Nicholas Briggs Rejects Timeless Child Canon Complaints
Speaking to the Radio Times, Briggs said: “Imagine how people felt back in 1969, when it was suddenly revealed that the Doctor was a Time Lord, and that he’d run away, and he’d stolen the TARDIS and now they’d put him on trial… and what was it, 1977, The Deadly Assassin, the whole thing about the Time Lords?”
“People went bonkers about that, famously the head of the Doctor Who fan-club at the time, Keith Miller, arch-rival to Peter Capaldi. He closed the fan club down because he was so appalled by this!”
“But you know, Doctor Who’s changing all the time. That whole business of Doctor Who rewriting itself and inventing new things. That’s old news. That has happened all the time.”
When quizzed about whether Big Finish audios would be incorporating any pre-Hartnell incarnations, Briggs responded: “All possibilities are open. [Though] there’s no decisions on that made at all. At the moment our licence covers us up until the end of the 12th Doctor era.”
“I have no idea what it holds for Big Finish in the future. That’s the absolute truth of the matter. But we try to get involved in as much and as many different avenues of Doctor Who as possible.”
