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09-24-2023, 05:04 PM
https://whatculture.com/whoculture/10-doctor-who-deleted-scenes-that-should-have-been-left-in?rf=homepage
They cut THAT footage from Twice Upon A Time? Criminal!
BY RICHARD LLOYD
SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2023
In a show like Doctor Who, there are plenty of ideas that never make it to the screen.
There are the stories that never were, such as Tom MacRae’s Century House, Mark Gatiss’ Sleep No More sequel, and the abandoned Season 23.
Then there are the stories that were produced, albeit in a very different form to how they were first envisaged. For instance, did you know that Kate Stewart and UNIT featured in early drafts of Flatline, or that the Master wasn’t always part of Spyfall?
Even if an idea survives to the shooting script, there’s no guarantee it will appear in the finished production. Indeed, over the years, loads of Doctor Who has ended up on the cutting room floor – from snippets of dialogue, to entire plot threads.
Not every deleted scene has made it into the public domain either (we’re still waiting to see It Takes You Away’s mysterious Spindleman in action). But the ones that do exist have given fans lots of food for thought.
And though it’s usually easy to see why they were cut, we can’t help but wish that some of them had been left in...
They cut THAT footage from Twice Upon A Time? Criminal!
BY RICHARD LLOYD
SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2023
In a show like Doctor Who, there are plenty of ideas that never make it to the screen.
There are the stories that never were, such as Tom MacRae’s Century House, Mark Gatiss’ Sleep No More sequel, and the abandoned Season 23.
Then there are the stories that were produced, albeit in a very different form to how they were first envisaged. For instance, did you know that Kate Stewart and UNIT featured in early drafts of Flatline, or that the Master wasn’t always part of Spyfall?
Even if an idea survives to the shooting script, there’s no guarantee it will appear in the finished production. Indeed, over the years, loads of Doctor Who has ended up on the cutting room floor – from snippets of dialogue, to entire plot threads.
Not every deleted scene has made it into the public domain either (we’re still waiting to see It Takes You Away’s mysterious Spindleman in action). But the ones that do exist have given fans lots of food for thought.
And though it’s usually easy to see why they were cut, we can’t help but wish that some of them had been left in...