When Rose Met Doctor

Caroline Siede, former AV Club “When Romance Met Comedy” columnist, has a substack for general media talk, Girl Culture, and this week starts a Davies era Doctor Who rewatch!

Doctor In Theatre

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe once again has an improvised Doctor Who show (as well as an improvised Jane Austen show, an improvised Shakespare show...) but as distinct from the people playing D&D for an audience shows it does not use RPG rules.

Ncuti Gatwa interview

Ncuti Gatwa talks about being the Doctor at Rolling Stone. Thanks to io9 for the heads up.

International Museum Day

International Museum Day, a day Doctors would approve of.

The Anniversary Specials

The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder, and The Giggle.

And yes, they rally are doing one of the formative stories of our people.

Dressing Up Docs

How often do TARDIS crews dress for the occasion?

Between the shot in the specials trailer, two behind-the-scenes looks at variations of the main costume, and the Swinging 60s and Regency outfits we’ve had official photos for, I’ve already seen Fifteen in as many different looks as Thirteen in her entire run.

Of course Thirteen avoided historical clothing because a lot of it is heavily gendered and the show kept her in trousers the whole time. (Yaz had a few historical feminine looks, but not often either - Ruby is already approaching her number before we actually see her in an episode.)

Where do you and your Doctor Who characters land on this?

World Book Night

Happy World Book Night! Not the night of World Book Day.

Aladdin Sane at 50

Aladdin Sane isn’t the best known of David Bowie’s regeneration names, but it’s the one with the lightning bolt makeup.

Comic Relief

After Sir Lenny Henry regenerated, David Tennant did well as ain presenter of Red Nose Day, handling msot of the serious bits and giving us the occasional OH YES!

UNIT

Looks like we’re getting a Kate Stewart UNIT spinoff. Which is nice.

World Book Day

Happy World Book Day!

Vworp Vworp! Volume V

Vworp Vworp! returns, with a sequel to The Iron Legion, a feature about various unmade Doctor Who animations, and a full cast audio adaptation of a Nelvana episode.

Nineteen plots from David Bowie's Outside

For David Bowie’s birthday, his 1995 album Outside has enough tracks for a long TV season if you include the Segue tracks. And a plot. Which I’ll use a bit of.

After album titles, ★, The Next Day, Reality, Heathen, Hours and Earthling, adventures based on the album’s song titles...

Leon Takes Us Outside

A group of friends meet a mysterious man, each of them sure that someone else in the group knows him, and go with him to a party...

Outside

... on the moon.

The Hearts Filthy Lesson

A Time Lord gives up one of her hearts for a transplant into a human ally. But now he can feel the turn of time.

A Small Plot Of Land

The travellers meet a group of amateur metal detectorists, about to unearth a long buried Sontaran cloning barrack ship.

Segue – Baby Grace (A Horrid Cassette)

A modern Earthling companion visits his sister and her new baby, and sees something on the baby monitor that shouldn’t be there.

Hallo Spaceboy

If Donna Noble can’t remember her time in the TARDIS, who wrote this tell-all book about it?

The Motel

A dingy backroads motel in 1950s America, where all attempts to drive away lead back to it.

I Have Not Been To Oxford Town

A medieval pilgrimage, well organised as a package holiday, taking in all the sacred sites of southeast England... and one that shouldn’t be there.

No Control

The TARDIS answers a call from an unknown outside source. Something important, and dangerous, is going to happen here and now. But what, and who could summon the travellers to it?

Segue – Algeria Touchshriek

The travellers accidentally become a support act for a 1980s shock rock superstar.

The Voyeur Of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)

An intergalactic tourist cruise to see black holes, supernovas, and the ultimate fireworks show of the end of a solar system. But this solar system isn’t supposed to end for another million years. And there are people in it.

Segue – Ramona A. Stone / I Am With Name

A “found footage” episode charting someone attempting to find an explanation for the disappearance of a friend - one of the companions.

Wishful Beginnings

Make a wish and throw a coin into this particular fountain and it might just come true.

We Prick You

Can the travellers escape a witch hunt?

Segue – Nathan Adler

A detective in a small Oxford town tries to solve a murder. But one of the travellers knows this story, it's just a TV show, Isn’t it?

I’m Deranged

The Stranger’s previous incarnations come back to haunt her when an alien spy hits her with a mental regression beam.

Thru’ These Architects Eyes

(With apologies to Douglas Adams and Alan Moore)

A planned community spells something out in an alien language.

Segue – Nathan Adler

The travellers meet the creator of the Nathan Adler mysteries, who turns out to be - that would be telling.

Strangers When We Meet

The Stranger meets a future incarnation. Or does she?

Lots of little Who plot hooks

An RPGnet birthday request thread for 101 or more Doctor Who single-line plot hooks.

A happy Christmas to all of you at home!

Doctor Who finally daring to tackle one of its classic non-TV stories. Meep!