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BBC History celebrates Doctor Who, Cathy Come Home and more

BBC History celebrates 85 years of entertainment television by releasing some of its archive As part of its 100 Voices That Made The BBC archive project, BBC History has today launched its Entertaining the Nation Collection, offering a rare insight into broadcast entertainment across the years through newly released interviews from the BBC Oral History Collection, plus … >

Posted August 26, 2021 by Tony Jones Filed under

Doctor Who, and the 1986 memo that recommended a female Doctor

The credited creator of Doctor Who, Sydney Newman, always thought there should be a female Doctor…

Posted August 30, 2017 by Barry McCann Filed under

‘Doctor Who’ creator was keen for the Doctor to become female

The creator of Doctor Who suggested that the Doctor should regenerate as a woman in the mid-’80s. In a letter to BBC One controller Michael Grade in October 1986 detailing how he would reinvigorate the show, Sydney Newman wrote: “At a later stage, Dr Who would be metamorphosed into a woman.” He added: “This requires … >

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