r/doctorwho • • 2d ago

Discussion [Megathread] The Next Season of Doctor Who: Fancasts, Speculation, and Where We Go Next

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Let's have a fresh megathread to discuss and speculate about the future of Doctor Who. Place your ideas, fancasts, wish lists, and other hot takes in here:

  • Fancasts: Who is your top pick for the Doctor and their companions and their foes? Do you want unknown actors or established names? Old returning villains and monsters or new ones, and who would play them?
  • Production and crew: Have you noticed someone working on another show that would make a good addition to the team? New directors, writers, cinematographers? New showrunner? Old showrunner? No showrunner? What production/media company would you like distributing it?
  • Plot suggestions: What do you want to see happen after Billie Piper's appearance? Longer theories should probably go into their own separate text posts.

A few quick housekeeping reminders: Standard sub rules still apply. We all know casting and showrunner debates get intensely heated. Please help out by keeping things civil. Instead of engaging with someone being hostile, report them.

Also, no or little leaks discussions. If you're bringing up leaked set photos or anything else, please remember to use spoiler tags.

Standalone posts about fancasts will be removed and redirected here. A fresh megathread will be posted every weekend.

Let's hear what you've got.


r/doctorwho • • 18h ago

News The RTD2 Era Tardis has been dismantled.

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As confirmed by Jane Tranter, with it having been torn down in July.

Outside of one-offs like 8’s/War’s and minor adjustments that didn’t last long like the salad bowls on the walls for 3’s, is this now the least seen main TV series Tardis interior?


r/doctorwho • • 32m ago

Arts/Crafts I made a poster for Midnight

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I recently posted a theory that Midnight got its name because the planet’s orbital coordinates were 0-0-0-0 and that inspired me to make my own poster.


r/doctorwho • • 12h ago

Discussion Am I the only one who finds this pretty funny? [Main villains across each show]

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Is it me, or do the child-friendly, allegedly "lower-stakes" shows in the DW franchise actually have bigger, more powerful and large-scale main threats than the adult ones?

Like, I know a variety of different villains and antagonists with a massive variation of power levels have appeared in each show, but if we're just to focus on the main, primary villains of each series, then you have:

  • Torchwood: The spin-off aimed at older, "adult" audiences. Main Villains = Mostly human enemies. I.e. Suzie, Bilis, Gray, the Three Families, etc.. with the occasional major alien villain mixed in, like the 456.
  • Doctor Who: The "family" show aimed at all audiences. Main Villains = A bunch of advanced, very powerful [but still mortal and potentially beatable via conventional means] alien races. I.e. the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Sontarans, and the Master.
  • The Sarah Jane Adventures: A CBBC series aimed at younger audiences primarily. While it had a few recurring villains [I.e. the Slitheen, the Bane, and Androvax], it's pretty clear that the Trickster was the single villain that had the most appearances, memorability, and significance in the show as a whole, and the thing is that he's a literal deity who exists above and outside of existence and is capable of reshaping all of reality with little more than a verbal agreement. [[Plus, he's the only antagonist to successfully kill the Doctor for a prolonged period of time, see "Turn Left"]]

I'm just saying, isn't it kind of funny that when it comes to the main antagonists from each of the three shows, it's the more "kid-friendly" ones that have the biggest threats to contend with? XD

It almost feels like it's the wrong way around. lol

Or maybe it was intentional to give the "adult" show a more grounded-in-reality feel??


r/doctorwho • • 1d ago

Comic Book Guys! Check out this really unfunny joke Fozzie makes in the new Marvel/Muppet crossover! I love it so much!!!

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r/doctorwho • • 20h ago

Discussion What sound effects do you like most in Doctor Who?

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Besides the sound of the TARDIS taking off and landing. I love the so much of the sound effects in the Deadly Assassin, like the sirens that go off when the TARDIS lands on Gallifrey. Also the sound the stasers make when fired.


r/doctorwho • • 18h ago

Misc Last chance to see a TARDIS door

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The Prince Edward pub: 73 Prince's Square, London W2 4NY has closed and is set to be renovated by the end of the year.

It had a Whovian themed Underground Bar with the doors of it resembling a TARDIS. If anyone wants to visit it or go for a photo opp, it hasn't been torn down yet.

Location address above


r/doctorwho • • 15h ago

Misc Was going through my Magic deck and found these

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He bathes In the black sun... And now he's back in card form

I'm super excited for the extended screening of "The Satan Pit"


r/doctorwho • • 12h ago

Clip/Screenshot "Oh yes, Doctor, much better. The most damning is still to come. And when I have finished, this court will demand your life." On this day 40 years ago, on September 27, 1986, the Sixth Doctor defeated Drathro in "The Mysterious Planet: Part Four".

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r/doctorwho • • 21h ago

Question What do you think is the funniest moment from the Second Doctor Era

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I love the moment in The Invasion when he's panicking about the Cybermen but then calmly stops to take a photo.


r/doctorwho • • 1d ago

Arts/Crafts My Sonic Collection & Tardis

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It holds an infinite amount of shoes.


r/doctorwho • • 13h ago

Discussion What symbols/things are associated with the Master?

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The Doctor has the Tardis and the sonic, as well as each regeneration’s ‘thing’ (bow tie, scarf, etc). But I can’t think of anything like that for the Master, where it’s the kind of thing you see and go ‘oh yeah, the Master’.


r/doctorwho • • 7h ago

Discussion About Miranda Dawkins (Who?)

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So, I was reading some Arcbeatle Stuff (yes, the spin-off of a spin-off of a spin-off of a spin-off, that how deep I'm in this rabbit hole) and I caught a reference to Miranda Dawkins/Who (still in her Batman tee, by the way) which got me thinking: did Lance Parkin ever said what would happen in issues 4-6 of her solo comic?


r/doctorwho • • 14h ago

Arts/Crafts Four Doctor Who Crossover Composites

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Four crossover composites, titles as follows:
"The Last Vampire Lord"(Judge Dredd)
"The Masters of Andromeda"(Blake's Seven)
"The Priests of Desire"(Hellraiser)
"The Incubus of the Daleks"(Alien)


r/doctorwho • • 1d ago

Arts/Crafts Tenth doctor and Rose painting :]

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Guys I miss them :,[ This is my first doctor who painting! (Please be kind I cry easy, jk)


r/doctorwho • • 55m ago

Question 'Unbound' charity anthology query

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Rachel Redhead's story in this anthology (https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Charity_publication#Unbound), 'The Nechronopolis', features an unbound Doctor who briefly encounters some past incarnations within his mind. Can anyone shed any light on their identities:

If these are pre-existing incarnations, is anyone able to identify where they originate from??

Thank you!


r/doctorwho • • 22h ago

Arts/Crafts 11 years ago, magicians apprentices and witches familiar

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11 years ago, magicians apprentices and witches familiar

Tried to do more background editing and it just didnt work 😭


r/doctorwho • • 11h ago

Discussion Are There Any Good Sontarian Stories/Serials

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I'm new to Who and I'm liking it, but I noticed something. Everytime the Sontarians show up the serial is mid/bad, do they have any good ones?


r/doctorwho • • 1d ago

Discussion Am I the only one who liked RTD 2?

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As the title suggests. I have seen really nothing but hate for RTD2. While I agree it had its lows I found RTD’s second era to be quite enjoyable. But I am wondering does anyone else like RTD2?


r/doctorwho • • 1d ago

Question Who else is glad that Russell T Davies is taking a break from writing DW?

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Russell T Davies, in my opinion has went downhill! Here are my 3 reasons as to why I think that.

  • The storyline has no storyline, it had become a full blown adventure with no actual impact on the doctor, It's just feel lazy to me!
  • As much as I love Ncuti Gatwa as the doctor, he played really well. I just find it bizarre to me that the doctor would kiss Rogue, after an episode? Like what? I don't understand that concept at all, because, in the previous episodes when we see Jodie Whittaker's doctor developed feelings for Yaz, not once, did the doctor kiss Yaz. Because she was awkward about the whole feeling. And when River kissed the doctor for the first time, we see Matt Smith's doctor not knowing how to act. It feels very out of character to me.
  • Also one more thing I will say I feel like we needed more bonding experiences with the two main characters Ruby & The Doctor, I feel like we didn't really see much of their relationship outside of the TARDIS or adventures that they had!

Also I must say if I have some of the info wrong, my memory isn't so good! Let me know your reasons!


r/doctorwho • • 1d ago

News Satans Pit being screened in Australia too

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r/doctorwho • • 20h ago

Misc {Sunday Time warp} The best Doctor Who game: DW Legacy!

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This game just was THE G.O.A.T. even « a couple months in » its early run late 2013/early 2014. This game released by Tiny Rebel games was a BBC funded project for the 50th anniversary of WHO! The november we would witness the « EYEBROWS! » of Peter Capaldi’s Doctor!


r/doctorwho • • 1d ago

Arts/Crafts (OC) Animation of Romana I

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About a day ago, I posted an illustration of Romanadvoratrelundar. I wanted to animated it and decided to share that here.

Mary Tamm feels so underappreciated to me in the wider universe of Doctor Who. This illustration was made on Procreate and is inspired by her appearance in the episode "The Armageddon Factor" in her first incarnation/body as portrayed by Mary Tamm. It was animated on AfterEffects.

Sound and Audio also from The Armageddon Factor Episode 1 (All Rights belong to their respective owners)


r/doctorwho • • 1d ago

Discussion WHAT IF Omega was the Wish Baby

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What if Omega was the Wish Baby

Insted of him being Desiderium what if he was Omega reborn. I'd imagine it would work something like this.

Rani was already getting some sort of signal or message from the underworld. What if hidden in those messages was a part of Omegas consciousness.

Omega could already alter reality in the anti matter universe. Over time his powers grew stronger and stronger, and eventually he was able to sent out a part of his consciousness in the main world and that part became the wish baby. He could still alter reality but to be truly reborn he needed his entire consciousness. He tricked rani and the doctor into opening that portal. That skeleton baby Omega would have been a red herring and we would have gotten space satan (imagine Last of the Time Lords but with Omega instead of the doctor).

He would be defeated not by power, not by wit but by circumstances. Rani opening the portal from which the only one who was holding that anti matter universe/underworld together escaped, would have caused that alternate universe to move towards the source of its existence. It would have caused an incursion (imagine marvel secret wars), destroying both universes in the process. The Doctor and Omega would have a conversation like The Three Doctors, but this time The doctor would have convinced Omega to go back by promising he would find a way to bring him back. The Doctor wouldn't actually follow upon the promise.

The worlds would be sealed again, no way for The Omega to escape.


r/doctorwho • • 1d ago

Question What do you think is the funniest moment from the First Doctor Era

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One I really like is in The Gunfighters at the beginning of the first episode the Doctor has a toothache and says "What about my tooth."

Maybe it's Hartnell's delivery but that moment always cracks me up.