Re: The Lemonade Treatment

The Last Doctor wrote on 18/3/24 11:30 pm:

Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The Last Doctor wrote:

 Hindsight is a wonderful thing. We don’t have the pressures that
the production team were under - especially in those early days.

 The early episodes were of their time, so I'd leave them as they were. If I could go back in time though I'd just tell the BBC not
to wipe or throw away the tins of videotape/film with Doctor Who
episodes on them!

 Absolutely agreed on the preservation front.
 The 252 episodes of the first four seasons were aired over just 291
weeks from 1963-1969 - less than 7 weeks a year without a new episode
needed. So no wonder the padding was in there - you’d need 50% more
stories otherwise, and with even less time to refine and develop each
story.
 It was a punishing delivery pace

Did Coronation St keep up such a punishing pace back then ..... or did they that a couple of months off each year??
--
Daniel