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 BC, The Tribe of Gum
• The Daleks - The Dead Planet, The Mutants, Beyond the Sun
• The Edge of Destruction - Inside the Spaceship
• Marco Polo - A Journey to Cathay

Season 2

• Planet of Giants - Death in the Afternoon, The Miniscules
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth - The Daleks
• The Crusade - The Saracen Hordes
• The Web Planet - The Zarbi
• The Chase - The Pursuers
• The Time Meddler - The Monk

Season 3

• The Celestial Toymaker - The Toymaker, The Trilogic Game
• The Gunfighters - The Gunslingers
• The War Machines - The Computers

Season 4

• The Power of the Daleks - The Destiny of Doctor Who
• The Macra Terror - The Spidermen, The Insect-men, The Macra
• The Faceless Ones - The Chameleons

Season 8

• The Claws of Axos - The Vampire from Space

Season 9

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

Season 11

• Death to the Daleks - The Exilons, The Exxilons

Season 14

• The Masque of Mandragora - The Catacombs of Death, The Curse of Mandragora, Secret of the Labyrinth
• The Talons of Weng-Chiang - The Foe From the Future or The Talons of Greel

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, The Shield of Time

Season 17

• City of Death - The Time of Sephiroth, The Gamble With Time
• Nightmare of Eden - Nightmare of Evil

• Shada - Sunburst

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

• The Two Doctors - The Kraglon Inheritance, The Androgum Inheritance
• 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
• Dragonfire - Absolute Zero, The Pyramid's Treasure, Pyramid in Space

Season 25

• The Happiness Patrol - The Crooked Smile
• Silver Nemesis - Nemesis

Season 26

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

30th Anniversary

• Dimensions in Time - The Dimensions of Time, 3-Dimensions of Time

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

• Rose - Rose Meets the Doctor
• The Unquiet Dead - My Name's Dickens... Charles Dickens, The Crippingwell Horror and The Angels of Crippingwell
• World War Three - 10 Downing Street
• Dalek - Return of the Daleks, Creature of Lies or Absence of the Daleks
• The Long Game - The Companion Who Couldn't
• Father's Day - Wounded Time
• The Empty Child - An Empty Childand 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, 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 or 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
• Midnight - Crusader Five and Crusader 50

2009 Specials

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

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

• Robot of Sherwood - Robots of Sherwood
• In the Forest of the Night - Child's Play
• Dark Water - The Gates of Paradise

Series 9

• Under the Lake - Ghost in the Machine
• Face the Raven - Trap Street

Series 10

• The Pilot - A Star In Her Eye
• Knock Knock - The Haunted Hub

Series 11

• The Witchfinders - The Witchhunters or The Witch Finders

K9 & Company

Working titles of episode

• A Girl's Best Friend - One Girl and Her Dog

Torchwood

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

• Day One - New Girl

Miracle Day

• The New World - Miracle Day

Class

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

• For Tonight We Might Die - The Prom
• The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo - Skinned

Working titles of novels

Virgin New Adventures

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

Working titles of audio stories

Kaldor City

• Hidden Persuaders - The Rhubarb Conspiracy

Gallifey

• Forever - Gallifrey Eternal

The War Master

• The Heavenly Paradigm - The Unutterable Hell of 24 Marigold Lane