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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, 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, The Exxilons^[9]

Season 14

The Talons of Weng-Chiang - The Foe From the Future or The Talons of Greel^[10]

Season 15

Horror of Fang Rock - Rocks of Doom, The Monster of Fang Rock, The Beast of Fang Rock^[11]

Season 16

The Power of Kroll - Moon of Death, The Horror of the Swamp^[12]

Season 17

City of Death - The Time of Sephiroth^[13]

Season 18

Meglos - The Golden Pentangle, The Golden Pentagram, The Last Sol-Fataran, The Last Zolfa-Thuran^[14]
State of Decay - The Vampire Mutations, The Wasting^[15]

Season 19

The Visitation - Invasion of the Plague Men, Plague Rats^[16]

Season 22

Revelation of the Daleks - The End of the Road^[17]

Season 23

The Ultimate Foe - Time Incorporated^[18]

Season 24

Time and the Rani - Strange Matter^[19]^[20]
Delta and the Bannerman - Flight of the Chimeron^[21]

30th Anniversary

Dimensions in Time - The Dimensions of Time, 3-Dimensions of Time^[22]^[23]

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

Rose - Rose Meets the Doctor^[24]
The Unquiet Dead - My Name's Dickens... Charles Dickens^[25], The Crippingwell Horror^[26] and The Angels of Crippingwell^[27]
World War Three - 10 Downing Street^[28]
Dalek - Return of the Daleks, Creature of Lies or Absence of the Daleks^[29]
The Long Game - The Companion Who Couldn't^[30]
Father's Day - Wounded Time^[31]
The Empty Child - An Empty Child^[32] and World War II^[33]
The Doctor Dances - Captain Jax ^[34]
Boom Town - Dining With Monsters^[35]
Bad Wolf - Gameshow World^[36]

Series 2

New Earth - Body Swap^[37]
Tooth and Claw - Queen Victoria^[38]
School Reunion - Old Friends and Black Ops^[39]
The Girl in the Fireplace - Madame de Pompadour, Every Tick of my Heart or Reinette and the Lonely Angel^[40]
Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel - Parallel World^[41]
The Idiot's Lantern - Mr Sandman or Sonic Doom or The One-Eyed Monster^[42]
The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit - Satan Pit^[43]
Love & Monsters - I Love the Doctor^[44]
Fear Her - Chloe Webber Destroys The World and You're a Bad Girl, Chloe Webber^[45]
Army of Ghosts - Torchwood Rises^[34]
Doomsday - Torchwood Falls^[34]

Series 3

Smith and Jones - Martha^[46]
The Shakespeare Code - Love's Labour's Won or Theatre of Death^[47]
The Lazarus Experiment - The Madness of Professor Lazarus^[48]
Blink - Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angels^[49]

Series 4

Forest of the Dead - The Doctor Runs or Forest of the Night or River's Run or Return of the Dead^[50]

2009 Specials

The Next Doctor - Court of the CyberKing^[51]
The Waters of Mars - Red Christmas^[25]
The End of Time - The Immortality Gate and The Final Days of Planet Earth^[52]

Series 6

The Impossible Astronaut - The Year of the Moon^[53]
Day of the Moon - Look Behind You^[54]
The Curse of the Black Spot - Siren^[55]
The Doctor's Wife - The TARDIS Trap or The House of Nothing or Bigger on the Inside^[56]
The Almost People - Gangers^[57]
A Good Man Goes to War - His Darkest Hour and Demons Run^[58]
Night Terrors - What are Little Boys Made Of? and House Call^[59]
The Girl Who Waited - The Visitors' Room or The Visiting Hour or Kindness^[60]
Closing Time - Three Cybermen and a Baby and The Last Adventure^[61]

Series 7

The Power of Three - Cubed^[62]
The Angels Take Manhattan - The Angels Wept^[63]
Hide - Phantoms of the Hex^[64]
Nightmare in Silver - The Last Cyberman^[65]

Series 8

Robot of Sherwood - Robots of Sherwood^[66]
In the Forest of the Night - Child's Play^[67]
Dark Water - The Gates of Paradise^[68]

Series 9

Face the Raven - Trap Street^[69]

Series 10

The Pilot - A Star In Her Eye^[70]^[71]^[72]^[73]
Knock Knock - The Haunted Hub^[74]

Series 11

The Witchfinders - The Witchhunters^[75] or The Witch Finders^[76]

Torchwood

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

Day One - New Girl^[77]

Miracle Day

The New World - Miracle Day^[78]

Class

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

For Tonight We Might Die - The Prom^[79]
The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo - Skinned^[80]

Working titles of novels

Virgin New Adventures

Cat's Cradle: Warhead - Cat's Cradle: Escape^[81]
Love and War - Heaven^[81]
No Future - Anarchy in the UK^[81]
Set Piece - Butterfly Wings^[81]
Toy Soldiers - Toy Solstice^[81]
Return of the Living Dad - Big Trouble in Little Chalfont^[81]

Working titles of audio stories

Kaldor City

Hidden Persuaders - The Rhubarb Conspiracy^[82]

Gallifey

Forever - Gallifrey Eternal^[83]

The War Master

The Heavenly Paradigm - The Unutterable Hell of 24 Marigold Lane^[84]

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] ttps://www.clivebanks.co.uk/Talonsofwengchiang.htm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[20] DWI 3

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

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

[23] DWM 249

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

[nine_christmas-25] 25.0 ^25.1 Nine Christmas-related things you (probably) didn't know about Doctor Who... (4 December 2016). Retrieved on 4 December 2016.

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

[27] REF: The Shooting Scripts

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

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

[30] Doctor Who Magazine Series One Special

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

[32] ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/episodes/?episode=s1_09&action=factfile

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

[DWDVDF14-34] 34.0 ^34.1 ^34.2 DWDVDF 14

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[44] Doctor Who Magazine Issue 370

[45] Doctor Who Magazine Issue 371

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

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

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

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

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

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

[52] Doctor Who Magazine Issue 416

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[66] ttps://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/doctor-who-series-8-full-episode-titles-writers-directors-and-guest-stars-revealed-9679152.html

[67] ttp://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-who-series-8-2014-what-we-know-update-60972.htm

[68] ttp://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-who-series-8-2014-what-we-know-update-60972.htm

[69] ttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/DW9-EP10-Face-the-Raven.pdf

[70] ttps://twitter.com/d0od/status/767445794781790208

[71] ttps://twitter.com/HDProductions70/status/766751107116896256

[72] Fullerton, Huw (13 March 2017). Does this Doctor Who series 10 title change mean a shake-up for the series?. RadioTimes. Retrieved on 16 April 2017.

[73] Martin, Dan (15 April 2017). Doctor Who: series 36, episode one – The Pilot. The Guardian. Retrieved on 16 April 2017.

[74] ttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/DoctorWhoS36E4KnockKnock

[75] ttps://www.anglotopia.net/british-entertainment/brit-tv/bbc/doctor-whooligan-witchfinders-season-12-rumors-time-war-wages-big-finish-louise-jameson-stage/

[76] ttps://www.gallifreyannewsroom.com/?p=7762

[77] ttp://shannonsullivan.com/drwho/torchwood/2006b.html

[78] ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/torchwood-miracle-day-ep1

[79] Radio Times staff (30 April 2016). Here's what the very first episode of Doctor Who spin-off Class is called. Radio Times. Retrieved on 22 October 2016.

[80] ttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original-Class-Script-Season-One-Episode-Two-By-Patrick-Ness-Doctor-Who-Spin-Off-/143614856674

[VNA_working_titles-81] 81.0 ^81.1 ^81.2 ^81.3 ^81.4 ^81.5 DWM 252 (Licence to Kill p.30)

[82] ttp://www.kaldorcity.com/features/articles/tcrecording.html

[83] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20101121033920/http://bigfinish.com/Gallifrey-Series-4-CD-Boxset

[84] BFX: Only the Good

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-* ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead|Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'' - ''Cat's Cradle: Escape''<ref name = "VNA working titles">[[DWM 252]] (Licence to Kill p.30)</ref>
+* ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'' - ''Cat's Cradle: Escape''<ref name = "VNA working titles">[[DWM 252]] (Licence to Kill p.30)</ref>
 * ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]] - Heaven''<ref name = "VNA working titles"/>
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Doctor Who

Abandoned story titles

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 9

Season 11

Season 14

Season 15

Season 16

Season 17

Season 18

Season 19

Season 22

Season 23

Season 24

30th Anniversary

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

Series 4

2009 Specials

Series 6

Series 7

Series 8

Series 9

Series 10

Series 11

Torchwood

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

Miracle Day

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Working titles of episodes

Series 1

Working titles of novels

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