List of working titles
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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 - Manpower, 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
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 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 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
Series 1
- Everything Changes - Floatsam and Jetsam
- Day One - New Girl
- Cyberwoman - The Trouble With Lisa