Yellow Fever and How to Cure It (unproduced TV story)

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Yellow Fever and How to Cure It is an unproduced story for Doctor Who. It was to be the third appearance of the Autons as part of the aborted 1985 season of Colin Baker's Doctor.

It was meant to be scripted by Robert Holmes, and the story was to run for three forty-five minute episodes.

Plot outline
It was to take place in Singapore and feature the return of the Autons, with suggested appearances by the Master, the Rani and the Brigadier on holiday. This story was written later than the rest for this season, thus it's script was only in it's basis at the time of it's cancellation.

Legacy

 * This is the first of only two original Season 23 scripts which did not recieve any kind of an adaption. This is due to three main reasons: Firstly, the original author for this story Robert Holmes died in 1986 and thus was unavailable when Target Books elected to publish novelisations of the first three Season 23 stories in in 1989 and again when Telos Publishing attempted to publish the scripts in 1990. The script was also in it's early infancy when abandoned with only a single episode and a synopsis written before the The Trial of a Time Lord story arc was selected to replace the lost season. Despite this, Big Finish Productions have barely begun their Lost Stories range, so there is a distinct possibility that a heavily rewritten adaptation of the story may eventually see the light of day.
 * The Autons would finally return to the screen in DW: Rose.