FEATURE BY BY MIKE TUCKER
The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) is attacked by one of the cleaner robots in a publicity shot from Paradise Towers (1987).
Given the problems the Doctor Who production team had endured with Kamelion, it’s perhaps no surprise that it was a while before they attempted to write a robot into the series again. Indeed, it was only right at the end of Colin Baker’s first full series as the Doctor that any kind of robotic character was attempted – the android created by writer Glen McCoy for his 1985 serial Timelash.