Being the kids own show that adults adore brings more risk than the phrase suggests.
Here, then, are fifty controversial incidents from the history ofDoctor Who.
Much of this took critical form.
My personal favourite is I feel the character is over-exaggerated whimsical even.
The Second Doctor was a very tactile man, and his attitude caused difficulties for his wives and children.
The character of Toberman was written as deaf, and wearing a hearing aid.
Roy Stewart was cast, but the hearing aid and the deafness was lost en route to the screen.
Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks inherited the character of Liz Shaw from the previous production team.
Amazingly, there were complaints.
Barry Letts let Walker go, paying her in full for her Season 11 contract.
The team was breaking up.
Roger Delgado had died.
Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts and Katy Manning were leaving.
Jon Pertwee decided to leave as well, partly to avoid being typecast.
More likely, he was planning on leaving anyway but thought What the hell?
The knock-on effect of Whitehouses Wont someone just think of the children?
Graeme Williams struggled at times as the producer ofDoctor Who.
In some cases, they didnt succeed.
It always will be.
Cue lots of grumbling, capital letters and online malcontent.
Doctor/Companion romances arent unexpected anymore, but there still remains only one that took place off-screen.
The problem is that few things are funnier than someone treating something inherently ridiculous with the utmost severity.
Their term for fans they deemed sufficiently attractive was Do-able barkers.
This was only revealed in a 2013 biography of JNT, and it made the national press.
Would you rather have EightiesDoctor Whoor spare some young men a potentially traumatising indignity?
After Peter Davison stated the case for Nyssa remaining on board, the axe fell elsewhere.
And what an axe.
Grown men admit to weeping as those silent credits rolled.
For the Twentieth Anniversary story, a few bridges were burned, and kindling was laid for future burnings.
The tick-list writing process was compounded by the uncertainty over whether Tom Baker was going to appear.
When Terrance Dicks took over the writing, he was annoyed when Saward kept inserting Cybermen into the script.
For a celebratory story, it was something of an ordeal.
The authorship ofAttack of the Cybermenis disputed.
His episodes are tight, well-paced, and visually impressive.
Although his scriptwriting was variable, the show needed distinctive directors of Grimwades ability at the time.
He never did, as the producer felt as if hed been dinghied and took the huff.
The Twin Dilemmais not very highly regarded.
The writing process was further complicated when Anthony Steven claimed his typewriter had exploded.
This is obviously no excuse.
Duncan Bowles typewriter explodes all the time and he just sucks it up and meets his deadlines.
Viewers, on the other hand…
Season 22 came in for criticism for its violence, as the show had before.
Its the kind of thing that could be used as incriminating evidence for a show under threat of cancellation.
Fortunately, the production team had seen no evidence to suggest this whatsoever.
After season 22 came a period known as The Hiatus.
With the BBC needing to save money, the shows twenty-third series was postponed.
Even the BBC News reported the news as taking everyone by surprise.
Cancelling it may have been kinder, in some respects.
That was essentially all the instruction they received.
On the set of Dragonfire Sophie Aldred hadnt shaved her armpits, and there was a slight fuss.
Remembrance of the Dalekslooks great.
It did, however, go over budget.
Normal service would be resumed as soon as the BBC worked out what to do with it.
Gosh, whod have thought?
This is perhaps how the strange activities of Mr David Burton were deemed worthy of print.
Some Cyberman concept-art and a plot synopsis were all we ever got ofThe Dark Dimension.
BBC Enterprises were making a straight-to-video special that snowballed into a big enough project for other departments to notice.
In hindsight,Torchwoodshouldnt have been such a surprise.
Everything has an edge, or else itd be infinite) was with the New Adventures book range.
It was a bit of a shock to the system compared with someone saying toss inSurvival.
Where do we start?
First we thought there were going to be Spider Daleks.
There arent Spider Daleks.
That would be nonsensical.SpaderDaleks, sure, but not Spider Daleks.
Then we discovered that the Doctor was going to kiss a lady.
Worse, he was going to be half-human.
Both of those things were terrible, but really we were lucky.
In hindsight, we got off lightly.
Fortunately, one of the latter Virgin authors had a few ideas that would shake things up a tad.
So many, in fact, that I dont have space to list them here.
Thats before we get onto his blog about the new series.
A new era for the show!
A new- oh, never mind, its been cancelled.
criesAnachrophobia, I might only be an Eighth Doctor Adventure but Im vastly more entertaining thanMeglos.
), announced shortly before the TV shows comeback.
For more details, see Doctor Who Magazine #463.
NOT ON MY WATCH.
The only Billy-Piper Ill accept inDoctor Whois the First Doctors smoking equipment of choice AND NO OTHER.
A pop-star in a serious acting role made famous by such characters as Dodo and Melanie Bush?
And shes beautiful but she will never love me.
What does Honey to the Bee EVEN MEAN?
NOT ON MY WATCH.
The only gayness Ill accept inDoctor Whois the frivolity of a well-timed Dudley Simpson leitmotif AND NO OTHER.
The supposed Gay Agenda ie.
How dareDoctor Whobe a platform foranysort of equality?
And lo, it happened.
What is a Deus Ex Machina?
Roughly speaking, its when an unprecedented ability or event is used as a resolution.
They are all hinted at, suggested and implied beforehand in at least some small way.
Now, I love the Ninth Doctors regeneration.
The United Daleks of Benetton.
The list of derogatory names for the new design went on long into the night.
The problem seemed to be that occasionally she wore sexy shirt skirts or sexy shorts (NB.
There is no such thing), and it was bad for children to see her sexy legs.
Because of sexy legs?
The Daily Mail has obviously not looked outside recently.
Or, indeed, since the 1960s.
As a result, the next series switched to more standalone episodes.
If only Lawrence Miles hadnt written that idea already.
There are eleven Doctors, officially.
Some people genuinely tweeted that they would never watchDoctor Whoagain.
Its a hell of a place to stop at.
