Never fix the chameleon circuit.

WAIT! I just had an idea. How to make the "ginger" joke work: 1) Doctor regenerates. Becomes ginger. No comment is made of it. 2) There's a multiple-Doctor story with David Tennant... Tennant: Hey! Ginger! Ginger Doctor: What? Tennant: Your - my - our hair! It's ginger! Ginger Doctor: Yeah, so? Tennant: But we always wanted to be ginger! Ginger Doctor (puzzled): We did? Tennant: (gasps and sputters incoherently for several minutes) ... Never mind.

My main one would be Never completely end the show. By which I mean - cancel it again if you must, But leave it narratively open to be picked up again from that after a 10 year rest. No rebooting from the start.

Never explain what was outside the bus in 'Midnight'

NEVER change the theme song from the base structure.

Never reveal the Doctor's name.

You: The Doctor should NEVER regenerate into a previous incarnation! 4 years later... The Doctor: I know these teeth.

Personally I think the show should never entirely roboot it's continuity. I love that Doctor Who has so much history to it so you can watch an episode from the 60s and know that the show as it is now leads directly off of it. Granted I don't like it when the show gets so caught up in it's own continuity but there should never ever be a Doctor Who reboot. It's just unessisary as the way the show is set up with regeneration, you never have to reboot.

As for "young Doctor" prequels--a fan proposed an idea that I thought was intriguing. (I think he's trying to do a Kickstarter for it.) It would be a series about two young Time Lords who we know are supposed to grow up into the Doctor and the Master...*but we never find out which one is which until the very end.*

Doctor Who should NEVER EVER reveals the doctor's name. There is no reason that learning his real name is something like 'Guliman', or whatever Time Lord name they can come up with could actually have an impact on the plot by knowing it, it also feels weird, do we call him Guliman now? The show is called Doctor Who, not Doctor Guliman. Whovians will ask this for the rest of the show because we don't want an answer (because we're weird)

What about a glitch episode? Doctor gets hit with a weird energy and spends the episode glitching between previous incarnations. Eventualy fixing the problem in the end.

I agree with the first point completely. A child Doctor spin off would be the worst. That last point is also spot on.

I have a different theory on the curator: As proven in the show, the Doctor has taken the face of existing people, look at the abbott of amboise (also played by William Hartnell), Salamander (Patrick Troughton), Maxil (Colin Baker) and Caecilius (Peter Capaldi). So, what if the curator was the human that looked like the Fourth Doctor and was somehow aware of the fact that he had an alien doppelganger and that's what Tom Baker was playing in that scene. Probably a silly theory, but at least it keeps your number 1 safe from not happening.

(The Doctor looks in a mirror and holds fringe in front of him/her) The Doctor: I... I...I'm Ginger! (Fast Crescendo in the score) The Doctor (whiney): I don't like it. (CUE END CREDITS)

In regards to the running gag of The Doctor wanting to be ginger, I kind of feel like the perfect way to wrap that up is for one of the companions to say "If you want to be ginger so bad, why not just dye your hair?", then a few episodes later casually just have an episode start with The Doctor having dyed her hair and it's never brought up.

12:21 "Jodie regenerates into Matt Smith" oh how close you were to predicting the possible future LMAO

If this list was "in order," as in, listed in reverse priority order, than that means the Doctor _not_ being ginger is more important than Gallifrey keeping its mysticism?

Mine are essentially all that you said plus: 1. Never reveal the Doctor’s real name. 2. Never fix the Chameleon Circuit (again.) 3. Never recast a past companion actor/actress as the Doctor. 4. Never make the Master good (fully.) 5. Never make a canon mutual (romantic) relationship between the Doctor and a companion. (Aside from River?)

They shouldn't have any episodes about real recent historical tragedies. I'm not saying it would be impossible to do tastefully, but the risk just wouldn't be worth it

Never cast a non brit as the Doctor. I never want to hear a Doctor with an American accent.

I never thought of any of the Doctor's regenerations coming back in canon. Man, that would be terrible. -Matt

One thing doctor who should never do is give Jodie a love interest companion. I grew to hate all the companions falling in love with the doctor. And I begged for more male companions to avoid this. But now that we have a female doctor. I don’t now want to see male companions popping up and fawning over her. I want this to end. The doctor is an alien. And married. Please stop this. It’s an instant turn off when the companion starts thinking of the doctor as their SO. I hated rose for it. I disliked Martha because of it. I loved Donna because she actively fought against that trope. I turned on Amy when she tried to cheat on Rory with the doctor I loathed Clara for the bitch fit she threw when her young pretty 11 dared regenerate into a grumpy old man. I threw a party when bill was a lesbian because it was done. New doctor new gender let’s not have thirsty companions trying to get their sonic screwdriver into her time vortex.

I agree with all of these points, except for the Ginger point. That running gag isn't really a fundamental thing in the show, what colour the doctors hair is, is irrelevant as long as the actor and writing is good

Now that the Doctor's female... NEVER suggest that any part of the Doctor's personality comes about as a direct result of being female. Jodie Whittaker's Doctor will have a different personality that Peter Capaldi's, of course, just as his has a different personality than Matt Smith's, etc. That's a normal part of regeneration. But PLEASE don't even have the Doctor say, "Now that I'm female, I'm much more ________." NO. Big mistake. There will always be people who will make assumptions. If the 13th Doctor enjoys cooking, for example, people will say, "Oh, the writers of the show are suggesting that women are better cooks than men." Well, people will say things like that. There's nothing you can do about that. But what I DON'T want to happen is for the SHOW ITSELF to make such a statement. PLEASE don't suggest that any aspect of the Doctor's personality is dictated by his/her gender.

I have to disagree on the ginger doctor.... I would love to see a ginger doctor. I think the world deserves a ginger doctor but I agree with you on everything else tho.

The only time I would accept the Doctor regenerating into a previous incarnation would be in a special/multi-doctor story, where the proper conflict is that the Doctor is for some reason regenerating backward and that by the end of the special it is solved/fixed and the current Doctor is restored.

Never give the doctor an extended backstory that destroys the mystery of the character and makes the story feel more redundant... Wait a minute

I agree with this list, but I'd add never revealing the Doctor's real name. Even though one could argue that the only name that matters is the Doctor because thats what the Doctor identifies as, a huge part of the character's mystique would be lost if we know what his real/original name is.

Never, even in a state of madness, allow the doctor to become cruel, just because s/he can.

The show should never stick with one doctor for more than 3 series at this point. Eccelson got series 1, Tennant got 2,3,4 Smith got 5,6,7 Capaldi got 8,9,10 and Whittaker should have 11,12,13. Then the 14th doctor should be cast for series 14. Yes the entire reason I want this is so the 14th doctor can be in series 14 and the 13th can be done with the 13th series.

I’m of the firm opinion that the reason the TARDIS “kicked” the Doctor out was because it KNEW the whole control room was going to blow up and that this could kill the Doctor - and the TARDIS doesn’t want that. I think it will literally rematerialise below the falling Doctor, and let the Doctor fall into the swimming pool or a room full of pillows, or a friggin bouncy castle-room. Saved and unharmed.

On the Gallifrey spin off. It's already been done in Big Finish to a surprisingly good extent. The spin off stems directly from the main range stories: The Apocalypse Element, Neverland and Zagreus. Thing is with the spin off and the stories like neverland: they use what they reveal about Galifreyan society to add mystery and a sense that we are only seeing the surface of timelord society and there are many hidden layers underneath. The BBC wouldn't have nearly as much skill as Big Finish when making a Gallifrey spin off.

Agree they should never have the doctor regenerate into a past doctor it’s a cop out but I would absolutely LOVE another multi doctor story preferably with Paul mcgann

totally agree with the returning actors point. personally i saw tom baker's cameo in the day of the doctor as him being the very last doctor, retired and waiting to help 11 in finding gallifrey before finally dying.

next up is three things doctor who needs to start doing

The show should, also, never have The Doctor regenerate into a companion. This also plays into the whole dwelling on the past and not focusing on the future thing.

Here's an odd one: Never ever being back Donna Noble. She had an amazing run and an amazing heart breaking ending. Bringing her back would be a mistake.

Never make more episodes with River. I know it sounds weird, I like River very much, but her timeline is perfect as it is. The only way I would except another appearance of her is in that data-ghost form in the Name of the Doctor and she would be there like a ghostly aid-ind of character, but leaving her alone is the best choice in my opinion.And never make a spinoff series out of her, we know far enough about her, and pleeeease never ever make Riverx13 (or other future female Doctor) ship canon in the show, leave that to the fanfic writers.

Never bring back the American Diner TARDIS.

Maybe the show could do a guest spot for the cast of the Sarah Jane Adventures- not have them be companions, just have the Doctor meet them and maybe an one episode adventure with them. But not have them be the new companions. Also, have the companions limited to 1 or 2 people.

I was always confused by the ginger thing when I was a kid because I was certain that the 6th doctor was ginger, I think I was blind when I was a kid 😂

I wouldn't want the doctor to regenerate into a face he's already has but I'd be fine with a temporary degeneration like how the 10th doctor became the 9th doctor for a single story after being temporarily de-aged in the comics

The Gallifrey spinoff thing works on audio (as far as I know, I have yet to listen to that audio range but have heard good things about it) but I doubt that it could successfully maintain the mystery on TV.

If the best actor in auditions was ginger then so be it.... their hair colour is irrelevant it’s about acting ability

I might be interested at some point to the Doctor trapped on a completely alien planet. Like, imagine if the show got stuck on Vortis or something like that.

The ginger thing was only ever a 10th/11th Doctor thing. If an actor/actress they want to be the Doctor is ginger, the Doctor should be ginger. It's not a thing that matters, and it shouldn't. They shouldn't even reference the 10th/11th Doctor wanting to be ginger.

id like to see jenny come back and see her reaction to her dad now being her mom lol

The last one dated well.

When you were talking about the endlessness of DW, I did start humming The Doctor Forever... Am I too into this show?

Instead of making the doctor earthbound for a series I wouldn't mind seeing the opposite where for whatever reason they can't get back to 21st century earth and all of the episodes are either period pieces or off on other worlds and the storyline for the whole series is "How to get the companions home"

I think the Doctor should never be played by an American

9:59 this aged well 😂

never let Steven Moffat write again for Doctor Who

I would like to see at some point Doctor falls from the mountain and when he hit a rock he regenraties to David Tennant and he says "oh its me again" but then he immidetly hit another rock and change to a new actor XD

"HAIR! I've got new hair! ...I don't like the colour."

They should get an actor/actress who used to have ginger hair but is now grey/white to play the doctor, that'd be hilarious

9:56 Lmao I always think about this video when I remember Tennant is returning as the 14th Doctor

Worse (in my opinion) was David Tennant regenerating into David Tennant. That's even more firmly "canon" than Tom Baker being a future Doctor. The latter is only a theory, but the former happened on screen, and was then explained as being a genuine regeneration on screen.

As someone who LOVES Gallifrey stories, I couldn't disagree with you more on that point. I appreciate that the rather humdrum presentation puts you off, but that's clearly by design. Its a deliberate subversion of audience expectations that the Time Lords are these great and powerful beings, instead showing you that they're just people who happen to have drastically more advanced technology then most other species and often times have the hubris to believe their own hype. Deadly Assassin would easily be in my top 10 of classic Who stories if I ever got around to actually compiling such a list, maybe even top 5. Also, I may be biased on this but I say bring on a ginger Doctor!

I would like a nod to Broadchurch. I would like a simple run in, where David Tennant sees the Doctor and goes "Beth!, it's been awhile" and after he leaves Yas goes "Who was that guy?" and the Doctor says "I don't know but it feels like I've been that man"

Hey is anyone here in 2023 laughing hysterically at number 1

I think they should never tell us the doctors real name, and if they do, it should be the very last episode ever. Telling the doctors name would humaninze the doctor and demystify it. The doctor would start to feel so human and normal, which the doctor isn't and should never be. But also I don't want them to use the doctor's name as a clickbait thing like they did with Matt Smith . Omg you know my name. River I am going tell you my name. All that shit. Leave it. I just want the doctor to remain some sort of mystery, I want the doctor to stay alien.

My four: 1/ Meeting an alternate history Doctor or having a series from the POV of an alternate history. 2/ Similar to point one about showing a prequel Doctor - don't have a child regeneration. 3/ Switching from science fiction to fantasy. 4/ Have a canon crossover with another science fiction show ie. Star Trek or Star Wars.

"they've got barnes made of wood?" Isn't that the same barn from The Day of the Doctor?

4. There is actually a Gallifrey spinoff by Big Finish about Romana's time as president (with Leela as one of her confidants) and it's actually one of their most popular series. But I know what you mean when you say you don't want to see it. Personally, I have very little interest, but a friend of mine lent me some stuff I'll listen to. 3. ... Ok, so I'm fine with a female Doctor and all, but when people complain about that I sorta get where they're coming from, but I feel like you're making a bigger deal out of the ginger thing than the gender swap thing. Besides, the ginger thing has only ever been brought up twice in the show. It's not even that big of a running joke. 2. I agree. They did it with the Third Doctor, they don't need to do it again. Though I don't mind stories set in the modern day. 1. If you want an actor to reprise their role as The Doctor, then either go back and rewatch their episodes, wait until they come back in a multi-Doctor episode, go buy some extended universe stuff with that Doctor, or just get over it and get used to the new guy.

I agree with all of these: especially the last one. Which, after i spent years thinking "Paul McGann could come back and be given a decent shot!", might be odd - but after 20 years i have to be happy with the audios and acknowledge that the show needs to keep forging ahead and not folding back on itself like an Ouroboros eating its own ass. Also, every time someone suggests a "Young Doctor Who Adventures" type show (which always ends up sounding like Gallifreyan Hogwarts), somewhere a tafelshrew dies.

The Timeless Child - NEVER, just never...

4:03 The Gallifrey audio drama spinoff is pretty good.

If she/he becomes ginger, he/she has to HATE it. Also, if they have an Earthbound series again, it's only to save money. Damn the BBC.

I love how much passion you have in these shows and movies!

A sitcom with the time lord academy

One thing the show should DEFINITELY do: Have a character who can do voices sneak up behind the Doctor and go :EX-TERMINATE!" JUST to see the look on the Doctor's face. :) :) :)

I think the show should absolutely never ever actually reveal the Doctor's real name or give us more of his back story then we need. I say that for the same reasons you don't want more Galifrey, it would demystify the Doctor and take away a lot of his power if we knew his name. Plus any name he is given couldn't live up to the mystery.

About the whole Gallifrey thing. They don't really touch on it that much but I believe that not all Gallifreyans are Time Lords. There is an aristocracy to their society where the Time lords a select few of the population reside in Arcadia the rest are just Gallifreyan and live in the wilds. It's not clear whether an ordinary Gallifreyan can regenerate as they haven't been exposed to the untempered schism and have never spent any time above the eye of harmony. (not including any extended media in this only in show canon.)

Something they should never do with regards to The Doctor's regenerations is: a. Cast a child (I've actually seen people ask for this). For the simple reason of a child cannot act in the same way as an adult can and these adults are trained actors who can convincingly pull off the "I'm actually over 2 thousand years old" stuff. b. Cast anyone who isn't a British actor. Yes, they can regenerate into anything, but the core appeal of the show is that it's something that WE made. Doctor Who is a major part of British pop culture and casting a non-British lead would end up causing it to lose one of it's big appeals. ESPECIALLY if it's an American actor. Seriously, any of our shows that Americans get their hands on, they have to change it in some way because we have to watch all-American TV over here, but they have to dub over Thomas the Tank Engine because apparently Ringo Starr isn't good enough or remake the Inbetweeners because it's not funny to Americans unless you completely change the whole thing.

Never reveal the doctor's name - there's two ways it can go. It can either go something like 'my name is Jim'. A boring earthbound name, no use. or, 'My name is Kostarlek'. An alien sounding nonsense name which doesn't mean anything or give us extra details. I like the theory that the doctor's name is basically incomprehensible to humans, and that it betrays every detail of their timeline which is why it's so closely guarded

A regeneration before William Hartnell? Don’t be ridiculous

they should never I meen never give the doctor super powers it would ruin his/her character the DOC is ment to me a gadget person (even if they have turned the sonic screw driver into all their gadgets) the doctor is batman and many of his enemy's have power or powers so when the doctor beats them (usually without weapons) its more fantastical

That last one... That didn't age so well. I can't help but love the irony LOL

3 years later, and DW is still holding strong on all 4 of these :)

Have you read Lungbarrow? It does a pretty good job of explaining some of Gallifreyan culture but keeping it very alien. Honestly, it raises more questions than it answers, but it gives an excellent insight into the culture of the world.

I agree with the Doctor not being Earth bound - it made sense then but it would just be a dodgy retred of the past. The only exception to this is the Doctor getting bored being stuck on earth in The Power Of Three

Why would they need to bring back old actors as the modern doctors: A) there are loads of great actors the producers can get B) if you want to bring back the actors, just have them be chosen as one of the other doctors in a multi doctor story

I hope the first ginger doctor's last words before they regenerate are, "Well, at least I was ginger..."

I agree. I would add one, which they already did and failed at IMHO. I was excited to see the 8th Doctor and the War Doctor, but was _sooooo_ disappointed in what we *actually saw* of the *Time War.* The descriptions that Ten gave us had been so completely fantastically alien and otherworldly. . .clearly meant solely for our imaginations: *_"You weren't there, in the final days of the War. You never saw what was born. But if the Time Lock's broken, then everything's coming through. Not just the Daleks, but the Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, the Could-Have-Been-King with his army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres; the War turned into Hell!"_*

Listening to number one in november 2022 was HILARIOUS

Things that Doctor Who SHOULD do....have a Doctor of color, whether of African, Hindo, Asian or Middle Eastern. Bring back The Draconians, The Sea Devils, The Rani, The Thralls. Meet Einstein, C. S. Lewis, Edgar Allan Poe, Vercingetrix and Julius Ceasar.

I agree with that Earthbound thing. Matt Smith's Doctor was so very tied to Earth with the Ponds and Clara that, even when he went into space, it was like a sit-com that you expected to return to Earth at the end of the episode. It barely made it work with Rose, as it was a running away from Earth thing with an occasional desire to go home. Now, Earthbound does work, as Torchwood shows, but it hurts the Doctor.

Hmm...yes, the Doctor *could* regenerate into David Tennant again...

The TARDIS has rejected the new DOCTOR and 13 will have to spend the first episode trying to win over the TARDIS (and the audience) and reassure her/us that she is, in fact, the real and genuine Doctor!

Have to agree with you. Also, I'd be very surprised if they ever did so any of those things. It seems incredibly unlikely. But I do always look forward to your next time we see an older Doctor guest starring again. Those moments are fun!

Hi, sorry next to topic of Spin off and Women There could be River Song- she travels throu time alone and with Doctor, Jenny - Doctor clone daughter - She cant time travel but have Space ship, and Clara Oswald with Eternal "Me" they have Tardis and are almost immortal.

Ok, you've covered what they should never do pretty thoroughly now here is what the should do: 1. Give the 8th Doctor his own web series! 2. Stop teasing us with Susan and have her finally show up again! 3. Have the Doctor talk about her family and children. She doesn't have to go into too much detail. 4. Bring back the Master! 5. Yeah, stay away from Gallifrey! 6. Animated episode!

Huh - just rewatched this - number 1 has aged pretty badly lol

Your so right... especially explaining it as a “will they, won’t they” relationship I would prefer to be surprised and shocked instead of just “meh... ok, now what” sort of ‘twist’...

Will you do a ranking or discussion of the spinoffs? Torchwood, Sarah Jane adventures, the class?

It's fun watching this video five years after the fact...!

And maybe lighten up a little. The show has been dark as hell lately!

The not being ginger joke was only repeated once by the show, it's not a long running thing. It's the fandom that won't shut up about that

I agree with the last one because half of the thrill with regeneration is that we get to see the doctors new personality and style and how he/she does things and if he/she regenerated to a previous doctor, we wouldn’t get to experience it the same......