An American Doctor Who Series.

Now you have decisions to make.
Who do you cast as the Doctor? Do you go with a known actor like Vincent Price or Leonard Nimoy? or do you consider a younger person like a stand up comedian like Robin William? Who do you pick?

Do you keep the TARDIS in the shape of a Police Box? American would have no idea what a Police Box is. If you change it, than what would the outside look like? A Car? A statue?

Ok it up to you. How does the show go?
For the Doctor, rather than asking someone directly I'll hold auditions like they do on the original show whenever they recast the role. Someone like Leonard Nimoy would be the best fit, though: middle-aged, handsome, can do dramatic and can also be humorous.

As for the Tardis: it has to have doors. That's something I've never got about Doctor Who: whenever the Tardis is disguised as something without doors, how do people get in or out? Something without wheels would probably be best, too.
 
From what I've heard the Life on Mars US Series wasn't that bad. I never saw it, but the original was great.

Agree with you on the UK Life on Mars and the sequel (Ashes to Ashes). Watched most of the US Life on Mars and found it dull and formulaic. The ending was total rubbish, but I won't spoil it for anyone who can make it through the dross to find there was no gold at the end.
 

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How about an RV? or a Van

the doctors blue timetravelling mystery machine.

So maybe a '61-67 Ford Falcon Van, or Volkswagen Westfalia (T1) or a panel version of the Willys Jeep Wagon? Hell, if you want to get really weird for a domestic audience, go for the DKW F89 L or a 2CV Van.


But if it's Gary Seven, you'd want a good sports car from the era, but not something where you'd have to carefully shepherd the stunt cars, so an AMC Javelin, C3 Corvette, or similar would be best.
 
Unfortunately there is nothing really iconic outside of holiday decorations that is accepted nation wide as the United States is much larger than Britain and more culturally diverse.

Oh, I can think of a few things. Given that American TV is rather more relaxed about product placement than British, how about a Tardis that looks like a McDonalds (or Burger King, or Pizza Hut...) franchise? The producers could even gain publicity for the show by encouraging a bidding war between franchises to get their logo on the Tardis...
 
Assignment Earth was a backdoor pilot for it's own series, featuring Gary Seven in weekly adventures to save the Earth from itself and maybe with villains and adventures besides that (who knows, since it never took off). I think that would have been the American "Doctor Who", given its galactic angle (Gary Seven was working for aliens to protect humanity) and there's always the chance of the same unique idea for recasting. That being the character dies but is reborn, just as a different type of person. So Gary Seven could turn into Gary Eight, Nine, Ten, and so on. You could also always just keep him being replaced by another agent if he dies, with that same name procession.

I loved assignment earth, favourite show from the 60s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6lmBbV3VWo&feature=related
 
So maybe a '61-67 Ford Falcon Van, or Volkswagen Westfalia (T1) or a panel version of the Willys Jeep Wagon? Hell, if you want to get really weird for a domestic audience, go for the DKW F89 L or a 2CV Van.


But if it's Gary Seven, you'd want a good sports car from the era, but not something where you'd have to carefully shepherd the stunt cars, so an AMC Javelin, C3 Corvette, or similar would be best.

Airstream that was proposed seem the best option to me: Not too big (on the outside), iconic and not too cost intensive.
 
There was a Series of Stories from Boys Life about a Flying Saucer that a group of Boy Scouts found and used to travel in time.
It possible that US Network producers not understanding the idea behind the TARDIS decide that they want something that is Science Fictioney and decide to do a Flying Saucer.
Plus they could market a Saucer model to the Toy Makers.
 
It doesn't count. Since it's on SyFy it will never get past the pilot.

If it get that far. I figure it will be like the Sci Fi channel version of Ringworld, Forever War and Myst. All these were mention as being developed in Press releases but never saw the like of Day.

And can you imagne a show on Sci Fi channel that take place in Space. No we too busy doing earth bound show that are cheap to shoot.
Hell we can't even be bother to run reruns of Battlestar Galatica. We created it. But we let BBC America run the Reruns.

Not a fan of Sci Fi channel as you can tell.
Only Show I watch on it is Lost Girl. Good Fantasy show
 
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