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, The Paradox

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
• 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

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

Season 16

• The Ribos Operation - Operation, The 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 Zenda, The Androids of Zend, The Prisoners of Zend and The Seeds of Time
• The Power of Kroll - Moon of Death, The Horror of the Swamp
• The Armageddon Factor - Armageddon

Season 17

• City of Death - The Time of Sephiroth
• 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
• Full Circle - The Planet that Slept
• State of Decay - The Vampire Mutations, The Wasting

Season 19

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

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

30th Anniversary

• Dimensions in Time - The Dimensions of Time and 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 - 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
• Human Nature - Family of Mine
• Blink - Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angels

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
• Midnight - Midnite or The Enemy that Talks Back
• The Stolen Earth - Doctor's Destiny or The Medusa Cascade

2008-2010 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

• Time Heist - Time Theft or Break in

• In the Forest of the Night - Child's Play
• Dark Water - The Gates of Paradise
• Last Christmas - The Dreaming or Santa Claus

Series 9

• Under the Lake - Ghost in the Machine
• The Woman Who Lived - The Knightmare
• Face the Raven - Trap Street

Series 10

• The Pilot - A Star In Her Eye
• Knock Knock - The Haunted Hub
• Empress of Mars - The Empress of Mars
• The Doctor Falls - Floor 507

Class

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

• For Tonight We Might Die - The Prom

Working titles of novels

Virgin New Adventures

• Set Piece - Butterfly Wings