The Doctor's Every Journey 97
jc79 writes "David McCandless of InformationIsBeautiful.net has created a crowdsourced dataset of every time travel journey the Doctor made in every episode of the series since 1963. Who wants to visualise it?" Previous efforts have resulted in this amazing visualization of time travel intersecting Bill & Ted, Back to the Future, Time Bandits, Buck Rogers, Planet of the Apes and many more.
Dr Who and the Daleks, 1965 c Peter Cushing (Score:3, Informative)
Looks like they could use a bit more fandominium!
Missing episodes (Score:5, Informative)
I noticed that on the master sheet, he went from "Day of the Dinosaurs" to "Ark in Space" - missing the Jon Pertwee stories "Death to the Daleks", "The Monster of Peladon", "Planet of the Spiders", and the Tom Baker story "Robot"
I know he says that the master sheet only contains those which have time travel, but this is clearly false - "The Monster of Peladon" takes place a century after "The Curse of Peladon", which is also missing. Also, in "Planet of the Spiders", takes place both in the 1970s, and far in the future (he speaks with a civilization made up of the descendents of a wrecked Earth space ship.)
Re:Missing episodes (Score:3, Informative)
I realize that. However my criticism is about the time travel we *did* see on TV.
Curse of Peladon/Monster of Peladon were series 9 and 11 respectively. We see the Doctor (with Jo in "Curse" and Sarah in "Monster") when he first arrives on the Peladon and steps out of the Tardis.
Planet of the Spiders was Jon Pertwee's last series - we see the time travel actually happen.
So I'm not sure what you're on about. Perhaps you're responding to the wrong post? :)
Not quite complete (Score:5, Informative)
It does seem miss some instances of time travel in the middle of a story. For instance, near the end of Smith and Jones, he goes back to the beginning of the day to take his tie off at Martha, and during Vincent and the Doctor, there were two round trips from 2010 to 1890, of which only the first leg is reported here.
OK, I may be over-nerding here even on a nerd topic.
Re:Wiki for predictions in fiction (Score:3, Informative)
"2190 - First contact with aliens (Star Trek: First Contact)"
First Contact happens on 5 April, 2063.
Re:Help me out here... (Score:3, Informative)
The good starting point is at the beginning. 679 episodes, that take up 202Gb, and are available on your friendly neighborhood bit torrent (titled "Doctor Who Seasons 1 to 26"). Don't worry, it'll take a few months to download.
If my script worked properly, the total runtime is 1,023,749.521 seconds. Or in something a little easier to understand. 11 days, 20 hours, 22 minutes, and 26.521 seconds. That's assuming all the files worked, there is no gap between episodes (add 11.31 minutes, if there is a 1 second gap between episodes). If you dedicated full work weeks to it, it would be 284.374 hours, or 7.1 normal work work weeks (assuming 40 hours). Give yourself 2 months of not working, and being glued to the TV in your mothers basement.
Unfortunately, this has started a discussion of having a DoctorWhoConThon (Doctor Who Convention and Marathon). Segmented into 12 hour runs, to be played twice (for those who fell out during the first run that day), it would take 24 days.