And the TARDIS lands...

[thisbluespirit]

It's well past time for another discussion post, and I thought I'd re-run the crossover one we had many moons ago, because time moves on and people discover ad new TV shows/books etc, and it is one of the delights of fan fiction, after all. Crossing fandoms is one thing that can only rarely be done by the sources themselves. And Doctor Who with its simple go-anywhere, anytime premise is built for the possibility more than most TV shows.

So, what crossover fanfic would you love to see? What is there not enough of, or not with the Doctor/companion you'd have gone for?

I'm with several other people I know in waiting for the first Downton Abbey/Doctor Who crossover. (Don't people realise that Violet is just waiting for her chance to fight off some aliens?)

What do you all think? (As ever, any suggestions in the comments below will be added to the ever-growing list of prompts.)

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Given my current TV obsession, it has to be Foyle's War and Doctor Who!

Preferrably my fave companion, Martha Jones, meeting Sam and Foyle...

[pitry.livejournal.com]

OMG Doctor Who is wonderful for crossovers (cough, I would say that, wouldn't I). But really, you don't even need to think too much of how the two universes work together - I mean, it's DW! He can just show up there :D

There can never be enough Doctor Who/ Big Bang Theory crossovers. Also, DW/ Labyrinth. And I have to say that I think DW/Labyrinth would probably work best with Moffat's Who. It's all fairytale logic!

[tenthrose.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who crossovers are excellent. I enjoy them even when the other fandom isn't something I have much experience with. I've even found a couple of shows because I read a crossover which I enjoyed.

I have not found a single Doctor Who/Magic Tree House crossover. This upsets me slightly, because, well, its SO OBVIOUS. Clearly, the tree-house is at least a proto-TARDIS. So, from that, here's one: It's been years since (now teenage or adult) Jack and Annie have used the treehouse, but when they find a man in a blue box, the magic of their childhood returns and they find out much more about their past.

Also, while I'm here, I'll leave something a good friend of mine would very much like to see: The Doctor (post time-war) meets, and has to face Paradox from Yugioh. (Either that or Nyssa does, which would be less of interest to my friend, but moreso to the way this comm is classic-oriented)

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

You know, there's a fairly common recurring prompt of "Mary Poppins is a Time Lady", because of the carpetbag, but I recently concluded that Mary Poppins is actually more like Chrestomanci. For reasons.

So, by a subtle and complicated process known as "violently wresting the topic back to Doctor Who" (yes I'm in a weird mood), I should like to see Chrestomanci meet the Doctor. Any Doctor. One, for instance; the amount of name-fluffing alone would probably set new records. O_O ;-)

[malicehaughton.livejournal.com]

I have the utterly insane idea of putting Jarlaxle in the TARDIS with the Doctor. Which incarnation of the Doctor I'm not sure, but just imagine it :P

[derekmetaltron.livejournal.com]

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?

[thisbluespirit]

Anyway, I should add my own thoughts to this post...

I really enjoy a good crossover, generally. As tenthrose says, you can pick up on some good new books/TV shows (etc.) that way, as long as they're accessible and not too spoilery, so I'm not all that fussy. I do like a crossover with something 'unlikely' but that's hard to put down as a suggestion.

I've been obsessing over Sapphire & Steel this past year, so crossovers with that are great. (I mean, the two universes don't quite fit, really, but then again the temptation to try is just... They're both about Time!)

And I always love Blake's 7/DW crossovers, because they already exist in the same universe, practically officially, so why not?

And apart from still waiting for that Downton crossover where the Abbey is the latest base-under-siege, only with evening gowns and things, I can't think right now of anything else in particular. As ever, I'm just wedded to 30 year old British sf, or something.

[john_amend_all]

This will no doubt have to wait until all the episodes have been broadcast, but if Jenna-Louise Coleman's character doesn't make it to the end of the latest Titanic I shall be surprised if there isn't a flurry of fixits where she gets saved by one or more Doctors. Or the Dream Lord, of course.

Presumably, if Ten's involved, he declares he's the Time Lord Victorious and he's going to stop the ship sinking in the first place, and don't think he won't just because Nine and Seven have already seen it go down! Time can be rewritten! Just you watch him!! Count the exclamation marks!!!