User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1272640-20170101103803/@comment-25117610-20170123200815

It's that in material promoting Kaldor City, they basically said Blake's 7 and Doctor Who are in the same universe. Who created Kaldor City? Chris Boucher. Who was script editor of Blake's 7? Chris Boucher.

Well, there is quite a difference between basically saying something and actually saying that thing. Also, for the record, calling something a "spin off" of something, has not been enough evidence in the past, 'cause in previous threads (not sure which) it was agreed that sometimes something is called a "spin off" of DW purely for marketing (as is the case of Vienna).

Not only that, but the same person played Carnell in Blake's 7 and in Kaldor City. Paul Darrow plays Avon and "Iago", and in Kaldor City, "Iago" is given a backstory identical to that of Kerr Avon. It's not just that Carnell's there. It's that a main character from Blake's 7 is very heavily implied to be a main character in Kaldor City. With all of this, I don't think there's reason to doubt that Blake's 7 is in the DWU.

The fact that they share an actor means nothing. Maxil, Tepesh and the Sixth Doctor are all played by Colin Baker. Still, the fact they're played by the same actor is no evidence these three characters are the same (and, indeed, they aren't)

"a main character from Blake's 7 is very heavily implied to be a main character in Kaldor City". Well, if it's only "heavily implied to be", saying that he is the same character would be speculating, which is not allowed on in-universe articles.

"Who created Kaldor City? Chris Boucher. Who was script editor of Blake's 7? Chris Boucher.". Who created the BBC version of Sherlock? Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. Both of them have also written for Doctor Who multiple times. This is no more proof that Sherlock is part of the DWU. Similarly, sharing crew is also no proof that Blake's 7 would be.