Doctor Who: 10 Lessons It Can Learn From The Thick Of It

9. Never Give Up An Office With A Pantry When the annoyingly efficient Julius Nicholson (who looks suspiciously like the lovechild of Dean Cain and Mitch Pileggi) enters the British political scene in series 2, his proposed changes are not well-received by his peers. Particularly threatened is Malcolm Tucker, and when Julius suggests that they convert the pantry adjacent to Malcolm's office into a properly conjoined office, Malcolm has to put his foot down. He has an office with a ******* pantry, and he'll be ****** if the likes of Julius Nicholson is going to change it. Doctor Who has a pretty well-established foundation. The Doctor is a time-traveling alien, he has a time machine called the TARDIS, he gets into hijinks of varied intensity from the beginning of time to the end of the universe. The format works, as it has for the past fifty years. As tempting as it might be to mix things up for the audience, too much fundamental change for the sake of change should be avoided. When a show works so well as to become as immensely popular as has Doctor Who, it should be allowed to remain as is until it stops working. Besides, who wouldn't want an office with a pantry?