I like it too. It does have a distinctive feel. I always find it fascinating that they manage the scene of the Doctor in the disco without falling into self-parody, which I'm not sure any later iteration of the programme would manage, including the current version. And Ben and Polly have been unfairly ignored by fandom.
Re: "Doctor Who is required," we now know from Missy that his name really is Doctor Who (maybe) so maybe WOTAN was smarter than we thought. Although I get the impression that there was a not-quite-made-explicit idea that WOTAN is psychic and reads Dodo's mind in that scene, so Doctor Who might just be how she sees the Doctor. Although in a couple of stories' time, the Doctor would adopt the German pseudonym "Doctor von Wer" and then sign a note to Professor Zaroff as "Doctor W." so Innes Lloyd and Gerry Davis probably felt that that really was his name. Maybe Missy sent them a memo?
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Re: "Doctor Who is required," we now know from Missy that his name really is Doctor Who (maybe) so maybe WOTAN was smarter than we thought. Although I get the impression that there was a not-quite-made-explicit idea that WOTAN is psychic and reads Dodo's mind in that scene, so Doctor Who might just be how she sees the Doctor. Although in a couple of stories' time, the Doctor would adopt the German pseudonym "Doctor von Wer" and then sign a note to Professor Zaroff as "Doctor W." so Innes Lloyd and Gerry Davis probably felt that that really was his name. Maybe Missy sent them a memo?