The New Armada
The New Armada is an unproduced 1965 six-part Doctor Who adventure story, written by script editor and writer David Whitaker for the First Doctor, Steven and Dodo,[1] and was considered as part of Seasons 2, and 3 of the show.[1]
Synopsis
The Doctor, Steven, and Dodo land in sixteen-century Spain in the midst of a war against Spanish armada's, and unite privateer of England, Sir Francis Drake to stop the armada fleet.
Production
When quitting to be a script editor, Whitaker submitted The New Armada on late February 1964,[2] and at first wanted the story to featured in Season 2, but was blocked from production in the wake of The Dalek Invasion of Earth.[2] He decided to commission the story for Season 3 as a revised version in late 1965, but was rejected by story editor Gerry Davis on January 17, 1966.[1] Davis, however, advised Whitaker to write stories for Season 4 of the program, which he would then write The Power of the Daleks.