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|novelisation=The Ultimate Evil (novel) | {{unprod}} | ||
|image = The | {{Infobox Story | ||
|novelisation = The Ultimate Evil (novel) | |||
|image = The Ultimate Evil.jpg | |||
|series = Unproduced TV stories | |series = Unproduced TV stories | ||
|season number = Season 23 | |season number = Season 23 (Doctor Who 1963)| | ||
|story number = 2 | |story number = 2 | ||
|doctor = Sixth Doctor | |doctor = Sixth Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Peri Brown|Peri]] | |companions = [[Peri Brown|Peri]] | ||
|enemy = Dwarf Mordant | |enemy = [[Dwarf Mordant]] | ||
|setting = Tranquela | |setting = [[Tranquela]] | ||
|writer = [[Wally K Daly]] | |writer = [[Wally K Daly]] | ||
|director = [[Fiona Cumming]] | |director = [[Fiona Cumming]] | ||
|producer = [[John Nathan-Turner]] | |producer = [[John Nathan-Turner]] | ||
|broadcast date = | |broadcast date = | ||
|format = Unproduced TV story | |format = Unproduced TV story | ||
|production code = 7B | |production code = 7B | ||
|prev = The Nightmare Fair (TV story) | |prev = The Nightmare Fair (unproduced TV story) | ||
|next = Yellow Fever and How to Cure It (TV story) | |next = Yellow Fever and How to Cure It (unproduced TV story) | ||
|made prev = | |made prev = | ||
|made next = | |made next = | ||
}} | |adapted into = The Ultimate Evil (audio story)}} | ||
'''The Ultimate Evil''' was a story planned for [[Season 23]]. | '''''The Ultimate Evil''''' was a story planned for [[Season 23 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 23]]. It was to be written by [[Wally K Daly]], and directed by [[Fiona Cumming]]. | ||
It was released in [[1989 (releases)|1989]] as a [[The Ultimate Evil (novel)|Target novelisation]], written by Daly himself. 30 years later, in [[2019 (releases)|2019]], it was [[The Ultimate Evil (audio story)|adapted as an audio adventure]] produced by [[Big Finish Productions]], again adapted by Daly from his original scripts. | |||
== Plot background == | == Plot background == | ||
The story would have been set on the holiday planet Tranquela, where Dwarf Mordant had been using a space ray to make all the good people raging killers. | The story would have been set on the holiday planet [[Tranquela]], where [[Dwarf Mordant]] had been using a space ray to make all the good people raging killers. | ||
The TARDIS would have arrived on the planet. Peri would have been attacked and left for dead, while the Doctor would have temporarily fallen under the Dwarf Mordant' powers. | The TARDIS would have arrived on the planet. Peri would have been attacked and left for dead, while the Doctor would have temporarily fallen under the Dwarf Mordant' powers. | ||
In the end, the Doctor would have Mordant use | In the end, the Doctor would have Mordant use an antidote ray on the planet before Mordant escaped. ([[DOC]]: ''[[The Lost Season (documentary)|The Lost Season]]'') | ||
== Legacy == | == Legacy == | ||
* This story was adapted into the novel ''[[The Ultimate Evil]]''. | * This story was adapted into the novel ''[[The Ultimate Evil (novel)|The Ultimate Evil]]''. | ||
* | * Originally, it is one of the three stories not adapted into Big Finish's ''[[The Lost Stories|Lost Stories]]'' series from the original Season 23 as Big Finish could not reach an agreement with Wally K. Daly to produce the story. The rights were since rectified and [[The Ultimate Evil (audio story)|an audio adaptation]] released on [[14 November (releases)|14 November]] [[2019 (releases)|2019]]. | ||
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