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Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Guy N. Smith wrote the foreword to the 2003 Telos novella 'Shell Shock'. In it, he claims to have connected to the story because of the dominance of crabs in the plot

Milton Subotsky, producer of the two 1960's Dr Who films, bought the film rights to the book 'Night of the Crabs'. Unknown to Smith, Subotsky would rewrite the Crabs script into a new Dr Who film treatment. When interviewed about this for the Daily Telegraph, Smith's granddaughter would reveal Smith was a Doctor Who fan and used to have a full-size police box in his garden

The new film, which was to be called 'Dr Who's Greatest Adventure' was written sometime in the early to mid 1980s. Its existence wasn't known until Subotsky's sons brought a copy to a BFI screening of the Peter Cushing films

In the story, two versions of "Dr Who", an older version (intended as either Jon Pertwee or Tom Baker) and a younger one (played by a new and unknown actor,) would unite to save the English countryside from large, carnivorous crabs. Subotsky wanted to cast his own young Doctor for fear the current Doctor on the TV show may have left before the film came out.

The script, written by Edward and Valerie Abraham, was actually a reworking of Guy N. Smith's horror film adaptation of his own story, with fifteen new pages being added to show the Doctors arriving

One of the things I miss on my frequent sojourns from this fabulous film forum is the erudition of it's members and their ability to find invaluable nuggets and gems of information! I tip my hat to you, Susan (and a "well done, peeps" to every blessed one of you).