Re: Why WAS the 6th Doctor era SO BAD?!

In message <vlsiih$a8vm$2@dont-email.me>, The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> writes

On 10/01/2025 18:28, John Hall wrote:

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 Things greatly improved when Ace replaced Mel as the companion. Not that  that was Bonnie Langford's fault, but again down to the way her character was written.
 I think there was a big improvement in the scripts for the final series,  and "Battlefield" is one of my all-time favourite stories, with a couple

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Battlefield was a big improvement over the previous McCoy episodes and the best of his final series. I was expecting him to last 3 more series especially then things were improving.
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of others being almost as good. (And FWIW the authors of The Discontinuity Guide agree with me.) So I was particularly sad that it

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That would be Keith Topping et. al. I have the original on my shelf. Did it ever get a second edition?

Not that I'm aware of, but I wasn't looking for one. Given that it came out fairly early in the interregnum, there would have had to have been a long delay before there would be any new material to put in it, and by then I expect the authors would have moved on to other things.

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was cancelled when it seemed on an upwards trend. But it was clear that the BBC had the knives out for it when they scheduled it against "Coronation Street".

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That was during Peter Davison's tenure. McCoy returned to Saturdays.
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My memory is probably at fault, then.
The BBC have had rather a history of cancelling science fiction and fantasy series just when they were improving and/or starting to get enough depth to become really interesting. They did it with Tripods, which had taken over the DW Saturday teatime slot, then Merlin, and most recently Atlantis.
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