Enjoy - JB
ALTERNATE SERIES 9 STORY TITLES - by Mark Harris
I’m always a believer in taking titles from the script or the story. Not to write a title and squeeze it in somewhere, but to just write and let memorable phrases emerge. I have chosen four examples from the script for each story. An "*" mark my favourites. Also included is an ‘Old Skool’ alternative title. This was never intended as a list of funny alternatives, so, er, they’re not funny. Someone else can win the goodies. I just don’t think Moffat and his crew are good at titles.
The Magician’s Apprentice
First Seek His Friends *
Puppy
The Only Way I Can
The Ultimate Good of the Universe
Old Skool: Evil of the Master
The Witch’s Familiar
Consider the Doctor
Make Your Own Stick
Compassion Then
Always Mercy *
Old Skool: Deception of the Daleks
Under the Lake (this was quite difficult, as the script is lacking in memorable language)
Death’s Merciful Hand
A Proper Ghost
Night Mode *
Duty of Care
Old Skool: The Phantom Time Lord
Before the Flood (ditto)
Bootstrap *
The Future Is Still Coming
Protecting Time
Beethoven’s Fifth
Old Skool: The Court of the Fisher King
The Girl Who Died
Tidal Waves
Willingly to Valhalla *
Fire in the Water
A Good Death
Old Skool: Invasion of the Vikings
The Woman Who Lived
My Own Companion *
Like Smoke
Me Against the World
What Eternity Feels Like
(I did think about ‘Fish in the Night’ but that’s just too obscure.)
Old Skool: The Eyes of Hades
The Zygon Invasion
Titivating the Fronds (no, not really)
Poncing About (no, not really)
Infiltrated
Truth or Consequences *
No British, No Dogs
The Living Embodiment
Old Skool: The Rise of the Zygons
The Zygon Inversion
Inside Out
The Osgood Box
A Scale Model of War *
The Judge of Time
(and possibly Truth or Consequences again)
Old Skool: The Rout of the Zygons
Sleep No More
The Arms of Morpheus
Sleep Dust
The Monsters Inside *
Dust to Dust
Old Skool: The Sand Men of Neptune
But seriously, Sleep No More is a good title. Though The Sand Men of Neptune is a seriously great 1950s-style pulp sci-fi title! I’m hanging on to that one . . .
Face the Raven
Counting Down
Trap Street *
Always Run
Quantum Shade
Old Skool: The Hidden Refugees
But Face the Raven is a good title, and matches well with Sleep No More . . . if that was important. Which it wasn’t.
Heaven Sent (yes, I know there are five options)
Get Off Your Arse (not really)
Doctor Who and The Prisoner of Azbantium
(No, not really. Still proud of this . . . even though others have thought of it.)
A Second Shadow *
Storm Room
I Confess
Prisoners in My Hell
First Second of Eternity
Old Skool: The Torment of the Doctor
Hell Bent (seven options!)
A Bit More Welly (not really)
Where Memories Go
Gallifrey Is Mine
Unravel the Web of Time
Where He Always Runs
The Last Ember
The Company of Immortals *
(Possibly just Company of Immortals, without the ‘the’. I like The Last Ember, too.)
Tomorrow Is Promised to No One
Old Skool: The Return of the Time Lord