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'''David Burton''' was a stage actor who claimed he had been cast ([[DWM 209]]) as [[the Doctor]], in 1991.
'''David Burton''' was a stage actor who claimed he had been cast ([[DWM 209]]) as [[the Doctor]], in 1991.


He states he was filmed by a company in an independently-made pilot called ''Doctor Who and the Monsters of Ness''. The pilot was sent to the [[BBC]], and if they liked it, a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' reboot would have been made. The BBC have refused to state whether the episode exists or not, whereas Burton says it does and had, making it more of a "missing episode" than an unmade one. Burton is mentioned in DWM 209 in 1994, interviewed by [[Marcus Hearn]].
He states he was filmed by a company in an independently-made pilot called ''Doctor Who and the Monsters of Ness''. The pilot was sent to the [[BBC]], and if they liked it, a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' reboot would have been made.


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No independent evidence of Burton's claims has ever been produced, and there is no record of any such pilot ever having been made.


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Revision as of 20:24, 15 June 2019

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David Burton was a stage actor who claimed he had been cast (DWM 209) as the Doctor, in 1991.

He states he was filmed by a company in an independently-made pilot called Doctor Who and the Monsters of Ness. The pilot was sent to the BBC, and if they liked it, a Doctor Who reboot would have been made.

No independent evidence of Burton's claims has ever been produced, and there is no record of any such pilot ever having been made.