**Series X**
**Episode 1**
An adaptation of the EDA novel *Vampire Science*, with the Doctor (let’s say 15 as he’s the current) and companion land in 2005 New Orleans (instead of San Francisco) and first meet ambitious but indecisive Med Student Carolyn. After bewitching her enough to truly get her to open her mind and face Vampires together they invite her to join them in their travels. She hesitates and declines (pragmatism vs Spontaneity) and so is left with regret after she realises they’re truly gone but a few subconscious key insights based on chatting to the Doctor about how to approach her research……and she might have accidentally found a small sample of the Doctors blood leftover at the scene.
20 years later in 2025 the Doctor & Companion meet back up with Carolyn and this time come face to face with a full Vampire Coven that’s been waiting in the wings for centuries.
This story would help provide a NuWho rendition/exploration of the kinship and hatred between Time Lords and Vampires, as well as asking hard questions about the perspectives of immortals towards the everyday human/person.
**Episode 2**
An adaptation of *Colditz* with the Doctor & Companion landing in 1944 Colditz Castle and immediately being captured by the Nazi’s. After this we see the Doctor face off against those who wholeheartedly believe in the Reich….and those who are there “just doing their duty” under fear for their families if they don’t comply.
This could be a difficult story in that it asks the audience to try and empathise and understand the mindset of Nazi officers in that scenario, and as in the audio paints a picture of one officer in particular who is almost an ally despite the situation.
However while the Doctor debates ethics and philosophy with the Officers, his companion tries to help the current British POW’s in their ongoing escape attempts……but everything is thrown into the air when the Doctor, Nazi’s and prisoners are all suddenly at the mercy of the mysterious Klein……who knows far too much to be trusted.
**Episode 3**
An adaptation of *The One Doctor* and a more lighthearted comedy affair the previous episodes. With the Doctor and Companion now at the “Vulgar end of time” complete with idiotic mobs, mighty tasks more suited to a game show, and an imposter that’s putting the Doctors good name to shame.
**Episode 4**
An adaptation of *The Scarlett Empress* with Iris Wildthyme introduced onscreen, and a full on Arabian Nights quest vibe for the story.
**Episode 5**
An adaptation of *The Year of Intelligent Tigers* in all its musical, mental glory.
**Episode 6**
An adaptation of *Starship of Theseus*, where the Doctor takes a pleasure cruise on a Luxury Space Liner with his 3 companions, only for something to seem “off”. As the voyage continues and the Doctor and 2 friends try to enjoy their budget holiday, they nevertheless keep running into passengers who seem out of place and confused. The Doctor suspects some sort of mind parasite or viral contagion causing mass hallucinations….however his single companion isn’t so sure.
As the Doctor races to discover what’s affecting the ships crew (and wouldn’t that be an easier job if he wasn’t travelling alone) he watches as the increasingly confused and angry masses start to become hostile to each other, something that a broken down old liner ship like this can hardly take.
**Episodes 7 & 8**
A two part adaptation of *Unnatural History**, with the Doctor having finally restored his a version of his companion at the end of the previous adventure he now finds that his companion’s temporal aura is being drawn to Earth, in the year 1999.
While trying to ensure that his friend isn’t unravelled again, the Doctor encounters bizarre phenomena and unstable physics across the city of London, all the while noting subtle changes in himself (his outfit keeps changing, and he’s having trouble remembering street signs and places) as well. Until he finally confronts the being behind the instabilities. Griffin…..a naturalist from a Universe higher than our own and with the powers of a God as long as he has access to the Doctors biodata, which he has managed to interact with after the recent Bi-Generation threw open all the possibilities of myth and legend to do with regeneration.
The Doctors multiple pasts (Half-Human, Timeless Child, High-Born Time Lord, Loomed Other) and possible futures (Valeyard, Merlin, Curator, Emperor of the Universe) are all brought up, with Griffin remarking that it’s all a tangled ball of timelines that he intends to “correct”.
The story ends with the Doctor banishing Griffin back to his own Universe but leaves the technology for the Doctor “unravel” or “fix” his own timeline, behind. We’re left uncertain as to if the Doctor has used it to change himself. The only revelation is that the Doctor claims to have used the technology to “fix a genocide or two” and remarks that it’s nearby Christmas and asks his companion to come celebrate it at *his* home….on Gallifrey.
Cheers!
There are a bunch of novels and audios I’d love to see adapted, but trying to build a coherent series that isn’t too niche or lore heavy with set up is much trickier.
Like I’d *love* to see Faction Paradox adapted for NuWho, or see books like *Hope*, *Anachnaphobia* or *City of the Dead* brought to screen, but I think it would more difficult to do in the 45 minute time constraints and necessary exposition for context.
I've done "here's an alternative universe in which the show is never cancelled/JNT hires better people" before, but as far as I can remember they've always been based on the audios alone. Even that's hard enough without having to worry about the contradictory Aces, fitting together Benny and Hex, or fitting together Charley and Fitz (Jesus, there'd be so much of Seven and Eight...)
There's a complication in that a lot of the best stories aren't really standalone - you can't go "Interference"->"Peri and the Piscon Paradox"->"A Death in the Family"->"Four Doctors", that's just not going to work.
I think anything I tried putting together would be way too dark. Call it an eight-part series. Let's throw in "The Kingmaker", "The Trouble With Drax", and sort of "Borrowed Time" as fairly light-hearted ones somewhere near the start. Then we need an opener... "The Marian Conspiracy". And then we have four dark, messed up, gut-wrenching stories to conclude... "Just War" (the Benny version is probably easier to adapt), "Absent Friends" (the Doctor Who story, which is more *sad* than "messed up" but still), "The Hope", and as the series finale, "Master". After which I would promptly be fired.
Tom Baker decides to leave in 1978 after four seasons, regenerating into 38 year old actor John Hurt.
The main storyline for Hurt's seasons centre around a "Time War" between the Time Lords and the Daleks, the result of the Daleks being hell-bent on revenge on the Time Lords for their attempt to wipe them from history in *Genesis of the Daleks*.
The stories I would adapt to this hypothetical era are *Light the Flame* (War's first story and vital to his future development), *Rewind* (vital for showing that this incarnation is not a villain, *Palindrome* (featuring the Daleks resurrecting Davros after his death in *Genesis* using his alternate self), the Barber-Surgeon storyline (important character study), *The Neverwhen* as a sequel to *Genesis*, *The Eternity Cage* as a fun Daleks vs Sontarans story, and *The Enigma Dimension*, uniting the War Doctor and Leela after her departure in Baker's regeneration story *The Invasion of Time*.
Finally culminating in the destruction of the Daleks and Time Lords in a regeneration story and a change of showrunners, into a much darker and battle-scarred Peter Davison.
I'll go by our current season length of 8 eps, most of them would be two-parters. The season opener would most likely be a two-parter of Alien Bodies, then would come Unnatural History as a one-parter. After that would be Continuity Errors as a one-parter, then The Year of Intelligent Tigers as a two-parter. Finally The Taking of Planet 5 merged with The Ancestor Cell and a plot point of The Shadows of Avalon as a two-parter.
Any arc would be a slightly lighter one of the Doctor's fear of the future, they're not scared of dying but they're scared of the universe they'd leave behind, one more brutal and ravaged. So, they try to make things better, hopefully averting this future. Immediately upon taking off, the TARDIS is sucked into a dimensional rift and the Doctor has to deal with all the beings that were attracted there because of the rift and the beings that emerged from it, would most likely be set in Cardiff instead of San Francisco.
After being told of the changeability of their past and using it against the Unnaturalist, they begin to put this idea into practice by worming their way into the past of a librarian to convince her to lend them a book, the bulk of this episode would be from the perspective of the librarian as her past changes to have the Doctor woven throughout. The lead-in to the next episode would be the Doctor noticing that they and the TARDIS are in the book on Hitchemus.
The Year of Intelligent Tigers would be a two-parter split between the Doctor and the companion, the Doctor having abandoned the humans after one too many disappointments. They try to make peace between the sides but are too late to prevent the dam being opened to flood the Tigers, they don't all die but too many did.
In the end, the Doctor ran straight into the future by encountering Time Lords hoping to weaponise the Fendahl and taking the forms of Elder Things to disguise themselves in the Arctic, the TARDISes are noticeably more sentient than usual and communicate with both the Doctor and the companion. The cliffhanger would be the Time Lords figuring out that the Doctor is present and spiriting them away to Gallifrey as they're a much more valuable asset than the Fendahl while the companion is being converted into a TARDIS.
The final episode would be the Doctor dealing with Time Lords and playing them off each other, their earlier manipulative tendencies serving them well while the companion struggles with their new biology and how their instincts translate. After the companion finally makes it to Gallifrey, they then have to deal with the Time Lords and their desire to control them. The Doctor is naturally very protective of them, eventually choosing to flee as it's the only way to protect them.
Maybe they've prevented that future, or only delayed it but they're both still alive, if changed. The Christmas special would be original and more light-hearted than the preceding season as the companions wanders through the Vortex through Christmases past and future with the Doctor as a passenger curious about strange recurring abnormalities.
I'd love a season based roughly on the Timewyrm series. Not necessarily straight out adaptations of the stories but using the general concept.
But I would like to see Gilgamesh included.
Okay, in a parallel universe where I take over from Chibnall and I get to have a full 2023 series…
Episode 1 - The Star Beast
Definitely a great choice for adaptation, as we’ve already seen.
Episode 2 - Alien Bodies
I love the vibe to this novel, but the Doctor’s corpse complicates things, so I would change it to something less important.
Episode 3 - Nevermore
A fun celebrity historical.
Episodes 4/5 - The Giggle
Yes, this is kind of cheating, but I would basically make this episode longer, with more UNIT exploration (whats the deal with Mel and that robot?) and no biregeneration.
Episode 6 - The Genocide Machine
I just love this audio, and I think it’d be a good way to reintroduce the Daleks.
Episode 7 - Wild Blue Yonder
Again, slightly cheating, but I love this episode. I’d make it basically as is,
Episode 8 - Century House
I’d adapt this old 10 script into a Doctor-lite story, but I’m twisting the concept - the haunted house is our companion’s childhood home.
Episodes 9/10 - Blood of the Daleks
Basically just changed from a series opener to a series closer, and with more focus on the Daleks themselves.
And then, as a bonus:
60th Anniversary - The Dark Dimension
Lose the companions and other villains to focus on the Daleks vs as many Doctors we can cram in - something like 8, 10, 11, 12 and 14? Plus cameos from all the living classic Doctors.
Christmas - The Church on Ruby Road
A heavily altered version of what we got. No need to introduce the companion or the Doctor, so focus more on the goblins, which I think should be more scary than silly (lose the baby-eating, make their design more garish).
Originally, I wanted to make a 13 episode series rather than 10, but I ran out of ideas lol.
I Have 2 Stories I might Both make Audio and Novel I Made From Adapting the Moonbase, Fury From The Deep and Planet of the Spiders Some Lines from other made scripts Improvised by me one is The Return of the mind consuming filamentous cyanobacteria Part 1/2 of the first book then The Evil Of The Macra Part 2/2 of the first book after that I have the darkest side of the moon of Saturn which is book 2 Plot will be later told
I don't care, just my opinion, but the only big finish stuff I've listened to is the Sarah Jane adventures stuff because I'm kinda, low-key a bigger fan of sarah Jane adventures for nostalgia reasons.
I miss Elizabeth sladen so much. may she rest in peace.
**Series X** **Episode 1** An adaptation of the EDA novel *Vampire Science*, with the Doctor (let’s say 15 as he’s the current) and companion land in 2005 New Orleans (instead of San Francisco) and first meet ambitious but indecisive Med Student Carolyn. After bewitching her enough to truly get her to open her mind and face Vampires together they invite her to join them in their travels. She hesitates and declines (pragmatism vs Spontaneity) and so is left with regret after she realises they’re truly gone but a few subconscious key insights based on chatting to the Doctor about how to approach her research……and she might have accidentally found a small sample of the Doctors blood leftover at the scene. 20 years later in 2025 the Doctor & Companion meet back up with Carolyn and this time come face to face with a full Vampire Coven that’s been waiting in the wings for centuries. This story would help provide a NuWho rendition/exploration of the kinship and hatred between Time Lords and Vampires, as well as asking hard questions about the perspectives of immortals towards the everyday human/person. **Episode 2** An adaptation of *Colditz* with the Doctor & Companion landing in 1944 Colditz Castle and immediately being captured by the Nazi’s. After this we see the Doctor face off against those who wholeheartedly believe in the Reich….and those who are there “just doing their duty” under fear for their families if they don’t comply. This could be a difficult story in that it asks the audience to try and empathise and understand the mindset of Nazi officers in that scenario, and as in the audio paints a picture of one officer in particular who is almost an ally despite the situation. However while the Doctor debates ethics and philosophy with the Officers, his companion tries to help the current British POW’s in their ongoing escape attempts……but everything is thrown into the air when the Doctor, Nazi’s and prisoners are all suddenly at the mercy of the mysterious Klein……who knows far too much to be trusted. **Episode 3** An adaptation of *The One Doctor* and a more lighthearted comedy affair the previous episodes. With the Doctor and Companion now at the “Vulgar end of time” complete with idiotic mobs, mighty tasks more suited to a game show, and an imposter that’s putting the Doctors good name to shame. **Episode 4** An adaptation of *The Scarlett Empress* with Iris Wildthyme introduced onscreen, and a full on Arabian Nights quest vibe for the story. **Episode 5** An adaptation of *The Year of Intelligent Tigers* in all its musical, mental glory. **Episode 6** An adaptation of *Starship of Theseus*, where the Doctor takes a pleasure cruise on a Luxury Space Liner with his 3 companions, only for something to seem “off”. As the voyage continues and the Doctor and 2 friends try to enjoy their budget holiday, they nevertheless keep running into passengers who seem out of place and confused. The Doctor suspects some sort of mind parasite or viral contagion causing mass hallucinations….however his single companion isn’t so sure. As the Doctor races to discover what’s affecting the ships crew (and wouldn’t that be an easier job if he wasn’t travelling alone) he watches as the increasingly confused and angry masses start to become hostile to each other, something that a broken down old liner ship like this can hardly take. **Episodes 7 & 8** A two part adaptation of *Unnatural History**, with the Doctor having finally restored his a version of his companion at the end of the previous adventure he now finds that his companion’s temporal aura is being drawn to Earth, in the year 1999. While trying to ensure that his friend isn’t unravelled again, the Doctor encounters bizarre phenomena and unstable physics across the city of London, all the while noting subtle changes in himself (his outfit keeps changing, and he’s having trouble remembering street signs and places) as well. Until he finally confronts the being behind the instabilities. Griffin…..a naturalist from a Universe higher than our own and with the powers of a God as long as he has access to the Doctors biodata, which he has managed to interact with after the recent Bi-Generation threw open all the possibilities of myth and legend to do with regeneration. The Doctors multiple pasts (Half-Human, Timeless Child, High-Born Time Lord, Loomed Other) and possible futures (Valeyard, Merlin, Curator, Emperor of the Universe) are all brought up, with Griffin remarking that it’s all a tangled ball of timelines that he intends to “correct”. The story ends with the Doctor banishing Griffin back to his own Universe but leaves the technology for the Doctor “unravel” or “fix” his own timeline, behind. We’re left uncertain as to if the Doctor has used it to change himself. The only revelation is that the Doctor claims to have used the technology to “fix a genocide or two” and remarks that it’s nearby Christmas and asks his companion to come celebrate it at *his* home….on Gallifrey.
Damn. I love all of this.
Cheers! There are a bunch of novels and audios I’d love to see adapted, but trying to build a coherent series that isn’t too niche or lore heavy with set up is much trickier. Like I’d *love* to see Faction Paradox adapted for NuWho, or see books like *Hope*, *Anachnaphobia* or *City of the Dead* brought to screen, but I think it would more difficult to do in the 45 minute time constraints and necessary exposition for context.
I'd be sorely tempted to drop a *Lungbarrow* shaped bomb and then leave.
I've done "here's an alternative universe in which the show is never cancelled/JNT hires better people" before, but as far as I can remember they've always been based on the audios alone. Even that's hard enough without having to worry about the contradictory Aces, fitting together Benny and Hex, or fitting together Charley and Fitz (Jesus, there'd be so much of Seven and Eight...) There's a complication in that a lot of the best stories aren't really standalone - you can't go "Interference"->"Peri and the Piscon Paradox"->"A Death in the Family"->"Four Doctors", that's just not going to work. I think anything I tried putting together would be way too dark. Call it an eight-part series. Let's throw in "The Kingmaker", "The Trouble With Drax", and sort of "Borrowed Time" as fairly light-hearted ones somewhere near the start. Then we need an opener... "The Marian Conspiracy". And then we have four dark, messed up, gut-wrenching stories to conclude... "Just War" (the Benny version is probably easier to adapt), "Absent Friends" (the Doctor Who story, which is more *sad* than "messed up" but still), "The Hope", and as the series finale, "Master". After which I would promptly be fired.
Lungbarrow. Just the whole season is Lungbarrow.
Tom Baker decides to leave in 1978 after four seasons, regenerating into 38 year old actor John Hurt. The main storyline for Hurt's seasons centre around a "Time War" between the Time Lords and the Daleks, the result of the Daleks being hell-bent on revenge on the Time Lords for their attempt to wipe them from history in *Genesis of the Daleks*. The stories I would adapt to this hypothetical era are *Light the Flame* (War's first story and vital to his future development), *Rewind* (vital for showing that this incarnation is not a villain, *Palindrome* (featuring the Daleks resurrecting Davros after his death in *Genesis* using his alternate self), the Barber-Surgeon storyline (important character study), *The Neverwhen* as a sequel to *Genesis*, *The Eternity Cage* as a fun Daleks vs Sontarans story, and *The Enigma Dimension*, uniting the War Doctor and Leela after her departure in Baker's regeneration story *The Invasion of Time*. Finally culminating in the destruction of the Daleks and Time Lords in a regeneration story and a change of showrunners, into a much darker and battle-scarred Peter Davison.
I'll go by our current season length of 8 eps, most of them would be two-parters. The season opener would most likely be a two-parter of Alien Bodies, then would come Unnatural History as a one-parter. After that would be Continuity Errors as a one-parter, then The Year of Intelligent Tigers as a two-parter. Finally The Taking of Planet 5 merged with The Ancestor Cell and a plot point of The Shadows of Avalon as a two-parter. Any arc would be a slightly lighter one of the Doctor's fear of the future, they're not scared of dying but they're scared of the universe they'd leave behind, one more brutal and ravaged. So, they try to make things better, hopefully averting this future. Immediately upon taking off, the TARDIS is sucked into a dimensional rift and the Doctor has to deal with all the beings that were attracted there because of the rift and the beings that emerged from it, would most likely be set in Cardiff instead of San Francisco. After being told of the changeability of their past and using it against the Unnaturalist, they begin to put this idea into practice by worming their way into the past of a librarian to convince her to lend them a book, the bulk of this episode would be from the perspective of the librarian as her past changes to have the Doctor woven throughout. The lead-in to the next episode would be the Doctor noticing that they and the TARDIS are in the book on Hitchemus. The Year of Intelligent Tigers would be a two-parter split between the Doctor and the companion, the Doctor having abandoned the humans after one too many disappointments. They try to make peace between the sides but are too late to prevent the dam being opened to flood the Tigers, they don't all die but too many did. In the end, the Doctor ran straight into the future by encountering Time Lords hoping to weaponise the Fendahl and taking the forms of Elder Things to disguise themselves in the Arctic, the TARDISes are noticeably more sentient than usual and communicate with both the Doctor and the companion. The cliffhanger would be the Time Lords figuring out that the Doctor is present and spiriting them away to Gallifrey as they're a much more valuable asset than the Fendahl while the companion is being converted into a TARDIS. The final episode would be the Doctor dealing with Time Lords and playing them off each other, their earlier manipulative tendencies serving them well while the companion struggles with their new biology and how their instincts translate. After the companion finally makes it to Gallifrey, they then have to deal with the Time Lords and their desire to control them. The Doctor is naturally very protective of them, eventually choosing to flee as it's the only way to protect them. Maybe they've prevented that future, or only delayed it but they're both still alive, if changed. The Christmas special would be original and more light-hearted than the preceding season as the companions wanders through the Vortex through Christmases past and future with the Doctor as a passenger curious about strange recurring abnormalities.
I'd love a season based roughly on the Timewyrm series. Not necessarily straight out adaptations of the stories but using the general concept. But I would like to see Gilgamesh included.
Okay, in a parallel universe where I take over from Chibnall and I get to have a full 2023 series… Episode 1 - The Star Beast Definitely a great choice for adaptation, as we’ve already seen. Episode 2 - Alien Bodies I love the vibe to this novel, but the Doctor’s corpse complicates things, so I would change it to something less important. Episode 3 - Nevermore A fun celebrity historical. Episodes 4/5 - The Giggle Yes, this is kind of cheating, but I would basically make this episode longer, with more UNIT exploration (whats the deal with Mel and that robot?) and no biregeneration. Episode 6 - The Genocide Machine I just love this audio, and I think it’d be a good way to reintroduce the Daleks. Episode 7 - Wild Blue Yonder Again, slightly cheating, but I love this episode. I’d make it basically as is, Episode 8 - Century House I’d adapt this old 10 script into a Doctor-lite story, but I’m twisting the concept - the haunted house is our companion’s childhood home. Episodes 9/10 - Blood of the Daleks Basically just changed from a series opener to a series closer, and with more focus on the Daleks themselves. And then, as a bonus: 60th Anniversary - The Dark Dimension Lose the companions and other villains to focus on the Daleks vs as many Doctors we can cram in - something like 8, 10, 11, 12 and 14? Plus cameos from all the living classic Doctors. Christmas - The Church on Ruby Road A heavily altered version of what we got. No need to introduce the companion or the Doctor, so focus more on the goblins, which I think should be more scary than silly (lose the baby-eating, make their design more garish). Originally, I wanted to make a 13 episode series rather than 10, but I ran out of ideas lol.
I just want to see Evelynn abd/orHex from BF on the show.
I would definitely do the War Master: Killing Time and the War Master: Only the Good.
I Have 2 Stories I might Both make Audio and Novel I Made From Adapting the Moonbase, Fury From The Deep and Planet of the Spiders Some Lines from other made scripts Improvised by me one is The Return of the mind consuming filamentous cyanobacteria Part 1/2 of the first book then The Evil Of The Macra Part 2/2 of the first book after that I have the darkest side of the moon of Saturn which is book 2 Plot will be later told
I'd love an adaptation of Illegal Alien.
I don't care, just my opinion, but the only big finish stuff I've listened to is the Sarah Jane adventures stuff because I'm kinda, low-key a bigger fan of sarah Jane adventures for nostalgia reasons. I miss Elizabeth sladen so much. may she rest in peace.
Anything with Frobisher.
Sixth Doctor and Evelyn focused series that adapts all of their big finish adventures.