‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Steven Moffat rec.arts.drwho posts from 1995-6 shows he’s been thinking about “A Good Man Goes to War” for a long time

As noted by Les Carr, who pointed this out in comments following my blogging on “A Good Man Goes to War”:

In January 1995, Steven Moffat posted this to rec.arts.drwho:

Here's a particularly stupid theory. If we take "The Doctor" to be the Doctor's name - even if it is in the form of a title no doubt meaning something deep and Gallifreyan - perhaps our earthly use of the word "doctor" meaning healer or wise man is direct result of the Doctor's multiple interventions in our history as a healer and wise man. In other words, we got it from him. This is a very silly idea and I'm consequently rather proud of it.

Steven Moffat