10 Doctor Who Deleted Scenes That Would Have Changed Everything

The episode eventually called Hide went through a surprising number of changes before it hit the small screen.

Written by Luther creator Neil Cross, Hide was originally called "Phantoms of the Hex", which is a much cooler name, but let's not dwell on that. Instead of the Crooked Man villain that ended up appearing in the actual broadcast, the episode almost contained a throwback to Gallifrey's distant past.

Cross wanted the villain to be the Lost Lord, an ancient Time Lord locked in a prison called the Hex. The Lost Lord had been stuck there so long that he had become a myth, basically Gallifrey's very own bogeyman - so the Doctor would've been seriously spooked when he learned that he was real.

In the end, the plot was drastically changed to feature the two Crooked Men searching for each other in a 1970s mansion.

While the end result was fine, imagine how much more exciting Hide would've been if it had introduced a brand-new Time Lord. Even after all these years, there's still so much about Gallifrey we don't know, so getting little nuggets like this every so often would go a long way towards making the planet more interesting.

Also, "Lost Lord" sounds like a punk band, and that is exactly the sort of energy Doctor Who needs.