A nice positive article about Crime Traveller –
The 1990s are Doctor Who’s lost decade. Although the eponymous Timelord found a brief home with Paul McGann’s American pilot in 1996, the revival was never picked up. So began an even longer winter on the long road to 2005’s regeneration under Russell T. Davies with Christopher Eccleston. The rest, as they say, is history.
What is seldom remembered, however, is that while the failed reboot had proven the franchise hadn’t recovered from 33 years worth of plot, nor had there been any marked improvement on the production, the entire exercise had given a solid indication that the proud tradition of mad British eccentrics and their wild inventions still had an appeal.
The answer from the BBC was the ambitious, if slightly sideways, restoration of time travel to a Saturday night slot with science fiction detective series Crime Traveller.
