What If... the Doctor's moral compass had never formed? (Part 2)

Last time, we had seen a Doctor who had not taken on Ian and Barbara as companions. As a result he alienated his granddaughter Susan, who voluntarily chose to leave the TARDIS and her grandfather behind. He regenerated not long after, finding himself with new companions in the form of Vicki Pallister, Steven Taylor, and Sara Kingdom. Also, when we last left them, the last of their number had filled the Meddling Monk with so many holes that he whistled on the way to the ground, Sara knowing something that the Monk has yet to do and trying to prevent it... which might have worked, if the Monk were not a Time Lord and thus a regeneration had begun...

What If... the Doctor's moral compass had never formed? (Part 1)

Well, it is the 60th anniversary and there's no way I'm gonna finish (or even start, in some cases) the stories I wanted to do to celebrate. Blame real life, it happens.

However, I do have enough time to shoot the breeze and talk about a continuation of a What If? scenario that I've already done - namely a universe where Ian and Barbara never investigated their strange pupil Susan Foreman. That's right, this is technically "What If Ian and Barbara never investigated Susan?" Part 5, but I decided to spin it off into its own for reasons that will become clear soon enough.

Spoilers for Classic Who below the cut. You've been warned!

What If... the Doctor remained Time Lord Victorious? (Part 11)

Last time, we left a gaggle of Doctors (and one reformed Master) and companions trapped in three conjoined TARDISes, a (more) sinister version of the Seventh Doctor and Missy attempting to break the safeguards put on the Key to Reality by Susan's Doctor (resembling the First Doctor of the main timeline), The Doctor from the Empire of the Wolf universe learned what had happened to the Adam Mitchell from the War Master's universe, and - to top it all off - the Black Guardian and the Chronarch went to war against each other for all the marbles.

Bad news, right? Let's continue the story!

What If... the Doctor remained Time Lord Victorious? (Part 10)

Last time, the Doctors working under the White Guardian had managed to acquire the five pieces of the Key to Reality. Captain Jack Harkness from the Wolfverse has the sixth, and has teleported away to parts unknown. The Chaos Doctor and Missy were imprisoned by the Doctors and the Chronarch found himself at the mercy of the Great Intelligence. Things are spinning out, and we seem to be heading toward the final battle for the fate of reality itself!

What's gonna happen next?!

What If... the Doctor remained Time Lord Victorious? (Part 9)

Happy Birthday to me!

Hey, everybody! Been a while, hasn't it? Last time... look, a bunch of things happened and it turned into a massive cluster. Honestly, if it didn't, this wouldn't be a Doctor Who story, but let me try to sum up as best I can.

What If...Ian and Barbara never investigated Susan Foreman? (FINALE)

Last time, the Imperial Daleks had landed at Shoreditch en masse with the bulk of their already landed forces attacking Ratcliffe's base of operations in order to seize the Hand of Omega. Also, Mike had taken Susan and the Renegade Daleks' Time Controller hostage. However will we resolve this four part episode that is a weird mix of An Unearthly Child and Remembrance of the Daleks?

Let's wrap up this what if scenario!

What If...Ian and Barbara never investigated Susan Foreman? (Part 3)

When we last left this What If, the Doctor finally decided to show up just in time for a Dalek invasion of Shoreditch. Also, there were a lot more Imperial Daleks running the show than there were in Remembrance of the Daleks due to the Doctor having about 500 or so years less experience than he did in the proper timeline. When we left off last time, the Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Susan were caught in the basement of Coal Hill School with Daleks swarming them. How are they gonna get out of this one?

What If...Ian and Barbara never investigated Susan Foreman? (Part 2)

Last time a tiny little twist of fate saw Ian and Barbara not follow their student, Susan Foreman, home from school and thus weren't kidnapped by a crotchety old man and whisked off into time and space.

A short while later, aliens have invaded and it is going down! ...and by it, I mean the population of Shoreditch.

What If...Ian and Barbara never investigated Susan Foreman? (Part 1)

Alright, so now that we have An Unearthly Child and Remembrance of the Daleks under our belts, we can chat about this particular What If that I've had running around in my head for quite some time. Going back to the events of Doctor Who's very first episode, let's take a look and see what would have happened if Ian and Barbara had decided not to go in pursuit of Susan Foreman and thus never discovered the truth about her origins.