Meta-fiction universe

The Doctor and Izzy Sinclair visited a variant on the years 1979 in which the Doctor's reality existed only as fiction. There, at BBC Television Centre, the actor Tom Baker fended off Beep the Meep by infuriating him with his endless rambling. The Doctor realized the truth when he found himself with the first issue of Doctor Who Weekly. (DWM: TV Action!)

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In another timeline, television writer Martin Bannister had not managed to make the television series Doctor Who a success. (DWU: Deadline)