5.1. Doctor Who: Nightmare Country

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Doctor Who - The Lost Stories

Released November 2019

Written by Stephen Gallagher

Starring Peter Davison Janet Fielding

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The Doctor wakes up on a planet of relics, a dead world, a hostile world... He has no memory of who he is, or how he got to be here. He'd better remember soon, because the very structure of reality is at risk and it all has something to do with that strange blue tomb with the light on top.

Recorded on: 28 March 2018 and 15-16 January 2019

Recorded at: Moat Studios

Writer's Notes

In the moment of creation you’re making art for the ages, only to realise that everything’s written on water. But like a returning comet, Doctor Who stays in your life.

Nightmare Country was my detailed pitch for Season 21 and would have been my third story for the show, but for a terse note from the production office that read, "You’ve sent us another million-dollar movie and we just can’t do them."

Some ideas you can recycle, some parts you can reuse; but where do you find another show like Who? So my million dollar movie went into the files and I moved on, until the day my and the Doctor’s paths crossed again.

Sometimes, it seems, you just have to stay ready and keep the faith.

Stephen Gallagher