The BBC's premiere sci-fi kids show (which neither kids nor adults can understand) has featured some kooky premises during its time. Like tiny monsters made of excess fat, Bertie Bassett as a supposedly terrifying villain, and the end of that Peter Kay episode where that woman got turned into a paving slab but still had a sex life. Shudder. It seems like nothing's off limits to Doctor Who, a series which has often swung violently between huge, sweeping epics that take in lofty concepts like war, life, death, and the place of humanity in the galaxy...and stories about farting aliens. Which makes you wonder: if those are the scripts that make it to screen, what do they reject? Considering sentient evil mannequins and monosyllabic tin-foil robots have found themselves amongst the most iconic and hiding-behind-the-sofa terrifying villains in Doctor Who, what kind of out-there ideas never made it into the show? There's a surprisingly long laundry list of unmade Who scripts, some of which lived on regardless. Some were worked into other, produced episodes. Some were adapted into novels of Big Finish audio dramas. Others still were so weird, so beyond the pale, so bonkers that even those weren't viable options. From teleporting Nazis to a guest appearance on Most Haunted, here are ten insane Doctor Who episodes that went unmade.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
