British musician
The characterization of the Abzorbaloff monster played by Peter Kay in "Doctor Who" {Love & Monsters (#2.10)} was based on Levine and reflects his role in fandom.
He is often credited as an influential figure in bringing to an end the BBCs policy in the 1970s of wiping episodes of "Doctor Who" and other popular series. In 1978 he discovered "Doctor Who" {The Dead Planet (#1.5)} at BBC Enterprises, where it was marked for destruction. By this time, the BBC had already purged hundreds of episodes of "Doctor Who" , but the BBC ended the policy the same year and established a new archiving policy which preserved all episodes the BBC had left and enabled future repeat showings, as well as commercial releases on video cassette and DVD.
He is a big fan of the television series "Doctor Who" and collected numerous rarities and items of memorabilia connected to the series. He was also used by producer John Nathan-Turner in the 1980s as an advisor on continuity for the series.
Levine has been an enthusiast for television since he was young and in the 1970s he owned one of the early domestic video recorders, a Philips N1500. He used this to make numerous recordings from television, some of which are now rarities. Some of his rare recordings have been used for "Doctor Who" DVD releases, such as the appearance of Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen on "Multi-Coloured Swap Shop" in 1976, an episode which the BBC did not keep a copy of, and the restoration of the original cliff-hanger to "Doctor Who" {The Deadly Assassin: Part Three (#14.11)} , which was edited from the BBCs original master tape after a complaint from Mary Whitehouse.
In July 2017, he announced that Chris Chibnall had put "the final nail into Doctor Who" by giving the character a sex change and he wanted "nothing more to do with it".
