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Tuesday, 1st June 2021 at 3:02 pm
Minding my own beeswax in the kitchen a while back, my ear was drawn to the popular broadcasters Zoe Ball and Sara Cox discussing the hot button topic of Doctor Who’s hair.
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Not in the way us Who diehards might discuss it, you understand – which would probably be in the context of, say, the continuity nightmare caused by Peter Davison’s temporally unreliable barnet during season 19, or whether it might be possible to digitally remove David Tennant’s upsetting fringe from future releases of The Day of the Doctor.
No, they were talking about Jodie Whittaker’s smart blonde bob (series 11 model, for those taking notes) and its influential bearing on their own tonsorial makeovers.
When you’re making a show that depends as much on fresh inspiration as
Doctor Who does, some of your ideas are not going to make it in front of a camera. There is an untold history of the TV show that contains potential stories that were never brought to life, some because of budget limitations, some because the concepts were too close to other ideas, and some because they are just a bit too odd.
Here are 10 of the most intriguing examples:
1. “The Son of Doctor Who”
This was an idea pitched for the show’s second series by