Billy Shipton Is The Coolest Doctor Who Character Ever And I Think The BBC Should Give Him His Own Show I really dug Saturday's Doctor Who the mostest, but that's not important right now. I'm here to talk about Billy Shipton, aka The Coolest Doctor Who Minor Character Of All Time. Yessir. I'm here to campaign for a new BBC show following the high-octane, all guns blazing adventures of super-bad ass cop Billy Shipton (Micheal Obiora), trapped in 1969 by the Weeping Angels, as he hammers wildly around sleazy pre-gentrification Nottinghill in a cherry-red Dodge Challenger busting the head of pimps, revolutionaries and East-end Krays style gangsters all to a kick-ass soundtrack of late '60s psyche-rock; Hendrix, Cream, early Led Zep...imagine a car-chase conducted to the hammering funk of Led Zep's 'The Immigrant Song'. I could sell this show on that image alone. It'd be exactly like 'Life On Mars', only waaay cooler, and fully trashy, like a Roger Corman directing Performance, and every episode he'd hang out alla time in dingy burlesque clubs and gambling dens, and he go to a black-panther style informant dude who'd be all like 'Yo. I'ma give you the skinny on this dope-peddling piece of trash, but what's a brother gonna do for me', and he'd have a bumbling comedy hippy side-kick called, like, Bozo or something, and Bozo would just sorta stumble around in a haze of pot smoke inadvertently helping Billy out or narrowly avoiding bullets, falling anvils, jugganauts etc like a stoned Mr Magoo. But basically the show would just be Billy going around wearing hipster mod-threads being really cool and listening to Jimi Hendrix records.

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