10 Ways That Doctor Who Was Better In The 1990s
8. Paul McGann IS The Doctor
One of the most exciting moments in the 90s was the Paul McGann TV Movie. Fans queued up around the country to buy an early release VHS of the movie as stores opened at midnight. Could this be the bold new reinvention that would see Doctor Who sit alongside other big genre shows like The X-Files or Star Trek? Well, no, unfortunately not. The pilot failed to perform as desired in the US, and so Fox pulled the plug, despite the strong ratings in the UK.
The TV Movie is undeniably a muddled production, but it contains a lot of the elements that would eventually feature in the 2005 reboot. Namely kissing and faster paced storytelling. It didn't please everyone however, and some fans felt that it was too Americanized or too heavy on mythology. What wasn't in doubt was how much Paul McGann nailed the role.
He was the handsome, dashing, romantic time traveller long before David Tennant. He was the modern Doctor that was perfect for 1996. The biggest disappointment of the TV Movie was that McGann never got to continue his travels. McGann would quip in interviews that he was "the George Lazenby of Doctor Who". That was until Big Finish came calling in the early 2000s, and the rest is history...