Points of View

 is a BBC One TV series featuring letters from viewers, offering praise, criticisms, and general observations of recent BBC programmes. Doctor Who has been the subject of multiple segments throughout the show's run.

Times Doctor Who was covered

 * c. February 1985
 * Viewers complained about the scene in The Two Doctors in which Shockeye ate a live rat.


 * c. September 1987
 * The broadcast of the first episode of Time and the Rani, and Sylvester McCoy's debut as the Seventh Doctor. In a negative review of the episode, a viewer referred to it as "twenty five minutes of the most appalling mindless drivel" before going on to criticise the acting, the sets, the writing, and the new theme arrangement. A counteracting positive review praised the pre-credit regeneration and the acting quality, particularly McCoy's performance.


 * c. May 1996
 * Then-presenter Anne Robinson talks about the "very robust - almost record-breaking response" to the television movie, noting the handful of complaints that the story was "far too scary" for its pre-9pm time slot among the overwhelming majority of positive responses, with "a few gripes"; a viewer expresses his dismay via a voicemail message the movie's "nightmare of cliched banalities" and "everything that's awful about American television all rolled into an hour and a half of non-stop violence, noise, and car chases" before criticising the revelation that the Doctor is half-human, and his romance with Grace Holloway.


 * 11 April 2010
 * The public reception toward The Eleventh Hour is discussed. Matt Smith's performance was received well despite preconceptions. An aspect that viewers did not like, however, was the new theme arrangement, with one viewer branding it "an abomination", and a second citing it as "so far removed" from the original and "unlistenable". A third viewer panned the "nasty trumpets at the beginning, together with the silly "disco beat"". In response, Doctor Who management stated their regret that viewers did not like the new theme, before pointing out the theme has already changed multiple times throughout the show's run, and that that tradition was bound to continue.