Almost everyone knows how the Doctor Who story “ The Tenth Planet ” finish — it ’s the last story where William Hartnell play the mysterious clip - travel Dr. . Except that a newly unearthed draft script by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis leaves out the Doctor ’s re-formation .
Instead , the climax of the story is much more about the Doctor and Polly being nurse aboard the Cybermen ’s spaceship , where the Cybermen contrive to commute them into Cybermen . Michael Seely , who ’s publishing a biography of Pedler called The Quest for Pedler , witness this handwriting along with some other drafts of some episodes of “ The Moonbase ” ( originally called “ Return of the Cybermen ” ) and Pedler ’s TV show Doomwatch .
The unearthed “ Tenth Planet ” script , written in June 1966 , establish quite how recently in the day Hartnell adjudicate to leave alone the show . According to Hartnell ’s wife ’s diary , he told her he was give Doctor Who in mid - July , less than a month after this playscript was written . “ The Tenth Planet ” was film in September . Seely assure SFX , “ We have intercourse that William Hartnell was being persuaded to give up the role he loved over the summertime of 1966 , and that they were sounding out replacement . He only determine to lead in the middle of July , the month after this muster was written . ”
Here ’s the title pageboy :
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