The Automata (unproduced TV story)

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The Automata was an unproduced story for Season 11 to be written by Robert Holmes. It would have been the opening episode of the season.

Holmes was commissioned to write a storyline for The Automata on 16 January 1973. It did not find favour with producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks, however, and was rejected ten days later. Holmes was commissioned to write The Time Warrior instead. (REF: DWM 246, DWMSE 2)

List of unproduced stories

Doctor Who

Season 1	"Nothing at the End of the Lane" • The Giants • The Masters of Luxor • The Hidden Planet • Britain 408 AD • The Red Fort • Farewell Great Macedon • The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance • The Jokers

Season 2	The Son of Doctor Who • The Hidden Planet

Season 4	The Clock

Short stories	The Terror Flash of Cygnus

Novels	Viet Cong!

Season 4	The Imps • The Ants • Bar Kokhba • The Big Store

Season 5	The Queen of Time

Season 6	The Dreamspinner • The Aliens in the Blood • The Laird of McCrimmon

Short stories	The Way of Battle

Season 7	The Circles of Power • The Mists of Madness • The Shadow People

Season 8	The Cerebroids

Season 9	The Daleks in London • The Brain-Dead

Season 10	Deathworld

Season 11	The Automata • The Final Game

Film	Dr Who's Greatest Adventure

Novels	Seconds • Equilibrium • Destination: Bandril

Season 12	Return of the Cybermen • The Sea of Fear

Film	Doctor Who Meets Scratchman

Season 13	The Beasts of Manzic

Season 14	The Angarath

Season 15	Killers of the Dark • The Krikkitmen

Season 16	The Lords of Misrule • Shield of Zarak

Season 17	Child Prodigy • The Doomsday Contract

Season 18	The Castle of Doom

30th anniversary	The Dark Dimension

Short Trips	A Gold Star for the Doctor

Comics	Dr. Who

Season 19	Project Zeta Sigma • Genesis of the Cybermen

Season 20	Parasites • The Song of the Space Whale • Way Down Yonder

Season 21	Circus of Destiny • Hex • Manpower • The First Sontarans • Nightmare Country

Season 22	Cat's Cradle • The Macro Men

Season 23	The Nightmare Fair • The Ultimate Evil • Mission to Magnus • Yellow Fever and How to Cure It • The Hollows of Time • The Children of January • Attack from the Mind • Mind of the Hodiac

Audios	Earthstorm • The Children of Shreeva • Crossroads in Time • The Memory Eaters

Comics	Three Doctors

Novels	Time's Champion • Smoking Mirror • The Ultimate Adventure

Short stories	Coat of Charms

Season 24	Untitled Mel introduction story • Untitled pirate story

Season 25	Transit

Season 26	Shrine • Illegal Alien • Lungbarrow

Season 27	Earth Aid • Ice Time • Crime of the Century • Animal • Hostage • War of the Daleks • Alixion • Night Thoughts

Season 28	Avatar • Hostage • A School for Glory

Marvel UK	The Two Doctors

30th anniversary	Destination: Holocaust • The Endgame

Novels	Untitled Paul Cornell story

Audios	Dark Rising • Dark Heart • Dead Man's Hand • Fifty-Fifty

Movie	The Time of My Life

Television	Last Train to Terminus

Doctor Who: The Animated Series	Windmills of Mars • Lighthouse in Space • The Sound Dilemma • The Widow • Lords of the Air • Flowers of the Field • The Manbeasts of Gresham • The Devil You Claim to Know • Challenge of Praxos • Reality Check • All the Mind's Horses and All the Soul's Men • The Occamoids • The Morbius Saga

Eighth Doctor Adventures	Mentor • Ends • Valentine's Day • There Are Worse Things Than Angels • To Hold Back Death • Enemy of the Daleks • The Why Knot • 333

Comics	Deceptions

Audios	Fifty-Fifty

Pompeii

Series 2	The 1920s • The Living World

Series 4	Century House • The Suicide Exhibition • Untitled Christmas special

Comics	Welcome to Disaster World

Eleventh Doctor

Series 5	Death to the Doctor

Series 7	P.S.

Comics	Domination

How The Monk Got His Habit (Novelisation)

Series 8	Strax on trial

Series 9	Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters • The Last One To Go To Sleep • The Bird

Series 10	Sleep No More sequel • Untitled Christmas Special • Solid Ground

Comics	The Tyrannical Inferno

Thirteenth Doctor

Prose

The Team TARDIS Diaries Vol. 3 • The Team TARDIS Diaries Vol. 4

Spin-offs

Torchwood

Checkout • Deadline • Cross My Palm with Silver • The Jinx • Revenants • SkyPoint

The
Sarah Jane
Adventures

Series 4	Don't Sit Too Close to the Screen • The Children of Blackmere Rise • The Web of Lies • Servant of the Spiders

Christmas special	Miracle on Bannerman Road

Series 5	Meet Mr Smith • The Thirteenth Floor • The Battle of Bannerman Road

Halloween specials	Full Moon • The Station • Untitled special • Night of the Spectre

Class

Series 2	Time Capsule • Untitled Juno Dawson script • Untitled Derek Landy script

Audios	5th Anniversary Special

Faction Paradox

Comics	Creatures of Habit

Novels	The Moontree Women • Opus Majus • Heart Full of Sky • Novel #6

Films	Faction Paradox

Audios	The Night War Came to Luparia • The Diplomat

BBV Productions

Home video	Cyberwar • Ishmael's Star • Untitled Zygon film • Faction Paradox

Audio Adventures in Time & Space	Drome • Kill or Cure • Precis • The I Job • The Liberator • Bring me the Head of Sabalom Glitz • Koschei • The Paimon Affair • The Night War Came to Luparia • The Diplomat

Prose	Minalopa • Helix

TV, films, &
home videos

TV spin-offs	The Destroyers • Nelvana animated series • Rose Tyler: Earth Defence

Leekley Bible	The Pirates • The Talons of Weng-Chiang • Earthshock • The Horror of Fang Rock • The Celestial Toymaker • Don't Shoot, I'm the Doctor! • Tomb of the Cybs • The Yeti • The Ark in Space • The Outcasts • The Sea Devils • Shada • The Claws of Axos • The Dæmons • The Land of Fear • Fathers and Brothers

Dreamwatch	Untitled Sea Devil film • Phoenix • Three Dog Night

Reeltime	The Face of the Fendahl • Anomaly

K9	TimeQuake • K9: Omega Rises

Other	Ice Warrior: Ragnarok • The Minister of Chance

Other comics

DWM/Marvel	Deadline to Doomsday • Star Tigers: Come to the World of the War-King • After Daak

Robot	The Last Regeneration

Titan Comics	Doctor Who 2021 Event

Other audios

Big Finish	Bizarre Love Story • Figure of Eight • Last of the Drop Dead Divas • The Eye of the Beetle • Rehabilitation • Survivors

Magic Bullet	Silent Partner

Other prose

Big Finish	Iris Wildthyme in the City of the Saved • Terra Incognita

Virgin Books	Bizarre Love Story • The Spectacular Afterlife of Bernice Summerfield

BBC Books	Crossing the Rubicon • Requiem • The Killing Stone • The War

Tales of Hyspero	A World of Her Own

Lethbridge-Stewart	Fear of Light • Horror of Det-Sen • Feralia • Day of the Intelligence • The HAVOC Files: Five

Arcbeatle Press	Origin Zero

Other

Plays	World War • The Inheritors of Time · Sil and the Avian Uprising

Shalka Ninth Doctor	Blood of the Robots

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Unproduced Doctor Who TV stories

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