'The Simple Things' by Joy Wilkinson

When the Doctor offers him a choice of destination, Graham chooses to have a simple kickabout with the first West Ham team to win the cup. The TARDIS takes the gang to the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company in West Ham in 1896, when the team was known as Thames Ironworks F.C. Looking inside premises the Doctor, Graham, Ryan and Yaz discover that instead of a warship, the company is building a huge spaceship for a Draconian businesswoman. However, instead of admonishing the alien, the Doctor appreciates how the company’s boss needs the work, and overlooks the outsourcing to a poorer planet; instead the Doctor makes the Draconian activate her and the battleship’s perception filters, then talks the company boss into allowing Graham a kickabout with his employees’ football team. When the game has finished, the Doctor and her friends depart – but not before Graham gives his football heroes the idea of renaming themselves as ‘West Ham F.C.’ instead…


Notes:
*Featuring the Thirteenth Doctor, Graham, Ryan and Yaz

*This short scene was released on the BBC website on 22nd April 2020, to cheer people up during the Coronavirus crisis lockdown