I found a website recently that features a comprehensive list of all the unmade Doctor Who stories and the stages they were at when they were canned.
Looking at these, I was wondering if there are any unmade stories you would love to see get the ‘Lost Stories’ treatment?
These are my personal favourites.
Have to admit, I think it’d be fun to see “The Laird of McCrimmon”…
The Laird of McCrimmon
Written by Mervyn Haisman & Henry Lincoln, this storyline was considered around mid-1968.[47] The story would be set in Scotland in Jamie’s ancestral home, Castle McCrimmon, where the Doctor’s old foe the Great Intelligence plans to use Jamie’s body.[47] At the end of the story, Jamie would remain behind as the new laird, ending his travels with the Doctor.[47] By late April 1968, it was clear that Frazer Hines would be leaving the series sometime during Season Six. One candidate for his departure story was Haisman and Lincoln’s third Yeti serial, which they were working on around the start of June. Over the summer, however, the writers became embroiled in a dispute over copyright with the BBC regarding the Quarks, robot monsters that appeared in their previous Doctor Who commission, The Dominators. The ensuing acrimony resulted in the abandonment of The Laird of McCrimmon in August 1968.
A few others of note:
Untitled storyline (Adams)
Written by Douglas Adams, this story would involve the Doctor going into retirement but being constantly called upon to solve various problems. It was considered as the final story of Series 17 until Williams dismissed the idea. It was replaced by Shada.
We could do this now with the 14th Doctor!
Sealed Orders
Written by Christopher Priest, a scene breakdown for this four-part story was commissioned on 27 February 1980 and the full scripts on 24 March 1981. The story, set on Gallifrey, involved hopping back and forth in time resulting in multiple variants of the TARDIS and a spare Doctor, one of whom was killed. The story was abandoned and replaced with Stephen Gallagher’s Warriors’ Gate.
Just sounds interesting to me…
“Ptings”
Written by Chris Chibnall. This story would have been a sequel to The Tsuranga Conundrum and seen multiple Ptings.
I know, I know, but I’d watch it.
Ptings 100%!
Are you sure you’d like to hear more unmade stories written by Philip “Mission to Magnus” Martin? Considering how dearly you love Mission to Magnus…
Anything by Barbara Clegg or Douglas Adams definitely has the potential to be amazing.
Honestly, those two story synopsis actually sound quite interesting. Especially the one where the Doctor descends into the Egyptian underworld.
Whatever do you mean, Stream? I am definitely not bored out of my mind STILL reviewing that garbage.
Might I say, it’s been several years since I encountered a story so bad it makes me want to daytime drink! 
Seriously, I have no idea how Philip Martin got away with all the sexism and random risque moments (like the Doctor’s dream sequence).
And somehow, there is still one story in Series One that’s worse than it.
This made me realise the (unintended) connection to Doctor Who in my username. “Stream” is an anagram of something else, and the name given to the villain of the Lost Story you consider to be the worst of Season 1.
I suddenly feel like everyone’s arch-enemy. Muhahahahaha!
I agree that Mission is utter garbage, though. I look forward to reading your review if it ever sees the lights of day.
Something it took me years to realise is that my ‘work name’ is also an anagram of that dastardly Time Lord.
I mean at least your reviews are entertaining.
The same cannot be said for ‘The Hollows of Time’ 
Probably not for a while yet. I have around twenty reviews in the pipeline ready to be uploaded.
All three of the stories featured in the opening post sound intriguing and worthy of investigation, as does Sealed Orders.
I know this has been suggested to death, and even dismissed, but I’d still love to hear an expansion of Robert Holmes’ Yellow Fever story. Difficult, of course, because two of the main players are no longer with us. Even more difficult because the projected synopsis would barely fill a postage stamp!
But I’d still love to hear it.
I’ll just leave this here.
In addition to the link @DarthGallifrey posted, here is a link to the website which features comprehensive breakdowns of all the ‘Lost Stories’ - where the screenshots from the initial post in this threat came from
I would absolutely love to hear ‘Yellow Fever’ get a proper adaptation, though the synopsis being tiny could still technically work - from what I remember, barely anything of ‘Hexagora’ and ‘Operation Werewolf’ existed, and it was basically down to Paul Finch and Jonny Morris respectively to write the stories.
Obviously Jon Culshaw has been doing an excellent job as the Tremas Master, but I could definitely see issues re:The Rani - the character is in licencing limbo since Pip and Jane Baker passed, and it would have to be altered in the script so that Redmond was playing the character.
It would be excellent to hear an adaptation though - possibly even beg Michael Feeny Callan to resurrect his script, considering that was meant to conclude Season 23.
I almost certainly would have preferred whatever this would have been to Tooth and Claw lmao
Put me down for this as well. I’d enjoy that too. I mean, I actually think the Pting is an inherently Doctor Who idea. There’s plenty of story potential for them. Just because “Tsuranga” wasn’t the story a lot of people hoped for, doesn’t mean that there were no good ideas in it. Personally, I’ve always felt that story was unfairly maligned. Not perfect, but good fun. As for the Pting… I’d LOVE to see them back!
It might not have fit RTDs brief but it’s definitely a story I’d like to see or (if Big Finish are paying attention, to listen to!).
For me, the weakest part of the episode was the pregnant guy, but I loved the world building, the setting, the tech, the Doctor going on about the drive, the Doctor and Captain butting heads, the Pting eating the sonic screwdriver, the stuff draped around piloting… It was an episode I very much liked.
(No issues with pregnant guys in general, btw, just not fond of that subplot in this story and how it was executed.)
This aligns pretty closely with my own feelings. The setting, the technology and the Doctor’s sheer joy at the drive were particular highlights for me.
