Season 27 (Doctor Who)

Season 27 of Doctor Who ran from 19 September 1990 to 19 December 1990. It starred Sylvester Mccoy as the Seventh doctor, Sophie aldred as Ace, and Julia Sawalha as Katie Creevy. The season opened with earth aid and closed with alixion

The end of who?
By the end of 1989, it looked clear that doctor who wouldn't be returning for 1990 on BBC1. After some debate, it was decided that the show would be moved to BBC2, after Alan Yentob, a fan of the show, offered to take control of the show.

A new producer
in 1989, John Nathan Turner, also known as JNT announced that he would be leaving as producer and Ian fraser was the new producer.

A New title sequence
When Ian Fraser became producer, he decided that he wanted to change the title sequence which had been in use since 1987. He decided to change the tint of the galaxy from purple to blue, and decided that there would be a new theme tune, composed by distant J.

The end of an era
Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred announced that Season 27 would be their last Season.

Casting the cat burgular
Casting the new companion wasn't difficult as they had wanted Julie Sawalha. But there was the Issue of the new companions name, orginally it was going to be Raine cunningham, but once andrew cartmel found a woman with the same name, it was changed to raine creevy, katie tollinger and kate tollinger was considered but ultimately Katie Creevy was the name for the companion.