Doctor Who: Historic Places The Show Never (But Should) Visit

Oh, and feed the dinosaurs. I’m just saying.

Ancient egypt

Okay, that’s actually a pretty vague answer, since Cleopatra is closer in iPhone history than she is to the construction of the Great Pyramids, so that’s a long time to figure out. embark on an adventure. This is also a period we saw briefly, as the Doctor came looking for Queen Nefertiti during “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship”. We’ve also seen mummies before, whether aboard the Space Orient Express or Mars, but never in their natural habitat. Why is that? Ancient Egypt is an ideal setting, as long as you avoid all of the more popular historical inaccuracies like pyramids built by slaves, or looking like ruins, or everyone being white.

And in terms of monsters, you don’t just have mummies to tap into – you also have a pantheon of gods who look like cool monsters and can be convincingly represented by a good mask.

Mondassian history

Given that planet Earth has been established time and time again as the Doctor’s favorite place in the universe, you’d think she’d be happy to have a spare. Yes, it all ends badly with the increasingly imprecise story, ‘Tenth Planet’, and we’ve seen (heard) a bit of the way that led to it with the classic audio, ‘Spare Parts’, but there is has quite a side story that takes place before that. Show us the World Roman Empire! World War II on a second world! Use it as a chance to tell some really crazy alternate stories with the specter of the Cybermen lurking in the background.

Woolly rebellion

We know this happened in 2211 because the doctor checked it in ‘It Takes You Away’. So I think it’s fair that the series now devotes an entire two-part to The Doctor Who Fights Sheep.

The voyage of HMS Beagle

Surprisingly, Charles Darwin only appeared in person in one story, the Big Finish Audio, ‘Bloodtide’. Perhaps there’s a reason the TV show didn’t capture him – the period of his life that would make Who’s best story, The Voyage of the HMS Beagle, takes place years before He doesn’t adopt his iconic “massive white beard” look, and the TV show tends to like their historical figures to resemble those in the pictures.