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The performance of Sheila Hancock as Helen A in The Happiness Patrol was a homage, of sorts, to Mrs T. As one former BBC insider told Richard Marson, author of a biography of JNT, to be published later this month, by putting it out at the same time as Coronation Street was airing on ITV, in 1989 Doctor Who was "scheduled to death".

At the start of the 1980s they had adored John Nathan-Turner, or JNT as he was known, and he enjoyed the adulation.