The Last Regeneration (unreleased comic story)
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The Last Regeneration was a cancelled comic story which was to introduce a new incarnation of the Doctor.
Plot
Recently regenerated, the amnesiac Doctor is seen running from the Cybermen. He finds safety in the TARDIS.
References
- The Doctor knows that he does not carry guns.
- The Doctor finds an apple core, a bag of jelly babies, a sonic screwdriver and a catapult on his person.
- A Cyberman tells the Doctor that he will be like them.
- The Doctor notes that he is a Time Lord.
Behind the scenes
The idea was that [the Doctor] didn't know who he was and was on his last regeneration: I'm sure Stephen [Cole] had an idea of where it would go, but I would doubt that he fleshed it out more than a pitch.
- Lee Sullivan's Doctor hair is ginger, a trait in common with "Merlin", a different future incarnation of the Doctor. Coincidentally, the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors would go on to express disappointment at not being ginger. In a 2013 interview, Lee Sullivan said he painted his Doctor's hair as "sandy" admitted that it is "the extreme end of the ginger scale"
- Sullivan said he had Alan Rickman in the back-of-the-mind while designing this Doctor, but he was not modelled exactly on him. He recalled being given carte-blanche for designing his Doctor and described his outfit at "Regency and Romantic looking".
- The comic was made for a BBC Publication, but it never got beyond a focus group. The concept was for Radio Times editor Matt Bookman's magazine pitch Sci-Files. It was ultimately printed in a limited "dummy mags" titled Robot #0 (July 1998) sent to focus groups of young people. Sullivan recalled that "kids didn’t rate strip art much and really didn't know much about Doctor Who".
- Sullivan recounted he was given no guidance for the design of the Cybermen, so he, Cole, and/or Bookman did a "rework of their original design".
