Gone But Not Forgotten: Doctor Who ( The RTD Era )
Doctor Who is a pretty unique show in that it has an extremely long history and it’s been based around one character for that entire time unlike say Star Trek which also has a long history but is based around several different groups of characters.
The show originally ran from 1963 to 1989 and during that time the part of the Doctor was played by seven different actors and also produced by several different producers ( my favorite being Philip Hinchcliffe ) and this brings up something I find fascinating, fans often talk about their favorite Doctor but a lot of Doctor Who fans also talk about their favorite producer, I can’t think of another show where it’s fans do this.
Flash forward to 2005 and Russell T Davies has managed to convince the BBC to revive the series and it now has the budget and support that previous producers could only have dreamed of, Russell T Davis ( RTD ) introduced the show to an new audience and it was pretty much a runaway success from the beginning.
RTD recieved a lot of critisism from a lot of fans and some of it was well deserved, like all shows it had some fantastic episodes and some pretty bad ones but at the end of the day Doctor Who was back and it was about time.
While he is no longer producing Doctor Who RTD continues to work on both spin-off shows Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures ( where apparently he’ll be writing a story that will feature the return of Jo Grant as well as feature the Eleventh Doctor ), personally I’d be interested in seeing him write a script or two in the future.