The Spare-Part People (unproduced TV story)

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The Spare-Part People was an seven-part unproduced TV story written by Jon Pertwee and Reed De Rouen for Season 8. It was also known as The Brain Drain and The Labyrinth.

Synopsis
The Third Doctor poses as Cambridge don Dr John Madden to investigate celebrity disappearances. He is kidnapped by mummy-like creatures who take him to Antarctica where an alien ship is buried beneath the ice, containing a hidden civilization of aliens that had been kidnapping humans and using their organs to sustain themselves. He is then forced to take place in brutal games and fights a monster that hides in the labyrinth.

The story ends with the Doctor using an artificial bacteria to make the aliens allergic to human DNA.

Production
The story was submitted in the summer of 1970, but it was rejected after the production team decided they wanted the Master to feature in every story of that season. Pertwee tried to rework the script, but Rouen was too attached to the original version and stepped down from the project.