The 1960s Inspector Spacetime films weren’t originally allowed to be mentioned or used in any way in the programme, despite the fact that BTV owned them.
The Corporation relegated them to non-canon status as a way to explain away why the Inspector was human and actually used Spacetime as his surname in the films.
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