10 Failed Doctor Who Movies (And Why They Didn't Happen)

9. Peter Cushing's Doomed Threequel

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Unbeknownst to a lot of people, Paul McGann's '90s TV reboot isn't the only time Doctor Who has been given the movie treatment.

In the mid-1960s, Peter Cushing - who would go on to play Grand Moff Tarkin in a little movie called Star Wars - starred in two Doctor Who films, both of which were based on popular stories from the show (although they weren't a part of its ongoing continuity).

The first film was called Dr. Who and the Daleks - based on the William Hartnell serial The Daleks - and was successful enough to inspire a sequel, Daleks Invasion Earth: 2150 AD, which was based on Hartnell's second Dalek serial, The Dalek Invasion of Earth.

Unfortunately, the sequel didn't perform too well commercially, and as a result, the proposed third film - which would have been based on The Chase, another Hartnell/Dalek serial - was canned.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.