Back in those halcyon days of the seventies when a season of Doctor Who was seemingly guaranteed every year, I was aware of the show's UK popularity as a given right from my earliest memories. However, it was around 1979 when I realized just how popular the show, and current Doctor incumbent Tom Baker, was in the US after seeing this classic cover of a Fantastic Monsters of Filmland magazine on the rack stands of the Forbidden Planet bookstore of London's Denmark Street. A success well deserved, too - pioneered by Tom Baker and producers Philip Hinchliffe and Graham Williams, but 'a special relationship' sometimes proving controversial with Who fans in its birth country for years to come, especially by the show's Twentieth Anniversary...
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