Quotes

The new Doctor Who (2005) seems to me to be more for adults than for kids. It's very adult-orientated.

During the time Michael Grade was at the BBC, I heard so many rumours that he was going to take Doctor Who (1963) off that I wrote to him and said 'Look, obviously the BBC can't afford to do this and doesn't know where to go with it, so I will take it off your hands, produce it independently, finance it independently, and sell it back to you as a package'. He turned me down, saying that he'd got plans for the series. Then, when Grade left, I wrote to Peter Cregeen about it. So I've now offered to buy Doctor Who (1963) out twice!

I didn't get invited to the 50 year anniversary which really pissed me off somewhat, since I'm one of the earliest people in the world on Doctor Who (1963).

[on the revived Doctor Who (2005)] I've got so much contention with the way it's put together nowadays. It seems to be a favourite for overgrown schoolboys with little intelligence, pretending to be very clever intellectually, and it's bullshit.

What we had to do with Doctor Who (1963) was to forget wobbly jellies in outer space and create some reason for bringing the stories down to Earth.