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Might be why the Unbound range has never properly had a second run (one of sequels to Auld Mortality and Sympathy for the Devil aside) where as it seems almost every spin-off and their dog has had a multi-series run.
I did forget that, @Ncw8, have to admit the Bernice audios were the one rabbit hole I never went down.
Wonder if they asked the BBC if they could crossover any canon Doctor only to receive a curt "naw m8".
@M_Kresal makes a very good point that this story (and I suppose a few of the other Unbound too) came just at the right point before the programme was revived. Might be why the Unbound range has never properly had a second run (one of sequels to Auld Mortality and Sympathy for the Devil aside) where as it seems almost every spin-off and their dog has had a multi-series run.
My own Unbound idea has always been that there's no Watcher in Logopolis, so the Fourth Doctor has a long, drawn out, painful death and the alternate Fifth Doctor is born an angry, bitter, vengeful man.
Final twist would be that, after going too far, this alternate Fifth Doctor is the Watcher.
The impression I've gotten regarding the lack of further Unbound audios (beyond the two sequels) was partly due to the "Well we've done the big ones," after the six initial ones.
Given that we've learned in the last decade or so that Big Finish came within a meeting of losing the Who license all together because of rights being brought back in-house when the revival happened, and then sales took a major hit for a couple of years after the TV show started airing again, I can understand them not pursuing the matter too much.
Even then Deadline doesn’t really fit the remit as it’s not an in-universe alternate timeline. But I won’t steal the thunder from a future article.
I hadn’t heard that they were that close to losing the rights. It’s not surprising that it could happen though, given that Virgin lost the book rights even without a revived tv series, and Big Finish had already lost the rights to Sapphire and Steel and The Tomorrow People. It looks like they were prepared for it happening and had followed Virgin’s example of spinning off a couple of series featuring their own characters.
If we're doing Unbound ideas, my shout has always been doing an inverse of Sympathy For The Devil; for one reason or another, the Doctor's exile is never lifted. Eventually, UNIT get permission to dig around in the wreck of the old TARDIS, and start to take notes of what they find. The Time Lords thought that by binding the Doctor to one planet, they'd get rid of any changes in their clockwork universe, but now it looks like those little mice he's friends with (and their lizardy friends, the Sea Base 4 incident going a little better with a Doctor with more local knowledge) are getting time-active. Something Must Be Done...
A Time War is in the air. Which side is the Doctor, an alien on Earth but an Earthman to Gallifrey, going to choose?