10 Unmade Doctor Who Stories We Wish We'd Seen
1. Tom Baker's Doctor Who Movie
One of the great "What if?" moments in Doctor Who history is Tom Baker and Ian Marter's proposed movie in the mid to late 1970s. The project had a director attached, but could never raise the required funding to make it a reality. Had it been made, it would have been an incredibly memorable combination of folk horror and psychedelic sci-fi.
Doctor Who Meets Scratchman was to pit the Doctor, Harry and Sarah against scarecrows in a Scottish village and the Devil himself, climaxing in a giant game of pinball featuring the Daleks. It's quintessentially Tom Baker, utterly mad but very charming. Potential casting for Scratchman included the likes of Vincent Price and Leonard Rossiter. Tom Baker facing off against Vincent Price, who himself would have made an excellent movie Doctor, is such a tantalising concept for sci-fi and horror fans.
Whilst the film never saw the light of day, BBC Books eventually commissioned Tom Baker to adapt his and Marter's original treatment for a novel. It's both a creepy, blackly comic Doctor Who adventure and a touching tribute to the Baker era.