The End of Time (unproduced novel)
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The outline of a novel intended for the Virgin New Adventures line was submitted and rejected at some point before 1994. The outline was then reworked with the help of Philip Segal into the first episode of The End of Time, a mooted TV two-parter which might follow from the then-in-development Doctor Who TV movie The Time of My Life, which was ultimately replaced by the 1996 TV movie.
While the End of Time TV outline featured a fictional esoteric society known as "the Adepts of Eleusis", the proposed novel used "the real-life Order of the Golden Dawn secret society, which Bram Stoker, Arthur Machen, etc., belonged to"; the magus of the Adepts of Eleusis in the TV synopsis retained Machen's last name, being called Sir Alastair Machen. The novel already included a climax set on the Titanic, which the Lofficiers only later found out was coincidentally a favourite theme of Segal's. Jean-Marc Lofficier's account did not clarify whether the antagonist of this version of the story was already the Terrible Zodin, nor whether the macguffin was already the Key to Time, leaving ambiguous the matter of when the title The End of Time was proposed and whether it would even have made sense for the plot of the novel.[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ The Nth Doctor - Appendix
