"Tim Bruening" <tsbrueni@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Charlie Bragen wrote:
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>> 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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