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Ice
Time |
by: Marc
Platt
Episodes:
4
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| Ace
became a Time Lord in Dan Freeman's 'Death
Comes to Time' |
Submitted for:
Season 27
Story:
Peices of an incomplete alien
suit of armour are being exibited at the London Dungeon.
Somehow, the remaining parts are
found and the suit is completed, this causes it's original
occupant is to be reborn inside the suit: an Ice Lord.
The Ice Lord has a rival who has been chasing him accross
time. Now he has been awakened their terrible fued can
continue, bringing devestation to Swinging London.
The Doctor and Ace team up with a dodgy hippy and his
pregnant girlfriend to investigate and stop the two
aliens, however, throughout the story the Doctor 'nips
out of time' to a darkened boardroom where a group of
Time Lords are watching Ace's progress.
It becomes clear that the adventure is a task for Ace
set by the Time Lords, and as Ace continues through
the test her temporal awareness begins to increase and
she is able to see things from a universal perspective,
much like the Doctor. The Doctor reveals that it had
always been his intention to enroll Ace in Time Lord
Academy, and all the events that had happened since
Iceworld had led up to this point.
Ace eventually passes the test and submits to her destiny,
leaving the Doctor to study at the Pyrodonian academy
on Gallifrey. At the stories end the Doctor delivers
the pregnant girls' baby; a girl, and on the request
of the mother, names her.
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The
Crime of the Century |
by:
Episodes:
4
Companions:
Submitted for:
Season 27
Story:
The baby girl the Doctor Delivered
in Sixties London has now grown up to become a beautiful
femme fatal and international safe cracker. Arriving
at a party for the super rich at an English country
mansion, she works her way around the ballroom and up
the stairs where she finds the safe. carefully she cracks
the combination and opens the door. To her astonishment
she finds a stange little man with a scottish accent
inside. "What kept you?" he asks.
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Alixion |
by Robin
Mukherjee
Episodes:
3
Companion:
Ace
Submitted for:
Season 27
Story:
The Doctor and Ace arrive on the
planet Alixion, where an order of monks have decided
to live underneath the surface of the planet, practicing
a vow of silence and forbidden to cultivate friendships.
The monks produce an elixir that enhances intelligence,
harvesting the glands of the indigenous giant beetle-like
creatures to create it.
However, the monks are unaware that the beetles need
a special diet in order to produce the right chemicals:
Human flesh. One by one the Monks are being picked off
by the sinister Abbot and his select band of cohorts
to be used as food. Once the Abbot finds out the Doctor
is a Time Lord, he realises that the secrets of the
universe can be his if he can cultivate elixir made
from him.
The Doctor escapes into the catacombs where he meets
up with the Queen of the beetle creatures. and a game
of wits ensues between the Doctor and the the sadistic,
manipulative Abbot.
Notes: This story was originally commissioned
for inclusion in season 26. However since Robert Mukherjee
was relatively new to script writing Andrew Cartmel
decided to hold the script back until season 27 so that
it could be “explored further”
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Night
Thoughts |
by:
Ed Young
Episodes:
4
Companions:
Ace
Submitted for:
Season 27
Story:
The Doctor and Ace arrive on a remote island in the outer
Hebrides in the midst of a terrible storm. Looking for
shelter, they arrive at Sibley Hall, where they find a
group of university lecturers who have gathered together
to conduct experiments.
Ace befriends the young housemaid, Sue, who has been mentally
scarred by the death of her mother and sister. She uses
her toy rabbit, Happy, as a voice for her more difficult
emotions.
During the night, Professor Hartley is killed, and his
body mysteriously disappears. The following night the
Deacon commits suicide.
They discover that through their experiments, the professors
are attempting to send a message back 10 years to themselves
in order to prevent the accidental death of Sue's mother
and sister. The message is sent but instead of changing
history, they only partially succeed and the body is reanimated,
and begins stalking the house.
The Doctor realises that the major engineered the accident
and intentionally killed the girl so that he could be
the first person to bring the dead back to life.
Notes:
Ed Young had done some stage and radio work before submitting
this script to the BBC. At the end of his critique of
the script, Andrew Cartmel wrote “Night Thoughts
is incredibly erratic and self indulgent but brilliant.
One of the best non commissioned scripts I have ever read.
If I was doing another series of Doctor Who I would recommend
you without hesitation.” The title comes from a
poem written by the author's namesake. The script was
released in 2006 as an audio play by Big Finish, with
revisions made to include the companion Hex.
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Avatar |
by:
David A McIntee
Episodes:
Companions:
Submitted for:
Season 27
Story:
An etherial alien race is using
the dead as vessels. Their leader has discovered the fossilised
remains of a Silurian God and has plans to reanimate it.
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Hostage |
by:
Neil Penswick
Episodes:
3
Submitted for:
Season 27
Story:
An elite group of soldiers are sent
after shape-changing criminals Butler and Swarfe, who
have stolen a new weapon and taken it to an overgrown
jungle planet. The Doctor and Ace arrive and become involved
in the hunt. The end of the first episode sees Swarfe
change into a monster. It emerges that the planet was
the last battleground between the Time Lords and the Scaroth
(sic). After scenes set aboard a futuristic helicopter
gunship, the action moves to a set piece in a fairy-tale
style castle, where the criminals intend to detonate their
bomb.
Notes: A social worker from Bedford, Penswick
sent in a ‘Predator’-style storyline on spec
to script editor Andrew Cartmel. Cartmel had a meeting
with him, commenting that he liked the short scenes, snappy
dialogue and action approach. Penswick later used scenes
from his script in his Virgin New Adventure ‘The
Pit’.
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Animal |
by:
Episodes:
4
Companions:
Submitted for:
Season 27
Story:
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A
School For Glory |
by:
Tony Etchells and (unknown)
Submitted for:
Season 27
Story:
Set during the First World War, partly in the trenches
and partly in a British country house which would have
been some kind of academy. It would have been highly critical
of warfare and the butchery of the War, and see the class
edge as the evil of it all. There would have been some
alien interference in the form of possession by a telepathic
force.
Notes: Andrew Cartmel worked with Etchells
and another, unknown, author, on the storyline, which
was quite advanced at the time of the show’s end
in 1989. Cartmel described Etchells as ‘a very good
writer’, and later worked with him on ‘Casualty’.
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Lungbarrow |
by: Marc
Platt
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 27
Story:
The Doctor, having been thinking
about his old House and Cousins, subconsciously influences
Ace through the TARDIS’ telepathic circuits. A tranced
Ace sets the Ship’s co-ordinates, and the TARDIS
materializes in the House of Lungbarrow on Gallifrey.
It is the Doctor’s old home – and the place
that he counts as the worst place in the Universe.
Eight hundred years ago, the Doctor
argued with Quences, Lungbarrow’s Kithriarch and
head of household, about the Doctor’s choice of
occupation. The Doctor walked away from his Cousins and
the Doctor’s Family, thinking the Doctor had been
officially ostracized, illegally wove a replacement for
him in the form of Cousin Owis. Thus, as the Doctor left
Gallifrey, the Family was found guilty of exceeding its
allocation of Cousins. As is the punishment for such a
crime, the House was excommunicated from the Gallifreyan
Matrix and buried in the mountain where it resided.
For 800 years, the Doctor’s
45 Cousins have been trapped within the House, waiting
for the Doctor to return as he travelled the Universe.
Now, the Doctor finds all but six of his Cousins are missing.
He is also accused of having stabbed Quences, a Time Lord
at the end of his final incarnation, to death just before
his will was to be read.
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| The
Doctor's home, the House of Lungbarrow |
The
Doctor finds his Cousins
buried in the House’s lower levels, as their isolation
has driven them into a zombie-like state. The Cousins,
believing the Doctor to be the source of their discontent,
beat him into a coma and he approaches a regenerative
crisis.
The Doctor’s Cousin Innocet,
together with Ace and the Doctor’s allies on Gallifrey
join in a telepathic union to enter the Doctor’s
mind and revive him. Thus, they view the Doctor’s
history before leaving Gallifrey, and how he possesses
the DNA of the Other, a famed and feared Gallifreyan.
The Doctor recovers and finds
evidence that on the night Quences was murdered, his Cousin
Glospin, fearing he wouldn’t inherit the House,
regenerated and copied the first Doctor’s form,
then killed Quences and regenerated again. However, the
essence of Quences’ mind, safely hidden in the Doctor’s
tutor robot Badger, awakens and officially leaves the
House to the wayward Doctor. But the sentient House, finally
understanding that Quences is dead, grows distraught that
there is no Kithriarch. As the Doctor’s zombie-like
Cousins evacuate, the House commits suicide, plunging
off a cliff to its doom.
The President revokes Lungbarrow’s
excommunication and declares a new House will be built
for the Cousins. The Doctor and Ace leave to continue
on their travels.
Notes: Marc Platt
submitted this storyline to script editor Andrew Cartmel
but, although both Cartmel and producer John Nathna-Turner
liked the ideas they felt that it gave away too much of
the mystery surrounding the Doctor. Cartmel suggested
that they take certain elements of the story and weave
a new plot around a house that was Ace’s worst nightmare,
and ‘Ghost Light’ was born. Platt adapted
the story into the Virgin New Adventure ‘Lungbarrow’,
published in 1997, and it has since been released as an
E-Book Which is available on the BBC's Doctor Who website
(click
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The
Clockwise Cuckcoos |
by: Matthew
Saunders
Episodes:
Companions:
Submitted for:
Season 27
Story:
The Autons attempt to invade Earth
by infiltrating a TV gameshow, fiendishly replacing the
smarmy host and his bimbo assistants with plastic replicas.
Thus the Autons planned to transmit their insidious message
into the homes of the viewers, activating deadly plastic
clocks which had been distributed free of charge to gullible
viewers.
There were also murderous ‘He-Man’-style dolls,
and plastic spiders which came free in boxes of cornflakes.
Sil also returns wielding a filofax and mobile phone and
enjoying dips in his jacuzzi and trips around London in
his limousine. UNIT were also involved, led by Brigadier
Crichton (of The Five Doctors), and Lethbridge-Stewart
was also called in to help out.
A comic scene would have seen the Controller of BBC1 turn
out to be an Auton replica.
The story finished with a climactic struggle at the top
of Big Ben.
Notes: Storyline submitted on-spec during
1989 by 18 year old fan Matthew Sanders. It caught the
eye of Andrew Cartmel who later described it as ‘interesting…
very sharp and weird and funny. He was good.’.
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Illegal
Alien |
by: Mike
Tucker
Episodes:
Companions:
Submitted for:
Season 27
Story:
1940, and London is in the grip
of the Blitz. Private detective Cory McBride is more interested
in his whisky bottle than
a large metallic sphere that he discovers shortly before
falling unconscious. He is later approached by the Doctor
and Ace, who are curious about an article about his encounter
which they read in ‘tomorrow’s’ newspaper.
They learn that London is being terrorized by a serial
killer nicknamed the ‘Limehouse Lurker’, who
squashes his victims like tomatoes. McBride gathers information
from his underworld contacts, including George Limb, formerly
of military intelligence.
The Doctor suspects that the Lurker is a time-travelling
Cyberman, bombed by the Luftwaffe and now seeking blood
plasma to heal its damaged organic components.
The Doctor and McBride investigate a factory belonging
to Dr Peddler, a murdered businessman, where they discover
a covert operation to improve the effectiveness of British
foot soldiers – using captured Cyber technology.
Ace fends off a Cybermat attack
 and
takes shelter at Limb’s house. Unfortunately, Limb
has been sheltering the Lurker and it attacks her. Captain
Hartmann, a Nazi officer, destroys the murdering fiend,
but also kidnaps Ace and takes her to his Nazi base in
Jersey.
George Limb is revealed as the Cyber-operations’
mastermind, having given Cyber-technology to the Allies
and Nazis to kick-start a technology race. The Doctor
recovers the Lurker’s Cyber-command unit, a mobile
battle computer that directs the Cybermen. With it, the
Doctor seizes control of the Cybermen and sets them against
Limb and his Nazi allies. When a Nazi captain damages
the command unit, all hell breaks loose. Limb flees using
the Cybermen’s time travel machine, but the primitive
device can’t cope. The time capsule slows time,
and only the Doctor, as a Time Lord, resists the effect
and pulls Ace free and escapes. The Cyber-control unit
explodes and destroys the factory as Limb is shredded
through time and space. The Doctor and Ace leave in the
TARDIS, unaware that McBride has found hundreds of Cybermen
cocoons in an abandoned pumphouse.
Notes: This script was submitted by Tucker
and Perry under a pseudonym as Tucker was (and is currently)
working on the special effects for Doctor Who. It was
held over from Season 26 as that season already had a
Forties war story (The Curse Of Fenric), and would have
been resubmitted for Season 27 had the series not been
put on hold. Tucker and Perry novelized the scripts for
BBC Books, with the first two thirds of the book being
very close to the TV scripts. Tucker later commented that
it would have been very expensive to realize, and would
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War
World |
by: Ben
Aaronovitch
Companions:
Submitted for:
Stage play
Story:
Arriving in a club in Casablanca
in 1946, the Doctor and new companion Malleroy hook up
with US deserter and criminal Joseph McBride in a nightclub.
Out of nowhere a metallic winged alien appears, a death
angel, a race of aliens intent on wiping out all life
in the universe. appears in a nightclub. The doctor disables
the death angel and extracts information he came to earth
for, the location of a Death Angel invasion force. As
the Doctor is dealing with the Death angel and young woman,
Jazz, stumbles into the TARDIS. The Doctor takes RAF pilot
John Patterson into the TARDIS with him, leaving McBride
at the mercy of the Death Angel.
From there they go to a Scholars world to get the exact
co-ordinates of the War World from a data vampire, a being
that can extract information from the proteins in blood.
Jazz is left behind on Scholars world as the Doctor Patterson
and Mallory set off again.
They land in Stonehenge in the
seventies. The Doctor reveals that he originally built
the monolith, which is actually a transmitter, to lure
a race of samurai insect like beings called Metatraxi
to the site. The Doctor plans to distract them so that
the Death Angels have the opportunity to hijack a Metatraxi
ship. Three death angels arrive, one
that has fused itself with McBride, and another two that
reveal themselves to be daleks.
The TARDIS lands on the Metatraxi
ship, and Patterson pilots the ship to Scholars World
where it is Boarded by a gang of Pirates led by Jazz.
The Doctor asks the pirates to help him 'save creation'
and they accept and ready the Metatraxi ship. The Doctor
and Mallory head for the War World in the TARDIS.
Arriving on the plains they encounter
another band of Metatraxi. Their attitude to the Doctor
has totally changed, and they now want him to lead them.
The Doctor slips off alone to his final confrontation
in the Dalek war room, where he finds that the Dalek war
computer is now fused with McBride and the band of Pirates
aboard the Metatraxi ship have been captured, and prepared
for extermination. When the pirates are brought before
the dalek war computer what is left of McBride refuses
to kill Jazz because he loves her. The daleks decide to
kill them anyway but the War computer destroys the daleks,
killing itself in the process.
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Destination:
Holocaust |
by:
David Roden
Episodes:
4
Companions:
Submitted for:
Children in Need special
Story:
Night on the platform of a railway
station somewhere in southern England. Strange sounds
are heard, snow starts to fall and clouds gather, crackling
with electricity. The TARDIS emerges from the clouds and
spirals down to rest in an alcove on Platform 1. A figure
emerges and goes out to the main entrance where another
figure is alighting from an expensive Jaguar car. The
Brigadier is delighted to see the Doctor – although
the Doctor feared that he might have missed the Brogadier
and comments that there is a storm coming as they head
off for their reunion in the Jaguar.
The Doctor is talking to the Brigadier about a liar called
Strobilus and asks who will be at the UNIT reunion; he
hopes to see Captain Yates, Sarah Jane and ‘dear
old Liz’. An enormous green fireball bursts out
of the clouds and hurtles down to Earth, skimming over
trees and houses. In a nearby church, a vicar hears the
noise of the object and, hurrying outside, sees the fireball
strike the church spire and impact into the nearby vicarage.
A section of the burning ball drops in the country road
in front of the Jaguar, causing the Brigadier to brake
sharply. With the vehicle amidst burning liquid, the Doctor
gets his winded friend out of the car into the trees as
the Jaguar explodes. Examining the smoking metal, the
Doctor finds it is pure varinium. Outside the church they
encounter the vicar who is desperate to reach his wife,
Agnes, who was in the vicarage – despite the fact
that nobody could have survived. The vicar is sure that
this is the Devil’s work. The Doctor spots a line
of silver figures emerging from the flames and green light,
and stalking up the hillside towards the church –
Cybermen. The aliens open fire on the trio, and the vicar
is blasted backwards into a gravestone by a beam of blue
light. The Doctor and Brigadier take cover inside the
church.
Inside the church, the pair try
to find another way out, aware that the roof is badly
damaged. Spread-eagled across the altar is the incomplete
remains of a Cyberman, and the Doctor determines that
the spaceship must have been blown apart on impact. The
Cybermen blast the church door off its hinges, and the
pair face a Cyberleader. The Cyberleader explains that
they have tracked the Doctor through time and space as
they wished him to witness the destruction of Earth; they
came to find him and to find new life for their race.
Although the Brigadier says that mankind will be defiant,
through the hole in the roof can be seen the underside
of a vast spaceship. “When dawn comes we shall be
the new masters,” says the Cyberleader as its troops
lead the Doctor and Brigadier away. Outside the church,
a beam of light shoots from the underside of the ship,
sweeping the group up towards the vessel in the shaft
of light as the picture fades to black.
Notes: Approached in May 1993 to write
a five minute sketch for the BBC charity extravaganza,
Children In Need, former Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner
approached writer David Roden, who had been trying to
interest him in diverse projects over the last couple
of years. He quickly developed a storyline, which Nathan-Turner
deemed too expensive to make, with its requirements of
night shooting, snow machines, a car crash and a spaceship
hitting a church. It was abandoned the next day, and talks
continued, with a further storyline, The Endgame, being
proposed in July.
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The
Dark Dimension |
by:
Adrian Rigelsford
Episodes:
1
Submitted for:
Direct to video 30th anniversery special
Story:
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| A
horrifying concept model for the redesigned Cybermen
for the Dark Dimension |
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Doctor
Who (The animated series) |
by:
Nelvana
Companions:
Submitted for:
Pitch for a animated series
Story:
Unknown
Notes: In the early 90s, whilst the BBC
were in negotiation with David Segal and CBS they were
also in talks with Canadian animation house Nelvana ('Droids',
'The Raccoons) about producing an animated version of
the show. concept sketches were drawn up and scriptwriting
had just started when the project was cancelled.
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