The comments came as Davies joined fans in revisiting the series amid the ongoing lockdown as part of a mass online watchathon.
Russell T Davies, the writer who spearheaded Doctor Who from 2005 to 2010, has revealed that he wanted two well-known thespians to cameo as the shape-shifting Doctor after David Tennant was finished playing the character: Judi Dench and Ian McKellan.
Had Davies cast Dench as the Doctor, even for a cameo, she would have been the first woman to inhabit the role, a distinction that has since been reached by Jodie Whittaker, who currently stars in the beloved BBC sci-fi series.
“I’d have cast a whole new Doctor, a superstar for ONE scene,” he continued.