The New Doctor! A Doctor Who Alternate History Story

This is a Doctor Who fanfic, like you've never seen before. Not a Doctor Who story, not quite, although it contains Doctor Who stories. It's an alternate history story about the making of Doctor Who...

Or about a particular version of Doctor Who, in a particular time and place.

You see, in 1989, Doctor Who was cancelled. Over the next few years, there were a multitude of attempts to relaunch the series, with everyone from Steven Spielberg to Leonard Nimoy. Pretty much all of them came to nothing. But what if one of those efforts had succeeded?

In 1992, there was a strange hoax - a local actor named David Burton started driving around a car emblazoned with 'The New Doctor Who.' As fans and media followed up, he told a strange story of a private consortium, Millennium Productions, which had actually hired him to star in a couple of episodes of a pilot. No such episodes have ever turned up, and the story is dismissed. But what if it had been real? What if they'd succeeded?

The characters are real, the events are fictitious, but it could have been....