|
Doctor Who: The Lost Stories (S·T)
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| The SCI |
|
 |
|
| Writer: William Emms |
|
Notes: This was offered to the
production office around 1983.
|
| Characters: The Fifth
Doctor, Tegan, Turlough |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Season
Twenty-One |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Involved the people of the
planet Alden falling under mental domination.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #3 |
| A School For Glory |
|
 |
|
| Writer: Tony Etchells |
|
Notes: Etchells and an unknown
co-writer submitted this anti-war polemic.
|
| Characters: The Seventh
Doctor |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Twenty-Seven |
| Stage Reached:
Script |
| Synopsis: A story of alien possession set
in the British trenches of World War I and at an academy located in an
English country house.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #255, DWM Special Edition #10 |
| The Sea Devils |
|
 |
|
| Writer: John Leekley |
|
Notes: This was one of several
storylines developed for, but dropped from, Leekley's series bible for
Philip Segal's version of Doctor Who, released on March 21st,
1994. It was based on Malcolm Hulke's The
Sea Devils.
|
| Characters: A reimagined
version of the First Doctor |
| Episodes: 1 (45
minutes) |
| Planned For: 1995
series |
| Stage Reached:
Story idea |
| Synopsis: As the first offshore oil rigs
are being established off the coast of Louisiana, the Doctor
investigates a series of disappearances. He discovers that the drilling
has reawakened creatures who are nicknamed “Sea Devils” but
are actually Silurians, a race which thrived during the time of the
dinosaurs and subsequently survived in suspended animation. The Doctor
wants to make peace between mankind and the Silurians, but the Master
plans to deceive the Silurians into trapping the Doctor.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who: Regeneration |
| Sealed Orders |
|
 |
|
| Writer: Christopher Priest |
|
Notes: Priest originally began
devising this idea with script editor Douglas Adams around October 1978.
Little progress was made, but it was revived when Priest was
independently approached by Adams' successor, Christopher H Bidmead, who
was a fan of Priest's novels; they decided to resurrect “Sealed
Orders”. A storyline was commissioned on February 27th, 1980,
followed by full scripts on March 24th. By this time, “Sealed
Orders” was planned to conclude a trilogy of stories set in the
pocket universe of E-Space, and would feature the departures of Romana
and K·9. However, Priest was not accustomed to writing for television,
and it became clear that his scripts were not suitable for production.
Bidmead provided the author with heavily-edited samples as guidance for
what he wanted, but Priest objected to these, and their relationship
deteriorated. Priest stopped working on “Sealed Orders” in
April, and Warriors' Gate took its
place. “Sealed Orders” was formally abandoned in June,
although Bidmead and producer John Nathan-Turner still hoped that it
could be revisited in the future.
|
| Characters: The Fourth
Doctor, Romana, K·9, Adric |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Fifth story of
Season Eighteen |
| Stage Reached: Complete
script |
| Synopsis: A political thriller set on
Gallifrey in which the Doctor is seemingly ordered to kill Romana by the
Time Lords. A complex plot involving time paradoxes would result in the
appearance of a second Doctor (who dies) and lead to Romana's departure;
it also involved the idea of time running into itself, resulting in one
TARDIS existing inside another.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #292, DWM #315, DWM Special Edition
#9 |
| The Sea Of Fear |
|
|
|
| Writer: Brian Hayles |
|
Notes: Hayles submitted this
storyline on March 9th, 1974, after completing work on The Monster Of Peladon.
|
| Characters: The Fourth
Doctor, Sarah Jane |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Twelve |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: The TARDIS lands on an island
where the ape-like Simiads and the amphibious Zelons are at war. The
conflict is being provoked by technicians from Research Inc under the
command of Director Korbyn. Research Inc has travelled back in time
from Earth City in the far future in order to determine which of the two
races is an ancestor of Man. Once this is known, any denizens of Earth
City who manifest the other race's lineage will be purged under the
orders of the Great Leader. But the Great Leader knows that he is of
Simiad strain and has planted an agent, Dr Rojel, amongst the Research
Inc staff to tip the scales against the Zelons. However, the Doctor
discovers that pollution from the Research Inc facility is having a
degenerative effect on the Simiads -- which Korbyn tries to cover up by
activing a self-destruct mechanism. The Doctor stops him by using the
TARDIS to scramble the signal, and reveals that the Simiads and Zelons
are actually two forms of the same race.
|
|
| References: Nothing
At The End Of The Lane #3 |
| The Second Coming |
|
 |
|
| Writer: Jack Trevor Story |
|
Notes: Story was part of the
original writing team for what would become The Trial Of A Time Lord. He and
David Halliwell were asked to develop the “future” element
of the evidence against the Doctor. These would be two linked two-part
adventures, which would share most of their sets (as had also been done
in Season Twelve with The Ark In
Space and Revenge Of The
Cybermen). After an initial meeting of the writers with script
editor Eric Saward on July 9th, 1985, Story was commissioned for
“The Second Coming” on July 26th. However, despite meeting
with Halliwell in order to ensure that their serials melded well, Story
appeared to have difficulty understanding how to write for Doctor
Who. Saward recalled Story becoming fixated on specific details,
such as the image of a man playing a saxophone inside a gasometer.
“The Second Coming” was abandoned by mid-October, with the
“future” segment of The Trial Of A
Time Lord ultimately written by Pip and Jane Baker.
|
| Characters: The Sixth Doctor,
Mel |
| Episodes:2 |
| Planned For: The fourth
segment of The Trial Of A Time
Lord for Season Twenty-Three |
| Stage Reached:
Unknown |
| Synopsis: Unknown
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #3 |
| The Secret Of Cassius |
|
|
|
| Writer: Andrew Smith |
|
Notes: Although “The Secret
Of Cassius” was rejected by script editor Anthony Read in August
1978, Read encouraged Smith to continue writing. Read was unaware that
Smith was a Doctor Who fan in his mid-teens, but this eventually
led to Smith's commission for Full
Circle eighteen months later.
|
| Characters: The Fourth
Doctor |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Seventeen |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Unknown
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #9 |
| Shada |
|
|
|
| Writer: John Leekley |
|
Notes: This was one of several
storylines developed for, but dropped from, Leekley's series bible for
Philip Segal's version of Doctor Who, released on March 21st,
1994. It was based on Douglas Adams' Shada.
|
| Characters: A reimagined
version of the First Doctor |
| Episodes: 1 (45
minutes) |
| Planned For: 1995
series |
| Stage Reached:
Story idea |
| Synopsis: The Doctor brings a Time Lord
named Romana to visit her uncle, who is living in retirement on
modern-day Earth. Romana's uncle tells the Doctor about a secret Time
Lord prison planet called Shada, and he comes to suspect that his
long-lost father, Ulysses, is being held there. However, the ancient
book needed to travel to Shada soon disappears... and then so does
Romana's uncle.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who: Regeneration |
| The Shadow People |
|
 |
|
| Writers: Charlotte and Dennis
Plimmer |
|
Notes: The Plimmers submitted their
storyline to the Doctor Who production office on November 10th,
1969 and it was given serious consideration for the final slot of Season
Seven. However, a subsequent pay dispute with the Plimmers meant that
“The Shadow People” was abandoned shortly thereafter.
|
| Characters: The Third Doctor,
Liz |
| Episodes: 7 |
| Planned For: Final story of
Season Seven |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Unknown
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #2 |
| The Shape Of Terror |
|
|
|
| Writer: Brian Hayles |
|
Notes: This idea was submitted in
early 1971. It was rejected by script editor Terrance Dicks, but the
idea of an Agatha Christie-style mystery was attractive and was
incorporated into The Curse Of
Peladon.
|
| Characters: The Third Doctor,
Jo |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Nine |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: A rescue team led by Commander
Hallett is summoned to research station Pi Delta 6 on the planet Medusa
Centaurus. Hallett arrives to find the station deserted, and his security
officer, Garford, believes it has been attacked by pirates. Indeed, when
the TARDIS brings the Doctor and Jo to Pi Delta 6, Garford accuses them of
being associated with the pirates. In fact, the station has fallen victim
to the Energid, a shapeshifting protoplasmic entity which can absorb
people's brains. The Energid wishes to merge with the Doctor, but when the
Energid attempts the fusion, the Doctor manages to rally the minds of
those whom the Energid had previously consumed, and the creature is
destroyed.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #219, Nothing At The End Of The Lane #3 |
| Shield Of Zarak |
|
|
| aka The Doppelgangers, Shield Of
Zareg |
|
| Writer: Ted Lewis |
|
Notes: Lewis, whose novel Jack's
Return Home was filmed as the 1971 Michael Caine hit Get
Carter, had worked with Doctor Who producer Graham Williams
on Z Cars. Williams was eager to bring Lewis onto Doctor
Who, and so “The Doppelgangers” was commissioned in
storyline form on January 7th, 1978, and as full scripts as
“Shield Of Zarak” on February 24th. However, Lewis was not
well-acquainted with Doctor Who, and as his scripts began to
arrive in late April, it was clear that they needed work. Sadly, Lewis
had begun a descent into alcoholism amidst marital difficulties, and was
drunk when he met with Williams and script editor Anthony Read to
discuss “Shield Of Zarak” (which may also have gone by
“Shield Of Zareg”). By the middle of May, the serial had
been abandoned, and was ultimately replaced by The Androids Of Tara; it was formally
rejected on January 11th, 1979. Lewis never worked for the BBC again.
|
| Characters: The Fourth
Doctor, Romana, K·9 |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Fourth story of
Season Sixteen |
| Stage Reached: Partial
script |
| Synopsis: Dealt with the notion that
legendary heroes might, in reality, have been the antithesis of the way
history would ultimately portray them. Apparently, the specific example
planned was to have the Doctor and Romana encounter Robin Hood in their
search for the fourth segment of the Key To Time, only to discover that
the alleged hero was actually a blackhearted villain.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #9 |
| Shrine |
|
|
|
| Writer: Marc Platt |
|
Notes: After “Cat's
Cradle” was rejected, Platt developed this idea in late 1987 with
the help of Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel and writer
Ben Aaronovitch. It was inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War And
Peace, as well as the works of Gormenghast author Mervyn
Peake. During 1988, however, Platt stopped working on
“Shrine” in favour of “Lungbarrow”.
|
| Characters: The Seventh
Doctor, Ace |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Twenty-Five or Twenty-Six |
| Stage Reached:
Unknown |
| Synopsis: In 1820 Russia, the Doctor and
Ace arrive at the home of Alexei Semyonovitch. A race of stone-headed
aliens arrive searching for their God-King, who has been reincarnated as
a serf.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #190, DWM Special Edition #10 |
| The Silent Scream |
|
|
|
| Writer: Chris Boucher |
|
Notes: This was an unsolicted
submission made by Boucher to the production office in early 1975, and
ran to only about fifteen minutes of material. It was not felt to be
suitable for Doctor Who, but encouraged producer Philip
Hinchcliffe and script editor Robert Holmes to work with Boucher on
further ideas.
|
| Characters: Presumably the
Fourth Doctor |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Thirteen |
| Stage Reached:
Story idea |
| Synopsis: Unknown
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #8, Doctor Who: The Complete
History #26 |
| The Six Doctors |
|
|
|
| Writer: Robert Holmes |
|
Notes: Holmes' involvement in
Doctor Who's twentieth-anniversary special was encouraged by
script editor Eric Saward, despite producer John Nathan-Turner's
preference to avoid using writers associated with the programme's past.
Holmes was skeptical that a good story could be written which would
involve all five Doctors, plus their companions, as well as the Master
and the Cybermen, but agreed to develop a suitable storyline,
commissioned on August 2nd, 1982. He came up with three ideas, the first
of which he was told to develop as “The Six Doctors”. (The
cyborg element in this version was introduced to account for the absence
of William Hartnell, the First Doctor, who had died in 1975.) One of
Holmes' alternatives followed the same basic plot, but saw the
Cybermen's surgeries cause the Fifth Doctor to regress back through his
past incarnations; Holmes was dubious about including other companions
in this scenario. A second, less well-formed idea, involved the TARDIS
itself conjuring images of former Doctors and companions to help the
current Doctor battle an ancient supercomputer. (Holmes was unsure how
to involve the Cybermen in this version.) By the autumn, however, it
became clear to Saward that Holmes was making little headway with
“The Six Doctors”, and asked former script editor Terrance
Dicks to prepare a back-up storyline. Holmes formally withdrew from the
anniversary special on October 13th, although his renewed contact with
the production office did lead to a commission for Season Twenty-One's
The Caves Of Androzani. Elements of
his ideas for “The Six Doctors” were later reused in Season
Twenty-Two's The Two Doctors.
|
| Characters: The Fifth Doctor,
the Fourth Doctor, the Third Doctor, the Second Doctor, Tegan, Jamie,
Susan |
| Episodes: 1 (90
minutes) |
| Planned For: Between Seasons
Twenty and Twenty-One |
| Stage Reached:
Partial script |
| Synopsis: The Second, Third, Fourth, and
Fifth Doctors (with their companions, including Jamie and Tegan) are
drawn to the planet Maladoom, where they meet the First Doctor and
Susan. They are trapped by the Master, who is working for the Cybermen.
The Cybermen want to isolate the genetic component which permits Time
Lords to travel freely in time and space; they will incorporate this
factor into their own biology and conquer the time vortex. The Doctors
manage to escape, but the First Doctor and Susan are really cyborgs
created by the Cybermen. The other Doctors manage to destroy the
duplicates and discover that it is the Master's TARDIS which has brought
them to Maladoom. It is now operating out of control and threatens the
universe, but the Doctors are able to deactivate it and return to their
proper places in the timeline.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #313, Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Fifth
Doctor |
| The Sleepwalkers |
|
 |
|
| Writer: Roger Dixon |
|
Notes: Dixon submitted this
storyline on January 16th, 1967; the use of Polly without Ben was
reflective of the fact that the pair would shortly be replaced by a
single, as-yet-unknown female companion.
|
| Characters: The Second
Doctor, Jamie, Polly |
| Episodes: 6 |
| Planned For: Season
Five |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: The TARDIS lands on far-future
Earth, where a great conflict has reduced the world's populace to only a
few hundred, living in isolated communities ignorant of each others'
existence. One such community is made up of quarrelling Elders and young
people who are dependent upon robots for their subsistence; however, these
robots have recently stopped functioning. The Doctor realises that the
robots are powered by hydroelectricity, and uses a fire and some silver
iodine powder to bring about a rainstorm. This solves the problem, but
also attracts the attention of another community, whose more warlike
denizens attack. The Doctor is finally forced to modify some robots for
use as weapons. Pacified, the attackers soon agree to work together with
the Elders and their younger counterparts. However, before the Doctor can
deactivate all the modified robots, two of them manage to construct a
primitive TARDIS and escape.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #4, The Doctor Who Chronicles:
Season Five |
| The Slide |
|
 |
|
| Writer: Victor Pemberton |
|
Notes: Pemberton's storyline was
rejected on September 24th, 1964, by story editor David Whitaker, who felt
that “The Slide” was a “stewpot” of earlier
Doctor Who science-fiction ideas with a hint of Nigel Kneale's
Quatermass serials. However, Pemberton had also submitted a version
of “The Slide” to BBC Radio on August 17th; this audio
treatment saw the Doctor replaced by Chilean seismologist Professor Joseph
Gomez. This seven-part version of “The Slide” was transmitted
weekly on the BBC Light Programme beginning on February 13th, 1966. The
following year, Pemberton adapted “The Slide” as the Doctor
Who adventure Fury From The Deep.
|
| Characters: The First Doctor,
Susan, Ian, Barbara |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Two |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: A sentient form of mud emerges
from a fissure and begins to take over the minds of British townsfolk.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #277, Doctor Who: The Handbook: The First
Doctor |
| Soldar And The Plastoids |
|
|
|
| Writer: John Bennett |
|
Notes: Bennett's storyline was
commissioned on April 10th, 1980. It may have been intended for Season
Nineteen only; at this point, Tom Baker had not yet decided to leave
Doctor Who.
|
| Characters: The Fourth
Doctor |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Season
Nineteen (possibly also Season Eighteen) |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Unknown
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who: The Eighties |
| The Son Of Doctor Who |
|
|
|
| Writer: None (originated by
William Hartnell) |
|
Notes: Hartnell was interested in
playing characters other than the Doctor in Doctor Who. As a
mechanism for achieving this, he suggested that he could also play the
Doctor's son, who would be an adversary for the Doctor. This does not
appear to have been seriously pursued.
|
| Characters: The First
Doctor |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Presumably
Seasons Two or Three |
| Stage Reached: Story
idea |
| Synopsis: The Doctor encounters his evil
time-travelling son, to whom he bears an uncanny physical resemblance.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #233 |
| The Song Of The Space Whale |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| aka The Space Whale, Space-Whale |
|
| Writers: Pat Mills and John
Wagner |
|
Notes: Mills and Wagner were
writing comics for Doctor Who Weekly when they devised this
concept. Mills' wife, Angie, felt that it was too good for the comic,
and should be offered to the Doctor Who production team instead.
Although Wagner was skeptical, it was submitted in late 1980, alongside
three other ideas Mills had conceived. The storyline was commissioned on
September 9th, 1981 under the title “Space-Whale” (which saw
the Fourth Doctor replaced by the Fifth), followed by the full scripts
on December 2nd as “The Song Of The Space Whale”. Around
this time, Wagner decided that he was not interested in remaining on the
project, and Mills forged ahead alone. It was decided that “The
Song Of The Space Whale” would be the introductory story for new
companion Turlough. He replaced Rina's original boyfriend, John, and
would now leave with the Doctor instead of Rina because he claims that
space travel is in his blood. Soon thereafter, however, the scripts ran
into problems when script editor Eric Saward objected to Mills'
working-class depiction of Greeg, and his portrayal of the castaways as
a colony of mystics. The writer was unable to develop an alternative
which was acceptable to Saward, and so “The Song Of The Space
Whale” was replaced by Mawdryn
Undead. Mills and Saward continued to work on the scripts -- now
simply called “The Space Whale” -- and Mills eventually
replacing the castaways with a marooned family. The Sixth Doctor and
Peri became the main characters, and the scripts were rewritten as two
forty-five minute episodes in accordance with the new format for Season
Twenty-Two. Saward continued to have misgivings about the serial,
however, and around the middle of May 1984, “The Space
Whale” was replaced in the schedule by Vengeance On Varos. It appears that further
development of Mills' scripts was undertaken, but they were finally
abandoned around July 1985. Mills later wrote an audio adaptation of his
story, released as “Song Of The Megaptera” by Big Finish
Productions in May 2010.
|
| Characters: The Fourth Doctor
(original submission); the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan (revised version);
the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough (second revision); the Sixth
Doctor, Peri (third revision) |
| Episodes: 4 (2 45-minute
episodes, third revision) |
| Planned For: Third story of
Season Twenty; second story of Season Twenty-Two |
| Stage Reached: Complete
script |
| Synopsis: The TARDIS is captured by
Captain Greeg of the spaceship Orkas when the Doctor interferes
with his attempts to hunt a massive Ghaleen -- a “space
whale” with the ability to travel in time. Also on the
Orkas are Krakos, an alien Tuthon who wants to steal the orb
which powers the Ghaleen's time travel, and Rina, who believes that a
community of castaways is living in the belly of the Ghaleen, and who
has stowed away aboard Greeg's vessel in the hope of rescuing them. In
fact, the castaways have constructed a “raft-ship” which
would permit them to escape, but their leader, Waldron, has not
disclosed the fact that the device works, because he believes that by
remaining within the Ghaleen, they are living a life safe from the
outside universe. Krakos succeeds in seizing the orb, however, causing
temporal energy -- which induces “time necrosis” -- to flood
out of the Ghaleen. The Doctor uses the raft-ship to reverse the damage,
and Krakos is killed trying to escape the Ghaleen's belly. The castaways
are rescued, but Waldron has been inside the Ghaleen for so long that
when he attempts to leave, he dies of time necrosis. Greeg is overthrown
by his second-in-command, Stennar, and the Ghaleen is allowed to return
to its pod.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #s 228, 229, DWM Special Edition #s 1, 3, 9,
Doctor Who: The Eighties |
| Space Sargasso |
|
|
|
| Writer: Philip Martin |
|
Notes: Martin submitted this idea
on December 28th, 1983, while awaiting feedback on Season Twenty-Two's
Vengeance On Varos. On March 9th,
1984, script editor Eric Saward noted that more development would be
needed before he could properly assess “Space Sargasso”; the
notion was not pursued further.
|
| Characters: The Sixth Doctor,
Peri |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Twenty-Three |
| Stage Reached: Story
idea |
| Synopsis: The TARDIS is drawn to an area
of space filled with wrecked ships. A creature called the Engineer, who
is in thrall to the Master, is using parts from the vessels to construct
an immense warship.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #309 |
| Space Station |
|
|
|
| Writer: Christopher Langley |
|
Notes: Langley's storyline was
submitted on December 30th, 1973, and he was commissioned on January 24th,
1974. Season Twelve was largely constructed around “Space
Station”, with Revenge Of The
Cybermen designed to use the same sets and The Sontaran Experiment intended to
continue the story thread of Earth's abandonment by humanity. “Space
Station” and The Sontaran
Experiment would also have been made as essentially one large
recording block -- since the former was entirely confined to the studio
and the latter would be made only on location -- sharing the same director
and crew. Around late May, however, it was clear that Langley's scripts
were unacceptable, and the decision was made to replace “Space
Station” with The Ark In Space.
“Space Station” was officially dropped on June 17th.
|
| Characters: The Fourth
Doctor, Sarah Jane, Harry |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Second story of
Season Twelve |
| Stage Reached: Complete
script |
| Synopsis: Apparently set on a far-future
space station during a period when mankind is no longer living on Earth.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #8 |
| The Space War |
|
|
| aka The Furies |
|
| Writer: Ian Stuart Black |
|
Notes: Nearly four years after
Black's last contribution to Doctor Who, The Macra Terror, he was
commissioned to write a storyline entitled “The Space War”
(later changed to “The Furies”) on November 9th, 1970.
Although Black delivered it towards the end of the month, it did not
proceed to the script stage.
|
| Characters: The Third
Doctor |
| Episodes: 6 |
| Planned For: Season
Eight |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Unknown
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #308, DWM Special Edition #2 |
| The Spare-Part People |
|
|
| aka The Brain Drain, The Labyrinth |
|
| Writer: Jon Pertwee and Reed de
Rouen |
|
Notes: Submitted around the summer
of 1970, it does not appear that the storyline was seriously considered
by the production team.
|
| Characters: The Third
Doctor |
| Episodes: 7 |
| Planned For: Season
Eight |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: The Doctor poses as Cambridge
don Dr John Madden to investigate a spate of celebrity disappearances.
He is kidnapped by mummy-like beings who take him to Antarctica, where a
hidden civilisation exists. There the Doctor participates in brutal
games and combats a monster which dwells in a labyrinth.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #2 |
| The Stones Of Darkness |
|
|
|
| Writer: Brian Hayles |
|
Notes: “The Stones Of
Darkness” was discovered by Mark Hayles amongst his late father's
files.
|
| Characters: The Second
Doctor, Jamie, either Victoria or Zoe |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Season
Five or Six |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Visiting Stonehenge, the time
travellers are astonished to see a man materialise in its midst. They
track him to nearby Darkhill Manor, where they meet Professor Storp and
his assistant Reana. The man from Stonehenge is introduced as another
associate, Alvec. However, the Doctor's suspicions are aroused when
Jamie watches a tramp who had broken into the Manor vanish from
Stonehenge and later reappear as yet another aide named Ganis. With the
help of European Security agent Bennett, the Doctor discovers that Storp
and his friends are aliens who have turned Stonehenge into a
transporter. They plan to use the technology to covertly replace four
soldiers who have control of their countries' respective nuclear
arsenals, laying waste to the Earth and paving the way for Storp's
planet to invade. With Bennett's help, the Doctor banishes Storp and his
cronies back to their own world, and then locks the arrival point at
Stonehenge inside a forcefield to prevent their return.
|
|
| References: Nothing
At The End Of The Lane #3 |
| The Suicide Exhibition |
|
 |
|
| Writer: Mark Gatiss |
|
Notes: Gatiss began working on
this script around the start of 2006, at which point it was sent during
World War I. By early 2007, the setting had been shifted to the Second
World War and “The Suicide Exhibition” was intended to be
the third episode of Doctor Who's 2008 season. Some thought was
given to filming in the Natural History Museum itself, but executive
producer Russell T Davies gradually became concerned about revisiting
the World War II period so soon after it was showcased in 2005's The Empty Child / The Doctor
Dances. Furthermore, Davies was becoming excited by the
possibility of setting an adventure around the eruption of Mount
Vesuvius in AD 79. Finally, near the end of April 2007, it was decided
to replace “The Suicide Exhibition” with The Fires Of Pompeii. Later that
summer, scripting problems on this episode and Partners In Crime led Davies to
consider abandoning The Fires Of
Pompeii and reinstating Gatiss' script, but this did not come to
pass.
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| Characters: The Tenth Doctor,
Donna |
| Episodes: 1
(45-minute) |
| Planned For: Third episode of
Season Thirty |
| Stage Reached: Complete
script |
| Synopsis: During the Second World War, a
Nazi task force assaults the Natural History Museum in London, which has
been overrun by monsters. Later action would have involved the discovery
of a secret chamber beneath the museum.
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| References: Doctor
Who: The Writer's Tale, Doctor Who Magazine #431, DWM
Special Edition #26 |
| The Talons Of Weng-Chiang |
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| Writer: John Leekley |
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Notes: This was one of several
storylines which appeared in Leekley's series bible for Philip Segal's
version of Doctor Who, released on March 21st, 1994. It was based
on Robert Holmes' The Talons Of
Weng-Chiang.
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| Characters: A reimagined
version of the First Doctor |
| Episodes: 1 (45
minutes) |
| Planned For: 1995
series |
| Stage Reached:
Story idea |
| Synopsis: In modern-day New York City,
the Doctor joins forces with a police officer to investigate a series of
murders being committed by a Chinese gang called the Tong of the Black
Scorpion. The Tong's leader, Weng-Chiang, is actually a criminal from
the future named Magnus Greel, who needs to absorb life energy as a
result of a failed experiment.
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|
| References: Doctor
Who: Regeneration |
| The Tearing Of The Veil |
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| Writer: Alan Drury |
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Notes: Drury was commissioned by
script editor Douglas Adams on April 2nd, 1979. He delivered his first
two scripts in early May, at which point it was decided that “The
Tearing Of The Veil” was not working out. Nonetheless, Adams
continued to discuss the story with Drury over the summer, and by
September 19th an acceptable draft had been completed. “The
Tearing Of The Veil” was then passed to Adams' successor,
Christopher H Bidmead, for possible use in Season Eighteen. However,
Bidmead disliked the whimsical science-fiction favoured by Adams, and
since Drury's story was in line with this approach, it was discarded by
the new production team.
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| Characters: The Fourth
Doctor, Romana, K·9 |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Seasons
Seventeen and Eighteen |
| Stage Reached: Complete
script |
| Synopsis: An evil force pursues the
TARDIS to a Victorian vicarage, where the vicar's widow is being
defrauded by phoney spiritualists. As supernatural phenomena grip the
vicarage, the con artists are killed off one by one. Even K·9 is
apparently torn apart by a poltergeist, while much of the Doctor's life
force is drained from him, turning him into a disinterested crank
wandering about in his nightgown.
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #292, DWM Special Edition #9 |
| Thin Ice |
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| aka Ice Time |
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| Writer: Marc Platt |
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Notes: Sophie Aldred was contracted
for eight episodes during Season Twenty-Seven, and so it was planned to
write Ace out halfway through the year. Platt was asked to develop an
Ice Warrior story, and while his inclination was to write a futuristic
adventure set on a terraformed Mars, script editor Andrew Cartmel
requested that he use a 1960s setting in light of the success of Season
Twenty-Five's Remembrance Of The
Daleks. Producer John Nathan-Turner wanted to use the popular
London Dungeon attraction as a filming location. Platt's story would be
linked with the third story of Season Twenty-Seven (which has become
known as “Crime Of The
Century”), which would also feature Cunningham and his
daughter Raine, but in the present day. The adult Raine would become the
Doctor's new companion, while Platt hoped that the elder Cunningham
would be a recurring ally in the manner of UNIT's Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart. Cartmel hoped to involve Ian Briggs, who had
effectively created Ace, in the development of Platt's ideas, but the
entire project was scuppered when Doctor Who was cancelled in
September 1989. The title “Ice Time” was assigned by
Doctor Who Magazine in 1997. This did not find favour with Platt,
who changed it to “Thin Ice” when he adapted his ideas for
Big Finish Productions; the resulting audio was released in April 2011.
For this version, Cunningham's surname became Creevy to avoid confusion
with a real Raine Cunningham.
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| Characters: The Seventh
Doctor, Ace |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Probably the
second story of Season Twenty-Seven |
| Stage Reached: Story
idea |
| Synopsis: The Doctor wants to enrol Ace
at the Time Lord Academy on Gallifrey, but she must pass a final test to
gain admission. In 1960s England, parts of the armour of an infamous Ice
Lord have inadvertently become incorporated into a display at the London
Dungeon. Elsewhere, another Ice Warrior awaits the revival of his
longtime rival. The Doctor and Ace find an unlikely ally in a hippie
named Cunningham with underworld connections; when his pregnant wife
gives birth, the Doctor delivers the baby girl, called Raine, and
becomes her godfather. Having succeeded in her audition, Ace leaves the
Doctor to stay on Gallifrey -- where they both hope that she will become
a force for change in Time Lord society, dispelling the lethargy that
has burdened it for millennia.
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #255, DWM #433, DWM Special Edition
#10 |
| Tomb Of The Cybs |
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| Writer: John Leekley |
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Notes: This was one of several
storylines which appeared in Leekley's series bible for Philip Segal's
version of Doctor Who, released on March 21st, 1994. It was based
on Kit Pedler and Garry Davis' The Tomb Of
The Cybermen.
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| Characters: A reimagined
version of the First Doctor |
| Episodes: 1 (45
minutes) |
| Planned For: 1995
series |
| Stage Reached:
Story idea |
| Synopsis: In the future, the Doctor joins
an expedition on the planet Telos which seeks to excavate a tomb
containing the last of the Cybs, a race of cybernetic pirates. However,
the Cybs are only in suspended animation, and are reawakened by the
Master.
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|
| References: Doctor
Who: Regeneration |
| The Torson Triumvirate |
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| Writer: Andrew Smith |
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Notes: Smith, who had recently
completed Full Circle, was
commissioned to provide a storyline on November 25th, 1980. This was
submitted on December 9th and was still being considered in April 1981,
but was ultimately not pursued.
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| Characters: The Fifth Doctor,
Adric, Nyssa, Tegan |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Season
Nineteen |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Set on present-day Earth.
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|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #432, DWM Special Edition #9 |
| Transit |
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|
| Writer: Ben Aaronovitch |
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Notes: This idea was submitted in
June 1987. Aaronovitch later developed it into a Doctor Who: The New
Adventures novel of the same name, featuring the Seventh Doctor and
Bernice Summerfield. It was published in December 1992 by Virgin Books.
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| Characters: The Seventh
Doctor |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Twenty-Five |
| Stage Reached:
Unknown |
| Synopsis: In the future, a system of
transportation portals spans the solar system, but now seems to have
opened a gateway to Hell.
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #10 |
| The Trap |
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| Writer: Robert Holmes |
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Notes: In early 1965, Holmes
submitted an idea for a science-fiction thriller to Shaun Sutton, the
BBC's Head of Serials. Holmes was informed that this wasn't the sort of
material the Corporation was looking to broadcast at that time, but it
was suggested that he might reformat his submission for Doctor
Who. Holmes met with story editor Donald Tosh on April 23rd, 1965.
He quickly reworked his idea into a storyline entitled “The
Trap”. Tosh responded in May with concerns that the sleepers'
robotic servants were too similar to the Mechonoids, which would shortly
feature in The Chase. Soon
thereafter, Holmes began working on the drama series Private Eye,
and “The Trap” fell by the wayside. Three years later, the
proposal was revived and reworked to become The Krotons.
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| Characters: The First Doctor,
presumably with Ian, Barbara and Vicki |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Season
Three |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: The Doctor and his companions
find a spaceship on an uninhabited planet. Robot servitors use an
amnesia gas to wipe their memories, and then encourage the demonstration
of certain skills. The ship's crew awakens from suspended animation, and
reveal that they crashlanded on the planet millennia ago. Because they
sustained some fatalities, they need three of the time travellers to
help them pilot the ship and return home. The expendable fourth TARDIS
crewmember will be killed. The Doctor and his friends manage to sabotage
the ship and escape.
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|
| References: Doctor
Who: The Complete History #13 |
| Twin World |
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| Writer: Roger Dixon |
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Notes: This idea was submitted on
January 16th, 1967.
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| Characters: The Second
Doctor |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Five |
| Stage Reached: Story
idea |
| Synopsis: On a planet in a binary star
system, every birth produces twins who are the polar opposites of one
another. The power of the ruling twins is governed by the prominence in
the sky of the planet's two suns. As the Doctor arrives, the sun related
to the evil twin is about to enter a prolonged period of ascendancy, and
the good people of the world fear that, by the time this period ends,
their planet may be doomed. The Doctor saves the day with the use of a
simple invention.
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #4, The Doctor Who Chronicles:
Season Five |
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