"There should be a Doctor Who channel now. You look at those Disney announcements, of all those new Star Wars and Marvel shows, you think, we should be sitting here announcing 'The Nyssa Adventures' or 'The Return of Donna Noble' and you should have the 10th and 11th Doctors together in a ten-part series. Genuinely. And I think that will happen one day. If we can just shift Doctor Who up a gear..."
So here are some* of my suggestions...
#1. An Earthly Child
Susan Foreman is stranded on Future-Earth in the aftermath of the Dalek Conquest. It's Doctor Who meets Survivors, and may include topical elements as our real-world society recovers from the coronavirus pandemic
#2. Guardians of the Solar System
Set in Space Year 4000, this is a pastiche of Star Trek with added Daleks. First episode title: It Came From Uranus!
#3. Agents of UNIT
Doctor Who meets Agents of SHIELD, as UNIT tries to defend the Earth without the help of the Doctor
#4. UNIT Declassified
This differs from #3 by being a '60s/'70s/'80s period piece, guaranteed to annoy hardcore Doctor Who fans by messing up their pet UNIT dating theories. It's Doctor Who meets The Sandbaggers or some of the more political episodes of UFO
#5. The Exit of Peladon
Doctor Who meets The Thick of It, satire ensues when the planet Peladon holds an ill-advised referendum for leaving the Galactic Federation
#6. Spandrell and Engin
Two old Time Lords are pulled out of retirement to clean up corruption in the Capitol. Doctor Who meets Line of Duty meets New Tricks
#7. Peter Davison Presents
Peter "Davo" Davison is given a camera crew and a budget and allowed to send up DW in his own way, probably with assistance from Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Davo's son-in-law David Tennant, and anyone else he can rope in. Basically, make The Five-ish Doctors Reboot into a series, it would be great
#8. Trials of a Time Lord
Dramatisation of the production of the Colin Baker era, including the hiatus, in the style of An Adventure in Space and Time. The latter part of Tom Baker's era would also make for a subject equally full of incident, such as the abandonment of Shada
#9. Shangri-La
Ray and Mr Burton defend Wales the Earth of 1959 from alien invasions, occasionally assisted by the mysterious Goronwy and his cryptic, bee-related wisdom. With 100% more competence and 100% less sex jokes than Torchwood
#10. D84
Our robot investigator proves each week that he isn't as Dumb as he seems, lulling his chief suspect - invariably a member of Kaldor City's high society, or even one of the Founding Families - into a false sense of security until they eventually incriminate themselves. It's Doctor Who meets Columbo
"Just one more thing... please do not throw hands at me."
* The rest all involve crossovers with Blakes 7, as you would expect
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