3. Classic & New Doctor Animated Adventures
WHY: Oh come now, does this really need a reason? As with the other Big Finish ranges, the main range of Classic Doctor adventures have been expanding the eras of the First through the Eighth Doctors, giving them the chance to develop their characters in interesting and often unexpected ways. Listeners could hear the Sixth Doctor mature and become more than an arrogant git in a bright Joseph Jacket, the Seventh and Eighth Doctors beginning so full of hope and slowly becoming the beaten, depressed Doctors at the end of their lives, and oddly enough, the possibility of romantic inferences between the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa (no no, they're just friends). For the same reasons as the other animated spin-offs, the opportunity is there for the Doctors to appear in all their visual glory without the real actors having to give some timey-wimey explanation as to why they look much older (for example, the Moffat excuse of "shorting out of the time differential" in 'Time Crash'). As the little-known Doctor Who animations of Scream of the Shalka and the Tenth Doctor adventures The Infinite Quest (with Martha Jones) and Dreamland have already shown, the possibility for animation allows former, and new, Doctors to enthral audiences again in a new, yet old, way. WHAT: Oh, there are plenty of stories that could be done. Once again, previous Big Finish episodes could be animated with talented impressionists of the now-deceased Doctors to fill in the gaps as well. Current BBC GO! Audio stories featuring the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors could be reanimated into real episodes for those who prefer to watch instead of listen and the talent of the people from Big Finish could ensure that it is in every way like a real episode. Elements from NuWho could be retrospectively added to Classic episodes, too. The mention of "Bad Wolf" in the animated reconstruction of the Second Doctor's story The Invasion is one such example and this would allow for storylines and plot threads to bridge he gap between the Classic and New series whilst paving the way for
match-ups between Classic Doctors and NuWho monsters that haver never before seen. Animated episodes may also allow for multi-Doctor episodes on the small screen such as The Light At The End, which featured all Classic Doctors against The Master, as well as real interactions such as Time Crash as opposed to the brief cameos from The Day of The Doctor. The possibilities are endless.