14 Doctor Who Urban Legends That Are Actually True
12. Every Day's A School Day
Its widely reported that the BBC originally conceptualised Doctor Who to be the educational offering of their Saturday night line up which families would be able to enjoy together as they ate their tea. Every days a school day, after all. The intention was to subtly inform the audience about space and time travel through the narrative guise of the titular Time Lords ongoing escapades which sounds pretty good on paper. Historical figures, such as Marco Polo, would be featured to add a sense of real life gravitas to the proceedings with viewers being left with a general sense of enlightenment after each episode. Well, that was the plan, anyway. As it turns out, though, early test screenings showed that viewers just werent responding to the more informational aspects of the series and producers were also forced to re-evaluate their initial premise of the TARDIS taking the form of an object relevant to each respective storys historical setting when it transpired that the shows limited budget wouldn't be able to support all of the redesigns. As such, the Doctors spaceship became the blue police box that fans know and love today and the shows educational mantra was ditched in favour of a more fantasy-based drama. There are still lessons to be learned from watching Doctor Who, of course, and its storylines are always (well, usually) based on scientific fact.