FANFICCERS' FRIENDS - SUPERMAN AND THE DOCTOR AND... HARVEY?

It may be New Year’s Day, but we’re going to look at a theoretical fanfic suggestion about Easter.

Thanks to photoshop, the fantasy world of my own making – Toobworld – already knows that the first incarnation of the Doctor interacted with the Last Son of Krypton.  (I think they didn’t get along at first.  Once Kal-El found out that the Doctor was a Time Lord, I would think that he lobbied hard for the Doctor to go back and save Krypton from exploding.  But the reason he didn’t do so had to have been that the loss of Krypton was a fixed point in Time.)

Among the adventures they may have shared would have been the relocation of the Kandorians from their bottle city Kandor (caused by Brainiac) to a planet where they could thrive even at their small size.

I’ve written about these Kandorians on their new world before – they are to be found in an episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’, “The Little People” which starred Joe Maross and Claude Akins.

So here’s another one – Superman and the Doctor Meet the Easter Bunny!

Yeah, I know.  It sounds stupid.  And these pictures cement that impression.

But consider this: what if the thing isn’t really the Easter Bunny, but one of those pookas made famous in the play “Harvey”.

From Wikipedia:

"Harvey" is a 1944 play by the American playwright Mary Chase. Chase received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work in 1945. It has been adapted for film and television several times, most notably in a 1950 film starring James Stewart.

Elwood P. Dowd is an affable man who claims to have an unseen (and presumably imaginary) friend Harvey — whom Elwood describes as a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch (192 cm) tall pooka resembling an anthropomorphic rabbit. Elwood introduces Harvey to everyone he meets. His social-climbing sister, Veta, increasingly finds his eccentric behavior embarrassing. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium. When they arrive at the sanitarium, a comedy of errors ensues. The young Dr. Sanderson mistakenly commits Veta instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible companion. When Elwood shows up at the sanitarium looking for his lost friend Harvey, it seems that the mild-mannered Elwood's delusion has had a strange influence on the staff, including sanitarium director Dr. Chumley. Only just before Elwood is to be given an injection that will make him into a "perfectly normal human being, and you know what bastards they are!" (in the words of a taxi cab driver who has become involved in the proceedings) does Veta realize that she would rather have Elwood the same as he has always been — carefree and kind — even if it means living with Harvey. But the only reason Veta hears from the cab driver is that she can't find her coin purse and has to get the cab fare from Elwood. That is when the cab driver sees what is happening and goes into his spiel. Later Veta realizes that the purse was there all along, but Harvey hid it from her.  

The first of the US television adaptations in 1958, starred Art Carney, Marion Lorne, Elizabeth Montgomery, Larry Blyden, Fred Gwynne, Charlotte Rae, and Jack Weston.

And that’s the version we would be using in the main Toobworld.

So here’s a possible story suggestion – mischievous destruction has been happening and all evidence points to Elwood P. Dowd and his pooka friend.  But what if there was another pooka, a more malevolent entity, hoping to reap the benefits of his melee?

As we’ve seen with his “battles” with Mr. Mxyzptlk, Superman’s powers often fail him when it comes to magic.  And based on what the Tenth Incarnation of the Doctor had to say during “The Shakespeare Code” adventure, he refuses to believe in magic, even though he shares the same world as witches and genies and demi-gods.  (For example, name-dropper that I am – Endora, Jeannie, and Hercules.)

So they would need the help of ordinary human Elwood and his pal Harvey.

There’s the premise.  Think you could come up with a fanfic about such a team-up?  If you do and publish it online, let me know where I can find it to read it! 

Up, up, and allons-y!