Although it was effectively cancelled with the decision not to commission a planned 27th season, which would have been broadcast in 1990, the BBC repeatedly affirmed, over several years, that the series would return.
Selvom det blev effektivt annulleret ved beslutningen om ikke at bestille en planlagt 27. sæson, som ville blive udsendt i 1990, BBC bekræftede gentagne gange, over mange år, at serien ville vende tilbage.