[ SECRET POST #3328 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3328 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[tcex28]

Whoa can I get a source on that information? It seems really weird that he would be commissioned to write 'a serious mini episode' for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day, where comedy is kind of the point of the exercise.

[(Anonymous)]

The previous special for a charity telethon (I cannot recall whether it was a Comic Relief or not) was a serious-ish mini episode too. Originally what became Curse of Fatal Death was going to be a fairly dark Tom Baker return in keeping with the previous tone of the show. It was all discussed to death in the fandom materials of the time.

[tcex28]

The dark Tom Baker return sounds like Adrian Rigelsford's unproduced script for The Dark Dimension (1993). According to TARDIS Data Core, some very minor elements of that carried over to Dimensions In Time (JNT's naff as hell Doctor Who/Eastenders crossover, made for Children in Need) after it was scrapped.

The Curse of Fatal Death came about 6 years later and has nothing to do with any of those, being from the outset a sketch written for a comedy telethon. Phew, that was a hefty knot of misinformation to unravel.

[(Anonymous)]

No this was after DiT, it got recycled again, and before Scream of the S. The idea of making it an out of continuity "parody" was something Moffat developed so he could put his, at the time, fanon ideas on screen. Moffat has been fairly open about this, or at least he was before he got picked up as showrunner.