I broached the subject with him and he tried to take on board what I was saying, but after two re-writes of the next Doctor Who script, he finally lost his patience and suggested I might have better luck if I wrote it myself.
We didn't speak for several years after that conversation, but I didn't write the scripts myself. Instead, I prevailed upon an old House of Hammer friend to take on the regular scripting job.
Steve Parkhouse didn't like Doctor Who any better than Steve Moore. But he had a better handle on my take on the character. As soon as I mentioned Rupert the Bear, Parkhouse caught the gist immediately and went to work.
We shared a love of the British eccentricity that is found in work like Bestall's Rupert and both recognised that Doctor Who's charm, perhaps only charm, was the off-kilter characterisation that had been brought to the part by the wonderful actors who'd played him until then - essentially, the four Doctors up to and including Tom Baker.

From then on, Steve Parkhouse contributed a tour-de-force run on the character that, in my opinion, was way better than anything that was appearing in the TV show at the time. Parkhouse, a major artistic talent as well as a brilliant writer, would later contribute some great artwork to 2000AD, notably on Big Dave, written by current DC Comics superstars Grant Morrison and Mark Millar.
Doctor Who artist Dave Gibbons would later go on to international fame and fortune as the artist of Watchmen, among other things, written by fellow Doctor Who Monthly graduate Alan Moore.
Dave's work on the strip was some of the best of his long and illustrious career. And, aside from a two issue hiatus, when Dave's friend and studio-mate Mike McMahon, one of the orginal and best artists on 2000AD's Judge Dredd, filled in on a cracker of a Cyberman story "Junkyard Demon" (58-59), Dave contributed an unbroken run of work on Doctor Who until he moved on to work almost exclusively for the American market.