Christmas song or Christmas special

It’s Christmas Eve Eve, and in less than 48 hours’ time we’ll have seen Last Christmas. Now I’ve blethered about Christmas Specials many’s a time before now (example) but of course that title gives me an idea: Find random list of favourite Christmas songs and imagine what Doctor Who stories named after them might look like.

Fairytale Of New York, The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
A couple arguing through the season find a little magic. Featuring the Ponds, of course.

Driving Home For Christmas, Chris Rea
22nd century colonists heading back to Earth as their rotation ends, lost in the dark of space and needing a light to guide the way.

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day, Wizzard (is that where Terry Pratchett got that?)
A poorly worded request leads to a time loop of family, presents and the Queen’s Speech. Can the travellers find the subtle differences in each example and break the loop? Boxing Day will never be more welcome...

Happy Christmas (War Is Over), John Lennon
The trenches of the Great War, 1914, and the impromptu Christmas truce that still inspires us a century later. (Already visited by a few Doctors in other media. See also Stop The Cavalry by Jonah Lewie... as referenced in...)

That’ll Be Christmas, Thea Gilmore
Like Rose in 2005, the characters find themselves landing in the middle of a family Christmas with no warning. Of course, they do have access to a time machine...

The Planet That Came For Christmas

Stop everything! New Doctor Puppet Christmas Special!

The Eighth Doctor Sourcebook

Coming soon, featuring his TV adventures and companions (so my stats for Izzy will have to do) as well as a complete campaign set in the Time War and running all over the Doctor’s timeline. That might well make it the standout for GMs.

Fortean, Whovian, Cornellian

Paul Cornell has started his annual Twelve Blogs Of Christmas, and got to something deeply Whovian and strange at number two. (Also good for Primeval.)

The Doctor versus Fallout

A game that lets you talk and sneak all the way through and doesn’t necessitate combat even against Boss monsters, you can play and win Fallout: New Vegas... as the Doctor.

Nightmarish post-apocalypse future? Must be Tuesday.

Ivar, Timewalker preview

Following a previous post, an eight-page preview of Ivar, Timewalker, launching in January from Valiant Comics. This introduces Ivar, his companion, and at least one set of enemies.

Pull quote from writer Fred Van Lente: “it’s like Doctor Who but with an unlimited budget, going from the Big Bang to the Big Crunch with everything in between. We visit something like five or six time periods in the first issue alone!”

Toulouse-Lautrec

Google celebrates the unusually round-numbered 150th birthday of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, artist and designer of the Belle Epoque and inspiration for the Fourth Doctor’s overall look which is why there’s already an adventure about him from Big Finish. Sometimes it’s too easy...

You could also drag him along in an adventure in and around Paris society, taking in the Impressionists, the House of Worth, the Moulin Rouge, and the Eiffel Tower being a space transmitter or something of the sort...

Happy 51st anniversary!

What, no special? ;)

Peter Capaldi is the Eighth Doctor?!

He turned down an audition, being too big a fan.

And now, of course, I’m imagining Doctor actors as different Doctors. Tricky, as each Doctor is so influenced by the actor, but still...

Philae

The Philae lander of the Rosetta spacecraft has landed on the nucleus of a comet.

The Cold War

On the 25th anniversary of the night people took hammers to the Berlin Wall, something that marked our world for decades. It stood for the Cold War, which seemed like it might doom us all at times, but never seemed permanent, this poorly put together line of concrete covered in graffiti. Every escape made the night it came down seem closer.

As noted before, Russia doesn’t get many visits in Doctor Who, nor does eastern Europe in general.

For my part, I dropped an alien ship on a portion of the Berlin Wall (at the worst possible time, naturally) in a convention adventure. Having run it twice, I should note that the PCs have dodged the secret police, kicked off a riot, smuggled people (and aliens) across the border and generally shown little respect for the Wall. As is only right.

Mad Christmas Special idea of the year

From observations about who the guest character is and what the aliens look like, by jay042 on io9:

Anyone can make a difference

Spiderwick Chronicles writer Holly Black on Lights Out, the first Twelfth Doctor story published.

Death In Heaven

“I wasn’t sure. You lose sight sometimes.”

A message from the Doctor to a child

This is what the Doctor is really about. Thanks for being a good one, Capaldi.