, so the simple title is new. And on the same day, a Time Lord Victorious series as well.