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crossovers that could've worked

I hate David A. whatshisname for using "Koschei" in that DW novel as it's from a Russian fairytale - the Master might have as well have called himself Cinderella!
 
The Four Doctor said:
I hate David A. whatshisname for using "Koschei" in that DW novel as it's from a Russian fairytale - the Master might have as well have called himself Cinderella!
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At least I didn't make him Mary Poppins...

ETA- to be fair, if (as River pointed) "good wizards in fairy tales always turn out to be him" [The Doctor], Then what can assume of the bad ones...?
 
Doctorwhovian said:
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".
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Thanks for pointing that out. I brought up the clip on Youtube. You can't see his face but I can kinda hear it in his voice.

Approx 5:15.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-qLYBiMNGA[/yt]
 
I think back in the 90s the Sylvestri Doctor and Ace, it would have been hard to see a Star Trek the next Generation crossover.. the style or format of the episodes are so very different..
 
The Fourth Doctor and Star Trek TOS seems a better fit to me. I can easily see Capaldi giving Chris Pine's Kirk a badly needed lecture.
 
Ithekro said:
Or just barely, the Ninth Doctor (Archer's era).
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Russell T. Davies wanted to do that.

I would have loved to have done a Star Trek crossover. The very first year, we talked about it. Then Star Trek finally went off air. Landing the Tardis on board the Enterprise would have been magnificent. Can you imagine what their script department would have wanted, and what I would have wanted? It would have been the biggest battle.
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I've heard that the Star Trek episode would've been in the "Boomtown" slot in the first series, which apparently was a tough spot for RTD to fill. (A Pompeii episode was also considered for that spot, and that script fell through.)
 
Shame they never did a crossover with the Muppet Show. The Doctor allies with a piece of green felt that has Jim Henson's hand up its' rear.
 
Ya know, I could actually see it working within the Temporal Cold War. With all the timeline messing-about the Sphere Builders were doing to change their outcome, some kind of rift allowing the Doc from his universe to slip into the Trek universe would be a believable plot. It would allow for the fact that nothing from Trek exists in the Docs universe while allowing a crossover.
What if Daniels was a time agent and contemporary of Jack's and his REAL purpose wasn't just to correct the timeline but to also get the inter universal fissure closed?
Hmmm
 
They did have TARDIS like ship show up at one point. It was definately bigger on the inside. The dead crewman was human, but not quite human, having DNA from multiple humaniod species from the quadrant, and some Phlox did not recognize. And it was definately from the future as Enterprise understood it.
 
The Four Doctor said:
Shame they never did a crossover with the Muppet Show. The Doctor allies with a piece of green felt that has Jim Henson's hand up its' rear.
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Given the production era, 1976 to 1981, One almost wonders why Tom Baker did not guest star on the "Muppet Show". Actually, I can imagine 2 reasons. One, The Muppets were associated with ITV, the BBC's main competitor. I'm sure the "rivals" would have cooperated to also his appearance. Two, while aired in the UK, a great deal of its revenyue came from overseas distribution, the US being a substantial slice of that "pie". Thus, most of the guest stars were already known to US viewers. At the time, very few Americans would have known about Tom Baker.

Still, can you imagine the game of "one upmanship" with Baker trying to out-ham Jim Henson and Frank Oz?! Or Tom "invading" Muppet Labs? I can easily imagine him blithely conversing with Beaker, understanding the assistant's "meeps" with no problem.

Yeah, I know this is not the kind of "cross-over" being discussed, but The Four Doctor's cdomment made me stop to consider the years of the show and "what might have been" if DW were better known in the US at the time.

Sincerely,

Bill
 
If there had been a Star Trek crossover in say 1968, would it have been on NBC or the BBC? Would it have been filmed in color or black and white?

It would be the Patrick Troughton era with Jamie and Zoe as companions if I remember correctly.
 
The regeneration thing could actually explain why Craig has the same M as Brosnan somehow, but is otherwise back at the beginning regarding relationships with his supporting cast and his 00 status.

Permenant post-regenerative amnesia....:rommie:
 
Doctorwhovian said:
The regeneration thing could actually explain why Craig has the same M as Brosnan somehow, but is otherwise back at the beginning regarding relationships with his supporting cast and his 00 status.

Permenant post-regenerative amnesia....:rommie:
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Actually the M of the Craig films isn't the M of the (first three, at least) Brosnan films- in Skyfall we learn that M was still just Head of Station in Hong Kong in 1997, while Brosnan's M was already Head of Service back in London by then.

I like to think they're sisters- the first one is M from the early 90s through to her capture in TWINE, after which she'd be retured. Her sister, Head of Station in Hong Kong, takes over from her, which is why we first see her in Hong Kong in DAD. There may well have been another M in between the two, who sent Bond on his original mission in DAD...

We also know that at some point Bond will travel back in time to the early 60s, and that there's the possibility of a two-Bonds story, as the pre-credit of Goldeneye, featuring Brosnan, is set *before* Licence To Kill, which starred Dalton...
 
^ I've always wondered if it was set before Dr No (using a kind of Marvel Time ageing for Bond), assuming that the events of that movie even existed in the Brosnan Bond chronology.
 
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Ithekro said:
They did have TARDIS like ship show up at one point. It was definately bigger on the inside. The dead crewman was human, but not quite human, having DNA from multiple humaniod species from the quadrant, and some Phlox did not recognize. And it was definately from the future as Enterprise understood it.
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I completely forgot about that TARDIS-like ship. See, they laid the groundwork right there.
 
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