Pretty much what the title says. I know that the “Human Nature/Family of Blood” episodes were based on a Seventh Doctor novel that the author Paul Cornell later adapted for TV, and I was wondering if you had any other books that you think would make interesting TV stories. My favorite New Series Adventures novel is Touched By An Angel by Jonathan Morris, and I would love to see it adapted for TV someday even though there would obviously be a different TARDIS team.
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I think I would rather just have new stories with the characters be them TV, Book, Audio, Comic, etc. The only time I’d want an adaptation in another medium is to have some audio adaptations of novels or comics with original companions so I can have a voice in my head for when I read novels with those characters. Even better would new stories with those characters on audio.
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Doctor Who has a history of taking old fairytales, horror movies and classic stories and making them into Doctor Who adventures. So why not do the same with the Puffin Classics crossovers? Mixing Doctor Who with King Arthur, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland and so on…
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Would be pretty cool if they adapted Jubilee into a TV story to reintroduce the Daleks to a new era of fans… Maybe even have the same writer, and - ok you get the gist of this stupid joke
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Spinning out of this, what if they adapted The Day of the Doctor, but exactly like it was written in the novelisation? It would be different from the original TV episode!
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I think a lot of my favourite books would lose something by being adapted for the screen, just by the nature of the medium. That being said, I think the Mr Men/Doctor Who books would make a really fun little animated series
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Obviously they should adapt The Book of the War from Faction Paradox/lh
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They should adapt those crazy EDAs and VNAs into tv! I wanna see Sam alive and moving and running down alien spaceship corridors 
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Adapt Lungbarrow as a tv story you cowards
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It was almost a TV story before it was a book
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This is tough, because, to me, a lot of the best books are the ones that wouldn’t work well on TV. As cool as it would be to see something like Alien Bodies, or Interference, or even The Ruby’s Curse attempted, there’s no way that would work and be good
My instinct is just to pick strong, fan favorites that are also relatively contained in scope, like The Turing Test, The Year of Intelligent Tigers, The City of the Dead, and maybe The Scarlet Empress/The Blue Angel. The problem with doing that is those books are so beloved, that an adaptation has to be basically perfect. What you really want is something like The Space Age, or The Slow Empire, or even Father Time, things with a cool central idea, but a flawed execution that an adaptation could take another stab at and try to get right
Another thing to consider is that Human Nature was picked because it created a concept that the show wanted to use. If that’s a criteria, then Combat Magicks has a really cool secret society that I’d love to bring into the lore of the main show
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They could adapt Judgement of the Judoon, that’d be quite fun on tv
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I think this one would be great if there were 300 different versions across various media
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Five of my all-time favourite books! But that’s the thing, you’d have to cut so much to get them to TV, and I feel only an absolute genius could do it successfully.
Your’e so right: one of the reasons Human Nature works is it takes the concept– the Doctor becoming human and living on Earth in the past– without adapting every beat or character. It makes changes to allow for it being a New Who two-parter and not a book, but the concept is so strong that it’s still the same story.
I don’t think I could point to many books of the top of my head where that adaptation would go so smoothly! But I agree it would be better to pick a story based on the strength of the concept, not the book itself. (I would love to see a version of Father Time I actually like, for instance…)
Oh, and here’s a fun fact; there was a screenplay of The Blue Angel that got written and released online! June Hudson herself did some costume design for it:
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The problem is, I don’t really want any of my favourite books to be adapted for TV!
But maybe adapt some Targets, that would be nice
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Lungbarrow. After having read it, I would be just interested to see how this could be adapted into a televised Episode and with a bigger Budget currently, who knows maybe some of its ambition can be pulled off. I’d doubt it, but one could dream.
That said, I am in a similar Field as @DarthGallifrey, where I rather like a brand-new Story than adapting an already existing one. I still would be interested in how a televised Lungbarrow Version would work. I guess just morbid Curiosity in terms of that.
(Edit: I didn’t see that Nyssa already suggested Lungbarrow here- Well great Minds thinks alike I suppose!)
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I’m on the same team as @RandomJoke and @DarthGallifrey in this one. Even though it’s cool, at the end of the day I prefer new stories over adapting one from another media. Especially 'cause sometimes it can jeopardize the validity of the original version. God knows we have enough people in the fandom who like to say that “X is not supposed to be considered”
THAT SAID, if I had to take one I’d say Blood Heat!
It has everything! We have Benny, an alternative reality (with its own alternative TARDIS and its little Jade Pagoda), bloody Silurians riding on T-Rexes… It’s as rad as a piece of media from the 90s could be. I love it!
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Bayban Ascending, which chronicles Bayban’s rise from regular Joe Schmo to ruthless space pirate. That book is my one and only piece of (physical) BF merchandise.
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