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^[1]The Tribe of Gum ^[2]
The Daleks - The Dead Planet^[3], The Mutants^[1]
The Edge of Destruction - Inside the Spaceship^[1]

Season 2

Planet of Giants - Death in the Afternoon and The Miniscules^[4]
The Dalek Invasion of Earth - The Daleks^[5]
The Web Planet - The Zarbi^[5]
The Time Meddler - The Monk^[6]

Season 3

The War Machines - The Computers^[7]

Season 9

Day of the Daleks - The Ghost Hunters, Years of Doom^[8]

Season 11

Death to the Daleks - The Exilons and The Exxilons^[9]

Season 15

Horror of Fang Rock - Rocks of Doom, The Monster of Fang Rock, The Beast of Fang Rock^[10]

Season 16

The Power of Kroll - Moon of Death, The Horror of the Swamp^[11]

Season 17

City of Death - The Time of Sephiroth^[12]

Season 18

Meglos - The Golden Pentangle, The Golden Pentagram, The Last Sol-Fataran, The Last Zolfa-Thuran^[13]
State of Decay - The Vampire Mutations, The Wasting^[14]

Season 19

The Visitation - Invasion of the Plague Men, Plague Rats^[15]

Season 22

Revelation of the Daleks - The End of the Road^[16]

Season 23

The Ultimate Foe - Time Incorporated^[17]

Season 24

Time and the Rani - Strange Matter^[18]
Delta and the Bannerman - Flight of the Chimeron^[19]

30th Anniversary

Dimensions in Time - The Dimensions of Time and 3-Dimensions of Time ^[20] ^[21]

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

Rose - Rose Meets the Doctor^[22]
The Unquiet Dead - My Name's Dickens... Charles Dickens^[23], The Crippingwell Horror^[24] and The Angels of Crippingwell^[25]
World War Three - 10 Downing Street^[26]
Dalek - Return of the Daleks, Creature of Lies or Absence of the Daleks^[27]
The Long Game - The Companion Who Couldn't^[28]
Father's Day - Wounded Time^[29]
The Empty Child - World War II^[30]
The Doctor Dances - Captain Jax ^[31]
Boom Town - Dining With Monsters^[32]
Bad Wolf - Gameshow World^[33]

Series 2

New Earth - Body Swap^[34]
Tooth and Claw - Queen Victoria^[35]
School Reunion - Old Friends and Black Ops^[36]
The Girl in the Fireplace - Madame de Pompadour, Every Tick of my Heart or Reinette and the Lonely Angel^[37]
Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel - Parallel World^[38]
The Idiot's Lantern - Mr Sandman or Sonic Doom or The One-Eyed Monster^[39]
The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit - Satan Pit^[40]
Love & Monsters - I Love the Doctor^[41]
Fear Her - Chloe Webber Destroys The World and You're a Bad Girl, Chloe Webber^[42]
Army of Ghosts - Torchwood Rises^[31]
Doomsday - Torchwood Falls^[31]

Series 3

Smith and Jones - Martha^[43]
The Shakespeare Code - Love's Labour's Won or Theatre of Death^[44]
The Lazarus Experiment - The Madness of Professor Lazarus^[45]
Human Nature - Family of Mine
Blink - Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angels^[46]

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

The Next Doctor - Court of the CyberKing^[48]
The Waters of Mars - Red Christmas^[23]
The End of Time - The Immortality Gate and The Final Days of Planet Earth^[49]

Series 6

The Impossible Astronaut - The Year of the Moon ^[50]
Day of the Moon - Look Behind You ^[51]
The Curse of the Black Spot - Siren^[52]
The Doctor's Wife - The TARDIS Trap or The House of Nothing or Bigger on the Inside ^[53]
The Almost People - Gangers^[54]
A Good Man Goes to War - His Darkest Hour and Demons Run ^[55]
Night Terrors - What are Little Boys Made Of? and House Call ^[56]
The Girl Who Waited - The Visitors' Room or The Visiting Hour or Kindness^[57]
Closing Time - Three Cybermen and a Baby and The Last Adventure ^[58]

Series 7

The Power of Three - Cubed ^[59]
The Angels Take Manhattan - The Angels Wept ^[60]
Hide - Phantoms of the Hex ^[61]
Nightmare in Silver - The Last Cyberman ^[62]

Series 8

Time Heist - Time Theft or Break in^{[source needed]}
In the Forest of the Night - Child's Play ^[63]
Dark Water - The Gates of Paradise ^[64]
Last Christmas - The Dreaming or Santa Claus^{[source needed]}

Series 9

Under the Lake - Ghost in the Machine^{[source needed]}
The Woman Who Lived - The Knightmare^{[source needed]}
Face the Raven - Trap Street^{[source needed]}

Series 10

The Pilot - A Star In Her Eye^[65]^[66]^[67]^[68]
Knock Knock - The Haunted Hub^{[source needed]}
Empress of Mars - The Empress of Mars^{[source needed]}
The Doctor Falls - Floor 507^{[source needed]}
Twice Upon a Time - The Doctors^{[source needed]}

Series 11

The Witchfinders - The Witch Finders, The Witch Hunters or The Witchhunters^{[source needed]}

Class

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

For Tonight We Might Die - The Prom^[69]

Working titles of novels

Virgin New Adventures

Set Piece - Butterfly Wings^[70]

Working titles of Big Finish audio stories

Doctor Who Monthly

Phantasmagoria - The Watchman
Whispers of Terror - The Sound of Silence
Jubilee - Dalek Invasion^{[source needed]}
Embrace the Darkness - The Darkness Bites Back
Neverland - The Mystery of Zagreys or The Mystery of Zagreus
Doctor Who and the Pirates - The Lass That Lost a Sailor
Zagreus - The Shadow of Zagreus
Aquitaine - Ergosphere
Kingdom of Lies - Inside the Kingdom of Lies

Footnotes

[TVCompanion-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 REF: The Television Companion

[2] REF: Doctor Who The Scripts: The Tribe of Gum

[Firstepname-3] Title of first episode of story

[4] REF: The First Doctor Handbook

[Secondname-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Title of second episode of story

[6] ttp://homepages.bw.edu//~jcurtis/Pixley_3.htm

[7] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/bb.html

[8] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/kkk.html

[9] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/xxx.html

[10] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/4v.html

[11] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5e.html

[12] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5h.html

[13] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5q.html

[14] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5p.html

[15] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5x.html

[16] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/6z.html

[17] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/7c-2.html

[18] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/7d.html

[19] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/7f.html

[20] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/dit.html

[21] DWM 249

[22] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005a.html

[nine_christmas-23] 23.0 ^23.1 Nine Christmas-related things you (probably) didn't know about Doctor Who... (4 December 2016). Retrieved on 4 December 2016.

[24] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005c.html

[25] REF: The Shooting Scripts

[26] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005de.html

[27] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005f.html

[28] Doctor Who Magazine Series One Special

[29] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005h.html

[30] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005ij.html

[DWDVDF14-31] 31.0 ^31.1 ^31.2 DWDVDF 14

[32] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005k.html

[33] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2005lm.html

[34] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006a.html

[35] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006b.html

[36] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006c.html

[37] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006d.html

[38] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006ef.html

[39] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006g.html

[40] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2006hi.html

[41] Doctor Who Magazine Issue 370

[42] Doctor Who Magazine Issue 371

[43] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2007a.html

[44] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2007b.html

[45] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2007f.html

[46] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2007j.html

[47] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2008hi.html

[48] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2008n.html

[49] Doctor Who Magazine Issue 416

[50] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/series-6-so-far-march-update-16960.htm

[51] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/series-6-so-far-march-update-16960.htm

[52] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2011c.html

[53] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2011d.html

[54] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2011ef.html

[55] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/series-6-so-far-march-update-16960.htm

[56] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-who-series-6-autumn-preview-20767.htm

[57] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2011j.html

[58] ttp://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/2011l.html

[59] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/series-7-cubed-spoilers-33940.html

[60] ttp://www.tvrage.com/news/1523/doctor-who-series-7-episodes-4-5-titles-announced

[61] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/another-series-7-episode-title-revealed-35313.htm

[62] ttp://doctorwhotv.co.uk/gaiman-on-the-last-cyberman-45225.htm

[63] ttp://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-who-series-8-2014-what-we-know-update-60972.htm

[64] ttp://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-who-series-8-2014-what-we-know-update-60972.htm

[65] ttps://twitter.com/d0od/status/767445794781790208

[66] ttps://twitter.com/HDProductions70/status/766751107116896256

[67] Fullerton, Huw (13 March 2017). Does this Doctor Who series 10 title change mean a shake-up for the series?. RadioTimes. Retrieved on 16 April 2017.

[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)

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