Official website invites fans to “Help Make History!”
May 17th, 2012
The official Doctor Who site has invited fans to decide which real life historical figure the Doctor should bump into during an upcoming short story.
A writer will be penning a new and exclusive adventure for the website, in which the Doctor will encounter a famous face from a time gone by. Just who that famous face is will be chosen by one of the show’s executive producers, Caroline Skinner, who will take her pick from a whittled down list of visitor suggestions. Go and have your say!
Let us know which name you’ve put forward, and why, in the comments section below…
Ada Lovelace, first female programmer. Victorian steampunk-y goodness, a feisty woman who’d give him a run for his money. Imagine how fascinated she’d be by the TARDIS.
A full episode with Queen Elizabeth I would be awesome!
I submitted an idea, but it was a complete wildcard and definitely won’t be chosen, but it’s great the BBC have chosen to interact with the fans like this.
First off, thanks for the link. I hadn’t seen this. I submitted the idea of having the Doctor meet Abraham Lincoln.
The Doctor has met my country’s worst President (Nixon – one of the worst anyway) so I think it would be fitting and a welcome 180 degree turn, if the Doctor were to encounter one of my country’s best Presidents, if not our best President, Abraham Lincoln.
If I’m remembering correctly, the 1st Doctor watched Lincoln giving his Gettysburg address on the Viewer in the episode, “The Chase”. It would be funny if it was now revealed that the 1st Doctor looked away just in time to miss the 11th Doctor come up behind Lincoln and give a little wave! (Like what the 11th Doctor was doing in the opening moments of “The Impossible Astronaut”.)
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Ah! Queen Boadicea.
@katherine
because it just seems to fit, somehow. PLUS Alex Kingston played her.
I have a crazy idea but what about King Leonidas? :P would he count as a historical figure?
I know Edgar Allan Poe was in the original series (don’t know if he was the main character so to speak, but anyway), but I would LOVE to see the Eleventh Doctor meet Poe in a story based on The Masque of the Red Death.
Tuthankhamun!!!! because then they would get to go to Egypt, the best things I love are Egypt and Doctor who, blend the two together and youve got one hell of a good episode, no bacvkdrops though they should actually film in Egypt, although its a possibility that it would be expensive or unable to shoot!
I’d like to see the Doctor meet eden ahbez, the guy who wrote “Nature Boy”; in the early 1940’s, he lived in Los Angeles where he ran a small health food store and a raw foods restaurant as well as being part of the Wandervogel movement, which emphasised getting back to nature… you might say they were proto-hippies, long hair and all… hence the nickname “Nature Boys”.
Maybe such a meeting with the Doctor could have inspired eden to become a song writer.