Production
In the accompanying Doctor Who Confidential episode, Davies stated that he originally intended to call this episode "Dining with Monsters". He joked that a much better name for this episode would be "What should we do with Margaret?"
According to an interview with Davies in Doctor Who Magazine, this episode was originally offered to his friend and former colleague, the critically acclaimed and award-winning scriptwriter Paul Abbott. Abbott accepted and submitted a storyline, revealing that Rose had been bred by the Doctor as an experiment in creating a perfect companion. The episode was titled "The Void". However, his commitments to his own series Shameless and State of Play meant that Abbott was unable to develop the episode further and had to leave the project. Davies wrote "Boom Town" instead, bringing back Badland as Margaret due to her performance in "Aliens of London"/"World War Three" being "brilliant" though she had few lines.
Read more about this topic: Boom Town (Doctor Who)
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