| The Gaslight Murders |
|
 |
|
| Writer: Basil Dawson |
|
Notes: Dawson, a veteran
screenwriter, was approached by script editor Robert Holmes to develop a
story which would introduce a new companion to replace Sarah Jane Smith.
The new character was a Cockney girl whom the Doctor would take under
his wing and educate, in the manner of Eliza Doolittle in the George
Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion. “The Gaslight Murders”
was quickly abandoned, however. Its spot in the schedule was ultimately
filled by The Face Of Evil, while
Holmes reused the general framework in The Talons
Of Weng-Chiang.
|
| Characters: The Fourth
Doctor |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Fourth story of
Season Fourteen |
| Stage Reached:
Probably storyline |
| Synopsis: Involved murders in Victorian
London.
|
|
| References: Classic
Who: The Hinchcliffe Years |
| Genesis Of The Cybermen |
|
 |
|
| Writer: Gerry Davis |
|
Notes: Former Doctor Who
script editor Davis submitted this idea circa early 1981, intending it
to be a prequel to his and Kit Pedler's original Cyberman serial, The Tenth Planet (which also featured
Cyberman Krail). Davis wrote his storyline with only the Doctor and one
female companion in mind; he called this character
“Felicity” rather than writing with any particular companion
in mind. Producer John Nathan-Turner and script editor Antony Root were
not interested in “Genesis Of The Cybermen”.
|
| Characters: Presumably the
Fifth Doctor |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Probably Season
Nineteen |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: The Doctor and his companion
“Felicity” arrive on the planet Mondas, Earth's twin
orbiting on the opposite side of the Sun. While the Doctor works on a
piece of TARDIS equipment, Felicity encounters the gentle Prince
Sylvan. Sylvan accidentally activates the TARDIS, sending him, the
Doctor and Felicity fifty years into the future. There, Sylvan's
brother, Dega, is now king and has used the Doctor's device to begin
turning his people into Cybermen. He has constructed a space fleet with
which he intends to invade the mineral-rich Earth, and plans to kill any
unconverted Mondans with cyanide gas. Felicity appeals to Dega's
partly-Cybernised wife, Queen Meta, and she shoots her husband dead --
only to be killed by Dega's chief of staff, Krail. In the confusion,
Sylvan and a band of Mondan rebels flee in the spaceships to Earth; the
massive concussion of take-off knocks Mondas out of its orbit into deep
space.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who: Cybermen, Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition #9 |
| Ghost Planet |
|
|
|
 |
|
| Writer: Robin Squire |
|
Notes: Squire was commissioned to
write a storyline for “Ghost Planet” on January 5th, 1983,
followed by full scripts on May 20th.
|
| Characters: The Fifth or Sixth
Doctors |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season Twenty-One
or Twenty-Two |
| Stage Reached: At least
partial script |
| Synopsis: Unknown
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #1, DWM Special Edition #3,
Doctor Who: The Eighties |
| The Giants |
|
 |
|
| Writer: CE Webber |
|
Notes: The “miniscules”
idea originated in Webber's earliest format guide for Doctor Who,
which had been written by May 1963. The first episode was outlined in a
subsequent iteration of the guide dated May 16th, with the description of
the concluding episodes completed by June 4th. Rex Tucker was assigned to
direct “The Giants”. Biddy, Cliff and Lola would eventually
become Susan, Ian and Barbara, while the idea of the Doctor being
explicitly referred to as “Dr Who” would go effectively
unused. Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman disliked the use of the
caterpillar and spider as “monsters” and felt the story lacked
incident and character. However, it appears that it may have been the
technical limitations of the outdated Lime Grove studio where Doctor
Who was to be recorded which forced the abandonment of “The
Giants” in favour of 100,000 BC.
The miniaturisation idea was unsuccessfully reused in a treatment by
Robert Gould before finally making it to the screen in the form of Planet Of Giants by Louis Marks.
|
| Characters: Dr. Who, Sue, Cliff,
Lola |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: The first serial of
Season One |
| Stage Reached: Scripts for
episodes one and two |
| Synopsis: Teenager Sue and her teachers
Lola and Cliff meet a strange old man in the fog. Calling him Dr. Who,
they discover that his home appears to be a police box, and it is in fact
a time machine larger on the inside than on the outside. Wrong buttons are
pressed and the four are transported to Cliff's science class laboratory,
but reduced to just an eighth of an inch in height. There, Cliff and Sue
are separated from the Ship and are menaced by a caterpillar, a spider, a
student's compass and a microscope lens. Finally, they manage to
communicate with the students and their teacher and are returned to the
time machine.
|
|
| References: Doctor Who
Magazine #209, Doctor Who: The Handbook: The First Doctor |
| The Guardians Of Prophecy |
|
|
| aka The Place Of Serenity |
|
| Writer: Johnny Byrne |
|
Notes: After completing work on
Season Twenty-One's Warriors Of The
Deep, Byrne was asked to develop a sequel to his 1981 story The Keeper Of Traken. He submitted his
storyline around July 1983. However, discord had arisen between Byrne
and script editor Eric Saward during the development of Warriors Of The Deep, and there was
little enthusiasm from either Byrne or the production office to develop
“The Guardians Of Prophecy” any further.
|
| Characters: The Sixth
Doctor |
| Episodes: 2
(45-minute) |
| Planned For: Season
Twenty-Two |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: The Doctor and Peri arrive on
the planet Serenity, which is part of the same Benign Union that once
counted Traken as a member. Serenity is ruled by the aristocratic Elect,
assisted by a mighty computer known as Prophecy. The Doctor is accused
of stealing relics from the vaults of the Elect, but the true culprits
are Auga, recorder to the court, and Mura, commander of the Guard. Aided
by the mercenary Ebbko, who has kidnapped Peri, they have sabotaged
Prophecy's power supply and used the relics to gain access to the tomb
of Malador, the immortal creator of the Melkur. Auga and Mura hope that
Malador will help them overthrow the Elect, but Malador has his own
plans and kills them. Peri escapes only with Ebbko's aid. Malador is
actually Prophecy's evil counterpart; once he has repaired their mutual
power supply, he will transmit a signal that will corrupt all the worlds
touched by Melkur. The Doctor manages to destroy the power supply,
however, creating a dimensional fracture which consumes Malador.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #170, DWM Special Edition #3, Doctor Who: The
Sixties |
| The Hands Of Aten |
|
|
|
| Writer: Brian Hayles |
|
Notes: Hayles was commissioned to
write a storyline for “The Hands Of Aten” on November 16th,
1965. It was abandoned on January 17th, 1966 because departing story
editor Donald Tosh felt that it did not fit the vision espoused by the
incoming production team of Innes Lloyd and Gerry Davis.
|
| Characters: The First Doctor,
Steven, Dodo |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Three |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Unknown
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #196, Doctor Who: The Handbook: The First
Doctor |
| The Harvesters |
|
 |
|
 |
| aka The Vampire Planet |
|
| Writer: William Emms |
|
Notes: A couple of years after
submitting this story under the title of “The Harvesters” for
the Second Doctor, Emms redrafted it in 1969 as “The Vampire
Planet” to adhere to the new UNIT format. “The Vampire
Planet” may have briefly been considered for the final slot of
Season Seven -- ultimately taken by Inferno -- but was soon dropped.
|
| Characters: The Second Doctor
(originally submission); The Third Doctor, UNIT (resubmission) |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Troughton era
(original submission); final story of Season Seven
(resubmission) |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: The Masters pilot a purple planet
into the solar system and despatch their Roboes to invade Earth. The
Doctor defeats the Masters by frightening them with film of nuclear
explosions.
|
|
| References: Doctor Who
Magazine #299, DWM Special Edition #2 |
| The Haunting |
|
|
|
| Writer: Terrance Dicks |
|
Notes: Dicks submitted this idea
around the start of November 1974, and was commissioned to turn it into a
storyline on December 11th. Early in 1975, however, the production team
concluded that it was not what they wanted, and it was formally abandoned
on May 13th. In the meantime, Dicks was contracted to write The Brain Of Morbius instead. Some
elements of the “The Haunting” were reused for Dicks'
abortive 1977 script “The Vampire Mutation”, which finally
became the Season Eighteen serial State Of
Decay.
|
| Characters: The Fourth Doctor,
Sarah Jane |
| Episodes: 6 |
| Planned For: Season
Thirteen |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Involved the Doctor confronting
vampires.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #8 |
| The Hearsay Machine |
|
|
|
| Writer: George Kerr |
|
Notes: This idea was submitted around
the start of April 1966 and rejected by story editor Gerry Davis on June
15th.
|
| Characters: The First Doctor
(with Steven and Dodo?) |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Four |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Unknown
|
|
| References: The Doctor
Who Chronicles: Season Four, Doctor Who Magazine Special
Edition #7 |
| The Heavy Scent Of Violence |
|
|
|
| Writer: George Kerr |
|
Notes: This idea was submitted around
the start of April 1966 and rejected by story editor Gerry Davis on June
15th.
|
| Characters: The First Doctor
(with Steven and Dodo?) |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Four |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Unknown
|
|
| References: The Doctor
Who Chronicles: Season Four, Doctor Who Magazine Special
Edition #7 |
| Hebos |
|
|
|
| Writer: Rod Beacham |
|
Notes: Beacham, an actor/writer who
had played Corporal Lane in The Web Of
Fear, was commissioned to write this storyline on December 5th,
1980. It was still being considered in April 1981, but was ultimately
not pursued.
|
| Characters: The Fifth Doctor,
Adric, Nyssa, Tegan |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Season
Nineteen |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Unknown
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #9 |
| The Herdsmen Of Aquarius |
|
|
| aka The Herdsmen Of Venus |
|
| Writer: Donald Cotton |
|
Notes: Submitted by Cotton following
the completion of The Gunfighters, it
was likely not viewed by story editor Gerry Davis as being in line with
his and producer Innes Lloyd's more serious vision of Doctor Who.
Lloyd and Davis had also complained that Cotton was difficult to contact.
“The Herdsmen” was apparently rejected on June 15th, 1966,
although it still appears on documentation dated August of that year.
|
| Characters: The First Doctor,
Steven, Dodo |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Season
Four |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Involved the revelation that the
Loch Ness Monster was a type of cattle bred by Aquarian (or Venusian)
farmers.
|
|
| References: Doctor Who
Magazine #221, Doctor Who: The Sixties |
| Hex |
|
|
|
|
|
| Writers: Peter Ling and Hazel
Adair |
|
Notes: Ling (who had written Season
Five's The Mind Robber) and Adair
had cocreated the mid-Sixties soap opera Compact. In 1982,
Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner began developing a
relaunched version of Compact with Ling and Adair, called
Impact. He hoped to leave Doctor Who to produce
Impact, but when the project was shelved by the BBC,
Nathan-Turner offered Ling and Adair a Doctor Who assignment as
consolation. They were inspired to write “Hex” after
observing some beehives that Adair had been asked to keep in her
orchard. They also wanted to take advantage of the Fifth Doctor's
youthful apparance by including a quasi-romantic subplot for the Time
Lord. The storyline for “Hex” was commissioned on July 12th,
1983. Nathan-Turner liked the submission, but script editor Eric Saward
grew gradually less impressed as work on “Hex” progressed.
The story evolved from a six-part to a four-part version, and was then
adapted as two 45-minute episodes for Season Twenty-Two, before finally
being dropped.
|
| Characters: The Fifth Doctor
(original version), the Sixth Doctor (later version), Peri |
| Episodes: 6 (original
version), 4 (revised version), 2 (45-minute; final version) |
| Planned For: Seasons
Twenty-One and Twenty-Two |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: The Earth's most brilliant
minds are being kidnapped, and the Doctor traces the disappearances to
the planet Hexagora. Confronting Queen Zafia, the Doctor learns that
Hexagora is spiralling away from its sun, and the Hexagoran civilisation
risks destruction. She claims that the kidnappings are intended to
provide them with the brainpower to find a solution to the dilemma. The
Doctor offers to help move the Hexagorans to an uninhabited planet, but
Zafia will agree to this plan only if the Doctor agrees to a
“marriage of state”. However, Peri discovers that the
Hexagorans are actually bee-like creatures who are transforming
themselves into clones of the kidnapped humans. Their plan is to
infiltrate Earth, but Zafia will first absorb all of the Doctor's
knowledge when they are married. A renegade Hexagoran named Jezz sets
fire to the Hexagoran hives, and the Doctor and Peri grimly rescue the
abducted humans while Hexagora burns.
|
|
Buy: Canada
· UK
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #s 213, 214, DWM Special Edition #3 |
| The Hidden Planet |
|
|
|
| Writer: Malcolm Hulke |
|
Notes: This was an idea submitted by
Hulke on September 2nd, 1963, after being invited to contribute to
Doctor Who in July. Although it was not initially pursued by the
production team, on September 23rd, Hulke was asked to stop working on
“Britain 408 AD” and begin developing “The Hidden
Planet” instead. In mid-October, “The Hidden Planet” was
pencilled in as the seventh story of Season One, then pushed back to
eighth by the time of its formal commissioning on December 2nd, due to the
insertion of Inside The Spaceship into
the running order. A month later, “The Hidden Planet” had been
promoted to the fifth spot, due to difficulties with two other serials.
Unfortunately, when Hulke delivered his script for episode one in January
1964, the production team found it unacceptable and asked Hulke to
undertake rewrites; The Keys Of Marinus was
hastily commissioned to take its place. Hulke disputed the rewrites,
arguing that the episode one script had adhered to the accepted storyline
and that he should therefore be paid extra for any rewrites. This request
was refused, and in March, Hulke agreed to revise his scripts.
Subsequently, the second installment was given the title The
Year Of The Lame Dog. In April, “The Hidden Planet” was a
possible second story for Doctor Who's second recording block. By
July, Hulke had rewritten the adventure as a five-parter, and
consideration was given to making it first in the second block. However,
it was felt that too much work would be needed to restructure “The
Hidden Planet” following the departure of Susan, and there was also
concern about the adventure's lack of monsters, now viewed as a key
component of the programme's science-fiction serials. “The Hidden
Planet” was therefore abandoned by story editor David Whitaker on
September 24th, with its formal rejection coming on October 20th. Hulke
resubmitted his storyline to the production office following Whitaker's
departure from Doctor Who, but it was again rejected on April 2nd,
1965 by new story editor Dennis Spooner, because it still included Ian and
Barbara, who were about to exit the series.
|
| Characters: The First Doctor,
Susan, Ian, Barbara (originally; the resubmission presumably replaced
Susan with Vicki) |
| Episodes: 6 (original
submission); 5 (resubmission) |
| Planned For: Seasons One, Two
and Three |
| Stage Reached: Probably partial
script |
| Synopsis: The TARDIS lands on “the
Tenth Planet”, a world identical to the Earth but whose orbit around
the Sun is diametrically opposite to our planet's, and which has therefore
gone undetected. This world is very much like Earth, but there are subtle
differences: four-leaf clovers are plentiful, for example, and glass
refracts oddly. Most notably, women are the dominant sex while men
struggle for equality. The leader of the planet is Barbara's double, and
Barbara is kidnapped by rebels. Meanwhile, the Doctor, Susan and Ian are
embroiled in the struggle for male suffrage.
|
|
| References: Doctor Who
Magazine #310, DWM Special Edition #7, Doctor Who: The
Handbook: The First Doctor |
| The House That Ur-Cjak Built |
|
|
|
| Writer: Andrew Stephenson |
|
Notes: A storyline was commissioned
on June 10th, after which Stephenson's idea was apparently abandoned.
|
| Characters: Presumably the
Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Twenty-One |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Unknown
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #1, Doctor Who: The
Eighties |
| Iceberg |
|
|
|
| Writer: David Banks |
|
Notes: Banks, who had played the
Cyberleader since 1982's Earthshock, proposed this story idea
around the time that he reprised the role for Attack Of The Cybermen. It was not
taken forward, but Banks later transformed it into a 1993 novel in
Virgin Publishing's Doctor Who: The New Adventures range,
featuring the Seventh Doctor.
|
| Characters: The Sixth Doctor,
Peri |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Twenty-Three |
| Stage Reached:
Story idea |
| Synopsis: In 2006, human scientists in
Antarctica race to construct a device which will undo an imminent
reversal of the Earth's magnetic field. However, the Cybermen are also
present in Antarctica and are plotting to sabotage the device, giving
them the opportunity to conquer the planet in the confusion caused by
the reversal. The device is activated prematurely, crippling the
Cybermen, and giving the Doctor the opportunity to stop the Cyber
forces.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who: The New Adventures: Iceberg, Doctor Who Magazine Special
Edition #3 |
| The Impersonators |
|
|
|
| Writer: Malcolm Hulke |
|
Notes: Hulke was commissioned to
write a storyline for “The Impersonators” on July 5th, 1968.
It was planned that this adventure would form Serial ZZ, with a four-part
Serial AAA by Derrick Sherwin then serving as the final story for the
Second Doctor. However, when problems hit both projects, it was decided to
instead conclude Season Six with a ten-part Serial ZZ, which became The War Games, cowritten by Hulke.
“The Impersonators” was formally abandoned on December 30th.
|
| Characters: The Second Doctor,
Jamie, Zoe |
| Episodes: 6 |
| Planned For: Penultimate story
of Season Six |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Unknown
|
|
| References: Doctor Who
Magazine Special Edition #4 |
| The Imps |
|
|
|
| Writer: William Emms |
|
Notes: A year after the transmission
of his Galaxy 4, Emms was commissioned
to write “The Imps” on October 17th, 1966. The story was
rushed into production when it was decided that The Underwater Menace could not be
suitably realised on Doctor Who's budget. Emms completed draft
scripts and some rewrites before falling ill in November. Around this
time, producer Innes Lloyd and story editor Gerry Davis decided to add the
character of Jamie as a new companion in The
Highlanders, the story preceding “The Imps”, meaning
that the character would have to be incorporated into Emms' scripts. With
the writer too sick to do the necessary work, The Underwater Menace was resurrected in
its spot in the schedule. It was intended that “The Imps”
would now follow it into production, but by mid-December, the spot had
been given to The Moonbase.
“The Imps” was formally rejected on January 4th, 1967,
possibly because it would have needed substantial reworking to accommodate
the planned exit of Ben and Polly, and the introduction of a new female
companion. Emms later used elements of the story for his Sixth Doctor
choose-your-own-adventure book, Mission To Venus, published in
1986.
|
| Characters: The Second Doctor,
Polly, Ben (and later Jamie) |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: The fifth or sixth
serial of Season Four |
| Stage Reached: Complete
scripts |
| Synopsis: An interplanetary passenger liner
lands at a remote spaceport on Earth, bearing with it imp-like creatures
who can become intangible, and alien spores. They cause an aggressive form
of vegetation to spring up around the spaceport and attack the humans
within.
|
|
| References: Doctor Who
Magazine #209, DWM #299, DWM #322, DWM Special
Edition #4 |
| Into The Comet |
|
|
|
| Writer: James Follett |
|
Notes: Follett was a novelist who
pitched this idea circa September 1979, when it was rejected by script
editor Douglas Adams. Follett resubmitted “Into The Comet”
to new script editor Christopher H Bidmead around May 1980, but once
again the storyline was not pursued.
|
| Characters: The Fourth
Doctor, Romana, K-9 |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Eighteen |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Involved monsters attacking a
race of beings who live inside Halley's Comet, unaware that there is
anything beyond it.
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #9, Doctor Who: The
Eighties |
| Invasion Of The Veridians |
|
|
|
| Writer: Nabil Shaban |
|
Notes: Shaban was a longtime fan of
Doctor Who, and had previously suggested himself to replace the
late Roger Delgado as the Master. In offering this script to the
production office in 1980, Shaban also put himself forward as a
potential successor to Tom Baker as the Doctor. Nothing came of
“Invasion Of The Veridians”, but Shaban later played Sil in
1985's Vengeance On Varos and
1986's The Trial Of A Time Lord.
|
| Characters: Presumably the
Fourth Doctor |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Presumably Season
Eighteen |
| Stage Reached: Full(?)
script |
| Synopsis: Unknown
|
|
| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #309 |
| Killers Of The Dark |
|
|
| aka The Killer Cats Of Geng Singh |
|
| Writer: David Weir |
|
Notes: Producer Graham Williams was
enamoured with the way the Time Lords had been developed in The Deadly Assassin, and wanted a
Gallifrey-related story to close Season Fifteen. Script editor Anthony
Read approached Weir, with whom he had worked on The
Troubleshooters. The result, “Killers Of The Dark”, was
commissioned on July 18th, 1977, and was influenced by Weir's interest
in Oriental cultures. (The adventure may also have been known as
“The Killer Cats Of Geng Singh” or some variation thereof,
although this appears to have been a title made up by Williams after the
fact.) A month later, however, both Read and director Gerald Blake
determined that Weir's scripts were impossible to realise on Doctor
Who's limited budget, boasting set pieces such as a stadium full of
cat people. Reluctantly, “Killers Of The Dark” was abandoned
in mid-August, leaving Williams and Read to hurriedly write The Invasion Of Time in its place.
|
| Characters: The Fourth Doctor,
Leela, K-9 |
| Episodes: 6 |
| Planned For: The sixth serial
of Season Fifteen |
| Stage Reached: Complete(?)
script |
| Synopsis: Concerned a race of cat people
native to Gallifrey.
|
|
| References: Doctor Who
Magazine Winter Special 1992, DWM Special Edition #8,
Doctor Who: The Seventies |
| The King's Bedtime Story |
|
|
|
| Writer: Roger Dixon |
|
Notes: This idea was submitted on
January 16th, 1967.
|
| Characters: The Second
Doctor |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Five |
| Stage Reached: Story
idea |
| Synopsis: The Doctor and his companions are
forced to perpetually enact the King's favourite story without changing
any aspect of it.
|
|
| References: Doctor Who
Magazine Special Edition #4, The Doctor Who Chronicles: Season
Five |
| The Krikkitmen |
|
|
|
| Writer: Douglas Adams |
|
Notes: This was one of several
ideas that Adams proposed to the production office around 1976. It was
rejected by script editor Robert Holmes, who nonetheless encouraged
Adams to continue submitting material; this ultimately led to his
commission for The Pirate Planet.
Later, in 1980, Adams revised “The Krikkitmen” for use by
Paramount Pictures as a potential Doctor Who feature film,
although nothing came of this project. Finally, Adams included many of
the ideas from “The Krikkitmen” in his novel Life, The
Universe And Everything, the second sequel to his fantastically
popular The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
|
| Characters: The Fourth Doctor,
Sarah Jane |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Probably Season
Fifteen |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Two million years ago, the
inhabitants of the planet Krikkit built a race of androids called the
Krikkitmen to wipe out all life in the universe. They were stopped by
the Time Lords, who trapped Krikkit within a temporal prison. Now,
however, a group of Krikkitmen which escaped the Time Lords' sentence
are trying to reassemble the components of a key which can free Krikkit
-- components of which happen to resemble elements of the Earth game of
cricket, itself actually a reflection of the ancient war. The Doctor and
Sarah stumble upon this plot when they see the Krikkitmen steal the
Ashes during a test match at Lords. They then travel to the planet
Bethselamin to foil the next step in the Krikkitmen's quest.
|
|
| References: Doctor Who
Magazine #253, DWM Special Edition #9, Doctor Who: The
Seventies |
| The Laird Of McCrimmon |
|
|
|
| Writers: Mervyn Haisman and Henry
Lincoln |
|
Notes: By late April 1968, it was
clear that Frazer Hines would be leaving Doctor Who sometime during
Season Six. One candidate for his departure story was Haisman and
Lincoln's third Yeti serial, which they were working on around the start
of June. Over the summer, however, the writers became embroiled in a
dispute over copyright with the BBC regarding the Quarks, robot monsters
which had appeared in their previous Doctor Who commission, The Dominators. The ensuing acrimony
resulted in the abandonment of “The Laird Of McCrimmon” during
August.
|
| Characters: The Second Doctor,
Jamie, Victoria |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Six |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: A possessed Jamie pilots the
TARDIS to 1746 Scotland and his ancestral home, Castle McCrimmon. There,
he finds the current Laird, Sir James, is on his deathbed. Yeti appear and
surround the castle while the local villagers fall under the influence of
the Great Intelligence; the only person who seems to be immune is a girl
named Fiona, with whom Jamie falls in love. The Great Intelligence wants
to inhabit Jamie's body and become the Laird once Sir James dies. However,
the Intelligence is defeated by the Doctor, and Jamie decides to stay
behind and become Laird himself.
|
|
| References: Doctor Who
Magazine #262, DWM Special Edition #4 |
| League Of The Tandreds |
|
|
|
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