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  1. Kimch2004

    Doctor Who: Adventure in the stars

    Hi Y'all it's me @Kimch2004 bringing you a new TL hope you enjoy it's about Doctor Who
  2. drporter357

    Doctor Who a rift in history.
    Threadmarks: Humble Beginnings

    In 1960 a man kown as Sidney Newman became head of drama at The BBC and needed new programing for the winter. It was stroke of luck that a script was already there waiting to be turned into TV show. It was called Doctor Who and Sidney Newman knew he had something
  3. drporter357

    Life on Ashes a Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes timeline.
    Threadmarks: On the way to Mars

    In 1998 Matthew Graham had a idea for a show set in the 70s with Neil Morrissey and Michael Angelis called Ford Granada and a pilot was commissioned by Channel four and it was BAD!!!! With pilot in the bin and Matthew Graham went to work on his Doctor Who reboot.
  4. drporter357

    Doctor Who my timeline.
    Threadmarks: The first Doctor 1963 to 1965

    On the 23rd of November 1963 at 5.15 a brand new show which aimed to combonized scince fiction and education in a blender of information and Buck Rogers and a old professor the name of this show you may ask? Doctor Who. Finding a lead was hard because they wanted someone with 20 to 40 years...
  5. PakistaniGuyUK

    WI Jimmy Savile murdered by “random member of the public” in 1996 while attending a routine public engagement?

    Press release from 1996 Jimmy Savile shot dead What if Jimmy Saville was shot dead by a supposedly 'random member of the public' in 1996? The assailant would unload 5 shots into Jimmy Savile as he was leaving the hospital after a charity event, fleeing the scene under cover of winter darkness...
  6. DBWI: HM the Queen hadn't had a breakdown on national TV

    So, everyone remembers the kerfuffle that was the year of 1979, when Prince Philipp entered a coma after falling over a balcony in Buckingham (of which he would wake up only in 1988), the British Government and economy were in basically freefall (fromw what I understand, I'm not actually...
  7. Calcaterra

    WI: More Series Of Blackadder

    If Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, & the rest decided to make more series of Blackadder on BBC? What do you think the new time period would be, who would be in it outside of Edmund Blackadder and Baldrick, and when would they end it?
  8. dbakes994

    DBWI: No Rose of Versailles in Britain

    (OOC Disclaimer: For those who don't know anime history, the BBC once tried their hand at dubbing anime in the early 80s. After doing a few episodes of Urusei Yatsura, they quietly ditched the project. This DBWI is about if they tried their hand at something with more weight to it, and how the...
  9. G'day Doc. An Doctor Who TL

    " By the end of 1973 I was in two minds. I wanted to carry on as the Doctor but was scared I'd be typecast. Likewise the wages were a bit poor so I spoke to Barry (Letts) and told him I'd be willing to stay for another series if they paid me a bit more. When Barry told me what the future plans...
  10. WI - BBC Television Licence Fee Scrapped in mid-1980s

    During the mid-1980s the Thatcher government initiated a review on financing of the BBC known as the Peacock Committee, the government had expected the committee to report that the television licensing fee used to fund the BBC should be scrapped only for the Peacock Committee to favor retaining...
  11. NCW8

    Vignette: The BBC Referendum Special

    Good Evening and welcome to the BBC Referendum Special. The polls are due to close in five minutes. We have journalists ready to bring you the results as they’re announced from the counts around the country along with experts to provide analysis, as only the BBC can. But first, here’s John...
  12. Petike

    Popculture WI: The BBC making a better Robin Hood series in the 2000s and/or 2010s

    After having seen Tom Riley and co. in the Doctor Who episode "Robot of Sherwood", I really, really sighed that we didn't get this sort of fun-but-respectful interpretation of the Robin Hood legend on TV in the 2000s or this decade. What I'm missing in the modern day is a Robin Hood based TV...
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