Doctor Who - Journey into Time radio play (lost radio program pilot; 1966-1967)

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Dr.Who was to be a radio show based off of the British Sci-Fi TV show of the same name(though it is referred to as Doctor Who, with no abbreviation). A pilot episode was made and a further 52 episodes planned, but the series wasn't picked up and the pilot never aired. To this day, it is lost. The show was to be a collaboration between Stanmark Productions and Watermill Productions. The only confirmed cast member is Peter Cushing, who was to play the titular character. Many would think Cushing would play Dr.Who, the human inventor from the two non-canon 1960s Dr.Who movies: 1965's Dr.Who and the Daleks and 1966's Daleks-Invasion Earth 2150A.D. also made by Stanmark Productions, however this is unlikely as advertising made no mention of the movies, just the TV show. Also, Peter Cushing wasn't the original choice. The original choice was Boris Karloff, who turned down the role(this becomes funny when you realize Boris Karloff playing Frankenstein's monster held together the continuity of one series of Frankenstein movies from the 1930s, and Peter Cushing playing Dr.Frankenstein held together the continuity of another series of Frankenstein movies from the 1950s and 1960s).The pilot, called Journey into Time, had Mike, who went to Secondary School with a girl named Susan, find out that she and her grandfather, Dr.Who, were humans from the far future where time travel was possible and they had taken the TARDIS, Dr.Who's time machine, back to the 1960s and enrolled Susan in school after many of their adventures through time and space. They were ready to go back to their adventures, but Susan wanted to take Mike along. Mike agrees to go and they go back to the American Revolution. In the end, Mike wants to go home but it's revealed that Dr.Who and Susan can't control when and where the TARDIS lands. The pilot's script, written by Malcolm Hulke, who would become a prominent writer for the TV show, was found in 2012 in the BBC archives by Richard Bignell. Below are some articles on the pilot and a reconstruction of the pilot created by fans using the script. There's still hope to find the pilot, as Bignell has claimed there were at least two copies made.

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