And then the Doctor takes him to meet Lewis Carroll?

When they were looking for a new Doctor, I had my hopes that it would be Tom, but then they announced a second series of Demons and I knew he was out.

I think focusing on anything Wilde or Turing may have gotten up to may nbot be suitable for a family audience!

Why on earth not? ...because they are gay? We've had gay characters before with no big deal. Sure Reading Gaol might be a bit bleak but otherwise a major playwright and the greatest code breaker of WWII could make really good stories they were fascinating people and Oscar Wilde was very witty.

And I am sure RTD would have liked to have stuffed them in somehow (if you'll excuse the pun!).

Problem is that you can't really do a programme about Oscar Wilde without bringing his (what were) illegal practices into it.

Even a Time Traveller such as the Doctor would not lecture people that we should judge the morality of yesteryear by todays standards.

How about:

Albert Einstein
Mahatma Ghandi
Ronald Reagan
Chairman Mao
Saint Patrick
Lawrence of Arabia
and/or
Plato

It's always a shame to see that there are still people that think that romantic choices overshadow professional careers. Turing's codebreaking, for example, was only one of the many contributions he made to the field - he provided the foundation for all modern computers. I'm sure there's a sci-fi story to be written around those margins.

I enjoyed the Agatha Christie one - it was a bit of frothy fun - but yes, if they are not going to do a straightforward history story then maybe they should stay away from real historical characters for a while.

The Third Doctor has already met him in one of the novels, which are, of course, canon.

The first early humans that left Africa.

As someone who enjoyed reading some of Turing's work , I would guess his work would not be found interesting by the vast majority of people who want to watch Sci Fi though the end result would be. I don't see how you can write a Sci Fi story based on Turing's Computer Science and Mathematical work.

Doctor: 'Ere! Stop messing about!

The only true Da Vinci is Johnathon Rhys Davis


What do you mean, third Doctor? The only thing that is canon is 2005 to today, I have no idea who you're talkign about?

So, in the end of the 50th Anniversary Special, did you just think that those were random people standing on the stage with the only three Doctors?

Of course the entire run of the show is canon. 1963-1989, 1996 and 2005-present are the same show. Many shows have been cancelled for years and then brought back. Look at Family Guy, Futurama (several times) and Dallas (which had a much, much longer hiatus than Doctor Who).

Laurel and Hardy

Charles Babbage

There's a few

Conan Doyle would be fun and could be a nudge and wink to Sherlock without being a cross over.

Related to the above i'd like to see Harry Houdini. Others i'd like to see would be:

Edgar Allan Poe
Dracula
Mary Shelley

^You mean Lewis Carroll.
C.S. Lewis would chase a Witch into a Wardrobe.

Pol Pot: The doctor discovers that the dictator was trying bring about an alien invasion of Cambodia.

Kim Jong Un: The doctor discovers that the Kim family look so weird because they're really aliens.

Muhammad: The doctor discovers that the prophet of Islam was actually an alien sent to cause havoc on earth.

Also for kicks and giggles a silurian adventure with david icke

Lady Jane Grey
Scott of the Antarctic
Emperor Nero
King Canute
Emiline Pankhurst
Bonny and Clyde

I love your ideas. For Amelia Earhart it could be an idea as to how she disappeared; teleported to another dimension to save her from certain death in the crash. (Don't forget Amy Johnson as well on the same lines).
There would also be a good story line in explaining Leonardo's futuristic ideas
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RTD

Yes!

WA Mozart

The Eleventh danced with them in The Impossible Astronaut.

Love the Hancock suggestion!

Edit: On a comedy theme, how about Capaldi's Doctor trading barbed one liners with Groucho Marx?