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[Starkers]

There's been about a hundred?

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I very specifically said no new TV episodes

 

[Q'OrnamentalDeqor]

They’re saying that if Doctor Who had taken a break after “Revenge of the Cybermen” (which aired April-May 1975) and hadn’t come back until Christmas 1976, they’d have drifted away from Doctor Who.

However, the show has had between-seasons periods this long before, and I don’t mean the sixteen years.

With season 12 being well-regarded, the fanbase clinging to it wouldn't disappear.

Just like in 1985 when the show was rested for 18 months and the show still raked in ~7 million (not great, but not terrible). The fanbase still clung to it.

It's not 1975, or 1986, anymore, though. What-if scenarios only go so far based on pattern recognition and aren't always accurate.

Then again, YouTube channels covering the modern era who critique it all over the place are still clinging, either for new news and groaning, or putting up neat ideas like comparing monsters from the sixties to the monsters of present and asking which were more qualitative (in their humble opinions), etc

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[diankra]

With season 12 being well-regarded, the fanbase clinging to it wouldn't disappear.

Just like in 1985 when the show was rested for 18 months and the show still raked in ~7 million (not great, but not terrible). The fanbase still clung to it.

It's not 1975, or 1986, anymore, though. What-if scenarios only go so far based on pattern recognition and aren't always accurate.

Then again, YouTube channels covering the modern era who critique it all over the place are still clinging, either for new news and groaning, or putting up neat ideas like comparing monsters from the sixties to the monsters of present and asking which were more qualitative (in their humble opinions), etc

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I dunno. I was 8 in 75, and suspect the flood of episodes (36!) that year did a lot to get me hooked.