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1 July 2025
Oh well, it'll have to be the bloody Foot Doctor then.
Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet? really is something else. Poking fun at Doctor Who's own questionable canon, BBV's stock in trade — making Doctor Who-related video productions that featured licensed alien races, such as the Sontarans, yet never being allowed to use the Doctor himself and above all, is just a ridiculous parody of Classic Who with all the bells and whistles.
What do you get if you cross a Krynoid with an Auton, Sontaran and a sombrero-wearing Cyberon with a penchant for fine wines and Ex-cell-ent conversation? Shot probably. On the other hand, you could have landed yourself in the middle of the Licensed Reality Corporation's ™ attempt to wipe the stain of the Foot Doctor from the bottom of Accepted Canonicity. Packed full of strange whizzy things, blue swirly things, and more than its fair share of spoons. Do You Have A Licence To Save This Planet? brings Sylvester McCoy into battle against some of the most fearsome (as seen on BBC TV's Doctor Who) monsters of all time. Armed only with a duffle coat, an umbrella and a patented Sylvester-o-matic-talk-them-to-death-o-tron, the Foot Doctor has come to save the universe once again. He's back. And it's about feet.
I don't know what Bill Baggs was smoking when he made this, but what it is is pure insanity, yet it shows his love for Doctor Who through and through. It provides a great laugh at the pure ridiculous nature of its own existence while simultaneously parodying every aspect of Doctor Who it can in its rather short 30-minute runtime. The main theme is even an indirect homage to the Doctor Who theme; Steve Johnson really did a fantastic number on it. Sylvester is having the time of his life as the Foot Doctor, and Mark Donovan is decent as The Salesman, with everyone else doing a rather stand-up job in their limited screentime.
Overall, Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet? is pure insanity and good for a few laughs, but by no means needs to be taken seriously; it's a good little 30-minute romp on Doctor Who that is full of passion.
You're a fraud! A trickster, a... oh I can hardly bring myself to say it... You're unlicensed.
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