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The Dark Dimension was a | '''The Dark Dimension''' was a planned direct to video film commissioned by BBC Enterprises, it was to have been released in [[1993]] to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of [[Doctor Who]]. | ||
It was to be a direct to video release, written by [[Adrian Rigelsford]] (a 'fan scholar'). | |||
'''The Dark Dimension''' ran into obstacles which prevented it from being produced. | |||
Large among which was that BBC Enterprises (which was in charge of generating revenue, not producing films) it therefore lacked facilities, staff and experience in producing something such as '''The Dark Dimension'''. | |||
Actor availability was another of the problems which faced the production which began at some (indeterminate time) in 1992 (with an aimed release data of November 1993) scheduling all the surviving actors who played the Doctor ([[Jon Pertwee]], [[Tom Baker]], [[Peter Davison]], [[Colin Baker]] and [[Sylvester McCoy]]) up to that point would have been incredibly challenging and almost impossible considering the set date of release. | |||
Finally when [[Philip Segal]] (then part of [[Amblin Television]]) joined with [[Universal Television]] to co-produce a new TV series of Doctor Who (for the American Market), BBC Enterprises had to pull out of the project due to a conflict of interest. <ref name="Nth Doctor"> Lofficer, Jean-Marc, 1997, ''The Nth Doctor'', Virgin Publishing Ltd, Great Britain </ref> | |||
==Central Characters and Ideas== | |||
'''The Dark Dimension''' would have featured all surviving actors who played the Doctor. Plus [[Ace]] and a slew of monsters (in particular [[Mondasian Cybermen|Cybermen]], Dalek]]s, [[Ice Warrior]]s, [[Yeti]]). | |||
[[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] would also have appeared along with a character named ''Summerfield'' (who could be then Virgin Publishing's [[Bernice Summerfield]]). | |||
The central idea to the story was that a creature prevented the [[Fourth Doctor]] from dying when he fell off the [[Pharos Project]] (at the end of [[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]), however his future incarnations do survive (some how), but in doing so the creature creates a 'Dark Dimension'. <ref name="Nth Doctor"/> | |||
==Bibliography== | |||
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==External Links== | |||
*[http://home.earthlink.net/~qstnmark/melted/dark_dim.htm Short Snyopsis taken from ''The Nth Doctor'' of '''The Dark Dimension] | |||
[[Category:Unproduced Doctor Who stories|Dark Dimension]] | |||
