@@JonathanH71 Like odd socks in the washing machine ? There’s a secret portal which sucks in tv remotes Keys and socks Each item adds power and will soon suck in more
Also, if we build on the idea of an Amelia Airheart episode and actually link it to "Out of Time" by having the Doctor contact Torchwood in the past and telling them about the incident and that 'more people might be coming through' and asks them to take care of it.
The Well To Hell could act as a sequel to The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit and Inferno due to its nature of drilling. Imagine the Beast manipulating a team of scientists to drill deep within the Earth to unleash literal hell. Could be the perfect story for the God Of Disasters, Incensor
Those are some solid mysteries that would be interesting to have episodes around. They might be better understood, but there are also things like the Tunguska Blast that would make a fascinating episode.
Not an entire episode but I always thought it would be fun to have an "On the fritz" TARDIS bumping into the Tower of Pisa and turning it into the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
@@gregdenson7544 Excellent idea Doctor who has always had a slightly comedic tone. I believe the Titanic strikes the tardis at one point. Or was that a spoof I can't actually remember.
Except the Tower of Pisa leans because of shifting soil below it. It began to lean during construction, so they built a curve into it so it straightens out as it goes up
The 15th Doctors rematch with the Beast could actually be how the Beast was initially locked up on the impossible planet. It could end with the planet was being towed into orbit around the black hole by the TARDIS
With regards to Loki being the MCU's D.B. Cooper, I've always thought it weird that, in terms of facial features, if anyone in the MCU looks like Cooper, it's Phil Coulson!
Similar to Edgar Allen Poe, several of the (now non-canon) New Adventures novels established that the Great Old Ones exist in some form in the Doctor Who universe, so an H.P. Lovecraft appearance could work too. The Ancient Lights from the Sarah Jane Adventures episode "Secrets of the Stars" were practically Great Old Ones.
Edgar Allen Poe, sounds a bit like Agatha Christie & the missing week that happened to her during the period of her life that the Who episode is supposed to cover. I imagine a Edgar Allen Poe one would be tonally a cross between Agatha Christie & Vincent van Gogh. - a return of the Paternosta Gang, yes please!
In my opinion the disappearance of Ambrose Bierce is mroe promising. Not only is it a bigger mystery, but it would be refeshing to meet a historical figure who's relentlessly sarcastic.
Very pleased that DB Cooper made the list! I love the idea of the Doctor and the Master duking it out in an enclosed space like an airplane, though I personally think a DB story would be better as some sort of timey-wimey bullshit episode - the guy gets yoinked out of the air mid-parachute by aliens or something and has to work with the Doctor and some other people who have been displaced, and he decides not to go back to Earth in the end which is why DB is never found, nor most of the money (bonus points if he introduces himself as Dan so the Doctor doesn't realize it's DB Cooper until the end of the episode). I'd personally love to see DW do something with the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. The show has dabbled in some noir/crime drama vibes before (The Angels Take Manhattan) but it'd be super cool to see a proper gangster film pastiche (and, as Ellie said, Ncuti would look GREAT in some 70s duds)
I agree, D.B Cooper was one of the first things that came to my mind (the other was the Philadelphia Experiment). I imagined the whole Cooper caper as a timey-wimey plot. A time-travelling villain - quite possibly the Master - hatches a plan to start a war by dropping a nuclear bomb from a cargo plane. He knows if he chooses just the right place and time, the world's powers will blame each other and retailiate. To prevent that, the Doctor has to find a way to make the human race redesign every cargo plane in the world so the doors can't open in flight. Of course he has no need for the money, he just lets it blow away.
a really cool one that I think they could do is H.H Holmes, America's first serial killer. He made a literal murder hotel and I don't know about you, but personally, I think it could be a pretty interesting toymaker or master idea
Do the producers need to off one of the companions? The Doctor and his crew visit the Chicago World's Fair and they stay in H.H. Holmes' hotel. It would be a shocking exit for that companion.
Emilia Earhart was dealt with in an excellent episode of Star Trek Voyager where she and others were kidnapped by aliens and transported to a distant planet in the Delta Quadrant and kept in suspended animation until Janeway and her crew appeared to save the day. A Dr Who/ Buffy crossover would be awesome providing it was with the original series cast. I don't think Sarah Michelle Geller has been very busy of late and Alyson Hannigan has enjoyed a well deserved break after appearing in most episodes of every season of How I Met Your Mother. James Marsters was excellent in his short lived guest appearances in Torchwood. How about an episode around Anne Frank? OK, no real mystery involved, but it could be interesting to see the doctor (or even a guest appearance from Donna) convince Anne to write her diary. Oh yes, I remember Sanctuary well. Excellent series. Finally a series that ended answering (most) questions.
Sarah Michelle Gellar hasn't completely retired from acting, not that I've heard, but nowadays she puts most of her effort into entrepreneurship. She runs a very successful online baking mix company.
@@user-mg5mv2tn8q I wasn't aware of that. Nice to see someone not make the mistake of depending solely on an acting career, especially a woman. No insult intended. It's sadly a fact of life that, with few exceptions, the movie/TV industries still have the outdated attitude that women don't age well. My favourite example of an *Exception* being Boston Legal...and, of course, the unforgettable The Golden Girls.
SMG has been doing more voice acting of late, like Kevin Smith’s MOTU: Revelations. Isn’t Allyson still married to “Wesley”? He’s British. (School Reunion already featured ASH as the villain. I would not say no to Tony returning as a new character.) I’d be a bit leery of directly influencing Anne Frank’s story. Maybe the Doctor/Companion buying a diary, only to have a crisis pop up and hand it off to a stranger, who turns out to be her father?
The Voyager episode was called The 37's, as 1937 was the year Amelia Earhart, her navigator Fred Noonan and the plane they were flying disappeared. Also let's not forget, BTVS's Anthony Head has already been in Doctor Who as the scenery stealing, alien headmaster in the episode School Reunion.
I can’t remember what the creature/ legend was called but it went like this. In the middle of the night, I believe around the witching hour. People would get a knock on their doors and when answered two men or just one man would stand in darkness in suits. They would ask to be invited in and if not invited in they would become ragged. The legend said they were vampires like monsters wanted be invited into homes to feed on people. Could be interesting stuff for a Doctor Who episode.
As a West Virginian, I am so glad mothman (and my home state) was mentioned. Mothman is my favorite urban legend and I'd love to see WV on doctor who. It's like when you're watching the national news and one of the segments is in your hometown
The full story of mothman (shortened) is that his sighting near the bridge over the Ohio River caused the couple to not take the bridge for a couple of months out of fear. Unknowingly, this saved them from the bridge collapsing later. Episode idea is the mothman is an omen, warning of disasters to come
If any of these get used, I'd love for a Multi-Doctor story to he made with it. Specifically, one including the Eighth Doctor. Paul McGann deserves more screentime!
That a newly married couple missed their honeymoon cruise on the Titanic (supposedly the wedding reception ran long) only to end up among those killed three months later by the Regina Cyclone in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada in the summer of 1912. It could be a hobby of the Doctor. Messing around with fixed points in time by saving one or two souls (like volcano day).
How about the mystery of Kasper Hauser? The German teenager found wandering the streets of Nuremburg and could barely speak. He was supposedly kept in a dark cell for the first part of his life. He later met mysterious end when he was stabbed to death by a stranger (prior to this he'd already been attacked once before, by a hooded man who, according to Hauser, said "You still have to die before you leave the city of Nuremberg."). A mysterious note was found at the place Hauser had been lured to. The message, written in mirror writing, read, "Hauser will be able to tell you quite precisely how I look and from where I am. To save Hauser the effort, I want to tell you myself from where I come _ _ . I come from from _ _ _ the Bavarian border _ _ On the river _ _ _ _ _ I will even tell you the name: M. L. Ö." One rumor was that he was royalty. Or, he was possibly a liar and imposter. The other mystery that would make a good episode would be the Tunguska Explosion in Siberia, 1908.
Probably not a Trope for an entire Episode, but I nice Gag for an Opening. It's New Years Eve, 31.12.1972, The Tardis materializes in the Archive of the NDR TV Station in Germany. They have localized Alienactivity there (maybe a Chance to bring back the Pting? ). An Archive Worker gets attacked and can only fend off the Alien by using a Filmreel with a Sketch that should go on Air in a few Minutes. The Reel got completely destroyed during the Attack. In Dispair, the Worker asks the Doctor to help finding some Reel that's 18 minutes long as Substitute. The Doctor grabs a random Filmreel from a Shelf, looks at it and says "Look here, that's 18 Minutes long, and it's from 1963 - Best TV Year ever! The Germans will LOVE it". Only then the Title of the Reel is revealed to be 'Dinner for One'. Giving an Explanation why it has become a New Years Eve Tradition to watch Dinner for One.
2 things - I've actually drank at the bar where reportedly, Poe was seen last before his delirium and death in Baltimore. Second, in 1938 in the US there was a radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells read by Orson Wells and set it in (at the time) Modern New Jersey and New York, apparently it was read as if it was breaking news so people who did not tune in at the beginning started freaking out and thinking it was real, I always felt that would be a compelling Doctor Who episode, where the invasion was happening but the Doctor was able to prevent the war from actually happening. Not a mystery but a very entertaining story
Not mysteries that DW could use for more episodes but I'd really like to see it expand the lore behind that one episode with Shakespeare and the witches bc it takes more magical-ish turn and bc it could be something like a "Midnight" situation where the Doctor doesn't know what it actually is/knows less about. I just think it'd be very interesting
I would love to see the doctor get trapped in the backrooms. No apparent villain, no apparent threat, just cut off from everything natural. It would be really easy to pull in some classic villains as the episode progresses, like Autons.
I've imagined a torchwood episode as a musical, make it's a really really dark story like the cannibals one, but each of the team start singing with Owen falling under the spell last and being really confused and p*ed at everyone singing until he breaks out in song too
It's not a mobile phone it's actually a type of hearing aid at the time it was very hard for those who are deaf and they were trying to come up with a different way to hear my grandfather had one of these before he got his new hearing aid years years later and I asked if it was a radio and he explained no not a radio this is my first hearing aid.
Two things I'd like the Doctor to investigate: 1) Zodiac Killer 2) Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers during America's Westward Migration in the 1800s. But then, too dark? And since authors was mentioned - H.P. Lovecraft. Finding out his stories aren't the fantastical late-night musings we hope they are.
👏🏼Yes👏🏼yes👏🏼yes👏🏼yes👏🏼! Great episode, I knew most of the entries and loved the idea of them connecting with the show! I'd love a revisit with more possible Doctor related real-world mysteries to ponder over. Wouldn't it be 'fabulous' if one day we actually got episodes or even arcs involving many of these, and more that weren't listed! The possibilities 🤔🤔🤔
I hate to break it to you, but it's been established that Edgar Allen Poe died of rabies. Some doctors were given anonymous case files for them to review and diagnose the person, and one got EA Poe's case. Simply from what he read, he said, "It was rabies, obviously." Like you were saying, look how he was behaving at the end -- totally whacked, as advanced rabies does to a person. Once symptoms appear, their lifespan can be measured in days or hours.
There’s always a work around like say the doctor was in the know and takes The Doctors advice not to tell people the truth about the real cause. I also just would love to see Baltimore featured in doctor who 😅
Actually the rabies may have come after the missing days where he was not just drunk but may have been at that time in the Boston and certain other areas they had a habit of picking up picking literally kidnapping people drugging them and forcing them to basically sign of voting slip so that they could get their guy into power this cheating on the voting registry was how they were able often to recollections back then it's been proposed that that may have been one way the other may have been the fact that the woman he was currently engaged to marry and was supposed to meet up with her brothers did not like him and decided to do away with him and may have drugged him add beating the crap out of him what is known as that the rabies factor is a part of it but the question is when he got it.
Hate to break it to you but that's just a theory. There is still no definite answer to his death. It was suggested only a few weeks ago that he had a tumor
he was also a depressed drunk, he went on a bender, given the time period there were probably 5 or more different causes all racing to see which could unalive him first
Another theory is there was an election at the time. People were pressed into paid service to vote in different areas for a certain candidate, often swapping clothes, if not “recruiting” drunks for the same. Some think he was grabbed by some of these people, either unaware of his identity or didn’t care, just thinking he was another drunk they could get multiple votes out of. He was then given poisoned alcohol, or had some other health issue crop up and was abandoned to his fate. Ellie used a clip from The Pale Blue Eye (set in his early life), but she could have easily used one from The Raven, which purports another theory that involves a murder mystery and left him poisoned and dying on a bench.
I had a laugh in the Poe entry, as I just got around to watching The Pale Blue Eye the other week. 😂 And realizing half the New England main cast was British! (And Gillian.) My suggestions: Mel’s Hole - similar to the one mentioned, the main one is in…Nevada? I’ve heard of similar holes in PNW and elsewhere. A seemingly bottomless pit that was used for trash dumping for decades before people started to realize it never filled up. Weighted measuring ropes were lowered 100s+ of feet until they ran out of rope. An occasional animal was lowered and differing reports on whether it survived or not. Or came back “changed”? Recording equipment is allegedly useless when lowered past a few feet. What if it’s part of a wrecked TARDIS, as seen in The Doctor’s Wife? Or a tiny black hole impacted and buried? The Green Children of Woolpit - two mystery children with green skin happened upon a village one day, and could not find their way home. The girl died shortly after, but the boy lived, “lost” his color, and told a tale of a seemingly magical place of origin. Lost alien/other dimensional children? The Biblical Ark - might be a bit too touchy, but leaning into the Indiana Jones mythos, this could be an alien device entrusted to one of the early jewish sects that myths grew around. It’s either sitting in Area 51 or heavily guarded in…Ethiopia? Area 52 - another throwaway gag in Wedding of RS, we never got any follow up on this. For that matter, how Nixon-era US govt got those Ebony bricks used to build the Doctor’s prison. Guest starring Canton Everett Delaware III, of course. Might also tie into the Roswell crash? Voynich Manuscript - we have a better idea of it now, but there are still many questions about this and other “mystery tomes” found over the centuries. I mentioned it in passing in my Albion fanfic as the “misplaced” homework of a time traveling preteen…. Heck, you could write half a dozen stories on any random episode of Unsolved Mysteries! Mom’s cousin’s in-laws were on one as a family repeat abductees. I had no idea until I bought his old car, and the cousin recognized it from his brother-in-law. 🤦♂️😂
I'm thinking something to do with the master and DB Cooper just thought. loki absolutely wasted an opportunity on that one. Master does the hijacking and tries to blackmail and or extort a mysterious institution into giving him some some kind of salvaged alien technology that will be hidden among the money given to him. I think that's all we need to get started. It could also tie into how a bag of money a while ago was recovered and confirmed to be part of the ransom. The master wouldn't want the money only something else hidden within it.
@marionbaggins I still think it was a waste to use DB Cooper for a 1-minute joke. There was much more could be done. Loki was kind of a let down overall. The Men in Black of time and yet they didn't capitalise on it until the last series. Then they only just get started. I wouldn't call Loki a bad show it had solid moments but episodes and story arcs suffered from bloat and slow down to pad the episode count.
The Khamar-Daban Incident. Six hikers in Siberia died; there was one survivor. This isn't the Dyatlov Pass Incident, they're two different incidents. Were the hikers killed by alien tech? If the only survivor/witness is telling the truth, something weird definitely happened, and aliens would actually fit pretty well. One issue with this is that it happened recently. I mean, to put it into perspective: Valentina Utochenko, the survivor, is younger than I am (and I think she's still alive?), so... maybe not? The Sodder Children: On Christmas Eve of 1945, the house of George & Jennie Sodder burnt to the ground. Of the 10(!) Sodder children, 5 were accounted for, but 5 seem to have disappeared. No, they weren't killed in the fire. There were no bones, and the fire wasn't hot enough to destroy them, so where'd they go? The Cecil Hotel. Just... all of it. I'd say The Flannan Lighthouse Disappearances, but they kinda did that in "Horror of Fang Rock". Fun fact: The Kola Superdeep Borehole is 9 inches in diameter. The whole idea of anyone going down (or coming up) is... pretty ridiculous.
Before Buffy, there's a Xena Warrior Princess "A tale of two muses" where they go to a village worshipping the muse Calliope and have been instructed by their magistrate that dancing is forbidden
Came here for more WhoCulture content, but these would actually make great episodes. While watching, I noticed these ""incidents" are really interesting.
The "Charlie Chaplin time traveler" was holding a hearing aid. People were able to identify the *PRECISE MODEL* the lady was using, which was of course already available at the time.
Spring-heeled Jack - a group of Parkour Athletes who have been transported into the past! The Hairy Hands - maybe a benevolent alien helping humans avoid being captured by another of it's kind, that are capturing humans for some nefarious reason. Just my ideas, xxx
This is quite funny because Lemon Demon fans have been discussing which songs would make good Doctor Who stories (he actually wrote a song about Spring-Heeled Jack, and Cabinet Man was inspired by the Polybius creepypasta). So, we'd like to see an episode about Gef, the talking mongoose (although there was a movie recently)
The polybius episode sounds like a perfect episode to bring a character that is like The Wire from Idiot’s Lantern. Maybe a brother of The Wire perhaps called The System
The charlie chaplin time traveller has been answered. It isnt a mystery anymore. It IS a hearing aid the woman is holding to her head. In fact it's a very early model of siemens hearing aid. For many years they even had some random page on the siemens website which showed the exact model.
@@Jazzmin.Alexandria12 There was a documentary i saw about 10 years ago that mentioned it might be a siemens hearing aid, so i went digging and found a few sites that also said the same thing. So i did some more digging and found the siemens website themselves (the people who made it) had one of the same model with technical notes about the device. And they made note that it was the same device as seen in the charlie chaplin clip. As it was one of the very first electronic hearing aids and was the first to ever been seen on film or television, they was quite proud of that fact.
Leverage did a good DB Cooper Episode. I'd kinda like to see something more Horror, maybe based on the Roanoke Colony (which could be more US friendly) and I vaguely remember a story about a lost explorer whose diary was found with a final entry saying the next day he was going into an african village that he was dreading and had been having nightmares about.(From what I remember there was a Zombie-ish aspect to that story), wish I could remember the name. Of course these may have already been done by Big Finish, (They've got a lot of historical stories).
I can’t believe that my favorite idea for a Doctor Who urban legend episode, Spring Heeled Jack, is actually shared by others! I’ve daydreamed about some future incarnation of the Doctor landing in Victorian England, a year after the events of Talons of Weng Chiang, a fading poster of Li H’sn Chang’s playbill along one wall. Spring Heeled Jack would be revealed to be a malevolent entity from another universe who found its way to our Earth through a portal ripped open by the Zigma Beam of Greel’s time cabinet.
wish the count od saint germaine was on this list, would be amazing. also speaking of crossovers, imagine if doctor who crosserd over with the supernatural tv show, they already have a cool british organization called the "men of letters so there you go. also how about the LOCHNESS MONSTER? i know sarah jane mentioned it to rose in season two, but i dont remember there being a serial of classic who about it. another suggestion is "Dr. John Dee". he was the the first real life spymaster(no not the MASTER though that is an idea) for queen elizebeth. Fun fact about Dee: the codename of James Bond, "OO7" was created as a referance to dee by the bond novel's author. OO7 is the signature dee put on all of his secret letters to the queen, with the two O's representing the eyes of the queen and 7 being dee's favorite number. finally there is nichalos flamel(like the one from harry potter) as he was a real person. fun fact: when Nicholas and his wife Paranelle Flamel died(Very rich i might add...) robbers dug up their graves and found noone inside. joke bonus: an episode all about the fact that all the Lord Xenu that the cult of scientology believed in was true and the doctor has to stop his return Actual bonus: the mystery of the two men who robbed the museam and stole the painting the sea of galilea, could be a cool premise, and could bring back the curator played by a difeeren classic who doctor, and the painting name could be a typo with its real name being the "Sea Of Gallifrey"!
The deformed guy from one of the side-by-side shots is the villain from one of Colin Baker's stories. Can't remember much about it, except it involved a time corridor and a young HG Wells.
The ITV show Primeval did an episode about Spring-heeled Jack in 2011. The show is about a government agency dealing with wormholes opening randomly around Britain that lead to the past, and each episode a dinosaur or ancient animal will walk through and cause havoc. This episode had a wormhole leading to Victorian London, and then another wormhole leading to prehistoric times, and a dinosaur came through and was seen to the people in Victorian times as Spring Heeled Jack. Pretty cool.
in the 1990's, Star Trek Voyager did an episode where they found Ameile Earheart on a planet on the other side of the galaxy....she and her co-pilot were with a small group of abductees still in cryo sleep....other abducts were released on this planet centuries ago, they built a city from their decendants.....Ameilia decided to stay on that planet
This is so interesting and can I say that so many of Ellie's ideas would actually make really good episodes of doctor who that I personally want to see happen! 😊😂 Thanks Who Culture! 😊
Return of the Paternoster Gang for Spring-heeled Jack? No, I'll go one better: return of Jago and Lightfoot from The Talons of Weng Chiang (and their own Big Finish series).
I could see DW doing an episode on the Phoenix Light Phenomenon or an episode on the Bermuda Triangle. Maybe thats where the Sea devils set up their base of operations .
Oh this is a fascinating idea. So many possibilities throughout time. Meeting various historical figures, but also dealing with obstacles along the way. Excellent call back to Sanctuary, loved that series as well
The Dancing Pleage would make a great return for Meastro. The Mothman would make a great monster for an episode. Edger Allen Poe, yes, how has that never been yet? D B Cooper, would it be fun if he was just the Master up to his old tricks? Yes Spring Heeled Jack with be a fun monster too. Yes Charlie Chaplin is ling overdue for a crossover with the Doctor and the woman could be a time meddler. Emilia Airhart with be a great story of her disappearance.
Maybe a episode around Vostok lake which is a lake in Antarctica that has been covered by ice for millions of years there’s a bunch of creepypasta about it
These are the types of episodes that i want Doctor who to cover more often always love a trip into the past to give a twist on real life mysteries
The Max Headroom Incident.
Ha! That'd be so meta.
Brilliant.
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the return of The Wire from Idiot's Lantern maybe?
That was the first one I thought of lol.
Lovecraft meeting Sea Devils for Innsmouth stories is an easy one.
How about the location of our missing socks or mittens? Where do they go? That’s a mystery we’ve all experienced.
We know where they go the washer and dryer eat them up it why there all fluff in the washer and dryer
What if you never wash them! Where would they go then! I’m thinking trolls lol
Hey now! Silents need socks and mittens, too!
Ren & Stimpy answered that question! They reside on another side of a black hole.
@@JonathanH71 Like odd socks in the washing machine ? There’s a secret portal which sucks in tv remotes Keys and socks Each item adds power and will soon suck in more
The Spring-Heeled Jack mistery was a storyline of the Paternoster Gang adventures in Big Finish
Also sounds like it would be right up Jago and Lightfoot's alley, too.
Yesss that's what I came to the comments to say too
Yeah. But if the TV show rules out all the real world history that there's been a Big Finish story of, that doesn't leave them much to work with.
Was not expecting to hear my home state’s cryptid get a name drop in a video talking about Doctor Who but I’m all here for it.
Right? I was only half listening then mothman
I know a couple people who attend the Mothman Festival.
…and I just had to correct that from Mothma. Can we get both Mothma Actresses in this one? 😉😂
@ I thought about going to the last one but ended up not going.
im from portlan Oregon in the USA which is where polybius originated from.
i wasnt alive during it though so dont ask me i was born in 2004
Also, if we build on the idea of an Amelia Airheart episode and actually link it to "Out of Time" by having the Doctor contact Torchwood in the past and telling them about the incident and that 'more people might be coming through' and asks them to take care of it.
0:30 And boy, do I have TWO episode title ideas for that: *Dance Till You Drop* and *Last Dance* (emphasizing a two-parter).
Entertaining the idea of 11 turning up to Steven Hawkins's time traveller party would be quite an amusing episode
The moth man was clearly a Wrath Warrior looking for the Meep
Nah, it was probably one of those Moth aliens from the 4th Doctor's era
The Well To Hell could act as a sequel to The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit and Inferno due to its nature of drilling.
Imagine the Beast manipulating a team of scientists to drill deep within the Earth to unleash literal hell. Could be the perfect story for the God Of Disasters, Incensor
Or Mel’s hole
An entire hour long episode where the doctor explains why electrons have mass.
Oh that would be excellent.
The show rarely touches on religious rites.
For a second I thought you said "the moff man" and yes have Moffet write the mothman episode.
Those are some solid mysteries that would be interesting to have episodes around. They might be better understood, but there are also things like the Tunguska Blast that would make a fascinating episode.
Not an entire episode but I always thought it would be fun to have an "On the fritz" TARDIS bumping into the Tower of Pisa and turning it into the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Il Dottore and their Italian companion.
@@gregdenson7544 Excellent idea Doctor who has always had a slightly comedic tone. I believe the Titanic strikes the tardis at one point. Or was that a spoof I can't actually remember.
@@theworkshopwhisperer.5902 well a space titanic crashed through the tardis walls once.
@@gregdenson7544 gives vibes of 14 and donna crashing into Isaac Newton's garden and accidentally changing history
Except the Tower of Pisa leans because of shifting soil below it. It began to lean during construction, so they built a curve into it so it straightens out as it goes up
The 15th Doctors rematch with the Beast could actually be how the Beast was initially locked up on the impossible planet. It could end with the planet was being towed into orbit around the black hole by the TARDIS
With regards to Loki being the MCU's D.B. Cooper, I've always thought it weird that, in terms of facial features, if anyone in the MCU looks like Cooper, it's Phil Coulson!
Similar to Edgar Allen Poe, several of the (now non-canon) New Adventures novels established that the Great Old Ones exist in some form in the Doctor Who universe, so an H.P. Lovecraft appearance could work too. The Ancient Lights from the Sarah Jane Adventures episode "Secrets of the Stars" were practically Great Old Ones.
Edgar Allen Poe, sounds a bit like Agatha Christie & the missing week that happened to her during the period of her life that the Who episode is supposed to cover. I imagine a Edgar Allen Poe one would be tonally a cross between Agatha Christie & Vincent van Gogh. - a return of the Paternosta Gang, yes please!
In my opinion the disappearance of Ambrose Bierce is mroe promising. Not only is it a bigger mystery, but it would be refeshing to meet a historical figure who's relentlessly sarcastic.
James Marsters could return as Captain John Hart for a musical number.
I remember spring heel jack as a “Jackie Chan adventures” villain!
He was also a character in Hotspur comics, (or something from the same publisher) who had a suit made from something like "flubber".
The last one, imagine the telepath taking the controls of the tardis and making it crash
Very pleased that DB Cooper made the list! I love the idea of the Doctor and the Master duking it out in an enclosed space like an airplane, though I personally think a DB story would be better as some sort of timey-wimey bullshit episode - the guy gets yoinked out of the air mid-parachute by aliens or something and has to work with the Doctor and some other people who have been displaced, and he decides not to go back to Earth in the end which is why DB is never found, nor most of the money (bonus points if he introduces himself as Dan so the Doctor doesn't realize it's DB Cooper until the end of the episode).
I'd personally love to see DW do something with the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. The show has dabbled in some noir/crime drama vibes before (The Angels Take Manhattan) but it'd be super cool to see a proper gangster film pastiche (and, as Ellie said, Ncuti would look GREAT in some 70s duds)
I agree, D.B Cooper was one of the first things that came to my mind (the other was the Philadelphia Experiment).
I imagined the whole Cooper caper as a timey-wimey plot. A time-travelling villain - quite possibly the Master - hatches a plan to start a war by dropping a nuclear bomb from a cargo plane. He knows if he chooses just the right place and time, the world's powers will blame each other and retailiate. To prevent that, the Doctor has to find a way to make the human race redesign every cargo plane in the world so the doors can't open in flight.
Of course he has no need for the money, he just lets it blow away.
One story I would like to see, not a mystery, though, is a production of Cats featuring a full Catkind (Novice Haim) cast
a really cool one that I think they could do is H.H Holmes, America's first serial killer. He made a literal murder hotel and I don't know about you, but personally, I think it could be a pretty interesting toymaker or master idea
Do the producers need to off one of the companions? The Doctor and his crew visit the Chicago World's Fair and they stay in H.H. Holmes' hotel. It would be a shocking exit for that companion.
@@mrwittyone that would be an insane end to a companion's story, and honestly maybe add a regeneration in there too
Emilia Earhart was dealt with in an excellent episode of Star Trek Voyager where she and others were kidnapped by aliens and transported to a distant planet in the Delta Quadrant and kept in suspended animation until Janeway and her crew appeared to save the day. A Dr Who/ Buffy crossover would be awesome providing it was with the original series cast. I don't think Sarah Michelle Geller has been very busy of late and Alyson Hannigan has enjoyed a well deserved break after appearing in most episodes of every season of How I Met Your Mother. James Marsters was excellent in his short lived guest appearances in Torchwood.
How about an episode around Anne Frank? OK, no real mystery involved, but it could be interesting to see the doctor (or even a guest appearance from Donna) convince Anne to write her diary.
Oh yes, I remember Sanctuary well. Excellent series. Finally a series that ended answering (most) questions.
Sarah Michelle Gellar hasn't completely retired from acting, not that I've heard, but nowadays she puts most of her effort into entrepreneurship. She runs a very successful online baking mix company.
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I wasn't aware of that. Nice to see someone not make the mistake of depending solely on an acting career, especially a woman. No insult intended. It's sadly a fact of life that, with few exceptions, the movie/TV industries still have the outdated attitude that women don't age well. My favourite example of an *Exception* being Boston Legal...and, of course, the unforgettable The Golden Girls.
SMG has been doing more voice acting of late, like Kevin Smith’s MOTU: Revelations.
Isn’t Allyson still married to “Wesley”? He’s British.
(School Reunion already featured ASH as the villain. I would not say no to Tony returning as a new character.)
I’d be a bit leery of directly influencing Anne Frank’s story. Maybe the Doctor/Companion buying a diary, only to have a crisis pop up and hand it off to a stranger, who turns out to be her father?
The Voyager episode was called The 37's, as 1937 was the year Amelia Earhart, her navigator Fred Noonan and the plane they were flying disappeared. Also let's not forget, BTVS's Anthony Head has already been in Doctor Who as the scenery stealing, alien headmaster in the episode School Reunion.
Love the dancing plaque idea. Or waltzing Daleks versus break dancing Cybermen.
We all know the Daleks would win that one, because all the Cybermen can do is The Robot.
@@Krishnath.Dragon and they are only superior in one respect
Special guest companion: Raygun (with a raygun)
@@Cyklopz007 As an Australian I want a story that explains that Raygun is just the Master having a laugh.
I can’t remember what the creature/ legend was called but it went like this.
In the middle of the night, I believe around the witching hour. People would get a knock on their doors and when answered two men or just one man would stand in darkness in suits.
They would ask to be invited in and if not invited in they would become ragged. The legend said they were vampires like monsters wanted be invited into homes to feed on people.
Could be interesting stuff for a Doctor Who episode.
The Sanctuary was so good!
As a West Virginian, I am so glad mothman (and my home state) was mentioned. Mothman is my favorite urban legend and I'd love to see WV on doctor who. It's like when you're watching the national news and one of the segments is in your hometown
The full story of mothman (shortened) is that his sighting near the bridge over the Ohio River caused the couple to not take the bridge for a couple of months out of fear. Unknowingly, this saved them from the bridge collapsing later. Episode idea is the mothman is an omen, warning of disasters to come
If any of these get used, I'd love for a Multi-Doctor story to he made with it. Specifically, one including the Eighth Doctor. Paul McGann deserves more screentime!
That a newly married couple missed their honeymoon cruise on the Titanic (supposedly the wedding reception ran long) only to end up among those killed three months later by the Regina Cyclone in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada in the summer of 1912.
It could be a hobby of the Doctor. Messing around with fixed points in time by saving one or two souls (like volcano day).
How about the mystery of Kasper Hauser? The German teenager found wandering the streets of Nuremburg and could barely speak. He was supposedly kept in a dark cell for the first part of his life. He later met mysterious end when he was stabbed to death by a stranger (prior to this he'd already been attacked once before, by a hooded man who, according to Hauser, said "You still have to die before you leave the city of Nuremberg.").
A mysterious note was found at the place Hauser had been lured to. The message, written in mirror writing, read, "Hauser will be able to tell you quite precisely how I look and from where I am. To save Hauser the effort, I want to tell you myself from where I come _ _ . I come from from _ _ _ the Bavarian border _ _ On the river _ _ _ _ _ I will even tell you the name: M. L. Ö."
One rumor was that he was royalty. Or, he was possibly a liar and imposter.
The other mystery that would make a good episode would be the Tunguska Explosion in Siberia, 1908.
There was the "dancing plague" that was disco (I survived it in college)... ;-P
Probably not a Trope for an entire Episode, but I nice Gag for an Opening. It's New Years Eve, 31.12.1972, The Tardis materializes in the Archive of the NDR TV Station in Germany. They have localized Alienactivity there (maybe a Chance to bring back the Pting? ). An Archive Worker gets attacked and can only fend off the Alien by using a Filmreel with a Sketch that should go on Air in a few Minutes. The Reel got completely destroyed during the Attack. In Dispair, the Worker asks the Doctor to help finding some Reel that's 18 minutes long as Substitute. The Doctor grabs a random Filmreel from a Shelf, looks at it and says "Look here, that's 18 Minutes long, and it's from 1963 - Best TV Year ever! The Germans will LOVE it". Only then the Title of the Reel is revealed to be 'Dinner for One'. Giving an Explanation why it has become a New Years Eve Tradition to watch Dinner for One.
2 things - I've actually drank at the bar where reportedly, Poe was seen last before his delirium and death in Baltimore. Second, in 1938 in the US there was a radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells read by Orson Wells and set it in (at the time) Modern New Jersey and New York, apparently it was read as if it was breaking news so people who did not tune in at the beginning started freaking out and thinking it was real, I always felt that would be a compelling Doctor Who episode, where the invasion was happening but the Doctor was able to prevent the war from actually happening. Not a mystery but a very entertaining story
Not mysteries that DW could use for more episodes but I'd really like to see it expand the lore behind that one episode with Shakespeare and the witches bc it takes more magical-ish turn and bc it could be something like a "Midnight" situation where the Doctor doesn't know what it actually is/knows less about. I just think it'd be very interesting
I would love to see the doctor get trapped in the backrooms. No apparent villain, no apparent threat, just cut off from everything natural. It would be really easy to pull in some classic villains as the episode progresses, like Autons.
I need a Mothman episode… I love Mothman…
I love Buffy, and the episode Once More With Feeling was amazing. That's how you make a Musical episode.
I've imagined a torchwood episode as a musical, make it's a really really dark story like the cannibals one, but each of the team start singing with Owen falling under the spell last and being really confused and p*ed at everyone singing until he breaks out in song too
@ths3297 That would be hilarious. I saw the musical episode of the flash John was in.
Any excuse to bring back Vastra, Jenny, and Strax is a great for me!
It's not a mobile phone it's actually a type of hearing aid at the time it was very hard for those who are deaf and they were trying to come up with a different way to hear my grandfather had one of these before he got his new hearing aid years years later and I asked if it was a radio and he explained no not a radio this is my first hearing aid.
Love, love, love the episodes that bring together fact and fiction about historical figures and events.
Im actually surprised they haven’t done Mothman already, it’s ideal
I have story ideas involving the dancing plague and the mothman
Why did I watch this at night at home all alone? Did I need to sleep tonight? Nope.
Two things I'd like the Doctor to investigate: 1) Zodiac Killer 2) Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers during America's Westward Migration in the 1800s. But then, too dark? And since authors was mentioned - H.P. Lovecraft. Finding out his stories aren't the fantastical late-night musings we hope they are.
13:44 it could be a good multi-Doctor story and bring 13 back
I'd love to see 13 again, maybe with moffat writing her would be absolutely incredible, she was awesome
👏🏼Yes👏🏼yes👏🏼yes👏🏼yes👏🏼!
Great episode, I knew most of the entries and loved the idea of them connecting with the show!
I'd love a revisit with more possible Doctor related real-world mysteries to ponder over.
Wouldn't it be 'fabulous' if one day we actually got episodes or even arcs involving many of these, and more that weren't listed!
The possibilities 🤔🤔🤔
Did you change your hair, it is looking 🔥 today. Thanks for another awesome video!
I loved Sanctuary
And re the Amelia Earhart mystery was done by Voyager in the Episode 'The 37's'
I hate to break it to you, but it's been established that Edgar Allen Poe died of rabies. Some doctors were given anonymous case files for them to review and diagnose the person, and one got EA Poe's case. Simply from what he read, he said, "It was rabies, obviously." Like you were saying, look how he was behaving at the end -- totally whacked, as advanced rabies does to a person. Once symptoms appear, their lifespan can be measured in days or hours.
There’s always a work around like say the doctor was in the know and takes The Doctors advice not to tell people the truth about the real cause. I also just would love to see Baltimore featured in doctor who 😅
Actually the rabies may have come after the missing days where he was not just drunk but may have been at that time in the Boston and certain other areas they had a habit of picking up picking literally kidnapping people drugging them and forcing them to basically sign of voting slip so that they could get their guy into power this cheating on the voting registry was how they were able often to recollections back then it's been proposed that that may have been one way the other may have been the fact that the woman he was currently engaged to marry and was supposed to meet up with her brothers did not like him and decided to do away with him and may have drugged him add beating the crap out of him what is known as that the rabies factor is a part of it but the question is when he got it.
Hate to break it to you but that's just a theory. There is still no definite answer to his death. It was suggested only a few weeks ago that he had a tumor
he was also a depressed drunk, he went on a bender, given the time period there were probably 5 or more different causes all racing to see which could unalive him first
Another theory is there was an election at the time. People were pressed into paid service to vote in different areas for a certain candidate, often swapping clothes, if not “recruiting” drunks for the same. Some think he was grabbed by some of these people, either unaware of his identity or didn’t care, just thinking he was another drunk they could get multiple votes out of. He was then given poisoned alcohol, or had some other health issue crop up and was abandoned to his fate.
Ellie used a clip from The Pale Blue Eye (set in his early life), but she could have easily used one from The Raven, which purports another theory that involves a murder mystery and left him poisoned and dying on a bench.
I had a laugh in the Poe entry, as I just got around to watching The Pale Blue Eye the other week. 😂
And realizing half the New England main cast was British! (And Gillian.)
My suggestions:
Mel’s Hole - similar to the one mentioned, the main one is in…Nevada? I’ve heard of similar holes in PNW and elsewhere. A seemingly bottomless pit that was used for trash dumping for decades before people started to realize it never filled up. Weighted measuring ropes were lowered 100s+ of feet until they ran out of rope. An occasional animal was lowered and differing reports on whether it survived or not. Or came back “changed”? Recording equipment is allegedly useless when lowered past a few feet.
What if it’s part of a wrecked TARDIS, as seen in The Doctor’s Wife? Or a tiny black hole impacted and buried?
The Green Children of Woolpit - two mystery children with green skin happened upon a village one day, and could not find their way home. The girl died shortly after, but the boy lived, “lost” his color, and told a tale of a seemingly magical place of origin. Lost alien/other dimensional children?
The Biblical Ark - might be a bit too touchy, but leaning into the Indiana Jones mythos, this could be an alien device entrusted to one of the early jewish sects that myths grew around. It’s either sitting in Area 51 or heavily guarded in…Ethiopia?
Area 52 - another throwaway gag in Wedding of RS, we never got any follow up on this. For that matter, how Nixon-era US govt got those Ebony bricks used to build the Doctor’s prison. Guest starring Canton Everett Delaware III, of course.
Might also tie into the Roswell crash?
Voynich Manuscript - we have a better idea of it now, but there are still many questions about this and other “mystery tomes” found over the centuries. I mentioned it in passing in my Albion fanfic as the “misplaced” homework of a time traveling preteen….
Heck, you could write half a dozen stories on any random episode of Unsolved Mysteries!
Mom’s cousin’s in-laws were on one as a family repeat abductees. I had no idea until I bought his old car, and the cousin recognized it from his brother-in-law. 🤦♂️😂
The drilling to hell is basically the plot of inferno
Mark Twain's inspiration for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Right. That’s all we need Cuzn Sam in the TARDIS. With Nikola Tesla.
BRB, fanfic plot bunnies invading!!!
I just started rewatching Sanctuary. Amanda Tapping of Stargate Fame is the star
Yes she was She played Samantha in SG1
I'm thinking something to do with the master and DB Cooper just thought. loki absolutely wasted an opportunity on that one.
Master does the hijacking and tries to blackmail and or extort a mysterious institution into giving him some some kind of salvaged alien technology that will be hidden among the money given to him. I think that's all we need to get started. It could also tie into how a bag of money a while ago was recovered and confirmed to be part of the ransom. The master wouldn't want the money only something else hidden within it.
Loki did that first! And no they didn't waste it! There isn't much to do in a Sci Fi story! Plus The Master has been used to Death!
@marionbaggins I still think it was a waste to use DB Cooper for a 1-minute joke. There was much more could be done. Loki was kind of a let down overall. The Men in Black of time and yet they didn't capitalise on it until the last series. Then they only just get started. I wouldn't call Loki a bad show it had solid moments but episodes and story arcs suffered from bloat and slow down to pad the episode count.
Shout to Ellie for including several American mysteries!
“Mysteries outside the UK”.
That’s cool. I know where you mean. 😂
How about The Jersey Devil?
Roopkund Lake, while steeped in genuine religious legend myth, is a fascinating archaeological mystery, definitely worth a timey-wimey episode or 2.
The Khamar-Daban Incident. Six hikers in Siberia died; there was one survivor. This isn't the Dyatlov Pass Incident, they're two different incidents. Were the hikers killed by alien tech? If the only survivor/witness is telling the truth, something weird definitely happened, and aliens would actually fit pretty well. One issue with this is that it happened recently. I mean, to put it into perspective: Valentina Utochenko, the survivor, is younger than I am (and I think she's still alive?), so... maybe not?
The Sodder Children: On Christmas Eve of 1945, the house of George & Jennie Sodder burnt to the ground. Of the 10(!) Sodder children, 5 were accounted for, but 5 seem to have disappeared. No, they weren't killed in the fire. There were no bones, and the fire wasn't hot enough to destroy them, so where'd they go?
The Cecil Hotel. Just... all of it.
I'd say The Flannan Lighthouse Disappearances, but they kinda did that in "Horror of Fang Rock".
Fun fact: The Kola Superdeep Borehole is 9 inches in diameter. The whole idea of anyone going down (or coming up) is... pretty ridiculous.
I've wanted Edgar Allan Poe to appear on Doctor Who for a decade. And I've always wanted Dylan Moran to play him.
11:32 idk if it’s the same one but there’s also a “door to hell” where fire burns constantly due to gases
Before Buffy, there's a Xena Warrior Princess "A tale of two muses" where they go to a village worshipping the muse Calliope and have been instructed by their magistrate that dancing is forbidden
Came here for more WhoCulture content, but these would actually make great episodes.
While watching, I noticed these ""incidents" are really interesting.
If the show carries on down the supernatural/ folklore route, The Pied Piper for sure would be terrifying
Sarah Jane Adventures had the Pied Piper (aka Bradley Walsh before he was Graham 😝) but a return could be interesting.
The Soviets actually found some green slime that turns you into a Primord.
The "Charlie Chaplin time traveler" was holding a hearing aid.
People were able to identify the *PRECISE MODEL* the lady was using, which was of course already available at the time.
Spring-heeled Jack - a group of Parkour Athletes who have been transported into the past!
The Hairy Hands - maybe a benevolent alien helping humans avoid being captured by another of it's kind, that are capturing humans for some nefarious reason.
Just my ideas, xxx
This is quite funny because Lemon Demon fans have been discussing which songs would make good Doctor Who stories (he actually wrote a song about Spring-Heeled Jack, and Cabinet Man was inspired by the Polybius creepypasta).
So, we'd like to see an episode about Gef, the talking mongoose (although there was a movie recently)
Harold Holt. Australian Prime Minister went for a swim one morning at the beach, never seen again, body never found.
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Ellie: No, Sutekh, I promise… I wasn’t talking about your story!
Sanctuary was a great show.
I've thought for a long time that the mystery of Puma Punku along with how & why it was destroyed would make for a great Doctor Who story.
The polybius episode sounds like a perfect episode to bring a character that is like The Wire from Idiot’s Lantern. Maybe a brother of The Wire perhaps called The System
The charlie chaplin time traveller has been answered. It isnt a mystery anymore. It IS a hearing aid the woman is holding to her head. In fact it's a very early model of siemens hearing aid. For many years they even had some random page on the siemens website which showed the exact model.
Who told u that were u there in the 1920s
@@Jazzmin.Alexandria12 There was a documentary i saw about 10 years ago that mentioned it might be a siemens hearing aid, so i went digging and found a few sites that also said the same thing. So i did some more digging and found the siemens website themselves (the people who made it) had one of the same model with technical notes about the device. And they made note that it was the same device as seen in the charlie chaplin clip. As it was one of the very first electronic hearing aids and was the first to ever been seen on film or television, they was quite proud of that fact.
The speech Charlie Chaplin made in the great dictator film quote (we are not machines we are men)
with Cybermen
Leverage did a good DB Cooper Episode.
I'd kinda like to see something more Horror, maybe based on the Roanoke Colony (which could be more US friendly) and I vaguely remember a story about a lost explorer whose diary was found with a final entry saying the next day he was going into an african village that he was dreading and had been having nightmares about.(From what I remember there was a Zombie-ish aspect to that story), wish I could remember the name.
Of course these may have already been done by Big Finish, (They've got a lot of historical stories).
I remember sanctuary
Applauds the idea of Spring Heeled Jack - I’d started to write a suggestion inspired by the Mothman idea. And yes I remember Sanctuary
So do I. Good show.
I was happy to see the Sanctuary reference.
It wasn't a dancing PLAGUE, it was a DANCING plague.
So much of nuclear accidents are so intriguing to me, though I doubt they’d handle it sensitively
Also spring Heel Jack and the Jersey devil have some unusual commonality could be interesting to find out they were related
I can’t believe that my favorite idea for a Doctor Who urban legend episode, Spring Heeled Jack, is actually shared by others! I’ve daydreamed about some future incarnation of the Doctor landing in Victorian England, a year after the events of Talons of Weng Chiang, a fading poster of Li H’sn Chang’s playbill along one wall.
Spring Heeled Jack would be revealed to be a malevolent entity from another universe who found its way to our Earth through a portal ripped open by the Zigma Beam of Greel’s time cabinet.
Well thought out.
RUSSELL!
Would be a great opportunity to bring Jago and Lightfoot back, too!
wish the count od saint germaine was on this list, would be amazing.
also speaking of crossovers, imagine if doctor who crosserd over with the supernatural tv show, they already have a cool british organization called the "men of letters so there you go.
also how about the LOCHNESS MONSTER? i know sarah jane mentioned it to rose in season two, but i dont remember there being a serial of classic who about it.
another suggestion is "Dr. John Dee". he was the the first real life spymaster(no not the MASTER though that is an idea) for queen elizebeth. Fun fact about Dee: the codename of James Bond, "OO7" was created as a referance to dee by the bond novel's author. OO7 is the signature dee put on all of his secret letters to the queen, with the two O's representing the eyes of the queen and 7 being dee's favorite number.
finally there is nichalos flamel(like the one from harry potter) as he was a real person. fun fact: when Nicholas and his wife Paranelle Flamel died(Very rich i might add...) robbers dug up their graves and found noone inside.
joke bonus: an episode all about the fact that all the Lord Xenu that the cult of scientology believed in was true and the doctor has to stop his return
Actual bonus: the mystery of the two men who robbed the museam and stole the painting the sea of galilea, could be a cool premise, and could bring back the curator played by a difeeren classic who doctor, and the painting name could be a typo with its real name being the "Sea Of Gallifrey"!
The deformed guy from one of the side-by-side shots is the villain from one of Colin Baker's stories. Can't remember much about it, except it involved a time corridor and a young HG Wells.
The ITV show Primeval did an episode about Spring-heeled Jack in 2011. The show is about a government agency dealing with wormholes opening randomly around Britain that lead to the past, and each episode a dinosaur or ancient animal will walk through and cause havoc. This episode had a wormhole leading to Victorian London, and then another wormhole leading to prehistoric times, and a dinosaur came through and was seen to the people in Victorian times as Spring Heeled Jack.
Pretty cool.
Don’t forget Poe’s last words were shouting a man’s name that nobody knew who he was I forget what the name was
in the 1990's, Star Trek Voyager did an episode where they found Ameile Earheart on a planet on the other side of the galaxy....she and her co-pilot were with a small group of abductees still in cryo sleep....other abducts were released on this planet centuries ago, they built a city from their decendants.....Ameilia decided to stay on that planet
This is so interesting and can I say that so many of Ellie's ideas would actually make really good episodes of doctor who that I personally want to see happen! 😊😂 Thanks Who Culture! 😊
Return of the Paternoster Gang for Spring-heeled Jack? No, I'll go one better: return of Jago and Lightfoot from The Talons of Weng Chiang (and their own Big Finish series).
I think Legion mentions the Dancing Plague as part of it's plot.
I could see DW doing an episode on the Phoenix Light Phenomenon or an episode on the Bermuda Triangle. Maybe thats where the Sea devils set up their base of operations .
that buffy musical episode is so good
In 2024, they've missed combining the bicentenary of Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the centenary of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
I loved and still love Sanctuary!!! One of the best
Cutty Dyer
Oh this is a fascinating idea. So many possibilities throughout time. Meeting various historical figures, but also dealing with obstacles along the way.
Excellent call back to Sanctuary, loved that series as well
Spring-Heeled Jack appeared in an 8th Doctor comic strip, & Amelia Aerhart in a comic strip with (I think?) the 11th Doctor?
Maybe The Doctor would investigate who the real Zodiac Killer was by going back in 1969 San Francisco
The Dancing Pleage would make a great return for Meastro. The Mothman would make a great monster for an episode. Edger Allen Poe, yes, how has that never been yet? D B Cooper, would it be fun if he was just the Master up to his old tricks? Yes Spring Heeled Jack with be a fun monster too. Yes Charlie Chaplin is ling overdue for a crossover with the Doctor and the woman could be a time meddler. Emilia Airhart with be a great story of her disappearance.
Maybe a episode around Vostok lake which is a lake in Antarctica that has been covered by ice for millions of years there’s a bunch of creepypasta about it