You sign 'Prince of Darkness'? Try 'Squire of Dimness'. -- Tori Amos, She's Your Cocaine

Tales from /lost+found 22: Starcross’d

I know what you’re thinking, but David Hasslehoff’s guest appearance on Eureka! didn’t happen until after the series had ended, so it doesn’t really count.

DVD Box Art from hypothetical Doctor Who starring Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson
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Tales from /lost+found 21: Choose Your Own Wikipedia

Archived from the Tardis Data Core Wiki. Oh, you should have heard the complaints from rec.arts.drwho when they changed up the logo.

Transcript below the fold.

Doctor Who Logo Wiki Article
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Tales from /lost+found 16 You are likely to be eaten by a Grue

I miss Full Motion Video games. Wish they’d try it again now that the technology and video game budgets makes it vaguely feasible and you don’t need to ship on 16 CDs.

 

Doctor Who Alternative Adventure Game
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Obviously, though, the rail-shooter sequence was a mistake.

Tales from /lost+found 15: In Which the Hoff is Hassled

As you can tell by the color of the paper, this is the sixth revision of the shooting script for the Doctor Who fortieth anniversary special. Numerous rewrites were required to accommodate David HasslehoffHasselhoff’s insistence that his character not come off as “a total poindexter”. Transcript below the fold.

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Tales from /lost+found 13: End of Line

A number of fans were vocally angered when the events of this book, particularly in reference to the circumstances of the seventh Doctor’s regeneration, were contradicted by the 2003 episode “The Terrible Zodin”.

Doctor Who: The Dying Days alternate universe cover
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  • The Dying Days by Lance Parkin has been out of print for years, but an ebook version is available from The Internet Archive