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Stories with the Same Plot

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Inspired by the thread about similarities between TOS and TNG episodes what stories felt like recycled versions of other stories? probably Silver Nemesis has to be the wort offender for it's similarities with Remebrance which were all the more obvious as the season was only 4 stories long. I mean it wouldn't have been so obvious when Terror Of The Zygons and The Android Invasion were aired
 
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The Idiot's Lantern and Fear Her had some very similar plot elements (though with the Doctor and Rose swapping roles) and they only aired four weeks apart!
 
The Tenth Planet=The Moonbase
Death To The Daleks=Revenge Of The Cybermen
Revenge Of The Cybermen=Earthshock
The Deamons=The Pyramids Of Mars
The Deamons=The Awakening
The Seeds Of Doom=The Image Of The Fendahl
The Deadly Assasin=The Arc Of Infinity
The Deadly Assasin=The Keeper Of Traken
The Sontaran Experiment=The Horror Of Fang Rock
The Invasion=Spearhead From Space
 
Planet of Evil shares some recognisable elements (most notably the possessed crewman with glowing eyes murdering their colleagues) with 42.

Planet of the Daleks had many bits that harked back to The Daleks.

Journey's End was in many ways a modern remake of The Five Doctors - with different groups of old characters being separately drawn into the story, then grouping together in a central location for the climax, whereupon they are all conveniently immobilised (by hypnosis or by force fields) so that the presence of too many characters doesn't overwhelm the writers.

The Bells of Saint John was The Idiot's Lantern for the twenty-first century.

Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS was cobbled together from the reheated leftovers of The Doctor's Wife.

The Runaway Bride had a lot of carry-overs from The Christmas Invasion.

Rise of the Cybermen tells a similar story to Genesis of the Daleks.

TV Tropes gives us a few more:

The Android Invasion and The Brain of Morbius

The Keys of Marinus and The Key to Time

Fear Her and Night Terrors

Victory had a lot of homages to Power and Evolution had many to Evil (of the Daleks).

The Curse of the Black Spot has the same reveal as The Doctor Dances.

The finale to Series 8 combines the finales of Series 2 and 3.

Heaven Sent shares some elements with The Deadly Assassin and Castrovalva, though I suppose all the Gallifrey stories will inevitably need some threads in common.
 
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"Heaven Sent" is kinda similar to the Matrix stuff from the second half of "The Deadly Assassin" but I don't see any similarities with "Castrovalva."

The biggest one is "The Idiot's Lantern" and "Fear Her." Both involve the Doctor/Rose getting trapped in a two dimensional medium. Both have daddy issues. Both climax with a major national event, either Queen Elizabeth II's coronation or the opening ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics.

Similarly, in Season 6, "Night Terrors" and "The God Complex" both dealt with facing your fears.
 
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