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Released

Thursday, October 3, 1985

Written by

Lenny Henry

Directed by

Geoff Posner

Runtime

5 minutes

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Political commentary

Synopsis

The Doctor has just regenerated and a Cyberman incident lures closer.

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Can some EU story be written about how the Lenny Henry Doctor is actually canon through a timemensional-temporadoxal loop of circular mavitational forces caused by Faction Paradox (not explicitly mentioned by name because of rights. They are referred to as “The great dumbasses”) before being partly removed out of the Doctor’s timestream and whose history only partly remained as a lasting impact on the post war universe from which only this short applies because he’s actually kinda awesome please and thank you.

(The reason no other story referenced him was because Eight forgot he happened one day)


I think that this is a very funny sketch and Lenny Henry does a great job as the Doctor. The jokes are mostly funny and apt, which is the main thing for a sketch like this.


This parody reflects Doctor Who's problems in the mid-80s: predictability, notable returns of monsters and villains, and running through the corridors. Lenny is the highlight of this, and it's sad that he managed to nail the role of the Doctor in about five minutes flat but never reprised it. The Doctor as a character is challenging to parody because I can easily hear these lines from the Second, Fourth, and Sixth Doctors' mouths.

 

 


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