I’ve just started listening to Torchwood: Sync and it reminded me that it was one of a quartet of Torchwood stories featuring Who monsters - the Fendahl, the Slitheen, the Giant Maggots and the Autons.
Bernice Summerfield did the same a while back with four stories featuring classic Who monsters - the Sea Devils, the Rutan, the Draconians and the Daleks. This was followed by other stories with the Eternals, the Monoids, the K1 Robot and the Cybermen.
There have been four box sets of Classic Doctors New Monsters with Racnoss, Carrionites, Judoon, Angels, Sycorax, Sontarans, Vashta Nerada, the Hoxx of Balhoon, the Silence, Tivolians, Kantrofarri, Harmony Shoal and the Clockwork Droids.
So my question is - if you were going to do a set of 4 stories, each with a returning monster, which 4 would you choose (with those mentioned above being off the table).
I know it’s not quite what was asked for because it’s reusing some, but I think another torchwood quartet could be really fun, Weeping Angels and Cybermen have been used for others, but not for torchwood quartets. Weepeing angels fit perfectly and they need redemption for Cyberwoman. For ther other two I’d also probably throw in Adipose and the Zygons (would say Judoon but they’ve also already been using and didn’t want 3/4 to have been).
Alternatively, give us a Doctor Who quartet facing Spin-Off foes: Adam (or a similar parasite), Fairies, the Androvax, and of course The Trickster.
I like this idea. Adam was a favourite Torchwood episode of mine. They did something similar in The Early Adventures with The Fifth Traveller (although it wasn’t as good).
I would have them appear alongside the Rani, in an adventure that saw her cross-breeding them with fire ants to create an unstoppable force of Red Zarbi which she could sell onto the highest bidder to fund more experiments.
The Malus:
Goofy wall face. Let’s bring them back.
The Tractators and the Slugs (‘Dot and Bubble’):
Have an interstellar conflict between the Tractators and everyone’s favourite characters from the recent series, the flipping Finetime Slugs!
Oh I love the CDNM sets! They were my introduction to audio doccy who.
If I were to make my own it’d be:
Three and the Ood
Six and the Chuldur (one preening peacock bird meets another)
Seven and the Vespiform
Eight and the Reapers (mid time war ideally)
