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The
Mists of Madness |
by: Brian
Wright
Episodes:
Submitted for: Season
7
Story: The
Doctor and Liz discover an artificially created community
of humans.
Notes: Wright submitted this storyline
on spec to the production office, where he discovered
that the script editor was an old school friend, Terrance
Dicks. Before he could write the scripts however, he
was appointed to an academic post in Bristol and the
project was abandoned.
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The
Shadow People |
By:
Charlotte and Dennis Plimmer
Episodes:
Submitted for:
Season 7
Notes: The
Plimmers withdrew their story after a disagreement about
their fee. It was then replaced by 'Inferno'.
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The
Vampire Planet (or The Harvesters) |
By:
William Emms
Episodes:
Submitted for:
Season 7
Story: A
purple planet enters the solar system, launching probes
which land on Earth and sink rods into the ground. These
Harvesters are then used to drain Earth’s energy.
There is widespread panic as the Earth’s soil starts
to die. The Doctor is called in by the Brigadier to investigate,
and when the Harvesters are cut open using lasers the
metallic Roboes descend from the vampiric planet. The
Doctor traps a Roboe by sealing it in a metal room, rendering
it helpless with electricity. Inside the metal body is
a man from the planet Mara, who reveals that the Masters
will do the same to Earth as they did to his world. The
Masters of the vampire planet finally appear when they
decide it is time to crush all resistance; tall and elegant,
they are clad in Grecian robes and have metal casings
on the skulls. Talking to the Masters, the Doctor learns
that they are ignorant of nuclear fission. The Doctor
dons a Roboe body and enters the Masters’ ship while
the Brigadier readies IMBs to destroy the Masters’
world; he has Harvesters fitted with nuclear bombs. The
Doctor informs the Masters of the Brigadier’s actions,
and shows them some film of a nuclear explosion, relayed
by the Brigadier. Terrified by the film, the Masters agree
to leave and never return.
Notes: Emms,
who had previously written ‘Galaxy 4’ for
Season 3, had submitted the storyline entitled ‘The
Harvesters’ during patrick Troughton’s tenure.
When Pertwee took over, he resubmitted it as a UNIT story.
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The
Spare Part People (or the Labyrinth/The Brain Drain) |
By:
Jon Pertwee and Reed de Rouen
Episodes:
7
Submitted for:
Season 8
Story: The
Doctor is asked by UNIT to investigate the disappearance
of key figures from both sides of the Iron Curtain, all
unique in their field. To become a victim of the kidnappers
himself, the Doctor poses as Cambridge don Dr Jon Madden
and is seized by hideous mummy-like creatures; the Brigadier,
who has been shadowing the Doctor, is also captured. Both
are taken aboard a Jules Verne-style submarine to a tropical
city amid the snowy wastes of Antarctica. Here dwells
a decadent civilization which has used the captured creative
talents to create their idyllic home, using kidnapped
athletes in bizarre and barbaric games – a footballer
pitted against crocodiles, for example – to entertain
their King and his court. The King is fascinated by the
Doctor’s immortality; in order to force him to divulge
the secret, he places him in a labyrinth with a dreadful
monster, which the Doctor fights in Episode Six. The liberal
Princess, however, gives the Doctor a thread so he can
emerge from the maze. The Brigadier organizes a guerilla
force of the detainees and captures the heating controls;
the King and his followers freeze into statues while the
kidnapped people escape the city in the submarine.
Notes: This
seven-part storyline was submitted on-spec in 1970 by
Pertwee and American actor/screeenwriter Reed de Rouen.
It was also referred to as ‘The Labyrinth’
and ‘The Brain Drain’, but was never seriously
considered for production.
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The
Gift |
By:
Bob Baker & Dave Martin
Episodes:
6
Submitted for:
Season 8
Story: Aliens
crashland in Hyde Park in a skull shaped space ship.
Notes: The
story was rejected for being several months late, too
outlandish and expensive to produce. it was later reworked
into 'The Claws of Axos'
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The
Furies (or the Space War) |
By:
Ian Stuart Black
Episodes:
6
Submitted for:
Season 8
Notes: Ian
Stuart Black (who had written three serials in the 1960s)
submitted this six-part storyline in 1970. He then went
off to work on another project for several months and
moved on to fresh ideas when he returned.
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The
Cerebriods |
By:
Charlotte and Dennis Plimmer
Submitted for:
Season 8
Story:
Notes: This
six-part storyline was commissioned by script editor Terrance
Dicks in early May 1970. The scripts were then commissioned
in late June, but the idea was formally abandoned only
five days later.
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The
Daleks in London |
By:
Robert Sloman
Episodes:
Six
Submitted for:
Season 9
Notes: This
story was replaced by Day of the Daleks when Barry Letts
felt that he needed a guaranteed popular draw to start
seaon 9
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The
Brain Dead |
by: Brian
Hayles
Episodes:
4
Submitted for:
Season 9
Story:
The Ice Warriors’ new weapon
is the Z beam, which can in effect reduce most substances
to subzero temperatures, and when used full force, can
effect absolute zero – fatal to human beings, with
their high proportion of water. However, the beam is capable
of pinpoint accuracy, and when aimed at the brain, freezes
it, producing a zombie – easily and instantly imprinted
to serve the Ice Warrior cause.
The Z beam is used first of all at the comsat, to take
over the receiving station, with its vital ‘dish’.
The imprinted engineers will then, under instruction,
construct a giant version of the Z beam transmitter. This
involves taking over a neighbouring frozen food factory,
an ideal cover under which to operate until the next major
step in the plan. The freeze centre transmitter is then
connected to the radio dish, now rigged to transmit. The
Z beam is then bounced off the immediate comsat to each
of the comsat chain, and from them to all normal receiving
stations throughout Earth. In an instant, the majority
of Earth’s industrial, political and military organizations
will be under Ice Warrior control. With major resistance
wiped out, the ensuing invasion will be easy. After that,
with more Z beams operating, the planet can be reconditioned
to the Martian climate needed by the invaders.
The Brigadier at first suspects that the problems at the
comsat station are the work of an environmental pressure
group, the Isolationists, but the Doctor manages to convince
him of the truth. They then fight together against the
Ice Warriors, led by Commander Kulvis, and their zombies
– the eponymous Brain-Dead. The Doctor finally discovers
how to turn the Ice Warriors’ own weapon against
them.
Freezing metals to absolute zero renders them super-conductive,
with a nil resistance to voltage. Just as the critical
build-up is reached for the Z beam to operate globally,
the Doctor effects an electrical power connection with
the transmitter resulting in the spectacular destruction
of the Ice Warriors and their slaves – the Brain-Dead.
Notes: Poor old Brian Hayles, he never
had much luck did he?.
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The
Shape of Terror |
By:
Brian Hayles
Episodes:
Submitted for:
Season 9
Story: rescue
mission responding to an SOS call lands at an advannced
research station Pi Delta 6 on the mineral-rich planet
of Medusa Centaurus. Led by Commander Hallett, they investigate
the apparently deserted station. Garford, Hallett’s
ruthless security officer, believes that it has been attacked
by pirates.
The Doctor and Jo arrive in the TARDIS and immediately
fall under suspicion.
It transpires that the true culprit is the Energid, a
highly refined primordial cell of neural protoplasm. Rather
than using the normal method of cell growth by selective
absorption, the Energid has mutated to absorb the protein
and neural patterning of intelligent men. In the same
way that by interlinking a series of computers greater
development potential is produced, the Energid is going
through a super-anabolistic phase, adding to its power
by fusing into its nucleus the brains and personalities
of its victims. Eventually, it will reproduce by self-division.
Aware that the Doctor’s brain is a prize worth having,
it retards reproduction until it can absorb his neural
patterns and intellect.
As a non-cellular organism, the Energid is capable of
considerable changes of shape and viscosity, but never
loses its own distinctive surface texture. Thus it can
echo the shape of a man, but can never become more than
that. This surface could be rather like a stiffened detergent
foam or egg-white, which could as easily subside into
complete flatness, with all the motive qualities of ‘thin’
water.
In order to defeat the Energid, the Doctor decides that
he must allow himself to become part of its neural structure.
Jo and the others fear that he has become power-mad in
seeking the alliance and imprison him. The Doctor’s
cell is invaded by the Energid and, in a psychic nightmare,
it shows him what he could achieve if he allows the absorption.
From the fusion will come a new super-race, and he their
supreme creator. The Doctor appears to be won over, but
then reveals his true motives. He calls on the survival
instincts of the absorbed men, then throws the Energid
into a state of katabolism – self-destruction –
thereby ending the danger.
Notes: Initially
unenthusiastic, script editor Terrance Dicks later warmed
to the ‘Ten Little Indians’ setting, and commented
that it could be cheap to make with few sets and only
one monster. Only the setting, a murder mystery set in
an enclosed community, survived however, and became part
of The Curse Of Peladon.
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Deathworld |
By:
Bob Baker and Dave Martin
Episodes:
Submitted for: Season
10
Story: A
game of chess is being played between Death and the High
King of the Time Lords. However, the Time Lord has three
white kings, one of which Death takes. This action causes
an accident in the [Third] Doctor’s laboratory,
and it seems that the Doctor and Jo have been vaporized.
The pair find themselves in Limbo, menaced by one of Death’s
many manifestations of himself. All three incarnations
of the Doctor are allowed to enter the Underworld by the
Time Lords as part of a super-initiative test, acting
as Judas goats in the final power struggle between the
Time Lords and the Forces of Evil, which have formed a
Federation in alliance with Death; the Time Lords have
chosen to risk the three Doctors’ lives in the hope
of averting an interstellar war.
The three Doctors reason that they have to pass a test
in Limbo; menaced by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,
Zombies and Demons, Polyphemus, manifestations of the
Seven Deadly Sins, Goddess Kali and even Spiderwoman.
the [Third] Doctor realizes that all their adversaries
are forms of Death. The combined efforts of all three
Doctors make an escape attempt, with the First and Second
Doctors sacrificing themselves so that the Third Doctor
and Jo can escape.
Notes: Writers
Bob Baker and Dave Martin submitted the storyline in February
1972, but script editor Terrance Dicks disliked the more
surreal aspects of Limbo, noting that they would not grab
the audience’s attention. In rewriting, Death became
Ohm (and later Omega), a Time Lord in an anti-matter Universe,
and the story which would emerge as The Three Doctors
was born. Dicks pointed out, however, that the mixture
of “mass suicide, corpse-filled morgues, lumbering
ghastly zombies and man-eating fungus” was not going
to be acceptable.
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Multiface |
By:
Godfrey Harrison
Episodes:
Submitted for:
Season 10
Notes: Whilst
script editor Terrance Dicks was on leave, producer Barry
Letts commissioned an experimental story idea from Godfrey
Harrison, a man who was notorious for the late delivery
of his material. Despite being delivered a week late,
the storyline was under consideration for a year or so,
before finally being written off and Harrison paid for
‘a great deal of work’ in February 1973.
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Bridgehead
from Space |
By:
Malcom Hulke
Episodes:
Submitted for
: Season 11
Story: The
Doctor returns from an adventure on an alien planet to
find a deserted London; the population have been largely
evacuated and soon he is attacked by a strange monster.
Humanoid aliens have landed and taken over, striking a
deal with the British Government that they should be allowed
to occupy the capital with a limited number of their own
kind – and since their superior laser-type weaponry
has vaporized County Hall after an ill-advised attack
on their spaceships by a military twit, the government
has agreed and retreated north to Harrogate. Although
the aliens are playing at being the hurt party, they are
bringing more troops in by spaceship each night under
cover of darkness, and keep the streets of London clear
using monsters which hatch from eggs and grow quickly.
The Doctor joins the Brigadier in Harrogate and learns
how the Prime Minister has struck a deal with the aliens
to let them control the capital alone. Discovering that
government representatives are allowed into London, the
Doctor is given suitable documents to enter the heart
of alienville where he is in great peril. The aliens’
true plan is to demand the South of England, forcing the
inhabitants into the over-populated North. They will then
await the next provocation from the government allowing
them to make new demands, taking over the British Isles,
then Europe… and eventually forcing humanity to
live in Australia. With the native species hemmed in,
the aliens will then drop some H-bombs on Australia, and
cheerfully take over the planet’s cities and industries.
The Doctor must reveal the aliens’ plan to the world.
Notes: Malcolm Hulke submitted the story
outline in December 1972. Script editor Terrance Dicks
liked the idea of monsters in a deserted London, and this
was the only element which remained in Hulke’s final
story, 'Invasion Of The Dinosaurs'.
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The
Automata |
By:
Robert Holmes
Episodes:
Submitted for:
Season 11
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The
Final Game |
by
Robert Sloman
Episodes:
Submitted for:
Season 11
Story: In the final confrontation between
The Doctor and The Master it is revealed that they are
somehow different parts of the same personality, the Doctor
being the Id and The Master the Ego. The Master eventually
sacrifices himself to save The Doctor and his companions.
Notes: This
story was to be the last featuring Roger Delgado as he
had asked to be written out of the series to pursue other
projects. This story was abandoned after the tragic death
of Roger Delgado in Turkey in June 1973.
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