Nevertheless, the Toymaker himself is undisputedly Hayles’ creation. Ensuing copyright issues prompted extensive rewrites, so it is unclear how much of Hayles’ work actually made it to the screen. Hayles had penned all four scripts when commitments arose on his football soap United!, so he agreed to let Tosh handle his material.
In the summer of 1965, Hayles’ idea for The Celestial Toymaker reached the Doctor Who production office, and a script for Episode 1 was requested by new script editor Donald Tosh on July 29th. Hayles’ storyline would go on to be developed into full scripts by Matt Fitton for a Big Finish Lost Stories release in 2013. The Dark Planet was rejected on 26th February by story editor Dennis Spooner as he felt it was too similar to Malcolm Hulke’s vetoed submission The Hidden Planet.
Intended episode titles for the six-part serial were (in order) The City of Silence, The Shadow People, The Doomed Planet, The Caves of Night, The Sun Bomb and Invasion by Darkness. It was considered for use in Season 3, despite featuring the outgoing characters of Ian and Barbara. Hayles submitted his first story idea to the Doctor Who production office in 1965. Hayles died aged 47 on 30th October 1978, leaving his screenplay Arabian Adventure and TV script The Moon Stallion (which would star Sarah Sutton) to be shown posthumously. Active throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s, his work spanned several mediums – radio with The Archers TV with Doctor Who, Z-Cars, Out of the Unknown, United! and Doomwatch film with Nothing But The Night and Warlords of Atlantis and novels with Goldhawk. But Hayles’ contributions to Doctor Who span much further than this, as this definitive post will tell.īrian Leonard Hayles was born in Portsmouth, England on 7th March 1931. Most famously, Brian Hayles is the creator of the Ice Warriors and the Celestial Toymaker, villains that, over fifty years since their conception, are still held in high esteem and favoured for return outings both on TV and in other mediums.
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