THE LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - JOAN RIVERS, OVER-DUBBED

I don't know what the bleep is going on in that video as far as the dialogue is concerned! 

I don't think it was a legit over-dub, because it's definitely a guy speaking for Ms. Rivers. And then it all seems to break down and become a free-for-all.

Could it have been a commentary track, some weird kind of play by play?

Had it been the real deal, I might have made the claim that it was from the TV dimension in which Earth was under the control of the Italians. (At least I think that's Italian being spoken......)

But now? Let's just say there's a nightmare TV dimension out there somewhere.......

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THE LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - JOAN RIVERS

JOAN RIVERS

AS SEEN IN:

'nip/tuck'

["Joan Rivers"]

TV STATUS:

Member of the TV Crossover Hall of Fame as herself (March, 2011)

TV DIMENSION:

Earth Prime-Time

From Wikipedia:

Joan Alexandra Molinsky (born June 8, 1933), better known by her stage name Joan Rivers, is an American television personality, comedian, writer, film director, and actress. She is known for her brash manner; her loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York accent; and her numerous cosmetic surgeries. Rivers' comic style relies heavily on her ability to poke fun at herself and other Hollywood celebrities.

Rivers is open about her multiple cosmetic surgeries, and has been a patient of plastic surgeon Steven Hoefflin since 1983. Her first procedure, an eye lift, was performed in 1965 as an attempt to further her career.

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LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - WALTER CRONKITE

WALTER CRONKITE

AS SEEN IN:

'The Mary Tyler Moore Show'

["Ted Baxter Meets Walter Cronkite"]

TV DIMENSION:

Earth Prime-Time

From Wikipedia:

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. He reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the murders of President John F. Kennedy, civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr., and Beatles musician John Lennon. He was also known for his extensive coverage of the U.S. space program, from Project Mercury to the Moon landings to the Space Shuttle. He was the only non-NASA recipient of a Moon-rock award. Cronkite is well known for his departing catchphrase "And that's the way it is," followed by the date on which the appearance aired.

And that's the way it is......

LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - DR. ANDRIJA PUHARICH

DR. ANDRIJA PUHARICH

AS SEEN IN:

'Perry Mason'

["The Case Of The Meddling Medium"]

TV DIMENSION:

Earth Prime-Time

From Wikipedia:

Andrija Puharich, MD - (born Karel Puharic, February 19, 1918 - January 3, 1995) was a medical and parapsychological researcher, medical inventor and author, who is perhaps best known as the person who brought Israeli Uri Geller and Dutch-born Peter Hurkos (1911-1988) to the United States for scientific investigation.

Of his many books, Puharich wrote a supportive biography of Uri Geller, a paranormal case he investigated with the help of Itzhak Bentov, among others. Before that he investigated favorably the Brazilian psychic surgeon Zé Arigó. He met the Dutch psychic Peter Hurkos and brought him to the United States to participate in scientific experiments in parapsychology. He also investigated Mexican psychic surgeon Pachita. He encouraged a rational assessment of people with paranormal faculties and applied scientific methods to investigations of what were their startling and often unpredictable and elusive skills or abilities. One of his books is The Sacred Mushroom, Key to the Door of Eternity, in which he describes his work with psychics, and his own skepticism of them, in some detail.

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TVXOHOF - THE CLASS OF 2012

I'm still working on the 2012 Toobits Awards, which always takes a bit of time (especially after that New Year's Day marathon of 'Doctor Who' posts!) But in the meantime, I thought we'd take a look back at the newest members of the TV Crossover Hall Of Fame, inducted in 2012.....

JANUARY

SERGEANT GROVER

FEBRUARY

HEAVY D

SMOKIN' JOE FRAZIER

MARCH

DAVY JONES

APRIL

MIKE WALLACE

BARNEY FIFE

MAY

GOOBER PYLE

ABBY SCIUTO

ROBIN GIBB

BIRTHDAY HONORS LIST

"THE DOCTOR & THE NURSE TWINS"

ANDREW'S BIRTHDAY HONORS GIFT

WARREN ZEVON

JUNE

HARMON COBB & JUDGE STODDARD BELL

JULY

QUINTON McHale

AUGUST

J.R. EWING

SEPTEMBER

STEPHEN J. CANNELL

TONY MARTIN

PHYLLIS DILLER

OCTOBER

GARY COLLINS

HALLOWEEN

ELVIRA

NOVEMBER

BEN FRANKLIN

DECEMBER

THE ISLAND OF MISFIT TOYS

CHRISTMAS MULTIVERSAL HONORS

THE BORROWERS

As you can see, many of the entries this year were spurred by the deaths of the personalities themselves, many of whom portrayed themselves.   (I'm glad I was able to honor J.R. Ewing before it became necessary.)  

Along those lines, you might think of some who may have deserved this honor who also passed away this year, but some of them have already received the honor:

JACK KLUGMAN (as OSCAR MADISON) - January 2002

ANDY GRIFFITH (as SHERIFF ANDY TAYLOR) - August 2002

CHARLES DURNING (as SANTA CLAUS) - December 1999

Off the top of my noggin, that's all I can think of at present......

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LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - DAVY JONES

It was Davy Jones' birthday on December 30th. He passed away back in February and Inner Toob devoted a few posts to his career in Toobworld, including a memorial entry into the TV Crossover Hall of Fame....

DAVY JONES

AS SEEN IN:

'The Brady Bunch'

TV DIMENSION:

Earth Prime-Time

[Also to be found in the Cineverse]

 

From Wikipedia:

David Thomas "Davy" Jones (30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012) was an English recording artist, actor and businessman, best known as a member of the musical group the Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name. His acting credits include a Tony-nominated role as the Artful Dodger in "Oliver!" as well as roles in 'The Brady Bunch' film and television show; 'Love, American Style'; and 'My Two Dads'. Jones is considered to be one of the greatest teen idols of all time.

This post is going out to my cousin Marilee.....

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THE "WHO'S ON FIRST" MARATHON - TIME'S UP!

And there you have it - the fifth annual "Who's On First" celebration is completed.  I hope you enjoyed it.

Stay tuned for the next League of Themselves post coming up in a few minutes for January 2nd.

And so it goes........

WISH-CRAFT: SON O' CRAIG

Here's a wonderful idea by Craig Hurle, who runs a 'Doctor Who' page on Facebook:

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A CROSSOVER I WOULD *NOT* LIKE TO SEE

At the end of the year we count our blessings, so there's one thing I'm thankful for that came out of the Christmas special* - The Grand Moff put the kibosh on any future crossover between 'Doctor Who' and 'Sherlock'.  

Doctor Simeon kept talking about Sherlock Holmes as a literary invention of Arthur Conan Doyle, which is easy enough to debunk and which I did in an earlier post today.  But even so, Holmes was considered a character of the times - that is, 1892 (the year of such stories in the Strand as ) - and not someone of the 21st Century!

Of course, for Toobworld, that version of the Holmesian canon takes place in Limbo, the after-life dimension of such shows as the original 'Life On Mars', its sequel 'Ashes To Ashes', the last season of 'Lost' and Richard Widmark's TV adaptation of the movie 'Madigan'.

So both aspects are covered, but not enough to allow a crossover, thank goodness.  I'm all for Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman showing up on 'Doctor Who' - but as other characters, just as Rupert Graves (Lestrade) did.  

I've seen online support for the Meddling Monk as the role for Cumberbatch and I think it's a fantastic idea!  And for Freeman?  May I suggest that lonely fellow at Torchwood station #2 in Glasgow, that "strange little man named Archie"?

Just sayin', is all......

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*Actually there was a whole lot of goodness in this special for which I'm thankful.  I trust in the Grand Moff.

THE TIME WAR BLIPVERTS

It is the wish of many, including myself, that one day we'll see a one-off TV movie about the Time War between the Time Lords of Gallifrey and the Daleks. It was because of this war that the Eighth Incarnation of the Doctor had to regenerate into the Ninth.

I think it could even be a theatrically-released film; it would be that popular, enough to become a blockbuster.

Here are a couple of trailers for this movie that might never be.....

DR. GRACE HOLLOWAY - AFTER THE CREDITS ROLLED

Along the same lines as the pictures of the Doctor in his younger life, here are some pictures of Daphne Ashbrook, which could be of Dr. Grace Holloway in the many years she spent traveling through Time and Space with the Eighth Incarnation of the Doctor:

It's my belief that no matter how old she got, the Doctor remained true to Grace and kept her by his side until the end of her days. (I won't speculate on how that happened, but if he was free to marry River Song, then we have to assume she eventually passed away.)  

I'd like to think that Grace was the mother of the Doctor's child, the one who would be the parent of the Doctor's grand-daughter, Susan Foreman.  In order to protect his family, the Eighth Incarnation of the Doctor may have had to abandon them on some backwater planet to live safely in seclusion while he went off to fight for Gallifrey in the Time War.

Most of these pics are from Daphne Ashbrook's appearances at various 'Doctor Who' conventions. But I will cop to having broken my rule and used a few shots of Ms. Ashbrook from her role on 'The O.C.' - there just wasn't that much by way of film appearances to choose from......

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THE YOUNG DOCTOR

The First Incarnation of the Doctor would have been considered an adolescent by Time Lord standards, according to his grand-daughter Susan. And yet he was about 450 years old when he regenerated for the first time.  He may have looked like the oldest of the Doctor's incarnations, but in "reality" he was the youngest.  (Conversely, the Eleventh Incarnation may look the youngest, but he's actually the oldest.)

So for 450 years, the Doctor always looked like the actor who portrayed him, William Hartnell.  (However, I still think that James Buckley could play the First Incarnation as the Doctor in the fifty years he spent as a teenager.)  

Therefore, if fanficcers want to show pictures of the "First Doctor" as a younger Time Lord, then they should track down pictures of Hartnell from earlier in his career and even personal pictures if you wanted to show him in his youth. (Although I don't think those are available....?)

Save for one of these pictures, they're all from Hartnell's film career. I think anything else he did on television should be locked in place as being about that particular character only as seen in Earth Prime-Time. (The same goes for any actor when dealing with these fanfic inspirations.)

Arguing a point of academia with a Time Lady classmate?

 

 As a teacher at the Time Lords' Academy?

 The Eleventh Incarnation wasn't the first to rock the bow tie!

Perhaps the uniform was required in the Prydonian Chapter?

Well, he must have worn jammies in the TARDIS at some point!

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T-T-TALKING 'BOUT REGENERATION

When 'Doctor Who' finally returned in 2005, Christopher Eccleston burst onto the screen fully regenerated; there was no tip of the fez to the Past by showing Paul McGann going through regeneration after the Time War.

A few video fanficcers decided that it was a gap in the show's history that needed to be filled.......

One day maybe it will be officially shown on screen in a flashback or a TV movie about the Time War. But until such time (if any!) when that happens, any one of these will do. And the rest can be relegated to alternate TV dimensions.

THE TIME WAR - A BABELCOLOUR TRIBUTE

SILENCE IN THE TARDIS!

We've seen that the Doctor is not immune to the powers of the Silence.  So it's entirely pozz'ble, just pozz'ble*, that one of their number has been hitching a ride in the TARDIS over the years with earlier incarnations of the Doctor.

 

These mash-ups show us what it may have been like if the Doctors played by Mssrs. Hartnell, Troughton, and Pertwee faced off against the Silence.  Of course, none of them would have remembered the encounters.  

I'm hoping that eventually we'll see mash-up pictures of the other Doctors as they encountered these alien invaders in the TARDIS.  With the last Silence seen above, he must have been located at U.N.I.T. headquarters while the Third Incarnation was basically "incarcerated" there without access to the full capabilities of the TARDIS. 

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*Sorry.  I never get tired of that 'Deputy Dawg' phrase.  You'll just have to live with it......

THE TEN DOCTORS

I'll leave it up to you, Team Toobworld - Should the following story be considered canon?  Or at the very least, as part of the Toobworld Dynamic?

Sorry to leave you hanging like that.  The folks of BabelColour promise to have the fourth part completed in the future......

My opinion is no, it can't be a part of Earth Prime-Time, as all of those scenes already played out in other episodes.

But nothing stops it from being a part of some other TV dimension......

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THE IRON THRONE - A NEW ADDITION TO THE TARDIS?

Ever since 'Game Of Thrones' debuted on HBO, it has been the belief of the ruling Toobworld committee - that is to say, me - that the seven kingdoms of Westeros can be found on the planet Mondas, which used to share the same solar orbit as Earth Prime-Time.  Also, it was created first and was the actual "Earth" ("Mondas" is supposedly an old term for "Earth") which was created by God.  Earth Prime-Time is an artificial construct manufactured by the Magratheans as a special order super-computer for some pan-dimensional beings that looked like mice in the TV Universe.

The reboot of the planet's populace into cybernetic humans didn't happen until near the end of Mondas' tenure in the solar system.  Eventually it would break free of the orbit it shared with Earth Prime-Time and travel the galaxy until making its destructive return in the 1980s.  But before that it would be home for a long line of civilizations found in other TV series but which just don't quite fit into the "history" of Earth Prime-Time.

These would include the realms not only found in 'Game Of Throne', but also in 'BeastMaster', 'Legend Of The Seeker', 'Wizards And Warriors', and even a comedy like 'Krod Maldoon' (although references to Atlantis are troubling),  And why not?  Earth Prime-Time can be home to 'Secret Agent' as well as 'Get Smart', so why not a goofball thud and blunder "epic"?

I'm still not sure about 'Conan The Barbarian'.  I'm tempted to send that off to Mondas as well.

But it wasn't always a world of swords and sorcery.  Empires crumbled and new countries were born, and technology advanced so that magic was pushed to the side.  There is an episode of 'The Twilight Zone' called "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You" which supposedly took place in the year 2000.  Since nothing like it came to pass on Earth Prime-Time a dozen years ago, I've relegated that episode to Mondas as well.  (The year 2000 on Mondas is equivalent to the Dawn of Mankind on Earth Prime-Time.)  And the replacement of their bodies was a precursor to the replacement of those bodies entirely with cybernetics.

Mondas is long gone, but that isn't an impediment for a Time Lord.  So it is still pozz'ble, just pozz'ble for the Eleventh Doctor to have visited the planet and then to sit his Gallifreyan gluteus maximus on the Iron Throne in King's Landing.......

And wouldn't Arya Stark make for a fantastic Companion?

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'DOCTOR WHO" & "THE VAMPIRE DIARIES"

Here's a music video suggesting a crossover between 'Doctor Who' and 'The Vampire Diaries':

I have no problem with this at all - if it takes place in some alternate TV dimension.  As for Earth Prime-Time, perhaps it did take place during that two hundred year gap before the Doctor returned to Amy and Rory in "The Impossible Astronaut".

But I am not familiar with the details of 'The Vampire Diaries' enough to know how this could fit into Caroline's life.  Besides which, all of these scenes are locked into their original use and shouldn't be repeated......

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"WHO" CAN TURN THE WORLD ON WITH A SMILE?

Mashing together two of my top five favorite TV series......

I often wonder about the "atmosphere people" you see in the backgrounds of many TV shows, especially in the opening credit sequences of old series.  This came to mind with the recent passing of Jack Klugman - who could that Boy Scout be in Toobworld?  What did he grow up to become?

And then there's 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' - everybody wonders about that old lady seen when Mary "flips her lid", (and she finally met Mary on a talk show a few years before she passed away.)  But how about those two joggers in the park?  Who were they?  Mary looks back at them - did she find them attractive?

Or did she notice that they both had an extra eyeball in the middle of their foreheads?

'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' ended in 1977, more than a decade before this sculpture was completed.......

From Wikipedia:
The centerpiece of the garden is the Spoonbridge and Cherry (1985–1988) water sculpture designed by husband and wife Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The grounds also include the Cowles Conservatory, which has more flora and sculpture inside, such as Frank Gehry's Standing Glass Fish. A pedestrian bridge, the Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge (1987), designed by Siah Armajani now crosses I-94, once again connecting the sculpture garden to Loring Park.

But that doesn't mean Mary Richards wasn't around when the Eighth Doctor (I prefer the Eighth Doctor in the mash-ups.) came to call.  It just means that we never would have had the chance to see her on screen when he showed up.  "Mayr" lived in Minneapolis until 2000, perhaps the end of 1999, when she moved to New York City after the death of her husband, local Congressman Stephen Cronin.

Supposedly Cronin died while he was rock-climbing.  As with the splainin behind the explosion of the Klingon moon Praxis, couldn't this have been a cover story?  What if the Doctor had come to Minneapolis in time for Christmas of 1998* and found himself involved in some Christmasy alien threat against the Twin Cities?  One that came to the attention of newswoman Mary Richards Cronin and her husband Stephen (who probably replaced Congresswoman Gettys)?

Having just seen this year's Christmas special for 'Doctor Who', I'm feeling a bit influenced by it.  Perhaps the Doctor was living above the clouds (but below radar level and flight paths) in Minneapolis during a typical Minnesota winter.  And perhaps, like Clara Oswin Oswald back on the Christmas Eve of 1892 in London, Congressman Cronin fell from such a height while helping the Doctor battle the aliens.  (If they did have a third eyeball in the middle of their foreheads, then they were Traskians - as seen in 'Farscape' and 'The Twilight Zone' episode "Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up?".)

(They don't have to be Traxians.  I just thought it should be an alien race already established with intent to invade and who could almost pass for human.  A third eye in the forehead could be easily disguised - say, with a sweat band worn by joggers?  At any rate, the Traxians - passing themselves off as "Venutians" because of their base colony on that planet - should have had a successful invasion by now.  So who stopped them?  Why the Doctor, of course!)

Why didn't Mary mention any of this to Rhoda rather than make up a story about rock-climbing?  Perhaps because she wasn't the one who made it up.  Perhaps the Doctor had her bitten by a memory worm and then he created new memories for her in order to spare her the horror and anguish of the Truth.

Of course, that picture of the sculpture is of a beautiful spring day in Minneapolis; no six foot snow drifts.  But maybe the Eleventh Incarnation of the Doctor came back to visit, only to find that Mary was gone.  And maybe that's why he was visiting New York City with Amy and Rory on that last fateful trip they made together......

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*My suggested timeline for Mary Richards Cronin:

• Christmas 1998 - Adventure with the Doctor; her husband Stephen dies
• End of 1998 to Spring 1999 - Mourning period
• Summer of 1999 - Four month tour of Europe
• Fall of 1999 - Attempt to readjust to life in Minneapolis; both parents now dead
• Late 1999 - Decision to make a fresh start in New York City
• January 2000 - Move to NYC
• February 2000 - Events of "Mary & Rhoda"

A CROSSOVER SLIDE-SHOW

Check out this crossover slide-show.  All of the pozz'bilities are within reason - nothing is from outside the 'Doctor Who' domain.

However, I think some of them wouldn't work because the Doctor expressed either suprise or ignorance at his first encounter with those involved. 

For example - the Fourth Doctor on board the spaceship Titanic with Leela.  He could be on some other ship in the Max Capricorn fleet, but the info-angels seemed to be a new feature when the Tenth Doctor encountered them.

Another example - the Eighth Doctor with Madame Pompadour.  As you'll see throughout today's post, I'm a big booster for Eighth Doctor crossovers, but there was never any indication from the Tenth Doctor that he ever met her before.

However, in the cases of the Angels and of Winston Churchill, those are pretty reasonable ideas.  In fact, a Weeping Angel might splain away what happened to Ace following the cancellation of the show in 1989.

Number Nine with Syl and Number One with the Master also work.  But the Fourth with the animated scarecrow would be right out.

My favorite might be the Sontaran-Rutan skirmish in the woods.....

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A NEW DYNAMIC DUO

At some point during his enforced banishment on Earth without access to the TARDIS, the Third Incarnation of the Doctor might have visited Gotham City in America.  There he could have teamed up with the caped crusader known as the Batman and they became friends and allies.  

Maybe.

In thanks for his help on a case (perhaps against a team-up of Mr. Freeze and the Ice Warriors?), Batman gifted the Doctor with a wardrobe taken from the Riddler during an earlier case.  This is why we saw the later incarnations of the Doctor wearing clothes with the question mark logo.  The gift would also include an umbrella with a question mark handle - a gift that was originally given to the Riddler by the Penguin.....

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"LOST" WITH THE DOCTOR (PART TWO)

This trailer for a mash-up crossover between 'Doctor Who' and 'Lost' had me until the sighting of the giant angel statue.  But it still would work in an alternate TV dimension.....

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TELEVERSION WISH-CRAFT - CRAIG FERGUSON

The Doctor is not without vanity, and so it might have amused the Eighth Incarnation of the Time Lord to give a lift to one of his biggest fans, talk show host Craig Ferguson - from Los Angeles back to the United Kingdom.......

Well, why  not?

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THE DALEKS HAVE THE STARGATE*

After the Stargate team went back in Time and changed History in 1969, they came back to a new TV dimension, leaving behind Earth Prime-Time.

So I have no problem with this version of events happening in some other TV dimension.

On top of that, just imagine the triple decker goodness of this part of the crossover:

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*I know - it would have been better if I could have used "The Angels Have The Stargate".......

THE DOCTOR OF OZ

Thanks to an episode of 'Shirley Temple Storybook', the world of Oz exists as a dimension accessible to Earth Prime-Time.  And so this mash-up picture is quite pozz'ble in Toobworld.

But who was crushed under the TARDIS?  It can't be the Wicked Witch of the West, and it probably wasn't Mombi.......

Somehow Dorothy lost the slippers before she returned to Toobworld.  So this could be the person who found them.  

Could it even be Glinda?

Or a darker thought......

The Doctor likes to give his Companions special treats - like visits to locations and time periods they might enjoy.  What if the Eighth Doctor let Dr. Holloway indulge in her fascination with the fictional version of "The Wizard Of Oz" and let her visit the actual dimension of Oz?  

With her own ruby slippers.

And what if something went horribly wrong when he came back to pick her up?

It would certainly splain away why she wasn't traveling with him anymore.....

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METAMORPH - CAPTAIN JACK IS THE FACE OF BOE

I always thought the plot twist reveal of Captain Jack's future self was a brilliant idea......

THE EIGHTH DOCTOR MEETS THE KLINGONS

'Ij Daq jIH!

Here's another pozz'ble, just pozz'ble, suggestion for a crossover - 'Doctor Who' and 'Star Trek'.  

The two series are definitely connected in my mind - the TARDIS was seen in an episode of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'.  And the Second Incarnation of the Doctor has visited the planet Vulcan, from which he must have picked up those mind-meld techniques displayed by the Tenth Incarnation of the Doctor.

So what would be a good story for the Doctor which involves Klingons? 

Of course, I want it to be the Eighth Incarnation, played by Paul McGann.  And it should take place in the year 2293, when Praxis, the moon of Qo'noS, exploded and threatened to destroy all life on the Klingon homeworld.  (This was the cataclysmic event which led to the uneasy peace between the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets.)

The official story regarding the explosion was that the Klingon miners digging for the energy to be found in the moon's molten core were careless and dug too deeply.  But what if that was just a cover story?  What if there was an alien cause behind that explosion?  Perhaps the Doctor happened to show up, with Dr. Grace Holloway in tow, and helped the entire corps of Klingon engineers to escape the devastation.  (This would give Grace her first chance to practice her medical skills with a xeno-biology slant.)

Having seen "The Hobbit" on Christmas Eve, I like the idea of the Doctor as the Burglar - sneaking into the core of Praxis to rescue the Klingons.  Even better to have thirteen of them, standing in for the Dwarves.  (Although I suppose Ferengi would make a better substitute.)  And as for the alien threat?  Who could survive better in such an inferno than the Pyrovites?  Perhaps even a Pyrovite wyrm as a stand-in for Smaug......

Do you like that idea?

Hu'tegh Soh if you don't!

THE "BESIEGED" TRAILER: - A "DOCTOR WHO" FAN FILM

THE DOCTOR AND IRON MAN

IRON MAN!

• He was born in the world of comic books!
• He exists in the TV dimensions of Skitlandia and the Tooniverse!
• He is thriving in the Cineverse!

But so far, he's not been seen in Earth Prime-Time.....

To my way of thinking, Iron Man is one of those super-heroes who would work well on TV; the technology is there to do his basic special effects.  And since the movies have proven popular, perhaps it's time to get him his own live-action show.  

O'Bviously Robert Downey, Jr. has too much box office clout still to take on the role himself.  At least on a long-term basis.  But it looks like Joss Whedon is putting together a TV series pilot for a show centered on S.H.I.E.L.D.  So perhaps Downey might be persuaded just to make a glorified cameo in the project.  He certainly seems to be enjoying himself in the role of Iron Man/Tony Stark, so I don't see him refusing the request.

But until such time as we get a live-action Iron Man suitable for the main Toobworld, the following picture would have to be stowed away for any future fanfic use.  But once that happens, it would be a great story with the Eighth Incarnation of the Doctor.  And I could see them teaming up to battle the Cybermen.  The interesting thing about that is that the Cybermen orginated on Mondas, where the kingdom of Westeros was located.  (Just my theory, though.)  And in that land, the name of "Stark" belonged to one of the more influential houses in the seven kingdoms.....

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ROSE TYLER AND THE HUMAN DOCTOR

What's Life like for Rose Tyler in the "Over There" dimension of 'Fringe', now that she has her Doctor?  Even if it's only a human clone?  This music video gives an idea - plenty of angst, love, and steamy showers!

And the Doctor seems to change his clothes at a second's notice......

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"LOST" WITH "DOCTOR WHO"

When 'Doctor Who' finished its initial run in 1989, this was the last speech made by the Seventh Incarnation of the Doctor:

"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do."

Based on this picture, made by my friends Tay and Jim, I think we know where he was when he met the people made of smoke......

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THE FEAST OF STEPHEN - IN THE TOONIVERSE

I know it's just a quibble, but Sarah Kingdom has a five o'clock shadow........

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DOC BROWN & THE DOCTOR (PART TWO)

I don't subscribe to this idea; I just find it interesting........

TROUGHTON: THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY INTERVIEW

SUPER SIX LIST: WHO BROUGHT STRAX BACK?

When I saw that Strax had returned to the 'Doctor Who' cosmos in a prequel to the Christmas episode "The Snowmen", I at first thought he was one of the clones of the "original" Strax who died at Demon's Run.  After all, all Sontarans are clones based on the genetic structure of their ancestors the Heirarchy in the Gamma Quadrant.  (At least that's the Toobworld Dynamic theory.....)

But then we got the splainin from the Doctor:

“He gave his life for a friend once. Another friend brought him back.” 

From TARDIS - the 'Doctor Who' wiki:
Commander Strax was a Sontaran commander who was demoted to nurse by the Sontaran Empire. He fought and died at the Battle of Demon's Run, as a reimbursement to the Doctor, whom he owed a debt to for saving his life. 

Following his death, Strax was brought back to life by a friend of the Doctor's. (TV: The Snowmen) 

But we don't learn who that friend was.  It could be that this is a minor mystery that will one day be revealed in a future episode of the show.  Or it could be one of those little details that will only find splainin in the fevered writings of fanficcers, in much the same way as when Conan Doyle - excuse me, Dr. Watson! - left such tidbits in his stories about Sherlock Holmes, like the Giant Rat of Sumatra and the remarkable worm said to be unknown to science.

I don't have much interest in the circumstances surrounding the debt Strax owed to the Doctor; there were probably hundreds of such people throughout Time and Space.  (Although I do like the idea that it was the Eighth Incarnation of the Doctor who first held that debt.)  But I'm keen to learn who it was that brought Strax back to life.

When the Doctor says it was a friend, that doesn't mean it has to be limited to the people in his life who could only be found in the televised canon.  As a Caretaker of the TV Universe, I say the Doctor came into contact with lots of TV characters from other TV shows, TV movies, and even from TV commercials.

At the end of the Demon's Run battle, the Doctor took off in search of the abducted baby Melody Pond.  He left River Song in charge of getting the others - Amy & Rory and Vastra and Jenny - back to their respective times.  I think that out of decency River would also have taken the bodies of Strax and of Lorna Bucket, a "Gamma Girl" from the Gamma Forests, who had encountered the Eleventh Incarnation of the Doctor as a young girl.

In recovering the body of Strax, Rory (a nurse by training) might have noticed that Strax was only mostly dead.  (Don't worry - we're not crossing over into BookWorld or the Cineverse for a visit with Miracle Max!)  And so River Song might have felt compelled to mess with the established events - as she was wont to do - in order to bring the psychotic potato dwarf back to life.

So here's my Super Six List of possible candidates.......

SIX FRIENDS OF THE DOCTOR 

WHO COULD HAVE BROUGHT STRAX BACK TO LIFE

1]  CAPTAIN JACK HARKNESS ('Torchwood')
River Song could have taken him to Captain Jack (pre-explosion of the Cardiff Torchwood Hub) and asked him to revive the Sontaran with the Resurrection Glove.

2]  DR. VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN ("Frankenstein: The True Story")
So much for staying within the confines of the canon.  Nnow we're heading into the outer reaches of Toobworld to explore other options for the resuscitation of Strax.  

Dr. Frankenstein knew how to bring the dead back to life, and did so across the Multiverse.  He may have been one of those who also owed the Doctor a debt and so was willing to use his reanimation technology on the body of Strax.

3]  THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL HOLOGRAM PROGRAM ('Voyager')
Because the crew of the starship Voyager had encountered the parent race of the Sontarans - the Heirarchy - in the Gamma Quadrant, the holographic Doctor might have had the best understanding of the workings of Strax's body, even if it had been "evolved" through centuries of cloning advancements.

At some point, the Doctor could have had a "copy" downloaded into the TARDIS.......

4]  DR. GROTE MAXWELL OF MERCY POINT HOSPITAL ('Mercy Point')
It would have never been a question of refusing treatment to Strax just because the Sontarans had always been hell-bent on conquering the galaxy.  "First do no harm" was the tenet that travelled into space with all of the medical advancements, and so Dr. Maxwell and the android nurse Ani would have done all they could to bring Strax back from the brink.

5]  CASTIEL ('Supernatural')
I don't know if the Doctor would have made any kind of deals with the later, harder-edged, archangel.  But it was a friend who brought Strax back and later today I'll be making the claim that Castiel did know the Eight Incarnation of the Doctor and even travelled in the TARDIS with him.  As an archangel, Castiel would have had the healing powers necessary to create a miracle.....

6]  MAX EVANS ('Roswell')
We know Max could have brought Strax back to life with his alien healing powers.   After all, he did so with Liz Parker when she suffered a fatal gunshot wound in the first episode of their series.  This set the trials and tribulations of the Roswell refugees into motion.  So if he can cure a fatal gunshot wound, fixing a damaged probic vent should be a snap!

The list is limited to six, but here's one last suggestion - Jesus Christ.  I would not be surprised if the Doctor and River Song knew Him.  The Doctor had been involved with the life of Jesus since before He was born - the Doctor took the last available room in Bethlehem so that Mary had to give birth in the manger.  And I wouldn't be surprised if River Song was great pals with Mary Magdalene and through her got the chance to meet the Son of God.......

Strax has come back a little more... stupid (to be as polite as I can) than he was previously, which is why I think he's not the Strax from "A Good Man Goes To War" but instead another middle child from that clone batch of six million.......

Not that I'm complaining, mind.  The one-liners from Strax, with his obsession on weaponry as an answer to everything, was a highlight of the episode for me!

BCnU!