The Episodes of the Daleks, catchy
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Ik but itâs more common to shorten it to that from what Iâve seen in the fandom (and distinguishes it more from the others. One letter initialisms are next to useless)
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This topic isnât meant to be practical, to be fair.
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Iâve heard WBY for Wild Blue Yonder quite a bit.
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I can work out The Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe and Twice Upon a Time, whatâs that last one?
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Itâs The Unicorn and the Wasp
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With the Hartnell episode titles added (while still keeping the serial titles) we additionally have:
C - Crisis, Conspiracy, Checkmate, Castrovalva
DOAS - Death of a Spy, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
F - Flashpoint, Frontios, Flatline
I - Inferno (the episode of The Romans), Invasion (the episode of The Web Planet), Inferno (the Pertwee serial), Invasion (first episode of Invasion of the Dinosaurs) (am I being silly at this point?)
K - Kidnap, Kinda, Kerblam!
SOD - Sentence of Death, State of Decay
TA - The Ambush, The Aztecs, The Ark, The Awakening
TAP - The Abandoned Planet, The Almost People
TC - The Centre, The Crusade, The Chase, The Caretaker
TCT - The Celestial Toyroom, The Celestial Toymaker
TD - The Daleks, The Daleks (episode of Invasion of Earth), The Dominators, The DĂŚmons
TDF - The Dancing Floor, The Doctor Falls
TDOT - The Dimensions of Time, The Death of Time, The Destruction of Time
TE - The Escape, The Expedition (first two same story), The Executioners
TEOT - The End of Tomorrow, The End of Time (sorry you had to see that Bill)
TF - The Firemaker, Time-Flight
TL - The Lion, Turn Left, The Lodger
TMM - The Meddling Monk, The Myth Makers
TOS - Trap of Steel, Temple of Secrets
TP - The Plague, The Pilot
TR - The Rescue (episode of The Daleks), The Return, The Rescue (serial), The Romans
TS - The Survivors, The Sensorites, The Search, The Savages, The Smugglers, The Snowmen
TSB - The Sea Beggar, The Star Beast
TSOD - The Sea of Death, The Seeds of Death, The Seeds of Doom, The Sound of Drums
TSS - The Singing Sands, The Steel Sky, The Sontaran Stratagem
TW - The Watcher, The Warlords, The Witchfinders, The Well
TWOF - The Wheel of Fortune, The Web of Fear
@Koquillion since you pointed this out
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Why not call Kerblam K!
One could do that, thatâs true
Ones that make words (in English):
Bell of Doom - BOD, a common shorthand for body
City of Death - COD, a fish
Crater of Needles - CON, several meanings. A scam, a disadvantage, shorthand for convict, to study attentively, shorthand for convention, and to steer a ship.
Coronas of the Sun - COTS, plural of cot, a small bed
Dot and Bubble - DAB, to blot something dry, a fish, or a dance move
Daleks in Manhattan - DIM, the opposite of bright
Dimensions In Time - DIT, the short sound in Morse code
Horse of Destruction - HOD, a v-shaped trough on a pole for carrying bricks
Inferno, Invasion - I, the first-person singular pronoun
Love & Monsters - treating & as âandâ and âAâ, LAM, to hit someone, or an escape, i.e. âon the lamâ
Mawdryn Undead - MU, the Greek letter
New Earth - NE (nĂŠ), originally called (masc.) (French, but adopted into English)
Orphan 55 - treated as Orphan Fifty-Five, OFF, not on
Once, Upon Time - OUT, not in
Partners in Crime - PIC, shorthand for picture
Priest of Death - POD, the thing peas are in
Planet of Giants - POG, one of those small round things from the 90s, used for a game
Pyramids of Mars - POM, shorthand for a Pomeranian, or apparently a rude word for a British person, forgive my ignorance if that one is wildly offensive
Planet of the Spiders - POTS, plural of a cooking vessel
Sentence of Death, State of Decay - SOD, the surface of ground with grass growing out of it, or of course the British slang that Iâm not sure how offensive itâs considered.
73 Yards - treated as Seventy-Three Yards, STY, where pigs live, or a swelling in the eyelid
The Ambush et al. - TA, informal for âthank youâ
The Abandoned Planet, The Almost People - TAP, to lightly strike, a listening device on a phone, a dispenser of liquids, a style of dance, there are a lot of meanings of tap
The Escape et al. - TE, the solfège syllable for the lowered seventh scale degree
The Hungry Earth - The, the definite article (you might say)
The Invasion, Thin Ice - TI, the solfège syllable for the seventh scale degree in major
The Invisible Enemy - TIE, to fasten something, or to conclude something with no winner, the same score
The Impossible Planet - TIP, the end of something esp. if pointed, to tilt something, paying a gratuity for a service, and where the rubbish is dumped.
The Ordeal - TO, indication of the direction of motion, approaching, identification of a recipient
The Robots of Death - TROD, past of tread, to walk or step on something
The Reign of Terror - TROT, a pace faster than a walk but not quite a run, usually referring to a four-legged animal
The Underwater Menace - TUM, short hand for the stomach area
Worldâs End - WE, the first-person plural pronoun
And thereâs one thatâs apparently a minor illness in Australian English, but is apparently a slur for someone not white in British English, so I wonât repeat it. The first episode of The Massacre if you want to see it.
There are probably others, and likely some in other languages I donât know, which, feel free to discuss.
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This is just bonkers in the most brilliant wayâŚ
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Also interestingly, somewhat related, I often see The Underwater Menace shortened to UWM rather than TUM. I instantly recognise UWM, whereas itâd take me a minute to work out TUM even though thatâs accurate.
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Because a lot of the time when people abbreviate stories with letters they drop âtheâ and often split compound words. I generally disagree with doing the first, since it results in a forgetting of which stories start with âTheâ and which do not, something one might wonder if is really important, but I think it is, as that âTheâ or lack thereof is as much a part of the title as any other word. I can see reason to split compound words for clarityâs sake in abbreviating though, I just chose the opposite as I was doing purely initialisms, the first letter of every word in the titles. Hyphenated pairs is where it gets a bit fuzzy. They are functioning as one meaning, but I see them as separate but connected words, where a compound word actually makes a single word. There is a case to be made though that Shang-Tu, Weng-Chiang, or Fifty-Five shouldnât be considered two words, as theyâre single names or numbers, but the way I saw it, for consistencyâs sake, hyphenated should either always count as two, or always count as one, I opted for two.
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Anyone who drops the The should be fired out of a cannon. Disgraceful behaviour.
It does somewhat amuse me too that every Troughton story (even ones he appears in beyond his era) begins with The ⌠apart from just one.
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Fury From the Deep, correct.
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Admittedly, I was just bored. Making this thread killed some time.
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People initialise single word episodes?!?!
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Only crazy people.
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Not to my knowledge