Anthony Head Wants Doctor Who Return for Mr Finch

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Anthony Head, the winner of the incredibly trivial Radio Times online poll to find the best Doctor Who guest star (he beat – incredibly – Sir John Hurt!) has declared that he believes the time has come for a return to the show.

Could School Reunion‘s demonic headmaster Mr Finch have survived the modified chip fat explosion? Head certainly thinks so, stating “I don’t think the chip fat got him.” Worryingly, he goes on: “I know him personally and I think he’s keen to meet the Doctor again…”

Fair enough. After all, K9 survied, but then again, he’s a shooty dog thing.

“School Reunion was such a special episode in it’s own right,” says former Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Anthony Stewart Head, who since played Uther Pendragon in BBC One’s Merlin, “re-introducing Sarah Jane and K9 – it was a joy to film, and Mr Finch such a blast to play, with the sublime Mr Tennant as my nemesis. I remember James Hawes, our director, pitching the confrontation between Finch and the Doctor being played across the divide of the school swimming pool – such a great scene.”

It certainly stands out as a memorable scene from one of Doctor Who Series 2’s better episodes, but would you prefer Finch to fly again or remain destroyed by his own augmented chip fat?

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