10 Terrible Doctor Who Ideas That Nearly Happened
1. Steven Taylor Returns... AS A COW?!
If you're ever in Cardiff very late at night and your heart is in the right place, you can sometimes hear a giant Welshman hooting in Tetleys-fuelled delight as he comes up with another insane Doctor Who concept.
This is the noise that Russell T Davies makes when he comes up with ideas like "Captain Jack is the Face of Boe" and "Sue Tech".
Thankfully, not all of Russell's late-night brainwaves have made it into the show. One particular plan to bring back Peter Purves in The Giggle was so ridiculous that it rightly received a lot of flack from David Tennant and Phil Collinson.
During the Video Commentary for The Giggle, RTD outlined his abandoned plans for a character called The Ruminant... which was a giant cow. So far, so Russell T Davies, but the giant cow would later whip off his mask like something out of Scooby-Doo, to reveal that he was none other than First Doctor companion Steven Taylor, returning to help the Doctor fight the Toymaker.
Even in an episode as insane as The Giggle, The Ruminant is clearly a step too far. Thankfully we got Steven and Vicki's Tales of the TARDIS episode instead, which was much better. Not a giant cow in sight!