20 Cancelled Doctor Who Episodes You Need To Know About

The current production team is equally as tight-lipped about unmade episodes as the last one. But one thing we have learnt is that The Well wasn’t always going to be a Midnight sequel.

Prior to co-writing the episode with RTD, Sharma Angel-Walfall wrote a whole other script of her own. It was still set on a colony in the far future, but had an entirely different central idea: how might humans mutate under another world’s sun?

This version of the story would've been much more grounded in real science, harking back to the educational purpose of Doctor Who as laid out by its co-creator Syndney Newman.

It would also have required extensive CGI and prosthetics work, but with The Interstellar Song Contest already eating up much of the season’s effects budget, this was deemed a step too far.

Another key component was a love story, which jarred with the darker tone RTD was after.

As things turned out, pretty much every Season 2 story featured some tie to the past. So it’s a shame this story wasn’t produced – it would've been a breath of fresh air! Although the episode we did get was pretty good too, so swings and roundabouts.