List of working titles

Several Doctor Who stories have had different working titles than the finished stories.

Season 1

 * An Unearthly Child - 100,000 BC, The Tribe of Gum
 * The Daleks - The Dead Planet, The Mutants , Beyond the Sun
 * The Edge of Destruction - Inside the Spaceship
 * Marco Polo - A Journey to Cathay
 * The Keys of Marinus - The Sentence of Death
 * The Reign of Terror - Guests of the Guillotine

Season 2

 * Planet of Giants - The Planet of Giants, Death in the Afternoon, The Miniscules
 * The Dalek Invasion of Earth - The Daleks, The Return of the Daleks, The Invaders, The Daleks in Europe, The Abyss, Earth Rebels
 * The Crusade - The Saracen Hordes
 * The Web Planet - The Zarbi
 * The Chase - The Pursuers
 * The Time Meddler - The Monk

Season 3

 * The Celestial Toymaker - The Toymaker, The Trilogic Game
 * The Gunfighters - The Gunslingers
 * The War Machines - The Computers

Season 4

 * The Power of the Daleks - The Destiny of Doctor Who
 * The Macra Terror - The Spidermen, The Insect-men, The Macra
 * The Faceless Ones - The Chameleons

Season 5

 * Fury from the Deep - The Colony of Devils

Season 8

 * The Claws of Axos - The Vampire from Space

Season 9

 * Day of the Daleks - The Ghost Hunters, Years of Doom
 * The Sea Devils - The Sea Silurians

Season 11

 * Death to the Daleks - The Exilons, The Exxilons

Season 14

 * The Masque of Mandragora - The Catacombs of Death, The Curse of Mandragora, Secret of the Labyrinth
 * The Talons of Weng-Chiang - The Foe From the Future or The Talons of Greel

Season 15

 * Horror of Fang Rock - Rocks of Doom, The Monster of Fang Rock, The Beast of Fang Rock

Season 16

 * The Stones of Blood - The Nine Maidens and The Stones of Time


 * The Power of Kroll - Moon of Death, The Horror of the Swamp , The Shield of Time

Season 17

 * City of Death - The Time of Sephiroth, The Gamble With Time
 * Nightmare of Eden - Nightmare of Evil


 * Shada - Sunburst

Season 18

 * Meglos - The Golden Pentangle, The Golden Pentagram, The Last Sol-Fataran, The Last Zolfa-Thuran
 * State of Decay - The Vampire Mutations, The Wasting

Season 19

 * The Visitation - Invasion of the Plague Men, Plague Rats


 * Earthshock - Sentinel
 * Time-Flight - Zanadin or Xeraphin

Season 21

 * The Caves of Androzani - Chain Reaction

Season 22

 * The Two Doctors - The Kraglon Inheritance, The Androgum Inheritance
 * Revelation of the Daleks - The End of the Road

Season 23

 * The Ultimate Foe - Time Incorporated

Season 24

 * Time and the Rani - Strange Matter
 * Delta and the Bannerman - Flight of the Chimeron
 * Dragonfire - Absolute Zero, The Pyramid's Treasure, Pyramid in Space

Season 25

 * The Happiness Patrol - The Crooked Smile
 * Silver Nemesis - Nemesis

Season 26

 * Battlefield - Nightfall, Storm Over Avalon
 * Ghost Light - The Bestiary, Life Cycle
 * The Curse of Fenric - Wolf-Time, The Wolves of Fenric
 * Survival - Cat-Flap, Blood Hunt and The Survival

30th Anniversary

 * Dimensions in Time - The Dimensions of Time, 3-Dimensions of Time

Series 1

 * Rose - Rose Meets the Doctor
 * The Unquiet Dead - My Name's Dickens... Charles Dickens, The Crippingwell Horror and The Angels of Crippingwell
 * World War Three - 10 Downing Street
 * Dalek - Return of the Daleks, Creature of Lies or Absence of the Daleks
 * The Long Game - The Companion Who Couldn't
 * Father's Day - Wounded Time
 * The Empty Child - An Empty Child and World War II
 * The Doctor Dances - Captain Jax 
 * Boom Town - Dining With Monsters
 * Bad Wolf - Gameshow World

Series 2

 * New Earth - Body Swap
 * Tooth and Claw - Queen Victoria
 * School Reunion - Old Friends and Black Ops
 * The Girl in the Fireplace - Madame de Pompadour, Every Tick of my Heart or Reinette and the Lonely Angel
 * Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel - Parallel World
 * The Idiot's Lantern - Mr Sandman or Sonic Doom or The One-Eyed Monster
 * The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit - Satan Pit
 * Love & Monsters - I Love the Doctor
 * Fear Her - Chloe Webber Destroys The World and You're a Bad Girl, Chloe Webber
 * Army of Ghosts - Torchwood Rises
 * Doomsday - Torchwood Falls

Series 3

 * Smith and Jones - Martha
 * The Shakespeare Code - Love's Labour's Won or Theatre of Death
 * The Lazarus Experiment - The Madness of Professor Lazarus
 * Blink - Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angels

Series 4

 * Voyage of the Damned - Starship Titanic
 * Forest of the Dead - The Doctor Runs or Forest of the Night or River's Run or Return of the Dead
 * Midnight - Crusader Five or Crusader 50

2009 Specials

 * The Next Doctor - Court of the CyberKing
 * The Waters of Mars - Red Christmas
 * The End of Time - The Immortality Gate and The Final Days of Planet Earth

Series 6

 *  The Impossible Astronaut - The Year of the Moon
 *  Day of the Moon - Look Behind You
 * The Curse of the Black Spot - Siren
 *  The Doctor's Wife - The TARDIS Trap or The House of Nothing or Bigger on the Inside
 * The Almost People - Gangers
 *  A Good Man Goes to War - His Darkest Hour and Demons Run
 * Night Terrors - What are Little Boys Made Of? and House Call
 * The Girl Who Waited - The Visitors' Room or The Visiting Hour or Kindness
 * Closing Time - Three Cybermen and a Baby and The Last Adventure

Series 7

 * A Town Called Mercy - The Gunslinger or Mercy
 * The Power of Three - Cubed
 * The Angels Take Manhattan - The Angels Wept
 * Hide - Phantoms of the Hex
 * Nightmare in Silver - The Last Cyberman

Series 8

 * Robot of Sherwood - Robots of Sherwood
 * In the Forest of the Night - Child's Play
 * Dark Water - The Gates of Paradise

Series 9

 * Under the Lake - Ghost in the Machine
 * Sleep No More - The Arms of Morpheus
 * Face the Raven - Trap Street

Series 10

 * The Pilot - A Star In Her Eye
 * Knock Knock - The Haunted Hub

Series 11

 * The Witchfinders - The Witchhunters or The Witch Finders

Working titles of episode

 * A Girl's Best Friend - One Girl and Her Dog

Series 1

 * Day One - New Girl

Miracle Day

 * The New World - Miracle Day

Series 1

 * For Tonight We Might Die - The Prom
 * The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo - Skinned

Virgin New Adventures

 * Cat's Cradle: Warhead - Cat's Cradle: Escape
 * Love and War - Heaven
 * No Future - Anarchy in the UK
 * Set Piece - Butterfly Wings
 * Toy Soldiers - Toy Solstice
 * Return of the Living Dad - Big Trouble in Little Chalfont

Kaldor City

 * Hidden Persuaders - The Rhubarb Conspiracy

Gallifey

 * Forever - Gallifrey Eternal

The War Master

 * The Heavenly Paradigm - The Unutterable Hell of 24 Marigold Lane