If they got someone good like JJ Abrams to make it, it might turn out all right. As for an American TARDIS, it would be a soda machine...featuring an out of date drink like TAB or Crystal Pepsi.

Ok, we're talking some prettyboy as the Doctor. You ladies assure me that David Tennant is sexy, and I'll take your word for it, but we're talking beekcake here. Kind of like they did with Lister in the American "Red Dwarf" pilot. All muscles and smiles with 64 teeth.

The Tardis idea would be dropped, because they'd take one look at the police box and decide that it looks like a portable outhouse, and who needs that? They'd get some blond bimbo to play Rose and the sexual tension would be so overt that it would make up 50% of the show.

The network would hire a gay guy to produce the series, but unlike the Brits, it would be a gay guy with NO TALENT!

You think the cast runs a lot in Doctor Who now? Hah! The American version would be almost exclusively running, without that plot stuff getting in the way. They'd drop the "regeneration nonsense", because they'd make the beefcake a producer so he'll stick around. (Who doesn't like prettyboys who can't act, after all?) The pilot episode will show the Doctor on Gallifrey, accused of a crime that he didn't commit. He will be chased by a Gallifreyan news reporter as the Doctor searches desperately for the real killer, a one-armed Timelord known only as "the Master". All episodes will take place on modern-day Earth (to save money) and that silly "time travel nonsense" would be dropped.

Oh, and the Doctor's real name will be revealed: Richard Kimball!

the american version of captian jack would be british

if they did the doctor would be mat damon or some one like that and at the end of every episode there would be a fight scene with the doctor and the daleks all thought they will name the daleks comething different like the yankies

If there was an American version of Doctor Who (as I'm sure somebody somewhere is plotting) I think The Doctor should be played by Neil Patrick Harris. He's just the right amount of edgy, clever, and wacky. Beyond that, I'd say give the TARDIS a fully functioning chameleon circuit and maybe make the Daleks actually frightening.

And you're treated like a criminal if you choose not to watch TV. I am collecting the official 'legal claim' style letters and threats they send to me. I choose not to have live broadcast TV into my home (which is the ONLY time you need a license despite the rumours). I have told them this, letters get ignored, the threats continue. Who do these people think they are? How much do they spend administrating this pathetic waste of time? Isn't it time we moved on from this archaic system?

How about Christoper Lloyd as the star?

I imagine that first of all he'd HAVE to be given a gun (get rid of that sonic screwdriver) and then he'd be able to shoot his way to success every week. The Daleks wouldn't be made with plungers as guns either, they would probably have a monkey-wrench attachement.

Ug.. I hope not. I've pretty much had it with the networks in the US completely screwing up EVERY program they've ever imported. It works like this. Take a clever show, with good writing, good directing, that's a lot of fun to watch, and strip out everything intelegent in the show.. and you have the American Version. The US networks are affraid of "writing over the audiences heads" and so they make the story lines low borw, remove anything you have to think about, and remove any messages in the writing. The only hope for the Doctor or Torchwood being made in the US would be for SHO or HBO to take it on. At least they're not affraid to be smart.

Watching a bit of the American version of Life On Mars I'm sure the first thing that would happen would be that we'd totally miss the point of it. It would likely become slickly produced with product placements and a Doctor (or Lawyer) who never made a mistake, looked like an action hero and dated Paris Hilton. The Daleks would be replaced by some horrifying CGI monster and the story would be self contained each week with plot a 7th grader could understand. Other than that it would probably be perfect. ;)

Please please don't give American television producers any ideas. I like my scrambled eggs tight, my summer days sunny and my Dr Who very very British.

I'm honestly surprised you like both Tennant and Baker - most people I've spoken with fall into one camp or the other. I'm afraid I could never watch Baker - that grin of his was very disturbing, like the uncle you never liked being alone with.

The Doctor Who movie in 1996 --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_(1996_film)-- was an attempt to revive Doctor Who and bring it to an American audience, but it didn't click with American audiences. From what I remember of it, the plot and action style was more like the current incarnation of Doctor Who then the original version of the show.

I don't think it would quite work right if it were completely "American-ized."

Likely they would tweak it a bit from the original. Instead of a broken Chameleon circuit that causes the exterior to freeze, it would cause the TARDIS to look almost like it belongs, but in some terribly inconvient way that betrays it's from the future for those who know but could be glibly played off as from some exotic country. Like a 'new' VW bug in the '70s, a port-o-potty instead of an outhouse in the mid 1800s, a nylon camping tent instead of a middle-ages festival tent.