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 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 Celestial Toymaker - The Toymaker, The Trilogic Game
• The Gunfighters - The Gunslingers
• The War Machines - The Computers

Season 4

• The Power of the Daleks - The Destiny of Doctor Who
• The Macra Terror - The Spidermen, The Insect-men, The Macra
• The Faceless Ones - The Chameleons

Season 5

• Fury from the Deep - The Colony of Devils

Season 8

• The Claws of Axos - The Vampire from Space

Season 9

• Day of the Daleks - The Ghost Hunters, Years of Doom
• The Sea Devils - The Sea Silurians

Season 11

• Death to the Daleks - The Exilons, The Exxilons

Season 14

• The Masque of Mandragora - The Catacombs of Death, The Curse of Mandragora, Secret of the Labyrinth
• 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

Season 16

• The Stones of Blood - The Nine Maidens and The Stones of Time
• The Power of Kroll - Moon of Death, The Horror of the Swamp, The Shield of Time

Season 17

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

Season 18

• Meglos - The Golden Pentangle, The Golden Pentagram, The Last Sol-Fataran, The Last Zolfa-Thuran
• State of Decay - The Vampire Mutations, The Wasting

Season 19

• The Visitation - Invasion of the Plague Men, Plague Rats
• Earthshock - Sentinel
• Time-Flight - Zanadin or Xeraphin

Season 21

• The Caves of Androzani - Chain Reaction

Season 22

• The Two Doctors - The Kraglon Inheritance, The Androgum Inheritance
• 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
• Dragonfire - Absolute Zero, The Pyramid's Treasure, Pyramid in Space

Season 25

• The Happiness Patrol - The Crooked Smile
• Silver Nemesis - Nemesis

Season 26

• Battlefield - Nightfall, Storm Over Avalon
• Ghost Light - The Bestiary, Life Cycle
• The Curse of Fenric - Wolf-Time, The Wolves of Fenric
• 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, The Angels of Crippingwell
• World War Three - 10 Downing Street, World War 3
• Dalek - Return of the Daleks, Creature of Lies, The Sphere, Absence of the Daleks
• The Long Game - The Companion Who Couldn't, Adam
• Father's Day - Broken Time, Wounded Time
• The Empty Child - An Empty Child, World War II, The Empty Boy
• The Doctor Dances - Captain Jax , The Empty Children
• Boom Town - Dining With Monsters
• Bad Wolf - Gameshow World!

Series 2

• New Earth - Body Swap
• Tooth and Claw - Queen Victoria, Empire of the Wolf
• School Reunion - Old Friends, Black Ops, Friends Reunited
• The Girl in the Fireplace - Madame de Pompadour, Every Tick of my Heart, Reinette and the Lonely Angel, Loose Connection
• Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel - Parallel World
• The Idiot's Lantern - Mr Sandman, Sonic Doom, 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, 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, Theatre of Death
• The Lazarus Experiment - The Madness of Professor Lazarus
• Blink - Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angels, Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angel

Series 4

• Voyage of the Damned - Titanic II, Starship Titanic
• The Unicorn and the Wasp - The Wasp and the Unicorn
• Forest of the Dead - The Doctor Runs, Forest of the Night, River's Run, Return of the Dead
• Midnight - Crusader Five, Crusader 50

2009 Specials

• The Next Doctor - Court of the CyberKing
• The Waters of Mars - Christmas on Mars, Red Christmas
• The End of Time - The Immortality Gate, The Final Days of Planet Earth

Series 5

• The Eleventh Hour - The Doctor Returns
• The Vampires of Venice - Blood and Water, The House of Calvierri, Vampires in Venice, Vampires of Venice
• 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, Carry-On Lodging, Everything Must Go

Series 7

• A Town Called Mercy - The Gunslinger, Mercy
• 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

• Robot of Sherwood - Robots of Sherwood
• Kill the Moon - Return To Sarn
• In the Forest of the Night - Child's Play
• Dark Water - The Gates of Paradise

Series 9

• Under the Lake/Before the Flood - Ghost in the Machine
• The Zygon Invasion - Invasion of the Zygons
• The Zygon Inversion - Inversion of the Zygons
• 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, The Witch Finders

Season 1

• The Legend of Ruby Sunday - Chrysalis

K9 & Company

Working titles of episode

• A Girl's Best Friend - One Girl and Her Dog

Torchwood

Working titles of episodes

Series 1

• Day One - New Girl
• Cyberwoman - The Trouble with Lisa
• Random Shoes - Invisible Eugene
• End of Days - Apocalypse

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