6 Doctor Who Movies That Almost Happened

Famed sci-fi writer and Who script editor Douglas Adams had his own thoughts on what a movie should entail. While Baker still occupied the TARDIS, Adams submitted a treatment for a potential movie or six-part serial named "Doctor Who And The Krikkitmen", involving a race of robots imprisoned by the Time Lords for rampant xenophobia.

Oddly, the BBC still had no interest in producing a film and the story was outright denied. Adams however, would utilise aspects of his script in the show's sixteenth season, before partially realising the concept in the third novel of his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Interestingly, 'Ktikkitmen' will finally see light this year as a Doctor Who novel.

Whether Scratchman or Krikkitmen could have worked as a film is open for debate, but a DW movie made during this era of the show would have definitely been something.

The greatest Doctor, supported by a genius writer and director, in a large-scale and far-out story could have potentially made for a solid fantasy classic. Had the film drafted similar talents as the show (Adams, Robert Holmes, Terry Nation etc.), it could have truly epitomised the franchise’s creative peak.