Doctor Who's TV movie at 30: Sylvester McCoy delivers verdict on Paul McGann's Time Lord

Doctor Who's TV movie at 30: Sylvester McCoy delivers verdict on Paul McGann's Time Lord

A condensed version of this article first appeared in Radio Times magazine.Let’s take a Tardis trip back to 27 May 1996. It’s a time when there has been no new Doctor Who for nearly seven years after the show’s cancellation. So fan excitement for a proposed revival is off the scale. Hopes are high among the cast and crew, too. As Sylvester McCoy remembers today: “We were very excited...”McCoy had played the seventh embodiment of the Doctor for t…