Doctor Who: Lost Season 6 Finale
When I finished film school and got my master's degree, I got the lucky chance to work at BBC Wales on the hit show Doctor Who. I didn't live in the UK so I had to leave on job transfer. This was when Season 6 of Doctor Who was nearing the end, meaning I would have less work. It was still fun to help work on my favourite show. I preferred the older David Tenannt episodes, but the newer episodes were still just as great.
There were many ideas as to what the final episode of Season 6 would be, but we decided to test only two of them. The first was the aired Wedding of River Song episode, the second was the lost episode that this article is about. We simply had the studio split into two sections. The section I worked on was with Steven Moffatt and Jeremy Webb. The other half was with a writer and director we hired especially for the alternate episode.
Once the other writer and director finished the shooting of the alternate episode, we had a screening of each episode. The alternate episode's team watched our episode, but they didn't say much about it or even react in any way to any part. They had the same scared expression all day. We decided to watch their episode, but they insisted not to. We just went ahead and put the DVD of their episode in and much of the alternate episode's crew left quickly.
It seemed like a normal episode, but there was no footage before the intro and the name of the episode was missing from the intro. There were a few skipped and repeated frames, but we said we would fix it in post. Then the screen went black for about thirty seconds after the intro. Then it cut to a scene where the Doctor is sitting in the TARDIS looking at the console screen. There is nothing on the console screen. It is completely black. A picture flashes on the screen briefly (about one frame). We skipped back and paused on the frame, and what we saw was strange and disturbing.
We saw a picture of a little girl, but her eye sockets were bleeding and completely empty. She didn't have the rest of her face, just skin where it should have been. The picture was distorted and grainy. The Doctor is still sitting there at the console for five more minutes until something happens. It instantaneously cuts to a part where he is standing with his fists clenched. He then starts screaming loudly and wrecking things inside the room he is in. While he is screaming, the video is distorted and the audio's bass is amplified and distorted as well. He continues this for about ten minutes then passes out.
After he passes out, the screen goes instantly black but cuts to another scene. In this scene, there is a loud background noise that sounds like distorted, low-pitched screaming and yelling. The video track is totally distorted and nothing is really visible until the audio completely cuts out and shows the Doctor with glowing eyes and a horrible expression on his face. You can actually feel the rage from him when looking at his face. He is covered in blood and is surrounded by dead bodies.
The scene cuts out for ten minutes frozen on the same frame with a beeping noise in the background and visual tearing occurring a few times. Then the frame is gone and the little girl picture appears again, but starts decaying and the scene fades to white. The normal credits roll after that but there is no music. The track is completely silent.
I asked the team why they made such an episode. They said that they had to. Shortly after watching this, we heard two gunshots and found that the director had killed the writer and himself. Nobody on the BBC Wales team knows why this happened, but I am posting this to make people aware of it. I may be breaking a confidentiality agreement we all had, but it doesn't matter. People have to know.
Credited to KaosEmperion
Originally uploaded on February 8, 2012
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