The Doctor Who Real Time Marathon

The Nightmare Fair: Part One   (04 /01/26) As was the case about six years ago, I've slipped through a crack in space and time to experience Doctor Who which never made it to the screen. Last time, strikes prevented Shada  from being completed, meaning Season 17 never got its six part finale. This time, dissatisfaction in the series by a Sci-Fi-hating upper management led to the entirety of Season 23 being scrapped! Of the six stories commissioned, three had completed (or as near as) scripts with a fourth by former Script Editor Christopher Hamilton Bidmead being close to completion. Robert Holmes' three part story Yellow fever And How To Cure it had draft episodes and planning had gone in to filming it in Singapore but that's as far as things had got. The Season was due to conclude with The Children Of January  which, like Holmes' script, has so far never seen the light of day. However, the first three stories - The Nightmare Fair, The Ultimate Evil and Mission To Mag...