10 Doctor Who Stories That Would Make Great Musicals

8. Timelash

The Colin Baker era is arguably the most ripe for conversion to musical form. Not only was it overseen by the flamboyant John Nathan-Turner, it featured a bombastic figure in a technicolour dreamcoat. The stories themselves were more of a nightmare, but many have the sort of characters and ideas that would take off like a Rutan rocket on the stage. Timelash is an ideal case in point. On TV it was flatter than supermarket Coke. Yet consider the malformed nasty at the centre of the action - the infernal Borad and his abominable device of the title - and a Phantom of the Opera-style tale emerges. Add to this the roguish persona of Tekker played by the unignorable Paul Darrow and this show really starts to cook with Gastropod gas (and who else but Darrow should return for the live version?)! Baker has peformed Gilbert & Sullivan so is more than up to the task of a reprise. Though if you're looking for a musical star that might fit the bill, there's probably only one credible choice.. Michael Ball! He combines the mix of bravado and heft that the role of the sixth incarnation requires. Just imagine that face with a curly perm wig on top of it, clad in headache inducing fabric! Don't think he's serious enough? Well, he's not just an Andrew Lloyd Webber man, recently playing Sweeney Todd to great acclaim. He's got the lungs of a Drashig and knows how to use them.