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

7. Doctor Who And The Krikkitmen

Doctor Who And The Krikkitmen book
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Another movie idea floated about during the Fourth Doctor's tenure, Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen was first written as a TV serial by future script editor Douglas Adams.

The story was set to revolve around the titular Krikkitmen, a sinister android race that came from the planet Krikkit. The Doctor would encounter a group of Krikkitmen trying to free their planet from a Time Lord-constructed temporal prison using the Wicket Gate key, a device that looked like a set of cricket stumps.

When the script was turned down by editor Robert Holmes, Adams took a few years and reworked the story into a full-length movie, which he submitted to Paramount Pictures in the early 1980s. Unfortunately, they also turned it down, and Adams was forced to concede that his idea would never make it to the screen.

Just like Doctor Who Meets Scratchman though, Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen was turned into a novel and audiobook, with the audio version being read by Dan Starkey, who played Commander Strax during the Matt Smith era.

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