More Lost Stories Coming to CD
Big Finish have recently announced that there will be a third season of audio plays based on scripts originally written and submitted for the classic series but which were ultimately not made. The first season was released from November 2009 through to May 2010 comprising stories that were written for the Colin Baker era (including several stories that were intended for the original Season 23). The second season has just started, with the release of Farewell, Great Macedon last month (a story originally written for the first season ever of Doctor Who, and pictured above), to be followed later this month with The Prison in Space (originally intended for Season Six in the Patrick Troughton era), before four stories (to be released in the first half of 2011) that might have been made for the original Season 27 in 1990 or 1991 (had there been one) with Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor.
The third season (for 2012) will apparently be a smattering of scripts from all sorts of different eras and different Doctors. Big Finish have announced that the 8 story season will star William Russell, Carole Ann Ford, Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Wendy Padbury, Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant. From this we can deduce at least one 1st Doctor story, two 2nd Doctor stories, at least one 5th Doctor and at least one 6th Doctor. The stories have not been announced just yet, which gives us a bit of time to guess what they might be. So without further ado, here are my hopes/picks for the 8:
1st Doctor - The Masters of Luxor (another story intended for Season One, written by Anthony Coburn (writer of An Unearthly Child), the script for which was published decades ago by Titan Books.
2nd Doctor - The Rosemariners - a story originally written for Season Five (and would feature Frazier Hines and Deborah Watling) by former script editor Donald Tosh.
- Aliens in the Blood - a story outline written for Season 6 (thus would feature Frazier Hines and Deborah Watling) by the late, great Robert Holmes. It was never completed for Doctor Who but was later adapted for a non-Who radio play in 1977.
5th Doctor - May Time (aka Children of Seth) - an un-used Christopher Bailey (of Kinda and Snakedance fame) story
- The Torson Triumvirate - an un-used Andrew Smith storyline (see The First Sontarans below)
- The Rogue TARDIS - an un-used story outline from Enlightenment writer Barbara Clegg (another un-used idea of Cleggs was developed for the 1st season of “Lost Stories” audios by Marc Platt)
6th Doctor - The Children of January - the one script from the original Season 23 that they were unable to do for the first season of lost stories because of a lack of time for the original writer (Michael Feeney Callan) to adapt to audio. (Other stories for that season haven’t been done for audio, but not because of a lack of time but either a lack of script or the unwillingness of the original author).
- The First Sontarans - an unused story idea from Andrew Smith (of Full Circle fame) for Season 22 due to the decision to include the Sontarana in The Two Doctors. With Smith now writing new stories for The Companions Chronicles for Big Finish, I think we will see at least one un-used Smith idea for this series, if not two.
For a great run-down of un-used Doctor Who stories, check out Shannon Patrick Sullivan’s site
Posted by Luca on Monday, December 13 at 10:16 pm
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Luxor is an obvious one to do others I’d like would be Project Zeta-Sigma which was a story by
John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch
Notes: After completing Meglos, Flanagan and McCulloch began developing “Project ‘4G’”, which was commissioned as a storyline on August 15th, 1980. The writers envisioned the new adventure as a parable on nuclear disarmament, with the detente between the Hawks and the Doves serving as a parallel for the Cold War. Around this time, it was decided that “Project ‘4G’” would be the first story for the Fifth Doctor, and hence the concluding part of a trilogy of adventures featuring the Master. Flanagan and McCulloch were asked to incorporate the Master into their plot, and it was decided that he would replace Sergo, and orchestrate the situation between the Hawks and the Doves in order to take over the solar system.
The script was completed so all they need to do is tailor it. It was actually thought of to be used at the end of S19 as well but it didn’t go ahead.
Posted by Ryan on 12/16 at 06:04 PM
I’d like to see them do The Red Fort, which was the script Terry Nation wrote as his initial followup for The Daleks. But especially The Giants, by CE Webber (considered the show’s co-creator) which was originally planned as the debut story for Doctor Who before it was rejected.
Posted by Alex on 12/17 at 07:10 PM
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