Fic: Spanner in the Works
I wrote a really obscure DW Crossover story here:
Spanner in the Works
(Doctor Who / On the Up Crossover)
(Tenth Doctor, Martha; All Ages)
http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=27689
The Doctor and Martha are on a quest to locate an alien signal and borrow a spanner. Sam has got a spanner and is willing to lend. Should be simple, right? Of course not: there's family rows, aliens, saucepans, unrequited love and lots of cups of tea.
It was for my sister's birthday (I tweaked it a bit from her special, illustrated version...). It's mad, but hopefully makes sense, as I realised very few people are likely to remember the show I'm crossing with. But it's a sitcom, there's Joan Sims, Sam Kelly and Dennis Waterman & it's all a bit of fun.
Explanation for those who want it:
There are worse things than discovering DW as your best show ever in 1988... What if your 'best show' is a little-remembered BBC sitcom from around 1991, 1992? Nobody writes an On the Up magazine. It never even makes it into lists of best (or worst) sit-coms. Thankfully for my sister, the DVDs were realised a couple of years ago. By and large, I have to say it's undeservedly forgotten, mostly because Joan Sims is great (of course) and Sam Kelly is clearly having a whale of a time (and anything that gives him a bit more screen time is fine by me. Allo Allo was never the same after he left. Poor Hans).
And this got very long, which it shouldn't have done, because a) the Tenth Doctor talks a lot and b) everyone in On the Up talks a lot. This = lots of dialogue. The action sequence has too many people in, all talking at once. Argh argh argh. But Sam, Maggie and Martha connect over their cases of unrequited love (Sam's in love with Maggie, who's got a crush on Tony, who's doing his best to get his errant wife back) and the Doctor just gets on like a house on fire with Mrs Wembley. I suspect everyone will just be looking at me strangely again, but hey, at least it's not a cartoon this time. And it was done for my sister, who deserves something nice for her birthday (as well as her real present; I'm not Scrooge!).
Tony: (Playing Trivial Pursuit): In which year did Charles and Diana get married?
Mrs Wembley: Charles and Diana who?
Sam: How many Charles and Dianas are there?
Mrs Wembley: Exactly. There must be thousands!
Spanner in the Works
(Doctor Who / On the Up Crossover)
(Tenth Doctor, Martha; All Ages)
http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=27689
The Doctor and Martha are on a quest to locate an alien signal and borrow a spanner. Sam has got a spanner and is willing to lend. Should be simple, right? Of course not: there's family rows, aliens, saucepans, unrequited love and lots of cups of tea.
It was for my sister's birthday (I tweaked it a bit from her special, illustrated version...). It's mad, but hopefully makes sense, as I realised very few people are likely to remember the show I'm crossing with. But it's a sitcom, there's Joan Sims, Sam Kelly and Dennis Waterman & it's all a bit of fun.
Explanation for those who want it:
There are worse things than discovering DW as your best show ever in 1988... What if your 'best show' is a little-remembered BBC sitcom from around 1991, 1992? Nobody writes an On the Up magazine. It never even makes it into lists of best (or worst) sit-coms. Thankfully for my sister, the DVDs were realised a couple of years ago. By and large, I have to say it's undeservedly forgotten, mostly because Joan Sims is great (of course) and Sam Kelly is clearly having a whale of a time (and anything that gives him a bit more screen time is fine by me. Allo Allo was never the same after he left. Poor Hans).
And this got very long, which it shouldn't have done, because a) the Tenth Doctor talks a lot and b) everyone in On the Up talks a lot. This = lots of dialogue. The action sequence has too many people in, all talking at once. Argh argh argh. But Sam, Maggie and Martha connect over their cases of unrequited love (Sam's in love with Maggie, who's got a crush on Tony, who's doing his best to get his errant wife back) and the Doctor just gets on like a house on fire with Mrs Wembley. I suspect everyone will just be looking at me strangely again, but hey, at least it's not a cartoon this time. And it was done for my sister, who deserves something nice for her birthday (as well as her real present; I'm not Scrooge!).
Tony: (Playing Trivial Pursuit): In which year did Charles and Diana get married?
Mrs Wembley: Charles and Diana who?
Sam: How many Charles and Dianas are there?
Mrs Wembley: Exactly. There must be thousands!