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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jock Ewing Fan" data-source="post: 329936" data-attributes="member: 40536">Maybe I misunderstand your post but I thought Christopher Bidmeade was script editor during Tom Baker's final season, not Eric Saward.I do think ES thought Colin Baker was not the best choice, and some of the scripts for the ES era were lacking, but ESwas not the main reason.  In some cases, nothing was going to save a bad script.Personally, I thought Colin Baker was a good actor, a good Doctor who was undermined by less than the best writing and direction,and treated badly by the BBC.He was miles better than Sylvester McCoy, who I thought lacked the Doctor's compelling presence.That said, the BBC treated the show so badly in Seasons 23-26, that maybe nothing would have worked.</blockquote>