Credits: Watching them again, they seem much cleaner, brighter - a credits sequence for the video tape era. It was the source of an interesting, but friendly, disagreement between Jacqueline Hill (initial companion Barbara Wright, and Lexa in the following serial Meglos) and First Doctor William Hartnell - he wanted the series modernised, shot in colour and made much more visually impressive while she felt the series was much better suited to dark angles and mystery. I can completely accept both points of view - with the romantic in me probably siding with Miss Wright.
Post-reprise: I'm going to go on about, I can tell, but the music really is very intrusive as Pangol goes to the control panel.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Liveblog: The Leisure Hive episode 1
By: David Fisher, an underappreciated Doctor Who scriptwriter. He doesn't rank in the top 5 (for mine, Holmes, Houghton, Hulke, Whitaker and *squints a bit* oh, let's go for John Lucarotti), but his work during a difficult era for Who is still under-regarded. He had to write for an arrogant, narcissistic leading man who thought himself better at comedy that he was, a producer on a shoestring and three separate script editors who each wanted him completely different script styles from him. That he did so well with stories like The Androids of Tara and the Stones of Blood is commendable ... if you thought the Hinchcliffe/Williams transition was jarring, try going from for-better-or-worse comic (Adams) to science-at-all-costs (Bidmead).
(Come to think of it, Fisher probably doesn't make the top 10 - I haven't mentioned Dicks, Sherwin, Haisman/Lincoln, Wyatt, Spooner or Cotton, yet).
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