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crossovers that could've worked

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The Doctor could have teamed up with Blake and Co. to stop the new Servalan/Master alliance.

Hopefully this is the male Master. I couldn't stand to see Missy vamping it up with Servalan...


Why can't we have a DW/Our Gang ("The Little Rascals") crossover?

Darla and Alfalfa help foil an alien plot and we learn that the Gwen/Gwyneth explanation is why Jane Withers looked so much like a little girl Alfalfa
 
There actually were some plans for a crossover featuring the Daleks at some point. (Terry Nation created both the Daleks and Blake's 7). Chris boucher also worked on Blakes and Doctor Who (He was the co-creator of Leela), and in some of his novels and audios he ties some of them together.


Also Colin Baker was on the show (I think prior to him being cast as the Doctor) and both Jaqueline Pearce and Paul Darrow appeared in Colin's season 22, in back-to-back stories, The Two Doctors and Timelash. The latter is regarded by many fans to be one of the worst Doctor Who stories ever.
 
Doctorwhovian said:
There actually were some plans for a crossover featuring the Daleks at some point. (Terry Nation created both the Daleks and Blake's 7). Chris boucher also worked on Blakes and Doctor Who (He was the co-creator of Leela), and in some of his novels and audios he ties some of them together.
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David Maloney said there was a plan for the invading aliens in Star One to be the Daleks, but Chris Boucher says there wasn't - or at least that nothing of such nature crossed his desk. Having spoken to both of them about it over the years, I figure (and Boucher has said he agrees it's the most likely situation) that Terry Nation probably chatted to Maloney about it over a working lunch, but that nothing formal developed out of it.
 
Lonemagpie said:
Doctorwhovian said:
There actually were some plans for a crossover featuring the Daleks at some point. (Terry Nation created both the Daleks and Blake's 7). Chris boucher also worked on Blakes and Doctor Who (He was the co-creator of Leela), and in some of his novels and audios he ties some of them together.
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David Maloney said there was a plan for the invading aliens in Star One to be the Daleks, but Chris Boucher says there wasn't - or at least that nothing of such nature crossed his desk. Having spoken to both of them about it over the years, I figure (and Boucher has said he agrees it's the most likely situation) that Terry Nation probably chatted to Maloney about it over a working lunch, but that nothing formal developed out of it.
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That could've been really fun. However, Blake's 7 is a much more serious tone than Doctor Who, so, I'm not sure how well it would've gone over (Though, perhaps I'm looking at it through hindsight, and the Daleks were seen as much more serious at the time, and they wouldn't have been seen as cheezy compared to Blake's 7's tone)
 
About the Daleks, not sure about that. Despite Genesis of the Daleks (Which actually didn't really feature them that much, when you think about it), the other Dalek story around that time was "Destiny of the Daleks", which was more like a spoof of the Daleks than anything, with them basically seen as catchphrase-speaking robots (not much mention is made of their organic selves) who couldn't win a war because they were too 'logical', and of course also was noted for Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor's mocking of their inability to reach into small spaces or climb stairs. "If you're the most superior race in the universe, why not try climbing after us! Bye-Bye!"

They sort of became more serious in Ressurection of the Daleks, a far darker and serious story, although one with it's share of problems (Such as the goofy Dalek trooper helmets). Revelation of course was also sort of goofy as well, at least with it's human characters and really bizzare setting, and it's more of a Davros story. Rememberance comes off somewhat better, although it's become somewhat dated now as well.
 
Yea, I have every episode of Doctor, including DVD-Rs of the recons from Youtube downloads, I was speaking more to the feeling at the time when they were shown, rather than looking back on them from today's world. (Wether at the time they were considered more serious then we tend to see them looking back on them now)
 
In addition to the Daleks, Tom Baker and Gareth Thomas both wanted to do a walk-by cameo on either show but it was nixed by higher ups.
 
Emh said:
In addition to the Daleks, Tom Baker and Gareth Thomas both wanted to do a walk-by cameo on either show but it was nixed by higher ups.
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That got suggested and shot down more than once- they wanted to do it with the Doctor and Avon while filming Series D as well.
 
Such a pity. It would've been the greatest cameo in the history of everything (a bit hyperbolic, but I don't care).
 
Sindatur said:
Yea, I have every episode of Doctor, including DVD-Rs of the recons from Youtube downloads, I was speaking more to the feeling at the time when they were shown, rather than looking back on them from today's world. (Wether at the time they were considered more serious then we tend to see them looking back on them now)
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I first saw Genesis of the Daleks in the early '80s. I loved that story, and still think it's one of the best of all the Doctor Who stories.

Crossovers... well, there was a really ridiculous Tomorrow People story called "A Man For Emily." Peter Davison played an alien named Elmer (the aliens mistook the TV westerns whose signals they intercepted as indicators of normal Earth culture). Elmer's family came to Earth because they were searching for a new home, and because "Emily" (Elmer's sister) needed a mate. Naturally, they decided John was the perfect candidate.

Peter Davison's wife, Sandra Dickinson (Trillian in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), played Emily.

So a Doctor Who/Tomorrow People/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy could have been one heckuva weird crossover... :p


I had an old Doctor Who print 'zine called Traveling Companion, and one issue was all crossovers. There was Doctor Who/M*A*S*H* (the Fourth Doctor and Leela drop into the 4077th), Doctor Who/Remington Steele, Doctor Who/Star Trek (of course!)... but one of my favorites was Doctor Who/All Creatures Great and Small. The Doctor, Nyssa, and Tegan arrive on Earth in a peaceful country region, and the Doctor decides to go for a walk. But he doesn't get very far before someone runs up to him, calls him "Doctor Tristan Farnon" (the character Davison played on that show) and tells him to get over to a nearby farm to deliver a calf!
 
^Would've worked considering all of the other random, unexplained dopplegangers already running around the Doctor Who universe. In fact, that would have been right around the same time that Nyssa met her double, a 1920s debutante in "Black Orchid."

In that vein, I'd like to see the 12th Doctor meet Malcolm Tucker but the language would probably prevent such a meeting from passing BBC's standards & practices for a family audience.

Before "Robot of Sherwood," I kept hoping that Doctor Who would crossover with the BBC's recent TV adaptation of Robin Hood.
 
Speaking of Doctor Who/Robin Hood... Way, way back, in the late '50s, there was a black and white Robin Hood series, starring Richard Greene. The actor who played the Sheriff in that series turned up as one of the Thals in the First Doctor story The Daleks.

Or you could even do a series of Doctor Who/I, Claudius crossovers, since most of the major actors on I, Claudius have turned up on Doctor Who at least once (twice in the case of the woman who was in The Keys of Marinus and Silver Nemesis - quite a long timespan!).
 
And of course Derek Jacobi (Yana/The Master in Utopia) played the main character, the Emperor Claudius (Although he doesn't really enter the story apart from narrative until the fifth episode or so). And of course John Hurt was Caligula.


Doctor Who also shares some actors with the similar-but much later series Rome-notably Ian Mcniece (Churchill) as the newsreader, Tobias Menzies (submarine guy in Cold War) as Brutus, and Lindsay Duncan(Capt Brooke) as his mother, Servilla. Indira Varma
(Suzie in some Torchwood episodes) also has a large role as Niobe, and David Bamber (Captain Quell in the Mummy episode) is Cicero.

Plus some of Rome's leftover sets were used in Fires Of Pompeii, most notably the home of Caecilius, played by a certain actor... ;)


A lot of WHO actors have also appeared in both Star Wars trilogies, probably because the first four films did studio work in Britain. Not to mention the Bond films as well. Although in both cases, aside from the obvious- Timothy Dalton, I don't think they've had any of the leads show up in either franchises-unless you count Anthony Ainley (The Master), who appeared in You Only Live Twice as a police officer who discovers the 'dead' Bond with one line: "Well, At least he did on the job".
 
A, at the time, cross over with Star Trek would have been either the Second Doctor's run (with Kirk and Spock), or the Seventh Doctor's run (Picard).

Unless it was somehow done with the movie casts at the time. Were you could get the Fourth (TMP era), Fifth or Sixth (TWOK-TVH era). The Eighth Doctor (First Contact - the end).

Or just barely, the Ninth Doctor (Archer's era).

Or if you take in NuTrek (the Tenth (barely) to Twelth Doctors.
 
It already happened:

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I still think a Doctor Who Red Dwarf would be smashing and if written half seriou, and half funny could very well work given the Dwarfers are 3 million years ahead of the 24th century. .even a children in need special, if done well would be awesome. The old Doc lands on the dwarf and they have to battle some Cybermen and Simulants invading the ship. Lots of corridors and running.
 
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