Doctor Who:
The Wilderness Years
Imagine 16 years without
Doctor Who on television. Well there was that one day that we had the Paul
McGann TV movie in 1996 but that was like a blip on the radar of a very huge
universe exploration. I know it is hard
for the younger fans to understand what happened when the show went off the air
to when it returned in 2005 but for us older fans that was a time of despair
and want as we longed for our favorite show to return. So we in essence spent the 30th
and 40th anniversary years without an anniversary special and had to
live through lots of rumors that became untrue fantasies of the shows return
and that so called movie that never came to fruition. If that wasn’t bad enough we had our hearts
ripped out from Fox and the TV movie which did not produce a series. So what did we, the old guard, do to keep us
in a Doctor Who frame of mind? Well this
what we did for Doctor Who during a majority of those 16 years.
More or less there was
nothing in 1990 except the fact that the show was not coming back and by the
end of that year it was becoming apparent that Survival would be the last story
of Doctor Who for a very long time but I and I’m sure many others didn’t think
it would have lasted 16 years. With
Doctor Who Magazines excellent monthly comic strip to fill the void it just
wasn’t enough as it was just a couple of pages and it only came out once a
month. But things were about to get better in 91.
