Russell T Davies has revealed his ambitious plans for an unmade series of Doctor Who, including the return of Jonathan Groff’s Rogue, a four-part Dalek epic and three episodes that had already been fully written before Disney pulled the plug on its partnership with the BBC.

In his new memoir, The Queerest of Folk: A Life in Television, Davies reflects on the stories that never made it to screen following the end of Disney’s involvement with the programme.

With the future of Doctor Who uncertain during production of Ncuti Gatwa’s second series, work had already begun on a potential third series, with three complete scripts and several other ideas in development.

“Three scripts were fully written for it, and it breaks my heart they won’t be seen,” Davies writes.

One of the planned episodes would have taken the Doctor back to 1666.

“We had a brilliant story set during the Great Fire of London, written by the powerhouse team of Laurence Clark and Jack Thorne, and we should have had the budget to do it properly, with the flames and panic and everything.”

Another episode, written by Lydia Adetunji, would have taken Doctor Who into horror territory with a story set aboard a NASA-style space station.

Davies describes it as “a brutal horror story” exploring trypophobia, an aversion to clusters of small holes or repeating patterns, adding: “Look it up, it’ll make you shiver!”

“There was a really lovely episode set on a council estate in the middle of Manchester. That would have been the ultimate place to bring the Doctor; I would have just loved to see that,” Davies recalls.

“It was written by Sharma Angel-Walfall, who’s lived that life. It was like Doctor Who meets the film Rocks.”

Davies had also hoped to bring back Jonathan Groff’s Rogue, who became a romantic interest for Gatwa’s Doctor in the 2024 episode ‘Rogue’.

Davies reveals that a follow-up had been considered for the second series but was repeatedly delayed.

“That sequel was forever getting postponed. It didn’t appear in series two, but I would have tried for it in series three,” he writes.

The proposed adventure could have taken place in Blackpool during the 1980s, with video game arcades playing a central role.

“We were talking about Rogue in an Eighties story, maybe set in Blackpool with video arcades at its centre.”

Davies had also hoped to bring back writer Juno Dawson, who previously contributed the episode The Interstellar Song Contest.

The most ambitious revelation concerns the planned finale, which would have featured the Daleks in a story spanning four episodes.

While Davies does not reveal details of the plot, the proposed length suggests a substantial commitment to the Doctor’s most famous enemies, far beyond the typical single or two-part Dalek adventures of modern Doctor Who.

“So we had a lot of fabulous ideas, some fully fleshed out, with a Dalek four-part epic to end the series. We were ready to go.”