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The Paul McGann Telemovie

In 1994, in preparation for the proposed CBS/Amblin/BBC Doctor Who series, John Leeky produced a plush writers guide detailing the background of the Doctor, his motivation and

An 8th Doctor version of Shada was released as a webcast

the tone and style of the series. It also included several story outlines for future episodes, which on the whole were borrowed and adapted from previous Doctor Who serials.

However, this version of Doctor Who was abandoned in favour of what became the TV movie and these versions of some of the most well known stories were discarded even before it became clear that the would only be one telemovie broadcast. It is a fascinating insight into what Doctor Who might have become in the nineties.


Stories:

Doctor Who

The Yeti

The Outcasts

The Daleks

The Pirates

Don't Shoot I'm the Doctor!

The Land of Fear

Earthshock

 

In addition to the stories mentioned above, the following classic serials were to be remade without any significant plot changes:

The Tomb of the Cybermen

Talons of Weing Chiang

The Claws of Axos

Shada

Horror of Fang Rock

Ark In Space

The Daemons

The Celestial Toymaker

 

Doctor Who

by: John Leeky
Episodes: 1
Companions: Barusa
Submitted for: CBS Series

Story: The Time Lords, led by a dying Cardinal Barusa are under attack from the Daleks whilst the Doctor is traveling the galaxy looking for the legendry Lost Scrolls. On his journey he is attacked by a Spider Dalek and is forced to return to Gallifrey where the Master, Barusa's son, confronts the Doctor. The Master is next in line for succession to the presidency of Gallifrey but many Time Lords want the Doctor, Barusa's grandson, to take leadership of Gallifrey. By eliminating the Doctor there will be nothing to stop the Master.

In his final moments, Barusa tells The Doctor that his long lost father was the Time Lord explorer Ulysses and that his mother was a human from the 'Blue Planet'. The Doctor then resolves to find his father and takes off in Ulysses' old TARDIS. As he takes off Barusa's spirit is somehow trapped in the crystals that power the TARDIS and he becomes one with it, able to communicate with and advise the Doctor.


Notes:
It is plain that Leeky's reboot of the series borrows heavily from the original. The Master, Gallifrey and the Daleks all appear as does Cardinal Borusa (inexplicably renamed Barusa). However, in direct contrast to the original series The Doctor's motivation and origins are explained in detail, leaving you with an eccentric Englishman in space 'quest format' show.


The Yeti

By John Leeky
Episodes: 1
Companions:
Barusa
Submitted for: Proposed CBS series

Story: Continuing on his quest to find his father The Doctor visits 1953 to visit the Dali Lama. Upon landind he encounters Sir Edmund Hilary's expedition to conquer Everest and Hilary tells the Doctor how is team encounterd a group of large furry creatures whilst attempting to scale the mountain. Hilary intends to return and hunt the creatures down and the Doctor decides to join them. During the hunt they get surrounded by the Yeti but the Doctor is able to communicate with them and finds out that they are actually peaceful Neanderthals that have hidden in this remote spot for many thousands of years.


The Outcasts

By John Leeky
Episodes: 1
Companions:
Barusa
Submitted for: Proposed CBS series

A concept sketch of Gallifrey from the Leeky Bible


Story: The TARDIS crystals are being drained of power by a 'grid lock' the master has placed on the TARDIS and the Doctor is forced to return to Gallifrey in order to save Barusa. He lands in the wilderness outside the domed city and encounter Cybs who are picking off the Outcasts, the dwellers of the wilderness, and using them for parts and slaves. The Doctor gathers together a fighting force of Outcasts and together they defeat the Cybs. The Doctor and the outcasts enter the city and remove the gridlock.

Notes: The Outcasts takes it's ideas of the people living outside the domed city from 1977's 'The Invasion of Time'

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The Daleks

By John Leeky
Episodes: 1
Companions:
Barusa
Submitted for: Proposed CBS series

Story: The Doctor is captured by the Time Lords and by decree of his brother and Lord President of Gallifrey, the Master, is sent to Skaro to prevent the creation of the Daleks. The Time Lords have foreseen that the Daleks become the major destructive for in the galaxy.

The Doctor meets with Davros, the Kaleds chief scientist and they work together to stop the mutation of the Kaled race, which he believes will evolve to become Daleks. They divert their efforts to create a protective case for the mutants so that they can survive. The Doctor realises that Davros is modifying the mutants to remove their emotions and increasing their desire to kill, and creating the daleks.

A concept sketch of the Amblin spider Dalek


From here on in it follows the story of 'Genesis of the Daleks', however it is revealed that the Master has manipulated the Doctor into helping create the Daleks, so that he can take control of them and control the galaxy.

The Doctor uses the TARDIS to go back to the point where he initially arrived at in order to kill Davros by wiping out the small nuclear device that powers his chair, but he can't do it. "Some things are not for men to decide, we are not Gods."

Notes: This story lifted form the 1974 Tom Baker story "Genesis of the Daleks" by Terry Nation with some notable additions. Skaro has become a "world of two continents, separated by a vast ocean" and Davros is described as being "crumpled down, as if gravity were exerting an enormous force down on him. His eyes, ears, voice box have been replaced with vat grown bio-mass plastic." he still has a "protective shell" over the lower part of his body. The Daleks are described as enormous spiders with protective armour genetically attached to them. Amblin even went to far as to create a test shot for the redesigned daleks, which was screened on the computer game program Gamesmaster in 1994.

 


The Pirates

By John Leeky
Episodes: 1
Companions:
Barusa
Submitted for: Proposed CBS series

Story:Continuing the search for the Doctor's father, Barusa suggests that he might be the famous earth pirate Blackbeard. Arriving in 18th century Spain the Doctor is captured by a band of pirates who force him into helping them discipher a treasure map. The Doctor escapes with the map, hoping that it will lead him to his father. When he arrives at the location of the treasure he finds Blackbeard removing a casket from the ground, assisted the pirates he had just escaped from. Blackbeard and the Doctor fight off the pirates. The Doctor turns to ask Blackbeard if he is the Doctors father, Ulysses, but sees him galloping off in his horse.

Notes: One of the very few original story ideas in the leeky bible, this seems to be a swashbuckling adventure with a grand fight at the end.


Don't Shoot, I'm the Doctor!

By John Leeky
Episodes: 1
Companions:
Barusa
Submitted for: Proposed CBS series

Story: Waking from a nightmare, the Doctor finds that he has a toothache. Barusa suggests that they return to Gallifrey so that he can get the offending tooth removed, but the Doctor decides to head to Earth instead, so that he can be treated by a 'civilised dentist'.

Instead of landing in the 20th century they discover that it is in fact 1881 and they have landed in Tombstone. Unfazed, the Doctor heads into town and asks a local man if the have a dentist. The man laughs nervously. Proceeding down the main street he is caught in a lasso by two drunken cowboys, and then rope drag the doctor at high speed down the street. The boys come to an abrupt halt as they see the fearsome Doc Holliday step out onto the street. Still skidding down the street, the Doctor rolls straight into Doc Holliday. Apologising profusely, the doctor gets to his feet and explains that he is looking for a dentist, to which Holliday invites him to his surgery to clean up and have the troublesome tooth removed.

No sooner have they arrived at the surgery than Holliday has to leave 'to take care of some unfinished business', however, he leaves the Doctor in the capable hands of his girl, kate. Intrigued, the Doctor asks Kate to explain why Holliday had to leave so abruptly. She tells him that there a feud is brewing between the Earp and Clanton families, and that Holliday is simply trying to keep the situation contained.

As they talk, Kate begins to confide in the Doctor, she tells him that Holliday is erratic, one day violent and abusive, the next loving and kind. The Doctor offers to help and after changing his now tattered clothes for some of Doc Holliday's, goes off in search of him.

He finds the dentist at the saloon. The Doctor tries to talk to him about Kate's concerns but this only makes him angry and suspicious of the Doctor's intentions towards Kate. Holliday grabs the Doctor and unceremoniously throws him out if the bar an tells him to keep his nose out of other peoples business. The Doctor dusts himself off and returns to Kate and tells her of his failure to reason with the man. Kate thanks him and fixes him up with a room at the boarding house.

As the Doctor sleeps, Ike Clanton creeps up to his window, opens the catch and steps inside. He levels his gun at the Doctor's sleeping frame, but just before he fires the doctor jumps out of bed and throws the blankets at him, deflecting the shot. Ike realises that the man in front of him is not Doc Holliday, even though he is wearing his clothes. At that moment the door flies open and a drunken Doc Holliday bursts into the room, spoiling for a fight with the Doctor. Spotting Ike Clanton he shifts his attention and the pair lunge at each other while the Doctor looks on bemused. Woken by the fray, Kate rushes in and drags Holliday off Ike, giving the intruder the chance to escape. As the Doctor surveys the carnage Virgil Earp walks into the room and knocks him unconscious.

The Doctor comes to in a jail cell. Opening his eyes only slightly so as not to be noticed he sees Doc Holliday arguing with a prisoner in the next cell: Les Moore. Meanwhile Wyatt Earp has run into Tom McLaury, a friend of Ike's. A shouting match ensues culminating with Earp pistol whipping McLaury. Unbeknownst to Earp, McLaury's brother Frank and Clanton's brother Billy have just rode into town. Kate spies them approaching and rushes off to tell Holliday.

At the jail Kate breathlessly recounts what she saw. Doc Holliday wakes the Doctor, telling him that after he has dealt with the new arrivals he will deal with him. Kate protests but Holliday grabs her and slaps her in the face. Kate struggles to get free and in the process the jail cell keys are dropped. Holliday leaves and drags Kate home.

Spying the keys the Doctor uses his yo-yo to drag them over to him and unlocks the door. He then frees Les, who suggests that they change clothes so that they will not be so easily identified. The Doctor agrees. Les is first through the door but as he steps into the daylight he is shot in the back. The Doctor dives back into the jailhouse and grabs a gun and holster from the sheriff's armory before sneaking away undetected to make sure that Kate is safe.

In the town, tensions are rising as word of Tom's beating reaches the ears of the Clantons and the McLaurys and a new arrival, Billy 'the kid' Claiborne. They converge at the OK corral as Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, the Doctor, and Sherriff Behan all arrive. The Doctor attempts to talk Doc Holliday confronting the Clantons gang. Holliday, sick of the Doctor's interference, goes for his gun, only to be dragged off by Virgil to join his brothers. Behan and McLaury's gang turn the corner to be faced with the Earps and Doc Holliday. Holiday then pulls his pistol and a shootout begins, leaving Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury dead. Ike make a run for it but Holliday fires and he falls to the ground wounded. Holliday runs to Ike, puts the gun to his head and fires, but the gun is empty. He goes for his second revolver only for the gun and holster to fly off from a shot by the Doctor, hidden in a barn. Ike jumps to his feet and runs and Holliday launches himself at the Doctor. A fistfight ensues, during which a stray punch knocks the Doctor's tooth out. The Doctor climbs a ladder and Holliday follows only be be kicked off by the Doctor. The fall leaves Holliday on the ground unconscious.

As the Doctor gathers his breath he hears a whistle and Kate's bursts into the barn on horseback. The Doctor grabs a hoist rope and swings from the top of the barn onto the back of the horse and they speed out of Tombstone. They pass Boot Hill where a burial is being conducted. The Doctor asks who the poor man was: Les Moore. The Doctor dismounts and writes on the headstone the famous words 'Here lies the body of Les Moore, no less no more, shot in the back by a 44'.

Notes: Leeky was very interested in this period of American history and spent some time researching the events of the actual gunfight at the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum. It is perhaps for this reason that the Doctor hardly features in the main plot at all, being more concerned with what lies beneath Kate's undergarments (the outline mentions rising sexual tension between them, with a flirtatious scene taking place as the Doctor changes into Doc Holliday's clothes).


Earthshock

By John Leeky
Episodes: 1
Companions:
Barusa
Submitted for: Proposed CBS series

The new nomadic scavenger Cybs

Story:The Doctor lands in wyoming in 1994 where palaeontologists are being killed by Cybs hiding in the caves. The Cybs have hidden a bomb in the caves that is capable of destroying the planet. The Doctor disarms the bomb but is taken captive by the Cybs....

Notes: This story takes several elements from the fifth Doctor story of the same name, such as the cybermen (now called Cybs), the bomb that will destroy the Earth and the Dinosaur element. It mixes the original story up in an interesting way however. The Cybermen or Cybs were totally redesigned for the Leeky bible into tribal cybernetic hunters, scavenging parts wherever they could find them.

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The Land of Fear

By John Leeky
Episodes: 1
Companions:
Barusa
Submitted for: Proposed CBS series

Story: The Doctor remembers that his father once talked of meeting Robespierre and sets off for Paris in 1790. During his investigationshe becomes involved with master spy James Sterling and find out that he plans to kill Robespierre.

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