It's not a classic story, but I had a Doctor Who dream before waking up this morning, the kind of dream that presents itself as an episode I'm immersed in but passively viewing. So it kind of counts as the last Who story I "watched."
As the story opens, multiple former companions and allies of the Doctor have been abducted from different times and places, and are being held in separate cells in an outdoor prison camp, able to hear but not see one another. They're calling out, comparing notes about their situation as best they can, but aren't optimistic about their chances.
The new viewpoint character, a scientist of some sort, calls out that they want to share what they know about a certain scientific anomaly they've recently encountered, in hopes that anyone who manages to escape alive can study it for the edification of future generations.
Kate Stewart of UNIT answers, "My organization is equipped to investigate scientific anomalies. What is it?"
The scientist asks: "Who is the mysterious person who calls himself 'the Doctor'?"
Multiple captives call out: "Everyone calls him the Doctor!"
And that's the Fifteenth Doctor's cue to make his post-regeneration debut, talking over the villains' PA system to distract them while he finishes setting his rescue plan in motion. Turns out this Doctor is a singer, to his own surprise. (Although I've never seen Ncuti Gatwa perform outside of his intro video with the new companion, so my dream version probably bears little resemblance.)
My dream only got a slight way into the rescue before I woke up, but it involved some kind of small dimension-shifting rocket whose topologically complex course was preset to materialize in each cell so the Doctor could snatch up the captives one by one as he passed through riding on its back. He only grabbed one or two people before I woke up, which is probably just as well, since I don't know how I would've visualized a whole bunch of people dangling behind the thing holding hands, or somehow crowding on top of it.
Unusually, I fell asleep again and the dream continued, only now it was the Third Doctor trying to reach a group of prisoners and stop them from setting off an explosive escape attempt that would backfire lethally. There was a stern elderly woman among them who recognized his voice from back in the day, but I don't know who it was supposed to be (certainly not Jo or Sarah Jane -- maybe Liz?). I woke up again before it played out further, but I think by this point in the dream there were implicitly multiple Doctors rescuing various captives.
As the story opens, multiple former companions and allies of the Doctor have been abducted from different times and places, and are being held in separate cells in an outdoor prison camp, able to hear but not see one another. They're calling out, comparing notes about their situation as best they can, but aren't optimistic about their chances.
The new viewpoint character, a scientist of some sort, calls out that they want to share what they know about a certain scientific anomaly they've recently encountered, in hopes that anyone who manages to escape alive can study it for the edification of future generations.
Kate Stewart of UNIT answers, "My organization is equipped to investigate scientific anomalies. What is it?"
The scientist asks: "Who is the mysterious person who calls himself 'the Doctor'?"
Multiple captives call out: "Everyone calls him the Doctor!"
And that's the Fifteenth Doctor's cue to make his post-regeneration debut, talking over the villains' PA system to distract them while he finishes setting his rescue plan in motion. Turns out this Doctor is a singer, to his own surprise. (Although I've never seen Ncuti Gatwa perform outside of his intro video with the new companion, so my dream version probably bears little resemblance.)
My dream only got a slight way into the rescue before I woke up, but it involved some kind of small dimension-shifting rocket whose topologically complex course was preset to materialize in each cell so the Doctor could snatch up the captives one by one as he passed through riding on its back. He only grabbed one or two people before I woke up, which is probably just as well, since I don't know how I would've visualized a whole bunch of people dangling behind the thing holding hands, or somehow crowding on top of it.
Unusually, I fell asleep again and the dream continued, only now it was the Third Doctor trying to reach a group of prisoners and stop them from setting off an explosive escape attempt that would backfire lethally. There was a stern elderly woman among them who recognized his voice from back in the day, but I don't know who it was supposed to be (certainly not Jo or Sarah Jane -- maybe Liz?). I woke up again before it played out further, but I think by this point in the dream there were implicitly multiple Doctors rescuing various captives.
