Doctor Who<\/a> movie almost produced decades ago \u2013 and it\u2019s definitely not what you\u2019re expecting.<\/p>\nPeter Cushing played an alternate version of the sci-fi icon in two cinematic films released in the 1960s, titled Dr Who and the Daleks and Daleks\u2019 Invasion Earth 2150 AD respectively.<\/p>\n
The projects were unconnected to the BBC series which inspired them and never reached the same heights of success, but nevertheless, producer Milton Subotsky had a third entry in mind which he worked on for many years.<\/p>\n
His sons, Sergei and Dmitri, unveiled the long-thought lost plans for that instalment at a BFI screening this week, which would have been titled \u2018Dr Who\u2019s Greatest Adventure\u2019 \u2013 although the character\u2019s arch-enemies are nowhere to be seen.<\/p>
Instead, this feature would have followed two versions of Dr Who (as he was known in these films) fighting an army of giant, flesh-eating crabs who suddenly emerge from the ocean.<\/p>\n
If that doesn\u2019t sound like an idea ripped from the franchise rulebook, that\u2019s because it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Rather, the story is based on a pulp horror story from writer Guy N Smith called Night of the Crabs, which the elder Subotsky had been eager to adapt for the screen, but had struggled to do so for logistical reasons.<\/p>\n