List of unproduced stories

The following is a **list of unproduced stories** from the world of Doctor Who. This list includes television serials and spin-offs, audio productions, comic books, novels, and short stories. These stories were all considered or planned for production yet not officially released. Some of the most common reasons include that the script was not delivered on time, the production was disrupted, or the story was rejected in favour of another pitch.

## TV stories

### *Doctor Who*

#### Season 1

* "Nothing at the End of the Lane" (replaced by TV: "An Unearthly Child")
* *The Giants* (replaced by TV: *An Unearthly Child*)
* *The Living World* (replaced by TV: *An Unearthly Child*)
* *The Masters of Luxor* (replaced by TV: *The Daleks*)
* 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*
* *The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance*
* Untitled story similar to *The Day of the Triffids* by Gould
* *The Jokers*

#### 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*
* *The Greatest Gamble*
* *Livingston*
* *The Son of Doctor Who*
* *The Hidden Planet*
* The *Space Trap* (adapted into TV: *The Krotons*)

#### Season 3

* Untitled story by John Lucarotti (replaced by TV: *The Massacre*, adapted into PROSE: *Who Discovered America?*)
* *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*
* *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*)
* *The Lords of the Red Planet* (replaced by TV: *The Seeds of Death*)
* *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* (DWM 146)
* *The Laird of McCrimmon*
* *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*
* *The Space War*
* *The Spare-Part People* (TEDW 9)
* 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*)
* *Return of the Cybermen* (replaced by TV: *Revenge of the Cybermen*)
* *The Sea of Fear*
* Untitled story by Adams (adapted into non-Doctor Who audio *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*, episode 6)

#### 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 Foe from the Future* (replaced by TV: *The Talons of Weng-Chiang*)
* *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 and, later, PROSE: *Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen*)
* *The Divided*
* 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* (completed as TV: *Shada* in 2017 and adapted into PROSE: *Shada*)
* *The Secret Of Cassius*
* *The Tearing of the Veil*
* *Valley of the Lost*
* *The Doctor Retires* (replaced by TV: *Shada*, inspired TV: *The Snowmen*)
* Untitled story by Mills/Wagner (adapted into COMIC: *Doctor Who and the Iron Legion*)
* Untitled story by Mills/Wagner (adapted into COMIC: *Doctor Who and the Star Beast*)
* Untitled story by Mills/Wagner (adapted into COMIC: *City of the Damned*)
* Untitled story by Mills/Wagner (adapted into COMIC: *Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom*)

#### 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*
* *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*)
* *Way Down Yonder*
* Untitled story by Lee

#### 20th anniversary

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

#### Season 21

* *Circus of Destiny*
* *Hex*
* *The Darkness*
* *The Dark Samurai*
* *The Elite*
* *Ghost Planet*
* *The House that Ur-Cjak Built*
* *Manpower* (also known as *May Time* and *The Children of Seth*)
* *The Metraki* (replaced by TV: *The First Sontarans*)
* *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*
* *The Macro Men*
* *The Song of the Space Whale* (replaced by TV: *Vengeance on Varos*)
* *The First Sontarans* (replaced by TV: *The Two Doctors*)
* *The Guardians of Prophecy*
* *League of the Tandreds*
* *Livanthian* (misspelling of Leviathan)
* *Volvok*

#### Season 23

1. *The Nightmare Fair* (adapted into PROSE: *The Nightmare Fair*)
2. *The Ultimate Evil* (adapted into PROSE: *The Ultimate Evil*)
3. *Yellow Fever and How to Cure It*
4. *Mission to Magnus* (adapted into PROSE: *Mission to Magnus*)
5. *The Hollows of Time*
6. *The Children of January* (final story)

* *Dark Labyrinth*
* *Doomwraiths*
* *Gallifray* (commissioned under the misspelt title, no work ever completed on the story)
* *Iceberg* (adapted into TV: *Iceberg*)
* *Point of Entry*
* *Meltdown*
* *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* (also titled *End of Term*, replaced by TV: *Terror of the Vervoids*)
* *Pinacotheca* (also titled *The Last Adventure*, replaced by TV: *Terror of the Vervoids*)
* *The Second Coming* by Jack Trevor Story (replaced by TV: *The Ultimate Foe*)
* *Wasteland* by Robert Holmes

#### Season 24

* Untitled Mel introduction story
* Untitled pirate story
* Untitled Sixth Doctor Russell T Davies story (inspired TV: *The Long Game*)

#### Season 26

* *Shrine* (replaced by TV: *Ghost Light*)

#### Season 27

* *War of the Daleks*
* *Alixion*
* *Avatar*

#### Season 28

* *Hostage*
* *A School for Glory*
* *The Clockwise Cuckoos*

#### Season 29

* *The Pendant*
* *The Doppelgängers*
* *The London Invaders*
* Untitled story by McIntee (replaced by TV: *The Returned Lives*)

Season 30

* *An Earthly Child*
* *The Gallifrey Prison*

#### 30th anniversary

* *Destination: Holocaust* (replaced by TV: *The Champion of Time)*
* The Dark Dimension (replaced by TV: *The Champion of Time)*
* Ascend From Darkness (replaced by TV: *The Champion of Time)*
* The Eyes of Death (replaced by TV: *The Champion of Time)*

#### Season 31

* *Knight Falls*
* *The Lords of Gallifrey*
* *The Mystery*
* *The Men in Black*
* Untitled story by Munro

### Season 32

* *Shakedown*
* *Planet of the Rani*
* *An Opera of Fear*
* *The Dalek Surge* (replaced by TV: *The Fatal Rebellion*)