"Doctor Who" stuff we still don't know about

Some Googling around suggests that the Daleks were dropped from Red Dwarf because when the BBC granted permission to use them, they never mentioned that Terry Nation would also have to be involved, and then he died.

But I also turned up a rumour from 1997 that the follow-up to the BBC's unspectacular "Invasion Earth" (that thing with the extra-dimensional aliens in Scotland) would have been a BBC/Sci-Fi Channel collaboration on a "Doctor Who" revival.

Then there's the Millennium Night live appearance from the stars of Doctor Who stymied by their refusal to work on the biggest New Year's of their lives (in particular, the Scottish Sylvester McCoy didn't want to give up Hogmany) - not to mention the cruel rumour that somebody at the BBC also raised enquiries with the agents of Hartnell, Troughton and Pertwee.

Would "Doctor Who 2000" have been much different from the series RTD eventually got made? What about the movie that put the kybosh on it?

Did Bill Baggs get as far as script before his minisodes for South Today (with Alan Cumming as the Doctor) were cancelled when RTD's series was greenlit?

In fact, the Wilderness Years up to and including the TVM are pretty well documented, but I don't think anybody's taken such a close look at the period covering the TVM till, say, "Scream of the Shalka".

There's not so much of a mystery as to what the plans were, here, though (although it's interesting that somebody has presumably resisted a "Doctor Who"/"Blake's 7" crossover by Big Finish)

That last one is a question for the ages. 

(The most likely answer is slaves.)

From memory I really enjoyed that series.

I wish we knew more about Robert Holmes' unfinished stories, especially:

* his plans for pairing the Rani with the Autons
* the finale for Trial of a Time Lord

There were clues laid throughout the first three stories in the season, but with the shift in writers, rights issues, and such, none of those clues were followed up in the Ultimate Foe.

The original script got leaked online at some stage. From memory, Popplewick lived up to his bureaucratic modus operandi and was "just a shadow" that the Doctor had mistaken for the Valeyard, the Master had no desire to kill the Doctor because he knew that he and his future self would wipe each other out, the Doctor's final words on screen would have been: "You don't deserve to live," and it would have ended on a cliffhanger with him and his alter ego trapped in a time rent destined to fight and struggle forever. In a change from the final story, the main villain of the piece was definitely the Master who'd manoeuvred everyone into position and may have been responsible for the whole trial in the first place.

I suspect that had it gone ahead and Who had by some miracle survived, we would have had Sylvester McCoy sorting out the aftermath of the trial on Gallifrey. You could do a whole story set around who exactly the Sleepers hidden away on Ravelox were, what other potential futures the Doctor had seen before he chose Terror of the Vervoids, etc.

Nelvana produced some concept art for the BBC:


doctorwhowatch.com/2015/04/21/the-doctor-who-cartoon-that-almost-was/

Isn't it the eleventh Doctor who describes materialisation and ends with the TARDIS scanning the local area for a suitable disguise and then deciding to look like a police box?
maybe the TARDIS simply likes looking like a police box, and even with a now working chameleon circuit chooses the Police Box (part of the whole "gives hope" to the universe bit).

1) What would've Moffat's original Dalek story for S3 been like before things changed and he wrote Blink?
2) Who is Gus?
3) What other novels had Davies wanted to adapt, aside from Highest Science?