The Inspiration of Rassilon

Being a huge comics nerd and particularly Marvel, I always love imagining them together - I'm even mentally devising a crossover between Who and Spider-Man called Web of Time! Effectively thinking about trying to pair off Spidey and Who eras together (so First Doctor and Steve Dilko Spidey and the like) with allies and enemies from respective times - maybe even have the Doctor answer the question regaridng the 'Sliding Timescale' Marvel has had since the 60's!

I seem to recall Lost Spook doing a highly fun UNIT/Early 80's X-Men short crossover at one point which I would love to see a whole fic of since that era of X-Men (Kitty Pryde, Lockheed, Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Angel) is my favourite. And the Fantastic Four meeting the Doctor would also rule - Reed Richards nerding over the TARDIS, K9 encountering HERBIE and of course the inevitable Doctor Doom/Doctor faceoff!

Lately someone on Whofic has writen a fun Tenth Doctor Doctor Who/Magic School Bus crossover (because like Mary Poppins Miss Frizzle is clearly a Time Lady).

My dad is a pretty big Department S fan (which had the dashing Jason King in it) and I always thought especially since it came out in 1970 that its female star Annabelle Hurst was an awful lot like Liz Shaw and Department S dealt with weird unexplained crimes (plus Terry Nation and Dennis Spooner were involved in it). So I'd adore reading a Season 7 UNIT/Department S crossover with the Third Doctor meeting Jason King.

Show I was watching quite a while before Downton but is a similar period is the 90's BBC Comedy You Rang M'Lord? by the same developers as Dad's Army and HI De Hi. This is a great comedy series set in an aristocratic family's house in the 20's and has some wonderfully amusing characters like Su Pollard's plain maid Ivy Stokes, her ever greedy trying to better himself father Alf Stokes and the more decent James Twelvetrees, plus the family of the house with the apparently respectable Lord Meldrum and his maid carrying on brother Teddy, plus his two daughter the spoilt Ms Poppy (who has a thing for Twelvetrees and enjoys teasing him) and the socialist-minded Gentleman get-up wearing Ms Sissy (whose her business with her girlfriends is 'left said, soonest mended' with the downstairs staff.) My favourite character though has to be the lowest ranking aged Scullery Maid Mabel "I can't remember the last time I had a cup of tea" Wheeler. Anyway, since seeing this I've adored the idea of seeing this crossover with Who - perhaps the Doctor is investigating an alien presence in the house and so stays as a guest with his companions pretending to be his servants?