The Destroyers

by: Terry Nation
Submitted for: Pilot for an American series

Carson and Wayne are members of a space exploration team. They are guarding their base dome, surrounded by a force field. Despite this, the Daleks penetrate the field, killing Carson, His death alerts Wayne, Morgan and Sara Kingdom. Sara sounds the alarm, and the base erupts into violence as the Daleks attack. There are apparently no survivors.

The SSS (Special Space Security) sends in three agents to investigate. They are Captain Jason Corey, David Kingdom (Sara’s brother) and Mark Seven. Mark is in fact an android, stronger and more logical than any human being, with pedantic speech patterns. They discover Whitman still alive. He cannot identify their attackers, but tells them that they took a few prisoners; he then expires. Sara is in fact alive also, but wounded and dodging the Daleks in the jungle. The Daleks have Philip Leigh as a prisoner for interrogation. Their instrumentation detects movement at the dome, and they send a patrol out to annihilate whatever is alive there. The agents have discovered the Dalek tracks and are following them when the Daleks approach the dome. Jason, Mark and David hide in the bushes, where they are attacked by man-eating plants.

Mark makes a noise, and the Daleks blast away at the bushes before proceeding on their way to the dome. Jason and David now free themselves with their knives and go to Mark’s aid. Being a robot, he is mostly undamaged from the attack, and needs only minor repairs before he is functional again. Sara has taken refuge by accident in the cave that houses the entrance to the Daleks’ underground base. They activate their defence mechanisms, shadowy specters that attack her, enveloping her in webbing. When she is helpless, the Daleks take her captive.

Jason, David and Mark find the cave, just ahead of the Dalek patrol returning from the dome. Their way forward is blocked by a chasm, but knowing there must be some way for the Daleks to cross it they hide, and see two Daleks activate a tubular bridge. As one crosses they jump the other, and Mark tosses it into the chasm. The first Dalek tries to return but David deactivates the bridge, sending the creature plunging into the abyss. In Dalek central control, Leigh is eliminated now that they have a better prisoner in Sara. The Black Dalek orders the ship prepared for departure. The agents arrive at the perimeter in time to see this, but not in time to stop it. The Dalek ship launches, taking Sara with it.

The invasion of earth is beginning.

Notes: By 13th November 1966, Terry Nation’s Lynstead Film Productions seemed to have been given the go-ahead to start production on the pilot episode of a half-hour Dalek film series on Monday 12th December. Impressed by Jean Marsh’s performance in The Daleks’ Master Plan, Nation intended for her to reprise the role in the new series. On 25th November, however, the BBC pulled out of the project. Throughout 1967, Nation attempted to sell the series to America’s NBC, but to no success, partly due to the poor reception to the two Aaru Dalek films and the fact that the BBC series had yet to air in the United States.
In 2004, Loose Cannon Reconstructions included a five minute ‘reconstruction’ of the pilot, along with a brief featurette on the background to it, on their ‘The Dalek Master Plan’ tape. It ‘cast’ Edward de Souza [Marc Cory in Mission To The Unknown] as Captain Jason Corey, Nicholas Courtney as David Kingdom and William Gaunt as Mark Seven.


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Doctor Who Meets Scratchman

by: Tom Baker and Ian Marter
Submitted for: Theatrical release

Story: In the mysterious Space records Bureau Americans, Potts and Griffin are browsing through a file marked ‘Dr Who’. Potts marvels at the fact that this mysterious man has been seen at the War of the Roses, Found the Loch Ness Monster and was present at the execution of Charles I. More surprising to the two colleagues is that he is due to arrive today…

The TARDIS materializes in London airport and the Doctor peeps his head out the door. In the distance a crowd has gathered to await the landing of Concorde and its passenger, a visiting pop star. The Doctor is slightly miffed at the commotion, and resets the co-ordinates for the Scottish highlands as he and his companions all sing ‘Yes, We Have No Bananas’.

They reappear on a Scottish moor and, taking a quick peek, the Doctor spots a nice place for a picnic. The Doctor grabs his picnic carpet bag and the friends lay themselves down, light a stove and have a friendly game of cricket. In the first round Sarah bowls, the ball goes straight past the batsman and into the tall grass. Whilst looking for the lost ball the Doctor thinks he can hear the sound of cracking bones, but dismisses it as a trick of the mind. Continuing on he comes across a scarecrow and finds that the ball has somehow managed to land in it’s upturned hand, almost as if it had picked the ball up itself.

Picking up the ball, the Doctor Sarah and Harry return to their picnic spot only to find it trashed, in the distance they hear the sound of a tractor moving away from them at speed. Looking around they manage to find an old motorbike and set off in pursuit.

Their chase takes them to an old deserted barn and as they approach, once again they hear the unnerving sound of cracking bones. They climb the ladder to the loft where, through a crack in the floor, they see living scarecrows, hundreds of them, ripping up sacks of fertilizer and rubbing it on themselves. One of the scarecrows notices the intruders, sounds the alarm, and the friends run for their lives; hop on their motorbike and make good their escape.

They make their way to the nearest village, which seems totally deserted. As they pass by the local greengrocers the Doctor notices that the food seems completely untouched. The Doctor muses on the living scarecrows and comes to the conclusion that in order to find out what is behind all this they will need to create a large number of moths using ‘rapid cell multiplication’. Once the moths have eaten the scarecrow’s clothes they can find out what is animating them. They raid an abandoned bring and buy sale for the required materials, Sarah and Harry examine the old clothes for moth larvae and the Doctor uses electrical appliances to create a strange looking device. Finally, Harry gets some glucose and Sarah starts sewing some of the clothes together, while outside their movements are being watched by a shadowy figure.
Above the village in the sky is a bright shining star, the Sky Plateau where the Shadow Creature is meeting the Cybors, cybernetic humanoid beings with emotionless faces. The Shadow creature tells the cybors that the great experiment, bringing the scarecrows to life, is being threatened by the Doctor. As he talks his wraithlike form shifts and changes, sometimes looking like a shadowy man, sometimes an insect. The Shadow Creature commands two Cybors to go to Earth and stop the Doctor’s meddling. The Cybors go to the edge of the plateau and dive off, hurtling towards Earth.

Back at the bring and buy sale Sarah asks the Doctor what exactly it is that he is building. He explains that it is a ‘high velocity moth machine’. The clothes that Sarah stitched together now act as a conveyor belt which is attached to the moth machine at one end, and the wheel of the motorbike outside at the other. The Larvae are now in a small tank connected to the machine. Harry revs the engine and the machine springs to life spurting out moths. The group celebrate with another round of ‘Yes We Have No Bananas’. The belt begins to slow down and the Doctor realizes the bike’s engine needs topping up ad hands Harry a gerry can. Harry goes outside to refuel the bike but is confronted with several scarecrows brandishing farming tools. Harry darts back inside, the Doctor scoops up the larvae tank and heads for the barn. He throws Harry a fur coat and hat and instructs him to distract the scarecrows while Sarah returns to get the P2 power source from the TARDIS. As the two leave, Harry barrels through the scarecrows and runs off into the night.

Sarah arrives at the TARDIS, goes to the workshop picks up the P2 power source and makes to leave, but her way is barred by a terrifying scarecrow with grimacing steel teeth and a WWI German helmet. She runs through the workshop and is chased by the scarecrow, through an impossibly large ballroom and into a hall of mirrors where she finds a grandfather clock. She climbs inside to hide from the scarecrow and to her surprise finds that is is bigger on the inside! Gigantic cogs and levers ten feet across make up the interior of the clock and Sarah climbs deeper inside. The scarecrow follows her but is unable to navigate the massive clockwork structure and get caught between two cogs. As the cock strikes the cogs start to rotate, crushing the scarecrow. Relieved, Sarah rushes back to the barn.

She arrives with the P2 and the Doctor connects the apparatus and prepares to start the moth machine, but as he does so there is a massive explosion, and when the smoke clears they see two cybors, guns raised, who then grab Harry. They hear a deafening noise and see a huge Cybor ship emerging from the sea. There is a warning siren and the cybors rush back to their ship, which then ascends into the sky before exploding an a ball of flame.

The group marvel at what they have witnessed, before they are distracted by the sound of pipes being played in the distance. They follow the music and it leads them back to the TARDIS, and, standing behind it they find Pan playing on his pipes! The Doctor realizes that the melody is actually a set of co-ordinates and rushes into the TARDIS and sets off for the destination in Pan’s tune.

They land on a barren volcanic planet where the air is filled once again with music. The follow the music to a river where they meet a hooded and cloaked ferryman who
Beckons them to board. No sooner are they on the river then the water starts to batter the ferry apart. Harry grabs Sarah and throws her onto the bank and the Doctor grabs on to an overhanging cactus moments before the raft smashes into pieces.

The Doctor pulls himself to the shore, but Sarah and Harry are nowhere to be seen, but what he can see is a black knight on horseback swinging his mace and preparing to charge at the Doctor. Thinking quick, the Doctor grabs two rocks, ties them to each end of his scarf and throws it at the knight. The improvised bolas stuns the knight who falls off his horse, The Doctor then jumps on and makes his escape as the knight disintegrates into a heap of rust.

Something really weird happens involving an egg.

The Doctor crosses the plain and ends up in an oval office with a man in a pin striped suit. Instead of a head he has a ball of light. The man introduces himself as ‘Harry Scratch’ and reveals that he was behind the cybors and the scarecrows and motions to huge tank, with Sarah and Harry floating inside. He invites the Doctor to join him but the Doctor refuses. A lift opens and the Doctor dashes inside and closes the doors and the lift drops down the shaft. The Doors open and the Doctor sees Sarah and Harry, alive and well, however looking around them they realize they are in what appears to be a massive pinball machine! The game starts and the group try to avoid the huge steel ball as they hear Scratch’s cackling every time his scores increase. After many close calls the ball falls into the gutter and the Doctor takes his turn, easily reaching the 5 million jackpot. In a fit of rage Scratch orders his Daleks into the machine to exterminate the companions, but the Doctor realizes that the smooth surface means that the Daleks cannot move very well and can be easily toppled. The Doctor uses his scarf to catapult the ball, which hits the jackpot for Scratch and destroys him. (Ed:I’m not sure why!). The crew return to the oval office where they find a pinstripe suit and a silver ball as the last remains of Harry Scratch. Harry pockets the ball.

Adventure over, the Doctor Sarah and Harry resume their picnic and game of cricket. Harry takes the silver ball and bowls it to the Doctor who hits it and smashes it to pieces. Inside one of the pieces is a squirming lizard like creature, it’s Harry Scratch….

Notes: Mad as a basketweaving goat on PCP, ‘Doctor Who Meets Scratchman’ was one of the most famous lost tales. During the filming of season 12 Marter and Baker decided to try their hands at submitting a storyline for Doctor Who as they felt that some of the scripts they were getting were substandard. They submitted some ideas to the production office, but these were rejected. Still enthused, they hit upon the idea of making a film script. While on holiday in 1976 they worked out a rough script. They presented it to the British Board of film Classification which offered half the proposed budget of £500,000. James Hill was lined up to direct and Vincent Price was to star as Scratchman. Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) was at one point considered for the role of companion, but in time actresses such as Susan George and Twiggy were also mooted. Unfortunately Baker was unable to come up with the remaining 250,000 and the idea was dropped.

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War World

by: Ben Aaronovitch
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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The Dark Dimension

by: Adrian Rigelsford/ BBC Worldwide
Episodes: 1
Submitted for: Direct to video 30th anniversary special

Story: In 2525 the Seventh Doctor battles a creature composed of entirely of chronal energy. He is joined in his fight by a group of Eco-Troopers led by a woman named Summerfield. The Doctor is killed, but Summerfield traps the Creature and sends it back in time to its death at the beginning of Creation. However the Creature escapes and finds itself on Earth in 1936.

Exiled in the past, the Creature takes over the body of would be time traveler Professor Hawkspur. Remembering its encounter with the Seventh Doctor, whom it knew to be a time traveler, the Creature deduces that the Doctor must have visited Earth at some time in his past. The Creature waits for the Time Lord and locates him in 1980 at the Pharos Project where it knows the Fourth Doctor will fall to his death from the radio telescope. Before that happens the Creature intervenes and saves the Fourth Doctor by not letting the normal regenerative process take place, simultaneously capturing him and wiping out his memories. As result, the Creature creates an alternate dimension of time, a "Dark Dimension", one in which it now has second chance to eradicate Mankind.

In 1999 Daleks, Cybermen, Yeti and Ice Warriors roam the streets under Hawkspur's control....
At Hawkspur's’s HQ, the villain is notified by one of his men that his quarry (Dorothy McShane and the Brigadier) has been located. Pleased, Hawkspur dispatches two Ice Warriors to capture them. Later, in a deserted street, the Ice Warriors come across Summerfield’s group and stun two troopers. Summerfield barely manages to escape.

The Fourth Doctor joins with the Brigadier and Summerfield and a young teacher named Dorothy McShane. Dorothy has been living a quiet life in 1999 until recently when images of other worlds and strange creatures has invaded her dreams. The Fourth Doctor seems to know her, but the gray haired man is a stranger to her. To solve the mystery and defeat the Creature the group considers their situation.

The Doctor believes that, since he has been removed from the normal course of time, entropy will set in and ultimately erase each of his future incarnations. The Doctor opens a time tunnel and travels to 1936 to discover how the creature came to inhabit the body of Hawkspur. Meanwhile, in 1999, three Daleks show up and attack Dorothy and the Brigadier in the Doctor's base; an abandoned church.

Using the time tunnel to escape, the Brigadier and Dorothy meet up arrive in 2136, an alternative future where the Fifth Doctor is helping human soldiers fight the Cybermen. The time travellers discuss the disruption of the time continuum and the threat of the growing entropy. They want to find a way to rescue the Fifth Doctor before he is erased from existence.

But then, the time tunnel opens and Hawkspur's Daleks emerge. While Daleks and Cybermen clash, Dorothy and the Brigadier escape in the time tunnel. The Fifth Doctor is left behind as the Daleks close in...
The Brigadier and Dorothy become separated in the time tunnel. The Brigadier arrives in a trial chamber in some undetermined future, the Sixth Doctor is defending a group of Ice Warriors, led by Commander Azzlyx, who are being accused of having purposely delivered contaminated supplies to the Jassix Five colony. With his usual flair, the Sixth Doctor exposes the true villains -- a Mining Corporation.

The Sixth Doctor is surprised by the Brigadier's arrival. The Brigadier warns the Time Lord that his existence is in danger. Then Daleks appear. The Sixth Doctor and the Brigadier run away but are intercepted by Summerfield. She opens another time tunnel and leaves with the Brigadier. The Sixth Doctor is captured by Daleks.

At Hawkspur's HQ, the bodies of the Fifth Doctor and Sixth Doctor are placed in suspended animation.

Meanwhile, the Fourth Doctor has returned to the time tunnel and left 1936. He steps out in a surreal White Void where he meets the Third Doctor who claims to still live -- inside the Doctor's head. Close to despair, the older version of himself gives the Fourth Doctor much needed encouragement.

Dorothy too finds herself in the White Void and discovers the Seventh Doctor. who calls her "Ace". He tells her that before he died he projected a portion of his mind into her. The Time Lords must have then sent her back to the point she would have reached in her life had she never met him. The Fourth Doctor appears in the Void. The Seventh Doctor transfers all of his memories from Dorothy to his past self, then fades away. Now the Fourth Doctor knows everything the Seventh Doctor knew about the Creature.

Dorothy, who now insists on being called Ace, and the Fourth Doctor return to the church. The Brigadier and Summerfield are there, as are four Creature-possessed Eco-Troopers. Ace and Summerfield are captured....
Ace awakens at Hawkspur’s HQ, strapped to an operating table. Alex Stewart (her boyfriend and the Brigadier's son) is there, but he is clearly possessed, just like the Eco-Troopers. The Creature reveals the various monsters it has been using (Daleks, Cybermen, Ice Warriors, Yeti) are not the real thing but shape-shifting, bio-morphic clones made of his own substance from images he stole from the Seventh Doctor’s mind. The Creature seeks to cleanse the Earth of Mankind's presence in order to repopulate it with it own life forms.

The Fourth Doctor and the Brigadier arrive at Hawkspur's HQ. The Fourth Doctor challenges Hawkspur to a duel. Swords are drawn. The Brigadier sets up an emitter that will create a time tunnel and escapes with Summerfield. They head back to the church, which is really the TARDIS. Ace tends to Alex who dies when released from the Creature's control.

A horrifying concept model for the redesigned Cybermen for the Dark Dimension

Meanwhile, the Creature is becoming exhausted by its fight with Fourth Doctor. On the roof of Hawkspur's HQ, the Time Lord delivers the killing blow that sends Creature over the edge. But it is Hawkspur who falls to his death. The Creature rises out of the human's body and begins to blast the Fourth Doctor with energy bolts.

In the TARDIS the Brigadier and Summerfield activate the emitters which create a time tunnel at Hawkspur's HQ. The Fourth Doctor manages to push the Creature into the tunnel. Badly injured, the Time Lord collapses. Ace rushes to him. The Fourth Doctor

smiles up at her, then regenerates successively into his Fifth, Sixth and finally his Seventh Incarnations. The two reunited friends hug.

Time is restored to the way it was before the creature disrupted it. Ace, who has forgotten about her life in 1999, and her boyfriend Alex, has many questions, none of which the Doctor is inclined to answer. She asks about Summerfield. The Doctor replies:

"Back on her right timeline, back where she belongs....As are we all. Who know , we might even meet her again one day..."

Meanwhile, the Brigadier places flowers on the grave of his son Alex, who died in 1979 at the age of ten.

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Rose Tyler: Earth Defence

By: Russell T Davies/BBC One
Episodes: 1
Submitted for: Bank Holiday Special(s)

Story: After being forced to leave the Doctor, Rose is sinking into despair despite the best efforts of her friends and family. A genuine alien threat strikes the alternate Earth and Torchwood is unable to stop it, but Rose is.

Jackie convinces Rose that the Doctor would not want her to waste her life worrying about him, and she embraces her new life in a new universe.

Notes: The cast and crew of Doomsday found the departure of Rose Tyler heartbreaking, and RTD suggested a special May Day holiday movie showing Rose's further adventures. Just as The Runaway Bride would deal with the Doctor recovering, Rose Tyler - Earth Defence would show Rose moving on with her life. This special was hoped to become an annual event. It got as far as being commissioned by Controller of BBC1 Peter Fincham.

However, the production team rapidly had second thoughts. Not only could the special remove the impact of Doomsday, another Rose adventure might make it difficult for viewers to accept the new companion Martha Jones. What's more, with Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and the animated K9 spin-off, RTD was worried they were approaching Doctor Who overkill and decided to cancel the project for the foreseeable future.

He was also mildly concerned that the title could be compacted into RTED, which was a vowel away from being his nickname!

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K9 Adventures

By: Bob Baker/ Park Entertainment

Story: Somewhere in the future…

An old Prairie class spacecraft is drifting towards distant stars. She is The “Platte” once used for the colonisation of Asteroids. On board are Slocum- mid-thirties, rugged, taciturn who thinks of himself as a dealer in valuable commodities - others would say he just collects junk! He is a loner, a space gypsy, it's the only way he knows. He's in no hurry to get anywhere and he stays well off the beaten track. There is also Djinn, a V997 (F), an overactive computer module in the shape of an attractive young woman. She was programmed by the ship's previous owners to provide stimulating conversation. Something that Slocum would happily change if only he had knowledge of her operating codes!

Together they discover an apparently abandoned battle cruiser. Whereupon they meet K-9!

Notes: Bob Baker, the creator and rights holder to K9 (and also the creator of fellow amusing mutt Gromit from 'Wallace and Gromit') had been trying to get a K9 series off the ground for almost as long as the character has existed. It was only after K9's appearance in the newly rejuvenated 'Doctor Who' that Park Entertainment announced plans to go ahead with a live action/CGI K9 show. 'K9 Adventures' was to be screened as 26 x 30 minute episodes, with 'interactive toys' to be produced to tie in with the series. At the time of writing the series has not been abandoned and is currently scheduled for release in 2008, however with the lack of any information of it's progress
it seems increasingly likely that it may be.

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