10 Unmade Doctor Who Stories We Wish We'd Seen

10. Rose Was Actually Created by the Doctor

Russell T Davies' first series of Doctor Who almost featured a script by another lauded British screenwriter. Davies had approached his friend, Paul Abbott, to write an episode for the series. The pair had previously worked together on Abbott's BBC series Linda Green, which also featured Christopher Eccleston.

Abbott's episode would have explored the idea that Rose was an experiment by the Doctor to create his perfect companion. The idea was never developed much further than that, due to Abbott's commitments with the increasingly popular Shameless. It's not clear in the small amount of information given by RTD how exactly the Doctor "bred" Rose for this purpose.

Wibbly wobbly timey wime-ily engineered Jackie and Pete's courtship, perhaps? It's crazy to imagine how different the tone would have been if it revealed the Doctor to be a manipulative geneticist. We've seen the Doctor manipulate companions before of course, but it seems at odds with the lighter, more accessible tone of the 2005 reboot.

Unless Abbott's story would have built to some sort of fake-out ending. Perhaps some sort of alternate reality or test of the Doctor and Rose's faith in each other? We'll never know!