"Lost" Hartnell era script published

[23skidoo]

Here's a pleasant surprise for fans of the First Doctor. A company called Nothing at the End of the Lane, which normally publishes fanzines related to Doctor Who, has published Farewell Great Macedon, a script commissioned for the first season of Doctor Who, but never produced.

The script was by a writer named Moris Farhi who also wrote an unproduced episode of The Prisoner.

http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2009/10/farewell-great-macedon.html
http://www.nothing-lane.co.uk/scriptbook.php

According to the link the book also includes a single-episode story called "The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance" which certainly is one of the more poetic-sounding Doctor Who titles!

I believe this is the first time a commissioned, but unproduced scripts has been published since Titan Books put out The Masters of Luxor back in the early 90s. But there's definitely a market for them -- Big Finish is putting out audio dramas based on a bunch of Sixth Doctor stories that were planned for the cancelled Season 23 (they were all pushed aside by Trial of a Time Lord). I can't help but wonder if there are any Third Doctor or Fourth Doctor scripts out there waiting to be discovered (like Doctor Who Meets Scratchman!).

Alex

 

[Timofnine]

Cool! Maybe base a new series episode on it!

 

[23skidoo]

Cool! Maybe base a new series episode on it!

Doubtful. It was an early concept episode, which apparently contains character elements that were never part of the show. It's pretty specifically a First Doctor thing, along with the earlier Masters of Luxor script that Titan published.

The book looks really cool - I'm probably going to order it. It looks like it's a "print on demand" sort of thing, too (so forget finding it on Amazon or Barnes & Noble).

Alex

PS. At least I hope I can order it. Although Lulu is supposedly an international service, it isn't allowing met to register with a Canadian mailing address... I've sent Lulu a query in hopes it's a screw up and not yet another example of "geolocking". This has happened to me to many times in the last few days that I really am going to stop calling this the World Wide Web...