Very basically, the fact that there aren’t that many stories about the Ninth Doctor. On why he wanted to write the Ninth Doctor:

And in never really stopped doing that, either. But when it came back with “Rose,” that first episode 10 years ago today, it was still very very British, and it made no bones about that.

So it sort of lost something along the way. It felt like you were watching ER or something like that with the Doctor thrown into it. You know what I mean? When there was the Paul McGann movie – which I must admit I loved – it was really trying to be an American show. I don’t think i was surprised when it translated over to the States, and I think it’s because it didn’t try to be too American. So, I think it surprised everyone that it was going to be popular over here. And it was only when we got people like Christopher Eccleston that people really sat up and took notice. When it came back – it was amazing that it came back at all, because over here it was treated as a bit of a joke before its renewal when it came back in 2005. And you saw references every now and then, and it was really cool, where you’d pick up a Marvel comic and see a reference to Doctor Who and be able to say Oh look! They get it!” So it was always there, bubbling away underneath the culture. What connects John Dee with Sir Francis Drake and the impending attack of the Spanish Armada?ĭan Starkey, who plays the Sontaran Strax in the hit BBC TV series, reads this original audio story by Cavan Scott.I know that when I started watching it, it was on in the States on PBS, and it had sort of a cult following. Between them they must discover who is waging supernatural war - before the planet is pulled apart. When the TARDIS lands on a Spanish galleon, caught in an unnatural storm, the Doctor, Alex and Brandon are shipwrecked and separated from each other. A dread prophecy was made: ”the Earth will burn”…

But Dee’s magic was lost, his library ransacked, his spells and hexes stolen. He was given secrets from beyond time: how to mix potions how to tame the elements even how to trap a demon. Then one day a face appeared in his mirror, a face that was not his own. People laughed at John Dee for years, dismissing the astrologer as a madman or a fraud. Dan Starkey reads an intriguing original story featuring the Twelfth Doctor, as played on TV by Peter Capaldi.

Doctor Who by Cavan Scott