Doctor Who: Virtual Season 4

[tenmei]

This is a project a friend and I have been working on for a while, we posted it at a few message boards and it only really just struck me that you guys might enjoy reading it too.

We put our version of 'Voyage of the Damned' up at the start of August and our Season 4 premiere, 'Fury of the Silurians' went up today.

Yes, they're in script format.

Here are links to the scripts for both:



Voyage of the Damned

by Paul Robinson & Daniel Loach


After having left Martha Jones in 2008, the Doctor is shocked when the TARDIS is impaled on the RMS Titanic. Meeting Ruby Harrington, a feisty socialite, he soon becomes embroiled in the mysterious disappearances of passengers. It soon becomes clear that there are several forces at work on the legendary vessel.


Guest Starring:

Kylie Minogue ... Ruby Harrington
David Morrissey ... Edgar Crow



Fury of the Silurians

by Paul Robinson & Daniel Loach


England, 1950. Clement Atlee is Prime Minister and Katie Darling finds herself in the company of a strange man, who calls himself the Doctor, in a quaint village in the Home Counties. Animals are being violently mauled to death and the villagers are scared stiff - can this 'Doctor' be of any help?


Guest Starring:

Gary Waldhorn ... Lord Malcolm
Mark Wakeling ... Mr Hulke

 

[TimmyWl]

It's very nice and sweet. I do like the breezy attitude and the constant - Doctor? Doctor Who? bit.

Excellent work.

 

[tenmei]

Our next episode is up:



Eulogy

by Daniel Loach


The Doctor takes Katie to New Earth to attend a memorial for the Face of Boe but, no sooner have the pair arrived, than the Doctor becomes embroiled in political upheaval and the emissaries of a mysterious cult that worshipped the Face of Boe arrive.


Guest Starring:

Anna Hope as Hame
Trevor Laird as Sekh
Gabriel Thomson as Timothy
Roxanne McKee as Ashrah

Special Guest Star:

Christopher Lee as Osiris

 

[tenmei]

Don't know if anyone's actually reading these, but here it is, the next episode:




The Song of Pandora

by Paul Robinson & Daniel Loach


44 BC. Julius Caesar has declared himself dictator of Rome and suffered the consequences. Mark Anthony holds the keys to Caesar's fortune which includes a mysterious chest. In the ensuing political chaos, the chest will be shattered and an ancient evil be let forth upon the world.


Guest Starring:

Alex Ferns ... Mark Anthony
Oliver James ... Octavian
Pooky Quesnel ... Clodia Metelli

 

[TimmyWl]

Excellent episodes. The one about the Face of Boe does carry over the Doctor's past actions with Harriet Jones. Maybe letting sleeping dogs lie for a change in respect to the freed peoples of the hospital?

As for the one in Rome - again, the wit is par excellence in regards to what comes after the Doctor's bit. I'm unclear about the previous adventure that the Doctor had in Rome. I'm familiar with the First Doctor's visit but not the Fourth's (for for that matter, the Sixth with the "teeth & curls" bit).

Keep the episodes coming!

 

[tenmei]

We wanted Eulogy to be a discussion about terrorism but I think that, ultimately, it lost some of what we intended.

It was going to be a lot darker initially which wouldn't necessarily have fitted the tone of the show. The Doctor essentially rats out and brings down Hame because she was responsible for the bombing.

I'm not too clear about the previous adventures that the Doctor has had in Rome. We came up with the episode idea before it was announced they were filming the real S4 on the sets of the tv-show Rome.

Clodia is a real historical character, as are Mark Anthony and Octavian. I used the Clodia character after reading several of the Roma Sub Rosa novels by Steven Saylor (to be specific, The Venus Throw and Murder on the Appian Way).

The reference to the encounter with Clodia's dead brother, Clodius, was supposed to be a reference to the Fourth Doctor.

In 'The Five Doctors', Sara Jane was supposed to tell the Third Doctor that he regenerated into a man who was all 'teeth and curls' - the line was ultimately given to Pertwee instead (hinting of a Third/Fourth meeting pre-Five Doctors).

That's where the reference comes from.

 

[TimmyWl]

Re: last paragraph

Interesting. Alas that meeting will never be shown but it would be kind of cool to see...

 

[tenmei]

And here are the next two episodes:



Keeping up with the Jones'

by Daniel Loach


2009. In London mysterious men are seen in the shadows and the Thames has frozen over for the first time in almost two hundred years. Martha Jones summons the Doctor and Katie and plunges both they and herself into combat with a fantastical foe -



Guest Starring:

Tom Ellis ... Tom Milligan
Penelope Wilton ... Harriet Jones
Trevor Laird ... Clive Jones
Adjoa Andoh ... Francine Jones
Gugu Mbatha-Raw ... Tish Jones

Special Guest Star:

Freema Agyeman ... Martha Jones



Katie's War

by Paul Robinson & Daniel Loach

The Doctor tries to take Katie to the premiere of The Wizard of Oz, but finds that the TARDIS is off target, arriving at a remote airstrip in the middle of World War II where they encounter Winston Churchill. The Ministry of Defense is preparing to test a secret weapon which they plan on using against the Nazi's and their latest ally.


Guest Starring:

Alex Wyndham ... Christopher Morris
JJ Feild ... Major Arthur Flannigan

Special Guest Star:

Albert Finney ... Winston Churchill

 

[tenmei]

Two more episodes for your reading pleasure:



Axis of the Daleks

by Paul Robinson & Daniel Loach

Saving Winston Churchill from a Ministry of Defense research project gone awry is only the beginning for the Doctor and Katie when the Nazi's latest ally is discovered to be ... Dalek Caan.

Guest Starring:

Alex Wyndham ... Christopher Morris
JJ Feild ... Major Arthur Flannigan
Eric Johnson ... Oberleutnant Wolfgang Kruger
Jason Lewis ... Hauptsturmfuhrer Hans Braun

Special Guest Star:

Albert Finney ... Winston Churchill



The Autons Take Manhattan

by Paul Robinson & Daniel Loach

When the TARDIS drops down a trans-temporal sinkhole, the Doctor and Katie find themselves in New York in 2009. There, they meet up with some old friends - as well as an old enemy ... or two.


Guest Starring:

Tom Ellis ... Tom Milligan
Alexandra Moen ... Lucy Saxon
Matthew Settle ... Mr Harrison
Christopher Shyer ... Mr Allen

Special Guest Star:

Freema Agyeman ... Martha Milligan

 

[tenmei]

And here's the next episode for anyone who's reading this:



Grief

by Daniel Loach

The Doctor takes Katie to an abandoned library with a familiar name where they find the sole survivor of an expedition - but what happened to the other members of the expedition and what does all of this have to do with the Key to Torment?


Guest Starring:

Tony Hirst ... Morgan
Clemency Burton-Hill ... Rebecca
Jake Maskall ... Alex

Special Guest Star:

Joe Armstrong ... Will Spender

 

[tenmei]

And the next few episodes:



The Jewel in the Crown

by CD Howard

After pottering around the 42nd Century for a couple of weeks, the Doctor decides to take Will to London during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. But, once there, they stumble onto an alien plot to invade Earth that stretches across the centuries ...


Guest Starring:

Angela Pleasance ... Queen Elizabeth
Kenneth Crandham ... The Leader
Tom Ellis ... Tom Milligan

Special Guest Star:

Freema Agyeman ... Martha Jones

(Airdate: 17th November)



A Storm of Angels

by Paul Robinson, Daniel Loach
& CD Howard

When Tom Milligan is interrupted by the Doctor when he's in the middle of proposing to Martha Jones, he doesn't think that the day is going to see a massive alien saucer hanging over London, his girlfriend getting kidnapped and an alien vessel crashing in Hyde Park ...


Guest Starring:

Penelope Wilton ... Harriet Jones
Alexandra Moen ... Lucy Saxon
Tom Ellis ... Tom Milligan
Raza Jaffrey ... Ben Shackleton
Elizabeth Estensen ... Bridget DuMaurier

Special Guest Star:

Freema Agyeman ... Martha Jones

(Airdate: 1st December 2007)



Arcadia

by Daniel Loach

When the Doctor decides to ignore a mysterious distress signal, Katie wonders why and presses him to investigate. The TARDIS arrives on Arcadia and, in the ruins of a vast city, the Doctor finds a message from someone he thought dead.

For the Doctor and his companions, after Arcadia, nothing will be the same again.


Guest Starring:

Naomie Harris ... Kershaala
Alexandra Moen ... The Master

Special Guest Star:

Emma Thompson ... Flavia

(Airdate: 8th December 2007)

 

[tenmei]

After a little delay - the penultimate episode of the season:



The End

by Paul Robinson & Daniel Loach

The Doctor and Will travel to Malcassairo in the Year 3 Trillion to rescue Katie from the Master. But what is the Key to Torment, what does the Master want with it and what great darkness will it unleash?


Guest Starring:

Paul Mark Davies ... The Chieftan
Alexandra Moen ... The Master