The Prison in Space

The publishers of that most infrequent but most research-intensive of Doctor Who fanzines, Nothing at the End of the Lane, have a second in their series of books of untransmitted scripts imminent. This will be The Prison in Space by Dick Sharples, which until very late in the day was intended to be the fourth story in the 1968/69 season, its slot eventually being filled by The Krotons. It is notorious for its idea of a planet dominated by leather-clad women, not far from the Two Ronnies serial from their 1980 season, The Worm That Turned, but presumably without lots of men in frocks and Diana Dors ruling from Barbara Castle. This celebration of misogyny would not have been Doctor Who's finest hour, if reports are true, though publication of the script will . The cover illustration is suitably lurid, and can be found at the artist's Deviantart page.