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[daibhidc]

Yes, the British press have learnt that this year, for Children In Need, all the Doctors are going to team up in one huge story.

Presumably, the thinking is that if they keep repeating this, it's bound to be true eventually.

(Apart from anything else, the timeslot for the CiN Doctor Who skit is such that they'd barely get a line each. Dimensions In Time only had four Doctors to deal with [plus Tom Baker in a prologue and two floating heads], and it still felt rushed.)

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[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

What we'll do, right, is have the doctor stick his sonic screwdriver into an electricity socket and get stuck in one of those comic shocks, knowhatahmean, and as he's shaking and going "aargh" we'll be morphing through the faces of all the doctors as a treat to the fans, ok?

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, that's scarily similar to the plot of the Comic Relief story Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (only in that one he was rushing through his remaining regenerations). Which was written by, er, Steve Moffat...

You could be onto something.

[winterbay.livejournal.com]

As opposed to the curse of non-fatal death?

[scarfman]

According to what I've been told, Dimensions in Time was rushed: it was being written as it was shot.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind the idea of a miniseries/arc where the newest Doctor had to, for some reason, go interact with his previous selves for a few minutes each in order to reassemble some conglomeration of information to either save the universe or put himself back together after the Being Zapped Of The Week.

You could even have teams of two or three previous Doctors doing their thing in order to reduce time or increase per-Doctor screen time.

That said, there's quite a good fan-webcomic out there called The Ten Doctors, which has all of them plus a boatload of companions going up against a checklist of villains.

[pedanther]

...and on the other hand there's a terrible officially published by the BBC novel called The Eight Doctors, which is exactly "the newest Doctor had to go interact with his previous selves for a few minutes each in order to reassemble some conglomeration of information to put himself back together after the Being Zapped Of The Week". And it's terrible. (Yes, I know I said that already, but it's true enough to be worth mentioning again.)

So, while I applaud the fan efforts (I love The Ten Doctors, myself), I'd rather the BBC stayed away from the idea.

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. OTOH, the early EDAs which weren't "the newest Doctor had to go interact with his previous selves for a few minutes each in order to reassemble some conglomeration of information to put himself back together after the Being Zapped Of The Week" weren't that great either (VampSci excepted).

The DWM 30th anniversary story where the Key To Time had been scattered along the Doctor's own timeline wasn't bad. And the 35th anniversary one with the Beige Guardian was silly, but it was meant to be.