Taking the mickey out of your audience is a risky business, as Who’s production team found out after transmission of this Seventh Doctor tale, centred on a deathtrap “Psychic Circus”. One minor character is the Whizzkid (Gian Sammarco), a tanktop and bow tie-wearing nerd who’s clearly a caricature of socially inept fanboys; he never saw the circus in the old days, but knows it’s “not as good as it used to be.” This little satirical jab wasn’t universally well received…
