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  1. Doctor Who and the Disruptive Coup

    The first foreign remake was a direct result of Doctor Who courting the Malaysian and Hong Kong markets. While there was no official Japanese release, bootleg tapes had made it there. Japanese overseas students and workers had seen the show in Australia, America, and Britain (and some Target...

  2. Doctor Who and the Disruptive Coup

    John Nathan-Turner was a popular man at the BBC and considered a golden boy to watch. His two years running Doctor Who were immediately followed by Catwalk, the infamously trashy soap opera about a fashion house that ran for three years and featured Anthony Ainley as the predatory manager. It’s...

  3. Doctor Who and the Disruptive Coup

    A discussion of Doctor Who after the Day of the Jackboot is not complete without discussing Doctor Who Magazine (nee Weekly). There had been comic adventures for “Dr Who” since 1963 but Marvel UK broke new ground by giving him his own dedicated comic-cum-magazine. Dez Skinn, chief editor at the...

  4. Doctor Who and the Disruptive Coup

    Fans have jokingly blamed Ken Clarke for killing Doctor Who ever since the cancellation. (This even made it into a Spitting Image sketch in the 1992 election, where Labour add this to his list of political crimes) As conservative fans point out, the culprits are all at the BBC. The heights of...

  5. Doctor Who and the Disruptive Coup

    For 1986, Doig and Clegg had a clear plan of action: a whole year of returning monsters, to make it clear this was ‘normal’ Doctor Who, and a new companion, preferably a well-known actress, to get ratings back up. This was not what they’d initially wanted to make and having to fire David Yip and...

  6. Doctor Who and the Disruptive Coup

    Clive Doig wanted to freshen up the character of the Doctor and cast an actor of colour [1], getting the character away from being a middle class patrician figure. Originally he planned to still cast a middle aged or elderly actor, but in discussion with Barbara Clegg about the direction of the...

  7. Doctor Who and the Disruptive Coup

    DWM features and websites like A Brief History Of (Time) Travel are extremely handy for fact-checking how things got made and how they almost got made. It's a great help for us nerds! (It's depressingly not easy to find out much about young Anglo-Chinese actors, which is the OLT reason I went...

  8. Doctor Who and the Disruptive Coup

    Replacing Douglas Adams was going to be a hard job and rather than scramble for another visionary, the BBC decided to bring in a more solid company man – the show was felt to just need a steady hand to continue as it was. It was also felt that a company man would be more amenable to suggestions...

  9. Doctor Who and the Disruptive Coup

    After being disrupted after the Day of the Jackboot, Doctor Who in America had began to grow again after the casting of Colin Baker. The success of the ABC co-productions had made both the BBC Enterprises and Douglas Adams (who’d enjoyed a trip to a Who convention in Chicago) wonder if this...

  10. Doctor Who and the Disruptive Coup

    Doctor Who was celebrating its 20th series in 1982 [1] and from a position of strength. The BBC ran a series of repeats, The Five Faces of Doctor Who, in the spring and summer to capitalise on it: An Unearthly Child, Spearhead From Space, The Three Doctors, The Mask of Mandragora, and The Dream...

  11. Doctor Who and the Disruptive Coup

    Change was yet again on the way. The first was a new Romana – in a deliberate reaction against the young, glamorous actresses who’d played her before, Douglas Adams cast elderly character actress Hilary Mason. The idea of turning Romana into a northern female Hartnell (in his more avuncular...

  12. top tv shows NEVER MADE...

    Freddy Krueger and the Dream Warriors 1989-1991 cartoon series adapting the Nightmare on Elm Street films. Instead of murdering the kids, Freddy (still Robert Englund) is making them "stay asleep... forever!" in their nightmares; his origin is never given. Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp...

  13. Doctor Who and the Disruptive Coup

    Recasting the lead role after six years of Tom Baker could have been a long, arduous slog – especially with the pay being worse than comparably easier jobs and after a year of mixed reviews for the show. A young Peter Davison (already a big name) was approached but turned it down, feeling it...

  14. Doctor Who and the Disruptive Coup

    The Armageddon Factor is the last of the “lost stories” despite never being wiped. In an era of Doctor Who defined by calamity and mess, it was a plot worthy of Adams that the second episode of the series’ grand finale was scheduled for the same day as a coup. After a decade of fantasising [1]...

  15. Explain the AH Quote

    From the 1870s on, Prussia tried to manage a third way between the larger Austro-Hungarian Empire and the United States of Deutschland. Key to this was a heavy focus on education: this would allow the country to have top scientific, military, and cultural minds, keeping it competitive with...

  16. Explain the AH Quote

    A letter written by Alan Turing to friends in 1968, after his cancer was diagnosed as terminal. He had spent the last four years running the company English Electric LEO on request from the incoming Labour government, turning the underfunded hodgepodge company into a world leader - in gratitude...

  17. Alternate List of Billboard #1 Hits: Katarn Edition

    August 12th, 1967: "Baby, You're a Rich Man" - The New Moondogs August 19th, 1967: "Hey Love" - Stevie Wonder - charting after a rerelease, following its appearance in the US part of the Our World international broadcast

  18. Explain the AH Quote

    Allegedly the last words said by the Emperor before his death at Spanish hands - the only witness was his daughter Tecuichpoch Ixcaxochitzin, who was converted to Islam after fleeing the Spanish in 1521 and being picked up by 'Moorish' traders who'd followed Spain. Tecuichpoch Ixcaxochitzin...

  19. Alternate List of Billboard #1 Hits: Katarn Edition
    Threadmarks: Civil Right Act of 1967 is passed and signed into law (1967)

    June 17th, 1967: "Respect" - Aretha Franklin June 24th, 1967: "In My Life" - Alvin and the Chipmunks - part of the "Chipmunks Go British!!" covers album -- EVENT: After weeks of intense work, a new Civil Rights Act makes it to the president's desk. Yorty is put under severe pressure from...

  20. Alternate List of Billboard #1 Hits: Katarn Edition
    Threadmarks: The BBC sells several shows to American broadcasters, saves Hartnell and Troughton era Doctor Who episodes (1967)

    May 6th, 1967: "Sunday Will Never Be the Same" - Spanky and Our Gang May 13th, 1967: "Octopus Garden" - Rory Storm & the Hurricanes -- EVENT: Capitalising off years of British Invasion music, the BBC manages to sell several shows to American broadcasters - one of which is Doctor Who...
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