Beyond time-travelling aliens and intergalactic invasion plots, Doctor Who is political; it always has been, and always will be. Sylvester McCoy, who played the 7th incarnation of the titular Doctor, understood that one of the factors that propelled Doctor Who’s success was the political subtlety it holds within. As the longest-running science fiction show in history, airing its first episode in the wake of JFK’s assassination, the programme was quite literally born in the mi