As I started watching Doctor Who with Christopher Eccleston, Time War and the way it ended was always one of the most interesting topics to me. I've written my vision of the Doctor during the Time War, based mostly on pieces of dialogues from RTD era. I reject the War Doctor as shown in The Day of the Doctor and describe an alternative one, along ( Read more... )

Title: The Fox and the Doctor (1/1)
Rating: G
Word Count: 1,504
Characters: Eight
Timeline: Set after Doctor Who the TV movie
Summary: A publishing house tries to buy the rights to the Doctor's life story.
Disclaimer: Doctor Who has belonged to the BBC for 53 glorious years.
A/N: My contribution to who_at_50's 53rd anniversary fanwork-a-thon. Ever since jjpor ( Read more... )

So, twenty years ago today, the Doctor Who TV Movie starring Paul McGann aired on US television, on the Fox network. Not many people watched and/or liked it, apparently ( Read more... )

As this is a comm created specifically in order to celebrate Who's history and longevity, it seems appropriate to acknowledge that twenty years ago today, viewers of CITV-TV based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, were the first in the world to see:


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Classic Doctor Who stories and related programmes on UK television this week:

Monday 17 NovemberHorror - 10:00am GMT - Logopolis: Part Three (Repeated 3:10pm GMT and 7:50pm GMT ( Read more... )

The good times continue on UK cable TV, with more Key to Time goodness on the Horror Channel and the beginning of the new Who season on Drama, as well as various other odds and ends. An embarrassment of riches!

Sunday 2 November
Drama - 4:00pm GMT - The Aztecs: Omnibus
Drama - 6:00pm GMT - An Adventure In Space And Time

Monday 3 NovemberHorror - ( Read more... )

Many thanks to member and friend of the comm lost_spook for the heads-up about this - in addition to the continuing classic Doctor Who cavalcade on the Horror Channel, UK viewers can from this coming Sunday catch some oldschool action on the Drama Channel. It appears that these are the same stories which were shown on Drama's fellow UKTV channel Watch during ( Read more... )

I started doing this back in November, for the December Challenge but I'm a little belated... (Due to life and the realisation that doing this for Eight was complicated.) Anyway, it's finally done, so if you enjoy the Eighth Doctor or want to get to know him better in future, hopefully this post will be useful ( Read more... )

Another week, another couple of snippets of Doctor Who news you may well have already read elsewhere, and this week's Horror Channel listings. So it goes. ;)

Frank Skinner, it turns out, could find himself duplicated in plastic! No, not the Nestene Consciousness's latest gambit, but rather action-figure-related contingency plans. He would not be ( Read more... )

Inspired by "The Night of The Doctor."

Mad thoughts also derived from "The Iron Giant," the song "Kryptonite," and Classic Who.

(Title was my third choice. When I heard a certain line in "The Day of The Doctor," I was extremely pleased with myself!)

Title: "Neither Hold Nor Stay Your Hand"
Author: HawkMoth
Word Count: 448
Rated: PG
Characters ( Read more... )