Re: Save Doctor Who! Sack RTD

Daniel declared:

On 5/06/2025 10:04 pm, solar penguin wrote:

The asswipe asked:

In article <101rt34$1gg3c$1@dont-email.me>,
solar penguin  <solar.penguin@gmail.com> wrote:

The True loon lost track of his hated dates:
 

The show is already dead. How could it possible get any worse? Davies
totally destroyed it.

 
In 2017? When he wasn’t even working on the programme?
How did he manage that?
 

They only way back is to write off the RTD era
completely and start again from 1996.

 
What happened to going back to Capaldi to start again?
 
At this rate, you’ll soon be demanding DW goes back to Bunny
Webber’s original Troubleshooters concept!

 
Bunny Webber?

 
Yes. I’ve double-checked and it was definitely Bunny Webber who
suggested the Troubleshooters concept, back in March 1963.
 
Aggy would probably agree with many of the ideas in Webber’s memo:
“Young heroines do not command the interest of boys. Young
heroes do command the interest of girls. Therefore the highest
coverage amongst children and teenagers is got by: The Handsome
Young Man Hero”

 
" ..... The Handsome Young Man Hero” .... and 'they' went with DoctorBill??

The Handsome Young Man Hero character became Ian (then
Steven, Ben and Jamie.)

DoctorBill was based loosely on Webber’s “The Maturer Man
[…] With Some ‘Character’ Twist”. Only loosely though, since
Webber wanted the character to be aged 35-40 but no more.
(“Nowadays, to satisfy grown women, Father-figures are introduced
into loyalty
programmes at such a rate that TV begins to look like an
Old People’s Home.”)

Of course, all this was when the series was still just going to
be a contemporary Earth-based show about a team of trouble-
shooters dealing with mad scientists etc. Quite a lot changed
when they decided to add the TARDIS.

 

(Whether it’s still true nowadays is another matter, but you
can see why I joked about Aggy wanting to turn the clock back
to Webber’s vision.)
 

Maybe Aggy just wants to relive his youth!!

I doubt he was ever The Handsome Young Man Hero.

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solar penguin