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 === In the 20th century ===
 ==== Development ====
 After becoming too well recognised [[The Doctor in Earth history|in Earth history]], [[the Doctor]] presumably had retconned themselves into [[The Doctor in popular culture and mythology#On Earth|popular culture]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Afterword (short story)|Afterword]]'')
-Later, on the [[26 March|26th of March]], [[1963]], [[Winston Churchill]] sent a letter a [[Sydney Newman (Stop, Thief!)|Mr Newman]], to pitch the concept of a show about Churchill's old friend, the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Stop, Thief! (short story)|Stop, Thief!]]'')
+Its creation was spurred by the growing appetite of the British public for realistic science-fiction, which had ironically been whetted by the accidental broadcasting in [[1953]] of real footage of the [[Bernard Quatermass|head]] of the [[British Rocket Group]] fighting off an extraterrestrial creature, which the [[Home Secretary]] had hurriedly passed off as fiction. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Background (DWPM 7 short story)|Background]]'') Indeed, when [[Sydney Newman (Stop, Thief!)|Sydney Newman]] began production on a "whole new type of [[drama]] for the BBC", [[Winston Churchill]] sent a letter to Newman suggesting him to base it upon the story of an old friend of his, the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Stop, Thief! (short story)|Stop, Thief!]]'')
 ==== November 1963 ====