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The Doctor's Every Journey

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the amy-pond-is-on-my-list dept.

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.

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  1. Last Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Last Post

    1. Re:Last Post by Heed00 · · Score: 5, Funny

      First Post.

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    2. Re:Last Post by Darth_brooks · · Score: 2, Funny

      First Post (Alternate time line.)

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  2. Need larger pipes on the inside than the outside by BSAtHome · · Score: 3, Funny

    A convergence in the time-space continuum has resulted in clogged internet pipes. The pipes should be bigger on the inside than the outside.

  3. Missing Time Tunnel by Jheralack · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I notice that Time Tunnel is missing. I don't think the list is restricted to good episodes and movies. Maybe including that would make the visualization too messy.

  4. Cut it with the "crowdsourcing" bullshit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Crowdsourcing" is one of the stupidest Web 2.0 terms yet devised.

    1. Re:Cut it with the "crowdsourcing" bullshit. by Zeek40 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, it is, but it takes a lot less time to type than "crossing my fingers and hoping other people will do the work I'm too lazy to do myself".

    2. Re:Cut it with the "crowdsourcing" bullshit. by clintp · · Score: 2, Funny

      Perhaps we could use "lazywebbed"?

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  5. immediate problem! by lostros · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not a crowdsourced dataset, it's more of a big timey-wimey ball.

  6. Have some respect! by dreamchaser · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the name of the late Senator Ted Stevens, they are TUBES man, TUBES!

    1. Re:Have some respect! by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 4, Funny

      In the name of the late Senator Ted Stevens...

      Hmmm... you know, I've never seen Ted Stevens and Davros in the same place at the same time. Coincidence, or something more sinister?

    2. Re:Have some respect! by Fatal67 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes we have. Oh wait.. maybe that hasn't happened yet for you..

    3. Re:Have some respect! by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You know what? You've inspired me. We should rename the Internet "The Ted Stevens Memorial Infotube Superhighway".

      Who's with me?

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  7. Dr Who and the Daleks, 1965 c Peter Cushing by AGMW · · Score: 2, Informative
    What about 1965 and Dr Who and the Daleks with Peter Cushing as the eponymous Dr.

    Looks like they could use a bit more fandominium!

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    1. Re:Dr Who and the Daleks, 1965 c Peter Cushing by hal2814 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      There is no clear canon for Doctor Who.

  8. Missing episodes by schon · · Score: 4, 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.)

    1. Re:Missing episodes by meringuoid · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Well, look, we can analyse the details of the plot and deduce the necessity for off-screen time travel. I mean, we know full well the Doctor has all manner of adventures that don't get televised, he was only ~600 when we first met him and now he claims to be in his 900s and everyone knows he's fibbing about that (and by the way, Doctor, regenerating as a younger man every time is fooling nobody). So there's centuries of the Doctor's life we simply don't see happen.

      Plotting only the time journeys that made it onto TV is more than enough of a job. Exploring the rest of the timey wimey ball... well, my monitor has only a two-dimensional display.

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    2. Re:Missing episodes by schon · · Score: 2, 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? :)

    3. Re:Missing episodes by jd · · Score: 2, Insightful

      He was 750 in the first season. Some of his off-screen adventures we know. Susan looked at a book on Revolutionary France and exclaimed that it wasn't right. Well, how did she know? The answer would seem obvious. She later mentions that the TARDIS has been a Sedan chair and an Iconic pillar. Given the gaps in her historical knowledge, it should be possible to infer which periods/places would most likely have been involved. (Susan only knows Earth history to the extent that she has been there, so what she knows = what she remembers from being there. She has almost zero background information from other sources.)

      Tom Baker's scarf was knitted by Nostradamus' wife. I could see the First Doctor accepting it as a gift then throwing it into a junk box when he returned to the TARDIS. I can't see it making it that far with the Second Doctor. The third would have refused it as outrageous.

      The First Doctor's remarks about birds in an alien sky imply that Earth is not the only world he visited in his pre-series travels after leaving Gallifrey. It's hard to infer from that what worlds he has been on, though.

      Using the the screen age:real age ratio for known first regenerations (there aren't many), I estimate Gallifreyans age at roughly 1/5th the rate of humans. On that basis, Susan is much too young to have graduated from the Time Academy. Romana was 160 and had only just graduated when she met The Doctor, Susan was less than half that - probably closer to 75 actual Earth years in order to appear only 15. We don't know how old she was when she left, but I'd be surprised if she'd spent more than 5-10 Earth-years traveling with The Doctor. Especially not with such limited knowledge of the universe. Given that the travels involve maybe a few days on each world at most, you're looking at well over a thousand adventures.

      (Perhaps her screaming so much was a warning sign of post-traumatic stress disorder.)

      This ignores any adventures The Doctor had prior to traveling with Susan. We know that he spent time working with a monk outside of the city on Gallifrey (Spider of the Planets). Given that that was not safe territory, he likely had more than a few scrapes there. Based on interview tapes with Carol Ann Ford, we know that she and William Hartnell thought it most likely they'd escaped from a war or cataclysm on their own world. The only such war we have any in-series knowledge about was the rebellion of Morbius, and The Doctor seemed rather more... aware of him than those present at the time of Morbius' second attempt. On that basis, I'll say that although we have no real knowledge of why The Doctor left, this seems more likely than the rather contrived and strained explanation regarding the Hand of Omega.

      So escaping from the uprising may well have been Susan's first "real" adventure. It seems a more likely explanation for her being there than looking after her grandfather (who, frankly, looked after her rather better than she did of him).

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  9. Buck Rogers? by multimediavt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I will have to RTFA, because I don't remember Buck Rogers ever time traveling. Even the old Buster Crabb version was devoid of time travel.

    I did notice that Star Trek was missing from the summary. I know they time traveled a lot! Especially, the Kirk Enterprise.

  10. Re:Height of Geek by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Commenting on it.

  11. Paradox by Smivs · · Score: 2, Funny

    I didn't have time to RTFA !

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  12. Wiki for predictions in fiction by Fallingcow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There ought to be some kind of wiki for fictional predictions. Not like "2430 - The Borg fight The Enterprise at Vega" but more like "2190 - First contact with aliens (Star Trek: First Contact)" or "2050 - World War III begins (some other show)" or "October 23, 2077 - Nuclear war between China and the US (Fallout)" (all dates made up by me except the last one).

    It'd be really cool to be able to see what sort of huge events were supposed to have happened on a given date according to some TV show, movie, book, or video game.

    Wikipedia has some pages that sort of serve this function, but they're all very incomplete or mixed up with real-life predictions, which are lame.

    1. Re:Wiki for predictions in fiction by Yaztromo · · Score: 2, Funny

      It'd be really cool to be able to see what sort of huge events were supposed to have happened on a given date according to some TV show, movie, book, or video game.

      In 2010, a joint American-Soviet crew will take the Leonov to Jupiter, in order to investigate a strange object orbiting the planet, and to ascertain what happened back in 2001 to the Discovery, whose orbit around Io is deteriorating rapidly.

      [Looks at calendar...]

      [Checks NASA's website...]

      Thanks a lot, you insensitive clod!!!

      Yaz.

    2. Re:Wiki for predictions in fiction by mano.m · · Score: 2, Informative

      "2190 - First contact with aliens (Star Trek: First Contact)"

      First Contact happens on 5 April, 2063.

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  13. Not quite complete by Mercano · · Score: 4, 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.

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    1. Re:Not quite complete by Duggeek · · Score: 2

      You clearly haven't even begun to over-nerd it...

      For instance, how many of those trips were done with the TARDIS and how many were with a simple wrist-bound Vortex Manipulator?

      Stick around... we skool y'all on how ta nerd it up.

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  14. Re:Help me out here... by JWSmythe · · Score: 2, 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.

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  15. Re:Yah, except by Nyder · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He got a new body when he has some powers of the Keeper of Traken remaining. I think he got more lives as a "thank-you" for his help in the Time Lord vs. Daleks Time War.

    I figured it was limited because there was more timelords, since he's the only one left, there's no point in limiting it.

    Since the tardis helps with it, and the tardis is telepathic & whatnot, then that makes sense. It knows to keep regenerating him because there isn't any others left.

    At least, that's how I'd get around the limit if i wrote for them.

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