Season 3 of DW adapted the Virgin New Adventures novel "Human Nature", and the last season gave us "The Lodger", adapted from the DW Magazine comic strip of the same name. Are there any other novels or spin-off literature that you'd like to see be worked into an episode of the new series? I'd love to see an adaptation of "All-Consuming Fire" with Eleven and Amy meeting Sherlock Holmes.
Which novel/comic should they adapt now?
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Season 2's 2-parter "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel" had some elements from the BBC 7th Doctor novel "Loving the Alien." (Technologically overdeveloped humans from a parallel universe become a new race of Cybermen.)
I don't know that there are specific stories that I'd like to see adapted, although I liked the split-timeframes & split-storylines of "Wolfsbane." In the original story, Harry ends up stranded in the past while the 4th Doctor & Sarah Jane accidentally land the TARDIS a few months later, so we see the aftermath of events through their eyes concurrent with the events unfolding currently from Harry's perspective.
There's a couple other expanded universe characters I'd like to see canonized on the regular series:
- Frobisher, the shapeshifting penguin companion from some of the 6th Doctor comics.
- Iris Wildthyme, a crazed woman who travels through time & space in a double-decker bus that is bigger on the outside and claims to have had many extraordinary adventures, many of which sound suspciously like things that actually happened to the Doctor. Katy Manning has played this character with the appropriate amount of madness in the Big Finish audio adventures.
I haven't read that many novels or comics, but there are a lot of Big Finish audio stories that I think might be worth revisiting.
"Colditz" starts out as a pure historical, with the Doctor & Ace getting trapped in the famous Colditz POW prison during World War II. But by the end, the story has become absolutely time bending.
"Davros" is an intriguing, Dalek-free character study of one of the Doctor's most cunning adversaries. It would be a very different story, but it might be exactly what the producers need late in the season since it's a relatively Doctor-lite story.
And while this would be more of a season arc than a stand-alone story, I'd like to see an adaptation of the Divergent Universe arc from the Paul McGann audios. It's such an interesting, threatening concept, with the Doctor & his companions stranded in a different universe, separated from the TARDIS, and encountering nothing but totally new alien life forms that the Doctor has never even heard of before.
I don't know that there are specific stories that I'd like to see adapted, although I liked the split-timeframes & split-storylines of "Wolfsbane." In the original story, Harry ends up stranded in the past while the 4th Doctor & Sarah Jane accidentally land the TARDIS a few months later, so we see the aftermath of events through their eyes concurrent with the events unfolding currently from Harry's perspective.
It wouldn't be too dificult to replace the 4th Doctor & Sarah Jane with the 11th Doctor & Amy. Moreover, Rory would be the perfect substitute for Harry. Heck, they're even both doctors.
There's a couple other expanded universe characters I'd like to see canonized on the regular series:
- Frobisher, the shapeshifting penguin companion from some of the 6th Doctor comics.
- Iris Wildthyme, a crazed woman who travels through time & space in a double-decker bus that is bigger on the outside and claims to have had many extraordinary adventures, many of which sound suspciously like things that actually happened to the Doctor. Katy Manning has played this character with the appropriate amount of madness in the Big Finish audio adventures.
I haven't read that many novels or comics, but there are a lot of Big Finish audio stories that I think might be worth revisiting.
"Colditz" starts out as a pure historical, with the Doctor & Ace getting trapped in the famous Colditz POW prison during World War II. But by the end, the story has become absolutely time bending.
"Davros" is an intriguing, Dalek-free character study of one of the Doctor's most cunning adversaries. It would be a very different story, but it might be exactly what the producers need late in the season since it's a relatively Doctor-lite story.
And while this would be more of a season arc than a stand-alone story, I'd like to see an adaptation of the Divergent Universe arc from the Paul McGann audios. It's such an interesting, threatening concept, with the Doctor & his companions stranded in a different universe, separated from the TARDIS, and encountering nothing but totally new alien life forms that the Doctor has never even heard of before.
They could always be brave and do The Face of the Enemy, which doesn't feature the Doctor at all...
And if they do, they'd have to do a period piece, as the main characters it *does* feature are Ian and Barbara and they couldn't be rewritten as other characters without drastically altering the story.
And if they do, they'd have to do a period piece, as the main characters it *does* feature are Ian and Barbara and they couldn't be rewritten as other characters without drastically altering the story.
I can think of one regular in these parts who wouldn't mind a piece of that action...
^ I think Face of the Enemy would make a *great* episode. Especially since "Inferno" was one of my favorite classic Who storylines.
I mean, we know they'd have to recast everyone (Ian, Barbara and the Master, who are the main characters), but I think they could pull that off. I don't know *who* they would get to play those roles, though.
I can't remember, has there ever been a television storyline in which the Doctor did not appear at all?
I mean, we know they'd have to recast everyone (Ian, Barbara and the Master, who are the main characters), but I think they could pull that off. I don't know *who* they would get to play those roles, though.
I can't remember, has there ever been a television storyline in which the Doctor did not appear at all?
I don't think you could do FOTE - you'd have to replace most of the characters, and it would cost about a hundred million dollars...
Now, Andy Lane's book All Consuming Fire you could do, updated to include Benedict Cumberbatch's version of Holmes...
Mission To The Unknown- a single episode story back in 1965
How do you figure? They could recast them with anyone, even unknown actors.
If you're suggesting changing the actual characters, then that sort of makes it pointless trying to adapt the novel, which is a direct sequel to a specific original episode.
Does that episode still exist or was it wiped? Are any of the other regulars in it or is it all guest stars?
It was wiped. There were no regulars in it. It's a one-episode prologue to "The Daleks' Master-Plan" about a group of Space Security Service agents investigating weird things on the planet Kembel.
Dalek was also a semi-adaptation of Jubilee, the BF audio with Colin Baker. Just thought I'd throw that out there. I haven't seen that much in the way of books and comics, but I'd love to see Max Warp, done with 11 and Amy, not sure how well it would work but I still want to see it done.
That's what I mean - UNIT would have to be the likes of Mogambo, not Lethbridge-Stewart; you don't really have any recognizable minor UNIT crew now (we wouldn't want Malcolm back), and Ian and Babs would have no meaning for most viewers - it has to be a couple the audience have an affection for. Which probably means Mickey and Martha... (or Rory and Amy if you want to skip the part where its someone we haven't seen for a while).
Obviously John Simm would be the Master- no worries there.
And then nobody'd remember the story it's a sequel to anyway.
The thing you have to remember is that FOTE was written for an existing fan audience who know all the background. The series isn't.
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