10 Doctor Who Flops The BBC Has Buried

The following quote from Ian Levine - music producer, Doctor Who superfan, and the guy who co-wrote Doctor In Distress - perfectly encapsulates the general feeling towards this ill-conceived 1985 charity single:

"It was an absolute balls-up fiasco. It was pathetic and bad and stupid. It tried to tell Doctor Who history in an awful high-energy song. It almost ruined me."

Don't hold back Ian. Tell us how you really feel!

For those unaware, Doctor In Distress was produced when the show was put on hiatus in the mid-1980s. The song was intended as a protest against that decision, with the hope being that the BBC would take note, and bring Doctor Who back.

And while Doctor Who did ultimately return, it's fair to say that Doctor In Distress was not one of the reasons why: the song was universally-panned, it failed to chart in the UK, and incredibly, the BBC downright refused to play it on its radio stations.

In short, the whole thing was an unmitigated disaster.

The only good thing to come of it was that it served as a stepping stone in the career of legendary film composer Hans Zimmer (Gladiator, The Dark Knight Trilogy, No Time To Die, Pirates Of The Caribbean), who played the music for the song. Not exactly his finest day at the office!