List of working titles

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 BCThe Tribe of Gum
• The Daleks - The Dead Planet, The Mutants
• The Edge of Destruction - Inside the Spaceship

Season 2

• Planet of Giants - Death in the Afternoon and The Miniscules
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth - The Daleks
• The Web Planet - The Zarbi
• The Time Meddler - The Monk

Season 3

• The War Machines - The Computers

Season 9

• Day of the Daleks - The Ghost Hunters, Years of Doom

Season 11

• Death to the Daleks - The Exilons and The Exxilons

Season 15

• Horror of Fang Rock - Rocks of Doom, The Monster of Fang Rock, The Beast of Fang Rock

Season 16

• The Power of Kroll - Moon of Death, The Horror of the Swamp

Season 17

• City of Death - The Time of Sephiroth

Season 18

• Meglos - The Golden Pentangle, The Golden Pentagram, The Last Sol-Fataran, The Last Zolfa-Thuran
• State of Decay - The Vampire Mutations, The Wasting

Season 19

• The Visitation - Invasion of the Plague Men, Plague Rats

Season 22

• Revelation of the Daleks - The End of the Road

Season 23

• The Ultimate Foe - Time Incorporated

Season 24

• Time and the Rani - Strange Matter
• Delta and the Bannerman - Flight of the Chimeron

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

• Rose - Rose Meets the Doctor
• The Unquiet Dead - The Crippingwell Horror
• World War Three - 10 Downing Street
• Dalek - Return of the Daleks or Creature of Lies or Absence of the Daleks
• The Long Game - The Companion Who Couldn't
• Father's Day - Wounded Time
• The Empty Child - World War II
• The Doctor Dances - Captain Jax
• Boom Town - Dining With Monsters
• Bad Wolf - Gameshow World

Series 2

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

Series 3

• Smith and Jones - Martha
• The Shakespeare Code - Love's Labour's Won and Theatre of Death
• The Lazarus Experiment - The Madness of Professor Lazarus
• Blink - Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angels

Series 4

• Forest of the Dead - The Doctor Runs or Forest of the Night or River's Run or Return of the Dead

2008-2010 Specials

• The Next Doctor - Court of the CyberKing
• The End of Time - The Immortality Gate and The Final Days of Planet Earth

Series 5

• The Eleventh Hour - The Doctor Returns

Series 6

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

Series 7

• The Power of Three - Cubed
• The Angels Take Manhattan - The Angels Wept
• Hide - Phantoms of the Hex
• Nightmare in Silver - The Last Cyberman

Series 8

• Kill the Moon - Return to Sarn

Working titles of novels

Virgin New Adventures

• Set Piece - Butterfly Wings

See also

• Disputed story titles