The revived Doctor Who series was to feature a script by Stephen Fry, set in the 1920s. Rumours appeared on the BBC's websites shortly after the airing of the new Series 1[57] and the story was pencilled in as the tenth episode of Series 2.[11] According to a video diary entry by David Tennant, Fry attended the very first cast read-through for Series 2, indicating that his script was still under consideration at that point.[58] Due to budgetary constraints, the episode was moved to Series 3 and replaced by Fear Her.
The story was subsequently abandoned, as Fry did not have spare time[59] for the rewriting necessary to replace Rose with Martha.[11] Fry said, "They asked me to do a series[60] and I tried, but I just ran out of time, and so I wrote a pathetic letter of "I'm sorry I can't do this" to Russell Davies."[61]