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2018-01-13

purplecat: The Sixth Doctor (Who:Six)
2018-01-13 04:23 pm
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1985: DWB reports on the ongoing cancellation crisis with its customary restraint


Front Cover of DWB 26 from September 1985. The Headline is `In the 1960s the average length of a DOCTOR WHO season was forty-two episodes. In 1986 it was.. f-f-f-f-fourteen'. There follows a Cancellation Update by Jeremy Bentham which starts THE BELL OF DOOM, SOUNDING FOR DOCTOR WHO SINCE LATE FEBRUARY, TOLLED A LITTLE LOUDER RECENTLY AS CONFIRMATION OF SEASON TWENTY_THREE'S LENGTH WAS FINALLY REVEALED and contains, underlined the phrases LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS and Rubbish. It's general gist is that the BBC has been pedalling false information in order to prevent an uproar from fans. It is continued on Page 6. At the bottom of the front page is the statement STOP PRESS - Death of `Who (Page 12). There is also a picture of Peter Davison, Nicola Bryan and Jon Pertwee plus what looks like a Colin Baker puppet captioned PanoptiCon 6 Special.
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