List of working titles

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Several Doctor Who stories have had different working titles than the finished stories.

Doctor Who

Abandoned story titles

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 9

Season 11

  • Death to the Daleks - The Exilons and The Exxilons[9]
  • The Monster of Peladon - Return to Peladon and The Curse of Peladon (as noted on the DVD production information subtitles, writer Brian Hayles forgot he named his previous story this.)

Season 15

Season 16

  • The Ribos Operation - OperationThe Ribos File and The Galactic Conman.
  • The Pirate Planet - The Pirates and The Pirates of Time
  • The Stones of Blood - The Nine Maidens and The Stones of Time.
  • The Androids of Tara - The Androids of ZendaThe Androids of Zend, The Prisoners of Zend and The Seeds of Time
  • The Power of Kroll - Moon of Death, The Horror of the Swamp[11]
  • The Armageddon Factor - Armageddon

Season 17

  • City of Death - The Time of Sephiroth[12]
  • Nightmare of Eden - Nightmare of Evil
  • The Horns of Nimon - Horns of Nimon (minus 'The')

Season 18

  • The Leisure Hive - Avalon and The Argolins.
  • Meglos - The Golden Pentangle, The Golden Pentagram, The Last Sol-Fataran, The Last Zolfa-Thuran[13]
  • Full Circle - The Planet that Slept
  • State of Decay - The Vampire Mutations, The Wasting[14]

Season 19

  • Castrovalva - The Visitor
  • Four to Doomsday - Day of Wrath
  • Kinda - The Kinda
  • The Visitation - Invasion of the Plague Men, Plague Rats[15]
  • Black Orchid - The Beast
  • Earthshock - Sentinel
  • Time-Flight - Zanadin and Xeraphin

Season 20

  • Arc of Infinity - The Time of Neman and The Time of Omega
  • Enlightenment - The Enlighteners
  • The King's Demons - The AndroidThe DemonsA Knight's Tale and Demons Keeper

Season 21

  • The Awakening - War Game and Poltergeist
  • Frontios - The Wanderers
  • Resurrection of the Daleks - WarheadThe Return, and The Resurrection
  • Planet of Fire - Planet of Fear
  • The Caves of Androzani - Chain Reaction
  • The Twin Dilemma - A Stitch In Time and A Switch In Time

Season 22

  • Attack of the Cybermen - The Cold War
  • Vengeance on Varos - Domain and Planet of Fear
  • The Mark of the Rani - Too Clever by Far and Enter the Rani
  • The Two Doctors - The Kraalon Inheritance, The Androgum Inheritance, ParallaxThe Seventh Augmentment and Creation
  • Revelation of the Daleks - The End of the Road[16]

Season 23

Season 24

30th Anniversary

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

Series 4

  • Partners in Crime - Donna or Weightloss or The Magic Fat or Shedding the Fat
  • The Fires of Pompeii - Pompeii or Invasion of the Pyrovillaxians
  • Forest of the Dead - The Doctor Runs or Forest of the Night or River's Run or Return of the Dead[47]
  • Midnight - Midnite or The Enemy that Talks Back
  • The Stolen Earth - Doctor's Destiny or The Medusa Cascade

2008-2010 Specials

Series 6

Series 7

Series 8

  • Time Heist - Time Theft or Break in

Series 9

Series 10

Class

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

Working titles of novels

Virgin New Adventures

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 REF: The Television Companion
  2. REF: Doctor Who The Scripts: The Tribe of Gum
  3. Title of first episode of story
  4. REF: The First Doctor Handbook
  5. 5.0 5.1 Title of second episode of story
  6. http://homepages.bw.edu//~jcurtis/Pixley_3.htm
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  9. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/xxx.html
  10. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/4v.html
  11. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5e.html
  12. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5h.html
  13. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5q.html
  14. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5p.html
  15. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5x.html
  16. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/6z.html
  17. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/7c-2.html
  18. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/7d.html
  19. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/7f.html
  20. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/dit.html
  21. DWM 249
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  25. REF: The Shooting Scripts
  26. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005de.html
  27. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005f.html
  28. Doctor Who Magazine Series One Special
  29. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005h.html
  30. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005ij.html
  31. 31.0 31.1 31.2 DWDVDF 14
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  33. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005lm.html
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  35. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006b.html
  36. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006c.html
  37. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006d.html
  38. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006ef.html
  39. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006g.html
  40. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006hi.html
  41. Doctor Who Magazine Issue 370
  42. Doctor Who Magazine Issue 371
  43. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2007a.html
  44. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2007b.html
  45. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2007f.html
  46. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2007j.html
  47. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2008hi.html
  48. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2008n.html
  49. Doctor Who Magazine Issue 416
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  53. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2011d.html
  54. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2011ef.html
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  56. http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-who-series-6-autumn-preview-20767.htm
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  58. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2011l.html
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  68. Martin, Dan (15 April 2017). Doctor Who: series 36, episode one – The Pilot. The Guardian. Retrieved on 16 April 2017.
  69. 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.
  70. DWM 252 (Licence to Kill p.30)