It's an interesting thought that its the non-fans who think that loads of continuity references are "better" in some sense than stand-alone stories.
I seem to remember, at some point, some suggestion that the Judoon would be Sontaran substitutes - and then they went and bought back the Sontarans anyway.
Actually, one of the more interesting things, looking a that list is the 1975-1979 gap in the creation of recurring monsters - corresponding, broadly speaking, to Phillip Hinchcliffe's tenure as producer (allowing a little leeway for hangovers from previous teams in a new producer's first season). There are also relatively few returning monsters during his tenure. It suggests that whatever he was doing he wasn't interested in encouraging stories that fed off the past, and ones that, while creating several striking monsters and villains, didn't create ones that lent themselves to re-use.
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I seem to remember, at some point, some suggestion that the Judoon would be Sontaran substitutes - and then they went and bought back the Sontarans anyway.
Actually, one of the more interesting things, looking a that list is the 1975-1979 gap in the creation of recurring monsters - corresponding, broadly speaking, to Phillip Hinchcliffe's tenure as producer (allowing a little leeway for hangovers from previous teams in a new producer's first season). There are also relatively few returning monsters during his tenure. It suggests that whatever he was doing he wasn't interested in encouraging stories that fed off the past, and ones that, while creating several striking monsters and villains, didn't create ones that lent themselves to re-use.