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

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

  4. 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.)

  5. 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?

  6. 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".

  7. 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.

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

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

  9. 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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