Charlie Bragen wrote:
> Last night I had a dream that I was watching a spin-off series from
> "Doctor Who" in the format of "Yes, Prime Minister". The Doctor had
> saved Britain so many times, that the Fifth Doctor had been made Prime
> Minister as a reward. Maureen Lipman played his chief aide, a former
> television news producer before she went into politics. The general
> public, who didn't know the Doctor's Gallifreyan origin, were led to
> believe she was his wife.
>
> This episode's plot involved the Doctor having to deal with both a
> scandal in Maureen Lipman's character's journalistic past, and with a
> cunning plot by the leader of a Middle Eastern terrorist country. The
> terrorists were pretending to cause trouble, hoping the Doctor would
> send the Welsh Fusiliers to invade their country, just so that they
> could get the all Fusiliers' autographs.
>
> Anyway, this was the last episode in the season; so once the Doctor had
> solved all the problems, there was an end-of-season cliff-hanger.
>
> One of the Doctor's junior aides was also Gallifreyan. On the way back
> from the Middle Eastern country, the TARDIS crash-landed forcing the
> Doctor and this aide to "simo-regenerate" to resemble each other's old
> body. (i.e. the Fifth Doctor had regenerated to look like the aide, and
> the young Gallifreyan had now regenerated into a Fifth Doctor lookalike)
>
> As the closing credits rolled -- to both the "Yes, Prime Minister" and
> "Doctor Who" themes playing simultaneously -- I turned away from the
> telly, wondering how canonical the spin-off was. Does this regeneration
> mean that all later adventures of the Doctor were now officially
> adventures of the new lookalike instead? I woke up before I could
> decide the answer for sure one way or the other...
The Doctor would make a great PM! If he makes a mistake, he can simply
hop in his TARDIS and go back in time to warn his past self not to make
that mistake!
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