How The Unmade Third Doctor Who Movie Would Have Changed Canon
A presumed-to-be-lost script for a third Doctor Who movie has been rediscovered, creating several potential canon issues for both the Peter Cushing movies and the parent TV show. Adapted from Terry Nation's first two Dalek serials and starring horror legend Peter Cushing as Doctor Who, the movies were released in 1965 and '66, capitalizing on the Dalekmania craze. They existed separately from the world of the TV show, but in later years writer Steven Moffat attempted to canonize them in his novelization of the 50th anniversary special «The Day of the Doctor.»
At an event in London to promote the 4K re-release of Peter Cushing's Doctor Who movies, their writer-producer Milton Subotsky's sons revealed they were in possession of a speculative script for a third Doctor Who movie. Entitled Doctor Who's Greatest Adventure, the script was written in the 1980s and would feature an old Doctor and a young Doctor teaming up together. While this is a concept that now regularly recurs throughout Doctor Who, it would have raised some even more complex canon issues than the first two Cushing movies.
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The most notable thing about the two Peter Cushing movies is that his Doctor is not a Timelord. He's an eccentric human scientist who has invented time travel and lives with his granddaughters Susie and Barbara Who. Doctor Who's humanity would presumably remove the possibility of regeneration. Although, given Doctor Who's Timeless Child revelations, this could now be easily remedied. Perhaps Peter Cushing's Doctor Who is another timeless Doctor, living an incognito life as an impossibly clever human scientist. In the 1980s, Peter Cushing's Doctor could only have met a younger
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