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*** Tom MacRae is credited with writing three episodes, the Cyberman two-parter from Series 2, and the iconic “The Girl Who Waited” from Series 4. His third project (also for Series 4) was called “Century House”, which was never produced. This episode was Companion-lite, the Tenth Doctor being on [[Show Within a Show| a paranormal reality show called ''Most Haunted'']], where the Doctor [[Who You Gonna Call?| was investigating sightings of a specter called the Red Widow]] with the only involvement by a Companion being Donna watching the broadcast at home. Executive producer Russel David was unsatisfied with the script and passed it over in favor of “Midnight”, another Companion-lite episode that did rather well.
*** [[Big Creepy-Crawlies| GIANT ANTS!]] Wait, wait, what’s so special about giant ants? After all, the Doctor has dealt with such monsters before, in “The Web Planet”. But, those were actually aliens that looked like ants, and they weren’t very bright. “The Ants”, however, was a different type of plot Based on an idea by Roger Dixon, this would have involved the Second Doctor and Jamie [[Shrink Ray| shrunk to a height of a tenth of an inch tall]] and menaced by real ants, who were super-intelligent and wanted to take over the world! Still, as novel as that was, it was never produced.
*** Doctor Who meets [[Harry Potter]]! Well... why not? In the Aught Years, these were the two most popular British [[Cash Cow Franchise|Cash Cows]] and ''Doctor Who'' was arguably in its Golden Age, so who wouldn’t love an “official” crossover? Initially, Russel David had the idea of not only making the 2008 Christmas episode a crossover, but having [[J. K. Rowling]] herself write the script. Then he thought of a different approach - having Rowling appear on the actual show [[As Herself]] in an episode set in 1997, right after ''[[Harry Potter and
*** Paul Abbot - better known for his work on ''[[Shameless]]'' , another popular British show - scripted an episode for series 1 that would reveal (dead serious here, btw) that Rose was not a real human, but had been created by the Ninth Doctor in an experiment to create the perfect companion. The plot would further involve Jack discovering this and facing the moral dilemma of [[Cloning Blues| telling her she wasn’t real or letting her believe the lie]]. This idea actually got pretty far but was cancelled at the last minute, possibly because David figured there wasn’t enough suspension of disbelief among fans to justify that the Doctor (even one as unstable as the Ninth, thank you ''so'' much Time War) would lie and manipulate Rose after creating her to be his plaything. Probably a wise decision too, given how much this would have changed the entire franchise from that point.
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