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Doctor Who: The Lost Stories (N·O)
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| The Nazis |
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| Writer: Brian Hayles |
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Notes: Hayles was commissioned to
write a storyline for “The Nazis” on March 8th, 1966. Shortly
thereafter, however, he was engaged to write The Smugglers, which he was told
should take a higher priority. “The Nazis” was ultimately
abandoned on June 15th, following a decision to abandon historical
Doctor Who stories.
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| Characters: The First Doctor
(with Steven and Dodo?) |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Four |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Unknown
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #321, DWM Special Edition #7, Doctor Who: The
Handbook: The First Doctor, The Doctor Who Production Diary: The
Hartnell Years |
| The New Armada |
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| Writer: David Whitaker |
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Notes: By late February 1964, story
editor Whitaker had decided to write one of the first recording block's
final serials himself. Gerald Blake was allocated to direct. Not long
after, however, he began casting about for a replacement for this
untitled Armada story, eventually finding it in the form of The Reign Of Terror. By mid-April,
Whitaker was considering using his Armada tale as the first serial of
Doctor Who's second production block (so that it would have been
broadcast after The Dalek Invasion Of
Earth), although this did not ultimately come to pass. Long
afterward, having since left the programme, Whitaker submitted a storyline
entitled “The New Armada” -- presumably a revised version of
his original idea -- to the Doctor Who production office. This was
rejected on January 17th, 1966 by then-story editor Gerry Davis, who felt
it was too complex, with a preponderance of characters and subplots.
Nonetheless, Davis invited Whitaker to submit further ideas, eventually
leading to Whitaker writing The Power Of The
Daleks.
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| Characters: The First Doctor,
Susan, Ian, Barbara |
| Episodes: 6 |
| Planned For: Seasons One, Two
and Three |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Set in sixteenth-century Spain
after the Armada.
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| References: Doctor
Who: The Handbook: The First Doctor |
| The New Machines |
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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: A race of people created
powerful robots but were subsequently wiped out. The robots have now
become so advanced that they are, in turn, able to create a new race of
people. They fear that these new humans will dominate them, and see the
arrival of the Doctor on their planet as confirmation of their fears.
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #4 |
| Nightmare Country |
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| Writer: Stephen Gallagher |
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Notes: Gallagher submitted this
storyline in late 1982, after finishing work on Season Twenty's Terminus. It was rejected on grounds
of cost.
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| Characters: The Fifth Doctor,
Tegan, Turlough |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Season
Twenty-One |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: The Doctor agrees to let a
race of beings called the Engineers make some repairs to the TARDIS. In
return, he offers himself as a test subject for a Reality Simulator,
constructed by a Master Engineer called Konis. The simulation is
intended to be benign, but the Doctor finds himself suffering from
amnesia on a graveyard-like world overrun by the sinister Vodyani. In
the TARDIS, Tegan and Turlough learn that the Reality Simulator actually
generates a genuine alternate reality. Tegan enters the Simulator and
frees the Doctor, but the Vodyani have found a way out of the machine as
well. It transpires that the Vodyani were accidentally created by the
mind of Konis' apprentice, Volos, who is now merging with the Vodyani
leader. Volos sacrifices himself to stop the Vodyani, and Konis destroys
the Reality Simulator.
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #296, DWM Special Edition #3 |
| The Nightmare Fair |
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| aka Arcade |
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| Writer: Graham Williams |
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Notes: On September 25th, 1984,
former producer Graham Williams was commissioned to provide a storyline
called “Arcade”. This would be set in Blackpool at the
suggestion of producer John Nathan-Turner, who was inspired after Colin
Baker was invited there for the grand opening of the Space Mountain
attraction. Williams and script editor Eric Saward travelled to
Blackpool to find suitable locations, and Saward proposed that an
appropriate villain would be the eponymous being from 1966's The Celestial Toymaker. Scripts were
requested on November 17th under the title “The Nightmare
Fair”. It was lined up as the first story of Season Twenty-Three,
to be made by director Matthew Robinson -- who had recently completed Attack Of The Cybermen -- with
Michael Gough returning as the Toymaker. Rehearsal scripts were ready by
February 7th, 1985, with location filming at Blackpool scheduled to run
from May 20th to 24th. On February 27th, however, it was announced that
production of Doctor Who was being suspended until Spring 1986;
ultimately all of the stories originally planned for Season Twenty-Three
were abandoned in favour of The Trial Of
A Time Lord. Target Books published Williams' novelisation of
“The Nightmare Fair” in May 1989. In November 2009, Big
Finish Productions released an audio adaptation by John Ainsworth, with
David Bailie replacing Michael Gough -- who had retired from acting --
as the Toymaker.
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| Characters: The Sixth Doctor,
Peri |
| Episodes: 2
(45-minute) |
| Planned For: First story of
Season Twenty-Three |
| Stage Reached:
Full scripts |
| Synopsis: Vacationing at Blackpool
Pleasure Beach, the Doctor and Peri meet a young man named Kevin whose
brother has vanished, and learn of a spate of recent disappearances from
the funfair. Investigating, they discover that the culprit is the
Doctor's old foe, the Celestial Toymaker, who is studying humans to help
him design a deadly videogame. This videogame, which is about to be
distributed around the world, sees the player battle deadly monsters
which can come to life and exit the game. The Doctor agrees to playtest
the videogame, while Peri and Kevin work with the Toymaker's menagerie
of alien prisoners to construct a device which will distract the
Toymaker at a critical moment, freeing the Doctor. The Doctor then
rewires a piece of the Toymaker's own equipment to trap the immortal
being for all time in a forcefield powered by his own thoughts.
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #3 |
| Nightmare Planet |
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| Writer: Dennis Spooner |
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Notes: Spooner's storyline
commission came on January 31st, 1975, followed by a request for full
scripts on February 4th. Script editor Robert Holmes became unhappy with
the drugs element of Spooner's serial, and it was dropped.
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| Characters: The Fourth Doctor,
Sarah Jane Smith |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Season
Thirteen |
| Stage Reached: Complete
script |
| Synopsis: Concerned a planet where the
populace is unknowingly subjugated with drugs in their food and water.
Misdeeds are punished with the temporary suppression of the drugs, which
causes the people to see terrible monsters all around them.
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #8, Doctor Who: The
Seventies, The Doctors: 30 Years Of Time Travel |
| Night Thoughts |
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| Writer: Edward Young |
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Notes: Young submitted “Night
Thoughts” to script editor Andrew Cartmel in mid-1989. Although
Cartmel felt that the script was undisciplined, he also saw a lot of
potential, and was interested in following up with Young. However, any
such plans were dropped when Doctor Who was cancelled that
September. Young later adapted “Night Thoughts” as an audio
play, released by Big Finish Productions in February 2006.
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| Characters: The Seventh
Doctor, Ace |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Twenty-Seven |
| Stage Reached:
Script, possibly complete |
| Synopsis: University academics are
trapped at a remote house in the winter, not realising that there is a
murderer in their midst.
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #255, DWM Special Edition #10 |
| The 1920s |
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| Writer: Stephen Fry |
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Notes: Fry had been associated
with Doctor Who via his role as the Minister of Chance in the
webcast Death Comes To Time, before being invited to contribute
to Season Twenty-Eight. The Twenties setting was inspired by his
screenplay for the 2003 feature film Bright Young Things. In
development from about June 2005, “The 1920s” was intended
to form part of the season's sixth production block. By November,
however, it was realised that Fry's script would be too much of a drain
on the programme's budget late in the year, and the decision was made to
defer it to Season Twenty-Nine; it was replaced by Fear Her. However, the script
would have to undergo rewrites -- not least to replace Rose Tyler with
Martha Jones -- and Fry was now occupied with other commitments. By
mid-2006, “The 1920s” was withdrawn from the schedule
altogether.
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| Characters: The Tenth Doctor,
Rose |
| Episodes: 1
(45-minute) |
| Planned For:
Eleventh episode of Season Twenty-Eight; Season Twenty-Nine |
| Stage Reached: Complete
script |
| Synopsis: Concerned the Arthurian legend
of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which turned out to have an
extraterrestrial connection.
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #14, Doctor Who: The Complete
History #53 |
| Nothing At The End Of The Lane |
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| Writer: CE Webber |
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Notes: Barely even rating as a
“lost” story, this was the title for Doctor Who's first
episode suggested by Webber in the programme's developing format guide,
circa early May 1963. Biddy, Lola and Cliff would eventually become Susan,
Barbara and Ian, while the idea of the Doctor being explicitly referred to
as “Dr Who” would be effectively abandoned. Series creator
Sydney Newman also disliked the idea of the Ship being invisible.
“Nothing At The End Of The Lane” would be replaced by
“The
Giants”.
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| Characters: Dr Who, Biddy,
Cliff, Lola |
| Episodes: 1 |
| Planned For: The first
episode of Season One |
| Stage Reached: Story
idea |
| Synopsis: Teenager Biddy and her
teachers Lola and Cliff meet a strange, amnesiac old man and discover
his invisible time machine.
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine #208, Doctor Who: The Handbook: The First
Doctor |
| The Ocean Liner |
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| Writer: David Ellis |
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Notes: “The Ocean
Liner” was rejected by story editor Gerry Davis on April 4th,
1966.
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| Characters: The First Doctor
(with Steven and Dodo?) |
| Episodes: Unknown |
| Planned For: Season
Four |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: A spy thriller.
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| References: Doctor
Who: The Handbook: The First Doctor, Doctor Who Magazine Special
Edition #7 |
| Operation Werewolf |
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| Writers: Douglas Camfield and
Robert Kitts |
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Notes: Camfield, who had most
recently directed The Daleks' Master
Plan, worked on the storyline with Kitts during 1965. It was
finally submitted to the Doctor Who production office on
September 18th, 1967, inviting response from producer Innes Lloyd on
October 3rd. Taking on board Lloyd's suggestions, Camfield and Kitts
composed a script for the first episode, but “Operation:
Werewolf” was dropped soon thereafter. Although the practise had
been abandoned by that point in time, the authors nonetheless allocated
an individual title to each installment; these were 1. The Secret
Army, 2. Chateau Of Death, 3. Lair Of The Werewolf,
4. Friend Or Foe, 5. Village Of The Swastika and
6. Crossfire.
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| Characters: The Second
Doctor, Jamie, Victoria |
| Episodes: 6 |
| Planned For: Season
Five |
| Stage Reached: Script for
episode one |
| Synopsis: The TARDIS lands in Normandy,
France on June 1st, 1944 -- five days before D-Day. The Doctor discovers
that the Nazis are developing a way to teleport troops across the English
Channel: the so-called “Operation Werewolf”. To stop the
Nazis, the Doctor allies himself with the Resistance -- including Fergus
McCrimmon, a descendant of Jamie's -- but must first uncover the traitors
within.
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #4 |
| The Outcasts |
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| Writer: John Leekley |
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Notes: This was one of several
storylines developed for, but dropped from, Leekley's series bible for
Philip David Segal's version of Doctor Who, released on March
21st, 1994. It used elements from Graham Williams and Anthony Read's
1978 serial The Invasion Of
Time.
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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: The Master uses a Grid Lock to
drain power from the Doctor's TARDIS in order to lure him back to
Gallifrey. The Doctor pilots his time machine to the Gallifreyan
wilderness, where the Outcasts who live there are under attack from
cybernetic pirates called the Cybs. The Doctor leads the Outcasts
against the Cybs and then to the Domed City from which the Master rules
Gallifrey, giving him the opportunity to destroy the Grid Lock and
escape the Master's trap.
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| References: Doctor
Who: Regeneration |
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