List of working titles

Several Doctor Who stories have had different working titles than the finished stories.

Doctor Who

Abandoned story titles

Season 1

An Unearthly Child - 100,000 BC^[1]The Tribe of Gum ^[2]
The Daleks - The Dead Planet^[3], The Mutants^[1]
The Edge of Destruction - Inside the Spaceship^[1]

Season 2

Planet of Giants - Death in the Afternoon and The Miniscules^[4]
The Dalek Invasion of Earth - The Daleks^[5]
The Web Planet - The Zarbi^[5]
The Time Meddler - The Monk^[6]

Season 3

The War Machines - The Computers^[7]

Season 9

Day of the Daleks - The Ghost Hunters, Years of Doom^[8]

Season 11

Death to the Daleks - The Exilons and The Exxilons^[9]

Season 15

Horror of Fang Rock - Rocks of Doom, The Monster of Fang Rock, The Beast of Fang Rock^[10]

Season 16

The Power of Kroll - Moon of Death, The Horror of the Swamp^[11]

Season 17

City of Death - The Time of Sephiroth^[12]

Season 18

Meglos - The Golden Pentangle, The Golden Pentagram, The Last Sol-Fataran, The Last Zolfa-Thuran^[13]
State of Decay - The Vampire Mutations, The Wasting^[14]

Season 19

The Visitation - Invasion of the Plague Men, Plague Rats^[15]

Season 22

Revelation of the Daleks - The End of the Road^[16]

Season 23

The Ultimate Foe - Time Incorporated^[17]

Season 24

Time and the Rani - Strange Matter^[18]
Delta and the Bannerman - Flight of the Chimeron^[19]

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

Rose - Rose Meets the Doctor^[20]
The Unquiet Dead - The Crippingwell Horror^[21]
World War Three - 10 Downing Street^[22]
Dalek - Return of the Daleks or Creature of Lies or Absence of the Daleks^[23]
The Long Game - The Companion Who Couldn't^[24]
Father's Day - Wounded Time^[25]
The Empty Child - World War II^[26]
The Doctor Dances - Captain Jax ^[27]
Boom Town - Dining With Monsters^[28]
Bad Wolf - Gameshow World^[29]

Series 2

New Earth - Body Swap^[30]
Tooth and Claw - Queen Victoria^[31]
School Reunion - Old Friends and Black Ops^[32]
The Girl in the Fireplace - Madame de Pompadour or Every Tick of my Heart or Reinette and the Lonely Angel^[33]
Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel - Parallel World^[34]
The Idiot's Lantern - Mr Sandman or Sonic Doom or The One-Eyed Monster^[35]
The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit - Satan Pit^[36]
Love & Monsters - I Love the Doctor^[37]
Fear Her - Chloe Webber Destroys The World and You're a Bad Girl, Chloe Webber^[38]
Army of Ghosts - Torchwood Rises^[27]
Doomsday - Torchwood Falls^[27]

Series 3

Smith and Jones - Martha^[39]
The Shakespeare Code - Love's Labour's Won and Theatre of Death^[40]
The Lazarus Experiment - The Madness of Professor Lazarus^[41]
Blink - Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angels^[42]

Series 4

Forest of the Dead - The Doctor Runs or Forest of the Night or River's Run or Return of the Dead^[43]

2008-2010 Specials

The Next Doctor - Court of the CyberKing^[44]
The End of Time - The Immortality Gate and The Final Days of Planet Earth^[45]

Series 5

The Eleventh Hour - The Doctor Returns^[46]

Series 6

The Impossible Astronaut - The Year of the Moon ^[47]
Day of the Moon - Look Behind You ^[48]
The Curse of the Black Spot - Siren^[49]
The Doctor's Wife - The TARDIS Trap or The House of Nothing or Bigger on the Inside ^[50]
The Almost People - Gangers^[51]
A Good Man Goes to War - His Darkest Hour and Demons Run ^[52]
Night Terrors - What are Little Boys Made Of? and House Call ^[53]
The Girl Who Waited - The Visitors' Room or The Visiting Hour or Kindness^[54]
Closing Time - Three Cybermen and a Baby and The Last Adventure^[55]

Series 7

The Power of Three - Cubed ^[56]
The Angels Take Manhattan - The Angels Wept ^[57]
Hide - Phantoms of the Hex ^[58]
Nightmare in Silver - The Last Cyberman ^[59]

Working titles of novels

Virgin New Adventures

Set Piece - Butterfly Wings^[60]

Footnotes

[TVCompanion-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 REF: The Television Companion

[2] REF: Doctor Who The Scripts: The Tribe of Gum

[Firstepname-3] Title of first episode of story

[4] REF: The First Doctor Handbook

[Secondname-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Title of second episode of story

[6] ttp://homepages.bw.edu//~jcurtis/Pixley_3.htm

[7] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/bb.html

[8] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/kkk.html

[9] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/xxx.html

[10] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/4v.html

[11] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5e.html

[12] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5h.html

[13] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5q.html

[14] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5p.html

[15] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5x.html

[16] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/6z.html

[17] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/7c-2.html

[18] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/7d.html

[19] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/7f.html

[20] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005a.html

[21] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005c.html

[22] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005de.html

[23] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005f.html

[24] Doctor Who Magazine Series One Special

[25] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005h.html

[26] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005ij.html

[DWDVDF14-27] 27.0 ^27.1 ^27.2 DWDVDF 14

[28] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005k.html

[29] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005lm.html

[30] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006a.html

[31] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006b.html

[32] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006c.html

[33] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006d.html

[34] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006ef.html

[35] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006g.html

[36] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006hi.html

[37] Doctor Who Magazine Issue 370

[38] Doctor Who Magazine Issue 371

[39] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2007a.html

[40] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2007b.html

[41] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2007f.html

[42] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2007j.html

[43] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2008hi.html

[44] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2008n.html

[45] Doctor Who Magazine Issue 416

[46] ttp://www.sporcle.com/games/Tsamporado/doctor-who-working-titles

[47] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/series-6-so-far-march-update-16960.htm

[48] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/series-6-so-far-march-update-16960.htm

[49] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2011c.html

[50] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2011d.html

[51] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2011ef.html

[52] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/series-6-so-far-march-update-16960.htm

[53] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-who-series-6-autumn-preview-20767.htm

[54] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2011j.html

[55] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2011l.html

[56] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/series-7-cubed-spoilers-33940.html

[57] ttp://www.tvrage.com/news/1523/doctor-who-series-7-episodes-4-5-titles-announced

[58] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/another-series-7-episode-title-revealed-35313.htm

[59] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/gaiman-on-the-last-cyberman-45225.htm

[60] DWM 252 (Licence to Kill p.30)

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List of working titles

Contents

Doctor Who

Abandoned story titles

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 9

Season 11

Season 15

Season 16

Season 17

Season 18

Season 19

Season 22

Season 23

Season 24

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

Series 4

2008-2010 Specials

Series 5

Series 6

Series 7

Working titles of novels

Virgin New Adventures

See also

Footnotes

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