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== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
{{Quote|The idea was that [the Doctor] didn't know who he was and was on his last regeneration: I'm sure Stephen [Cole] had an idea of where it would go, but I would doubt that he fleshed it out more than a pitch.|Lee Sullivan in 2013<ref name=Kasterborous>[https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/4447691-lee-sullivan-and-the-ginger-doctor Lee Sullivan and the Ginger Doctor. 30 June 2013]</ref>}} | {{Quote|The idea was that [the Doctor] didn't know who he was and was on his last regeneration: I'm sure Stephen [Cole] had an idea of where it would go, but I would doubt that he fleshed it out more than a pitch.|Lee Sullivan in 2013<ref name=Kasterborous>[https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/4447691-lee-sullivan-and-the-ginger-doctor Lee Sullivan and the Ginger Doctor. 30 June 2013]</ref>}} | ||
* Lee Sullivan's Doctor is [[ginger (trait)|ginger]], a trait in common with "[[The Doctor (Battlefield)|Merlin]]", a different future incarnation of the Doctor first seen in the 1991 ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'' novelisation. Coincidentally, the [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]] and [[Eleventh Doctor]]s would go on to express disappointment at not being ginger. In a 2013 interview, Lee Sullivan said he painted his Doctor's hair as "sandy" admitted that it is "the extreme end of the ginger scale".<ref name=Kasterborous></ref> Also in the same interview: | * Lee Sullivan's Doctor is [[ginger (trait)|ginger]], a trait in common with "[[The Doctor (Battlefield)|Merlin]]", a different future incarnation of the Doctor first seen in the 1991 ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'' novelisation. Coincidentally, the [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]] and [[Eleventh Doctor]]s would go on to express disappointment at not being ginger. In a 2013 interview, Lee Sullivan said he painted his Doctor's hair as "sandy", and admitted that it is "the extreme end of the ginger scale".<ref name=Kasterborous></ref> Also in the same interview: | ||
** Sullivan said he had [[Alan Rickman]] in the back of his mind while designing his Doctor, but he was not modelled exactly on him. He recalled being given ''carte-blanche'' for designing his Doctor and described his outfit at "[[Regency era|Regency]] and Romantic looking". | ** Sullivan said he had [[Alan Rickman]] in the back of his mind while designing his Doctor, but he was not modelled exactly on him. He recalled being given ''carte-blanche'' for designing his Doctor and described his outfit at "[[Regency era|Regency]] and Romantic looking". | ||
** The comic was made for a BBC Publication, but it never got beyond a focus group. The concept was for [[Radio Times]] editor Matt Bookman's magazine pitch ''Sci-Files''. It was ultimately printed in a limited "dummy mags" titled ''Robot'' #0 (July 1998) sent to focus groups of young people. Sullivan recalled that "kids didn’t rate strip art much and really didn't know much about ''Doctor Who''". | ** The comic was made for a BBC Publication, but it never got beyond a focus group. The concept was for [[Radio Times]] editor Matt Bookman's magazine pitch ''Sci-Files''. It was ultimately printed in a limited "dummy mags" titled ''Robot'' #0 (July 1998) sent to focus groups of young people. Sullivan recalled that "kids didn’t rate strip art much and really didn't know much about ''Doctor Who''". | ||
