Media Essays: Doctor Who Crossover Ideas
- mediarocks94
- Apr 9
- 18 min read

Written by The Wandering Fox
The Wandering Fox is in a dark suit and white tie looking depressed as he holds a card saying “Will miss you, Doctor Who” in his hand.
Oh don’t mind me, I’m just suiting up for the funerals of Doctor Who, I think all the others are finally catching onto the fact the show hasn’t been on good form since 2020. I’ll be there for the funeral of the franchise. But still, let me get back in my typical garb.
Leaves and comes back in his basic costume, looking a bit brighter.
Okay, I’m back and if you hadn’t guessed it, yes, this is about Doctor Who. Though I refuse to watch the show these days after how badly RTD screwed up his latest series, I still have lots of love for the show in its old days, as you know I love the Classic era a lot more and I’ve found lots to enjoy from a few older Big Finish stories. Though Doctor Who has been around for a long while, it’s rarely had crossovers with other franchises. It has with some for worse.

Get the heck out of here with that crap. Crossing over with EastEnders which is one of the most horrific of things ever on TV, it’s depressing, the acting is rubbish, it’s lazy as heck, and I’m baffled as to how anybody can proudly call themselves writers on such a freak show. And boy didn’t Dimensions in Time leave you feeling like you were embarrassed to be a Doctor Who fan? It’s up there with Orphan 55 and Dot and Bubble.
But then it crossed over with something more up its street.

Doctor Who and Star Trek, I mean yeah, both debuted in the 60s, you have the Eleventh Doctor meeting Jean Luc Picard, the Fourth Doctor meeting Kirk and Spock battling Cybermen. Awesome. Just a shame it’s next crossover was with Lower Decks.
But still, having been a Doctor Who fan for so long I obviously have moved on and fallen in love with other franchises over the years whether it’s certain stories within manga, horror or fantasy or comics, you do to think about what a crossover would be like. The only problems with crossovers is that you have to try and really get the feeling right and balance out both sides otherwise you end up doing a very one sided story. But I’m here to offer you some ideas as to what Doctor Who could crossover with and how it can work. So, sit back, get your sonic screwdrivers out and hopefully enjoy the ideas I have for you.
Let’s start with:
Black Butler

Let’s see, you have a rich British boy who is the Earl of the Phantomhive estate and serves Queen Victoria as her criminal watchdog in the criminal realm, has a demonic Butler working for him, both are quite the detectives in solving mysteries be it human or mystical, that can easily work for a crossover with Doctor Who. Helps with Sebastian’s voice actor being a Doctor Who fan and did a fan film for it. The Doctor would make quite a character for Ciel and Sebastian to team up with. Question is, how can it be done?
Depending on which Doctor it is, I’d go with the Tenth Doctor as, whether I like it or not, he’s the most popular of the current Doctors as Tennant is a draw for a lot of fans in fiction. Id have him maybe with Rose, giving you that sense of fun that he had in his first series. Rose can work as well as being somebody who empathises with Ciel over the deaths of his parents though she herself realises something truly horrid happen to Ciel as he is very fearful of anybody getting close to him physically. The Doctor I think would have quite the complex relationship with Sebastian, as both characters are very ancient guys and though the Doctor has done his fair share of killing and manipulating others he at least strives to do good but sees Sebastian as a lowlife who serves only himself after realising his and Ciel’s dark contract. Sebastian would be somewhat iffy with the Doctor as aside from the Grim Reapers he hasn’t met somebody as old or as complex as the Doctor and can see the Doctor has gone through lots of trauma and battles though he respects the Doctor despite the dislike he has for him. The Doctor would indeed try to save Ciel from Sebastian and help him but Ciel, who comes to greatly respect the Doctor, tells him that he made this choice to die as he feels there’s nothing left for him. Ciel would be quite amazed by the Doctor’s brains and is hardly surprised to find out he’s an alien.
Exactly what the crossover would be about, it’d be about the Autons and Nestene Consciousness trying to take over the Earth in the 19th century as the rise in shops and fashion businesses makes it right for them to take over, with them teaming with a crazed scientist whom the Queen is concerned about and has Ciel and Sebastian investigate. They’d be getting themselves there sooner to the scientist if the Doctor and Rose didn’t suddenly appear in the Phantomhive Manor with Sebastian not having any idea of how they got here. After interrogating them, Ciel has them kept at the manor while he and Sebastian go to meet the scientist, though the Doctor and Rose do end up getting along with Mey-Rin, Finny and Baldroy. The Doctor sneaks into Ciel’s office and finds the letter the Queen sent him and he goes over this with Rose and a curious Finny, the TARDIS had been taken to this point in time as it had detected a strange signal coming from the 19th century. Guessing Ciel could be in trouble, the Doctor and Rose go back to the TARDIS and leaves the Phantomhive staff in shock as they watch the TARDIS dematerialise.
Ciel and Sebastian arrive at the scientist’s home and greet him but are surprised a Grim Reaper, Ronald Knox, is there acting as his assistant. Ciel talks with the scientist of his creation, to which he reveals he has created an electronic signal device which can make dummies walk on their own. Sebastian though talks with Ronald, who tells him somebody will die soon but it’s a strange and ancient being who is to die. Ciel questions the scientist of wether the dummies can be controlled and he assures Ciel he does, though Ciel can tell he’s not to be trusted and he can feel a slight humming coming from underneath the floor and it sounds as if it’s breathing . The Doctor and Rose then come and though relieved Ciel is okay the Doctor introduces himself as John Smith and he’d like to take a look at the dummy he has. Ciel is angered the Doctor and Rose got away and tells the scientist they’re a couple of lunatics who have following him, hence he and Sebastian take them away. The Doctor and Rose however lure Ciel and Sebastian to the TARDIS while Ronald is disturbed by them, as he can tell the Doctor and Rose don’t belong here. In the TARDIS the Doctor brings Ciel and Sebastian back to Phantomhive Manor, in which a shocked Ciel and Sebastian exit it and realise the Doctor and Rose aren’t your normal folk. With this he has the Doctor and Rose settle for a bit of food.
While eating, Ciel carefully takes in how the Doctor and Rose are with each other while Sebastian can’t help but sense there is something old about the Doctor. Ciel ends up talking with the Doctor and theorises that though Rose is clearly human he can tell the Doctor is like Sebastian, something otherwordly that looks human but isn’t. The Doctor takes in how Ciel clearly isn’t that amazed but Ciel tells him in his experience he’s come to accept there’s a lot out there other than demons. The Doctor assures Ciel he’s on his side and they both want to get to the heart of this. The Doctor and Ciel then go in the TARDIS, travelling forward in time to the evening and take the dummy the scientist had, then brings it back to Phantomhive manor to examine it. Rose is sure it’s an Auton though the Doctor has to be sure first. Looking at its hand they find it’s gun and this convinces the Doctor the Nestene Consciousness is here. Ciel takes this in and explains the scientist had formerly been working for the royal family until he left to set up a bit of business.
The Manor is then surrounded by Autons which try to get to the dummy. The Doctor and Rose help lock a few doors but some of the Autons get in though they watch in surprise as the manor staff fight them and crush the Autons, Sebastian easily slashing them up, Finny shattering them, Baldroy and May-Rin gunning them, Ciel shooting another’s face. With the Autons defeated, Ciel guesses they have enough on them to arrest the scientist. He thanks the Doctor and Rose for their help and goes to arrest the scientist, but to his and Sebastian’s surprise the scientist has created a duplicate of them both which horrifies Ciel enough he’s left petrified. Sebastian tries to snap Ciel out of it but the Auton duplicates shoot Sebastian and he’s stunned by how strong their projectiles are that it has him bleed a lot. However, before they can be killed, the TARDIS materialises on them. The scientist sends his Auton duplicates to go to Queen Victoria and kill her while he sends a few Auton duplicates of the guards in a carriage to kill the real guards. In the TARDIS Rose holds Ciel’s hand while the Doctor telepathically talks with him, helping him walk past the duplicate in his mind. Though Ciel is thankful he doesn’t like Rose holding his hand. Sebastian has healed himself and suggests they get to Buckingham Palace to save the Queen. The Doctor and Rose agree but can’t leave the TARDIS or see the Queen as she doesn’t like them. Ciel and Sebastian are taken there and they convince the Charles’s that the duplicates are here ti kill the queen, hence they battle the duplicates and defeat them, with Ciel bitterly defeating his duplicate. With them stopped, the Doctor, Rose, Ciel and Sebastian confront the scientist and the Nestene Consciousness. It turns out the scientist is working for the Torchwood Institute and came in contact with the Nestene Consciousness, it offered him all the things he wanted if he helped them kill Queen Victoria. Ciel shoots him which horrifies the Doctor though he quickly gets out his retronic radio device to kill the Nestene, with Ronald taking in the Death Record of the Nestene Consciousness.
Going back to the manor, the Doctor and Rose are concerned for Ciel’s health. The Doctor tells Ciel he didn’t just see the duplicate. He saw ALL of it. Everything that happened to him, the contract he made with Sebastian. The Doctor offers to free him but Ciel angrily retorts he won’t, he made his choice and he has nothing else to live for, all that matters to him is getting revenge. The Doctor scolds Sebastian and tells him if he finds out when Ciel dies, he will be there to stop him, at which Sebastian chuckles and hopes to see the Doctor try. It’s then the Charles come to the Manor demanding the Doctor and Rose, who flee to the TARDIS, the Charles’ revealing to Ciel that the Queen had them exiled. In the TARDIS the Doctor looks up on Ciel’s death date but finds it’s in flux. He hopes it’s resolved and he can get there to stop Sebastian devouring Ciel. At the Manor, Sebastian questions Ciel on why he didn’t take advantage of the TARDIS to go back to his family’s death to which Ciel tells him he knows changing the past would complicate a lot of things in the present, and he and Sebastian have a contract, though as he sleeps, Ciel does dream of a life his family lived.
The story starts as your basic Black Butler story, Ciel is given a letter by the Queen to investigate somebody dodgy, the Grim Reapers are involved, Ciel is manipulative and perceptive enough to notice something is amiss and fools the scientist in thinking he’s merely a little boy interested in toy making, but reveals he’s a sharpshooter. The Doctor and Rose making sure to avoid Queen Victoria ties back to Tooth and Claw with her knighting and exiling them, they are there as well to help our darker heroes understand they are dealing with something that isn’t of Earth. I also thought that it’d be better not to have the Doctor Who side of things lean on the main story of Black Butler of Ciel wanting to find and kill those who killed his family, hence this isn’t including the likes of Undertaker and Grell but at least others like the Charles and Ronald have their chance for the crossover. For why the Nestene Conciseness is here a century early, they explain to the Doctor it had laid pods on Earth centuries ago and most of them are destroyed but this pod survived and began taking control of the nearby plastics, tricking the scientist in thinking the dummies were his own.
I think a animated take on this can work as with Ciel and Sebastian having quite the great dialogue and their actors doing a great job it’d be only right it’s done with actors and Tennant and Piper can give it their greatest with Briana and J.Michael.
With that done, what else could Doctor Who crossover with?
The Evil Dead

Oh think about it. The Necronomicon finally has the Doctor face the dead, there’s time travel in the Evil Dead series, it works. For who’d be the baddie here it’s obviously the Kandarian Demon who terrorised Ash in the second movie but the Master is here as well. The Doctor here is the Fourth Doctor and his companion Leela. Ash is in the story, awakened a lot earlier than he should’ve after Army of Darkness.
The story sees the Doctor and Leela landing the TARDIS in the 1500s after the TARDIS is detecting time distortions from there. The TARDIS arrives near a burial site led by a priest who is the Master, saying he’s been told to find the Book of the Dead for King Henry to achieve immortality. The burial site however is home to Ash Williams, who is awakened a lot earlier than he should’ve, his chainsaw and shotgun of interest to the lot who are here. The Doctor and Leela tend to Ash though the Master, who has a disguise, tells the warriors that these are traitors to the crown and they have to be imprisoned. Ash can tell the Doctor isn’t from this period thanks to his clothing and he plays along with the Master, who asks him where the Necronomicon is. Ash tells him to get stuffed and knocks him aside with his gauntlet before freeing the Doctor and Leela. Escaping back to the TARDIS, the Doctor asks Ash where the Necronomicon is. Foe wants to dispose of it in space. Ash tells him it was 1300 AD and tells them the date of when he went to sleep. The TARDIS arrives at Kandar castle but the Doctor is too late as the Master has killed the guards and taken the book on his TARDIS, having followed them here. Going back to the 1500s, they try convincing everybody to not listen to the Master as he opens the book, he wants to grant himself more regenerations. Ash ends up shooting the Master with his shotgun and this causes the Master to stop during mid translation, at which the Kandarian Demon reawakens and begins to possess the warriors, though the Master stops it from killing him, telling it that he can take it to Galifrey and let it rule all of time and space. The Demon agrees but wants Ash dead, the Master wants the Doctor dead, hence they team up.
The Doctor, Leela and Ash try to escape to the TARDIS but are stopped by the possessed warriors, hence they retreat to a ship the warriors had been on. The Doctor has Ash and Leela fend off the warriors while he rigs the ship to be sunk. Getting a lifeboat out, the Doctor, Leela and Ash escape and get to a cave. There, the Doctor and Leela argue with Ash for shooting the Master, Ash confesses he was scared and didn’t want the Master to bring back the Deadites, bluntly admitting he always screws up. The Doctor reads the Necronomicon and sees there is a translation which could send the demon back to its own dimension. The Master hears this having traced the Doctor to the cave and has the demon catch him and Leela though Ash escapes. The Master seems to be ready to kill the Doctor but he first tells the demon to eat Leela so he can watch the Doctor’s face be full of despair at losing his friend. Leela is almost eaten but Ash comes with his chainsaw and chops the wooden hands of the demon off her while the Doctor knocks the Master aside though he loses the book. The Master wants to kill the demon but plays along though he summons the dead warriors back to life and they chase the heroes. Though Leela and Ash cut down as much as they can, they are wearing out. The Master takes a gun and tries to kill them but is then grabbed by the demon, which tells him only it can kill Ash, throwing him aside. The Doctor catches the book and begins to translate the spell though the Master grapples with him until Ash gets the book and translates the spell which sends the demon back to its dimension, taking the Master and his TARDIS with it. With this done, the Doctor and Leela take Ash back to his own time with the Doctor complimenting Ash on being a helpful idiot while Ash tells the Doctor to always watch his buddy’s backs. The Doctor and Leela leave and throw the book in space. It ends with the Master getting out of the Deadites dimension and is livid he failed to grant himself other regenerations.
This would have to be told in comic form as though Tom Baker is still alive, I don’t know how long the legend is with us for and I don’t think Bruce Campbell or Sam Raimi would do a animated version so it’d have to be a comic. The Master here appears as how he did in The Deadly Assassin and Keeper of Traken with him in his last body and trying to find a way of gaining more regenerations.
After this, what else could Doctor Who crossover with? Here’s where it gets ambitious but I think it could truly do it.
We go to Disney. They have lots of things on them but what I’m thinking of isn’t to do with their superhero franchise or their cartoons. This is to do with their own sci-fi properties though it won’t be Star Wars as the idea I did have for it was perhaps a bit too ambitious, hence I’m moving onto what else they own here.
Aliens and Predator

With these guys having had their own crossover together, I thought that maybe Doctor Who meeting them both would make for a intriguing crossover. And hey, the Xenomorphs did make a cameo in Mark of the Rani why not then?
The story is set on another planet and a lone alien woman calls for help in her control room before dragged away. The TARDIS then arrives and out steps the Twelfth Doctor, having caught the distress call and starts investigating, finding traces of acid and hints of a battle with a bit of slime. He then notices a trio of red lights coming down on him to which he looks back at where they’re coming from and finds its owner is invisible. The lights then fade and the Doctor goes out to investigate, he’s in a jungle like planet. The Doctor is then ambushed by a Xenomorph, which tries to stab him in his head with its tongue, only for a blade to slash through the Xenomorph’s head, its acid blood slightly staining the Doctor’s jacket. The Doctor gets up and finds the Predator had saved him and it tries telling him to leave but it then flees after a ship then arrives. The rescue team find the Doctor and think he was the alien than requested for help. The Doctor acts as such and secretly turns the room’s controls on and starts working on its scanners, finding that there is another ship other the TARDIS’s and the rescue team’s ship, as well as a few tunnels with some hints of life in them. The gunmen of the rescue team go with the Doctor to investigate, finding hints of tombs inside but there’s a strange layout to the tunnels. The Doctor and the gunmen are then ambushed by the Xenomorphs who kill a few of them and there’s a cave in which at first leaves the Doctor trapped until the Predator returns and kills a few of the Xenomorphs and helps the Doctor escape. The Predator takes the Doctor to its ship where the Doctor recognises its technology matches the tombs he found and deduces that the Predator is responsible for the Xenomorphs. The Predator had taken a few dead Predators back on its ship, the planet is a hunting ground for Predators who hunt Xenomorphs for better skills at hunting, having sacrificed a few humans to give birth to Xenomorphs. The Predator the Doctor is with ended up sent here to destroy the Xenomorph hive but a researcher group on the planet fell to them. The Doctor hears then the rescue team’s ship is besieged by the Xenomorphs. The Doctor and the Predator get back with the Predator fighting its way through the Xenomorphs while the Doctor gets the last survivors to the TARDIS, which he materialises on the ship in orbit. The Predator ends up destroying the Xenomorphs with its gauntlet explosive and is about to die with them but the TARDIS materialises and the Predator is inside. The Doctor tells it that it at least did the right thing. A Xenomorph did sneak in the TARDIS and tries killing the Doctor but the Predator saves him. The Doctor takes the Predator back to its home planet where it is given a big welcome by its fellow Predators for killing the Xenomorphs. Intrigued by the Doctor, the Predator tributes him in its home with a carving of the TARDIS and a canvas drawing of the Doctor. In the TARDIS the Doctor is annoyed by the damage his coat took and goes to the TARDIS knitting room to do some work on it.
This story would have to be told in comic form as well as Capaldi doesn’t want to reprise his Doctor and with a comic you could do a lot more with action and creating a alien jungle for the story to be on. I also had Twelve in his casual gear as well as I think with the jungle planet it’d be the best place for him to wear it. I also had it be that we have the Doctor uncover a bit of how Predators work and that they often breed Xenomorphs for a hunt to hone the skills of younger Predators though the younger they were the less wise they were and they ended up being killed by the Xenomorphs. It’s shown in Predator lore if this goes wrong another Predator is sent to kill the Xenomorphs. This Predator can also tell the Doctor isn’t a danger to it and works beside him.
With that, the last crossover I think that could work is.
Hellraiser

I think this story can truly work. You have there be a few disappearances and all that’s left behind is the Lament Configuration, all occurring in a small countryside with only the screams of those disappearing being the last that is heard. The disappearances catches the Doctor and Charley while they’re enjoying themselves at a café, who go to the last known disappearance where the Doctor has a gizmo on him that tells him there’s been temporal disturbances in the room, finding it goes back to the Lament Configuration, which is in the police evidence locker. Going there, they find the Lament Configuration and take it with them. In the TARDIS Charley feels herself drawn to it and ends up opening it, to which Pinhead and the Cenobites appear inside. Closing it, the Doctor ends up keeping it from Charley. The TARDIS is almost taken into a different dimension, giving the Doctor an idea. The Doctor instead takes it somewhere and then traps it within a electro field he’s generating with gizmos. He opens the Lament Configuration and steps back from it as Pinhead then appears but is now trapped within the electro field. The Doctor questions what he did to the others to which Pinhead explains they opened the box to experience pleasure. Charley didn’t want any pleasure though, to which Pinhead says she wanted knowledge and she wanted to experience it. Despite the electro field, Pinhead causes the gizmo to end up exploding. He sends his chains out at them though the Doctor and Charley get back in the TARDIS. Pinhead tries forcing his way in but upon sensing the TARDIS is a living thing he chooses to step back and brings the TARDIS into the Labyrinth. The Doctor and Charley leave the TARDIS which is then grabbed by chains and is taken by the Cenobites to Leviathan.
The Doctor and Charley struggle their way in the Labyrinth to get to Leviathan but end up facing their worst fears in a room which includes dark and twisted Daleks. They do find a human who had disappeared and tries to help them get to the TARDIS only to have lured them to Pinhead and the Cenobites, with the human just being a creature wearing his skin. Pinhead is curious about the Doctor as he can tell he isn’t human and has been around for ages, thinking he can create a good Cenobite out of him, though his TARDIS is proving to be resilient to Leviathan. The Doctor acts interested in the process of creating Cenobites and asks to be shown it. Easily telling the Doctor is trying to trick him, Pinhead has the Doctor and Charley wrapped in chains and shows them the process which basically does all kinds of grotesque things to humans to give them “experience”. Charley is angry and asks how they can’t see it’s torture, but to the Cenobites it isn’t, it’s experience, pleasure or pain does help the body and brain experience all things. The Doctor asks Pinhead if he’s sure he’s experienced everything, just getting his hands free and holds the Sonic Screwdriver to him before he then has it screw his pins harder in his skull, causing Pinhead a lot of pain. Freed, the Doctor and Charley dart to the TARDIS and leap inside. Pinhead sends his chains after them and they get inside, latching on the console. Charley tries closing the door though the chains won’t stop. The Doctor dematerialises the TARDIS but the chains still remain, the doors open to reveal they are by a portal that connects to the Labyrinth with Pinhead still there and Leviathan trying to get the TARDIS back. Pinhead wants to repay the Doctor for letting him feel such a thing. Hacking away at the chains, they are finally free from them with the Doctor closing the Lament configuration. Horrified, the Doctor throws it out in an icy planet, to never torment a living being ever again. The Doctor and Charley end up going to a lush planet to try and enjoy the wildlife, trying to forget what they had seen there.
This could be done through audio or TV. McGann could have a chance to play the Doctor for such a crossover and Fisher would easily return as Charley. Doug Bradley would be back as Pinhead as despite Jamie Clayton being a more accurate Pinhead, Doug would draw in a lot of guys to watch a crossover between the franchises.
There you have it. Those are crossovers I think could work with Doctor Who, though of course it’s all a fan idea. I’m curious as to what other Doctor Who fans think? You like these crossovers? Or don’t you? Do tell in the comments down below please. But hey, with that done I can go and get in with a lot of other works.
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