List of working titles

Several stories of have had different working titles than the finnished stories.

Doctor Who

Abandoned story titles

Season 1

• An Unearthly Child - Tribe of Gum
• The Daleks - The Dead Planet, The Survivors and Beyond the Sun
• The Edge of Destruction - Beyond the Sun
• Marco Polo - A Journey to Cathay

Season 2

• Planet of Giants - Death in the Afternoon
• The Rescue - Doctor Who and Tanni
• The Web Planet - The Centre of Terror and The Zarbi
• The Crusade - The Saracen Hordes
• The Chase - The Pursuers
• The Time Meddler - The Monk

Season 3

• Galaxy 4 - The Chumblies

Season 4

• The Power of the Daleks - The Destiny of Doctor Who
• The Highlanders - Culloden
• The Underwater Menace - The Fish People, Doctor Who Under the Sea, Under the Sea and Atlanta
• The Moonbase - The Return of the Cybermen
• The Macra Terror - The Spidermen, The Spidermen!, The Insect-Men and The Macra
• The Faceless Ones - The Chameleons

Season 5

• The Tomb of the Cybermen - The Ice Tombs of Telos and The Cybermen Planet

Season 6

• The Mind Robber - Another World and The Fact of Fiction

Season 7

• Spearhead from Space - Facsimile
• Doctor Who and the Silurians - The Monsters
• The Ambassadors of Death - The Invaders from Mars, Invaders from Mars and The Carriers of Death
• Inferno - The Mo-Hole Project, Operation: Mole-Bore, The Mole-Bore and Project Inferno

Season 8

• The Claws of Axos - Doctor Who and the Gift, The Friendly Invasion, The Axons and The Vampire from Space
• Colony in Space - Colony
• The Dæmons - The Demons

Season 9

• Day of the Daleks - Ghosts
• The Curse of Peladon - The Curse and Curse Of The Peladons
• The Sea Devils - The Sea Silurians
• The Mutants - Independence and The Emergents

Season 10

• Carnival of Monsters - The Labyrinth and Peepshow
• Frontier in Space - Frontier
• Planet of the Daleks - Destination Daleks

Season 11

• The Time Warrior - The Time Fugitive and The Time Survivor
• Invasion of the Dinosaurs - Bridgehead from Space and Timescoop
• Death to the Daleks - The Exilons and The Exxilons

Season 12

• The Sontaran Experiment - The Destructors
• Genesis of the Daleks - Genesis of Terror and Daleks: Genesis of Terror

Season 14

• The Masque of Mandragora - Catacombs Of Death, Doom Of Destiny, Secret Of The Labyrinth and The Curse Of Mandragora
• The Deadly Assassin - The Dangerous Assassin

Season 15

• Horror of Fang Rock - The Rocks Of Doom, The Monster Of Fang Rock and The Beast Of Rang Rock
• The Invisible Enemy - The Enemy Within, The Invader Within and The Invisible Invader.

Season 16

• The Stones of Blood - The Nine Maidens and The Stones of Time
• The Androids of Tara - The Androids of Zenda, The Androids of Zend, The Prisoners of Zend and The Seeds of Time
• The Power of Kroll - Moon of Death, Horror of the Swamp and The Shield of Time

Season 17

• Nightmare of Eden - Nightmare of Evil

Season 18

• The Leisure Hive - The Argolins
• Meglos - The Golden Pentangle, The Golden Pentagram, The Golden Star, The Last Sol-Fataran and The Last Zolfa-Thuran
• Full Circle - The Planet that Slept
• State of Decay - The Wasting, The Vampire Mutations and The Witch Lords
• Warrior's Gate - Dream Time

Season 19

• Castrovalva - The Visitor
• Four to Doomsday - Day of Wrath
• The Visitation - The Invasion of the Plague Men and Plague Rats

Season 20

• Arc of Infinity - The Time Of Neman and The Time Of Omega

Season 21

• Frontios - The Wanderers
• Resurrection of the Daleks - Warhead, The Return and The Resurrection
• Planet of Fire - The Planet of Fear

Season 22

• Vengeance on Varos - Domain and Planet of Fear
• The Mark of the Rani - Too Clever By Far and Enter The Rani
• Revelation of the Daleks - The End of the Road

Season 23

• Terror of the Vervoids - The Ultimate Foe and The Vervoids

Season 24

• Time and the Rani - Strange Matter
• Paradise Towers - Paradise Tower
• Delta and the Bannermen - Flight of the Chimeron and The Flight of the Chimeron
• Dragonfire - Absolute Zero, Pyramid In Space and The Pyramid's Treasure

Season 25

• Remembrance of the Daleks - Nemesis of the Doctor
• The Happiness Patrol - The Crooked Smile
• Silver Nemesis - The Harbinger and Nemesis

Season 26

• Battlefield - Storm Over Avallion
• Ghost Light - The Bestiary and Life-Cycle
• The Curse of Fenric - The Wolves of Fenric and Wolf-Time
• Survival - Cat-Flap, The Survival and Blood Hunt

Working titles of episodes

Season 1

• An Unearthly Child; episode two, three and four - The Fire-Maker (Ep 2), The Cave of Skulls (Ep 3) and The Dawn of Knowledge (Ep 4)
• The Daleks; episode six and seven - The Caves of Terror (Ep 6) and The Execution (Ep 7)
• Marco Polo (TV story); episode three - The Cave of Five Hundred Eyes

Season 2

• The Reign of Terror; episode two - Guests of the Guillotine
• The Crusade; episodes two, three and four - Damsel in Distress (Ep 2), Changing Fortunes (Ep 3) and The Knight of Jaffa (Ep 4)
• The Time Meddler; episode one - The Paradox

Season 3

• Mission to the Unknown - Dalek Cutaway

Season 5

• The Mind Robber; episode one - Manpower (originally planned to have aired as a stand-alone episode)

Series 1

• Aliens of London - Aliens of London Part One
• World War Three - Aliens of London Part Two and World War 3
• Father's Day - Wounded Time
• Boom Town - Dining with Monsters

Series 2

• New Earth - The Sunshine Camp
• The Girl in the Fireplace - Madame de Pompadour, Every Tick of My Heart and Reinette and the Lonely Angel.
• The Idiot's Lantern - Mr Sandman, Sonic Doom and The One-Eyed Monster.

Series 3

• The Shakespeare Code - Theatre of Doom
• Gridlock - Chasing Fumes
• Daleks in Manhattan - Daleks in New York

The Sarah Jane Adventures

The series had the working title Sarah Jane Investigates.

Torchwood

Before conceiving of Torchwood as a Doctor Who spin-off, Russell T Davies had envisioned calling the fictional organization and the series named after it Excalibur.

Series 1

• Everything Changes - Flotsam and Jetsam
• Day One - New Girl
• Cyberwoman - The Trouble With Lisa

See also

• Disputed story titles