MIOWIDWWA: The prequel to the Cancelled Years

Hey all. So for context as to what this is. This is one of my earliest attempts at a "Doctor Who not axed in 1989" Series, dating back to late 2019. It's not my earliest (that would be a wiki i created way back in 2018), but this IS the earliest attempt that is fully archived.

Goes without saying, but NONE of this is canon to Cancelled Years today. This is just something i thought would be fun sharing with people. For the sake of authenticity, i haven't changed anything (well, except the fonts - some are mismatched), so what you are gonna read is exactly how it was in 2019/2020. So you're gonna notice than some things in seasons change, such as showrunners, cast members & even STORIES! Why? Because i used to be a lot worse when it came to retconning stuff! Oh & some stuff near the end is gonna have just nothing on it - don't worry, that's how it was. I never finished everything

Enjoy... if you can, i guess? Here is the early EARLY days of The Cancelled Years!

DW: Season 27 [1990]

Introduction

Season 27 would've aired between the 5th of September & the 5th of December in 1990, still on a wednesday. It would've consisted of 4 stories and 14 twenty-five minute episodes. This season would be the last to feature Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace, John Nathan-Turner as Producer, & Andrew Cartmel. It would also introduce a new companion called Raine Cunningham, Played by Julia Sawhala. A new TARDIS interior was introduced this season as well. it was designed by Mike Tucker. This would also be the last season to use Keff McCulloch's arrangement of the Doctor Who Theme.

Earth Aid by Ben Aaronovitch

Welcome aboard the Space Vessel Vancouver. Its mission: to guard a vast shipment of grain from Earth to the planet Safenesthome.

Its Captain is called Ace. She seems a little unsure of herself. In fact, some might almost think she was new to the job...

Its medical officer is called simply "the Doctor", and he's perhaps not all he seems.

When mysterious ships target the Vancouver, Ace and the Doctor are pushed to the limit. Meanwhile, there's something nasty in the grain containers. And it's not very happy....

This story was to have been a three part adventure featuring space pirates, the Seventh Doctor building Stonehenge to send a signal into space and a 'data vampire'. This story was to also have included insectoid aliens called the Metatraxi. The theme was to be about the politics of food aid.

Aaronovitch had a planned opening of Ace in command of a Star Trek-style ship before having her sneak off to her cabin, where the Doctor would be waiting. She would tell him "this isn't going to work!".

Ice Time by Marc Platt.

Moscow 1967. The Doctor and Ace have arrived behind the Iron Curtain, and the Soviet Union is seeking a new weapon that will give it mastery in the Cold War.

What is the secret of the Martian relics? As the legendary War Lord Sezhyr returns to life, the Doctor is faced with some of his oldest and deadliest enemies.

The fate of Earth – and the future of Ace – are now intertwined...

This was to have been Ace's final story with the program. The reason for Ace's departure was to have been that the Doctor wished to enrol her in the Prydonian Academy on Gallifrey to become a Time Lord. The story was to have been a four part story featuring two rival factions of Ice Warriors battling in 1960s London. The setting at first was to have been a terraformed Mars, but Cartmel requested it be changed to 1960s London.

Ideas that Platt had proposed included the use of hippies, a more mystical bent to the Ice Warriors, and a mind-controlled biker gang with helmets resembling those of the Warriors'. Due to John Nathan-Turner wanting to use the London Dungeon tourist attraction as a location, it was going to revealed that one of the exhibitions there was an Ice Warrior's armour.

This story would have also introduced Sam Cunningham, played by Tom Georgeson. He was a friend of the Doctor's who would reappear in several stories, and through him lead directly in the next story.

Crime of the Century by Andrew Cartmel

The year is 1989. In London, safe cracker Raine Cunningham breaks into a house — and finds more than the family jewels.

In the Middle East, the kingdom of Sayf Udeen is being terrorised by Soviet invaders and alien monsters.

And on the Scottish border, a highly guarded facility contains an advanced alien weapon.

These are all part of the Doctor's masterplan. But master plans can go awry...

This story would have featured "drug smuggling, armed assaults and hardly any science fiction content.". This story would also have introduced Raine Cunningham, Sam's "safe-cracking, lock-picking daughter, - and a new locale, Sam's mansion house." This would have given the Doctor and Raine a base and a set of contacts to draw upon when they visited Earth. The planned opening was for Raine to sneak off from a garden party to crack a safe, only to find the Doctor waiting inside it for her, remarking "what kept you?"

Alixion by Robin Mukherjee

The giant beetles of the planet Alixion, led by their Queen, produce an intelligence-boosting & life expanding elixir. However, the Doctor discovers that this is because the Manager of a human monastery on Alixion is feeding people to the Beatles. The Manager now intends to see what happens when the beetles consume a Time Lord.

The story was to be set on a planet called Alixion. The planet was to be populated by a group of monks. In the first part of the story, the doctor is kidnapped by a character called The Manager, played by Bob Monkhouse. The Manager would've been the ruler of the planet & would've been the creator of the elixir.  He intends to see the potions effects when the beetles consume a time lord. He plans to feed the doctor to them.

The second part of the story mainly follows around Raine, as she works with a secret movement called the Believers. They are a group of former monks who have found out the secret ingredient of the elixir & rebelled against it. They want to reveal the truth to the entire population & stop the Manager by attacking his palace & capturing him. Raine is able to convince them to also help rescue the Doctor. Meanwhile, the Doctor is trying to escape from the Manager & return to his TARDIS. He is caught & sent back. This time, he is put into a straight jacket so it is harder for him to escape. The episode ends with the Beatles starting to consume the doctors mind. 

The final part is the attack & the rescue. The story for the believers end with the managers secret being revealed. He is sentenced to be exiled from Elixir, & for the beetles to be set free. Raine is able to find the doctor, but he is weak & is slowly going insane. She takes him back to the TARDIS. His last action is dematerializing the TARDIS & collapsing to the ground. His last words were "There. That should do it. '' The story ends with the doctor regenerating. The regeneration effect would've been similar to the one seen in Time and the Rani, but it would've had more of a blue light energy. The new doctor would've been played by Richard Griffiths, who is famous for playing Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films, & Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky.

End of Season

This season would've done really well with the audience. However, Jonathan Powell was still eager to cancel the show. After some discussion, it was decided that the show would now air on BBC2. The controller of BBC2 decided to give the show an increase in episodes & move it back to the saturday tea time slot. However, that slot wouldn't be free until 1992. So in 1991, Doctor Who wouldn't air at all.

DW: Season 28 [1991 / 1992]

Introduction

Season 28 would've aired between the 13th of October in 1991 & the 23rd of March in 1992. It would've consisted of 6 stories and 20 twenty-five minute episodes. This season would be the first to feature Richard Griffiths as the Doctor, & the second to feature Julia Sawhala as Raine Cunningham. This would be the first season to be produced by Ian Fraser. It would also be the first for Script Editor Ben Aaronovitch. Aaronovitch would continue the ‘Cartmel master plan’.

A lot of things were changed with the shows style. Firstly, the ‘previously segment’ of each episode was changed. Now parts 2-4 would open with the last few seconds of the previous part & then go into the title sequence. For part one, it would open with either a previously segment, or open straight away with the titles. The second thing was the logo. A new logo for the show was introduced in 1991. This logo would feature on the show itself, DWM, & books. VHS would still use the 74-80 logo. 

Another change was the title sequence & theme tune. The new theme tune would’ve been composed by Mark Ayres. It would’ve been a much darker theme than anything previous. It reintroduced sound elements from the 67-80 & Peter Howell arrangements.

Last of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch

A post regenerated Doctor & Raine crash land on the planet Simpour where they discover the war between the Imperial & Renegade daleks is still going on. The two factions are fighting for control over the planet's resources. Teaming up with the inhabitants of the planet, the Doctor & Raine must either find a way to end the war or destroy both factions.

This would be Richard Griffiths’ first story & it would reintroduce the Daleks. This story would’ve continued on with the war between the Imperial & Renegade daleks. The Imperial daleks arrive on the planet Simpour & want to hollow out the planet as a special metal underground called Penginium can be used to construct much more powerful weapons. Unfortunately for them, the Renegade daleks also have the same idea & the planet is turned into a battleground.

The story follows the doctor & Raine working with a group of Simpourian soldiers & scientists fighting against daleks. The story ends with the doctor making a device that increases the heat of the planets surface, melting all the daleks. The Simpourians have to abandon the planet & find a new home.

Night Thoughts by Ed Young

A remote Scottish mansion. Five bickering academics are haunted by ghosts from their past. Reluctantly they offer shelter to the Doctor and Raine, who is already troubled by a vivid nightmare & is further disturbed by the night-time appearance of a whistling, hooded apparition.

The Doctor tries to befriend the young housemaid, Sue. Sue knows secrets. She knows why the academics have assembled here, and she knows why they are all so afraid. But Sue's lips are sealed — she prefers to communicate through her disturbing toy, Happy the Rabbit.

And then the killing begins. Gruesome deaths that lead the Doctor and Raine to discover the grisly truth behind the academics' plans, and — as the ghosts of the past become ghosts of the present — to recognise that sometimes death can be preferable to life…

This story would’ve introduced the darker tone that the show was heading towards.

Animal by Andrew Cartmel

Margrave University in 2001, and Raine is enjoying another trip into the future.

For the Doctor, there are mysteries to solve: what are the alien creatures imprisoned in the science labs? And what are the true motives of the student Scobie and his followers?

With enemies on all sides, the Doctor teams up with his old friend Brigadier Bambera and the forces of UNIT in a battle for the future of the whole world.

This story features Brigadier Bambera played by Angela Bruce who was last seen in Battlefield. It also features the Metatraxi from last season.

Illegal Alien by Mike Tucker & Robert Perry

Britain is at war. Night after night the Luftwaffe are bombing London. A serial killer dubbed the Limehouse Lurker is stalking the rubble-strewn streets. But a deadlier threat falls from the sky in the shape of a sinister silver sphere...

Cody McBride, ex-pat American private eye, sees the sphere crash-land and split open — and glimpses something emerging from within. But the military dismiss his account of events — the sphere is simply a new German secret weapon that has malfunctioned in some way. What else could it be?

Arriving amid the chaos, the Doctor and Raine are the only people to believe McBride. The sphere bears all the hallmarks of sophisticated alien technology — and whatever was inside it is now loose in London.

Before long, they have embarked on a trail that brings them face to face with hidden Nazi operatives — and some very old enemies…

This story reintroduces the Cybermen. This story introduces a new cyberman design.

A School for Glory by Tony Etchell

The TARDIS takes Doctor & Raine to a british training house, in the middle of World War 1. When they are discovered, they are arrested & trialed by General Swan. He sentences Raine to be taken back to england as he believes she is trying to sneak off into the army. The Doctor however, is to be executed by a firing squad in 10 dawns time as He believes the Doctor is a spy.

With time running out, the two risk their lives to find each other & the TARDIS, which is rumored to have been taken away to a scrapyard.

This would’ve been the first story to have the Doctor, Raine, & The TARDIS as the only Sci-Fi element in it since Black Orchid.

Network by Ben Aaronovitch & Marc Platt

The TARDIS arrives in the CAGE – not a trap, but the College of Advanced Galactic Education, one of the most prestigious academic institutions in colonised space.

Not a trap. Or is it?

The Doctor's here to receive an honorary degree in Moral Philosophy. But there's something rotten at the heart of the Medical Facility. Someone is operating on the students. Someone without a conscience. Someone with access to a Sidelian Brain Scanner – a technology that hasn't been invented yet.

That someone is the ruthless Time Lord scientist known as the Rani. But will the Doctor and Raine recognise the Rani's hand before her trap is sprung?

DW: Season 29 [1992]

Introduction

Season 29 would've aired between the 10th of October in 1992 & the 20th of March in 1993. It would've consisted of 6 stories and 24 twenty-five minute episodes.

This year for Doctor Who would've marked the shows 30th Anniversary. Because of this, 1993 for Doctor Who would've been a big year for the show. It would've included many exciting things for the show including the return of the Sontarans & the sonic screwdriver, a new companion, & the first official Doctor Who Movie, Doctor Who: The Dark Dimension.

A new TARDIS prop was introduced in this season as the Yardley-Jones prop had become heavily damaged. The new prop was designed to look similar to the previous one, put to be different in it’s own way.

Shakedown by Terrance Dicks

For thousands of years the Sontaran clone-warriors and the Rutan gestalt have fought each other across the galaxy. Now the Sontarans have plans to strike at the heart of the Rutan Empire, and utterly defeat the Rutan race.

The Doctor has his suspicions, but only one Rutan spy knows the Sontarans' secret. He is being pursued from planet to planet by a Sontaran hit squad. After a confrontation aboard the racing space-yacht Tiger Moth, the chase culminates on the library planet Sentarion — where Professor Bernice Summerfield's researches into the history of the Sontaran/ Rutan war turn into explosive reality.

This story features the Sontarans who were last seen in 1985’s ‘The Two Doctors’

The Highest Science by Gareth Roberts

Many legends speak of this world, the home of an ancient empire destroyed by its own greatest achievement: the Highest Science, the pinnacle of technological discovery.

When the TARDIS alerts the Doctor and Raine to the presence of an enormous temporal fluctuation on a large, green, unremarkable planet, they are not to know of any connection with the legend.

But the connection is there, and it will lead them into conflict with the monstrous Chelonians, with their contempt for human parasites; into adventure with a group of youngsters whose musical taste has suddenly become dangerously significant; and will force them to face Sheldukher, the most wanted criminal in the galaxy.

Nightshade by Mark Gatiss

Raine has never known the Doctor so withdrawn and melancholic. He is avoiding her company, seeking solace in the forgotten rooms and labyrinthine passages of his ancient time machine. Perhaps he will find the peace he yearns for on his favourite planet, Earth, in the second half of the twentieth century — in the isolated village of Crook Marsham, to be precise, in 1968, the year of peace, love and understanding.

But one by one the villagers are being killed. The Doctor has to act, but for once he seems helpless, indecisive, powerless.

What are the signals from space that are bombarding the radio telescope on the moor? What is the significance of the local legends from the Civil War? And what is the aeons-old power that the Doctor is unable to resist?

Human Nature by Paul Cornell

April, 1914. The inhabitants of the little Norfolk town of Farringham are enjoying an early summer, unaware that war is on the way. Amongst them is Dr John Smith, a short, middle-aged history teacher from Aberdeen. He's having a hard time with his new post as house master at Hulton College, a school dedicated to producing military officers.

Raine Cunningham is enjoying her holiday in the town, getting over the terrible events that befell her in France. But then she meets a future Doctor, and things start to get dangerous very quickly. With the Doctor she knows gone, and only a suffragette and an elderly rake for company, can Raine fight off a vicious alien attack? And will Dr Smith be able to save the day?

This story would’ve introduced a new “companion”. The new companion would’ve been a cat called Wolsey. He was given to the doctor by Joan Redfern to “guard him”. He would only appear inside the TARDIS interior.

Blood Heat by Jim Mortimore

The TARDIS is attacked by an alien force; and the Doctor and Raine crash-land on Earth.

An attack by dinosaurs convinces the Doctor that he and Raine have arrived in the Jurassic Era. But when they find a woman being hunted by intelligent reptiles, he begins to suspect that something is very wrong.

Then they meet the embittered Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, leading the remnants of UNIT in a hopeless fight against the Silurians who rule his world. And they find out that it all began when the Doctor died...

This story is set in an alternative timeline. In this timeline, the Third Doctor was killed during the events of ‘Doctor Who and The Silurians’. This story also sees the return of the Sonic Screwdriver. Ian Fraser wanted to return the sonic as he felt it was a stupid move of getting rid of it. It would’ve been similar to the Baker / Davison one but with a different paint design.

Lungbarrow by Marc Platt

All is not well on Gallifrey. Raine is having someone else's nightmares. Ace is talking to herself. So is K9. Leela has stumbled on a murderous family conspiracy. And Romana foresees one of the most tumultuous events in her planet's history.

At the root of all is an ancient and terrible place, the House of Lungbarrow in the southern mountains of Gallifrey. Something momentous is happening there. But the House has inexplicably gone missing.

673 years ago the Doctor left his family in that forgotten House. Abandoned, disgraced and resentful, they have waited. And now he's home at last.

This story would’ve ended the ‘Cartmel Master Plan’. A lot is revealed about the Doctor’s identity in this story. The main note is that it is revealed that the Doctor is in fact the reincarnation of the Other, one of the 3 founders of Gallifrey. It also reveals how time lords are born & how gallifrey was founded.

DW: Season 30 [1993]

Season 30 would've aired between the 10th of July & the 23rd of November in 1993. It would've consisted of 6 stories and 21 twenty-five minute episodes.

This season would’ve marked the 30th anniversary of the show. A few changes were made for this season. The first change would be the introduction of a new Police box prop for the TARDIS as the Tom Yardley-Jones was starting to get damaged & looking old. The new prop was designed to look similar to the previous one, but to be new & original as well.

It would be the last season for Raine Cunningham & the first for new companion Bernice Summerfield, played by Lisa Bowerman.

This season also features a 2-hour TV Movie special titled ‘The Dark Dimension’ & would’ve aired on the shows anniversary

                                                                                                                                               

Election Day by Ben Aaronovitch

It’s election day on Gallifrey. The two candidates are Romanadvoratrelundar, or Romana for short, & Kaliendallunderwhorl, or Kalien for short. When the votes are in, it shows that Kalien is the most likely candidate. People are calling out that she has rigged the election, but none dare to investigate or interfere. Romana calls for the only Time Lord she knows who will help & investigate, The Doctor. But he doesn’t care who wins or loses as he hates getting involved with Gallifrey. Will his mind change when he finds out the truth about Kalien?

This season opens up with a mystery story set on Gallifrey & follows the planets reaction when an election for Lord President is announced. The two candidates are Romana, played by Lalla Ward, & Kalien, played by Joanna Lumley. The doctor is called to Gallifrey by Romana to investigate Kalien, as she & many time lords believe she has rigged the election so she would win.

It is revealed in Part three that she has rigged the election. Raine & The Doctor are exploring the lower levels of Gallifrey when they see Kalien leave an abandoned TARDIS. Upon entering, they find many computers & papers confirming that Kalien has rigged the election. Raine wants the doctor to report the truth, but he doesn’t want to as he doesn’t like getting involved with Gallifrey. But then he discovers a document on Kalien’s TARDIS console. The document reveals that her plans as president was a lie. She stated that she would sort out rights between Time Lords & outsiders. In reality, she plans to change Gallifrey’s non-interference policy & turn the planet into a War zone.

Part four has the Doctor exposing Kalien & revealing the truth. In the end, the election is cancelled & Flavia reclaimed her title as President & Kalien is exiled from Gallifrey to an abandoned moon.

Shakedown by Terrance Dicks

For thousands of years the Sontaran clone-warriors and the Rutan gestalt have fought each other across the galaxy. Now the Sontarans have a plan to strike at the heart of the Rutan Empire, and utterly defeat the Rutan race.

The Doctor has his suspicions, but only one Rutan spy knows the Sontarans' secret. He is being pursued from planet to planet by a Sontaran hit squad. After a confrontation aboard the racing space-yacht Tiger Moth, the chase culminates on the library planet Sentarion — where Raine’s researches into the history of the Sontaran/Rutan war turn into explosive reality.

Love and War by Paul Cornell

Heaven is a paradise for both humans and Draconians — a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission — to find a book, or so he says — and Raine, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan.

But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance. What is he trying to prevent? Is he planning some more deadly game connected with the mysterious objects causing the military forces of Heaven such concern?

Archaeologist Bernice Summerfield thinks so. Her destiny is inextricably linked with that of the Doctor, but even she may not be able to save Raine from the Time Lord's plans.

This time, has the Doctor gone too far?

This would've been the start of the end for Raine Cunningham & the first for Bernice Summerfield. This also features the Draconians who were last seen in ‘Frontier in Space’

In the story, Raine meets a young Traveller by the name of Jan Rydd and falls in love with him and wanted him to travel with her & the Doctor in the TARDIS. However, Jan gets infected by Hoothi fibres. The Doctor is aware of Jan’s illness, but he doesn’t tell Raine.

The story ends with Jan sacrificing his life killing three of the four Hoothi. Raine refuses to travel with the Doctor as she has lost trust in him. However, the Doctor takes her aboard the TARDIS against her will as he can’t leave her on the planet. He says he will take her home. Bernice ends up joining the Doctor to make sure Raine or the Doctor don’t cause more trouble between them.

Blood Heat by Jim Mortimore

The TARDIS is attacked by an alien force; Bernice is flung into the Vortex; and the Doctor and Raine crash-land on Earth.

An attack by dinosaurs convinces the Doctor that he and Raine have arrived in the Jurassic Era. But when they find a woman being hunted by intelligent reptiles, he begins to suspect that something is very wrong.

Then they meet the embittered Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, leading the remnants of UNIT in a hopeless fight against the Silurians who rule his world. And they find out that it all began when the Doctor died.

This would be Raine’s last story. The story shows the Doctor & Raine arrive in alternative Universe on Earth, where the Doctor is killed during the events of ‘Doctor Who and The Silurians’. During the story, Bernice finally returns to the story but when she finally reappears, she is nearly shot in the chest. However, this does not happen as Raine gets in the way & she sacrificed her life. Her lungs collapse & she dies.

Transit by Ben Aaronovitch

It's the ultimate in mass transit systems, a network of interstitial tunnels that bind the planets of the solar system together. Earth to Pluto in forty minutes with a supersave non-premium off-peak travelcard.

But something is living in the network, chewing its way to the very heart of the system and leaving a trail of death and mutation behind it.

Once again a reluctant Doctor is dragged into human history. Back down amongst the joyboys, freesurfers, chessfans, politicians and floozies, where friends are more dangerous than enemies and one man's human being is another's psychotic killing machine.

Once again the Doctor is all that stands between humanity and its own mistakes.

The Dark Dimension by Adrian Rigelsford

Far in the future of Earth, most humans have been wiped out. The Earth is left in ruins, the only people left on the planet being a resistance group which has been trying to hunt the creature that has done this to the planet. The group is searching an area, and their leader, Bernice Summerfield, suddenly finds a body. It is the Eighth Doctor — murdered by the creature. The Doctor is given a funeral which Bernice finds fitting, as they are sent floating into the sea and lit aflame. With the Doctor gone, Bernice tells the others that they have to finish what the Doctor started on their own.

This would’ve been the 30th Anniversary Special for Doctor Who. The story is set in an alternative timeline in which the Fourth Doctor never went to Logopolis. This resulted in him not regenerating & his future being unwritten. The story mainly focuses on the Fourth Doctor. The Third, Fifth, Sixth, & Seventh get screen time as well, but not as much as Four. The Eighth Doctor is dead for most of the Story.

DW: Season 31 [1994]

Season 31 would've aired between the 18th of June & the 26th of November in 1994. It would've consisted of 6 stories and 24 thirty minute episodes.

By 1994, Doctor Who was riding on a wave of popularity it hadn’t been on since the Davison era. The show had survived being nearly cancelled in 1985 & 1989 & was now here to stay. 

This season introduced a new companion named Christopher Hector, played by Robert Bathurst.

The Zygon Operation by Steven Moffat

The TARDIS called to Earth by Winifred Bambera. According to her, The American section of UNIT is in trouble. Three scared zygons are loose in the streets disguised as everyday people. With the help of Bambera & Sgt. Hector, The Doctor & Bernice must help the Zygons reveal themselves & send them home. Unfortunately for them, the Americans have other ideas for The Zygons & Possibly the Doctor.

This season opens up with the return of the Zygons, last seen in Season 13’s Terror of the Zygons, & Winifred Bambera, last seen in Season 28’s Animal. It also introduces the new companion, Sergeant Christopher Hector.

The first half of the story involves the Doctor, Bernice, Bambera & Christopher searching the streets of Los Angeles for the escaped Zygons. At the end of Part Two, it is revealed by a Zygon that the American Section of UNIT. who contacted UNIT UK about the zygons, were experimenting on them, Trying to find a way to alter humans to hide from enemies better. Part Three & Four sees the group inside an underground base rescuing the Zygons, finding the TARDIS & stopping the DNA from leaving the base.

At the end of the story, the Doctor offers Bambera & Christopher the chance to travel with him. Bambera declines and Christopher Accepts. The story did OK on it’s broadcast, but later lost popularity after the show got popular in America.

Legacy by Gary Russell

The Doctor is pursuing a master criminal. The trail leads to Peladon: a desolate world once home to a barbaric, feudal society. Now the Galactic Federation is attempting to bring prosperity and civilization to the planet. But not all Peladonians support the changes, and when ancient relics are stolen from their Citadel, the representatives of the Federation are blamed. The Doctor suspects the Ice Warrior delegation, but before long the Time Lord himself is arrested for the crime — and sentenced to death.

Elsewhere, interplanetary mercenaries are bringing one of the galaxy's most evil artefacts to Peladon, apparently on the Doctor's instruction. Christopher is pursuing a dangerous mission on another world and Bernice is getting friendly — perhaps too friendly — with the Ice Warriors she has studied for so long.

The players are making the final moves in a devious and lethal plan — but for once it isn't the Doctor's.

The Nightmare Fair by Graham Williams

The TARDIS has been drawn to Blackpool in the year 1994, where the Doctor intends to investigate a dangerous space/time vortex... while enjoying some local attractions along the way. But an old enemy is watching from his base deep within the amusement park, a timeless being who craves revenge.

The Toymaker has returned. The game is on. And, should he lose, the Doctor will pay the ultimate forfeit...

The story was intended to be released in Season 23. The story had been edited by Aaronovitch to have the Eighth Doctor, Bernice & Christopher instead of the Sixth Doctor & Peri. It was also edited to give Christopher something to do. In this story, he is trapped in an arcade machine & must beat many arcade games such as Pac-Man, Space Invaders & Pong. The year of the story was also changed from 1985 to 1994

Avatar by David A. McIntee

A group of spirits arrive on Earth. The only way they can move around is by inhabiting the bodies of the dead. They have a plan. They plan to clone & resurrect Saala, the greatest silurian of all time. It’s up to the Doctor to stop a full on war breaking out between the Silurians & the Humans.

This story was planned for Season 28, but was replaced with A School for Glory. The story is about a gas-like spirit race named The Cyrives. When the silurians ruled the Earth, the Cyrives leader became stuck on the planet. A Silurian warrior named Saala sacrificed his life so that the leader may leave. Now, millions of years later, the Cyrives have located earth & wish to return the Favour. In each part of the story, the current Cyrives leader’s body was to get more and more decrepit in each episode, until there was just a skeleton at the end. The story ends with Saala not being resurrected completely, due to Christopher messing up the operation table’s machinery, & the Cyrives on Earth destroyed by their bodies catching fire.

Leviathan by Brian Finch

No one lives to old age in the village. When their Time is come, they are taken and never seen again. That is The Way. And, should anyone try to break with the established order of things, then the fury of Herne the Hunter is unleashed...

When the TARDIS materialises near a castle in this mediaeval society, the Doctor, Bernice & Christopher befriend Gurth, a terrified youth who is attempting to flee his fate. And Herne is closing in...

Why does the local baron impose the culling? What is the secret of Zeron? And who are the Sentinels of the New Dawn?

The answers lie within a cave…

Like Avatar, this story was planned for a previous season, but was unproduced. 

Warlock by Andrew Cartmel

It was the ruthless pack instinct of the primeval forest. But warlock magnified it a thousand times and made it lethal.

There's a strange new drug on the street. It's called warlock and some people say it's the creation of the Devil. Others see it as the gateway to enlightenment.

Christopher is working with an undercover cop, trying to track down its source. Bernice is trapped in a horrific animal experimentation laboratory. But only the Doctor has begun to guess the terrible truth about warlock.

This story is a sequel to Season 29s’ Warhead. It moves beyond cyberpunk into a realm where reality is a question of brain chemistry and heaven or hell comes in the shape of a pill.

DW: Season 32 [1995]

Season 32 would've aired between the 17th of June & the 25th of November in 1995. It would've consisted of 6 stories and 24 thirty minute episodes.

This would be Lisa Bowerman & Robert Bathursts’ last season as Bernice Summerfield & Christopher Hector. It would also be Aaronovitch’s last Season as Script Editor

Damaged Goods by Russell Davies

The year is 1987: a dead drug dealer has risen from the grave, and an ancient weapon is concealed beneath human tragedy. But the Doctor soon discovers that the things people do for their children can be every bit as deadly as any alien menace - as he uncovers the link between a special child, an obsessive woman, and a desperate bargain made one dark Christmas Eve.

Conundrum by Steve Lyons

A killer is stalking the streets of the village of Arandale. The victims are found one each day, drained of blood. And if that seems strange, it's nothing compared to the town's inhabitants.

The Doctor, Bernice & Christopher think they're investigating a murder mystery. But it's all much more bizarre than that. And much more dangerous.

Someone has interfered with the Doctor's past again, and he's landed in a place he knows he once destroyed. This time there can be no escape.

This story is a sequel to ‘The Mind Robber’.

Warchild by Andrew Cartmel

Creed is just an ordinary guy — as ordinary as you can be when you're a secret agent working for the government. But his family is another matter. His youngest child seems able to read his mind. His oldest boy, Ricky, may possess a stranger and far more frightening power. And others seem interested in his 'gifted' children — sinister forces who see them as a resource to be exploited.

Around the world, the Doctor's companions have been put in place, ready to act when the time is right. Old friends and enemies are gathering for a final confrontation that will shape the future of the globe — and the evolution of mankind.

This would be the final story in the so called ‘War Trilogy’.

Sleepy by Kate Orman

The Earth colony on Yemaya 4 is a very ordinary place. The colonists spend their time farming, building homes, raising families.

But when the Doctor and his companions arrive they find a virus sweeping through the population, unleashing the colonists' latent psychic powers. The Doctor and Christopher fall prey to the infection, and discover telepathy is not the only symptom. Christopher is unable to resist the call of an ancient place of sacrifice, while Benny travels back in time to the origin of the virus, and uncovers a desperate bid for immortality.

And all the while the Doctor is playing a dangerous game with troopers of the Dione-Kisumu Company, who have come either to reclaim the stolen biotechnology — or to sterilise the planet.

GodEngine by Craig Hinton

Stranded on Mars, the Doctor and Bernice team up with a group of colonists on a journey to find much-needed supplies at the North Pole. But when their expedition is joined by a party of Ice Warrior pilgrims, tensions are stretched to breaking point. Meanwhile, Christopher finds himself on Pluto's moon, trapped with a group of desperate scientists in a deadly race against time.

The year is 2157: the Earth has been invaded, and forces are at work on Mars to ensure that the mysterious invaders are successful. Unless the Doctor can solve the riddle of the GodEngine, the entire course of human history will be changed.

Time Tunnel by Paul Cornell

In the year 1954, a man arrived in a Japanese airport saying he comes from a country that doesn’t exist. The authorities confined him to a Hotel room overnight while they decide if he is a criminal. The next day, he had disappeared from the hotel along with all his identity the authorities were holding. Many have speculated that he had come from a parallel universe. None had speculated if he was a time traveller.

In the year 2454, human kind has access to time travel. For the price of £100,000 a year, they can access to the Time Tunnel once a month for a day. They can then travel anywhere at any point in time.

This would be Bernice & Christopher’s final story. It would see the return of the Monk, this time played by Derek Jacobi. In this story, he had altered earth's history in the future so that humans can now time travel. This story also answers the mystery to the man from a parallel universe from Taured. In Part Four the doctor reverses the effects of a time tunnel & scrambles the controls, sending the Monk to a random point in Earth's history without his TARDIS. However, Bernice & Christopher also get sucked through. The Doctor doesn’t know where they have gone & is forced to leave without them.

DW: Season 33 [1996]

Season 33 would've aired between the 25th of May & the 2nd of November in 1996. It would've consisted of 6 stories and 12 forty-five minute episodes.

This would be the first season for Philip Segal as Producer & Paul Cornell as Script Editor. It would also be the first season for the new companion Grace Holloway, played by Daphne Ashbrook, & Griffith’s final season as the Doctor.

For this season, Segal decided to introduce an american feel to the show as the americans were slowly taking an interest in the show & to give the show a fresh feel as he thought it was starting to become stale. The first thing he had to do was cast a new Doctor & companion as Bowerman & Bathurst had left the previous season & Griffiths wanted to move on to a new show. 

Segal casted Daphne Ashbrook as Grace Holloway, who would be the first american actress to play a companion. As for Griffiths, Segal casted Paul McGann as the next doctor & commissioned Marc Platt to write a regeneration story for the finale. But then news hit that Griffiths didn't want to do a full season. So it was decided to replace the finale with episode 2 & put Season 34's opening story as episode 3.

The second thing Segal did was introduce a new title sequence & theme tune for McGann's Doctor (Griffiths would still use the Season 28 variants) The new theme was composed by John Debney. It would've had a very orchestral feel to it & would've completely different to any previous themes. The new titles were designed with american Sci-Fi's in mind. They would open up with a small clip of the Griffith's Titles but with the colours altered to make them look different & then we would fade into the new vortex & the logo, which was the same as the Fraser one but now coloured orange. For the first time ever, the main cast were credited in the beginning & a 'show created by' credit was introduced. It also reintroduced the TARDIS to the title sequence. The shows episode count was halved but 15 minutes extra were added to the runtime.

Finally, the TARDIS interior was also given an update. This time, it completely abandoned the traditional white walls with roundels & went for an almost ‘Victorian Parlour’ design. The console was reattached to the floor, but was more of a wooden design & the time rotor was now blue. The Exterior was given a quick freshen up.

This season would be the first time Doctor Who was co-produced as The BBC signed an agreement with Fox TV to help produce the show. Fox's influences would've been giving the show a bigger budget, promoting the show & giving the show a fresh look

Master Mind by Matthew Jacobs

It should've been a normal week for Dr. Grace Holloway. She is no one special. All she does is work in a hospital in San Francisco. She thought nothing could go wrong. Then one day, she gets promoted & is moved into D. That's when it all changed. That's when she met the mysterious Mark Jones. That's she met the man simply called The Doctor.

This story would've introduced the new companion, Grace Holloway, & would've been set in San Francisco. Segal would've wanted to be set in America so that the show didn't feel tied down to London.

In this story, Grace is assigned to a new ward. One of the patients of the wards is Mark Jones. Grace finds him interesting. He's always telling stories about aliens & other worlds. While she is working in the ward, she meets the Doctor, who is going by the name Dr. John Smith. Then at night, Grace is ready to leave for home when she finds Mark wondering about the hospital. She follows him until he enters the basement. She starts to go down the stairs, until she hears the sound of an engine moaning. She follows the noise until she discovers the Doctor & the TARDIS. We go through a scene where the doctor says that he is an investigator. He says that he is investigating the hospital as it appears to be absorbing more energy than it should & it could mean the whole of San Francisco losing its power.

Throughout Part One, the Doctor & Grace team up together on the next night to find what or who is using up all this power. They decide to investigate the basement & see what Mark Jones does down there, as he was missing throughout the day. The cliffhanger is the Doctor & Grace finding Mark & finding out that Mark Jones is actually the Master.

In Part Two, the Master reveals that he is using the power to try to reactivate his TARDIS as his dematerialization circuit has no power in it. The Doctor agrees to help the Master escape by using power from his TARDIS to help power the Master's TARDIS. In a part of the story, The Doctor tells Grace the truth about who he is. This scene would've most likely happened when Grace first enters the TARDIS. When the power ie activated & is directing into the Master's, he reveals that his TARDIS was never broken & that he is simply using the power to charge a PSW, or a Planet Size Weapon, as the master plans on conquering / destroying other civilizations.

The story ends with the Doctor reflowing the Power to the Master's Dematerialization circuit so it would overfill & overload, causing it to break & lose all it's power. The Master is able to escape with his PSW non-charged, enough power for around 2 flights & a dematerialization circuit broken enough for 1 flight to a random planet in a random time.

After all is sorted, the Doctor is ready to leave. Grace asks if she can come with him. At first, the Doctor is reluctant & warns Grace about the dangers, but she still wants to travel. The Doctor lets her on board & they leave.

The Palace at the End by Marc Platt

2 months ago, Grace Holloway started travelling around Time and Space with the Doctor. But also 2 months ago, Grace had her first encounter with another time lord named The Master. Now she is about to have her second.

The TARDIS lands on a human settlement planet far into the future. There, the Doctor & Grace discover a huge settlement full of people working in peace but fearing one thing, The Palace. Because once you're called to the Palace, you never return.

This would've been Griffith's final story. In Part One, the Doctor & Grace discover a town on a planet far into the future. They all live in fear of the King, who dominates the planet. The Doctor talks to the Mayor of the Town & learn about the King. He is a man who lives in a palace far away. Every so often, he calls for one person to come "talk" with him. When this happens, there are big debates & elections. If you lose the election, you go to him. People live in fear because no who was called has ever returned.

The next callup is announced & the Doctor & Grace volunteer without hesitation. They head off. Most of their walk is cut out. There is one scene where Grace asks what would happen to her if the Doctor were to die, & he explains regeneration to her. When they find the palace, they discover that it is the Master who is king. The Doctor & Grace learn that he calls up people for 4 reasons: to either hypnotize them, to put them into slavery to produce minerals & power, or to take their souls & use them to build himself a new body. The Master tries to take Grace's soul but she & the doctor escapes. The cliffhanger to Part One is revealing to the Mayor the whole story. The mayor doesn't like this & gives a speech to the entire town. He then tells them that they will burn the Master to the ground.

Part Two opens with the Doctor & Grace trying to stop the mayor & the town. They are able to convice some of them, but most of the town pushed pass & marched towards the palace. Throughout the story, we see the Doctor, Grace & a few town people trying to warn the master to escape before the mayors group arrive. They take a different route which is quicker but more dangerous. They go through many areas such as the forest of mutants, the swamp of tar & the memory fog field. One scene in the fog field is the Doctor hallucinating Raine, Bernice & Christopher blaming him for their deaths.

The Doctor & Grace arrive, having had the few town people die on the journey, at the palace. But it's too late. The town people are torching the palace & burning it. The Doctor tells Grace to wait & he runs into the burning building to rescue the Master. He escapes with him, but with bad news. The Ainley Master body was destroyed & has reverted back to his Decaying Beevers incarnation. The Doctor however has suffered really severe burns & is in tremendous pain. The Doctor collapses & Grace tends to his burns the best she can. As she is doing this & the town people are either celebrating or watching the fire, the Master awakens. He begins to drain the power from the slave labour camp he was producing into his TARDIS & escapes. The Doctor hears the Masters TARDIS & awakens. He says they need to get to his TARDIS quickly.

When they get inside the ship, the Doctor struggles to dematerialize, due to his hands being covered in burn marks, & locks on to the Master's TARDIS so where he goes, they go. He collapses to the floor & Grace runs to help him. But then, a bright light starts to absorb his entire face & then his body. He begins to regenerate as Grace watches in horror. Once regeneration is complete, the Doctor awakens instantly & starts working on the controls. He then starts to check his new body & then asks Grace who he is. Grace says nothing & still looks in shock. Then the episode ends.

Master of San Francisco by Matthew Jacobs

After pursuing the Master through time, The TARDIS lands in San Francisco in the Middle of a gang shootout. A post-regenerated Doctor & Grace exit & get caught in gunfire. The Doctor is shot & is taken to hospital by Grace & street kid Chang Lee. When Grace enters her hospital, she finds that she has arrived One Year into the future. After lots of questioning, having the Doctors supplies robbed by Chang, & being fired, Grace must care for the Doctor as he recovers from a case of Amnesia.

Meanwhile, The Master has a new body & has convinced Chang Lee to work for him. His body is slowly decaying. There is only one body in San Francisco that the Master needs: The Doctors.

This would be McGann’s first story. The TARDIS land in 1999 & Grace finds out that it has been a year since she left in the TARDIS with the Doctor. It would also be Geoffrey Beavers’ second appearance as the Master. The master’s body would still be in his decaying form from the previous episode & The Keeper of Traken. He would possess an ambulance driver named Bruce, who would be played by Beevers. Throughout the story, he would occasionally fade into his decayed appearance, much like John Simms Master’s would become skeleton-like in The End of Time.

The story is very similar to the TV Movie from our universe. A Main difference is the ending, with Grace agreeing to still travel with the Doctor.

Vampire Science by Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum

In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds. Now the Vampires have been sighted again, in Los Angeles. Some want to coexist with humans, using genetic engineering in a macabre experiment to find a new source of blood. But some would rather go out in a blaze of glory — and UNIT's attempts to contain them could provoke another devastating war.

The Doctor strikes a dangerous bargain, but even he might not be able to keep the city from getting caught in the crossfire. While he finds himself caught in a web of old feuds and high-tech schemes, his new companion Grace finds just how deadly travelling with the Doctor can be.

This story sees the return of the Vampires from State of Decay. It also sees the return of the US Wing of UNIT, last seen in The Zygon Operation. Since then, most of the people in command have been replaced & the US Wing is trying to write old their old mistakes.

The Bodysnatchers by Mark Morris

It is London, 1894. Amid the fog, cold and degradation, a gruesome business is being conducted. The bodies of the dead are being stolen from their graves — men, women and children alike — for the sinister purpose of a very mysterious gentleman.

When the Doctor and Grace arrive, they are witness to a horrifying scene in the evil-smelling fog: something rises up from the filthy waters of the Thames and devours a man — a man terrified for his life and on the run from the devil himself…

Teaming up with an old friend, pathologist Professor George Litefoot, the Doctor is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Together with Grace, they discover there is a far graver threat facing London then just earthly grave robbers. Deadly alien beings the Doctor has encountered before are at work, and they bring a whole new twist to the word bodysnatchers...

Genocide by Paul Leonard

Years after leaving UNIT, Jo Jones receives a plea for help from an old acquaintance. A palaeontological study of the earliest known humans is apparently under threat from a UNIT force led by a captain who does not officially exist. Investigating further, she begins to find herself out of her depth — and out of the twentieth century altogether…

Meanwhile, the Doctor and Grace visit Earth in 2109 — but there is no trace of the human race. Earth is the home of the Tractites, a peaceful race who have been living there for hundreds of thousands of years. Astonished and appalled, the Doctor travels back in time to see just what went wrong in Earth's prehistory.

Why have Jo and the expedition been taken back in time? Are the Tractites all they seem? Finally, separated from the TARDIS, the Doctor's last chance to put things right rests with Grace — but has even she turned against him?

Overall, this season did alright. Most people were able to accept the shorter but longer episode count. A lot of fans weren't 100% happy with McGann's Doctor but this was probably because he hadn't had a full season.

Over in America, the season had a respectable view count as Fox TV would be broadcasting the episodes a day after the BBC.

DW: Season 34 (1997)

Season 34 would've aired between the 13th of September & the 29th  of November in 1997. It would've consisted of 6 stories and 12 forty-five minute episodes.

This season was to have more returning monsters to the show. As well as this, all but 2 episodes weren't set on Earth. This was done as Doctor Who would've now been competing with other sci- fi's in America & the fact that all but 1 story had been mainly set on Earth in the previous season.

Pollution by Pip and Jane Baker

With the TARDIS running low on Mercury, the Doctor & Patricia make a pit stop at Frapriafe, one of the biggest markets in the universe, to refuel. After refueling, the Doctor & Patricia decide to explore the market place.

Patricia is enjoying herself but the Doctor is suspicious. On his last visit, the place was beaming with life & energy. Now, the crowd has halved & everyone looks ill. It's only when the two of them dine in one of the many restaurants that he can confirm his suspicions.

Someone has polluted the food & water in the market, mixing them with chemicals that would eventually kill you if consumed regularly. It's up to the Doctor to find out who has poisoned Frapriafe's supplies & care for a grey Patricia.

This story sees the return of the Rani, last seen in Season 28's Network. In this story, she is trying to create the ultimate poison that will kill nearly every race & she tests it on the people at Frapriafe as there are mixtures of species there.

After Aaronovitch & Platt wrote Season 28's Network, Rani creators Pip & Jane Baker wrote a new Rani story for Season 30 or 31 however, Ian Fraser rejected the script as they had written some of the worst stories of all time. In 1996, Pip & Jane submitted their script to new producer Guy Slater. Slater decided to use the story as he wanted to give the couple a chance.

While some fans say this is probably the best story they've written, the story is still pretty bad.

Option Lock by Justin Richards

Landing in 1980s England, all appears serene as the Doctor and Patricia emerge from the TARDIS into the idyllic grounds of the Silver family's ancestral home. Only when they enter the house do they suspect things are not what they seem.

How far-reaching is the strange power of a secret society almost 700 years old, and how is it linked to the mysterious Station Nine? And what is the significance of a series of paintings that drove a man to suicide?

From thirteenth-century England to the former Soviet Union, from the United Statesto the cold wastes of space, the various strands of a complex plan come together and threaten to engulf the world in a nightmare of nuclear destruction...

Blood of the Daleks by Steve Lyons

"People of Red Rocket Rising, my fellow citizens. Our long night is over. I've been contacted by a benevolent people. They too have known great trials, but they have overcome them and made it their mission to help others do the same. They have offered us refuge, and passage to the nearest humanworlds. They have the resources, and the patience and compassion, to evacuate every one of us. My fellow citizens, my friends, rescue is at hand!"

This story would've been McGanns' first Dalek story.  It would've been based of the Big Finish story with the same name from our universe with minor differences. The main differences were the Dalek voices & the companion.

The Time Assassin by Russell T Davies

The Doctor is called back to Gallifrey by the high council. This time he isn't on trial or investigating a rigged election. This time, he's investigating a murder mystery.

Lady President Romana is shot down mid-speech. The whole planet is in chaos. As no time lord on the planet dares to investigate, they summon the only one who will. Upon his arrival, the planet is sealed off so no one can escape. The Doctor is forced to play detective while Patricia stays with a dying Romana & helps cure her from a disease that stops her regenerating.

When the links are connected & the answers are clear, the Doctor discovers that the killer really shouldn't be on Gallifrey.

This story is set on Gallifrey & is Lalla Ward's last appearance as Romana. The story sees Romana trying to be executed as she gives a speech in the Panopticon. She isn't killed, but infected with a disease called Calola, which cancels out a time lord's ability to regenerate. The Doctor is called to Gallufrey & is forced to play detective & track down the attempted assasinator. Patricia however, works in a Gallufreyan hospital & helps to cure Romama's condition. This really gives Patricia an opportunity to show her doctoring skills.

At the end of the story it is revealed that the killer is Kalien, last seen in Season 30's Election Day. It turns out that she was able to escape her exile & return to Gallifrey undercover. She had planned to kill Romana, regenerate herself, take on a new name & claim her rights to presidency. As well as this, Patricia & the nurses are able to cure Romana & she is able to Regenerate. As her ability is regranted, she instantly starts regenerating, similar to Griffith's effect the previous season. The light fades from her face & reveals Romana III, played by Chloe Annett.

The final acts involve Kalien being arrested & held in suspended animation until the Time Lords can figure out a suitable punishment. Romana keeps her title as Lady President, bids the Doctor & Patricia farewell, & they leave in the TARDIS.

The Romance of Crime by Gareth Roberts

The Rock of Judgement. Court, prison and place of execution for the Uva Beta Uvasystem, hewn into the skin of a rocket powered asteroid. Not a good place to be. Particularly not for a Time Lord and his Human friend.

Upon arrival on the Rock, the Doctor and Patricia find themselves embroiled in the plans of a maverick law-man, but that is just the beginning of their troubles. A highly-strung artist's gallery holds a deadly secret... and soon everyone's lives will be in danger.

They struggle to know who's good and who's bad, a terrible scheme is being unleashed. With enemies old and new attacking from both sides, can they possibly escape alive?

This story was originally set to be in Season 32, but for unknown reasons it was replaced with Sleepy. This is why the story feels as if it's lacking a 2nd companion as this story was meant to feature the Eighth Doctor, Bernice & Christopher. The story was submitted for Season 34, but had to be edited by Roberts & Cornell to only feature one companion.

Matrix by Robert Perry & Mike Tucker

The Doctor is on the run from a faceless enemy that knows his every thought and move. He flees to his past, planning to leave Patricia in safe hands in order to fight on alone. But his enemy has other plans, and the Doctor's history no longer exists.

The TARDIS is finally drawn to London in the winter of 1888, where the Doctor and Patricia discover a dark secret from Gallifrey's past, and the name of their unseen opponent. It is Jack the Ripper.

DW: Season 35 (1998)

Season 35 would've aired between the 12th of September & the 28th of November in 1998. It would've consisted of 6 stories and 12 forty-five minute episodes.

This would be Miranda Richardsons’ final season as Patricia Sanders. It would also be the last season for Guy Slater as Producer & Paul Cornell as Script Editor. 

Dreamstone Moon by Paul Leonard

Patricia is on her own, but her distance from the Doctor doesn't make for a trouble-free life. Rescued from an out-of-control spaceship, she finds herself on a tiny moon which is the only known source of dreamstone, a mysterious crystalline substance that can preserve your dreams — or give you nightmares.

Pitched into the middle of a conflict between the mining company extracting dreamstone and ecological protesters, Patricia thinks it's easy to decide who the good guys are — until people start dying, and the killers seem to be the same species as some of her new friends.

Meanwhile, the Doctor has tracked Patricia down, but before he can reach her he's co-opted by the Dreamstone Mining Company and their sinister military advisers. Suddenly, it's war — and the Doctor is forced to fight against what he believes in. He alone suspects that dreamstone isn't what it appears to be. But nobody's listening — and nobody could dream who the real enemy is...

Human 2.0 by Marc Platt

Many years ago, the Doctor & Patricia helped the people of Red Rocket Rising with defeating the Daleks & Professor Martez. Many years later, the Doctor & Patricia find themselves back on Red Rocket Rising years after their first visit. Life has been restored, plants are blooming & the people are kind & normal. Too normal.

The Doctor has suspicions. From the robotic human limbs, to the stories of silver rats. When he finds the new saviours of Red Rocket Rising, he finds himself up against the men from Telos.

This story works as a sequel to Blood of the Daleks. Since the events of Blood, the Cybermen have come to the planet. They planned to turn the people into cybermen by claiming to be able to fix damaged body parts, as well as helping to restore the land.

When the Doctor finds out, he starts to form an army of the cybermens victims & take a fight to the cybermen, using their own weapons against them.

Blink by Steven Moffat

In an abandoned house, the Weeping Angelswait. The only hope to stop them is a young woman named Sally Sparrow and her friend Larry Nightingale. The only catch: the Weeping Angels can move in the blink of an eye. To defeat the ruthless enemy — with only a half of a conversation from the Doctor's help — the one rule is this: don't turn your back, don't look away and don't blink!

This story would've been unusual as it is almost Doctor-Lite. It introduces an enemy called the Weeping Angels, who can only move when you don't look at them. They would go on to be one of the most popular monsters of the show.

The story is heavily based off a story Moffat submitted for Season 33 called What I Did on My Christmas Holidays which never got released for unknown reasons. However, the story would later get adapted into a lost story audio by BBC Doctor Who Audios (which is Big Finish in this timeline) but with Richard Griffiths & Lisa Bowerman.

The Apocalypse Element by Stephen Cole

When the planet Archetryx is threatened by a Dalek assault squad, the Doctor and Patricia become embroiled in an ever-deepening mystery. What has become of President Romana, missing for twenty years? What lurks in the vast gravity wells of Archetryx? What is the secret of the ancient element the Daleks are synthesising — and how does Gallifrey feature in their plans?

The Doctor finds that if his oldest enemies cannot conquer the universe they will watch it go up in flames...

The Wall Between Dimensions by Russell T Davies

On a spaceship far into the universe, there is a wall. A wall that is producing more radiation than anywhere else. A radiation that produces power, nothing wall. The crew are suspicious. First two strangers & a blue pod appear on board, then the wall starts showing life signs.

No one knows what is wrong with the wall except one of the strangers who claims to be a Doctor. He thinks the wall is a gateway between dimensions & something is coming through to our dimension. Something evil. It's up to them to stop whatever may or may not be coming through.

This story is probably the weakest of the season. It features the Doctor, Patricia & a team of 8 working in a space shuttle trying to stop an entity from another universe coming through to theirs. Throughout the story, a lot of the crew & even the Doctor & Patricia start becoming possessed for a few seconds. Their eyes would turn red & would say sentences like "I'm Here", "You Can't" or  "Free Me".

In the end, the captain of the shuttle sacrifices his life by letting the entity fully take over his body, while his mind fights it. This story leaves sort of unanswered as the Doctor has no idea what the entity was.

War World by Andrew Cartmel

In 1998, chaos broke out on the streets of Earth, as warriors from the future appeared out of nowhere. Instead of being confused as to where they are, they continued fighting. In 1 week, Earth was turned into a war world & many innocent lives had been lost.

When all hope is nearly lost, UNIT decide to call in their best support & summon the Doctor to Earth. But when he arrives, he doesn't even know what to do.

Why do these soldiers want to conquer the Earth? Will the Doctor be able to save the human race? And will Patricia discover her future?

This would've been Patricia's final story. It would've saw the return of the Sontarans. It also would've seen a Joint operation with UNIT from the UK & the US.

In the story, the Doctor accidently takes Bambera on board the TARDIS & leaves Patricia on Earth. Throughout the story, we see the Doctor & Bambera trying to get through a gateway that all the soldiers arrive in & see where it takes them. Meanwhile, we see Patricia taking on the Job as a medical officer & really get into her role as a doctor.

It turns out that it is a group of Sontarans far from the future, who have evolved into a partly human resemblance & now are using more superior armour. Their leader, General Markell, plans on turning Earth into a Weapons locker for their war against the Rutants. In the End, the Doctor has to release a failsafe Gas into the Air, which starts pushing the Sontarans to the ground until they are nothing but metal & mush.

The Doctor returns Bambera to Earth & then goes to collect Patricia. When he finds her, Patricia says she is not coming with him. She tells him that General Adrienne Kramer, the leader of UNIT US, has offered her a job as a medical officer & she has accepted. She says she can't keep exploring for the rest of her life. She needs to give help to those who help others. The Doctor bids her farewell & he leaves in The TARDIS.

This story would've received a few complaints. Many people hated the sontaran redesign & thought it ruined their appearance. Others thought the story gave Patricia a really boring send off.

After this season, trouble started brewing for the show. Fox stopped coproducing the show due to issues with the BBC & the show was starting to get many critics from audiences. While the show was more popular than ever in America, It was starting to lose popularity in Britain.

The show was facing cancelation, & nearly was. But then Slater & Cornell stepped down from their roles. The BBC decided to give the show a final chance, so a new Producer & Script Editor were put on & McGann agreed to return for another season. But no companion had been cast yet. & with a lower budget for this year due to no Coproduction, the story count had to be cut from 6 to 5.

DW: Season 36 (1999)

Season 36 would've aired between the 11th of September & the 30th of October in 1999. It would've consisted of 5 stories and 10 forty-five minute episodes.

This would've been the first season for the new Doctor played by Hugh Grant & new companion Jenna Ward played by Eve Myles. It would also be the first season for producer Gary Russell, who was previously a director & writer on a few Fraser & Segal stories, and Script Editor Steven Moffat who had been a writer for the show since 1994.

Russell & Moffat had a big task ahead of them. By 1999, Doctor Who was in deep water. Fox were no longer coproducing the show & the show had a lower budget. As well as this, the episode count had been taken down to 5. Viewing figures were dropping in the UK & fans were complaining about the changes in the Slater era.

To help fix the show, Russell decided to make this season a jumping on point & to try & make it simple. He also decided to give the show a makeover. Firstly, the show would now be filmed in 16:9 instead of 4:3.  Secondly, the show received a new logo which was a lot more basic than the previous one. As well as this, a new theme tune & title sequence was created for the new doctor. The new titles would closely resemble those of the Davison era titles. The new theme would be made by David Arnold & had a similar vibe to something like X-Files. Most of the incidental music would still be done by John Debney.

The Stolen Ship by Steven Moffat

In the far future, the newly launched Battle airship 202 disappears without a trace. Many have speculated what happened. Some say aliens, some say a secret weapon.

2 Months later, a post-regenerated Doctor arrives onboard the ship deep into space. He finds most of the crew dead apart from a few chefs, Officer Dinley & Private Jenna Ward.

Soon, the Doctor discovers that the ship had been hijacked by aliens. With the help of Jenna, the Doctor must fight off the invaders & return the ship home. But the Doctor starts to worry what he may do to history.

We open up with a scene inside the TARDIS, where the new doctor jumps to his feet & starts to examine his new body. His first words are “Right. What have we to deal with this time round?” & we go through a typical scene of the Doctor examining everything new. He looks into the Time Rotor to see his reflection & describes himself as “looking a bit too young for his liking”. Then the TARDIS starts shaking violently & the Doctor starts flicking nearly every single switch. He pulls down the Scanner from above his head & reads what it says “Time Flux Incoming. Emergency Landing Protocol initiated” the doctor asks where he is going & we cut to the titles

After the titles, we cut to the interior of a spaceship. The lights are flickering, walls are breaking & the whole ship is creaking. We then see the shadow of a figure running through the corridor. We then cut to another angle & see Sgt. Jenna Ward running through the corridor we see behind her & she is being chased by another figure who the audience don’t get to see yet.

She sprints around a corner & takes cover behind a wall, losing the figure as it runs past her. She takes a minute to breathe and she opens the backpack she was wearing. She pulls out a sandwich, a flask & a laser pistol. She takes a moment to have a bite of the sandwich & swig her flask. She then pulls out a radio & speaks to the person on the other end “I’m nearly there. One of them nearly got me, but I'm fine. Proceeding to target”.

We then cut to another corridor & we see the TARDIS materializing. The Doctor steps out into the corridor & breathes in. He states to himself that he can smell the scent of death. Dried blood & decaying corpses. Something is wrong. He proceeds to walk through the corridor on guard. We then go back to Jenna who is now getting ready to move again, when she hears the sounds of an almost alien like screech & begins to start running. We intercut with scenes of the Doctor & Jenna in parts of the ship for a bit until the two characters bump into each other. Jenna raises her weapon at the Doctor & asks what side is he on, the survivors or the processors. The Doctor replies that he isn’t on anyone's side & that he’s just arrived. She starts questioning him until they hear the alien like screech again. Jenna tells the Doctor to follow her. She grabs his arm & pulls him through the corridors until they reach a cabin room containing 4 other people.

Jenna locks the doors & releases the Doctor. One man steps forth & asks who the blazes is the man in the trenchcoat. The Doctor introduces himself & then asks who they all are. Jenna introduces herself as Sgt. Jenna Ward. The other man introduces himself as Officer Matthew Dinley. The other 3 people just give their names as Jacob, Michael & Lucie. The Doctor then asks where they currently are & why they’re so deep into space as he says he can “feel it in the atmosphere”. Jenna asks why he doesn’t know where he is. The Doctor just chuckles & says “well i guess you could call me a stowaway”. Dinley steps forward & says he is onboard the Mighty Airship 202. They were taking her out on a test flight when suddenly, the whole ship started shaking violently, like it was being attacked. Then all of a sudden, they ended up in deep space. The Doctor sighed & said “ugh, so you’re the military are you?  Let me guess, U.N.I.T?”. Dinley nods & asks what he knows about U.N.I.T. The Doctor just replies with “oh i used to work for them back in the 1970s or 1980s i could never tell. Either way I found it boring. “

The Doctor then asks why everyone is dead. “You’ve been stuck in space for what? 2 months maximum? People can die in 2 months but not as bad as it is here. Why does the place stink of rotting corpses?”. Then jenna comes forward & answers the Doctor. “That’s what we’re all hiding from. There are creatures out there. Alien beings. We believe they’re the reason we’re here. We’re a sort of dinner to them. They kill us & feast upon us. They don’t want food, just us. But we figured out a weakness of theirs, salt water. We have an entire sprinkler system set up all over this ship filled with salt water. All we’ve got to do is make it to the captains office & activate the sprinklers. Then we can try and find out a way of getting home.”

The doctor comes in & says he can help. He has a machine that can travel anywhere in time & Space. A TARDIS. Dinley asks where did he acquire it. The Doctor becomes confused & asks “surely you know what it is, you work for UNIT. You should even know who i am. I’m the Doctor”. The crew looks confused until Michael says that there used to be a scientist named the Doctor, but the man in front of us looks nothing like us. To which the Doctor replies with “oh yeah. About that. Cosmetic Surgery” obviously referring to his recent regeneration.

For the rest of the episode & Part Two, we have the Doctor, Jenna, Dinley & the 3 chefs travelling through the ship trying to find the Captain's office. When they finally do, only the Doctor & Jenna are the only ones alive. They activate the sprinkler system but find that the aliens have booby tampered with it to activate both the sprinklers & the self destruction switch. The final acts of Part Two have the Doctor & Jenna running around the Ship trying to find the TARDIS. When they finally do, the Doctor tells Jenna to get in which she thinks is just a stupid gag prop. The Doctor drags her inside by the arm & then proceeds to flick every switch until the TARDIS decides to take off. We cut to a shot outside the TARDIS as it dematerialized & the ship starting to explode. Then when they know they’re safe, we get the usual “bigger on the inside” gag. The Doctor then offers the chance for Jenna to travel with him. “You could go home, live out a normal life of dreaming about space or you could go anywhere in space & anywhen in time & still be home in time for lunch”. She accepts & then the Doctor takes Jenna around for a tour in the TARDIS. We see Jenna & the Doctor go off in a corridor & we go to the end credits

This would’ve been a pretty good introduction to the new showrunners, the new Doctor & the new companion. Fans would enjoy the youthfulness of Grant’s Doctor & the toughness of Jenna’s Character. It is also one of the few episodes where the only survivors are the Doctor & the Companion.

Slaved Resort by Russell T Davies

After battling many evils of the universe, the Doctor & Jenna decides to visit the planet Trankarma, a holiday resort planet. Everyone has a good time all day, everyday. Some even stay they want to spend their lives there,

But then Jenna discovers a man named Jonathan. He is the only one who looks scared. He talks about the real rulers of the planet. Not the government, an army. An army of creatures with claws the size of trucks.

Now curious, the Doctor & Jenna investigate. Who are the real owners of the planet? Why are the sewers warmer than the surface? And why are their tourists mining underground? All the answers will be known to the Doctor when he reaches the mines.

The episode opens up in a holiday resort reception. A couple with 2 kids walk up to the reception desk & try to book in. When the receptionist is checking her logs for their reservation, the sounds of something banging against a pipe drifts through the room, confusing the family for a brief second but they brush it off as nothing. The receptionist gives the dad the key to their room & then a scruffy old man comes bursting through the doors telling the family to run! Get out of here! It’s not safe. The family just stare while the children giggle a little bit at the old man. Two security members come in & drag the man back into where he came from. The receptionist giggles & says “Sorry if he frightened you. That’s just Ol’ Billy. He recently lost his wife”. A Bit shook up, the family proceed to the lifts & head in to their rooms. When the lobby is clear, the receptionist presses a button on her desk & speaks into the intercom telling the person on the other end “add 1 to the mines, 1 to the piping & 2 to the workhouse”. Then the reception door opens & the receptionist turns off the intercom. The Doctor, now out of his former incarnations outfit, & Jenna walk up to the desk. The Doctor smiles & says “hello. We have a reservation for 2 in Room 10”. Then we cut to the titles

After the titles, we cut to a scene of the pool area, where the Doctor & Jenna start to look for a decent place. They eventually find a place to sit where they start discussing some of the adventures they’ve been on, making it clear that some time has passed since the events of The Stolen Ship. The Doctor proceeds to ramble on about how he was able to open some door without a sonic screwdriver (not related to the plot) when Jenna starts to notice the old scruffy man from reception lurking around the bar area, clearly trying to stay unnoticed. The music starts to fade out & then water splashes Jenna's face from a kid diving into the pool. The Doctor gets a bit annoyed as he could see she wasn’t listening to a word she was saying. Jenna tries to point out the scruffy old man to the Doctor, but he has vanished. She swears she saw him but the Doctor passes it off as an unlikely excuse. The camera moves around & we see the old man hiding behind the wall, clearly aware of knowing Jenna noticed him.

We then fade to much later, where the Doctor is showing Jenna to where her room is. They stop outside Jenna’s room & the Doctor says night to her. He tells her “if there’s an emergency, meet me at the TARDIS. If I'm not there, wait for me”. Jenna enters her room & the Doctor walks on to his room. We fade to much later. It’s around 3:30 now & Jenna is in bed asleep. She is awoken by the sound of chairs tumbling around outside. She checks outside her mirror & finds the strange old man stumbling around the pool area. She goes to wake the Doctor up but he doesn’t respond to her knocking on his door. She then goes down to the pool area. When she’s there, she starts looking around for him but can’t find him. Cut to Jenna’s face being gagged by the man’s hand, so she doesn’t shout. He lets go after she’s stopped Shouting at him & asks what She knows. Jenna asks what he is talking about, to which the man replies with “I know you were spying on me this morning! I know you’re working for them! Well I’m not going back! Jenna now clearly concerned about the man asks him to calm down & explain his story. He says his name is William Jonathan. He came here on holiday back in 4955, 44 years ago, to escape his life for two weeks but what he didn’t know was that he’d be here for all his life. He goes on to explain that the whole leisure centre is a big recruiting centre for the rulers of the planet, who live under the centre & that the rulers are monsters, with claws the size of the trucks. Clearly traumatized by his life events, Jenna takes William to talk to the Doctor. On the way to his room, they bump into the Doctor, who explains that his sonic screwdriver was telling him that the planet was producing tons of poisonous gas. Jenna introduces William & explains what he told her to the Doctor. The Doctor tells Jenna & William to meet them at the pool tomorrow at 11:35

Fade to the next day & William arrives at the pool, where the Doctor & William are waiting for him. The Doctor explains that they’re all going to go underground & find out what is going on. For the rest of Part One, we see the Doctor, Jenna & William exploring the undergrounds, passing through a sewer that’s warmer than the surface & a cave full of Miners dressed as holiday people. William explains that these are the people who found out the truth. They were sent to the mines to mine for a gas that would eventually kill them over time. This scene is intercut with the father from the pre-credits scene being thrown into the mines. The final act of Part One is Jenna finding an observation Camera, showing it to the Doctor & discovering that it’s the Macra who’s behind all this.

In Part Two, The Doctor figures that the Macra have hypnotized the residents of Trankarma into their security force & made them build the leisure centre. Any visitors who come to the centre will be pushed to find out the truth so that they can use them as working slaves. The Mining slaves have the most important job. They mine out poisonous gases from caves which will be absorbed through a piping system straight into the Macra’s lair. The group are split into three groups & are now working on defeating the Macra. The Doctor has the job of breaking the hypnosis of the guards & forming a resistance group. William goes down to the mines & starts to form a rebellion with the Miners. Jenna goes searching through the centre searching for supplies for the Doctor. This carries on for a lot of the story but there are scenes of fighting when Jenna & William are caught by Guards. They all reunite in the mines, albeit some unhypnotized people from the Doctors group have come along in case there’s trouble. The Doctor swaps around the pipes that feed the Macra the poisonous gas with a flammable gas that is used to burn the bodies of those who died in the mines. The Doctor then tries to seal the pipe but it becomes too late & the gas leekes into the mine. Someone has to stay behind to light the match. William steps forward. He was the oldest slave worker & states that he probably doesn’t have anything to go home to. He tells everyone to leave & all but the Doctor do. He stays behind & tells him that he’s sorry & that if he has anyone on the outside, he will tell them that you died a heroes death. The Doctor runs as William strikes a match torching Him, the Macra & the entire underground camp.

We then fade to a few hours later. The centre is closed down for good & everyone is being taken home. The Doctor & Jenna slip away quietly. Back in the TARDIS, Jenna asks the Doctor if he knows what will happen to the centre. He says that the place will be abandoned for many years. Until one day, a man named Daniel Smythe buys the land & rebuilds the centre. The Doctor asks if she wants to go, to which she replies with “Nah. I prefer travelling. There’s very little excitement just lying around the pool all day”. Then we cut to the end credits.

Like the last story, fans would enjoy this story although many weren’t happy about this being set long after the events of the previous story. However most of the audience would be delighted to see the return of the Macra

Kursaal by Peter Anghelides

Kursaal is a pleasure world, a huge theme park for the Cronus system — or rather it will be if it isn't destroyed during construction.

Eco-terrorists want the project halted to preserve vital archaeological sites -- areas containing the last remains of the long-dead Jax, an ancient wolf-like race whose remains are being buried beneath the big-business tourist attractions.

Jenna falls in with the environmentalists, and finds her loyalties divided. Meanwhile, the Doctor's own investigations lead him to believe the Jax are not extinct after all.

Cut off from the TARDIS, separated from his companion and pursued for murder, the Doctor discovers Kursaal hides a terrible secret — and that Jenna is being affected by events more than anyone would guess...

Red Dawn by Justin Richards

Ares One: NASA's first manned mission to the dead planet Mars. But is Mars as dead as it seems?

While the NASA team investigate an 'anomaly' on the planet's surface, the Doctor and Jenna find themselves inside a strange alien building. What is its purpose? And what is frozen inside the blocks of ice that guard the doorways? If the Doctor has a sense of deja-vu, it's because he's about to meet some old adversaries, as well as some new ones…

This would've seen the return of the Ice Warriors, last seen in GodEngine.

The Demon of Time by Marc Platt

Arriving in Elizabethan times, the Doctor & Jenna start hearing rumors of a Wizard. They pass it off as a Witch Hunt or just a big lie. It's only when blue lightning starts striking that they believe the rumour.

When they start to investigate, they find Mr. Harrison is the so-called Wizard. There's no reason why he would be. He was a man who used to be terrified over the thought of magic. But there is more to Mr. Harrison than meets the eye.

This story would've saw the return of the Master, this time played by Alex McQueen. After the Master fell into the Eye of Harmony, his mind & soul were able to escape & were left in the Vortex. His mind eventually reached Earth & he possessed the body of a scared librarian named Mr. Harrison. When the Doctor & Jenna discover the Master, it is revealed that he has been trying to summon a Blare, a so-called Myth of the Time Lords in hopes that it can take him back to Gallifrey & gain a new body.

While the Doctor tries to stop the Master, he is still able to open a gateway & summon a Blare. The Master thinks he has won but he doesn't realise what the Blares were as they were in reality a hunting race that feast on Time Lords. With the help of the Master, the Doctor is able to break the gateway & send the Blare back to wherever it came from. 

Annoyed with the Master, the Doctor takes him onboard his TARDIS & returns him to San Francisco, 1999. He repairs the Master's TARDIS & locks his controls to take him to Gallifrey. He tells the Master to go & get a new body & to stop destroying the universe. The Master leaves in his TARDIS without a word. Then the Doctor & Jenna depart in their TARDIS 

Aftermath

After this season, things would become slightly more stable for the show. The BBC decided to keep showing & the audience was starting to talk more positively about the show. As well as this, an issue of DWM confirmed that Season 37 would be co produced with a new company.

Bonus: The Unproduced Season 36

In 1999, Season 36 of Doctor Who aired with Paul McGann as the Doctor & Eve Myles as Jennifer Ward. It was also the first season to be showrun by Gary Russell & Steven Moffat. But what if Russell & Moffat weren't brought on? What if Fox didn't back out? What if Slater didn't quit & Cornell stayed on a year longer?

Today, we're going to be discussing the unproduced Season 36.

Slater wanted McGann to have titles near enough the same titles as Broadbents era. The colours were to be red instead of blue & they would feature a new logo. As well, the show was moved to 16:9

Slater wanted to introduce a companion that was the complete opposite of Patricia. He wanted her to be a bit like Ace in some way. She was to be called Sammy Flame & was to be a rebel from the future. Sadly, her character wasn't casted. The TARDIS was to recieve an update, adding elements of previous console rooms into the design.

The episode count was to remain the same, with 12 forty-five minute episodes.

All these stories were later adapted into novels in 2003 but with slight changes to the story & replacing McGann's Doctor with Broadbent's Doctor.

THE SPACE JOB

WRITTEN BY: BEN AARONOVITCH

PLAGUE OF THE EARTH

WRITTEN BY: PAUL CORNELL

WAR OF THE DALEKS

WRITTEN BY: JOHN PEEL

POWEROUT

WRITTEN BY: JUSTIN RICHARDS

ICEBERG

WRITTEN BY: DAVID BANKS

THE ENEMY WITHIN

WRITTEN BY: CHRISTOPHER PRIEST (ADAPTED BY STEVEN MOFFAT)

DW: Season 37 (2000)

[Note: I have purchased better video editing software. I will be remastering all my title Sequences soon with better graphics & fixed / new elements]

Season 37 would've aired between the 9th of September & the 25th of November in 2000. It would've consisted of 6 stories and 12 fifty minute episodes.

This would be the first season to be co-produced with Universal Television. They were able to provide the show with a bigger budget & because of this, the show moved back to it’s 6 episode format & add an extra 5 minutes of run time.

This season would see the return of a former companion. At first Russell & Moffat wanted to bring back Julia Sawalha as Raine Cunningham, but quickly realized that her character was killed off in Blood Heat. Many 80s companions were considered such as Mel, Tegan & Nyssa before Moffat suggested Sarah Jane, played by Elisabeth Sladen. Sladen agreed & was able to return for episodes 4-6.

The Dalek God by Steven Moffat

The Doctor & Jenna arrive on the planet Juliet-Alpha 12, where they encounter a tribe of human like mutants named the Sealgons. Their race were once facing extinction. Supplies were low & the radiation was slowly killing them. That was until a ship from a far off war crash landed containing pods of resources & a battle damaged Dalek they now worship as their god.

The Dalek named 'Delta' has lived in the comfort of the Sealgons, providing resources in exchange for their worship & respect. It truly believes it is a god. But what will happen when it encounters the Doctor?

This episode opens up the season with a dalek episode. It is a very unusual story as it only features one dalek who believes it is a god. After the events or a war between the Daleks & an alien race, one of the dalek ships was sent through time & crash landed on Juliet-Alpha 12, were it's memories were scrambled upon surface impact. The inhabitants of the planet, the Sealgons, called it was a god who would help save their race from death & because of this the Dalek thought it was a god.

Many years later when the Doctor discovers the Dalek he refuses to believe that their is such a thing as a good dalek & starts shouting & abusing it telling it what the dalek is & who he is, which starts to reconnect it's old memories. Throughout the story, the Doctor has to keep it's eye on the Dalek while caring for Jenna, who has become unwell due to pockets of radiation. It's in the Part One cliffhanger where the Dalek returns to it's normal state & sets out to kill everyone.

In Part Two, we get a story of the Doctor & a small pack of Sealgons trying to find a safety bunker containing the only weapon that can defeat the dalek, in case of a betrayal. This plot would intercut with the Dalek forcing another pack of Sealgons to locate the Doctor. During these scenes, the Dalek starts to become unstable & twitchy as it is remembering it's life as a god. The final few acts have the Doctor pointing the weapon at the Dalek, with the Dalek begging for mercy as it has developed emotions as it's time being a god. The Doctor can't bring himself to kill the Dalek as he believes it is the start of an evolution for the Daleks. However the dalek self destructs as it believes it is contaminated & impure.

The Doctor goes back to the Sealgons base to find Jenna reacting to the anti radiation drug & awakening. The Doctor gifts the Sealgons with seeds a water producer so that their race has a better chance of surviving, now that their endless supply producer has "expired" & then he and Jenna leave.

Fans reaction to this story would've been very positive & the story would've gone down as really good.

Demontage by Justin Richards

The Vega Station — a haven for gamblers, art lovers and duty-free shoppers, the one place where the Battrulians and their erstwhile enemies, the Canvine, meet and mix, in neutral space. A pressure point, an explosive mixture. And just as the new President of Battrul is about to arrive, the TARDIS crew turn up.

Jenna is in trouble. She's become involved with the key witness to a murder, and the witness has vanished.

The Doctor, meanwhile, has been roped in to help with investigations into robbery, sabotage and the murder, as well as to sort out Jennas problems and the President's safety. He's in his element.

And if they should get bored, there's a hitman on the loose, monsters roaming the station corridors, an exhibition of art by a painter who depicted his own death, and the opera.

The Chimes of Midnight by Robert Shearman

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring...

But something must be stirring. Something hidden in the shadows. Something which kills the servants of an old Edwardian mansion in the most brutal and macabre manner possible. Exactly on the chiming of the hour, every hour, as the grandfather clock ticks on towards midnight.

Trapped and afraid, the Doctor & Jenna are forced to play detective to murders with no motive, where the victims don't stay dead. Time is running out.

And time itself might well be the killer...

This would’ve been a creepy, almost horror, christmas story. It would’ve become one of the most popular episodes of all time however some fans would’ve thought this story was too creepy for Who. It sees the Doctor & Jenna investigating a murder mystery in a victorian house full of servents where a person is killed every hour, on the hour. Each person's death is in some way related to their job such as the scullery maid drowning in her pots & pans. I don’t want to mention too much about the story however & i advise you to listen to the Big Finish adaptation starring Paul McGann & India Fisher as it’s a story that’s better off being listened to than explained.

Report to the Manager by Toby Whithouse

High Street Shopping Centre is a grim place for anyone to visit. The shops look old, the plants are slowly decaying & the workers shuffle around like mindless zombies. When the Doctor investigates, he finds an old friend, Sarah Jane Smith, already working undercover.

This episode sees the return of Sarah Jane. It also sees the return of The Manager from 1990s Alixion, one again played by Bob Monkhouse, & K9 MK III from the pilot episode of K9 & Company. 

In this story, the Manager is trying to build a rocket from old machinery & metal scraps which'll take him back to Alixion, as he was exiled from the planet.

The story works very similarly to the episode School Reunion from our universe. Instead of a school, we have a shopping centre. The Krillitanes are replaced by the Manager & the shop staff, who have been drugged & hypnotized by the Manager to obey him. 

the Doctor & Jenna go undercover as employees of the centre due to the sighting of technology way ahead of the 21st century. The Doctor works in an antique shop while Jenna goes undercover as a security guard, giving her access to nearly everywhere in the centre. Sarah was working in an electrical appliances store, right next door to the Doctor's antique shop. The two of them meet in a staff meeting, where the Managers associate holds a meeting.

Later that night the Doctor & Jenna return to the centre & go through staff only areas searching for any machinery. They split up to cover more ground. Meanwhile Sarah is investigating the staff only areas to. She hears the sounds of an almost zombie-like moan. She goes through a side door & finds the TARDIS. Then we get a very similar scene to the one from School Reunion of Sarah & the Doctor finding each other, now aware of who each other is. Then they hear the sounds of Jenna fighting with someone. They rush to help her & find her injured as she was caught in a fight with some other guard. The Doctor introduces Sarah to Jenna. Then Jenna reveals that she found a bottle of blood. The Doctor can't analyse it so Sarah takes him to her car to reveal K9 Mark III to the Doctor, who is confused to see him (NOTE: When K9 & Company was being produced, John Nathan-Turner originally wanted it to be revealed that the Master semt Sarah K9. During production of the episode, JN-T came forth & asked if they could continue this idea)

We then get the chip shop scene with the Doctor fixing up K9 & talking to Sarah. When K9 is awoken, he asks K9 to analyse the blood sample & re reveals that the blood comes from an Alixien. Then the Doctor realises in horror that the Manager is behind all this. Sarah & Jenna asks who he is & the Doctor gives a quick summary of the events of the story Alixion. Then all of a sudden the guard who attacked Jenna bursts through the door & takes Jenna away. The Doctor, Jenna & the chip shop owner try fighting him off, but they do nothing.

The next morning, the Doctor & Sarah arrive at the shops planning to confront the Manager, who is overlooking them on a balcony. The cliffhanger to Part One is the Doctor & Sarah confronting the Manager & finding out Jenna has been hypnotized.

In Part Two, the Manager finds out that his home planet, Alixion, has been destroyed in a war & that he is the last pure Alixien. Now broken, he changes his plans & now wants to conquer earth. The Doctor breaks the hypnotism state on all those affected by cancelling out a transmat signal.

With the Manager trying to escape to put the shop on lockdown, the Doctor locks him in a store room. But the Doctor knows that a door won't hold him forever. Then K9 comes forth & tells the Doctor that he must sacrifice his life by shooting an oil tank, blowing up the centre & the Manager.

Sometime after the events, Sarah meets up with the Doctor & Jenna outside in the TARDIS in a park. The Doctor invites her in for a quick cup of tea. He offers the chance for Sarah to come with then & while she is reluctant at first, she accepts the offer.

Sword of Orion by Nicholas Briggs

The human race is locked in deadly combat with the "Android Hordes" in the Orion System. Light years from the front line, the Doctor, Jenna & Sarah arrive to sample the dubious delights of a galactic backwater, little suspecting that the consequences of the Orion War might reach them there. But High Command's lust for victory knows no bounds.

Trapped aboard a mysterious, derelict star destroyer, the Doctor, Jenna & Sarah find themselves facing summary execution. But this is only the beginning of their troubles. The real danger has yet to awaken.

Until, somewhere in the dark recesses of the Garazone System, the Cybermen receive the signal for reactivation...

Seasons of Fear by Paul Cornell & Caroline Symcox

The Doctor returns Sarah Jane back to her home. There the Doctor meets Sarah's parter, Sebastian Grayle. To the Doctor, he's a complete stranger, but to Grayle, the Doctor is an old enemy.

An enemy that, many years ago, he finally succeeded in killing. And this is his only chance to gloat.

The Doctor, Jenna & Sarah desperately search human history for the secret of Grayle's power and immortality. Their quest takes in four different time periods, the Hellfire Club, the court of Edward the Confessor, and the Time Vortex itself. And when the monsters arrive, the stakes are raised from the life of one Time Lord to the existence of all humanity.

This episode is quite an unusual one. It introduces a Man named Sebastian Grayle who is Sarah’s partner who claims that he is an immortal & he has met & killed the Doctor in his future. Throughout the story, the Doctor, Jenna & Sarah travel across Earth in four different periods of its history to find Sebastian & to stop him killing the Doctor. The story also features the return of the Nimon, last seen in The Horns of Nimon, who are responsible for Sebastian’s immortality. In the end, the Doctor defeats Sebastian by travelling back to before the two ever met & stopped him contacting the Nimon, meaning he never gained immortality & meaning he died in his right times. After this, Sarah went asks to go back home, as she wants to go back to living her normal life. But before she goes, the Doctor gifts her with a new K9, K9 MK IV.

Aftermath

During the airing of this season, Myles Announced that she would be leaving halfway through Season 38. As Well as this, Hugh Grant announced his departure. Gary Russell & Steven Moffat stated that they plan to stay on for Season 38.

(Thanks to TimeLordMaster108 for helping with the series)

DW: Season 38 (2001)

Season 38 would've aired between the 11th of August & the 24th of November in 2001. It would've consisted of 8 stories and 16 fifty minute episodes.

This would be the first season for the new Companion Mary O'Gorman played by Sophie Okondeo, The third season for Gary Russell as Producer & Steven Moffat as Script Editor & the last season for Hugh Grant as the Doctor & Eve Myles as Jenna Ward however, Myles would be leaving in episode 5.

Episode 5 introduces the new companion Mary O'Gorman, played by Sophie Okonedo. Mary would be a married woman from 1916, whose husband has gone off to fight in the war, leaving her to work in his factory. Mary doesn't agree with the rules of the Society at the time & believes that women should be allowed in the army & a woman could easily be a leader.

Due to the happiness Universal received on Co Producing the show with the BBC, they decided to give the show a slightly bigger budget & they were able to convince the BBC to up the episode count from 6 to 8. This was mainly done so the season would have 16 airing dates, similar to American TV Shows.

Night of the Scarecrows by Steven Moffat

"In the year 1921, a group of scarecrows invaded a small town outside England. Until now, no one knows who was involved, what happened or why the scarecrows came to life".

This episode is unusual. It's a very basic "alien takes over town" story but it is told through the perspective of the surviving villagers. It does feature The Doctor & Jenna & it does see them interacting with the people, but most of the story shows how they are surviving.

Originally Moffat wanted the threat to be the aliens from The Stolen Ship & wanted to expand upon them more, but later decided to have the enemy have the appearance of a thing a child could be scared of, which just chosen to be a scarecrow.

Fans considered this episode to be very interesting due to it's different storytelling, but thought the story was a bit weak.

The Fearmonger by Jonathan Blum

One would-be assassin is in a mental ward. Another's on the run. Their intended victim is stirring up the mobs. Terrorists are planning a strike of their own. A talk-radio host is loving every minute of it. A Whitehall insider whispers about a mysterious UN operative, with a hidden agenda. Everyone's got someone they want to be afraid of. It'll only take a little push for the situation to erupt — and something is doing the pushing. But you can trust the Doctor to put things right. Can't you?

The Clones of Evil by Gareth Roberts

On the planet Arpon, all hope is lost. The aliens have the upper hand & will eventually destroy the inhabitants. But then 2 people arrived named Dr. Who & Jenny Ward in their magical telephone Box, TARDIS. The people think their days of suffering are over. But they're far from over.

This would've been a comedic episode. It features 2 people who claim to be the Doctor & Jenna but are passing their names off as Dr. Who & Jenny Ward. The 2 people are in fact an evil version of the  Doctor & Jenna created by the Rani with her 'What If' Machine to go around the universe & ruin their repetition. They would be played by Geoffrey Balydon & Catherine Tate.

When the real Doctor & Jenna find out, they follow Dr. Who & Jenny's trail while clearing their name & fixing their mess. Eventually, the Doctor & Jenna track down Dr. Who & Jenny as well as the Rani. The Doctor asks why she is doing this & the rani states that she hates the Doctors "Goodie-Tooshoo act". The Doctor orders the Rani to get rid of their evil clones & surprisingly, she does.

While this fan is a bit comedic, some fans consider it to be a bit of a poor story. The majority however said the story was good & the comedy wasn't too much.

The Genocide Machine by Mike Tucker

The library on Kar-Charrat is one of the wonders of the Universe. It is also hidden from all but a few select species. The Doctorand Jenna discover that the librarians have found a new way of storing data — a wetworks facility — but the machine has attracted unwanted attention, and the Doctor soon finds himself pitted against his oldest and deadliest enemies — the Daleks!

Cyber Warfare by Robert Shearnan

While showing Jenna an Earth exhibition in a museum, he discovers that one of the facts are wrong, claiming World War I ended in 1916. At first he passes it off as a mistake but when all other history books say otherwise the Doctor is suspicious. He travels back in time to one of the worst points of Earth's history & discovers one of his oldest enemies changing the outcome of the war.

This would be the last appearance of Eve Myles as Jenna Ward. It would also be the first appearance of Sophie Okonedo as Mary O'Gorman, a woman who has a strong opinion equal rights for women. It also sees the return of the Cybermen. In the episode, it's revealed that the cybermen travelled back in time to provide upgrades for Britain during WWI. The upgrade came free & anyone who opposed it would be killed silently. The Cybermen convince the soldiers that they are a secret government project, here to help britain win the war but in reality, they want the converted soldiers to convert the entire world & to turn Earth into a cyber factory. Mary is one of the many people who build the cyber armor.

The Doctor teams up with Mary to track down the Cybermen & Jenna, who has been kidnapped. They are able to track down the cybermen & defeat them by restoring the humanity to all the converted soldiers, who lose their minds & kill themselves & the other cybermen. With the Cybermen defeated, the Doctor finds Jenna, who is now a partly converted cyberman. She is in pain & that the cyberman 's instinct is slowly taking over her mind. The Doctor, clearly worried & desperate, tries to help her. He tells her he can fix her & that he can help her cope, but Jenna refuses to live as a cyberman so she commits suicide by shooting herself in the face just as the cyberman instinct fully takes over her.

The Doctor then leaves for the TARDIS, clearly affected by Jenna's death. Mary come forth & says she's sorry for his loss. She then asks if she can come with him. The Doctor warns her multiple times about what may happen to her, but Mary is still keen to go. The Doctor accepts her offer & she enters the TARDIS. We then get the usual "Bigger on the Inside" gag. Then the TARDIS dematerialises & the episode ends.

This would'be been a very enjoyiable episode however many parents complained that the Suicide scene was too much for a show with a kids audience.

Bang-Bang-a-Boom! by Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman

Dark Space 8 — an advanced monitoring station floating serenely among the stars. Its crew — a dedicated and highly-skilled group of professionals, calmly going about their vital work. Its mission — to boldly host the Intergalactic Song Contest.

With representatives from myriad worlds competing, the eyes of the universe are on the station. But dark deeds are afoot aboard Dark Space 8... and people are starting to die.

The haughty Queen Angvia; the gaseous gestalt Gholos; disposable pop idol Nicky Newman; erratic Professor Fassbinder; and the icily-efficient Dr Eleanor Harcourt — all are suspects. Could old political rivalries be manifesting themselves among the contestants? Is this the work of a breakaway terrorist faction? Or has someone just got it in for singer-songwriters?

With peace in the galaxy hanging by a thread, it's vital that the mystery is solved — and fast! Can Dark Space 8's unconventional new commander, with the help of his personal pilot, Mary, find the murderer in time to prevent a major intergalactic war?

Or will it be nul points for the entire universe...?

After the quite grim story of The Cyber War, it was decided that the next story should be light-hearted. This episode is noticeable as it acts as a parody of the Eurovision Song Contest. However because the Eurovision Song Contest doesn't exist in Mary's time, the Doctor has to explain it to her.

The Occupation by Nicholas Briggs

One Minute the Doctor & Mary think they're travellers in time with a whole galaxy to explore & millions of lives to meet, the next their ship blows up & they discover they have been playing the Virtual game Doctor Who for the past 13 years. What will happen when they return to reality & how will they react to their new lives.

This episode gives a what if scenario. It shows what if The Doctor & his companion were a dream or a simulation they had been living in for so long, they forgot their old lives.

It sees the Doctor & Mary in that situation. Mary's real last name is Whittaker, she lives in 2001 & lives her life running a shop with her husband, Darren. The Doctor however is named Jonathan Smith & was wanted by the police when he entered the simulation. Now the police have presumed he's died or escaped, he is a man without a life.

When the 2 leave the hub to return to their lives, they find that Earth has been conquered & occupied with a race called the Dearafts. Jonathan wants to defeat the Dearafts & send them back to wherever they came from, but he can't do anything as he is simply another human.

The main plot of the story is Jonathan forming a resistance group & kicking the Dearafts off Earth. There is also a second plot involving Mary & her coping with her new life.

When the resistance wins, the whole world disintegrates around Jonathan & Mary and they awaken in the TARDIS. It turns out that while dusting the TARDIS, the Doctor spilt a bottle of Dream Gas, which put him & mary into deep sleep.

The story comes off weak & is clearly a carbon copy of  the Red Dwarf story Back to Reality however it does give the original some credit as the Doctor describes the events as "something he saw once on the telly".

Rise of the Floods by Gary Russell

The Sea Devils are back. They want their planet back & they take it by force by flooding the planet. Many months later, the Doctor & Mary arrive & discover an ocean planet. The Human race will go extinct if the planet remains this way but the planet belongs to the Sea Devils. The Doctor must choose who survives, but does he have that right?

This would be Grant's final story. It sees the return of the Sea Devils, last seen in Season 21s' Warriors of the Deep. The Sea Devils awaken from hibernation far in the future & they take back Earth by flooding it. When the Doctor arrives, he finds most of the planet submerged & humans living on top of buildings or in domes.

When the Doctor confronts the Sea Devils, he discovers that they were told that the planet would be theirs at this point of time. This leaves the Doctor with a choice: Does he leave the Sea Devils alone or does he save the human race? Naturally, he chooses to save the humans. The cliffhanger to Part One is the Doctor falling into the ocean with a Sea Devil.

Part Two mainly focuses on Mary as she & the human race push the Sea Devils back into hibernation as well as getting them to restore the earth for them. In the final few acts of the story, Mary finds the Doctor's body & discovers he's drowned. She takes him back to the TARDIS, believing him to be dead & the TARDIS being the best place to bury him. As she is leaving the ship, she notices a beam of light forming around his face & he starts to regenerate. We get a similar regeneration effect to the last but now the light is orange instead of blue. Then the lights shoot away & we get the face of the Eleventh Doctor, David Collings.

He gets out of his chair & asks a shocked Mary what happened & how he got here. She gives him a brief summary of Part Two & then asks who he is, to which the Doctor replies with "doesn't matter right now. Let's go. '' The TARDIS takes off & the episode ends

This would've been considered a really good story by fans. It gives Grant a decent send off story & really gives Okonedo's character a great chance to show her leading skills.

Aftermath

Fans would've said that this season was really good & a bit of a mixed bag & were excited for David Collings & Sophie Okonedo's first full season. A few weeks into filming of 39, DWM announced that a second male companion was to be added to the show named Trevor Harkins, played by Craig Charles.

DW: Season 39 (2002)

Season 39 would've aired between the 103h of July & the 26th of October in 2002. It would've consisted of 8 stories and 16 fifty minute episodes.

This would be the first season for the new Doctor played by David Collings & the new companion Trevor Harkins, The first full season for Sophie Okonedo as Mary O'Gorman, the fourth season for Gary Russell as Producer & the final season for Steven Moffat as Script Editor. Moffat would be replaced with Russell T Davies who would also jump on as an Executive Producer.

This season introduces a new composer for the show after Debney left at the end of 2001, doing 6 years total. The new composer would be Murray Gold however the David Arnold theme would still be used for the titles. The only changes to the titles were the colour, which is now green, Hugh Grants name replaced with David Collings & the addition of Trevors credit.

The new companion, Trevor Harkins, would be played by Red Dwarf actor Craig Charles. Charles would be no stranger to the show, having played Scobie in 1991's Animal. With him taking on the role as Harkins, it meant he could stop hosting Robot Wars, which he has said to have hated. Harkins was to be the same character as Captain Jack Harkness from our timeline, but would have a different personality

The Empty Child by Steven Moffat

Chasing a metallic object through the Time Vortex, the new  Doctor and his companion, Mary O'Gorman, arrive in London during the Blitz. While Mary meets "Captain Trevor Harkins", the Time Agent responsible for bringing the object, the Doctor finds a group of homeless children terrorised by Jamie, an "empty" child wearing a gas mask.

This season opens up with a story set in World War II where the new Doctor & Mary are looking for a metallic pod that landed on Earth as the TARDIS recognizes it as a possible weapon. The story also introduces Trevor Harkins, an ex time agent who gets stuck in 1941. The Doctor & Mary are separated for most of the first half. The Doctor spends meets a woman named Nancy who is looking after a group of children while being on the run from a child in a gasmask named Jamie, who nancy says was his Brother who was killed by a german bomb, but something has brought him back to life. Mary however meets Trevor after he rescues her from hanging on an air balloon. The Two reunite in a hospital filled with people who all have the same injuries & all wear a gas mask. The Cliffhanger to Part Two sees the Doctor, Mary & Trevor facing death as the Gas mask people circle them, as one touch will make the Doctor & Mary like them.

In Part Two, it is revealed that Trevor actually tracked the pod to Earth as he thought it was simply space debris & was planning on conning the Doctor & Mary. But the ship was actually an ambulance filled with nanogenes, who are programmed to heal anything. However these nanogenes don’t know what a human is & don’t know how to heal them. So when they see a dead kid in a gas mask, they believe that is what everyone should be & they bring him back to life & believe the world is ill, so they set out to “fix” the entire world. Then it is revealed that Nancy isn’t Jamie’s sister, but her Mother. The Doctor is able to reset the template. The nanogenes possessing Jamie recognize her as his mother. Everyone is restored to normal & Jamie is restored back to life properly.

Then a german bomb threatens to blow up everyone in the Area. As it streaks down towards them, so does Trevor's ship, capturing the bomb in its tractor beam. Trevor is riding the bomb itself in the beam and tells the Doctor that the bomb has commenced detonation. He is keeping it in stasis, but it will not last. The Doctor asks him to get rid of it as safely as he can. He bids him & Mary goodbye and teleports away with the bomb back to his ship, which flies away.

In space, Trevor discovers that there is no way to eject the bomb or even himself, and his situation seems hopeless. He sits watching the stars as the strains of Glenn Miller start to play... from the open doors of the TARDIS appearing at the back of his ship. He enters the console room and the Doctor, now in his new outfit, welcomes him aboard. We then get the usual "bigger on the inside" scene. Then the Doctor gives trevor a choice: He can go back to the 41st century, or he can come with him. To which, Trevor chooses the second option. The Doctor smiles as he returns to the console.

Fans would’ve adored this story & would’ve gone down as one of Moffat’s best stories.

Trading Futures by Lance Parkin

The early decades of the twenty-first century. All the wars have been won. There are no rogue states. The secret services of the world keep the planet electronically monitored, safe from all threat. There is no one left for the United States and the Eurozone to fight. Except each other.

A mysterious time traveller offers a better future — he has a time machine, and with it, humanity could reach the next stage of evolution, they could share its secrets and become the new Lords of Time...

...either that, or someone could keep the technology for themselves, and use it to fight the ultimate war.

The Lost Warrior by Mark Gatiss

In the middle of the street, the Doctor, Mary & Trevor discover an Sontaran named Veshz. He means no harm to anyone. He is simply a soldier who ran from the battlefield & is being hunted by his own.

With an army on their tail, the Doctor does everything he can to protect this Lost Warrior & help him out.

This story sees the return of the Sontarans back in their original design after the hatred towards their design in War World. It introduces a new element to their race & shows what happens if a Sontaran stops thinking that everything he does is for Glory. The Doctor, Jenna & Trevor bump into a sontaran named Veshz who abandoned his fleet as he was scared. Now the Eighth Sontaran Assasination Squad are after him to hunt him down for simply not believing in the great course.

The story has the Doctor helping Veshz escape the squad in a chase throughout space. They are able to lose the squad but it's only after they lose him that Veshz realises that he now has nowhere to go. Desperate to help, the Doctor takes him to Gallifrey in hopes that the Time Lords can help him. After a brief courtroom scene, Veshz is allowed to stay on Gallifrey in a house outside the citadel.

This would've been a fan favourite Sontaran story. It gives their race a new perspective. Veshz would later become a recurring character in Gallifrey stories like Romana, Leela & Ace.

Who Killed Kennedy? by Terrance Dicks

November 22nd, 1963. The day John F Kennedy was assassinated. The Doctor takes Trevor back in time to witness a historical event that has interested him since he was 8. But the assasination doesn't happen. No shots are fired & Kennedy goes on as president.

The Web of Time has been broken. Someone has interfered with history. It's up to the Doctor, Mary & Trevor to fix history even if it means getting at the heart of it.

This episode shows the history of the JFK Assasination. It sees the cast in a mystery as to what broke the timeline as JFK wasn't shot. It turns out that it was the Monk who had interfered with History. He got stuck in 1948 after the events of Time Tunnel & is still in the Derek Jacobi incarnation. He kidnapped the gunman & therefore, JFK didn't die. The Monks plans are foiled when Trevor has to assassinate JFK himself. The 3 escape in their TARDIS & The Monk is once again left stranded.

This would've been written by legendary writer Terrance Dicks. It would've been an enjoyable history piece. Fans had mixed reactions about the Monks surprise return as it was felt too obvious.

Forest of the Dead by Steven Moffat

The Doctor takes Maty & Trevor to a planet-sized library in the 51st century. They find it empty of human life, with countless other living beings. An information kiosk warns them to "count the shadows". An archaeological expedition arrives, who brings the cryptic last message sent from the library: "4022 saved, No survivors".

This episode is a pretty creepy one & has the vibe of an Ian Fraser era story. It sees the Doctor, Mary & Trevor working with an archaeological team on a planet sized library to find out where everyone disappeared to, as the place is empty. It turns out that they were all saved into storage by the computer in charge of the library named CAL, who was originally a child. But while trying to find out what happened, they are being haunted by the Vastra Nerada who can eat their victims alive just by them standing in their shadows.

A notable character would be Professor River Song who claims to have met a future version of the Doctor in her past. She ends up sacrificing her life for the Doctor.

This would've been a good story. The character of River Song would've been a mystery to fans & were on the lookout for a future Doctor meeting a younger River.

The Crooked World by Steve Lyons

The people of the Crooked World lead an idyllic existence.

Take Streaky Bacon, for example. This jovial farmer wants nothing more from life than a huge blunderbuss, with which he can blast away at his crop-stealing nemesis. And then there's Angel Falls, a racing driver with a string of victories to her name. Sure, her trusted guardian might occasionally put on a mask and menace her for her prize money, but that's just life, right? And for Jasper the cat, nothing could be more pleasant than a nice, long nap in his kitchen — so long as that darn mouse doesn't jam his tail into the plug socket again.

But somebody is about to shatter all those lives. Somebody is about to change everything — and it's possible that no one on the Crooked World will ever be happy again.

The Doctor's TARDIS is about to arrive. And when it does... That's all folks!

Invaders from Mars by Mark Gatiss

Hallowe'en 1938.

A month after a mysterious meteorite lit up the skies of New York State, Martian invaders laid waste to the nation. At least, according to soon-to-be infamous Orson Welles they did. But what if some of the panicked listeners to the legendary The War of the Worlds Broadcast weren't just imagining things?

Attempting to deliver Mary to her home, the Doctor overshoots, arriving in Manhattan just in time to find a dead private detective. Indulging his gumshoe fantasies, the Doctor & Trevor are soon embroiled in the hunt for a missing Russian scientist whilst Mary finds herself at the mercy of a very dubious Fifth Columnist.

With some genuinely out of this world "merchandise" at stake, the TARDIS crew are forced into an alliance with a sultry dame called Glory Bee, Orson Welles himself and a mobster with half a nose known as "the Phantom".

And slowly and surely, something is drawing plans against them. Just not very good ones..

Reality by Russell T Davies

The TARDIS begins to explode & the Doctor, Mary & Trecor are thrown into a parallel world. Upon exploring, they find 3 actors named David Collings, Sophie Okonedo & Craig Charles. That's when they found out the horrible truth about themselves. They are simply characters in a TV show named Doctor Who, a show that is facing cancelation.

With one of the Doctors enemies in charge of the BBC, the three must team up with their actors, the showrunners & the fans to do everything in their power to save the show & their lives, even if it means another embarrassing charity song.

This episode is another what if story. It shows what if the Doctor, Mary & Trevor found out their simply characters in a TV Show. It is also a very comedic story & sees the return of the Master.

The team arrive in a universe that they simply name 'Reality'. There, they discover their truth but the Doctor refuses to believe it. They also find that the Master is the CEO of the show & is planning on cancelling it, killing the Doctor.

In the story, the team so everything to save the show including starting a protest & trying to record a second 'Doctor in Distress'. The shows cancelation is only stopped when the Master learns that if he cancels the show, he would die too. The police try to arrest the Master, but he escapes in his TARDIS. The Doctor, Mary & Trevor leave after saying goodbye to everyone. When they leave, they discover that they are actually in a parallel universe. The Doctor pilots the TARDIS back to the normal universe & they leave now aware that they are who they are & not just some TV characters.

The story also references the shows own history such as the show being nearly cancelled in 1985, 1989 & 1998 as well as Doctor in Distress.

Fans would'be thought that while the story was good, it was a bit stupid.

Aftermath

The season worked really well. While fans had a mixed reaction about Collings doctor, Mary & Trevor were heavily appreciated. Fans were also excited for next year as 2003 would mark Season 40 & Doctor Who's 40th Anniversary. Theories went by as to what Russell would do to mark the occasion. When asked in an interview, he simply stated "just expect nearly everyone to be there".

DW: Season 40 (2003)

Season 40 would've aired between the 8th of June & the 21st of September in 2003. It would've consisted of 8 stories and 16 fifty minute episodes.

This would be the second season for David Collings as the Doctor & Craig Charles as Trevor Harkins, the third season for Sophie Okonedo as Mary O'Gorman, the fifth season for Gary Russell as Producer & the first for Russell T Davies as Script Editor.

This season would be different. As well as starring David Collings as the Doctor, it also features Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Richard Griffiths, Jim Broadbent & Hugh Grant. To mark the 40th anniversary, it was decided to bring back old Doctors for episodes 1-7

As old doctors were brought back, old titles were brought back too, with some changes. Firstly, episodes 1-6 had their titles cropped to 16:9. Secondly, episodes 1-4 would open on the title sequence to match the original version. Because of this, the BBC logo would be present on these titles. Finally, the end credits for episodes 1-5 would be changed to the scrolling credits. The broadcast date was pushed back to June so the show had time to get ready for a TV Movie releasing in November.

In an attempt to have the old Doctor stories have a similar feeling to their old stories, their old producers were Brought on as Executive Producers. However because Graham Williams & John Nathan-Turner had passed away, Philip Hinchcliffe would be doing 4s story & Barry Letts would be focusing on stories for 5 & 6. 7 would've been done by Ian Fraser as his show style was closer to JN-T's era in 1989 & 1990. He would also be doing the stories for 8 & 9 as Guy Slater wanted to move on from the show. 10s story would be done just by Gary Russell.

The Fountain of Ages by Kate Orman

Many legends speak of a fountain that can age or de-age any creature in the universe. So when Space Captain Parkinson hears the myth, he makes it his mission to find the fountain & find a way to produce one on Earth.

The Doctor & Romana learn about his plans. They both know humans should not be in control of life & death. They must stop Parkinson before it's too late.

This story sees the return of Romana I & K9 MK II during their time with the Doctor. The story is set between Season 16 & 17, but feels more like a 17 story. It sees a man named Peter Parkinson attempting to solve aging on earth by producing a fountain that can deage anyone who drinks from it. He is defeated when the Doctor blows up his fountain & is arrested.

The story was designed to be like a Graham Williams & Douglas Adams story but with Russell, Davies & Hinchcliffe, it came out like a Hinchcliffe story.

While fans enjoyed seeing the return of Baker, Tamm & Leeson, the story comes off a bit weak.

Spare Parts by Marc Platt

On a dark frozen planet where no planet should be, in a doomed city with a sky of stone, the last denizens of Earth's long-lost twin will pay any price to survive, even if the laser scalpels cost them their love and hate and humanity.

And in the Mat-infested streets, round about tea-time, the Doctor and Nyssa unearth a black market in secondhand body parts and run the gauntlet of augmented police and their augmented horses.

And just between the tram stop and the picture house, the Doctor's worst suspicions are finally confirmed: the Cybermen have only just begun, and the Doctor will be, just as he always has been, their saviour...

This episode finally gives the cybermen an origin story. It is heavily based off a story that was meant to be produced during Davisons era named Genesis of the Cybermen & sees the return of the classic Mondasian Cybermen design.

Endgame by Nicholas Briggs

After dodging beams of radiation, the Doctor & Mel are forced to land on Kritten 6. There they discover a group of humans evolving into bat like creatures. The Kritens live in fear of the story of a man who kidnaps their own & experiments on them for his own needs.

With the help of Mr. Quisby, the Doctor is able to reveal that the stories are true & the problem may be closer to the Doctor than he thinks.

This episode would feature Colin Baker & Bonnie Langford. When the cast was revealed, fans were confused as to why Mel was 6s companion & not Peri. All made sense after the story aired.

This story was to act as a final episode for Colin Baker as he never had one. The story also sees the return of the Valeyard from 1986's The Trial of a Time Lord & 1997's Matrix.

The plot has the Doctor & Mel helping a race of Bat like creatures called the Kritens stopping the Valeyard from experimenting on them. It's a basic "Doctor helps the resistance" story up until the last 15 minutes, where the Valeyard escapes in his TARDIS with Mel.

The Doctor chases the Valeyard through a storm of radiation beams & tries to rescue Mel. He is able to by materialising his TARDIS in the Valeyard's TARDIS around Mel. They dematerialise too late & get caught in the storm. Mel falls unconscious & the Doctor slowly dies as the radiation is only deadly to Time Lords. The rest of the story plays out like the ending of Big Finish's The Brink of Death, with the ending having 6 regenerate into 7 in a newly filmed scene.

Fans would've loved this story & would've given the 6th Doctor a really good send off. The only problem fans had with this story is that it felt too similar to the 8th Doctor's final story, The Palace at the End.

Nightshade by Mark Gatiss

Ace has never known the Doctor so withdrawn and melancholic. He is avoiding her company, seeking solace in the forgotten rooms and labyrinthine passages of his ancient time machine.

Perhaps he will find the peace he yearns for on his favourite planet, Earth, in the second half of the twentieth century — in the isolated village of Crook Marsham, to be precise, in 1968, the year of peace, love and understanding.

But one by one the villagers are being killed. The Doctor has to act, but for once he seems helpless, indecisive, powerless.

What are the signals from space that are bombarding the radio telescope on the moor? What is the significance of the local legends from the Civil War? And what is the aeons-old power that the Doctor is unable to resist?

American Angels by Steven Moffat

After an earthquake triggers the TARDIS's HADS, the Doctor & Raine are left stranded in San Francisco. The Doctor is able to track the TARDIS about 10 miles away. The 2 set out to reach the ship but with violent homeless, brutal gangs & statues that move when you're not looking at them, the Doctor & Raine know it's going to be a long night.

This episode features the return of the weeping angels from Blink & the return of Julia Sawalha as Raine Cunningham. The story is set sometime between Election Day & Love and War.

In the episode, the Doctor & Raine travel across San Francisco looking for the TARDIS while being stalked by weeping angels. The angels are stopped similar like they were in Blink where the Doctor tricks them into looking at each other.

Another great story from Moffat. Fans would've adored the story & the return of Griffiths & Sawalha

The Taking of Planet 5 by Simon Bucher-Jones & Mark Clapham

Twelve million years ago, a war touched the Earth briefly. Now, in Antarctica, an archaeological team has discovered the detritus of the conflict. And it's alive.

Twelve million years ago, a creature evolved that was capable of consuming all life in the universe. Now someone, or something, is desperate enough to want to revive it.

Outside the ordered universe, things move. They're hungry. And something has given them the scent of our space/time.

In the far future, the Doctor has learnt of the war and feels he must intervene -- but it's more than just a local conflict of interest. One of the groups of combatants is from his own future, and the other has never, ever, existed.

The Bride of Peladon by Barnaby Edwards

Peladon will bathe in oceans of blood!

A mysterious voice, a missing girl and a murdered queen. The Royal House of Peladon is once more plunged into intrigue, terror and death. The Doctor & Jenna must find their way through a treacherous labyrinth of lies if they are to distinguish friend from foe before it is too late.

For deep beneath the Citadel of Peladon, something infinitely ancient and immeasurably powerful is stirring...

This would be the fourth story in the Peladon series after The Legacy of Peladon back in 1994.

Time of the Other by Russell T Davies & Gary Russell

Rassilon is back from the dead & is not happy. He has seen the state of the universe & blames it one Time Lord: the Doctor, formerly known as the Other. Rassilon goes back in time & murders the Other before he can throw himself into the loom. No Other, no Doctor.

With his first 3 incarnations already gone from existence & his fourth to tenth incarnations suck in a parallel world, it's up to the Eleventh Doctor to follow Rassilon's path & save the Other from Rassilon, or else he will never exist & the universe will fall.

This would be a full 90 minute special & would've aired on the shows 40th anniversary. It would see the Doctor, Mary & Trevor travelling back in time to the early days of Gallifrey attempting to stop a resurrected Rassilon killing the Other, who the Doctor is a reincarnation of. The 4th - 10th Doctors are stuck in a parallel universe & spends the story trying to find a way to get back to the normal universe & help their eleventh incarnation.

The story reveals a bit more about the Doctor's past as the Other & confirms that the 'Morbius Doctors' from 'The Brain of Morbius' were in fact faces of the Other. The story had Don Warrington playing Rassilon & Rowan Atkinson guest starring as the Other.

Doctors 4-11 are able to re-enter the universe by connecting all of their TARDISes to a burning sun & escape. Rassilon is defeated when he falls into the looms after being confronted by doctors 4-11 & the Other. At the end, the Doctors bid each other farewell & the Other throws himself into the looms as he knows that knowing his future is bad news. If he dies now, he won't remember anything when he resurrected as the Doctor.

Aftermath

After the 40th anniversary ended, fans received the news that David Collings, Sophie Okonedo, Craig Charles & Gary Russell would be leaving at the end of the next season. As well as this, Gary Russell & The BBC confirmed that a Doctor Who movie was in the works

(Thanks to TimeLordMaster108 for helping with the series)

DW: Season 41 (2004)

Season 41 would've aired between the 5th of June & the 18th of September in 2004. It would've consisted of 8 stories and 16 fifty minute episodes.

This would be the last season for David Collings as the Doctor, Sophie Okonedo as Mary O'Gorman, Craig Charles as Trevor Harkins & Gary Russell as Producer however all these would go on to star in the first official Doctor Who movie, released in early 2005

THE ENEMIES WITHIN

WRITTEN BY: MARC PLATT
DIRECTED BY: ALAN WAREING
AIR DATES: 05/06/2004-12/06/2004

After 20 years away from her hometown, Louise Smith comes home for her mother's funeral. The town she once knew is gone, so old friend Tom Kingdom decides to give her a tour.

When they reach the final destination, old man jenkins hill, they discover an old police box still standing. When a thunderstorm starts, they take cover in the old box & find that there's more to this box than meets the eye.

This episode would open up the season with an almost Doctor & Companion lite story. It sees 2 young adults named Louise & Tom discovering the TARDIS & learning that it is a ship without a crew. They find the intercom & try to communicate, to which they get a response from the Doctor. The Doctor tells them that he is stuck in a quarantine cell & his friends are lost. He guides Tom & Louise to him & we get a story exploring the TARDIS. But at the same time, Tom & Louise are being hunted down by skeleton like aliens named Klawks, that have escaped their cell onboard the TARDIS & are loose in the ship.

When Tom & Louise find & release the Doctor, they spend the rest of the story tracking down Trevor & Mary, who are seperated & lost, as well as trying to trap the loose Klawks. They are able to find Mary in a library & Trevor stuck in a loop in the Cloister Room. Together, the 5 of them are able to track the Klawks.

The Doctor thanks Tom & Louise for freeing them & offers them a chance to travel with him, to which they decline. Then they exit the TARDIS & it takes off. Then Tom & Louise walk back down the hill holding each others hand.

This would be a fan favourite episode & it really is a good story that shows much more to the TARDIS.

SCREAM OF THE SHALKA

WRITTEN BY: PAUL CORNELL
DIRECTED BY: WILSON MILAN
AIR DATES: 03/07/2004-10/07/2004

The TARDIS materialises in the village of Lannet in Lancashire. The Doctor, Mary & Trevor find the village silent. Its inhabitants are all living in fear except for a barmaid, Alison Cheney. The alien Shalka have taken up residence beneath Lannet in preparation for a wider invasion. Despite his initial reluctance, the Doctor finds himself having to save the world again, aided by Alison and an enemy who has become an ally.

BLOOD OF THE ROBOTS

WRITTEN BY: SIMON CLARK
DIRECTED BY: KEITH BOAK
AIR DATES: 19/06/2004-26/06/2004

The Doctor, Mary & Trevor arrive on a junk planet to find a world full of intelligent, sensitive robots that have been abandoned by their human owners, who are too squeamish to 'kill' them when they're obsolete.

Now the Governments of Earth are hunting the robots in order to make room for human settlers forced to migrate from their dangerously overcrowded home planet, leaving the Doctor in a difficult situation.

This episode challenges the Doctor. A group of government officials from Earth are trying to convert a junkyard planet into a settlement for humans as Earth is over-crowded & is starting to have dramatic weather issues. The junk planet is inhabited by abandoned old robots who live in peace & the government wants to kick them off their world. Resist, & they'll be destroyed.

The Doctor is left with 2 options: help mankind or save the robots. Throughout the story, we see the Doctor, Mary & Trevor defending the robots. The story involves a riot & a big courtroom drama scene. The story ends with the Robots keeping their planet & the Doctor finding another planet for the human race to live on

VIRTUAL ANGELS

WRITTEN BY: STEVEN MOFFAT
DIRECTED BY: HETTIE MACDONALD
AIR DATES: 17/07/2004-24/07/2004

After many journeys to the past, the future & other universes, Mary returns home to her normal life in 1916. But all isn't right.

Everyone the Doctor, Mary & Trevor appear to be in a hypnotic state or simply ignore them. No one dares to go out at night & all the lights are broken. The weeping are back in town & it's up to the Doctor to stop them, but not even he will suspect the trap he has found himself in.

This episode sees the Doctor, Mary & Trevor believing they are in 1916 trying to stop the weeping angels when really they are hooked up to a simulation game called Virtual Fears.

For Part One, the 3 believe they are in 1916. It's only during Part Two that they start noticing mistakes & glitches until they realise they're in a simulation. The 3 have to outsmart the Weeping Angels or else they'll be stuck repeating the simulation for the rest of their lives.

When they finally do escape the simulation, they find out that an alien criminal named Sharky connected them up to the simulator & was planning to escape in the Doctor's TARDIS, but he couldn't as he was unable to open it's door. As a punishment, the Doctor connects Sharky up to the simulator & sets it so that he will not be able to move until someone outside the game sets him free. He then sends a distress message to the Shadow Proclamation, a group the Doctor simply describes as 'outer space Police', & leaves in the TARDIS.

While fans got to experience another terrifying Weeping Angel story, the plot was described as being a bit rubbish.

AGE OF STEEL

WRITTEN BY: TOM MACRAE
DIRECTED BY: GRAEME HARPER
AIR DATES: 31/07/2004-07/08/2004

Upon landing on an alternate version of Earth where technology is far more advanced in the 1910s, The Doctor, Mary and Trevor learn that Terri O'Gorman, Mary's father, is apparently alive and well. Lurking in the shadows are creatures made to destroy - one of The Doctor's greatest fears have come true...the Cybermen are reborn.

This episode is set on a parallel world where Earth's technology in the 1900s is advanced as it is in the real 2010s. Another difference is that Mary's father, Terri, is alive & Mary is never born. Instead, Mary O'Gorman is Terri's pet dog.

Another difference is Trevor having a Doppelganger in this universe called Trevian who is part of a resistance group against the main enemy, the Cybermen.

The main focus of the story is the cybermen. In this universe, the Cybermen were created on Earth by a man named John Lumic. Lumic releases the Cybermen to the Earth as he thinks the human race is weak, offering a free conversion to anyone. If they deny the upgrade, they will be killed.

The cybermen are defeated when they're forced to experience pure human emotions & have them remember who they were before they were converted, making them go insane & exploding. John Lumic, who had been converted into the Cyber Controller, falls into the cyber factory after trying to catch the Doctor & Mary escaping.

THE PLAGUE OF THE LAND

WRITTEN BY: RUSSELL T DAVIES
DIRECTED BY: GARY RUSSELL
AIR DATES: 14/08/2004-21/08/2004

During a trip to the 14th century, Mary starts showing symptoms that she has caught the plague. In a panic to save her life, the Doctor retrieves an antidote from the TARDIS & tends to Mary. After she is better, they leave in the ship while accidently leaving the antidote behind.

Now arriving in 2020, the Doctor is shocked to find out that all human diseases have been cured & are now gone. Anyone who is found with a disease is killed on the spot. The Doctor must go back in time & clean up his mess.

This is somewhat of a pure historical episode. The show hadn't had one of these since A School for Glory as the show was trying to focus on the sci-fi elements in the 90s. Because of this, Russell decided to have a historical & see how it did.

The story follows the Doctor trying to find an antidote pen the Doctor accidently left in the 14th century as it could cure the entire world & get rid of the black plague really quickly. Mary & Trevor are somewhat against the Doctors actions & try to convince him that it's better if all diseases are wiped out.

The Doctor is able to fix the timelines when he, Mary & Trevor steal it from Edward III.

The story receives mixed reactions on the return of historicals.

BURN WITH ME

WRITTEN BY: CHRIS CHIBNALL
DIRECTED BY: GRAEME HARPER
AIR DATES: 28/08/2004-04/09/2004

The Doctor, Mary & Trevor follow a distress signal, only to be trapped on a spaceship hurtling towards a sun with only eighty minutes left until impact.

LIVE 34

WRITTEN BY: JAMES PARSONS & ANDREW STIRLING-BROWN
DIRECTED BY: GARY RUSSELL
AIR DATES: 11/09/2004-18/09/2004

"You're listening to LIVE 34."

"LIVE 34 — news on the hour, every hour — LIVE 34 — broadcasting to Colony 34 all day, every day — LIVE 34 — constantly updated every minute of every hour — LIVE 34 — sport, weather, business, local news, interplanetary affairs — LIVE 34 — live, independent, accurate, comprehensive — LIVE 34 — all news, all day, every day — LIVE 34."

"Reports are coming in of an explosion..."

"On the line now is the leader of the FDP..."

"The President is about to begin his address..."

"We can see bodies in the wreckage..."

Like Season 38's Night of the Scarecrows, this story is told from a different perspective. This time it's told from a TV Viewer's perspective. The entire story is told through news clips.

AFTERMATH

Russels era was a mixed bag. This would've gone down as one of the poorer seasons. In november 2004, RTD announced he'd be staying on as script editor & executive producer. As well as this, the new producer for Season 42 was announced, who is Stephen Garwood.

Doctor Who: The Gates of Elysium (2005)

Doctor Who: The Gates of Elysium would be the first movie in the official Doctor Who franchise. It would've aired between the 23rd of February & in 2005.

The movie would've been 2 hours long & would starred David Collings as the Doctor, Sophie Okondeo as Mary O'Gorman & Craig Charles as Trevor Harkins in their final appearance. As well as this, this would be the last story to be produced by Gary Russell. Stephen Garwood would be replacing him in Season 42. RTD would stay on as an Executive Producer & Script Editor. For the director, it was decided that Graeme Harper would direct it as he was one of the better directors & worked really well on the show.

The Movie would've been produced by BBC Films, Universal Pictures & Working Title. The budget for the movie was around 40.5M USD.

The basic idea for this Movie was to open up Garwood's era of Doctor Who. It would've also been considered as a second Key to Time story arc.

For the titles, we would've opened with a simple card design as this was becoming a trend with Movies.

All of the music for the Movie would've been composed by Murray Gold. Half of the music was newly composed for the Movie however some tracks come from Season 39-41.

So now, let's get right into the Movie.

DOCTOR WHO: THE GATES OF ELYSIUM

SCREENPLAY BY: RUSSELL T DAVIES
DIRECTED BY: GRAEME HARPER
PREMIERE DATE: 23/02/2005

SYNOPSIS

The Daleks are coming, Gallifrey is at war. Davros is searching for the Key to Time. If he finds all the pieces, he will unlock the Gates of Elysium & unleash the Nightmare Child.

President Romana is concerned. The Time Lords may fall & the Daleks may be the supreme beings of the Galaxy. There's only one Person she can call for help; the Doctor.

PLOT

We open up the Movie like a typical movie, with the Idents for Universal Pictures, BBC Films & Working Titles. Then we get black cards reading "Universal Pictures, BBC Films & Working Title present", "A Gary Russell Production", "A Graeme Harper Film", then we fade to an office. We see we're on Gallifrey. We see a woman sitting at a desk reading a book. Then an alert starts blaring in the office. The woman purs the book down & we see that's it's Romana. She presses a button on her desk & activates an intercom. She asks whoever is on the end what they want. The other person on the intercom says they just received a message. Romana asks to play it, then a monitor comes down in front of her & it turns on. We see from behind the monitor looking at Romana. Then we hear the words "Greeting Miss President of Gallifrey" & cut to the monitor & see Davros on it. Davros sends Romana a warning. He tells her that the Time Lords have declared war on the Daleks & that an army is on their way. He then says "as for me, i won't be there. I have other matters concerning 'The Key to Time' to deal with". He then states "you've brought this on yourself" & the video ends. The monitor turns off & returns to the ceiling. The intercom turns back on & the other person on the end asks what they're going to do. Romana presses down the button & says "We have no other choice. There's only one person who can stop Davros. We need the Doctor". Then we cut to the titles.

After the titles we cut to a scene of the vortex, with the TARDIS travelling through it. Then we cut to the interior, with the Doctor at the console, Mary reading a book & Trevor playing Darts. The Doctor is talking to them about a recent adventure, which is unrelated to the plot, & then a light starts flashing. The Doctor pulls down the scanner & sees that the TARDIS is being automatically called to Gallifrey. He tells Mary & Trevor to be ready as he expects Romana will be wanting to talk to them. Then cut to a hanger bay. Romana enters along with her guards as well as Leela & Ace, her 2 personal assistants. The TARDIS materialises & the Doctor steps out, followed by Mary & Trevor. We then get a reintroduction scene with the Doctor, Romana, Mary, Trevor, Leela & Ace. The Doctor then asks why he has been called. Romana asks them to follow her.

Cut to a corridor scene where Romana reminds the Doctor of the events of Genesis of the Daleks. Then cut to Romana's office, where she tells the Doctor that the Daleks have saw the events as an act of War & that the Daleks are coming. Then Romana presses a button & her monitor comes on, showing the Doctor, Mary & Trevor Davros's message. The Doctor sits on an armchair in horror. He says he's not worried about Davros's chair, he's horrified because he thinks he knows what Davros in intending to do with the Key to Time. He starts talking about the Gates of Elysium & reveals that only the Key to Time can unlock it, & what's behind the gates musn't be set free. Romana asks what is behind the Gates, but the Doctor refuses to tell her. She then asks the Doctor what they're going to do. We then get a brief montage of the Doctor & Romana planning what they're going to do. Romana, Leela & Ace will prepair Gallifrey for war to deal with the Dalek threat on it's way. The Doctor, Mary & Trevor will track down & recover the 3 pieces of the Key to Time Davros hasn't found yet. The Doctor, Mary & Trevor leave the Office & head back to the TARDIS. As they dematerialise, We cut back to Romanas office. The office begins to shake & we hear a Dalek shout "Exterminate!"

Cut to a shot inside the TARDIS, where the Doctor starts turns on the over head screen. We see the universe above their heads. Then 3 lights start flickering, signalling where pieces of the Key will be. The Doctor says that the 3 places are Frapriafe, Earth & Necros. The Doctor starts setting controls & the TARDIS materialises in the middle of the Frapriafe Market. The Doctor gives Mary & Trevor a rod which he says acts as a metal detector for the pieces. He then hands them each Radio's in case they get lost. The Doctor heads to the lower layers of Frapriafe while Mary & Trevor stay on the Market level. In the lower levels, the Doctor finds families now living in the lower levels. He asks the Sheriff of the Level why there are people living below the Market & he explains that a Party of Government officials bought the Market from it's previous owners & made bills highly expensive, forcing all but the super rich to live on the streets. Meanwhile on the Market Level, Mary is kidnapped by Government Security While Trevor is distracted by a futuristic fountain.

The rest of the Frapriafe plot is going to be sped up now

The Doctor works with former guards of the Market to start a Rebellion & kick the Government people off the Market. Meanwhile Trevor sneaks into a security office, tracks down Mary & helps her escape through an intercom while being tracked by Government Security. When Mary escapes & finds Trevor, they decide to confront the Managers & report their Security. They enter the office building that they built outside the globe & burst through the left Doors. At the same time, the Doctor & the Rebels burst through the Right Doors, surrounding the Owners. The Rebels start arguing at the owners while The Doctor, Mary & Trevor catch each other up on information.

Then all of a sudden, the whole office starts shaking. Gunfire is heard & then we heat a dalek shout "Time Crystal located! Exterminate all life forms below!". Everyone in the office ducks down or tries running & being exterminated. One of those people is one of the owners but when he is shot, he becomes a crystal & drops. He was a piece of the Key. The Doctor quickly swipes it into his pocket & him, Mary & Trevor crawl their way out of the office. When they're out, they dash towards the TARDIS, with only 1 dalek spotting them. Inside the control room, the Doctor calls the High Council & tells then that the Daleks are attacking Frapriafe, but the council tells him that Gallifrey is being attacked too & there's nothing they can do. The Doctor activates the scanner & watches in pain as the Daleks destroy the Office & the Market. He stands dead for the time being & then Dematerialises without saying a word.

We then cut to Gallifrey, with Romana, Leela & Ace rushing through a corridor. Leela asks Romana if she has a plan, which Romana replies with "No. But like the Doctor i plan to have one in a few minutes". They reach a cornered passage & a dalek appears around the corner. Romana, Leela & Ace dive into the room in front of them & deadlock the door before the Dalek can kill them. They sit breathless in an old Weapons silo that has clearly been abandoned for some time. Ace shouts "Well what now!" & Romana tells Leela & Ace to help her search the room for any weapons.

Cut back to the TARDIS interior & the ship is landing. The Doctor still stands speechless. Trevor walks up to him & asks if he's alright. The Doctor says he is but he wishes he could've done something & that Frapriafe shouldn't have been involved. He then hands Mary & Trevor their rods & they go to exit when the Scanner starts flickering. Someone is calling the Doctor. The Doctor tries to get a clear signal & believes it's Romana. Then Davros's voice is heard telling the Doctor that it's been a long time. Then Davros appears on the scanner. The Doctor demands Davros to tell him what he is doing starting the War & why he destroyed Frapriafe, but Davros just laughs & tells him he didn't start the war, but he did. The Doctor ignores the remark & warns Davros. He tells him that he knows what the Nightmare Child is & that he shouldn't be freed. Davros asks why he shouldn't & the Doctor tells him that it would mean not just the end of the Time Lords, but the end of the Daleks & the end of Everything. Davros just laughs & tells the Doctor that he's just wasting time as he's back on Necros too. The Doctor turns off the scanner & tells Mary & Trevor they have limited time.

Outside the ship, they find they're in an old abandoned building. The Doctor, Mary & Trevor explore for a bit before the Doctor realises where they are. They're in the old Tranquil Repose building. They wander around until they find Davros's old room, with a few destroyed Necros Daleks. The Doctor, Mary & Trevor start scanning the room with their Rods & then Trevors starts activating when he points it at an old Dalek. The Doctor examines the Dalek but finds that the Dalek isn't the Key, but the mutant inside it is. He takes out a pair of gloves from his pocket & tells Mary & Trevor that he's going to extract the mutant.

Back on Gallifrey, Ace, Leela & Romana are still searching the Room. While looking under a desk, Ace finds a switch. She flicks it and the old console in the room turns on. Romana smiles & says "looks like we're getting somewhere". She sits at the desk & logs in. She then finds out that the console was used to fire weapons back in the old days of Gallifrey. Leela asks if it'll still work & Romana says she's unsure, but it appears to be the only option at the moment.

Cut back to Necros, & the Doctor has his hands in a Dalek shell pulling out its mutant. He plonks it on an old table & uses his rod to reveal the key piece. Then the place starts shaking more violently than before. A dalek is heard shouting "Time Crystal Located!" & then the roof comes off, revealing the Sky to the old bunker. A light beam drops down & starts picking up the key piece. The Doctor tries to catch it while Mary & Trevor throw stuff at it trying to knock it out the beam but they have no luck & the Daleks escape with their 4th Segment.

Cut to inside a Dalek Battleship. The Supreme Dalek enters the room with the key piece in its manipulator arm. He passes it to Davros & tells him that there is only 1 piece left. Davros asks where is it. The Supreme Dalek replies with Earth. Davros chuckles, activates the intercom on his panel & tells a dalek Flight Commander to set coordinates to Earth.

Cut back to Necros & we see the Battleship starting to fly away. Mary asks the Doctor what they're going to do. The Doctor says they follow them. He then proceeds to run back to the TARDIS with Mary & Trevor behind him. Inside the ship, the Doctor rushes around the console, preparing to lock on to the Battleship to follow them. We then see in space as the TARDIS flies right past the Camera.

Inside the Battleship, the Supreme Dalek tells Davros that the Doctor is following. Davros says he knows & that he has a way to get him off their tail. He then presses a switch on his panel & tells the Daleks to Activate Framelocks. Cut back to inside the TARDIS & the lights in the ship go down. The engines stop. The Doctor tries to reactivate the ship but nothing works. Then Davros tells the Daleks to fire. We see in space as 2 torpedos fly towards the TARDIS. The Doctor, now with the help of Mary & Trevor, activates a series of switches in hopes of getting the power back on. Then the torpedoes hit the TARDIS. It spins out of control in space. The inside starts to catch fire & Mary & Trevor collapse. After messing with some open wires, the Doctor is able to get the ships power back & head towards Earth.

On Gallifrey, Romana starts to enter commands on the computer, getting ready to fire. Ace speaks up & says she feels unsure if they'll survive, as the walls don't seem sturdy enough. Romana tells her that the walls are the least of her worries & that she is more focused on getting out. She continues entering commands & then an alarm comes on signalling that a missile has been armed & is ready to fire. Leela tells Romana to be sure. She nods & presses a key, firing the missile. We then get a shot of a silo door opening on the surface & a missile starts shooting off to the Capital.

On a street, we see a battered TARDIS struggling to land. It lands & the Doctor, Mary & Trevor wonder out. The Doctor tells Mary & Trevor that the ship will try to repair itself & that they need to give it some time. Then Trevor notes that the streets are abandoned & everything appears dead. Mary asks what happened to Earth but the Doctor doesn't know. He pulls out his pocket watch & sees the date on it; 23rd November 2162. They've landed on Earth during the Dalek occupation. The Doctor warns Mary & Trevor about where they are & the history, telling them that they can't do anything to help any resistance & they can't get caught by the Daleks or Robomen. We then get a montage of the Doctor, Mary & Trevor exploring Earth, a Dalek ship arriving on Earth & the missile flying towards the Gallifreyan capitol. The Montage ends with the missile blowing up a group of Daleks outside the room Romana, Leela & Ace are in. The 3 leave the room & Ace describes the Dalek debris as 'Wicked'.

Back on Earth, Night has arrived. The Doctor, Mary & Trevor are still searching for the last piece. Then they hear a Modern Dalek coming their way & they hide behind an old building as it drives past. Then an invader Dalek & 2 robomen come forth & tells the Modern Dalek to identify & stay where it is. The Dalek tells the invader Dalek that it is from the Future & that its mission is irrelevant. The Invader Dalek threatens the Modern Dalek unless it reveals, to which the Modern Dalek just kills the Invader Dalek & the Robomen. A siren is then heard & the Dalek radios for assistance. 2 daleks beam in & they head off in the direction of Big Ben. The Doctor grunts & says that the Daleks are treading on thin wire by messing with their history. He tells Mary & Trevor that they need to follow the Dalek.

Cut Back to Gallifrey. Romana, Ace & Leela burst into a bigger control room & seal the Door. Romana reaches an intercom & asks if anyone is there. A voice voice responds & asks if they have a plan. Romana asks if the weapons still works, to which the voice states that almost all of them are broken & that the only ones that do work only effect machines. Romana asks if station 14 is still operation & the voice tells her that it is. Romana reveals that they're going to EMP the Planet, shutting down all the Daleks & then throwing them off world. The voice says that it's a risky move & that the EMP could destroy Gallifrey's shields, giving the Daleks the chance to sneak in again. Furiously, Romana says it's the only way. Calmly, the voice asks what she wants him to do. Romana tells him that she will send him instructions, as she starts typing on a control panel.

Back on Earth we see the Daleks approaching Westminster Bridge, which has Invader Daleks on it approaching them. Gunfire breaks out between the two factions. The Doctor, Mary & Trevor dash past the fight with only 1 Modern Dalek noticing them & following them. Outside Big Ben, the Doctors detector starts detecting a piece of the key above them. He looks up & realises that the piece is in Big Ben. He, Mary & Trevor enter & make their way to the top. At the top, the Doctors detector reveals that one of Big Bens clock handles is the last piece. He tells Mary & Trevor to stay where they are & warn them if any Daleks start coming their way. He exits the clock face by a panel & starts to reveal the piece of the key. The piece reveals & the Doctor catches it but then, a handle moves & causes the Doctor to slip, dropping the Piece. Trevor pulls the Doctor in just before he can pass out & fall. Outside of Big Ben, the 1 Dalek starts flying upwards to claim the piece. Trevor aids to the Doctor. Mary hears the Daleks & looks at Trevor. She tells him he's going for the piece. Trevor tells her she's crazy but she just says she's doing it anyways. She climbs on to the face & kneels down to pick up the key piece. As she grabs it, the Daleks appear from below & try to kill Mary. She ducks out of the way & Trevor yells at her to get back inside. Mary dashes towards the hatch but gets exterminated in the foot by a Dalek. She screams in pain & falls off the edge. We follow Mary in slow motion as she falls towards the river while the Daleks capture the Key piece. The Doctor begins to regain conscious & notices Mary is gone. He asks Trevor where she is, to which a broken Trevor reveals the bad news. We zoom into the Doctors face, filled with Anger, Fear & Sorrow. He looks out of big ben & states "Too many lives have been lost today. Well no more now. No more will suffer. C'mon Trevor, back to the TARDIS". Fade cut to a slow motion scene of the Doctor & Trevor walking back to the TARDIS, with invader Daleks & robomen pursuing them. The Doctor tries to enter the TARDIS but the doors won't open. He violently bangs on the door & then it opens.

Cut back to Gallifrey, & Romana is preparing to fire the EMP. Then a monitor flickers on & Davros appears on it in a darkened hallway. He tells Romana that he knows what she is doing & that it simply won't work. Romana tells him that she's got to do something to try & help her race. Davros chuckles & says that Romana is very much like him: always trying everything even if the risk is high. Romana passes off the remark & then Davros tells her that he has all but one of the pieces. Romana tells him that she doesn't know where the last piece is. Davros tells her that he knows who has it & where it is & that he reckons that she can help get the piece. Romana asks how & the monitor shuts off. Then Davros is heard in the flesh, emerges from a corner & says "one word, my Dear; Hostage". Leela points a weapon at Davros but he shoots electricity from his hand & flings the weapon out of Leela's. He tells Romana that she is going to be very useful to him & that she will help destroy Gallifrey. He laughs violently, grabs Romana's wrist & the two teleport away. Ace checks Leela & asks if she is OK. She proceeds to walk to the console but then the monitor comes back on. Through the monitor, Davros warns Ace & Leela that if the EMP is fired, Romana will die.

Back in the TARDIS, the Doctor slams his fist into the console & puts his head down in anger & sorrow. Trevor asks the Doctor to take a minute. The Doctor tells him that it was his fault that Mary died as she was his responsibility. Trevor then gives the Doctor a speech about fighting for the memory & the losses, telling him that Mary would've wanted him to go on. The Doctor raises his head & loses his anger. He tells Trevor that he is right & that they need to go. They need to go to the far edges of space & destroy the key piece. Then Davros's voice is heard on the Console monitor telling the Doctor to stop. The Doctor furiously asks why he should & Davros reveals that he has Romana as a hostage & that she'll only be set free if he hands over the last piece. Romana tells the Doctor not too but he stays silent. Davros sends the Doctor his coordinates & tells him that he has 1 Earth hour. The scanner turns off. Trevor asks what they're gonna do. The Doctor states that too much blood has been spilt today. He pulls a lever & begins flying the ship to the Gates of Elysium.

Cut to the outer edges of the Gates, where Davros & 3 Daleks are holding Romana hostage. The Doctor's TARDIS materialises & he & Trevor step out with the last key. We then get a negotiation scene with the Doctor & Davros. The Doctor gives Davros one last chance to stop what he is doing but he just ignores his warnings. The Doctor throws Davros the last piece & Davros throws Romana to the Doctor. The Doctor tells Romana to take Trevor back to Gallifrey with his TARDIS. Trevor says he's not leaving but the Doctor orders him to. Trevor refuses. We then get a scene of the Doctor & Trevor saying their farewells, as the Doctor doesn't want to lose another friend. Then Trevor & Romana leave in the TARDIS, leaving the Doctor. Davros asks why he stayed & the Doctor tells Davros that he wants to watch him fail. Davros laughs, finishes the Key to Time & tries to open the Gate of Elysium to summon the Nightmare Child.

The Gate starts to open & the doctor dashes towards Davros to stop him but it is too late, the gate is opening & the Nightmare child is released. Davros laughs & tells the Doctor that he has lost. He tries to control the Nightmare Child, but he is unsuccessful. He then tells his Daleks to strain the Nightmare Child, but the Daleks are eaten by it. Davros asks the Doctor what is going on & why it isn’t obeying him. The Doctor tells him that he knew what the Nightmare child was: A Dalek. It will kill everything that isn’t it & it won’t stop until it remains. Davros pulls the Key away from the Gate but it is no use, the Nightmare Child is free. He then asks the Doctor for help but the Doctor refuses. Then Davros gets angry with the Doctor & attacks him with his electric hand, ordering him to help him but the Doctor still refuses. Then the Doctor says he will, only if Davros agrees to cease the War. Davros reluctantly agrees & the 2 board Davros’s ship. Davros tells his Daleks to stand down & not to attack the Doctor. They agree. The daleks work some controls & the ship starts to escape. We then get a montage of the Nightmare Child eating planets & Daleks failing to defeat it.

On Board the Dalek ship, Davros asks the Doctor what his plan is. The Doctor tells him that the Time Lords can help, all he has to do is ask. The Doctor messes with some controls & calls his TARDIS. Romana picks up the call & Davros explains the situation. The Doctor then tells Romana that they’re going to need a space lock, which will freeze the Nightmare Child in a single millisecond. Romana fills Trevor in on the plan & the two return to Gallifrey, landing in the Panopticon. Once landed, the two dash out towards the Time Vaults. Romana enters a security pin on a computer & a panel opens, revealing a diamond shaped ring which is the Space Lock.

Then cut to outer Gallifrey. Romana & Trevor step out of the citadel & find the missile launcher bay. Romana attaches the Space Ring to a missile. She then uses a radio to call Leela & Ace, telling them that she’s fine & to launch a missile to a certain coordinate. Leela enters the coordinates into a computer & then Ace hits a red button, which fires a missile right at the Nightmare Child. When the missile hits it, a great blue circle forms around it & then explodes, freezing the Nightmare Child & teleporting it into a storage chip.

Back on the Dalek command ship, Davros thanks Romana for the assistance. Then he turns off the intercom & tells the Dalek to prepare for attack. The Doctor tells Davros that he is not surprised. Davros orders the Daleks to kill the Doctor, but he bails, shuts himself in a room & seals the Door. the Daleks arrive outside & begin cutting the Door. The Doctor then realises that he is in another communication room & beings to send a signal to Gallifrey. Romana answers & the Doctor warns her about the Dalek invasion. Romana tells the Doctor that Gallifrey is defenceless & that the only weapon that works is the EMP system. The Doctor tells her to use it but she says she can't while he's onboard. The Doctor orders her to but she still can't. We then get a scene of the Doctor ordering her to do it for Gallifrey & that he'll be fine if anything happens to the ship. Romana hits some controls & tells the Doctor that she's sending the TARDIS to him. The Doctor thanks her. The 2 then say their farewells & the Doctor ends up the call. Romana turns on the intercom & tells the voice to fire in station 14. We then get shots of Gallifrey being stuck by waves of light & Daleks deactivating & falling to their deaths.

Then cut to the Dalek ship. As the ship starts to descend to the surface of Gallifrey. The doors open & the Doctor is confronted by dead Daleks. He proceeds to run back to the main room where he was before to find the TARDIS waiting for him & Davros stuck in place. The Doctor wants to help Davros & tries to but Davros holds the Doctor back, telling him this is his ticket out of the war. The Doctor tells Davros that he is not leaving without him but Davros still goes by his words. Then the ship enters Gallifrey's atmosphere & the Doctor has less than a minute to rescue Davros. Now desperate, the Doctor tries pushing Davros to the TARDIS. Then Davros shocks the Doctor with his electric hand & sends him flying to the other side of the room. The ship is now 10 seconds from crashing. Davros then tells the Doctor that if he survives to remember 1 thing: the Daleks aren't the deadliest race in the universe; the Time Lords are & that they will be the end of millions of races in this war. The Doctor now losing conscious proceeds to drag himself to the TARDIS doors & save himself but it's too late. Davros has one last laugh, bids the Doctor farewell & the ship crashes.

The screen goes black. Ringing is heard. The darkness fades with scenes of Romana, Trevor, Leela & Ace searching for the Doctor. Then we see Trevor spot him & runs to the camera. We're seeing what the Doctor sees. We hear Leela say that he is in a dreadful state & we fade back to darkness. Then fade to the Doctor being carried by Leela & Trevor through a corridor. Then fade to blackness. Then fade to the Doctor being placed in Romana's chair in her office. Then fade to darkness.

Then fade back in to Romana's office & back into 3rd Person. We're no longer seeing the Doctors vision. Leela, Ace, Romana & Trevor are gathered around the Doctor. He starts to awaken & Romana tends to him. Weakly, the Doctor asks what happened & where's Davros. Romana tells the Doctor that he was caught in the crash & then reveals that his body is seriously damaged. His back is crushed, his legs are broken, his insides are scrambled & he has lost his left arm. Romana tells him that he has minutes. The Doctor asks if he will be able to change & Romana unsure says hopefully. Then Trevor comes forth & tells the Doctor that he's gonna make it. The Doctor tells him that he hopes so. Trevor asks if there's anything he can do but the Doctor says there's no need as he's doing something right now. We then get a scene of him explaining Regeneration to Trevor. Trevor says he's gonna miss him & the Doctor says he will too. The Doctor then says his farewells to Romana, Ace & Leela. He then says "It's time. Time to go" & then starts glowing with energy around his face, then his hand & legs, & then his old body. We see all the cuts & bruises heal themselves & the left arm grow back. We then see the Doctors face starting to morph & then the energy shoots away. The energy is gone & we see the face of the 12th Doctor, Peter Capaldi.

The Doctor slowly awakens & asks Romana how he looks. Romana says that he looks younger. The Doctor says that’s good & that he’ll check the face out later, but with all the right stuff he’ll be fine for now. He climbs out of the chair & asks Romana what now. She tells him that the war isn’t over. The Daleks won’t stop until Gallifrey is gone. The Time Lords must win. The Doctor tells her that he’ll help when he can. We then get a scene of Trevor, Ace & Leela getting used to the new Doctor before The Doctor tells Trevor that they’d best be leaving. Then all of a sudden, the side doors burst open & a burned & dying Davros enters with a gun aimed at the Doctor, telling everyone to stay where they are. The Doctor demands to know how the tell he survived. Davros reveals that his personal force field was able to withstand most of the crash, but not all of it. But enough to keep him alive. & now he has the Doctor exactly where he wants him, he’s going to take the opportunity to kill him. He aims at the Doctor when suddenly, Trevor runs at Davros & knocks the gun out of his hand. The gun slides to the Doctors feet & he picks it up, aiming it at Davros. However Davros has grabbed Trevor by the neck & tells the Doctor that he dies, Trevor dies. Davros begins to laugh maniacally & Trevor yells at the Doctor telling him to kill Davros. The Doctor closes his eyes, the sound fades out & the Doctor breathes in. He fires the gun, damaging Davros. Then he fires 2 more shots, killing Davros. But by killing Davros, it has activated his electric hand, zapping & killing Trevor.

The Doctor stares at the remains of Davros & his dear friend. Then he collapses to the ground in guilt, shouting that it’s all his fault. Romana tries to tend to the Doctor but he shoves her away. The Doctor says he’s sorry & then rises back to his feet. Romana asks if he’ll be leaving now. The Doctor freezes & then after a moment he says “No. I’m staying. There's blood on my hands & i refuse to let these hands out into the universe until this war is over”.The Doctor then leaves the office & proceeds to walk to the TARDIS. We see him walk across the crash site towards the TARDIS, with Dalek ships advancing in the background. He enters the ship. Inside, he walks up to the console & pauses for a moment, thinking of all those who travelled with him through flashbacks. Then we get flashbacks from the first Dalek story. This angers the Doctor & he begins to slam his fists against the TARDIS console. Sparks come out & the cloister bell begins to ring. Then the Doctor stops, clearly broken. He looks up at the console & states “I’m sorry”, Then we fade to a shot of outer Gallifrey, as the Daleks begin to advance. Then we zoom out & see the planet from afar. Then all fades to black & we go into the credits.

ENDING / AFTERMATH

So there we have it. The first movie in the Doctor Who franchise. The end of the old era & the beginning of the Time War era. It would’ve done really well with audiences & the success of the movie convinced Universal to give the show a bigger budget.

Next time in Doctor Who, we dive into a new era of The Sarah Jane Adventures & Stephen Garwood’s first Season on Doctor Who

SJA: Series 1 (2004)

Series 1 of The Sarah Jane Adventures would've aired between the 1st of March & the 17th of May in 2004, consisting of 6 stories and 12 thirty minute episodes.

In 2003, 3 year after Season 37 had aired, Gary Russell was interested in launching a new Doctor Who spin-off starring Elisabeth Sladen after the events of Report to the Manager to Seasons of Fear. Originally, the idea was to revive the unproduced K9 & Company series but this idea was scrapped. It was later decided for the story to have Sarah dealing with aliens on Earth with a group of teenagers who are willing to help her.

The idea was set & all they needed now was a showrunner, as Russell didn't want to be involved with it too much. Their original idea was to bring back an old but recent producer, but Nathan Turner, Fraser & Slater weren't interested. After some time, it was decided to have a team of showrunners. The showrunners would be Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner & Phil Collinson.

When deciding on it's air dates, it was decided to have the show air on CBBC instead of BBC One as the show was more aimed for children.

INVASION OF THE BANE

WRITTEN BY: GARETH ROBERTS & RUSSELL T DAVIES
DIRECTED BY: COLIN TEAGUE

Investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smithteams up with her new, thirteen-year-old neighbour, Maria Jackson, to face the scheming Mrs Wormwood, the head of a company producing a popular and addictive soft drink called "Bubble Shock!"

This episode sees the introduction of Maria Jackson, Kelsey Hooper, Mr Smith, an advanced computer in Sarah's attic, & Luke Smith, Sarah Jane's adopted son who was created by the Bane. Sarah is now living alone & prefers to be alone. The Bane are a race of Aliens trying to invade the Earth by converting their victims with a fizzy pop drink called Bubble Shock.  The Bane are defeated when Luke uses an alien phone to call the Mother Bane as the phones' signal hurts them. The factory explodes & Bubble Shock is removed from the shelves of shops.

At the end of the episode, Maria, Kelsey & Sarah have become somewhat friends with Sarah adopting Luke & naming him.

While the story was popular with kids, most fans hated this story & thought the Slitheen were one of the stupidest aliens ever. It also had an unanswered question as to when the Doctor met the slitheen. During an interview, Russell T Davies said that he had a story written for Season 41 of Doctor Who called Aliens of London which would’ve seen the Doctor, Mary & Trevor fighting aliens in 10 Downing Street but the story wasn’t produced due to it being a late submission. The story would later be adapted into an audio story & a novel.

THE SLITHEEN CONUNDRUM

WRITTEN BY: GARETH ROBERTS
DIRECTED BY: ALICE TROUGHTON

First days at school are always difficult. For Maria Jackson and Luke Smith, the task of blending in is made all the more difficult when their teachers turn out to be aliens from outer space, back for revenge!

This episode introduces a new member to the team, Clyde Langer, who like Maria & Luke is a new student to their school. The three of them notice weird things in the school such as the smell of Batteries in the air, the mouldy looking food & the teachers who keep farting.

When Luke returns home to Sarah, he talks to her & Maria’s father, who Sarah was talking to, about the smell of batteries. Maria’s dad notes that while he was working in a different school, he noticed the smell as well. The only connection between the schools is that both of them received brand new technology recently & that the technology was from the same company. Sarah borrows Maria’s dad’s plans & gives them to Luke, telling him & Maria to investigate their school after school.

In class, The Teacher throws away Clyde’s fish & chips dinner he snuck in & Luke proves to have a mass amount of knowledge to his teacher, due to Luke being half alien. His teacher invites him to an after school science lesson. He is the only one in the lesson apart from a kid named Carl. In that lesson, Luke is tasked with fixing a problem in a capacitor system. After the lesson, Luke & Maria begin to investigate. Maria heads off into a computer suite while Luke finds a missing room on a map & investigates the room. Meanwhile, Sarah goes off to the company that provided the schools technology & question them.

The final scenes involve the enemy being revealed. The aliens are called the Slitheen & are disguised as the Teachers by wearing the skins of the bigger people. At the end of Part One, Maria & Clyde are being chased by a slitheen & are rescued by Carl, who reveals himself to be a child Slitheen. Sarah is being stalked by a slitheen, who was disguised as the CEO of the technology company. Luke has been found & confronted by a group of Slitheens.

In Part Two, Sarah escapes her slitheen by spraying Perfume in it’s face. She calls Luke to warn him while Luke is being hunted by the Slitheens. Maria & Clyde escape the Child slitheen. Maria, Luke & Clyde reunite & try to escape the School but the gates are locked. Sarah comes in & lets them out with her Sonic Lipstick & then traps the Slitheen in.

The 4 go back to Sarah’s house & get together what they know. Mr Smith tells Sarah that power outs are happening all over the world. Then the team figure out that the Slitheen are getting rid of all light & warmth to kill the planet & then go back to their home planet, Raxacoricofallapatorius, & sell parts they’ve scavenged. It is then revealed that Luke was tricked into helping the Slitheen by fixing the capacitor system. The slitheen start their plan by turning off all Earth’s light, even the Sun. The team them try working out how to defeat the Slitheen & then they learn that they’re made of Calcium & vinegar can Kill them.

They return to the School to stop the slitheen & turn back on the Sun. They get captured by the Slitheen & they’re taken to their base, the missing room on the map. They reveal that they are doing this in memory of Part of their family, who were killed by a man called the Doctor. Then Luke tells the slitheen that their plan will fail as they didn’t tell him what the Capacitor was for & that the machine will explode. The slitheen are forced to reset the sun to save their lives. The team then escape when Sarah throws Luke her sonic lipstick & he uses it to overload the capacitor, causing it to start to explode. The team escape but the Slitheens are killed, including the 12 year old child Slitheen.

Soon after, Sarah calls UNIT to clear up the Technology from the school, as well as any other schools. 

EYE OF THE GORGON

WRITTEN BY: PHIL FORD
DIRECTED BY: ALICE TROUGHTON

A haunted nursing home leads Sarah to a mysterious order of nuns with an ancient and alien secret.

This episode focuses on the last of the 3 Gorgons, a creature that turns whoever looks at it into stone. She uses a group of nuns to retrieve a necklace called the talisman that will open a door to a world full of Gorgons.

While investigating a nursing home, a woman called Bea gives Luke the talisman & tells him to keep it hidden. When back at Sarah's house, Mr Smith detects the talisman as unidentified alien technology & Luke is forced to reveal the talisman. Sarah & Maria return to the nursing home to ask Bea some questions.

Some time after they'd left, a group of nuns knocked on Sarah's door & asked Luke & Clyde questions about the talisman, to which Luke lets his guard down. The nuns end up leaving as Maria's dad gives them money, believing they're collecting donations. Luke & Clyde leave soon after to warn Sarah.

At the nursing home, Bea reveals to Sarah that her husband was an archaeologist & he discovered the talisman. After looking into the talisman & some more information from Bea, Sarah learns about the presence of a Gorgon. Meanwhile, the group of nuns track down Luke & Clyde & kidnap Luke.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SARAH JANE?

WRITTEN BY: GARETH ROBERTS
DIRECTED BY: GRAEME HARPER

One day, Sarah Jane Smith exists. The next, only Maria Jackson knows of her. Andrea Yates takes her place, but Maria knows that Andrea has done something to remove Sarah from the space/time continuum. It is up to Maria to uncover the identity of the "Trickster"if the human race is to survive. But with Sarah and Luke wiped from existence and Clyde having lost all knowledge of his former adventures, Maria must save the world single-handedly. But she finds it may be time to tell her father about her secret life with Sarah if the whole world is to survive.

THE DAY OF THE CLOWN

WRITTEN BY: PHIL FORD
DIRECTED BY: MICHAEL KERRIGAN

Rani Chandra is the new girl on Bannerman Road. She is haunted by a sinister clown. Does it have anything to do with local children who have gone missing? When Clyde's friend Dave disappears, the trail leads to a strange circus museum and the legend of the Pied Piper.

THE WEB OF LIES

WRITTEN BY: GARY RUSSELL
DIRECTED BY: BARRY LETTS

Luke & Maria are worried about Sarah. Ever since she returned from a spiritual shop, she has been acting weirdly. She is avoiding their company & has started reprogramming Mr Smith to track crystals on Earth. When the gang start to investigate, they find that a very old friend of Sarah is responsible.

This episode sees the return of the Eight Legs from the Doctor Who story Planet of the Spiders. After the events of Planet, 3 Eight Legs abandoned Metebelis III & travelled to Earth in hopes of rebuilding their species by finding fragments of the Metebelis crystal & using its power to resurrect the Great One.

When Sarah investigates the Monks, the Spiders take over her as they recognise her from 1974. The spider who takes over Sarah is the same Queen spider that possessed her all those years ago. Maria & Luke start noticing Sarah isn't herself when she reprograms Mr Smith & shuts down K9. They investigate the Monks & discover the Eight Legs, with the cliffhanger to Part One being Sarah / the Queen pulling Maria & Luke away from each other.

In Part Two, Maria & Luke escape & return to Bannerman Road to reactivate K9 & fix Mr Smith. Together, they are able to track down fragments of the crystal before the Eight Legs & use them to create a gas that would kill the Eight Legs & save their prey. They are successful & when everyone is safe, they burn the gas bottle to be on the safe side.

This would've been a fan favourite with old Who fans however new Who fans would be a bit confused as to what The Eight Legs were as they weren't an iconic villain.

SJA: Series 2 (2005)

Series 2 of The Sarah Jane Adventures would've aired between the 7th of February & the 25th of April in 2005, consisting of 6 stories and 12 thirty minute episodes.

After Series 1 had aired, it was announced that Russell T Davies & Phil Collinson had stepped down as executive producers, leaving Gardner as the only showrunner. The task now was to find their replacements. Replacing them were Barry Letts & Terrance Dicks, who were the Producer & Script Editor for most of the Pertwee era. Letts & Dicks wanted to take the show in a different route than it had last season. They wanted more darkness into the show & have the show go through the routes that Doctor Who went through in the late 80s & early 90s.

It was also decided to change a lot of the main cast as Letts & Dicks thought that the 3 kid dynamic wouldn’t work. It was decided to ditch all the kids except Luke Smith. K9 Would also be appearing more often in episodes, instead of monitoring a Black Hole. Also, Mr Smith would’ve been converted from a supercomputer to an application in Sarah’s mobile. Finally, it was decided to add another companion from Doctor Who’s history. Originally, Letts wanted to see the return of Jo Grant or Liz Shaw, but their actresses proved to be unavailable at the time. Then former Doctor Who Script Editor Paul Cornell came forth with the idea of having the return of Bernice Summerfield & Chris Hector after the events of the episode Time Tunnel, as it hadn’t been explained what had happened to them. Letts & Dicks liked the idea & contacted Lisa Bowerman & Robert Bathurst about the idea. However, Bowerman proved to be unavailable at the time but Bathurst was interested in returning. So Series 2 of Sarah Jane Adventures would feature Sarah Jane, Luke Smith, K9 MK IV, Mr Smith & an older Chris Hector.

Finally, to signify these changes, a new title sequence & theme tune were produced alongside a new logo. The new titles had a very similar design to something of the Matrix. The new theme would’ve been composed by Davy Darlington &  had a more detective / Mystery vibe to it.

COMEBACK

WRITTEN BY: TERRANCE DICKS
DIRECTED BY: BARRY LETTS

Six months after the last part of her undercover investigative TV series for Planet 3 Broadcasting went out, Sarah Jane Smith & her adopted alien son, Luke Smith, are running scared. Living under false names, their true identities compromised, they have few friends and fewer clues as to their pursuers. Enter three people who will change their lives – the mysterious Mr Harris, old friend Ellie Martin and a guardian angel in the shape of the roguish Josh. Now, all roads lead to the village of Cloots Coombe in Wiltshire. But will they find the answers they need there?

This story opens up the new era of the Sarah Jane Adventures. It is clearly set sometime after The Web of Lies.

WHO IS HECTOR?

WRITTEN BY: PAUL CORNELL
DIRECTED BY: ALICE TROUGHTON

TEST OF NERVE

WRITTEN BY: DAVID BISHOP
DIRECTED BY: COLIN TEAGUE

KNIGHT FALLS

WRITTEN BY: BEN AARONOVITCH
DIRECTED BY: MICHAEL KERRIGAN

THE HOUSE OF NO ONE

WRITTEN BY: STEVEN MOFFAT
DIRECTED BY: EUROS LYN

THE DOCTOR WHO CAME TO TEA

WRITTEN BY: RUSSELL T DAVIES
DIRECTED BY: KEITH BOAK