The Timeologist's Series One

# Series One

**Series One** of The Timeologist's Minecraft Doctor Who ran between 16th September 2023 and 4th November 2023. It starred Kat033Hi as The Lost Doctor & EvilVirtualBoy as Ellis Copeland. The Series opened with The Star Warrior and concluded with Betrayals and Secrets.

## Overview

### Many Reboots later...

The road to this series was extremely bumpy and not a simple task. Series One marked the start of a brand new era. Not only was there a brand new story to be explored, this was the first series to be broadcast on the Voidux Productions channel.

Many channels had been used in the past since the very first episode of this interpretation of Minecraft Doctor Who allllll the way back in 2014. I think it's safe to say that the series has come a very long way indeed.

## Cast

* The Doctor - Kat033Hi
* Ellis Copeland - EvilVirtualBoy

### Recurring

* Brigadier - Nindra Games
* Sergeant Johnson - Ethan Arrow

## Production

### Development

All of the episode titles were revealed on 26 June 2023 on the MCDW Community Discord server, along with the corresponding thumbnails for each episode. The original title for episode five, The Curse of The Light Brigade, was changed to just 'The Light Brigade' due to the title feeling too long and out of place to the other, shorter titles in the series. It was originally a reference to the poem 'The Charge of The Light Brigade'.

Moreover, the title of episode six was changed from \*The\* Duplication to just Duplication as there were already quite a few titles in the series beginning with 'The' therefore losing it allowed for more variety in the series.

Unlike previous reboots, the main focus of the series was on the companion, Ellis Copeland, rather than the main focus always being on The Doctor. This allowed for more opportunities of character development - something that The Timeologist really wanted to work on.

### Writing

The Timeologist wanted to involve the MCDW community more in this new take on the machinima. Therefore, writing opportunity slots opened up on the MCDW Community Discord server on 25th March 2023. The writers that joined the new series were as followed: TheRebelOfTime (Writer of Destruction of The Enemy), Slothdoesthis (Writer of The Light Brigade), and ItsArcticVision (Writer of Duplication).

This was the first series to be produced by Voidux Productions.

The Timeologist wanted this series to be more in tone with the classic era of Doctor Who. More specifically, the mid 1970s. This led to changes such as UNIT becoming more military based rather than scientific and family-orientated similar to what is seen in Modern Doctor Who.

### Music

Music from all eras of Doctor Who were used in this series. One of the most common composers used was Dudley Simpson.

### Filming

After many false starts, Minecraft Doctor Who was recommissioned for a new series in early March 2023 after a few weeks of complete cancellation being highly likely. However, enough motivation was gathered to start from scratch on a brand-new channel. It was decided to go back to 8 episodes rather than the previous 4-6 episodes per series in past reboots. However, this change meant that the series would take longer to produce.

Recording for the series began on April 1st 2023 which was announced along with the casting of Kat033Hi as The Lost Doctor. As a self-achievement, the entirety of episode three 'Price of Progress' was filmed in just 6 hours. On the 26th June 2023, it was announced on the Discord server that filming was finally complete! A few months later on the 9th September 2023, it was confirmed that editing had been fully completed.

Production blocks were arranged as followed.

Promotion began on 12th May 2023 with the first trailer being released. A release date trailer later premiered on 1st August 2023 announcing the start of the series to begin on 16th September 2023.

## Aliens and Enemies

To be added.

1. ↑ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade