Doctor Who: 10 Unresolved Storylines & Mysteries That Need To Be Explored
A daughter and granddaughter to see, renegade Time Lords to defeat, and an awful lot of retconning.
Doctor Who's tagline - Adventures in Space and Time - is much like Buzz Lightyear’s famous to Infinity and Beyond catchphrase: it invites us to immerse in limitless and mind-boggling possibilities.
However, even after almost 60 years of time-travelling adventures, there has, strangely and paradoxically, not been enough time on occasions to discover the fate of some of our favourite characters, or ever find out the identity of a masterly villain behind a scheme that almost thwarts the Doctor.
WhoCulture has covered abandoned plot threads and unanswered mysteries with various articles and on our YouTube channel. There are some with perfectly plausible fan theories; some that are best left to our imaginations, and the YouTube comments’ section; and some that have already been delved into via Big Finish audios, novels and comics.
Be that as it may, the following unresolved storylines and mysteries deserve the full bells and whistles TV series treatment, because they have fantastic, absolutely fantastic potential.
10. Adam’s Infospike Aftermath
You daft sod Adam Mitchell. You were given the privilege of travelling into the future to enjoy the culinary delights of kronkburgers and beef-flavoured Slush Puppy; and then you went and spoiled it all by doing something stupid like taking the Doctor's "open your mind" suggestion all too literally.
After receiving a remarkably quick infospike procedure - creating an openable forehead - Adam goes all Magus by downloading the entire history of the human race and transmitting it via Rose's superphone to his parents' landline, some 198,000 years ago. His actions almost changed the course of history and royally pissed off the Doctor, who took him back to his parents like a naughty boy and strongly advised him to “live a very quiet life and keep out of trouble”, otherwise he may end up being dissected.
But in the comic series Prisoners of Time, we see Adam team up with the Master (who else?) to exact revenge on the Doctor by kidnapping and threatening to kill all of his companions. SPOILER ALERT! He eventually dies a noble death, with his headstone inscribed: Adam Mitchell - A Companion True.
Nevertheless, it would be funny seeing Adam in an episode having to navigate a large gathering of people finger snapping instead of clapping!