Class: 5 More Doctor Who Spin-Offs We Need To See

3. The Eighth Doctor Adventures

The Eighth Doctor
BBC

After 'The Night of the Doctor', audiences old and new fell in love with this criminally underused incarnation all over again. It is understandable why calls for a spin-off haven't been answered yet: why undermine the current onscreen Doctor by giving attention to another incarnation at the same time? And Paul McGann is a busy man.

But the Eighth Doctor is loved by audiences who discovered him in 1996, 2013, or through the Big Finish audios. McGann is still pretty young - it's not like bringing back one of the classic doctors or John Hurt, for whom the strain of a long, very physical production would no doubt be impractical.

A limited run, similar to Agent Carter's amount of episodes compared to Agents of SHIELD, would make each episode count. Serving as a prologue to a storyline expanded upon in the main show means a spin-off isn't just an excuse to bring back McGann. It allows for the Eighth Doctor to meet the current Doctor since he's so vital to a storyline. That way, a multi-Doctor adventure would occur for a narrative reason, and not just for the hell of it.

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