To anyone involved with the first Doctor (William Hartnell) and the early years of the show: During your time, so many "firsts" were established: the first companions, the first appearance of the Daleks, the first historical story, the first return of a previous villain, etc. And so many characteristic images or narrative tropes were established: the Doctor in an apparently deadly spot cliffhanger, the unseen monster attacks someone on camera, etc. These things have all become part of the grammar of the show. What other sorts of lasting impacts do you think you or your period had on the show? What do you see now and say, "That's pure Bill Hartnell" or "That's straight out of Episode 1.4" etc?
To anyone who played a companion:
What other Doctors do you think would make for an interesting pairing with you? And I don't mean as actors, but I mean as characters: which incarnation of the Doctor besides the one(s) you served with would be an interesting counterpart for your companion? (I'd ask the same question of the Doctors re: companions)
To Stephen Moffat and/or Russel T. Davies:
Over its long original run, Doctor Who went through so many versions and tones. What eras do you think are particularly influential for your vision of the show? I'm thinking of the Sylvester McCoy/Andrew Cartmel years as particularly important for the style of the new Who, do you think that's the case?
To anyone involved in the show, but particularly the Doctors:
In those episodes where the Doctor meets past (or future) incarnations of himself, he never seems to much care for them. Why do you think that is? Do you think any particular Doctors would get along remarkably well or poorly, and why?
To Stephen Moffat:
Speaking of Doctors meeting themselves, the old series had a few fairly celebrated occurrences of just that. On the new series, there have been a few teases of the same (the Next Doctor, the Impossible Astronaut) as well as the brief cameo of Peter Davison in a short. Do you think you'll ever do any full-blown Doctor cross-overs? If not, why do you think they don't fit with the new series? If so, what do you think they add to the show, and would you want to combine Old & New series Doctors, just one or the other, or what?
To Stephen Moffat:
You've said that you plan to keep the Daleks off-screen for a while, as their threat becomes diminished when the Doctor beats them handily on a regular basis. Besides simply keeping them off the air, what other ways do you think are useful for keeping the threat of villains palpable, for keeping the tension alive?
To Stephen Moffat and/or Russel T. Davies:
How do you manage the tension between Doctor Who as an ongoing serial with an indefinite (perhaps non-existent?) end-date, something that in a sense requires a return to status quo every week, a minimizing of changes
and Doctor Who as a story with a beginning, middle, and end, that has to develop and go somewhere or else will become stale? Do you feel more of an obligation to change the Doctor and his world or to expand it and keep the series alive for as long as possible?
To anyone involved with the show:
What are the most threatening villains of the series, and why?
I had some others, but I can't remember them now.
