In one of the weirdest casting decisions of all times, it has emerged that Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures once proposed making a Doctor Who movie with Michael Jackson as the Time Lord. But don't worry: the studio said that if the Jackson option didn't turn out it had a great number two in mind – Bill Cosby. The Times reports that the thinking was that the King of Pop had done pretty good business with the film Moonwalker and Cosby was riding high on TV with The Cosby Show. Monkey can't help but wonder whether Jacko would have made a better Doctor Who villain – some might say he might be a dead ringer for Davros.
Doctor Who movie: Michael Jackson could have moonwalked into lead role
This article is more than 11 years old
Paramount Pictures proposed a film version of the BBC series starring the King of Pop in the late 1980s, it has been revealed
Explore more on these topics