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Doctor Who is one of those shows that never really went away, it just left the television. When higher-ups at the BBC who hated science fiction and wouldn’t give the show a better budget despite complaining about it being a low-budget show got their wish and cancelled it, the Doctor’s adventures continued in comics, novels, audio dramas, fan productions, and “Scream Of The Shalka”, an attempt by the BBC to bring it back as a webseries before Russel T. Davies managed to get the show back on the air. I’m still convinced that was him trying to put his Torchwood series out on the back of the Doctor, but that’s a personal theory.

However, the American TV movie that made the mistake of airing on Fox, a network that treats science fiction like dirt in their line-up, wasn’t the only time an attempt was made on this side of the pond to bring the Time Lord back. Canadian animation studio Nelvana, who had fairly decent success with their take on Star Wars with Droids and Ewoks on ABC’s Saturday morning line-up, wanted to take their own shot at The Doctor and his TARDIS. It…wasn’t a very good shot, as the following video by Harbo Wholmes shows us. You’ll think it was a Marvel Studios production by the time this is done.

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