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Doctor Who didn't like Mrs Thatcher - say it isn't so

Get this BBC caricature of Margaret Thatcher created by the makers of Dr Who just after Mrs Thatcher's third election victory in 1987.

Sylvester McCoy who played the Doctor and Andrew Cartmel, the script editor in the eighties have admitted they hired left wing writers to create anti Thatcher propaganda.

And Helen A, the wide-eyed tyrannical ruler of a human colony on the planet Terra Alpha was born.

The good Doctor persuaded the drones who manned her factories to down tools and revolt.

What a hoot.

Of course the funniest thing of all was the show's ratings plummeted under these peoples tender hands.