Capaldi's season was unusual in that it did not have an episode with a deliberate historical bent. (Robin Hood does NOT count).

Which historical figures should feature in Series 7. wHO would be fun to interact with Dr Who? And yet create dynamic and fun storylines.

Suggestions possibly:

Cromwell
Henry VIII
Tony Hancock
Crippen
Watt Tyler
Ernest Shackledown
Kin Canute.

I think the last suggestion could really have legs as the Doctor could discover the TRUE reason why Canute was trying to hold back the waves (Sea Devils etc)...

Is that an 80s pop star?



No offense but I find that sort of Doctor Who story really tacky and overdone.

John Lennon
Elvis Presley
Jane Austen
Lord Nelson
Al Capone
Al Jolson
Abraham Lincoln
Robert The Bruce

It would be nice for the Doctor to meet an historically significant female for a change (and I know we had Queen Elizabeth the First but she married him for pity's sake!)... I know these are few and far between as history favours patriarchy but could be good fun.

The last one must have been Madame de Pompadour yes? Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Agatha Christie
Nefertiti

Tony: Stone me,I'm bored.
Sid:Well, it's Sunday.
Bill:Blimey a police box has just appeared in the kitchen.
Tony: Sid! Sid ! Come back !!!

Abraham Lincoln.

Ra-Ra-Rasputin (must've been something other worldly going on with that dude...)

Aryton Senna

Joan of Arc (who was she REALLY talking to....or more accurately, who was REALLY talking back to her? )

Margret Thatcher (What alien was she hosting that caused her to be so evil? )

Joan of Arc would be great and lots of potential for an interesting story. Amelia Earhart would be an interesting character.

Umm maybe a female Asian character - Mumtaz Mahal, Fu Hao - certainly a story we have't heard before.

My personal preference would be : none. Stick to the made-up stuff, and avoid the pun-laden cringes.

Yes, thanks how did I forget those?!!

I think Clara quoted Marcus Aurelius in Day of The Doctor, maybe she would like to meet him...

Have they ever done anything around the JFK assassination?

He could turn up in 1066 at a key moment in English history... or with Boudica's Iceni tribe (they even sound like a Doctor Who race!)... or with Howard Carter's group as they discover Tut's tomb in the 1920s... at Waterloo / Trafalgar... too soon to go really really dark and explore 1960s/70s tv studios in the UK though...

Now if they could make him appear in a cartoon world (with Homer, Bender, Fred, Cartman, Shrek and co) as they fight to stop an unknown force destroying the world of animation, show by show...

cheap shot.

what are the great points of history where things could of gone way or another? the war of independence in the US, would be a good seller to them across the pond to make the beeb some money. Realistically you could almost go stargate with the mythos as the Dr recovers bits of his past

I doubt his TARDIS could fly there with all the time interference.
JFK did travel back in time to shoot himself after all.

Eccleston's Doctor was in the crowd according to 'Rose' ..I doubt he just happened to be there. Unless it was the Timelord equivalent of being a tourist 'seeing the sights' and all that.


I'd love to see a fun 'Hard Days Night' era style Beatles episode.

I wanted to see Robin Hood as a historical character and got my wish this year. Yes - he definitely counts.

Others:

Oscar Wilde
Alan Turing
Harvey Milk
Arthur Conan Doyle
Henry V
Mary Wolstancraft/Shelley
Peter The Great of Russia
Princes In The Tower Of London
My Dad

Correction of typo from the OP, it'll be Series 9

Anyway, I quite hope for another historical in Series 9. Vincent and the Doctor was the last proper one we got. A few I'd really like...

Amelia Earhart
Arthur Conan Doyle
Leonardo Da Vinci

Haha! Good one.

I would love to see Da Vinci in Doctor Who, but he would have to be played by Tom Riley as he already plays him on TV - and i believe it would be easy for him to nip around BBC Wales from the Da Vinci set to the Who set. But he has already played Robin Hood.

HG Wells would be an interesting one

The 9th Doctor can be seen in a photo of the crowd.

There's also the Novel Who Killed Kennedy which can be read here.




The 6th Doctor met him, even gave him a trip in the TARDIS. They can of course meet up again.

Tom Riley does have the look! I actually really liked him as Robin Hood as well though... he was clearly born to play historical figures


I'd also love to see Christopher Columbus... maybe in a big Bermuda Triangle story. Two-parter, location-filming somewhere that can pass for that region of the world (maybe Florida would be appropriate), wormholes in time messing everything up - 17th Cenury Spanish Armadas coming up against spacecraft from the future. Pirates, sailors, explorers, the mystery of Flight 19...so much scope!

Amazing how many interesting suggestions there are that haven't been done.

It's 150 years since Alice in Wonderland was first published in 2015 - so maybe CS Lewis chases a white rabbit into the tardis....