“You must tell a story, Doctor. You must feed it. It is always hungry.”
(SPOILER WARNING!)
“Why are Earth people so parochial?”, wondered the Fifth Doctor in 1982’s The Visitation. In fact, the accusation could just as easily have been levelled against the show itself in its original run. Obviously, there were practical and budgetary reasons why every alien invasion of Earth seemed to centre on South East England (“They’ve turned the whole of Bedfordshire into a gigantic mine area!”).
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