Doctor Who: 10 Ways An American Reboot Could Work

By Hamish Crawford /

5. Second Chances

If you€™ve read John Leekley€™s 1994 American Who €˜bible€™ (and if you have, you€™ll be suppressing your gag reflex now), you€™ll know he was € not exactly charting an original course. All of Leekley€™s storylines are clumsily reworked classic episodes€”his €œTalons of Weng-Chiang€ in modern New York would have been particularly stupid. But this cuts both ways. Sure, we don€™t need another €œTalons€, €œHuman Nature€ or €œBlink€. But maybe some of the series€™ less successful hours could gain new life. We could see the €œFear Her€ as the Twilight Zone pastiche Matthew Graham intended. Any season finale you care to name could benefit from a hefty rewrite. And if the Americans can€™t do €œDaleks in Manhattan€ properly, no one can (warning: no one may be able to).