Doctor Who: Journey Into Terror

The long lost script for a proposed Doctor Who radio series was

finally unearthed in the BBC

 archives in January 2012.

In 1966, following the release of

Amicus' second Dalek film, two independent production com-

panies, Stanmark and Watermill

planned to record a fifty-two part

 radio spin-off drama starring

Peter Cushing as Dr. Who. 

A pilot entitled Journey Into
Time, written by Malcolm

Hulke, was produced, but a full

series was ruled out when the

BBC dismissed the adventure (set during the American Revolution) as

"extremely feeble." The 23-minute pilot episode was never broadcast,

and remained lost until fanzine Nothing at the End of the Lane presented

the full script in their third issue. Hulke (1924-79) went on to pen eight

Doctor Who stories for television, and adapted seven Target novelisations.

It's possible that a radio spin-off was considered when a third Dalek

film (based on the TV serial The Chase) was abandoned, and Cushing

was keen to continue in the role. 

Interestingly, Cushing once stated in an interview that he believed his
version of the Doctor was in fact canonical. Long before the concept of

unbound Time Lords, he theorised that Dr. Who was actually a future
incarnation kidnapped by the Celestial Toymaker, who had "wiped his
memory and made him relive some of his earlier adventures."

Furthermore, we know that the First Doctor had indeed escaped the

Toymaker before their televised encounter.