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New Series Episodes 83 & 84: The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People Plot A solar storm forces the TARDIS to land on a tiny island on 22nd-century Earth. There, a factory pumps out acid so corrosive that disposable, artificial humans are created to do all the work, taking the form of the real employees who control their doppelgangers remotely. These “Gangers” have all the memories of the real humans, but lose their sentience once the connection is broken. Until the solar storm causes the Gangers to stabilise. Now the Doctor finds himself desperately trying to stop war from breaking out between the humans and their Ganger selves.

Production Matthew Graham's only Doctor Who script had been 2006's, but he had remained in contact with the production office ever since. At one point, he was to write either the tenth or eleventh episode of Season Twenty-Nine, and later he discussed story ideas for Season Thirty-One.

On both occasions, however, he was prevented from returning to the show by his commitments to the spin-offs from his successful drama Life On Mars -- namely its sequel, Ashes To Ashes, and its American remake. Finally, however, executive producer Steven Moffat convinced Graham to contribute to Doctor Who's thirty-second season. Initially, Graham intended to write a single-episode story before Moffat persuaded him to tackle a two-part adventure, citing his love of Doctor Who cliffhangers.

As a starting point, Moffat suggesting fusing elements from two sources: the remotely-controlled artificial bodies at the heart of the 2009 blockbuster Avatar and the shapeshifting monster in the 1982 thriller The Thing. This led to the notion of the Flesh and a story pitting synthetically-created duplicates against their human originals.

Moffat anticipated a factory setting, but Graham was keen to juxtapose the industrial flavour of the tale with a monastic environment, recalling the 1986 mystery The Name Of The Rose. Originally, the facility would have housed a much larger complement of both staff and Gangers, but these numbers were cut back both for budgetary reasons and to accentuate the atmosphere of claustrophobia and paranoia. In the original ending, Amy has a vision of the “Eye Patch Lady” while the Doctor and Rory head back to the TARDIS As production neared, the two scripts came to be known as The Rebel Flesh and “Gangers”.

Moffat was also in the process of formulating his plans for Season Thirty-Two, which would be broadcast in two halves split across the summer months. “Gangers” would be the penultimate episode before the hiatus, and Moffat asked Graham to lead into the mid-season finale, by revealing at the story's conclusion that Amy is herself a Ganger, whom the “Eye Patch Lady” has substituted for the kidnapped -- and pregnant -- original. This replaced an ending in which Amy has a vision of the “Eye Patch Lady” while the Doctor and Rory head back to the TARDIS.

Moffat also indicated that the Doctor should be proactively investigating the Flesh, rather than happening upon the St John's monastery by chance. Graham's story was made as the third recording block for Season Thirty-Two. It would be helmed by Julian Simpson, a writer-director whose credits included episodes of Spooks, Hustle and New Tricks. He was also the husband of Jana Carpenter, who had played De Maggio in 2005's. Simpson's first order of business was a day on the TARDIS set at Upper Boat Studios; this took place on November 23rd, Doctor Who's forty-seventh anniversary.