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{{Infobox Story | {{Infobox Story | ||
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|series = Unproduced Doctor Who stories | |series = Unproduced Doctor Who stories | ||
|season number = | |season number =Season 23 (Doctor Who 1963)| | ||
|story number = 6 | |story number = 6 | ||
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|director = [[Robert Gabriel]] | |director = [[Robert Gabriel]] | ||
|producer = [[John Nathan-Turner]] | |producer = [[John Nathan-Turner]] | ||
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|format = Unproduced TV story | |format = Unproduced TV story | ||
|production code = 7F | |production code = 7F | ||
|prev = The Hollows of Time (TV story) | |prev = The Hollows of Time (TV story) | ||
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|made next = | }}{{you may|The Children of January (novel)|n1=the Lucy Wilson novel}} | ||
}} | '''''The Children of January''''' was to be the last story of the original [[Season 23 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 23]]; when work on the season was aborted following the near-cancellation of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the script for this story was scrapped along with all the other proposed stories. ''The Children of January'' remains one of the few "lost" stories from the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s era to have not been adapted, either into a novelisation or into a [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] audio adventure. | ||
'''''The Children of January''''' was to be the last story of the original [[Season 23]]; when work on the season was aborted following the near-cancellation of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the script for this story was scrapped along with all the other proposed stories. ''The Children of January'' remains one of the few | |||
Little is known about the story, other than a statement made by writer [[Michael Feeney Callan]] on his website<ref name = "website">http://www.michaelfeeneycallan.com/</ref> in 2009: | Little is known about the story, other than a statement made by writer [[Michael Feeney Callan]] on his website<ref name = "website">http://www.michaelfeeneycallan.com/</ref> in 2009: | ||
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{{Quote|I wrote a two-parter called ''The Children of January''. It was to be a season closer, not a series termination. But the BBC decided in mid-season that the show had run its course and, in the middle eighties, I think they were right. But I loved my episode, which was delivered late in 1985. I created a race of runaway proto-humans called the Z'ros, sort of 'human bees', of which I still have the fondest nightmares. 'The Children of January', incidentally, refers to renegade outcasts of a dawning "parallel universe" civilisation that was abandoned.|Michael Feeney Callan}} | {{Quote|I wrote a two-parter called ''The Children of January''. It was to be a season closer, not a series termination. But the BBC decided in mid-season that the show had run its course and, in the middle eighties, I think they were right. But I loved my episode, which was delivered late in 1985. I created a race of runaway proto-humans called the Z'ros, sort of 'human bees', of which I still have the fondest nightmares. 'The Children of January', incidentally, refers to renegade outcasts of a dawning "parallel universe" civilisation that was abandoned.|Michael Feeney Callan}} | ||
==Footnotes== | == Footnotes == | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist|refs = yStor WhotorDoc a ( January of _/wiki/gro.aidepikiw.en//:shttp}} | ||
{{TitleSort}} | Source from Wikipedia:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_January_(Doctor_Who) {{TitleSort}}The full article of ''The Children of January''] | ||
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[[Category:Unproduced Doctor Who TV stories]] | [[Category:Unproduced Doctor Who TV stories]] | ||
