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Which Dogter is your favourite?

(Created prior to Jodie or Ncuti, but still a fun and clever idea.)

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Don’t go dropping no eves, but follow the failed goo trail to well-regarded Tom Baker story ‘The Ark in Space’ which has been Time Rammed to star Paul McGann! We also investigate Litefoot’s family tree, take damage in the sentence and mourn Grace’s opera gown. Includes previously unused Hanson and a surprising message from David Duchovny!

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As usual, I love all the little details in this

Time Ram - River Song and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamboat

The cat walks by himself no longer as the Sixth Doctor, fresh from the loss of Peri Brown (presumably), finds himself unceremoniously driven by milk float into a daring adventure with his wife, River Song (as played by Linda Lusardi). The only trouble is, she's got no idea who he is because he left his coat in the TARDIS!

The Doctor wants River to recognize him. River wants a massive diamond. Drathro's body wants the Doctor's extra-special head. Nardole wants to not get chased around by evil women. Tonker Travers REALLY wants his Hyperions to stop blowing up. And Ramone wants... well, who cares what Ramone wants? Maybe he wants Chistopher Biggin's nice pouch, because it's handy. There's a course set for Darillium, so strap in and listen to Malcolm Clarke's cover of Yakkety Sax. Merry Christmas!

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“It’s my job, remember?”

The Time Monster - season 09 - 1972

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i drew all the vintage time travel PhD guys from memory

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zoes on map duty bens got the bags and the doctor is off in the b plot experiencing halloween horrors beyond comprehension dressed as a wizard

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Time Ram gets more low brow as we take David Tennant’s ‘School Reunion’ and re-imagine it for the first Doctor, William Hartnell. That sounds like a bad idea, you say? Like that’s ever stopped us! Anyway, it means that we get to press the ‘don’t land properly’ switch on our Dodos, confuse Katarina and Kingdom, and explore Barbara’s marital problem. Also: scenes happen. Controversy!

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Love it!!!

Creeptober 21 - Weird Archtecture

Time Ram - Zero (Pr)Escher

It's the first episode of the Paul McGann era, that thrilling tale of lost fathers, treacherous brothers, and McGann's glistening abs. And what better way to kick off this action-filled American series than Castrovalva? Almost anything? Tough! The Ram says that's what we've got! So tune in for Chang Lee counting cards, dragons soaring over MC Escher cathedrals, Zero Hats, Time Lord fork lifts, and the musical stylings of Hanson. Will this be the story that gets Fox to greenlight a full series? Yeah, apparently, because there have already been six other McGann stories! Time Ram!

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Creeptober 17 - Strange Geometry

Time Ram - Two Flat Ladies

It's episode 69, baby! You know what that means; Turlough's getting frothy, Tegan's getting bolshy, and the TARDIS is getting smaller on the outside. That's right, the Time Ram has swapped Peters, taking Capaldi's dimensionally transcendental Flatline and transposing it into the Davison era. The TARDIS has gotten into a sticky situation, and I don't just mean from the incessant pineapple snacking; the Doctor and Turlough are trapped inside a shrunken, dying TARDIS, leaving Tegan to contend with Chromakeyed outlines, Helen Mirren's Thatcher analogue, and her Jeyes Fluid-covered granddad. It could always be worse, though; at least Tom Baker's not getting chased around by a graffiti'd cock and balls.

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Classic vs. New: The Doctor Who-Off

Modern Who has been going on for quite some time now; 19 years, 7 Doctors (or thereabouts; depends on how you count them), and 14 series/seasons again now I guess. 154 stories, by the official count, and the Christmas special will make 155.

155 is also the number of stories in the classic series, from An Unearthly Child to Survival.

So, in order to commemorate this moment of equilibrium in a very messy continuity, I'm going to be doing polls on it. For the next several weeks, starting tomorrow, I'll be putting up 13 polls per week, pitting Modern Who stories against their classic counterparts in the numbering order; Unearthly Child vs. Rose, The Daleks vs. The End of the World, etc., all the way up to Survival vs. Joy to the World (plus some bonus bits to help round out that last set of 13 because the math wasn't quite mathing. Just go with it.)

And through this highly objective and not at all arbitrary methodology, we will determine once and for all whether modern or classic who is better. (Only kidding obviously, but it should be a fun time regardless!)

To find old polls, search #classic vs new who. Ongoing polls are listed below

An Unearthly Child vs. Rose The Daleks vs. The End of the World The Edge of Destruction vs. The Unquiet Dead Marco Polo vs. Aliens of London/World War Three The Keys of Marinus vs. Dalek The Aztecs vs. The Long Game The Sensorites vs. Father's Day The Reign of Terror vs. The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances Planet of Giants vs. Boom Town The Dalek Invasion of Earth vs. Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways The Rescue vs. The Christmas Invasion The Romans vs. New Earth The Web Planet vs. Tooth and Claw

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Okay, so we didn't think this through; 'Hide', a spooky Matt Smith episode that we're reinventing with Patrick Troughton, should really have gone out at Halloween, but here it is a fortnight too early. Still, the supermarkets have been stocking Halloween stuff since early September, so it's not all that bad.

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Doctor and companions in regency attire 🥰

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That's entering my head canon

That "which companion is the most normal" tournament has me thinking about my Ian Chesterton special forces headcanon again.

Because he is a very normal guy. His vibes are those of the most reliable dad at the school fête. But he also deals with a bunch of extraordinary situation with borderline fearlessness and quite a lot of expertise that you might not expect from a schoolteacher. Hand-to-hand combat in The Aztecs? No problem. Guerrilla warfare in The Dalek Invasion of Earth? Absolutely fine. Any alien weaponry he gets his hands on? Happy to give it a go.

Ian's not a thrill-seeker especially, so I don't see these as being things he would have tried to learn independently, or in any situation other than dire necessity. He's happy to live a normal life (thrilled to get back to it, clearly, at the end of The Chase). But he also rises to the challenge in any given situation. And frankly, when he kills people, he does not have the emotional reaction that you might expect from someone who has never killed before. I think this goes beyond what you would learn as an ordinary soldier or during National Service.

If Ian Chesterton has the same birth year as William Russell, then he was 18 in 1942, making him just two years younger than Christopher Lee, who was special forces in WW2. That's old enough for a couple of years of doing who-knows-what at the tail end of the war, then going to do his degree and becoming a teacher, thinking that these were skills he would never have to use again... until that day in the junkyard.

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Time Ram goes all Bah Humbug for Peter Capaldi’s ‘Last Christmas’ which now stars first Doctor, William Hartnell! In the process, we scare some rams, tease out some morpho brains and finally address some long-standing companion controversy. To Santa or not to Santa, that is the question…

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This really made me LOL. Brilliant as ever!

Time Ram: The Co-Pilot

You WILL get wet. You MAY get soaked. It's Time Ram, with Barry Williams (not the cricket writer), Paul Ferry (not from Maggie), and Rupert Booth (NOT the fucking bear!!!). And it's the beginning of a new era of the Fourteenth Doctor's new spinoff with The Pilot. Starring David Againnant as the Doctor, Bonnie Langford as Mel, and Venita Richie Millie Gibson Anya Westbrook Eva Sharples June Brown Poloma Faith the robot Donald Pleasance Kim Kardashian Fearne Brady Rose Matafeo Awkwafina as Jill Trude. Yes. Good.

Tennant's taking a page from ol' Chronotis' book while talking fourteen to the dozen. Mel's arm is Mel-functioning after watching attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. And there's really not much to change, actually, so tune in for the lads pitching a series of films starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine!

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Stand by, Dodo, this looks like a rescue mission. The Navy's in trouble!

DOCTOR WHO ↳ The War Machines (1966)