50 wishes for the 50th

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

Not everyone will approve of my next choice but it's going to take a lot of wishes to get us up to 50 so I figure a little self-indulgence won't hurt...

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master

[J.R. Southall]

Are we allowed to pick off-screen things as well as things from within the fiction? In which case, I'd like to nominate Eric Saward appearing in a documentary somewhere and accepting at least a portion of the blame for the 1980s.

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

That gets a from me JR

In a similar vein although I realise we really are bordering into fantasy land now...

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker

[Dino]

"This one's alive! Get him inside!" (Genesis Of The Daleks)

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker
19. Dudley Simpson returns to do the music, or at least a Dudley-esqe soundtrack.

[Andrew Curnow]

Oh yes, Dudley!!

[Dirk Gently]

I know at least one person will agree with my suggestion.

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker
19. Dudley Simpson returns to do the music, or at least a Dudley-esqe soundtrack.
20. Lalla Ward to reprise her role as Romana.

[SiHart]

I agree Tim! and with Dino's too!

[SiHart]

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker
19. Dudley Simpson returns to do the music, or at least a Dudley-esqe soundtrack.
20. Lalla Ward to reprise her role as Romana.
21. Make the theme tune dark, electronic and mysterious again.
Yes, it's been adventurous and orchestral, but it's time to go back to the roots of the show and make the theme tune sound scary again and weird, like it did in 1963. Not for nothing was the original arrangement voted no 3 in the top 50 electronic music tracks ever produced in Mojo magazine this month. let's honour Delia Derbyshire in the 50th year.

[Andrew Curnow]

Maybe a simple one, but... a lot more episodes. With the obvious qualifier that I would always rather have quality than quantity, nevertheless it has to be said the UK struggles somehow to produce any thing like the number of episodes of serials that the US does. I'd like to have seen 13 this year, but given that we're definitely not, I'd like to see 20 episodes throughout next year, in addition to an anniversary and a Christmas special.


1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker
19. Dudley Simpson returns to do the music, or at least a Dudley-esqe soundtrack.
20. Lalla Ward to reprise her role as Romana.
21. Make the theme tune dark, electronic and mysterious again.
22. More episodes on TV!

[Nyder]

The return of The Morphotons. Those bug-eyed guys would certainly have made Sydney Newman bristle!!

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker
19. Dudley Simpson returns to do the music, or at least a Dudley-esqe soundtrack.
20. Lalla Ward to reprise her role as Romana.
21. Make the theme tune dark, electronic and mysterious again.
22. More episodes on TV!
23. The Morphotons

[Ian Lethbridge-Stewart]

Just want to say that I would love to see wish 21 granted (and also 19)!!

[J.R. Southall]

In the same way that Russell T Davies managed to squeeze references to all of the previous regeneration stories into The End of Time, I'd kind of like to see subtle references back to previous anniversary stories...

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker
19. Dudley Simpson returns to do the music, or at least a Dudley-esqe soundtrack.
20. Lalla Ward to reprise her role as Romana.
21. Make the theme tune dark, electronic and mysterious again.
22. More episodes on TV!
23. The Morphotons
24. Subliminal continuity...

[Anthony Williams]

To mark us being halfway through this list, I would like to add the following:

An Earth-bound story set in somewhere that's not the UK or the US. Let us go slightly further afield and somewhere more exotic - let's say Hong Kong. Complete with filming in that location.

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker
19. Dudley Simpson returns to do the music, or at least a Dudley-esqe soundtrack.
20. Lalla Ward to reprise her role as Romana.
21. Make the theme tune dark, electronic and mysterious again.
22. More episodes on TV!
23. The Morphotons
24. Subliminal continuity...
25. A story set and filmed in Hong Kong

[Si Hunt]

I would like to see a "Trouble With Tribbles" type episode, where sneaky CGI and old footage (recoloured from the sixties) is used to enable the current TARDIS crew to revisit an old adventure. Perhaps Matt and Carol-Jane (or whatever she is called) could journey back to the Space Museum and visit William Hartnell, Chesterwick, Barbara Wright and Sticky.

Si.

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker
19. Dudley Simpson returns to do the music, or at least a Dudley-esqe soundtrack.
20. Lalla Ward to reprise her role as Romana.
21. Make the theme tune dark, electronic and mysterious again.
22. More episodes on TV!
23. The Morphotons
24. Subliminal continuity...
25. A story set and filmed in Hong Kong
26. The Trouble With TARDIS

[Zbigniev Hamson]

In the same way that Russell T Davies managed to squeeze references to all of the previous regeneration stories into The End of Time, I'd kind of like to see subtle references back to previous anniversary stories...

I hadn't noticed any references in The End of Time, but I'm not sure I can bring myself to ever watch it again to try and spot them

[Stuart Wallis]

Since it's not just the series 50th anniversary next year...

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker
19. Dudley Simpson returns to do the music, or at least a Dudley-esqe soundtrack.
20. Lalla Ward to reprise her role as Romana.
21. Make the theme tune dark, electronic and mysterious again.
22. More episodes on TV!
23. The Morphotons
24. Subliminal continuity...
25. A story set and filmed in Hong Kong
26. The Trouble With TARDIS
27. Daleks

[J.R. Southall]

Good call, Stuart.

[Dino]

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker
19. Dudley Simpson returns to do the music, or at least a Dudley-esqe soundtrack.
20. Lalla Ward to reprise her role as Romana.
21. Make the theme tune dark, electronic and mysterious again.
22. More episodes on TV!
23. The Morphotons
24. Subliminal continuity...
25. A story set and filmed in Hong Kong
26. The Trouble With TARDIS
27. Daleks
28. An incomplete K-9 Mark discovery the Doctor had forgot about

[Si Hunt]

Okay, it's not REALLY feasible to have a credible story that rescues a 60 year old Zoe from the Space Wheel, brings back an ageing Leela from Gallifrey, ressurects Adric and so on.

But before the Companion Chronicles, Big Finish set a wonderful prescedent for casting some of the older actresses in other roles. Anneke Wills playing Lady Louisa Pollard, for example. How about casting some of our favourite Who girls (and boys) in other roles in the 50th year, so they can appear on screen in a dignified fashion, getting their teeth into some other roles? It'd be a nice tribute. Frazer Hines could play Rory's grandad.

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker
19. Dudley Simpson returns to do the music, or at least a Dudley-esqe soundtrack.
20. Lalla Ward to reprise her role as Romana.
21. Make the theme tune dark, electronic and mysterious again.
22. More episodes on TV!
23. The Morphotons
24. Subliminal continuity...
25. A story set and filmed in Hong Kong
26. The Trouble With TARDIS
27. Daleks
28. An incomplete K-9 Mark discovery the Doctor had forgot about
29. The return of all the old companion actresses/actors...

[J.R. Southall]

Seeing as we've hit number 30 already, I'm going to make it something silly.

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker
19. Dudley Simpson returns to do the music, or at least a Dudley-esqe soundtrack.
20. Lalla Ward to reprise her role as Romana.
21. Make the theme tune dark, electronic and mysterious again.
22. More episodes on TV!
23. The Morphotons
24. Subliminal continuity...
25. A story set and filmed in Hong Kong
26. The Trouble With TARDIS
27. Daleks
28. An incomplete K-9 Mark discovery the Doctor had forgot about
29. The return of all the old companion actresses/actors...
30. Fandom united in their admiration for the anniversary special

[Stuart Wallis]

Well of course that's going to happen!

[Anthony Williams]

Well, we've had Sean Pertwee on this list... so, stick a wig on this man, and he'd be a dead ringer for his father:



1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker
19. Dudley Simpson returns to do the music, or at least a Dudley-esqe soundtrack.
20. Lalla Ward to reprise her role as Romana.
21. Make the theme tune dark, electronic and mysterious again.
22. More episodes on TV!
23. The Morphotons
24. Subliminal continuity...
25. A story set and filmed in Hong Kong
26. The Trouble With TARDIS
27. Daleks
28. An incomplete K-9 Mark discovery the Doctor had forgot about
29. The return of all the old companion actresses/actors...
30. Fandom united in their admiration for the anniversary special
31. David Troughton

[Andrew Curnow]

What I'd like, in these days of spoilers and press screenings weeks in advance and the like, are some genuine surprises. Remember when Davros turned up in Destiny? Or the Cybermen in Earthshock? Or the amazing week in 2008 between The Stolen Earth & Journey's End, when we all sort of wanted to believe that the BBC had managed to cast a new Doctor and arrange a regeneration, without ANYBODY knowing? I'd like to see at least one, but maybe more, genuine, jaw-dropping, unexpected surprises.

1. An episode written by Russell T Davies
2. An appearance from William Russell
3. A really good drama about JN-T and RTD
4. Zygons!
5. Sean Pertwee
6. Rebuild an old console room
7. Je-rry, Je-rry, Je-rry!
8. Tom Baker
9. Missing Episode Recovery
10. Cliffhangers
11. No River Song
12. Susan
13. The TCE
14. Who on the Big Screen
15. A spell binding performance from a previously unknown guest star
16. The Return of John Simm as The Master
17. Eric Saward admits he's not God
18. Ian Levine apologises to Colin Baker
19. Dudley Simpson returns to do the music, or at least a Dudley-esqe soundtrack.
20. Lalla Ward to reprise her role as Romana.
21. Make the theme tune dark, electronic and mysterious again.
22. More episodes on TV!
23. The Morphotons
24. Subliminal continuity...
25. A story set and filmed in Hong Kong
26. The Trouble With TARDIS
27. Daleks
28. An incomplete K-9 Mark discovery the Doctor had forgot about
29. The return of all the old companion actresses/actors...
30. Fandom united in their admiration for the anniversary special
31. David Troughton
32. Surprise, Surprise!

[J.R. Southall]

Good shout, that would be really nice!

[Andrew Curnow]

I suppose, to give the current team their due, they sort of pulled off a surprise last year when Amy & Rory left at the end of The God Complex... except that they were sort of back the following week, and fully back the week after that.