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Doctor Who: The Lost Stories (X·Y·Z)
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| Yellow Fever And How To Cure It |
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| Writer: Robert Holmes |
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Notes: For Season Twenty-Three,
producer John Nathan-Turner hoped to take Doctor Who on a
location shoot to Singapore, where two episodes of the BBC drama
Tenko had been filmed. He and production manager Gary Downie
travelled there on October 19th, 1984. After viewing their footage,
Robert Holmes was commissioned to write the first episode of
“Yellow Fever And How To Cure It” (sometimes referred to
simply as “Yellow Fever”) on October 26th. Shortly
thereafter, Nathan-Turner asked Holmes to add the newly-introduced Rani
to his storyline, alongside the Autons (not seen since 1971's Terror Of The Autons) and the Master.
Holmes requested the postponement of his delivery dates until the
Singapore locations and rights to use the Rani were all confirmed,
having suffered through substantial rewrites on 1985's The Two Doctors. As such, all three
episodes were commissioned together on February 6th, 1985. “Yellow
Fever And How To Cure It” was likely intended to be the season's
third story, made by director Graeme Harper, who was then completing Revelation Of The Daleks. On
February 27th, 1985, however, it was announced that production of
Doctor Who was being suspended until Spring 1986, with the
programme then returning for a season of twenty-five-minute episodes.
Holmes was asked to rework his storyline for this format, with the
Master no longer appearing. At the end of May, however, it was decided
that Season Twenty-Three would be consist of only fourteen episodes,
leading to the development of The
Trial Of A Time Lord. Unlike the other planned Season
Twenty-Three scripts, some thought was given to incorporating
“Yellow Fever And How To Cure It” into this new framework,
but the programme's reduced budget would preclude location filming in
Singapore. As such, Holmes was instead commissioned to write The Trial Of A Time Lord
(Segment One).
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| Characters: The Sixth Doctor,
Peri |
| Episodes: 3
(45-minute) |
| Planned For: Probably the
third story of Season Twenty-Three |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: The Master and the Rani are in
Singapore, disguised as street performers, and working with the Autons.
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #3, Doctor Who: The Trial Of A Time
Lord DVD Production Subtitles |
| The Yeti |
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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 David
Segal's version of Doctor Who, released on March 21st, 1994. It
was based on Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln's 1967 serial The Abominable Snowmen.
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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 Doctor travels to 1953
Tibet to get help from the Dalai Lama in the search for his father,
Ulysses. Also in Tibet is Sir Edmund Hillary, who is about to become the
first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The Dalai Lama warns the
Doctor that Hillary's party will come into conflict with the Yeti. The
Doctor is able to communicate with the Yeti, who are actually the gentle
survivors of the Neanderthal race.
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| References: Doctor
Who: Regeneration |
| The Zeldan |
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| Writer: William Emms |
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Notes: Emms, who had written Galaxy 4 in 1965, offered this idea
to the production office around 1983.
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| Characters: The Fifth
Doctor, Tegan, Turlough |
| Episodes: 4 |
| Planned For: Season
Twenty-One |
| Stage Reached:
Storyline |
| Synopsis: Unknown
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| References: Doctor
Who Magazine Special Edition #3 |
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