Like someone mentioned above. I think it would be nice to see Ian come across the doctor again. That would be a nice full circle link as the currant Doctor can no longer meet the early Doctors.

I have to say I would love a different lighter hearted Doctor meets Doctor story. I know we would have to except the older doctor looked older, but we could gloss over that surely.

Nice idea. Maybe intergalactic wreckers destroying ships. I would commission it.

My biggest wish is a creepy Feudal Japan historical episode full of mysteries. Also, I'd like to see a W.A. Mozzart in some episode, and also some Matrix-style and dreemy Alice-style episode.

Particularly with you on the latter. I like a bit of bizarreness! Something really offbeat and surreal like 'Enlightenment' or 'Warrior's Gate' or 'Greatest Show..'. I'd say 'Amy's Choice' and 'The Doctor's Wife' from C21 'Who' come close to what I mean, particularly the former.

I'd love to see Ian again. It would of worked SO well with Matt Smith, considering how he is very young and Ian would now be very old- the complete opposite of how it was when he was travelling with Hartnell.

Ian would be calling the Doctor "dear boy" and "young man" rather than the other way around!

The TARDIS goes faulty and falls "out of the universe" and into the void. However, after floating aimlessly for a while, it lands in a strange, tiny universe which consists of nothing but lava and a huge castle, which . The Doctor discovers that it's the universe of the Celestial Toymaker, revamped. The Celestial Toymaker has now taken the form of a king, and has once again lured the Doctor to play the games. The Doctor has to complete a game of cards (with real cards like Alice in Wonderland!) to win.

I have had this idea for a long time: the Doctor gets recognised too much on earth, and because he's always seen around death, humans portray him as a bad guy. This leads to a 21st century witch hunt against the Doctor. To go unnoticed and disguised, the Doctor wears a hoddie (I've always wanted that!) and becomes homeless, living on the back streets. All he has as a weapon is his friends, but they will be killed if they support him. No alien monster in this, making the Doctor realises that one of the greatest weapons is the human media. The main villain is the Prime minister who does this because he is terrified of a rebellion and creates fear so the people focus on the Doctor instead of him. Series finale definitely, and the Doctor, although being alive, has to stay away from earth and struggles to get a companion because everyone is still unsure about him.
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My ideas, in no particular order:

I have an idea for a story where the Doctor becomes interested in a major real-world problem on modern day earth, and sets out to solve it (this could be a famine, a natural disaster, a power struggle etc). His companion tries to warn him that this problem is beyond even him, but he won't listen and keeps meddling and becoming more driven and desperate until something dreadful happens and he realizes the error of his ways.

I also think it would be interesting to see Doctor-lite episode where an alien invasion or suchlike happens on modern day earth and the Doctor won't intervene because it's a fixed point in time. This would be a bit similar to Fires of Pompei, except the modern day setting would dial up the conflict A LOT. The companion would have real trouble understanding how something from their own time can be a fixed point ("surely it hasn't happened yet. How can it be decided?") and be very upset by what was happening, on a personal level, possibly because people they care about are going to get hurt. The action would focus on the companion defying the Doctor and acting alone.

I'd like to see more stories where the Doctor travels to an alien/future world and discovers something really wrong with the society and helps the people overcome their problems or oppressors. We used to see quite a lot of stories like that in the classic series, whereas New Who seems more about fighting alien menaces.

Finally, an episode told partly in flashbacks, featuring a classic Doctor, probably McGann (I think somebody else suggested this on another thread a while ago, but I can't remember who. So, just to be clear, I'm not taking credit for this idea, just repeating it and saying it would be great)

we could have him meeting humphrey davey ahd helping him with some chemistry experiments. he's there to stop aliens from the future assassinating davy's assistant farady as they dont want earthlings to discover electricity and then develop technology. it could end with faraday safe and delivering his famous candle lecture (1st ever ri christmas lecture). i imagine the ri would allow filming on their premises ....

tardis behaves oddly with strange noises. pulled off course and lands present day earth. dr is alarmed and starts tinkering about with console .......

dr and companion get out. fairground nearby. compamion claps hands and says "lets enjoy ourselves" but dr is puzzled and worried. ......

they have fish and chips. he starts to cheer up. then they do fairground. shooting gallery. carousel. ghost train. hoopla. coconut shy. they have canydyfloss yum ......

then the dr spots a sideshow at the back. "see the last livng dalek in the universe".

horrified, he pays, and enters with companion still eating candyfloss ........

..... inside it is dark. bubbling noise. large glass bowl. in the bowl is a dalek mulant with tentacles drooping over sides.

the single eye suddenly swivels and fixes on the doctor. recognised ! he starts to back away ........

then it speaks ......... "have pity, please take me home .......... have pity, please take me home ........"

the weeping angels in the mirror in the fireplace in the library .........

all of reality is threatened ......... not to mention moffat's tenure .........

As someone else said I would like the odd pure historical episodes without any sci-fi element to them. Perhaps one involving an infamous disaster of some kind but The Doctor is unable to stop it, like the Pompeii episode but without aliens. With the centenary of WW1 approaching a story set during that particular conflict would be very effective. I would love to see one involving the sinking of the Lusitania. Titanic has been done to death but you don't hear anywhere near as much about other sinkings. Maybe the companion bumps into a relative who perished on the Lusitania. They are trying desperately to convince them not to board the ship on the day it sets sail for it's final voyage, but The Doctor insists that not a single person can be saved. This would act as the precursor for some dramatic tension between The Doctor and his companion, possibly building up to a finale where the companion turns against The Doctor.

Something else I would like to see explored is the concept of alternate histories. Perhaps after The Doctor had found Gallifrey the walls between dimensions are safely broken down and he is free to travel to parallel universes again. This is one concept I feel has been underused in Who.

.... yes some back in history stories that do not have vampires would be quite nice ...... and all the parallel universe stuff so far seems to be deus ex machina escapes from bad plots ..........

The Chase had an episode on the Marie Celeste ....... maybe the dr could revisit it at a slightly earlier time .......

identity might explore the idea that past doctors meeting future ones - eg TDOTD - logically must involve the older ones forgetting what happened. as much discusseed in these threads. and identity IS memory. some scope for dramatic irony here always an effective plot device ......

The Doctor ACTUALLY giving flowers to Derren Brown

Not my idea as it was mentioned in another thread, but (going back to WW1) I would love for the 2014 Christmas special to be based on the 1914 Christmas truce. Again no aliens, apart from The Doctor, just a purely historical setting to mark the 100th anniversary of this wonderful occasion.

How about a series of stories about the doctors earlier years? Would be ambitious but could be interesting?

Ah, I see what you did there, ignore my last sentence about prequel on the other thread I replied too...

The Fiction Inversion. tardis lands in late 19th century Lomdon (cue smoke machine, coconut clip clop sound effects) and the dr bumps into sherlock holmes ....... turns out he is real but conan doyle isnt ............

young dr who. school years stories. oh what fun what larks. on 2nd thoughts thats just harry potter ........

as far as i know nu who has not yet done anything in an abandoned quarry ........

sontarans versus rutons?
a dalek civil war?
and i have an entire arc idea .....

We've had one or two scenes shot in quarries. But I agree, we need a story where most, if not all of the episode, takes place in a quarry.

Sorry

Posted this before reading your post.