Doctors Assemble! was a webcast that made specifically for the Doctor Who: Lockdown! event, coinciding with a tweetalong for An Adventure in Space and Time. It was a multi-Doctor story featuring all thirteen of the Doctor's main televised incarnations, as well as the War Doctor.
Though the webcast had a visual element, it consisted only of CGI exterior and interior shots of the Doctor's TARDIS, with pictures appearing on the TARDIS scanner. All of the Doctors appeared via voiceover, though their likenesses were featured in humorous profile pictures in the emergency "group chat" on the scanner. Of the various Doctors, only the First Doctor, Fourth Doctor and Eleventh Doctor were played by actors who had portrayed them before, namely David Bradley, Jon Culshaw and Jacob Dudman, respectively, while all incarnations other than the First were voiced by impressionists, some of whom had never contributed to licensed Doctor Who media in the past.
Synopsis
Trapped in his TARDIS by a a mysterious entity intent on conquering Earth, the Fourth Doctor contacts his past and future selves via his TARDIS's telepathic circuits. Can the fourteen bickering Doctors come together across Time and Space to work out a solution before the Fourth Doctor is crushed by the collapsing internal dimensions of his Ship?
Plot
to be added
Cast
- The First Doctor - David Bradley
- The Second Doctor - Chris Walker-Thomson
- The Third Doctor - Jon Culshaw
- The Fourth Doctor - Jon Culshaw
- The Fifth Doctor - Jon Culshaw
- The Sixth Doctor - Angus Villiers-Stuart
- The Seventh Doctor - Wink Taylor
- The Eighth Doctor - Angus Villiers-Stuart
- The War Doctor - Jonathon Carley
- The Ninth Doctor - Pete Walsh
- The Tenth Doctor - Elliott Crossley
- The Eleventh Doctor - Jacob Dudman
- The Twelfth Doctor - Jonathon Carley
- The Thirteenth Doctor - Debra Stephenson
Crew
- Written by by James Goss
- VFX & Video Editing - Rob Baines
- Artwork - Will Brooks
- Profile Pictures - Andrew-Mark Thompson
- Audio Editing - Scott Handcock
- Sound Design - Benji Clifford
- Music - Howard Carter
References
- The Fourth Doctor describes himself as being "trapped on his own… no Romana, no K9". He has been warned by Sarah Jane Smith about the approaching alien threat to Earth.
- The Third Doctor taunts the Second Doctor by asking him if he doesn't have "a kazoo he could play with". When the Fourth Doctor points out that he has a yo-yo, the Third Doctor insults him by claiming that "it looks like somebody knitted the Rings of Saturn and draped them around [his] shoulders".
- The Ninth Doctor has a poster with the tagline "Mechanus is so bracing!" and depicting Mechanoids on it and another poster for a Titanic film.
- The Eleventh Doctor "is glad River isn't here" due to what she'd think of her husband's incarnations' bickering.
- The First Doctor borrows Miss Wright's cardigan in an attempt to muffle the noises coming from the food machine, unaware of their significance.
- Humanity is currently dealing with "a great crisis".
- The Fourth Doctor fears he will be crushed into a singularity.
- The Third Doctors attempts to have all the Doctors rendezvous in Geneva at Unit HQ.
- As the walls close in around him, the Fourth Doctor says he's "starting to feel sorry for marmelade".
- Cat pictures submitted by the Sixth Doctor prove essential, as their backgrounds contain encoded location vectors.
- The War Doctor is in front of largely empty shelves of toilet paper, tagged "NO MORE".
- The Sixth Doctor also goes back in time to install a yellow button on the First Doctor's TARDIS control console, which, when pressed, flushes the pandimensional entity from the TARDIS's telepathic buffers.
- The Ninth Doctor mentions Chuckle Vision.
Notes
- The Third Doctor describes his future self's telepathic message as his having "reached out through the void beyond the mind". This is a reference to the lyrics of "I Am the Doctor", from the album of the same name, a song which was performed by Jon Pertwee in-character as the Doctor.
- The Fourth Doctor states that he used his TARDIS tuner to open the telepathic transtemporal communications channel. This is a reference to the comic story Dr Who and the Turgids, which was released in early issues of Doctor Who Weekly.
- The "great crisis" which leaves humans vulnerable to an outside attack was a timely allusion to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
- The Thirteenth Doctor is seen hiding in a wardrobe from a Sontaran, referencing the events of NOTVALID: Message from the Doctor.
- The picture of the Sixth Doctor and Peri dancing is from Behind the Scenes of The Mysterious Planet.
- The advert promoting Mechanus behind the Ninth Doctor is a poster entitled "Mechanus Holidays" by Andrew-Mark Thompson.[1]
Continuity
- The First Doctor is in the TARDIS with Chesterton, and sees the call appear not on the scanner but from within the food machine. (TV: The Daleks) The Third Doctor picks up the call on John Benton's Bunsen burner in his UNIT laboratory. (TV: Terror of the Autons)
- The First Doctor locates the circuits responsible for the call appearing on the food machine thanks to the fault locator. (TV: The Daleks)
- A picture of Grace Holloway appears on the Eighth Doctor's profile picture. (TV: Doctor Who) The Fourth Doctor's profile picture, meanwhile, features Mona Lisa in the front, (TV: City of Death) and the Seventh Doctor's depicts him on Iceworld. (TV: Dragonfire) The Tenth Doctor's features him with the Wire. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern) The Eleventh Doctor's profile picture is a screenshot from the Laurel and Hardy movie in which he previously inserted himself to contact Amy and Rory. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)
- The Second Doctor suggests the Fourth Doctor check the fluid links. (TV: The Daleks) He is currently travelling alone with Jamie. (TV: The Two Doctors)
- The Eighth Doctor wonders if the cause of the dimensional anomalies in the Fourth Doctor's TARDIS might not be the Eye of Harmony. (TV: The Deadly Assassin, Doctor Who)
- The Third Doctor repeats his anecdote about the "daisiest daisy" in an attempt to cheer up his other incarnations. (TV: The Time Monster)
- The Fourth Doctor states his TARDIS is growing "smaller on the inside". The Machine was also dimensionally immanent. (PROSE: Cold Fusion)
- The Fifth Doctor says that all the bickering is making him "miss Tegan". (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
- To solve the TARDIS's malfunction, the Third Doctor proposes that the Doctors synchronise their time streams. (COMIC: The Test of Time)
- When he joins the efforts, the War Doctor is met with embarrassment and dread by his other selves, who are baffled by his ruthlessly efficient way of dealing with the alien threat. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
- The War Doctor appears a young, ruthless man with dark hair and his currently facing an unending war. (TV: The Night of the Doctor) Further he is featured with the slogan "NO MORE". (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
- The Tenth Doctor first words upon seeing the other Doctors are "What?". (TV: The Runaway Bride, Time Crash, Voyage of the Damned) He later says "I'm so sorry", (TV: The Age of Steel, Love & Monsters, Blink, Journey's End) "allons-y" (TV: Army of Ghosts, et al.) and "brilliant". (TV: The Impossible Planet)
- The Eleventh Doctor mentions meeting Jane Austen with Clara Oswald. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)
- The Eleventh Doctor says "bowties are cool" and "Geronimo". (TV: The Beast Below, et. al)
- The Thirteenth Doctor calls the group of her past selves "fam". (TV: Arachnids in the UK, Demons of the Punjab)
- The Doctors occasionally finish each other's sentences. (TV: The Almost People, The Day of the Doctor)
