Doctor Who writer Robert Shearman - who penned the beloved season 1 episode "Dalek" - doesn't seem particularly optimistic about the show's future. " The show is probably as dead as we've ever known it, " he observed in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine .

To be fair to Shearman, he probably didn't mean the comments to sound quite so downbeat. He certainly won't have expected them to go viral in the Doctor Who fandom; Doctor Who was canceled once in the past, and the fans have never quite gotten over it.

But is he right?

Why Doctor Who Didn't "Die" In 1989

Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor in Doctor Who

Doctor Who struggled through the 1980s, with dropping viewing figures in the Colin Baker era. Senior figures within the BBC (primarily Michael Grade) didn't reall

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