As new horror binge Locke & Key finally lands on Netflix after a long, hard road to the small screen, Joe Hill – who wrote the comics that the new series is based on – has been in a fresh round of interviews to promote its arrival on the streaming service.

Scribe Hill, originally born Joseph Hillström King and the son of legendary author Stephen King, remains a busy dude, and has already seen two other notable adaptations of his work come to TV recently in the form of Zachary Quinto-led series NOS4A2 and horror flick In The Tall Grass, also at Netflix.

Finding time to stop by Brian Keene’s podcast The Horror Show to discuss his ongoing passions, though, Hill was drawn into a discussion about Doctor Who (via Bleeding Cool). To say he’s a big fan of the long-running BBC show is an understatement, but he revealed that he’d once suffered a rather brutal humilation at the hands of the BBC after deciding he’d like to achieve his personal dream of writing at least one episode of it.

Here’s how Hill’s Doctor Who pitch experience went down: