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Review of The One Doctor by thedefinitearticle63

21 January 2025

This review contains spoilers!

This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: The Queen of Clocks


This is one of the funniest Doctor Who stories I've done in ages. It starts off with a simple premise of someone impersonating the Doctor - TARDIS, companion and all. It turns into an extremely fun Douglas Adams-y adventure where the real Doctor and the impostor are forced to team up with each other's companions to go on a quest for "three great treasures" to save an entire system from total obliteration.

These quests are really funny, The Doctor goes off to a gameshow being played wherein the contestant is an all-knowing databank and never gets any questions wrong. There were some really funny gags about the usual ways to combat this and I found the solution in the end to be quite clever. Mel meanwhile is at a furniture store and she's forced to build an unbuildable set of shelves by really absurd robots.

What this story really is, is a parody of Doctor Who and it's absolutely brilliant. It's clearly done with love though. The cast are really giving their all, 6 and Mel feel like a perfect TARDIS team for this and the impostor Doctor and companion complement them perfectly. The Delaware theme playing was an odd touch, it certainly surprised me and it really added to the ridiculousness of the story.

Overall a really good story, even if it was made by a really awful person.


Next Story: The Juggernauts