The "plan" — although Marc Platt has called it "more of a mood and direction" than a detailed plan — would have dropped hints of the Doctor's actual origins throughout the later part of Sylvester McCoy's tenure as the Doctor. Due to the show's cancellation and John Nathan-Turner's occasional tinkering with scripts, however, very little of the "masterplan" was ever seen on screen. The "plan" was largely left to play out in other media and was an especially profound part of the Virgin New Adventures range in general and the novel Lungbarrow in particular.