Let's pretend (vaguely inspired by a comment on the previous post)

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So: just imagine, that the Doctor has offered to take you on a trip in the TARDIS, anywhere you like (though anyone who suggests Skaro may find their invitation rescinded smartly...). Where will you go? And which Doctor would you prefer to do the asking -or are they all your Doctor?

I'm a bit torn. The Sängerkrieg at the Wartburg comes to mind - I've always wanted to meet Wolfram von Eschenbach; or it would be facinating to go to Leipzig and hear Bach in its original setting and under the supervision of the man himself. I think I'd most want to travel with the second or the fifth Doctor. Of course, if it was Five who asked me, the possibility of a trip to some great Test Match would suggest itself - one of the Bodyline series, perhaps? Or even further back...?

(I now have a totally fluffy plot bunny in which Five drags the Brigadier to a historic cricket match - possibly, to be really self-indulgent, a pre-war Varsity match featuring a batsman with a distinctive late cut....)

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[ms-wanderlust.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful thought! My imagination is working overtime now, but the trip which came to mind most speedily would be one to the court of Elizabeth I with either the fifth or current Doctor. The short mini-episode during Children In Need last Friday featuring the two of them together was a little taste of heaven for me :)

[tree_and_leaf]

That sounds interesting, though I'd recommend going with Five, since Ten seems to have got on Elizabeth's nerves!

I love Five; mostly I love Ten, but he gets on my nerves at times as well... and I don't think he was terribly fair to Martha.

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[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Oh you have to write this!

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[tree_and_leaf]

I've just been looking at the University Match page on Wikipedia, and note that in 1911 one PR le Couteur scored a century and took all ten wickets. A bit of a one man show, that!

It's a shame that the Nawab of Patudi was after Peter's time:

In 1931, he scored 1307 runs for Oxford and finished on top of the Oxford averages with 93. In the university game that year, A. Ratcliffe scored 201 for Cambridge, a new record. Pataudi declared that he would beat it, and hit 238* on the very next day. This stood as a record for a university match until 2005. He died of a heart attak while playing polo.

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[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

note that in 1911 one PR le Couteur scored a century and took all ten wickets.
Hogging the limelight! And also explaining why LPW didn't get the vacant England place.

The Nawab of Pataudi sounds a fairly impressive chap, although I bet Ratcliffe was peeved.

I have no idea where I would go with the doctor - once it would have been to see Alexander the Great do something impressive, but I'm not sure now. And I'd go with whichever one was most likely to bring me back in one piece to the correct time and place!

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[tree_and_leaf]

I have a feeling that might be Ten, acutally - and you're right, it's an important consideration!

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[eryaforsthye.livejournal.com]

I'd love to read it as well! :D
I miss the Brigadier and you write him wonderfully. :)

Now, I'd either go with Three or Eight, and I'd probably choose Ancient India (pre-Aryan 'invasion'), as it's often described as the most advanced ancient culture in human history, and as I am half Indian, it would be fascinating to take a look at so beautiful, so powerful, a country at its best. :)

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[tree_and_leaf]

Thank you... I'll see what I can do. I love the Brigadier myself, as is probably highly obvious.

That's a fascinating choice - it would really be something to see - even more interesting than Barbara's trip to the Aztecs *g*

I've thought of another option for me - listening to an Anglo-Saxon performance of Beowulf. Though I do wonder how the TARDIS deals with poetry!

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

That's easy - I've always wanted to see Pluto. When doesn't really matter, as I don't think it changes much over time, being airless and cold and all.

I suppose I'd ask for Nine - to me he's somehow become the real Doctor.

[tree_and_leaf]

Ah, but is it a planet? Does sound admirably adventurous, though!

[snorkackcatcher]

Well, if we're picking sporting events, I think Goodison Park for the 1894 Cup Final would be a good one. :) Not sure which Doctor -- Nine sounds like he'd be a footy fan, but with that accent would probably be a Bolton supporter ...

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Well, you never know - he might have supported Blackburn and therefore viewed himself as above it all...

Bolton tried their best, but were labouring under severe disadvantages. Paton was swathed in bandages, Gardiner wasn't fit, Bentley was ill, Somerville was troubled with a facial injury and shouldn't have played, and Hughes got hurt only five minutes after the start.

Ah, the good old days :)

But you're right, I can't see any of the others as interested in football. Although you never know with Four, and Two might be willing to give it a go....

[ellid.livejournal.com]

The Texas School Book Depository on November 22, 1963, to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from entering the building.

Barring that, the Western Front early in the Great War, to make sure that a corporal in the List Regiment did *not* survive the initial fighting, thus sparing the world the horror that was Adolf Hitler.


As for something fun - I'd love to hear Farinelli sing opera, or see the Last Supper before it began flaking to ruins.

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Sadly, in Doctor Who canon that sort of interference now seems to lead to the world being eaten by giant dragons (though it didn't when Four tried to destroy the Daleks in their infancy); but it looks like the premise for a lot of angst, however worthy!

Both your fun options are very appealing.

[ms-wanderlust.livejournal.com]

Reading your second idea, did you ever read "Making History" by Stephen Fry? It starts with the same kind of premise. Really amusing and interesting read! (Hello, by the way...sorry to leap in at your comment without introducing myself!)

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

Please can I go with you to see Wolfram? I'd happily leave any or all the Doctors behind.

(Which is kinda not the point, is it? Sorry)

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Ah,but do you trust me to be able to work the TARDIS? (Mind you, as dolorous_ett pointed out, the Doctor is not exactly infalible himself, in any of his iterations...)

[sacred-sarcasm.livejournal.com]

I'd quite like to visit the Narnian Marshwiggles with the Fourth Doctor - if that doesn't count as an alternate world. We could do handwavy paradox explanations if it does. (My fondness to make this trip won't make much sense unlesss you've seen the BBC Narnia dramatisations)

Or I'd like to visit King Solomon with Ten, or perhaps to go and see Ezekiel when he's living in exile in Babylon. (The rumour that Ezekiel's visions are the result of the Doctor accidentally leaving some LSD around is entirely unfounded)

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I'd quite like to visit the Narnian Marshwiggles with the Fourth Doctor - if that doesn't count as an alternate world. We could do handwavy paradox explanations if it does.

*brain melts, for the obvious reasons* I've only seen bits of the BBC Silver Chair, and had difficulty with it. T Baker acted it well, but the trouble is that his voice is so distinctive that I kept thinking 'This is the Doctor on depressants...'

King Solomon would be fun, and it sounds cheerier than calling on Ezekiel, though that would doubtless be fascinating too.

(The rumour that Ezekiel's visions are the result of the Doctor accidentally leaving some LSD around is entirely unfounded)

Maybe he accidentally opened the heart of the TARDIS?