The Innes Lloyd / Gerry Davis era really starts marking its territory with Episode 1 of 'The War Machines', but I can't help thinking how things might have gone if Kit Pedler had never entered on the scene.
Toyah Willcox is already on record about how she found the Cybermen to be sexy, but heaven knows what their metal parts might have been like if Alex Comfort had been involved with their creation.
The design of the Wheel in Space in 'The Wheel In Space' (a story which involved a Wheel In Space, hence the name) does resemble a giant gyroscope, so Eric Laithwaite would probably have felt quite at home.
And the idea of Patrick Moore teaming up with Gerry Davis does appeal, even if it meant Patrick Troughton having to learn the xylophone instead of the recorder.
Though you'll have to use your imaginations to picture what 'Doomwatch' would have been like in any of these alternative realities.
But real life is intruding on the series in a way never really attempted before, even to the extent of having to slip a couple of quid to a genuine taxi driver to ferry William Hartnell around a corner.
One cannot help wondering how online fandom would have responded to this style of story. No doubt there would be ruffled feathers, passionate cries that the production team should GO NOW and fears for what the next season would bring.
But at least everyone's uploading speed would have been glacially slow in 1966, so by the time you'd be able to read the posts, we'd be halfway through 'The Smugglers' anyway...
Our video about 'The War Machines' Episode 1 can be seen here.
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