Three's Venusian Karate v Miss Piggy's karate chops.
crossovers that could've worked
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Poor Kermit - he wouldn't know what hit him.
sort of surprised we've never seen anyone from Doctor Who appear on the Muppets over the years - even when they recorded the original Muppet show in the U.K but it was on ITV/ATV so I guess the BBC wouldn't have been keen to have people associated with it's show appear on another network.
Actually Broccoli had nothing to do with NSNA, it was made by someone who had disputed the rights to Thunderball and the legal quagmire was the reason SPECTRE were eased out of the Bond Universe until the case was settled (even Blofeld's last appearance in For Your Eyes Only he wasn't mentioned by name). The James Bond RPG produced in 1983 also had to replace SPECTRE with TAROT and Skorpios due to this legal dispute - I have wondered if The Simpsons Bondish villain of Scorpio may have been a homage to the game.
As to crossovers, not strictly Doctor Who, but I've always imagined that maybe Warehouse 13 may have discovered some artefacts that had an extra-terrestrial origin, that Captain Jack and the Torchwood team would have taken possession of. Would have been great to see his interactions with the group, and his face when Artie claims time-travel is impossible.
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Yes, I know that. But Broccoli was on the other side of the legal dispute. So he tried to argue that Kevin McCrory, producer of NSNA, should only be entitled to remake Thunderball, not to be able to do a 007 movie that in any way deviated from the sole film in which McClory was involved. Obviously this argument failed.
Yes, I know that. But Broccoli was on the other side of the legal dispute. So he tried to argue that Kevin McCrory, producer of NSNA, should only be entitled to remake Thunderball, not to be able to do a 007 movie that in any way deviated from the sole film in which McClory was involved. Obviously this argument failed.
Ah right sorry I interpreted from what you said that you meant Cubby was involved directly. Was a little like the odd legal stuff that drifted around during the Battlestar Galactica reboot, where Larson was actively working on a movie but for some reason he would have been allowed to use the Battlestar Pegasus but not the Galactica.
A shame about NSNA though, although I feel the movie fell a little flat, I think Sydow made an excellent Blofeld.
NSNA has the best villain of 80's Bond, in Klaus Maria Brandauer, a performance only rivaled, surprisingly, by Robert Davi in Licence to Kill. And Fatima Blush is camp delight! Overall, I like the film a lot, despite the lacklustre score and, may I say forced, diction to the original novel, rather than the original treatments that Whittingham, McClory and Fleming had done.
Sounds a bit like how the Virgin Dr Who novels weren't allowed to feature Daleks
Not strictly true - we could have used them if we were willing to give 60% of the fee to Terry Nation. So more a "not motivated to" than "not allowed to"...
Wow smart move there by the Nation estate. Take 60% of a writer's royalty and have no-one write a Dalek oriented NA or set a much lower royalty rate and get the Daleks in a few book.
Though what counted as featured? Were there any royalties to be paid for their mention (such as Ace talking about her Dalek encounters in Lucifer Rising) or is it when they are directly involved in the story line?
If they were directly involed as a main plot thing - hence, for example, it was OK to mention them in Lucifer Rising, or even for them to have teensy cameos in Sanctuary and The Dark Path, or be an off-screen force in Godengine.
That seems excessive. 60%
The Daleks are popular, but they're not that interesting, really, and its not like there is any value in them outside of Dr Who because the shape of them, I believe, belong to the BBC.
I think my fascination with Dr Who could withstand an absence of the old pepper pot things.
It'd have to involve dimensional shenanigans (who knows, maybe the Ace Rimmer of the Whoniverse is Jack Harkness after having some facial work done?) because the Dwarf continuity explicitly has no alien lifeforms at all.
That said, the Mondasian colony ship in the Series 10 finale was a good expy of the Crimson Short One (or the Scarlet Dinklage, as I'm now calling her).
The Doctor has fought the bounty hunter Death's Head in Marvel Comics, who has also fought the Transformers and the Fantastic Four, so some good potential there.
A Stargate SG-1 verse crossover is possible - the TARDIS intersects a wormhole that is crossing dimensional boundaries (as per the eps where SG-1 encounters multiversal duplicates of the team) and can't leave immediately due to the same power issues as in the CybusMen dimension... naturally the Doctor immediately grasps concepts like Stargates, transport rings and all the other "weird" stuff SG-1 deals with and is in danger of showing up Carter and Jackson (especially Jackson, since the TARDIS translates things) but they all prove their worth against a massive threat (set it against Anubis or the humanform replicators if need be).
I'd like to think the Doctor would heartily approve of International Rescue as well, and work well with them if his TARDIS (Thunderbird 0) were out of action. Hell, they could make the TARDIS door signage their mission statement.
Did the Daleks not appear much in the BBC books for similar reasons?
Pretty much, except for John Peel being a mate of the Nation Estate. Whether he got a better deal or was more willing, I couldn't say.
Was wondering if his novels of Power and Evil of the Daleks were any different given they were novelisations from tv episodes but reading the related wiki entries it seems not.
Though there seems one inescapable conclusion. The agents for the Nation Estate are a bunch of greedy bastards.
Sometimes, I think John Williams just gets tired and forgets that he already used the same piece of music before. In Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets, listen closely to the music during the Quiddich match when Harry & Draco are in the trench chasing after the Snitch. It's the same music that Williams had used earlier that year during the Coruscant speeder chase in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.
Because Seven was trapped in the Delta Quadrant with the rest of the Voyager crew.
Wasn't Jackson already shown up by the fact that most of the aliens on the TV series speak English for no explicable reason anyway?
Because Seven was trapped in the Delta Quadrant with the rest of the Voyager crew.
Along with the Doctor.
Something that I think would have worked fantastically well in a crossover -- The Mouse that Roared. Either the novel series or the first movie. (I've not seen the second.) Heck, I've made the argument about the film in the past that William Hartnell's man-at-arms in the court of Grand Fenwick is, in fact, the first Doctor incognito, there to make sure that the Grand Fenwickians take possession of the Q-Bomb as they should. (In other words, it's a Hartnell-era historical, albeit one that predates Doctor Who by several years!) And I could imagine Big Finish's Doctor Who: Short Trips: Grand Fenwick anthology, chock full of stories of the Doctors' involvement with Grand Fenwickian history from its founding in the 14th-century into the future.