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
• The Keys of Marinus - The Sentence of Death
• The Sensorites - Mind Control
• The Reign of Terror - Guests of the Guillotine

Season 2

• Planet of Giants - The Planet of Giants, Death in the Afternoon, The Miniscules
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth - The Daleks, The Return of the Daleks, The Invaders, The Daleks in Europe, The Abyss, Earth Rebels
• The Rescue - Tanni
• The Web Planet - The Webbed Planet, Centre of Terror
• The Crusade - The Saracen Hordes, The Lion-heart, Damsel in Distress, Changing Fortunes, The Knight of Jaffa
• The Space Museum - The Four Dimensions of Time, Zone Seven
• The Chase - The Daleks III, The Pursuers, Dalek Three
• The Time Meddler - The Monk, The Paradox

Season 3

• Galaxy 4 - The Chumblies
• Mission to the Unknown - Dalek Cut-away
• The Myth Makers - The Mythmakers, The Myth-Makers, The Trojans, The Trojan War, Deus Ex Machina, A Doctor In The Horse, Is There A Doctor In The Horse?, The Horse of Destruction
• The Daleks' Master Plan - The Daleks (Part IV), Battle of Wits
• The Massacre - The War of God, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew
• The Ark - The Space Ark
• The Celestial Toymaker - The Toymaker, The Trilogic Game
• The Gunfighters - The Gunslingers
• The Savages - The White Savages
• The War Machines - The Computers

Season 4

• The Power of the Daleks - The Destiny of Doctor Who
• The Highlanders - Culloden
• The Underwater Menace - The Fish People, Under the Sea, Atlanta
• The Moonbase - Return of the Cybermen
• The Macra Terror - The Spidermen, The Insect-men, The Macra
• The Faceless Ones - The Chameleons

Season 5

• The Tomb of the Cybermen - The Ice Tombs of Telos, The Cybermen Planet
• The Abominable Snowmen - The Abominable Snowman
• Fury from the Deep - The Colony of Devils
• The Wheel in Space - The Space Wheel

Season 6

• The Mind Robber - The Fact of Fiction, Man Power
• The Invasion - Return of the Cybermen
• The Krotons - The Trap, The Space Trap
• The Seeds of Death - The Lords of the Red Planet

Season 7

• Spearhead from Space - Facsimile
• Doctor Who and the Silurians - The Monsters
• The Ambassadors of Death - The Invaders from Mars, Invaders from Mars, The Carriers of Death
• Inferno - The Mo-Hole Project, Operation: Mole-Bore, The Mole-Bore, Project Inferno

Season 8

• Terror of the Autons - The Spray of Death
• The Mind of Evil - The Pandora Machine, Man Hours, The Pandora Box, The Pandora's Box
• The Claws of Axos - The Gift, The Friendly Invasion, The Axons, The Vampire from Space
• Colony in Space - The Colony
• The Daemons - The Demons

Season 9

• Day of the Daleks - The Ghost Hunters, Years of Doom, The Time Warriors, Ghosts
• The Sea Devils - The Sea Silurians
• The Mutants - Independence, Emergence

Season 10

• The Three Doctors - The Black Hole
• Carnival of Monsters - The Labyrinth, Peep Show
• Frontier in Space - Frontiers in Space
• Planet of the Daleks - Destination: Daleks

Season 11

• The Time Warrior - The Fugitive, The Time Fugitive, The Time Survivor
• Invasion of the Dinosaurs - Bridgehead from Space, Timescoop
• Death to the Daleks - The Exilons, The Exxilons
• The Monster of Peladon - Return to Peladon

Season 12

• The Ark in Space - The Ark, Ark in Space
• The Sontaran Experiment - The Destructors
• Genesis of the Daleks - Genesis of Terror, Daleks: Genesis of Terror
• Revenge of the Cybermen - Return of the Cybermen, The Revenge of the Cybermen

Season 13

• Terror of the Zygons - Loch Ness, The Secret of the Loch, Secret of Loch Ness, The Loch Ness Monster, The Zygons
• Planet of Evil - The Planet of Evil
• The Android Invasion - The Kraals, The Kraal Invasion, The Enemy Within

Season 14

• The Masque of Mandragora - The Catacombs of Death, Doom of Destiny, The Curse of Mandragora, Secret of the Labyrinth
• The Deadly Assassin - The Dangerous Assassin
• The Face of Evil - The Tower of Imelo, The Day God Went Mad
• The Robots of Death - The Storm-Mine Robots, Planet of the Robots
• 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
• Underworld - Underground

Season 16

• The Ribos Operation - Operation, The Galactic Conman, The Ribos File
• The Pirate Planet - The Pirates, The Perfect Planet
• The Stones of Blood - The Nine Maidens, The Stones of Time
• The Androids of Tara - The Androids of Zenda, The Androids of Zend, The Prisoners of Zend, The Seeds of Time
• The Power of Kroll - Moon of Death, The Horror of the Swamp, The Shield of Time
• The Armageddon Factor - Armageddon

Season 17

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

Season 18

• The Leisure Hive - The Argolins, Avalon
• Meglos - The Golden Pentangle, The Golden Pentagram, The Golden Star, The Last Sol-Fataran, The Last Zolfa-Thuran
• Full Circle - The Planet That Slept
• State of Decay - The Vampire Mutations, The Wasting

Season 19

• 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 or Xeraphin

Season 20

• Arc of Infinity - The Time of Neman, The Time of Omega
• Enlightenment - The Enlighteners
• The King's Demons - The Android, The Demons, A Knight's Tale, Demons Keeper

Season 21

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

Season 22

• Attack of the Cybermen - Return to Telos, The Cold War
• Vengeance on Varos - Domain, Planet of Fear
• The Mark of the Rani - Too Clever by Far, Enter the Rani
• The Two Doctors - The Kraglon Inheritance, The Androgum Inheritance
• Revelation of the Daleks - The End of the Road

Season 23

• The Mysterious Planet - Wasteland, The Robots of Ravalox
• Mindwarp - The Planet of Sil
• 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

• Remembrance of the Daleks - Nemesis of the Doctor
• The Happiness Patrol - The Crooked Smile
• Silver Nemesis - Harbringer, Nemesis

Season 26

• Battlefield - Knightfall, Storm Over Avallion, Lake Over Avallion, Pool of Avallion, Song of Avallion, Stormtroopers of Avallion, The Battlefield
• Ghost Light - The Bestiary, Life Cycle
• The Curse of Fenric - Wolf-Time, The Wolves of Fenric, Powerplay, Black Rain
• 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
• Gridlock - Chasing Fumes
• Daleks in Manhattan - Daleks in New York
• The Lazarus Experiment - The Madness of Professor Lazarus
• Blink - Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angels

Series 4

• Voyage of the Damned - Starship Titanic
• Silence in the Library - A River Song Ending
• Forest of the Dead - The Doctor Runs or Forest of the Night or River's Run or Return of the Dead
• Midnight - Crusader Five or Crusader 50

2009 Specials

• The Next Doctor - Court of the CyberKing
• The Waters of Mars - Red Christmas, Christmas on Mars, Red Planet
• The End of Time - The Immortality Gate (whole story), The Final Days of Planet Earth (Part One), The Final Battle, The Final Reckoning, Death of the Doctor (part two)

Series 5

• The Eleventh Hour - The Doctor Returns
• Victory of the Daleks - The Dalek Project, The Dalek Tea Party
• The Vampires of Venice - Blood and Water, The House of Calvierri
• Amy's Choice - The Dream Lord
• The Hungry Earth - The Ground Beneath Their Feet
• Vincent and the Doctor - Eyes That See the Darkness
• The Lodger - Mrs. Meglos, Something at the Top of the Stairs, Don't Go Up The Stairs

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, The House of Nothing, Bigger on the Inside
• The Almost People - Gangers
• A Good Man Goes to War - His Darkest Hour, Demons Run
• Night Terrors - What are Little Boys Made Of?, House Call
• The Girl Who Waited - The Visitors' Room, The Visiting Hour, Kindness
• Closing Time - Three Cybermen and a Baby, The Last Adventure

Series 7

• A Town Called Mercy - The Gunslinger or Mercy
• The Power of Three - Cubed
• The Angels Take Manhattan - The Angels Wept
• The Snowmen - The Snowman
• Hide - Phantoms of the Hex, The Hider in the House
• The Crimson Horror - Mother's Ruin
• Nightmare in Silver - The Last of the Cyberman, Silver Ghosts, A Nightmare in Silver, The Last Cyberman
• The Day of the Doctor - The Time War

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
• Sleep No More - The Arms of Morpheus
• Face the Raven - Trap Street
• The Husbands of River Song - The Husband of River Song

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

• Everything Changes - Floatsam and Jetsam
• 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

Unbound

• Sympathy for the Devil - The Last Stand, Big Trouble in Little England

Kaldor City

• Hidden Persuaders - The Rhubarb Conspiracy

Gallifrey

• Forever - Gallifrey Eternal

The War Master

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