The Dark Dimension (unproduced TV story): Difference between revisions

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| image          = The Dark Dimension-Cyberman Redesign.jpg

| series          = Unproduced Doctor Who TV stories

| enemy          = Oliver Hawkspur

| setting        = [[Earth]] [[1936]], [[1999]], [[2136]]

| director        = [[Graeme Harper]]

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The creature would have then mortally wounded Ace, causing the Doctor to use his remaining strength to throw the creature into a vortex opening, not only killing it but erasing it from time. The Doctor would have then regenerated into his Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh incarnations as the original timeline was restored.

The Seventh Doctor and Ace would have found themselves at a church, with the Doctor reflecting that they would soon likely forget the alternate timeline. The two would eventually continue their travels in time and space, with the Doctor pondering how humanity has survived so much throughout history and beyond...

[[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]]'s son, [[Alexander Stewart (The Dark Dimension)|Alexander Stewart]], would have a minor role in the film. In the alternative timeline he would have been the boyfriend of [[Ace|Dorothy]]. At the end of the film, at the church, the Brigadier would have been seen visiting Alexander's grave. In the normal timeline, he died in [[1979]] at the age of ten.<ref name=":0">[[The Nth Doctor]]</ref>

The villain of the story was a creature "Entirely made out of chronal energy". No concrete description of the creature has been given, although multiple people who worked on the project have given basic outlines for how they wanted to depict it. Kevin Davies, who was to work on post-production effects, described it as "The big alien, Death itself" which would "float across the landscape spreading death and destruction beneath it."<ref name="TSV" /> In the beginning of the film, the resistance group led by Summerfield would try to kill this creature by sending it into the [[time vortex]], only for it to escape into the past, where it would possess Professor Hawkspur in 1936 and travel to the future to save the Fourth Doctor on the Pharos Project.

This story was to also feature almost all the classic monsters, with many of them being redesigned or feature totally new developments of the original design. The Ice Warriors were similar to their classic design, however being slimmed down from their bulky armour to a more fitting shape, while also losing the helmet design for proper heads with bulbous white eyes. The Yeti were also similar to their original depiction, with the inclusion of a proper face being the main redesign. In the original script written by Rigelsford, the story introduced a new type of Cyberman, the [[Cyber-Commander|Cybercommander]]. Its skeletal design has been commonly associated with the project.

* [[Brian Blessed]], [[David Bowie]] and [[David Warner]] were considered for Professor Oliver Hawkspur.  

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