Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Walker
Over on the main daily blog I'm doing a Character Creation Challenge for January, and today did Doctor Who as a number of other participants did versions of it in the last two days as well.
Friday, 8 January 2021
Eleven plots from David Bowie's Hours
David Bowie’s 1999 album Hours comes in part from the soundtrack for The Nomad Soul - which also absolutely works as an adventure hook. It was the first album by a major artist to be released online ahead of its physical launch.
“I mean, what a disappointing 21st century this has been so far, you know...”
David Bowie quoted in The Last Five Years
Thursday’s Child
Thursday’s Child has far to go. Surely the Stranger was born that day. Maybe more than once. And what of the pupils of The Man Who Was Thursday, agents of a revolutionary cell with no real members? Where are they now?
Something In The Air
An unknown gas causing outbursts of raw emotion. Declarations of love, howls of sorrow, shrieks of fear and curses of fury. What is causing this?
Survive
Charged with a crime by an alien justice system and exiled onto a desert island with nothing but the clothes on your back. You have to survive for nine days. And something there is determined not to let you.
If I’m Dreaming My Life
Everything goes just right for one of the travellers. Suspiciously so.
Seven
Days, Sins, Samurai, Brides for Brothers? There are a lot of ways that ‘seven’ could matter.
What’s Really Happening?
The traveller from “If I’m Dreaming My Life” wakes up to find they’ve been abandoned by everyone, including the TARDIS. But have they really woken up?
The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell
The latest craze on the scene, cloning and telepresence allowing the idle rich of the 33rd Century to drop onto deathworlds, disaster tourism on a planetary level. And of course something goes wrong, following the clones’ mental link back to the source...
New Angels Of Promise
“Be not afraid...” says the herald, a firestorm of wings and eyes. What does it promise? Is it salvation, or an apocalypse? And if so, for who?
Brilliant Adventure
The Stranger is asked for an autograph by a small child. After saving a children’s author, she has become a much-loved story. But they haven’t met the author yet, and at least one of the stories is about to happen.
The Dreamers
The traveller who believed they were abandoned in “What’s Really Happening?” finally tracks down those responsible, but the TARDIS crew will have to fight to retain their sense of reality to stop them!
We All Go Through
The travellers find themselves at a vast gate, with figures high above sitting in judgment. Will they get a fair hearing, are there some bureaucratic tricks they can employ, and are the judges really going to let the Dalek Inquisitor bear witness?
Saturday, 2 January 2021
The Master at 50
The Master first appeared at around 5:15 p.n. on this day fifty years ago, at the beginning of Terror Of The Autons. It also introduced Jo Grant and Captain Mike Yates.
(I just got that the radio telescope in Logopolis ten years later may be a callback to the Master’s first act here. Or maybe he just really likes radio telescopes.)
Friday, 1 January 2021
Revolution Of The Daleks
Revolution Of The Daleks was fine, a reference I could have missed notwithstanding. Very 2019.
Sunday, 27 December 2020
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.”
Friday, 25 December 2020
Sunday, 20 December 2020
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!”
Friday, 18 December 2020
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!
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, 13 December 2020
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...”
Thursday, 10 December 2020
Sunday, 6 December 2020
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?”
Thursday, 3 December 2020
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.
Sunday, 29 November 2020
Sunday adventure hook: The Water Horse
To mark St. Andrew’s Day tomorrow:
“Says something about us as a people that we have a myth about how you should look a gift horse in the mouth.”
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.
Friday, 27 November 2020
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.
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