I don’t think the concept of cultural appropriation was on anyone’s radar in the sixties.
A defence of Jackie Lane, if I may. Vicki had two episodes setting up her backstory, Steven was fighter pilot from the future when WWII was in living memory. Dodo was supposed to be lovable urchin who steals the Doctors heart, but the loveable urchin bit was dropped when people rang the BBC switchboard to complain that she would encourage the nations youth to be cockney and insubordinate. So her backstory was generic young woman with plot twist Hugenot ancestry. In the circumstances I think Dame Diana Rigg might have struggled!
Don’t get me started on the Extended Universe treatment of Dodo.
I don’t think the concept of cultural appropriation was on anyone’s radar in the sixties.
A defence of Jackie Lane, if I may. Vicki had two episodes setting up her backstory, Steven was fighter pilot from the future when WWII was in living memory. Dodo was supposed to be lovable urchin who steals the Doctors heart, but the loveable urchin bit was dropped when people rang the BBC switchboard to complain that she would encourage the nations youth to be cockney and insubordinate. So her backstory was generic young woman with plot twist Hugenot ancestry. In the circumstances I think Dame Diana Rigg might have struggled!
Don’t get me started on the Extended Universe treatment of Dodo.
Ha. I'm a big fan of the 90s books, especially the ones in which Dodo contracts STD or gets shot in the face