Physician Who’s Sequence 14 Finale Initially Had a Lot Extra Susan Twist(s) on the Finish
That final half got here to go in first 60th anniversary particular “The Star Beast” when the Physician recited these three phrases to carry Donna Noble’s reminiscences of her time within the TARDIS again. The opposite half although? Anybody who’s seen episode seven “The Legend of Ruby Sunday”, the primary half of collection 14’s two-part finale, will know that it didn’t characteristic a Nineteen Forties American espresso bar. So what occurred to that opening?
In keeping with a brand new interview with actor Susan Twist in DWM 605, it was a part of a scrapped pre-titles sequence for the episode that might have featured three further cameos from Twist.
Going by the working title of “Chrysalis” in reference to Kate Lethbridge-Stewart’s (right, because it turned out) principle that Twist’s tech big Susan Triad is likely to be an unwitting container from which evil would emerge, the episode in its first draft opened not at UNIT Tower however within the USA.
“Susan would have performed a nanny in Pennsylvania in 1946, pushing a pram by means of a park previous Albert Einstein and singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson,” explains DWM. “Subsequent scene, the lady is the one who waits: a blue-skinned waitress – 100% Sloogma – serving the Physician and Ruby in an alien diner.”
After some Sloogma-dialect chat, the Physician and Ruby encounter the lady once more, this time as a human astronaut addressing a colony of big ants on an alien world and bringing them greetings from “the Earth Imperium of the Emperor Horatio.”
What ended up on display was a scene of the Physician at UNIT HQ recapping the lady’s numerous appearances within the collection up to now, plus glimpses of a few off-screen adventures (“Planet Sloog, she is a Slooma, Planet Varsitay she is a griffin, the 5-Fold Configuration she’s a Bleet…”).