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For Dr Who fans, here's an interesting article in one of our newspapers.
I note the comment that "When rebellion became less fashionable, so too did Doctor Who." I've heard theories that the bleakness of Blake's 7's season 4 and the final scene were ordered around the same time so that a group of rebels who liked blowing things up would not be seen as either admirable or successful.
I've not seen that much Dr Who (I barely remember what I saw as a kid, and since then have only seen the first couple of series on reruns two years ago) but I'm looking forward to the new series.
I note the comment that "When rebellion became less fashionable, so too did Doctor Who." I've heard theories that the bleakness of Blake's 7's season 4 and the final scene were ordered around the same time so that a group of rebels who liked blowing things up would not be seen as either admirable or successful.
I've not seen that much Dr Who (I barely remember what I saw as a kid, and since then have only seen the first couple of series on reruns two years ago) but I'm looking forward to the new series.
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I'm not sure I do either. When my UK friend proposed it I didn't believe a word of it, but when I read things like that I do wonder whether she's got something.
Dr Who was doomed from the day Michael Grade got the power to ensure it was. On the Room 101 programme, years after, he was still citing having destroyed it as his proudest moment.
Why did he hate it so much?
Perhaps the climate at the time, and things like that are why this friend has her theory. She has no evidence for it, but it's interesting. I suppose if there was anything in it though, people like CB would have said something by now.
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because it was SF, I think, and because he saw it as a children's programme hijacked by sad adults who should have been watching something more grown-up. On Room 101 he mocked the sets and sfx, which was a bit rich coming from the man in charge of the budget, and he also made it clear he disliked the fans, who had always been vociferous awkward buggers not content to sit back and accept what TPTB chose to do.
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