Doctor Who: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About The Waters Of Mars

20. It Was Almost Set In A Hotel

Remember the Series 6 episode The God Complex, the one set in the hotel with the minotaur and David Walliams? Well, this is almost what The Waters of Mars ended up looking like. Sort of.

Russell T Davies' original plan for the episode was to revive an idea he'd had where the Doctor would travel to a strange hotel that had somehow caused Earth to be frozen in time.

Unfortunately, RTD soon realised that his vision of the Doctor exploring an abandoned London would cost a lot of money, and would be very complicated to pull off.

The hotel idea was shelved, and Steven Moffat and Toby Whithouse developed a totally different hotel idea a few years later.