Dr Who

ShandyHand · 04-07-2015 22:36

(04-07-2015 17:05 )M-L-L Wrote:
(04-07-2015 07:40 )Doddle Wrote: More than any set deficiencies, this was probably the series' greatest flaw - the desire to resurrect one-off characters without good reasons to do so. How many sequels were there which didn't really justify their creation?

Yes. Agreed.

For what it's worth though, my own tinfoil hat theory is that this really became a problem in the classic series in the 1980s because the producers started taking too much note of fandom...

Not a tinfoil hat theory at all. What you describe is pretty much how it happened. That's what yet get when you let an obsessive fan become unofficial continuity consultant to a publicity-hound variety producer in charge of Who in the garish 80s. (Note too that the script editor who wrote Earthshock promptly fell out with said producer, left, and further doomed the programme to yet poorer stories/writing.) 80s Who was an embarrassment to the BBC after that; one no other producer would take on, stuck with a producer that no other programme would have! Despite faint signs that it had got little of it's scripting mojo back in McCoy last season the end was probably a mercy killing.

IMO the revival has good and bad (of everything) in near equal measures!

(Btw, the Davros prequel you describe has been done as you suggest just not in a book. It's a Big Finish audio with an 80s Davros reviving the role.)

*M-L-L* · 04-07-2015 22:56

As Doddle has already posted -

classic series marathon on channel Watch tomorrow :

7am Tomb of the Cybermen (Troughton)
9am Spearhead from Space (Pertwee - 1st story, Autons)
11am Pyramids of Mars (T Baker, Sarah Jane, Mr Bronson off Grange Hill, robot mummies)
1pm Earthshock (Davison, Cybermen,)
3pm Vengeance on Varos (C Baker, Sil, lots of references to torture, executions, acid baths, hanging and general grisliness that were all reasonably instrumental in giving a pretext for Michael Grade to order the series off the air temporarily)
5pm The 1996 TV Movie (Paul McGann)
6:45pm Dr Who At The Proms 2010

No McCoy story, that seems a bit odd ?
I think they showed Battlefield relatively recently.