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'''''Fifty-Fifty''''' or '''''50/50''''' was an unproduced audio story planned by [[Steven Hall (writer)|Steven Hall]] for ''[[Doctor Who]]''{{'}}s 50th anniversary in [[2013 (production)|2013]]. It would have depicted a "big, epic and pretty brutal showdown" between the [[Seventh Doctor|Seventh]] and [[Eighth Doctor]]s, with [[Ace]], [[Hex]], and [[Lucie Miller|Lucie]] being forced to choose sides.<ref name="#17">[https://gallifreybase.com/gb/threads/the-seventh-and-eighth-doctors-attitudes-to-each-other-going-somewhere.174442/post-7042955 Re: The Seventh and Eighth Doctors' attitudes to each other - Going Somewhere? #17]</ref>

''50/50'' would have relied on a very different ending to the ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'' trilogy: the revelation that the [[Great Old One|Old Gods]] and other monsters were returning because something travelling very fast was smashing holes through the dimensions. This object would have been revealed to be the bruised and battered Eighth Doctor, who would tell Hex that the Seventh Doctor had caused it and that they were fast approaching "the moment where 7 went bad."<ref name="#23">[https://gallifreybase.com/gb/threads/the-seventh-and-eighth-doctors-attitudes-to-each-other-going-somewhere.174442/post-7045294 Re: The Seventh and Eighth Doctors' attitudes to each other - Going Somewhere? #23]</ref>

 

As Hall was planning ''Fifty-Fifty'' when he wrote ''[[A Death in the Family (audio story)|A Death in the Family]]'', many character moments there were designed to build toward the showdown between the two Doctors. However, because of the characters involved and the actors the story needed, it was deemed too expensive and never produced.<ref name="#17" /> Hall suggested it might fit in with a "new generation" of ''[[The Lost Stories]]''.<ref name="#23" />