Here’s WhatDoctor Who‘s 50th Anniversary Would Have Looked Like With Chris Eccleston

We ’ve have sex for quite some clock time about thetroubled developmentof Doctor Who ’s landmark 50th anniversary special , “ The Day of the Dr. , ” and how Christopher Eccleston was shortly involved in a potential income tax return for the Ninth Doctor . Now we have a peek at what might have been .

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The above epitome is a storyboard for an early variant of the peculiar drawn by Andrew Wildman , who has been selling his boards from his time on Doctor Who at amusing conventions alongside his other graphics . But whenBleeding Cool ’s Rich Johnston buy a set , he discovered an early face at what might have been had Eccleston committed to the project .

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One of the initial scripts planned for the sequence featured the ninth , 10th , and eleventh incarnations of The Doctor in a tarradiddle at long last similar to the one we saw play out in the special : Zygons travelling back to Elizabethan England and duplicating Queen Elizabeth , result to all three Doctors meet when a rift in time and space open up and dump them all together . Wildman ’s storyboards depict the Ninth Doctor seeing pronounce breach curtain raising , and finding himself in a forest look directly at the tenth MD ( and two Queen Elizabeths ) .

While we know that Eccleston would eventually decline to yield , instigate some hasty re - writes ( and even a edition thatjust starred Jenna Coleman as Clara ) by Steven Moffat . Still , Wildman ’s boards offer a unequalled looking at what might have been : the lawful meeting of the then - most - recent translation of The Doctor that many fans desperately wanted for the fiftieth Anniversary . you’re able to see a few more of Wildman ’s storyboards at the link below .

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