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| - It was a nominal "celebration" of the thirtieth anniversary of Doctor Who, made primarily due to the cancellation of the BBC's original idea for a thirtieth anniversary story, The Dark Dimension. Since the BBC had already obtained, at least in principle, agreement from most of the ex-Doctors to do some sort of anniversary programme, they went ahead with a charity sketch. (DOC: The Seven Year Hitch) Dimensions raised over £101,000 for Children in Need according to presenter, Noel Edmonds.
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| - It was a nominal "celebration" of the thirtieth anniversary of Doctor Who, made primarily due to the cancellation of the BBC's original idea for a thirtieth anniversary story, The Dark Dimension. Since the BBC had already obtained, at least in principle, agreement from most of the ex-Doctors to do some sort of anniversary programme, they went ahead with a charity sketch. (DOC: The Seven Year Hitch) Dimensions raised over £101,000 for Children in Need according to presenter, Noel Edmonds. A major narrative feature of the piece was that it featured a crossover between the EastEnders and Doctor Who universes; that is, the characters were narratively implied to be a part of the same universe. As the years have gone by, this narrative choice has caused the piece to be disregarded by many fans. Largely ignored by both Doctor Who and EastEnders writers, Dimensions became widely irrelevant to both series. However, there have been several prose stories in the DWU which have referenced Dimensions. Steven Moffat's Doctor Who National Television Awards Sketch is the only televised narrative to come close to acknowledging the story, implying that had met the Doctor before. Dimensions was a milestone production in many ways. It was the first and only time that John Nathan-Turner received a writing credit on a televised story, and it attracted the biggest audience of anything he had produced. It was also the final BBC1 appearance for most of the Doctor Who characters involved, the first time in Doctor Who history that 3D technology had been used in the recording and broadcast of a television story and the first time that the televised audience were able to affect the outcome of a Doctor Who story by telephone vote. Despite its many noteworthy qualities, it was all-but universally panned. Summarising general fan attitudes, Stephen J. Walker, David J. Howe and Mark Stammers gave it a 0/10 and called it "a dreadful travesty of a Doctor Who story". Like many fans, they banished the production with the words, "Fortunately, it is not generally regarded as part of the genuine Doctor Who canon." (REF: The Second Doctor Handbook) In his contemporary post mortem in Doctor Who Magazine, Nick Briggs said, "...this was not Doctor Who, just a charity get-together for a very good cause." (DWM 209) Prior to the broadcast, the 18 November 1993 edition of Radio Times flatly said that the story would not be a serious attempt to revive Doctor Who. (DWM 324) Perhaps most clearly, Nathan-Turner said that himself regarded it as outside the continuity of the series, noting that "it was never intended to be a part of the Doctor Who mythos, whatever that means" and that he "couldn't care less" whether it was included alongside other episodes in lists of Doctor Who serials. (DWM 249)
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