User:Glimmer721/DoctorWho

Goal: Improve as many articles as possible! Particular focus is series 1, series 5 (done), series 6 (mostly done), and series 7 (holding off until DVDs and other material).

• GAN: "Death Is the Only Answer"
• Doctor Who (series 6) and Night and the Doctor
• Doctor Who (series 7), Clara Oswald, "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" (DWM interview) and other part 2 episodes? Sort of taking a break...

• My war against the bulleted lists and Classic Who stuff
• Utilize those DVD special features for Remembrance of the Daleks, Earthshock, Day of the Daleks, The Romans, and Terror of the Autons!
• Tidbits to look through!

Structure

Lead

Plot

• 3-4 paragraphs, try to keep out-of-universe

Continuity

• Best are mentioned in third-party sources, like reviews (SFX is good)...GREAT source
• Who is the Doctor
• The Fourth Dimension
• Cite episodes if need to
• Get rid of trivia, should not be very long
• Should not be bulleted

Production

• Writing, filming and effects, casting/cast notes
• Doctor Who Confidential (watch Cut-Downs of series 5-6 on BBC America's website; do not have access to full episodes)
• Interviews (Digital Spy, SFX, Radio Times, etc)
• Doctor Who Magazine and Special Editions (do not have access to)
• DVD commentary and behind-the-scenes features
• Filming locations--may use Doctor Who Locations Guide
• Fun Facts

Broadcast and reception

• Date broadcast and channel (BBC One, may have international (BBC America)
• Overnight ratings
• Final ratings
• iPlayer if can find
• Any other details
• DVD release

• Guardian (?), Telegraph (?), Independent (series 6-? + classic!), IGN (series 2-), SFX, Digital Spy (not all), Radio Times (series 4-, classic!), The A.V. Club (4-), Metro
• Other, about the public receiving the episode
• Top 10 Tennant episodes, Tenth Doctor's top 5 eps, Tennant's 5 best and 5 worst, 10 greatest episodes ever (from Telegraph, 2008), silliest moments
• best cliffhangers,greatest cliffhangers, classic cliffhangers, best cliffhangers for Doctors 1-10
• Scariest Moments: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Series 1

Series 1 Good Topic: 42.9% complete

Doctor Who (series 1)

14 articles

"Rose"

"The End of the World"

"The Unquiet Dead"

"Aliens of London"

"World War Three"

"Dalek"

"The Long Game"

"Father's Day"

"The Empty Child"

"The Doctor Dances"

"Boom Town"

"Bad Wolf"

"The Parting of the Ways"

Overall comments

• Give references instead of just mentioning in the text where the information came from.
• Add reception

Specific improvements

• Bringing the series back, Locations, (dead link now, dang it) Commentary, Eccleston originally planned to stay for more?, Production design, highest rated drama for 2005, sort-of review
• Press pack
• Korea!!
• Review
• "Rose" - review, Digital Spy review
• "The End of the World" - sort-of review, stuff on Eccleston
• "The Unquiet Dead" - review
• "Dalek" - behind the scenes
• "The Empty Child" - comments
• "Boom Town" - review
• "Bad Wolf" - review, review-ish
• "The Parting of the Ways" - review (and comments on series as a whole)

Series 2

Series 2 Good Topic: 35.3% complete

Doctor Who (series 2)

17 articles

"The Christmas Invasion"

"New Earth"

"Tooth and Claw"

"School Reunion"

"The Girl in the Fireplace"

"Rise of the Cybermen"

"The Age of Steel"

"The Idiot's Lantern"

"The Impossible Planet"

"The Satan Pit"

"Love & Monsters"

"Fear Her"

"Army of Ghosts"

"Doomsday"

"Doctor Who: Children in Need"

"Attack of the Graske"

Overall comments

• Convert all those lists to prose!
• Give references instead of just mentioning in the text where the information came from.
• Add reception [1]

Specific improvements

• Locations, Confidential bits and pieces, commentaries
• DVD
• Tennant and Piper interview, Collinson interview, Davies interview,
• "The Christmas Invasion" - Commentary success
• "New Earth" - comments
• "Tooth and Claw" - review
• "School Reunion" - SFX, Digital Spy, Sladen interview
• "The Girl in the Fireplace" - review
• "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel" - SFX, Lumic rewritten, Guest, review of first part, interview
• "The Idiot's Lantern" - review, interview
• "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit" - Evans?, review of first part, SFX, interview
• "Love & Monsters" - Kay, review (and comments on series), mockumentary

Series 3

Series 3 Good Topic: 12.5% complete

Doctor Who (series 3)

16 articles

"The Runaway Bride"

"Smith and Jones"

"The Shakespeare Code"

"Gridlock"

"Daleks in Manhattan"

"Evolution of the Daleks"

"The Lazarus Experiment"

"42"

"Human Nature"

"The Family of Blood"

"Blink"

"Utopia"

"The Sound of Drums"

"Last of the Time Lords"

The Infinite Quest

Overall comments

• Convert lists to prose!
• Cut down continuity/references
• Add reviews

Specific improvements

• Agyeman inerview Part 1, Part 2, casting, new producer
• DVD Talk - whole series, episode by episode
• "The Runaway Bride" - writing, review, not the best for Christmas
• "The Shakespeare Code" - cut down on the massive amount of references and continuity, interview, review
• "Daleks in Manhatten" - review
• "Evolution of the Daleks" - review
• "The Lazarus Experiment" - Gatiss
• "Human Nature" - review
• "Blink" - fix Radio Times ref, add other RT refs.

Series 4

Series 4 Good Topic: 50% complete

Doctor Who (series 4)

16 articles

"Voyage of the Damned"

"Partners in Crime"

"The Fires of Pompeii"

"Planet of the Ood"

"The Sontaran Stratagem"

"The Poison Sky"

"The Doctor's Daughter"

"The Unicorn and the Wasp"

"Silence in the Library"

"Forest of the Dead"

"Midnight"

"Turn Left"

"The Stolen Earth"

"Journey's End"

"Time Crash"

Overall comments

• Add reception

Specific improvements

• IGN's review, Digital Spy review
• "The Sontaran Stratagem" - Freema
• "Silence in the Library" - How River came about, The Sun got a hold of the script...

Specials

Specials Good Topic: 28.6% complete

Doctor Who (2008-2010 specials)

7 articles

"The Next Doctor"

"Planet of the Dead"

"The Waters of Mars"

The End of Time

"Music of the Spheres"

Dreamland

Specific improvements

• Review

Series 5

Series 5 Good Topic: 100% complete

Doctor Who (series 5)

14 articles

"The Eleventh Hour"

"The Beast Below"

"Victory of the Daleks"

"The Time of Angels"

"Flesh and Stone"

"The Vampires of Venice"

"Amy's Choice"

"The Hungry Earth"

"Cold Blood"

"Vincent and the Doctor"

"The Lodger"

"The Pandorica Opens"

"The Big Bang"

Specific improvements

• Very useful...if only could view the videos. May be able to find them on YouTube...
• Series 5 - Interview, Moffat Interview, Good interview, Moffat interview Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Darvill interview
• "The Big Bang" - so which issue was this in?

Series 6

Series 6 Good Topic: 83.3% complete

Doctor Who (series 6)

17 articles

"A Christmas Carol"

"The Impossible Astronaut"

"Day of the Moon"

"The Curse of the Black Spot"

"The Doctor's Wife"

"The Rebel Flesh"

"The Almost People"

"A Good Man Goes to War"

"Let's Kill Hitler"

"Night Terrors"

"The Girl Who Waited"

"The God Complex"

"Closing Time"

"The Wedding of River Song"

"Space / Time"

Night and the Doctor

"Death Is the Only Answer"

Specific improvements

• Review of first half, Guardian first half, Zap2it SFX whole series, Digital Spy, io9, Telegraph comments, Independent comments, RT comments, IGN comments, too complicated?, alienating casual viewers?, maybe something on how the Doctor's dark side is explored?, iTunes most downloaded, Ratings drop is a good thing, DVD/Blu-ray, Saturn Award nom, other noms,
• Moffat interview, another, with Sherlock, Press pack part 1, Part 2, NYC premiere chat, resting Daleks, adressing complex nature, Rory mans up, "bumbling action hero", Smith/Gillan interview, Gillan on America, Kingston, Smith
• "The Almost People" - review
• "A Good Man Goes to War" - review
• "Space / Time" - Moffat, again
• "New Yorker overview of series five and six

Series 7

Series 7 Good Topic: 66.7% complete

Doctor Who (series 7)

15 articles

"The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"

"Asylum of the Daleks"

"Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"

"A Town Called Mercy"

"The Power of Three"

"The Angels Take Manhattan"

"The Snowmen"

"The Bells of Saint John"

"The Rings of Akhaten"

"Cold War"

"Hide"

"Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS"

"The Crimson Horror"

"Nightmare in Silver"

"The Name of the Doctor"

Specific improvements

• Cultbox news, SFX, first half review, second half review, (DVD Talk too?), Radio Times #15, second half teasers
• moving to autumn, Moffat Smith interview (some details on 2011 Christmas special, 50th anniversary special...), Convention bits, First trailer!!, Some production blocks, Smith
• Filming, Whithouse interview, details on series, Comic-Con: Moffat/Skinner, Smith, Gillan/Darvill, good stuff on the change of companions, great Skinner interview
• Coleman press conference, Audition and other codenames, Titanic helped, begins filming, how new companion changes show, DWM
• "Asylum of the Daleks" - filming?, BFI screening preview: Telegraph, Den of Geek, Independent, Guardian, Radio Times
• Christmas Special: filming, Coleman, filming, new costume, Moffat interview, Smith and Coleman, Strax resurrection
• 2013: Jessican Raine, Neil Cross episode being filmed, first for Coleman, Filming pics, Margam Country Park, Diana Rigg filming, first time they worked together on screen, Ashley Waters, Motorbike scene: [2], [3], Journey to the Center of the TARDIS?, DWM December update: [4], [5], big 7b interview
• Ice Warriors, Moffat
• Cybermen
• 50th anniversary: 3D, logistical problems with it, script under lock and key
• Clara & "Nightmare in Silver"
• iPlayer

2013 specials

2013 Specials Good Topic: 0% complete

Doctor Who (2013 specials)

3 articles

"The Day of the Doctor"

"The Time of the Doctor"

"The Night of the Doctor"

"The Last Day"

• 50th: Visual effects, Moffat interview, Daleks, Making-of
• "Night of the Doctor" - McGann
• Christmas special: Guest stars, BBCA records, can find Australian ratings probably...Making-Of online
• iPlayer

Series 8

Series 8 Good Topic: 0% complete

Doctor Who (series 8)

3 articles

• Accumulator
• On Capaldi's Doctor, more, accent, costume?
• more classic feel
• First episode director style

The Sarah Jane Adventures

Reviews: Dreamwatch, SFX, Digital Spy...Prisoner of the Judoon, The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, Sky, The Man Who Never Was, Something else...

• Death of the Doctor - Interview, about that line, best of 2010, review

Characters

Rose tops pollfull results of pollTop 10 female companions Five best, five worse companions

• Liz Shaw - nice article, missed opportunity, Radio Times, BBC America, Prometheus connection, Radio Times reviews Spearhead, Silurians, AVC Spearhead, appearances
• Sarah Jane Smith - 2003 interview, original actress, 2006 interview
• Leela - DWM interview, Radio Times article: here and here (Also can be used for Susan, Sarah Jane, Romana, Peri, and Ace)
• Romana - interview part 1, part 2
• Amy Pond - IGN interview, series 6, changing relationship with Doctor, original plan
• Rory Williams - selfless, why the Ponds belong in the TARDIS
• River Song" - "female Indiana Jones", nice remarks on his character
• Eleventh Doctor - interview, some character traits and reception, creating the character, more casting, interview, series 6 and 7 development
• Clara Oswald - look through other articles for interviews about casting, character importance, etc

Other possible topics

Ninth Doctor

4 articles

Series 1

Rose Tyler

Jack Harkness

Adam Mitchell

Tenth Doctor

12 articles

Series 2

Series 3

Series 4

Rose Tyler

Martha Jones

Donna Noble

Mickey Smith

Sarah Jane Smith

Jack Harkness

Astrid Peth

Wilfred Mott

Eleventh Doctor

7 articles

Series 5

Series 6

Series 7

Amy Pond

Rory Williams

Clara Oswald

River Song

FA ideas

• Doctor Who (series 5)
• "The Eleventh Hour" - watch commentary
• "The Big Bang" - watch commentary, only article that doesn't use the Doctor Who News Page...
• "The Impossible Astronaut"
• "The Doctor's Wife"

Episodes needing reception

Pretty much everything needs a Who is the Doctor review, and many early ones need Now Playing. Those which need other reception (AV Club, IGN, find SFX, Slant Magazine, Radio Times, occasional Digital Spy, and Now Playing for series 1 and 2, The Stage for series 3-?):

• "Aliens of London"  Done
• "World War Three"  Done
• "The Christmas Invasion"
• "The Satan Pit"  Done
• "The Runaway Bride"  Done - though more may be somewhere?
• "The Shakespeare Code" -  Done
• "Daleks in Manhattan" -  Done
• "Evolution of the Daleks" - SFX
• "The Lazarus Experiment" - SFX
• "42" - SFX
• "The Family of Blood"
• "The Sound of Drums"
• "The Poison Sky"
• "The Unicorn and the Wasp"
• "Forest of the Dead"
• "The Next Doctor"

Also:

• Doctor Who (series 2)
• Doctor Who (series 3)
• Doctor Who (series 4)
• Doctor Who (2008–2010 specials)
• Doctor Who (series 7)

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