The Next 20 Years (comic story)

For the Doctor's twentieth anniversary, everybody is taking a look back at his programme. However, borrowing the TARDIS affords a much more interesting view: the next twenty years.

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Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

In 1985, Adric returns after the BBC finally give in to pressure from the Bring Back Adric Fan Club which consists solely of his mother.
1988 marks the appearance of the first female Dr Who. She orders new wallpaper and carpet to be installed into her TARDIS and one decorator uses pink paint.
1990 sees the Master's most cunning disguise to date which fools even their companion into believing the Master is the Doctor.
In 1993, a Dalek, Cyberman, Mechonoid and Giant Robot team-up to form the heaviest Heavy Metal band ever.
In 1995, there are twelve incarnations of the Doctor around.
In 1998, the third Dr Who movie, made by Stan Demile Productions Ltd, finally gets underway at the script session. The writers suggest to each other that they could write-out the TARDIS and make the Doctor a surgeon in a Birmingham hospital and also bring in a wombat to show it's a family film.
In 2000, the Doctor Who Cottage (Police Box) Industries is formed. The Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Doctors are involved and announce that recorders, sonic screwdrivers, hand-knitted scarfs and willow cricket bats respectively are available to purchase.
In 2003, as the mania for Doctor Who-related merchandise grew, Patrick Troughton is sold for eighty-eight million pounds at a convention.

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Obviously none of these predictions for the future of Doctor Who came true. Of particular note, by 1995 there were still only seven Doctors and a female Doctor hadn't appeared on television by 1988 and did not do so until 1999's The Curse of Fatal Death ^[+]Loading...["The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)"] with Joanna Lumley's Thirteenth Doctor and not in a regular episode until Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor in 2017's Twice Upon a Time ^[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"].