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Feb 17, 2010, 06:49AM

The politics of Doctor Who

"My exact words were: I'd like to overthrow the government."

Sylvester McCoy, the actor who played Doctor Who for two years in the 1980s, has revealed that left-wing scriptwriters hired by the BBC wrote propaganda into the plots in an attempt to undermine Margaret Thatcher’s premiership.

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