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JNT decided on the overall title because “The longest Doctor Who story ever!” is a better selling point than “The shortest ever season!” Ironically, the same decision Chris Chibnall made 35 years later.

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is this not literally in the post? it's in one of them

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Ish. Not the Flux bit.

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The umbrella title for the season was indeed a bad idea. Longtime fans (e.g. me) might have thought “Ooh, this is going to be epic!” But which casual viewer would tune in to episode five if they had missed the first four? And instead of “And now on BBC1, a brand new adventure for Doctor Who!” you get a boring recap.

(There is a constellation called Andromeda. The galaxy of the same name is, when viewed from this particular backwater of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of our own, in the same bit of the sky.)

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The stuff about the cleverest youths is one of several ideas that Holmes recycles from "The Krotons".

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