I’d like to see Peter Capaldi continue too :). Had some really good performances from him and he captures the character of the doctor, another facet, really well.

So, not for third season, who knows how many, but it would be nice to have a female doctor I think. Also would be nice to have a coloured doctor. Why not combine the two?

If I can be permitted to name anyone, even if not an actress and probably unlikely to accept the job, then I have a suggestion :). Suggestion for a fun character to be the next doctor.

As far as I know she isn’t an actress. And don’t suppose that she would have the time to be interested. But someone who I think would enjoy doing it, and in terms of character, the science and space fun and enthusiasm of Dr Maggie Aderin Pocock is very “Doctor Who” like I think. She is also interested in science fiction:

About here and her interest in science fiction in space and her life story.

If you haven’t seen her present:

I can imagine her as a fun Doctor Who :). Maybe also bring in some more real science into the program, could still be a lot of fun, not serious at all, but add in just a bit more of actual science as well.

If she can’t be the next doctor, I wonder if a cameo role? After all Patrick Moore who presented Sky at Night for so long, until he died and she and Chris Lintott took over, made a cameo appearance, in a Doctor Who spoof:

Spoof on Dead Ringers, with Jon Culshaw impersonating Tom Baker.

The spoof relates to the story line of Pyramids of Mars I think (correct me if I’m wrong)

He also appears in this children in Need clip, just opening the Tardis door and saying he always wanted to do that.

And then also appeared briefly as himself in a real Doctor Who episode “Eleventh Hour” though I can’t find a clip to share here.

DOCTOR WHO: What if PATRICK MOORE was The Doctor

WHAT ABOUT A NEW DOCTOR FOR JUST ONE EPISODE

I suppose what I’d like to see in a new doctor most of all is a return to the fun and enthusiasm of some of the early doctors. I’ve watched Doctor Who since the first episode came out, so from William Hartnell onwards. My favourites of the early doctors are Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker. The modern doctors have much more guilt and anguish, and also caught up in romantic tangles in one way or another. I can understand why that is needed with a new audience, and it is part of a spectrum with much that is also light in tone too. I do enjoy the modern doctor who and have many favourite episodes.

But I think it would do no harm to return at least occasionally to the earlier spirit of the show which is much lighter in tone. If it is too much to do that for an entire season, why not have a single episode with a new doctor.

We’ve had that already, with John Hurt (the “War Doctor”), also Paul McCann was a doctor just for one film. So why not a new guest star doctor for a single episode? That then would make it possible to explore some new slant without the feeling that this is a commitment for many future episodes.

If so, this could even happen right now, within a series of another doctor. I’m sure they could figure out some story line according to which Peter Capaldi becomes another doctor with a completely different character, in some kind of temporary regeneration, for a single episode.

Also the doctor need not even spend a lot of time on screen. For instance in “Blink” one of my favourites, the doctor hardly appears at all, yet his few appearances are very significant.

So you could have an episode with a guest doctor without them needing to make a huge time commitment, and perhaps even a non actor as they would not need to express the full range of emotions an actor has to express in a long running series. They could be pretty much themselves for that one episode.