The Science of Doctor Who by Mark Brake

Author:Mark Brake
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510757875
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2020-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

“In the 1965 Daleks story ‘The Chase,’ the crew of the TARDIS are shown ‘rocking out’ to a clip of the Fab Four performing ‘Ticket to Ride’ on Top of the Pops. A traveler from the future remarks that she’s heard of The Beatles, but didn’t realize they sang ‘classical music.’ Thanks to a BBC archive purge, this is the only surviving footage of the band on Top of the Pops.”

—Tim Martin et al., The Beatles Briefly Made Who Rock, in The Daily Telegraph (2015)

Now that we are well into the twenty-first century, folk are hollering ever louder about the broken promises of sci-fi. Where the hell are our flying cars, they whine. Why isn’t commercial space travel a thing yet, they moan. Despite humanity’s ongoing efforts at copying the jet packs, the hoverboards, and the flying machines we all raved about as kids, they pale in comparison next to all the amazing vehicles promised to us by decades of sci-fi. On the other hand, many of the memorable vehicles of Doctor Who have been so downright weird that hardly anyone is whining and moaning for R&D teams to get cracking and convert the Doctor’s dreams into reality. So here’s a sample of those weirdly memorable vehicles from more than five decades of Doctor Who.

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