The Nightmare Fair (unproduced TV story): Difference between revisions

|novelisation   = The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)

|adapted into   = The Nightmare Fair (audio story)

|series          = [[Doctor Who]] unproduced TV stories

|season number  = Season 23 (Doctor Who 1963)

|doctor          = Sixth Doctor

|companions      = [[Peri Brown|Peri]]

|enemy          = [[The Toymaker]]

|director        = [[Matthew Robinson]]

|next            = The Ultimate Evil (unproduced TV story)

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'''''The Nightmare Fair''''' was an unproduced TV story for the original [[Season 23 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 23]], before it was put on hiatus.

It would have featured the return of [[Michael Gough]] as [[the Toymaker]], as well as revealing the Toymaker's previously unexplained origins. The story would have followed straight from the previous season's concluding two-parter, ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]''.

The main villain would have been [[the Toymaker]], whose actor, [[Michael Gough]], had been convinced to return.

The story would have continued straight from ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'', where the Doctor said to [[Peri Brown|Peri]], ''"All right, I'll take you to—"''. The ending of part two would have revealed the destination as "[[Blackpool]]", but in the finished version a freeze-frame occurred at this point, leaving the name unspoken.

The idea had come to [[John Nathan-Turner]] to set the story in Blackpool when [[Colin Baker]] opened a ride there called "[[Space Mountain]]". The story would also have been set partially there, with the Celestial Toymaker making strange things happen.

Peri would have been attacked by robot miners in a gold mine adventure ride. The Doctor would have been forced to play a video game whose outcome would decide the fate of the planet.

== Legacy ==

The story was later adapted into the [[Target Missing Episodes]] [[The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)|lost story]], and would also receive a [[Big Finish Productions]] [[The Nightmare Fair (audio story)|audio adaptation]] based on both the novelisation and the script. [[Michael Gough]] had by this time long since retired from the acting profession, so the part of the Toymaker was recast with [[David Bailie]].

 

In 2003, an earlier audio drama adaptation was produced by [[Robert Dunlop]] to raise money for the charity Sense.<ref>https://www.shillpages.com/nightmarefair/</ref>