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David Burton was a stage actor who claimed he had been cast (DWM 209) as the Doctor, in 1991.
He states he was filmed by a company in an independently-made pilot called Doctor Who and the Monsters of Ness. The pilot was sent to the BBC, and if they liked it, a Doctor Who reboot would have been made.
No independent evidence of Burton's claims has ever been produced, and there is no record of any such pilot ever having been made.
In 2012, a one page plotline was said to have been found which may reveal how the proposed 14 part series would have begun. The so called Diamond File was circulated among fans for a while before it disappeared.
The Monsters Of Ness.
Starring : David Burton [The Doctor].
1/14. The Monsters Of Ness.
An exciting new eighth incarnation of The Doctor, is joined by his twin nieces Heart and Diamond for a thrilling but terrifying psychological adventure of nonstop horror that takes place beneath and around the icy waters of Loch Ness, where a telepathic Skarasen army of reptilian monsters are attacking the fear centre’s of the local populations brains, in order to locate a mystical energy that will give them the power to unravel the whole of time itself. It is a power that in actual fact is located deep within the minds of the twins, and through The Doctor’s Tardis to Gallifrey, the Timelords and eternity.