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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Indeed, I suspect they had a lot planned for McCoy that they didn't have time to implement in the series.
In fact, I was listening to the Script Editor who was in charge when McCoy as Doctor, and he said he liked the Mysterious aspect of Dr. Who, and planned to (in the series after it was axed) go back to the roots, and give strong hints that the good Dr. was a lot more than a mere timelord, without actually being specific as to why he was so special.
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If you want to know how Andrew Cartmel planned to develop the Doctor's backstory, get your hands on the New Adventures novels (published by Virgin, although they are now all out of print). The 'Cartmel Masterplan' was being put in place during the last two seasons of original Who and would have unfolded further, especially in McCoy's fourth season, which never happened as the Beeb effectively cancelled Who by simply failing to commission the next series.
The culmination of the Cartmel Masterplan is found in Marc Platt's novel
Lungbarrow, a steaming crock of turds that ably demonstrates just how far they planned to shove the show up its own anus. If the BBC itself hadn't killed off Doctor Who in 1989, then its own production team would have done it all by itself in a further two years at the most.
You can actually
read Lungbarrow as an e-book on the BBC's own Doctor Who website. However, note that a number of its most central aspects have been explicitly contradicted since the show was recommissioned in 2005, so (despite what some of the real anoraks on forums like Gallifrey Base will tell you), there is no way that any sane person could consider its contents to reveal anything about the Doctor's background. And it's as badly written as anything else Platt ever did for the show as well. I wouldn't waste your time on it, actually. I speak as one who did.
