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<blockquote data-quote="pete lashmar" data-source="post: 329213" data-attributes="member: 606">John Nathan Turner was really in an impossible situation, without him Doctor Who would have been cancelled a few years earlier because he was the king of publicity and was the only person at the BBC who believed in it. However, he wanted to move on but there was no one who wanted to take over as Producer, so he stayed. When he was asked to tell Colin that the show would be back....but with a new Doctor, he did it under the proviso that he would also be able to leave. Having told Colin that he would be replaced the BBC double crossed JNT and told him he had to stay with the show.Colin offered to stay with the show for a few more episodes, do the regeneration and then go - he spoke directly to the big BBC bosses at the time, but they refused and so he didn&#039;t film a regeneration.The flip side of JNT though was that he cared more about the fandom and fame than the show, so would be at conventions all over the world leaving his script editors and staff to do a lot of the pre production stuff - he would also just drop ideas into scripts, telling writers that he wanted The Master involved or that he wanted to film episodes overseas (Amsterdam, Seville)leaving writers having to rework scripts at the last minute.Eric Saward (script editor) had enough at one point, quit and write a stinging attack on JNT in Starburst magaine - it was the first time anything had been revealed about JNT&#039;s tenure as Producer of the show.So without JNT the show wouldn&#039;t have lasted as long as it did, but had he been more interested in the show than the fandom and conventions the show may not have been in a state worthy of cancellation in the first place.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pete lashmar, post: 329213, member: 606"] John Nathan Turner was really in an impossible situation, without him Doctor Who would have been cancelled a few years earlier because he was the king of publicity and was the only person at the BBC who believed in it. However, he wanted to move on but there was no one who wanted to take over as Producer, so he stayed. When he was asked to tell Colin that the show would be back....but with a new Doctor, he did it under the proviso that he would also be able to leave. Having told Colin that he would be replaced the BBC double crossed JNT and told him he had to stay with the show. Colin offered to stay with the show for a few more episodes, do the regeneration and then go - he spoke directly to the big BBC bosses at the time, but they refused and so he didn't film a regeneration. The flip side of JNT though was that he cared more about the fandom and fame than the show, so would be at conventions all over the world leaving his script editors and staff to do a lot of the pre production stuff - he would also just drop ideas into scripts, telling writers that he wanted The Master involved or that he wanted to film episodes overseas (Amsterdam, Seville)leaving writers having to rework scripts at the last minute. Eric Saward (script editor) had enough at one point, quit and write a stinging attack on JNT in Starburst magaine - it was the first time anything had been revealed about JNT's tenure as Producer of the show. So without JNT the show wouldn't have lasted as long as it did, but had he been more interested in the show than the fandom and conventions the show may not have been in a state worthy of cancellation in the first place. [/QUOTE]

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