Why no spinoffs under moffat?

[Sindatur]

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You are aware that Lis Sladen (Sarah Jane) passed away, right?

Yeah, I think I heard something about that. :P

I think, with proper respect, and writing Sarah Jane off, (And of course a Series or two rest for mourning) they could have redone it As SarahJane's Adventurers (Maybe bring in Ace or Jo Grant, or someone else as the Adult, or just let Clive and Rani have a go at it. I think Jo Grant, might have been popular with those Girls and Gays who grew up with SJA, because she could bring her Grandson in as a regular and he's probably quite adorable now, but, I would've loved for Ace to be called in to take over SarahJane's Sonic Lipstick.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

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You are aware that Lis Sladen (Sarah Jane) passed away, right?

Yeah, I think I heard something about that. :P

I think, with proper respect, and writing Sarah Jane off, (And of course a Series or two rest for mourning) they could have redone it As SarahJane's Adventurers (Maybe bring in Ace or Jo Grant, or someone else as the Adult, or just let Clive and Rani have a go at it. I think Jo Grant, might have been popular with those Girls and Gays who grew up with SJA, because she could bring her Grandson in as a regular and he's probably quite adorable now, but, I would've loved for Ace to be called in to take over SarahJane's Sonic Lipstick.

Except it would've been a sonic baseball bat instead of sonic lipstick.

I really miss Sarah Jane Adventures, too, but I think it's better to have ended the show outright. I still hope Clyde and Rani will show up on as The Doctor's next companions.

 

[Candlelight]

Now as for the subject at hand, I'd be happy with an occasional one-off Special, just to help pass those long months between series. Surely they'd be cheaper to produce then an entire series.

Depends on what the spin off is. Set in the present day with standard production values aside from the mandatory CGI monster of the week shouldn't cost too much.

 

[Timewalker]

Or maybe an American reboot of Doctor Who? Could be set on a parallel universe to the UK version.

The movie was bad enough. Paul McGann was perfect as the Doctor, but the rest of it was crap. There are some things that do not need to be Americanized.

I would love to see a sit-com starring the Daleks constantly shouting at each other about everything

Some years ago I ran across a series of comics about a Dalek housemaid... it was cute, seeing a Dalek wearing an apron and ex-ter-min-a-ting all the everyday problems the average household has.

Personally what I would LOVE for them to do is a series of miniseries following the adventures of the 8th Doctor. McGann showed that he could still do an effective Doctor, so why not use him?

A thousand times, YES! That webisode proved that he can still nail the part of the Doctor perfectly.

Personally, if I were doing that, I'd option Poul Anderson's The High Crusade and make that into a Doctor Who spin-off -- three English knights from the Middle Ages capture a Sontaran warship and accidentally set off for adventures in deep space. Develop that as a series first, then do an episode of Doctor Who that sets that up. Maybe Strax knows about it. Or, position it as a sequel to "The Time Warrior."

It's been decades since I read that book. It's already been made into a movie, though.

I'd be interested to see Ace have a show.

Ace was basically Leela with a baseball bat instead of a knife. At least Leela had a personality and actual character growth.

That's a game a friend of mine and I used to play. Take a book or movie, and drop the Doctor into it. (Or, for a variant, take a character from film or literature and make that character a companion.) Event Horizon would work tremendously well. Planet of the Apes.

How would that work with Planet of the Apes? Going by the original 5 movies' chronology, there's no way to match that up with Classic Who chronology (as applied to Earth). And given that a lot of Who stories end with the Evil Whatever Ruining Society is taken care of and resolved somehow, how would you resolve the situation in Planet of the Apes in a Whovian way?

The High Crusade is one of those things that I looked at and said, "Yeah, I can see how this works in a Doctor Who setting." You probably wouldn't take the story wholesale (especially not the part about the knights converting all of space to Catholicism), but the core concept would work pretty well, and you might get six or thirteen episodes out of it.

It's never going to happen, I know.

Poul Anderson wrote a lot of historical fantasy, and I can see a crossover between Doctor Who and Anderson's Time Patrol series working in a weird way as a one-shot story. On the one hand you've got History As We Know It from the Whovian perspective and on the other hand you've got History As Decreed By The Danellians (the species that humans eventually evolve into who created and organized the Time Patrol to ensure their own survival after the discovery of time travel). Anderson's stories take place on Earth in various eras and have (mostly) 20th-century protagonists, but they could easily take place on any planet in any era. Manse Everard is a character I always found appealing, and it would be fascinating to explore an interaction between him and the Whovian universe.

I have an idea which has been rattling around in my head for a while (ever since The End of Time but thought about it again after watching The Day of the Doctor) about a single, self-contained, seven-part spin off series:

Rassilon wants Gallifrey back in the main universe so he starts experimenting with ways to do so. He figures out a process of sending someone into our universe but it's extremely unstable and very few attempts are successful - so he starts sending prisoners as they're expendable.

One such prisoner - a Time Lady - successfully makes it through and sets about working to bring Gallifrey back, and teams up with a UNIT (Torchwood?) agent to help. Her methods are unorthodox and isn't afraid to break a few eggs to get what she wants. She's more like the Master than the Doctor, but knows she must - at least for now - rely on UNIT / Torchwood to survive and achieve her goal.

Sounds like the Rani, except with a few scruples.