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'''''The Doomsday Contract''''', also known as '''''Shylock''''', was an unproduced serial due to be part of [[season 17]]. [[John Lloyd (writer)|John Lloyd]] wrote the story using elements from his unproduced novel ''GiGax''. | '''''The Doomsday Contract''''', also known as '''''Shylock''''', was an unproduced serial due to be part of [[season 17]]. [[John Lloyd (writer)|John Lloyd]] wrote the story using elements from his unproduced novel ''GiGax''. | ||
It would feature the [[Fourth Doctor]] saving [[Earth]] from a corporation that wished to buy it to receive a matter-transmutation device. Lloyd was asked to rewrite the script a few times. He eventually gave up to work on ''Not the Nine O'Clock News''. [[Douglas Adams]], with Lloyd's permission, allowed Allan Prior to rewrite it, but his script was rejected. Adams gave the project to another author to be part of [[season 18]], but Adams soon left the series and the serial was ultimately cancelled.<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/lostaf.html</ref> | It would feature the [[Fourth Doctor]] saving [[Earth]] from a corporation that wished to buy it to receive a matter-transmutation device. Lloyd was asked to rewrite the script a few times. He eventually gave up to work on ''Not the Nine O'Clock News''. [[Douglas Adams]], with Lloyd's permission, allowed Allan Prior to rewrite it, but his script was rejected. Adams gave the project to another author to be part of [[season 18]], but Adams soon left the series and the serial was ultimately cancelled.<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/lostaf.html</ref> | ||
An audio adaptation was released as part of [[The Lost Stories]] range by [[Big Finish Productions]] in [[March (releases)|March]] [[2021 (releases)|2021]]. | |||
== Footnotes == | == Footnotes == | ||
