List of unproduced stories

✅ The following is a list of unproduced stories in whatever form, although they were known to be considered at some point. Some of them were later released in another form.

Stories are listed under all the series/range they were submitted.

Season 1

 * "Nothing at the End of the Lane" (first episode of an untitled serial, replaced by The Giants)


 * The Giants (replaced by The Living World)
 * The Living World (replaced by TV: An Unearthly Child)
 * The Masters of Luxor (replaced by TV: The Daleks, adapted into AUDIO: The Masters of Luxor)
 * untitled story by Gould (replaced by TV: Marco Polo)
 * The Hidden Planet (replaced by TV: The Keys of Marinus)
 * Britain 408 AD (replaced by TV: The Aztecs)
 * The Red Fort (replaced by TV: The Reign of Terror)
 * The New Armada (replaced by TV: The Reign of Terror)
 * Farewell Great Macedon (adapted into AUDIO: Farewell, Great Macedon)
 * The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance (adapted into AUDIO: The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance)
 * Untitled story like The Day of the Triffids by Gould

Season 2

 * American Civil War episode (replaced by TV: Planet of Giants)
 * Gunpowder Plot episode (replaced by TV: Planet of Giants)
 * Salem Witch episode (replaced by TV: Planet of Giants)
 * The New Armada (replaced by TV: The Rescue)
 * The Man in the Ice
 * The Slide (adapted into TV: Fury from the Deep and the non-Doctor Who audio The Slide)
 * The Outlaws (adapted into a Short Trips)
 * The Greatest Gamble
 * Livingston
 * The Son of Doctor Who
 * The Hidden Planet
 * Space Trap (adapted into TV: The Krotons)

Season 3

 * Untitled story by Lucarotti (replaced by TV: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, adapted into PROSE: Who Discovered America?)
 * The Dark Planet (adapted into AUDIO: The Dark Planet)
 * The Face of God
 * The Hands of Aten
 * The White Witch
 * The Hidden Planet
 * Untitled story by Lucarotti

Season 4

 * The Clock
 * The Evil Eye
 * The Hearsay Machine
 * The Heavy Scent of Violence
 * The Herdsmen of Aquarius
 * The Hounds of Time
 * The Man from the Met
 * The Nazis
 * The Ocean Liner
 * The People Who Couldn't Remember
 * The Imps (replaced by TV: The Highlanders, adapted into PROSE: Mission to Venus)
 * The Ants
 * Bar Kokhba
 * The Big Store (adapted into TV:The Faceless Ones)
 * The Mutant (adapted into TV: The Mutants)
 * The Sleepwalkers
 * Twin World
 * Untitled story by Letts (adapted into AUDIO: The Paradise of Death)

Season 5

 * The King's Bedtime Story
 * Operation Werewolf
 * The Queen of Time (adapted into AUDIO: The Queen of Time)
 * The New Machines
 * The Return of the Neanderthal
 * Untitled story by Dixon

Season 6

 * The Dreamspinner (replaced by TV: The Invasion)
 * The Prison in Space (replaced by TV: The Krotons, adapted into AUDIO: The Prison in Space)
 * The Lords of the Red Planet (replaced by TV: The Seeds of Death, adapted into AUDIO: Lords of the Red Planet)
 * The Impersonators (replaced by TV: The War Games)
 * Untitled story by Sherwin (replaced by and adapted into TV: The War Games)
 * The Aliens in the Blood (adapted into the non-Doctor Who audio Aliens in the Mind)
 * The Eye in Space
 * The Laird of McCrimmon
 * The Rosemariners (adapted into AUDIO: The Rosemariners)
 * The Stones of Darkness
 * Untitled story by Ling

Season 7

 * The Shadow People (replaced by TV: Inferno)
 * The Mists of Madness (replaced by TV: Inferno)
 * The Vampire Planet (The Harvesters on resubmission, replaced by TV: Inferno)
 * The Circles of Power
 * Untitled story by Ray

Season 8

 * The Cerebroids
 * The Mega (adapted into AUDIO: The Mega)
 * The Space War
 * The Spare-Part People
 * Untitled story by Camfield
 * Untitled story by Worth

Season 9

 * The Daleks in London (replaced by TV: The Time Monster)
 * The Brain-Dead
 * Multiface
 * The Shape of Terror (adapted into TV: The Curse of Peladon)

Season 10

 * Deathworld (replaced by TV: The Three Doctors)

Season 11

 * The Automata (replaced by TV: The Time Warrior)
 * The Final Game (replaced by TV: Planet of the Spiders)

Season 12

 * Space Station (replaced by Lucarotti's version of TV: The Ark in Space)
 * Lucarotti's version of TV: The Ark in Space (replaced by TV: The Ark in Space)
 * The Sea of Fear
 * Untitled story by Adams (adapted into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Season 13

 * The Beasts of Manzic
 * The Eyes of Nemesis
 * Fires of the Starmind
 * The Haunting (replaced by TV: The Brain of Morbius, eventually adapted into TV: State of Decay)
 * The Menday Fault
 * Nightmare Planet
 * The Prisoner of Time
 * Return To Sukannan (replaced by TV: The Android Invasion)
 * The Silent Scream

Season 14

 * The Angarath
 * The Dreamers of Phados
 * The Gaslight Murderers (replaced by TV: The Face of Evil, adapted into TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
 * The Lost Legion (replaced by TV: The Hand of Fear)
 * The Mentor Conspiracy

Season 15

 * Killers of the Dark (replaced by TV: The Invasion of Time)
 * The Krikkitmen (adapted into a non Doctor Who novel)
 * Untitled story by Holmes

Season 16

 * The Lords of Misrule (replaced by TV: The Power of Kroll)
 * Shield of Zarak (replaced by TV: The Androids of Tara)
 * Untitled story by Boucher

Season 17

 * Child Prodigy
 * The Doomsday Contract
 * Erinella (replaced by TV: The Horns of Nimon)
 * Shada (sixth and final story, partially produced, adapted into HOMEVID: Shada)
 * The Secret Of Cassius
 * The Tearing of the Veil
 * Valley of the Lost
 * Untitled story by Adams
 * Untitled story by Mills/Wagner

Season 18

 * The Castle of Doom (replaced by TV: The Leisure Hive)
 * The Dogs of Darkness
 * Farer Nohan
 * Into the Comet
 * Invasion of the Veridians
 * Mark of Lumos
 * Mouth of Grath
 * The Psychonauts (replaced by TV: The Leisure Hive)
 * Sealed Orders (replaced by TV: Warriors' Gate)
 * Untitled story by Brosnan

Season 19

 * Project Zeta Sigma (replaced by TV: Castrovalva)
 * Genesis of the Cybermen (inspired AUDIO: Spare Parts)
 * The Enemy Within (replaced by and adapted into TV: Earthshock)
 * Hebos
 * Psychrons
 * Romanoids
 * Soldar And The Plastoids
 * The Torson Triumvirate

Season 20

 * Parasites
 * The Song of the Space Whale (replaced by TV: Mawdryn Undead and TV: Vengeance on Varos, adapted into AUDIO: The Song of Megaptera)
 * Way Down Yonder
 * Untitled story by Lee

20th anniversary

 * The Six Doctors (replaced by TV: The Five Doctors)

Season 21

 * Circus of Destiny
 * Hex (adapted into AUDIO: Hexagora)
 * The Darkness
 * The Dark Samurai
 * The Elite (adapted into AUDIO: The Elite)
 * Ghost Planet
 * The House that Ur-Cjak Built
 * Manpower (also known as May Time and The Children of Seth adapted into AUDIO: The Children of Seth)
 * The Metraki (replaced by TV: The First Sontarans)
 * The First Sontarans (adapted into AUDIO: The First Sontarans)
 * Nightmare Country
 * The Place Where All Times Meet
 * Poison
 * The Rogue TARDIS
 * The SCI
 * The Underworld
 * Warmongers
 * The Zeldan

Season 22

 * Cat's Cradle (adapted into PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)
 * The Macro Men (adapted into AUDIO: The Macros)
 * The First Sontarans (adapted into AUDIO: The First Sontarans, replaced by TV: The Two Doctors)
 * The Guardians of Prophecy (adapted into AUDIO: The Guardians of Prophecy)
 * League of the Tandreds
 * Livanthian (misspelling of Leviathan, adapted into AUDIO: Leviathan)
 * Volvok

Season 23

 * The Nightmare Fair (1st story, adapted into PROSE: The Nightmare Fair and AUDIO: The Nightmare Fair)
 * The Ultimate Evil (2nd story, adapted into PROSE: The Ultimate Evil)
 * Mission to Magnus (3rd story, adapted into PROSE: Mission to Magnus and AUDIO: Mission to Magnus)
 * Yellow Fever and How to Cure It (4th story)
 * The Hollows of Time (5th story, adapted into AUDIO: The Hollows of Time)
 * The Children of January (6th and final story)
 * Dark Labyrinth
 * Doomwraiths
 * Gallifray (commisoned under the misspelt title)
 * Iceberg (adapted into PROSE: Iceberg)
 * Point of Entry (adapted into AUDIO: Point of Entry)
 * Power Play (adapted into AUDIO: Power Play)
 * Space Sargasso
 * Valley of Shadows
 * Untitled story by Pritchard

Season 23: The Trial of a Time Lord

 * Attack from the Mind (replaced by TV: Terror of the Vervoids)
 * Paradise 5 (replaced by TV: Terror of the Vervoids, adapted into AUDIO: Paradise 5)
 * Pinacotheca (replaced by TV: Terror of the Vervoids)
 * The Second Coming (replaced by TV: The Ultimate Foe)

Season 25

 * Knight Fall
 * Transit (adapted into PROSE: Transit)

Season 26

 * Shrine (replaced by TV: Ghost Light)
 * Illegal Alien (adapted into PROSE: Illegal Alien)
 * Alixion

Season 27

 * Earth Aid (1st story, adapted into AUDIO: Earth Aid)
 * Ice Time (2nd story, adapted into AUDIO: Thin Ice)
 * Crime of the Century (3rd story, adapted into AUDIO:Crime of the Century)
 * Hostage (adapted into PROSE: The Pit)
 * War of the Daleks (adapted into PROSE: War of the Daleks)
 * Alixion
 * Night Thoughts (adapted into AUDIO: Night Thoughts)

Season 28

 * Avatar
 * Hostage (adapted into PROSE: The Pit)
 * Network (inspired AUDIO: The Rani Elite)
 * A School for Glory

30th anniversary

 * Lost in the Dark Dimension (replaced by TV: Dimensions in Time)
 * Destination: Holocaust (replaced by TV: Dimensions in Time)
 * The Endgame (replaced by TV: Dimensions in Time)

'David Burton' Reboot

 * Doctor Who and the Monsters of Ness (possibly produced, BBC have refused to comment)
 * Pilot 2 (possibly produced, BBC have refused to comment)

Amblin Reboot

 * The Pirates (an adaptation of TV: The Smugglers)
 * The Talons of Weng-Chiang (an adaptation of the previously aired story by the same name)
 * Earthshock (an adaptation of the previously aired story by the same name)
 * The Horror of Fang Rock (an adaptation of the previously aired story by virtually the same name)
 * The Celestial Toymaker (an adaptation of the previously aired story by the same name)
 * Don't Shoot, I'm the Doctor! (a more historically accurate version of The Gunfighters)
 * Tomb of the Cybs (an adaptation of The Tomb of the Cybermen)
 * The Yeti (an adaptation of The Abominable Snowmen)
 * The Ark in Space (an adaptation of the previously aired story by the same name)
 * The Outcasts (an adaption of The Invasion of Time)
 * The Sea Devils (an adaptation of the previously aired story by the same name)
 * Shada (an adaptation of the famously unaired story by the same name)

TV Movie

 * Doctor Who (1995)
 * Doctor Who?

Series 1

 * Pompeii (replaced by TV: Boom Town, adapted into TV: The Fires of Pompeii)
 * Untitled story by Abbott

Series 2

 * The 1920s (replaced by TV: Fear Her)
 * The Living World (reworked version of the unproduced season 1 story)
 * Untitled story by Graham
 * Untitled story (writer unknown)

Series 4

 * Century House (replaced by TV: Midnight)
 * A Midwinter's Tale (replaced by TV: The Next Doctor and TV: The Waters of Mars, adapted into TV: The Empty Planet)
 * The Suicide Exhibition (replaced by TV: The Fires of Pompeii)
 * Untitled Christmas special (replaced by TV: The Next Doctor)

Series 5

 * Death to the Doctor (replaced by TV: The Lodger)

Series 7

 * P.S. (DVD minisode, adapted into WC: P.S.)

Series 10

 * Sleep No More sequel (replaced by TV: Empress of Mars, later in the process also intended as a third Peladon-story)

Unknown season/series

 * The Harvesters (original submission, Second Doctor story)
 * The Hallow Men (Third Doctor story)

Season 1

 * The Destroyers (1st episode, adapted into AUDIO: The Destroyers)

Series 5

 * Meet Mr Smith (fourth story)
 * The Thirteenth Floor (fifth story, adapted into a story for a non Doctor Who series)
 * The Battle of Bannerman Road (final story)

Halloween specials

 * Full Moon (first special)
 * The Station (second special)
 * Untitled special (third special)
 * Night of the Spectre (fourth and final special)

Christmas special

 * Miracle on Bannerman Road

Series 2

 * Untitled story by Lidster/Davies

Webcast

 * Blood of the Robots (second of the "Shalka" trilogy)

Film

 * A third Peter Cushing Dalek movie, entitled Daleks vs. Mechons, adapting TV: The Chase.
 * Doctor Who Meets Scratchman

BBV Productions

 * Zygon: Kill or Cure, synopsis by Iain McLaughlin
 * Zygon: Precis, synopsis by Iain McLaughlin

Other

 * Journey into Time (1st of 52 stories)

Doctor Who Magazine

 * Deadline to Doomsday
 * Star Tigers: Come to the World of the War-King

Radio Times

 * Deceptions

Daily Mail

 * Welcome to Disaster World

BBC Past Doctor Adventures

 * Campaign
 * Time's Champion
 * The Killing Stone (adapted into an unliscened audio story of the same name)

Lethbridge-Stewart

 * Horror of Det-Sen (2nd volume)

Big Finish Productions

 * Iris Wildthyme and the City of the Saved

Television

 * Rose Tyler: Earth Defence
 * Nelvana
 * Untitled Dalek spin-off
 * Unused Torchwood Miracle Day story arc

Radio

 * Doctor Who