Last Classic Who Story you watched

[Marc]

The linkage is mainly down to reshoots during Planet. Originally it just ended with the Doctor saying he was going after the Daleks.

Was that the result of Delgardo's death and the plan to follow on from Frontier in Space not being possible?

 

[Christopher]

Was that the result of Delgardo's death and the plan to follow on from Frontier in Space not being possible?

No, because there was no plan for the Master to return in the very next story, and because Delgado died a month after "Planet of the Daleks" concluded its broadcast run, while he was filming a miniseries in Turkey. It was a later story that had to be scrapped.

 

[Starkers]

Yeah it wasn't till I was reading up on Frontier after finishing it that I realised it was Delgado's last appearance

 

[diankra]

The TARDIS Wiki says that originally the two stories were going to be a single 12-part serial (although I'm not sure I believe that, given that the two serials have different writers). The reshoots were for a different reason, because Barry Letts was unsatisfied with the Ogron eater monster in the climactic episode and wanted to cut down its screen time.

Not quite sure how that's different. The ending was reshot during Planet so as to cut down use of the Ogron eater, which the Doctor originally appeared as thanks to use of the fear device. The book preserves something close to the original ending, though Hulke has the Ogron eater as a T-Rex-like creature.

 

[diankra]

No, because there was no plan for the Master to return in the very next story, and because Delgado died a month after "Planet of the Daleks" concluded its broadcast run, while he was filming a miniseries in Turkey. It was a later story that had to be scrapped.

The series can (or could be) found on youtube, as La Cloche Tibetaine.

 

[Christopher]

Not quite sure how that's different. The ending was reshot during Planet so as to cut down use of the Ogron eater, which the Doctor originally appeared as thanks to use of the fear device. The book preserves something close to the original ending, though Hulke has the Ogron eater as a T-Rex-like creature.

I mean the reshoot was not done for the purpose of linking two unconnected stories together. "Frontier" was always going to lead into "Planet." The reshoot just changed the timing of how it happened.

The series can (or could be) found on youtube, as La Cloche Tibetaine.

Oh, I was wondering if Delgado's death had any effect on the miniseries's completion. Wikipedia says he only had a minor role in one episode, which makes it all the more tragic.

 

[diankra]

I mean the reshoot was not done for the purpose of linking two unconnected stories together. "Frontier" was always going to lead into "Planet." The reshoot just changed the timing of how it happened.

Originally, the ending was just going to be the Doctor deciding that going after the Daleks was more important than taking the Master back to jail and heading off, uninjured, without any closing TARDIS scene.

Oh, I was wondering if Delgado's death had any effect on the miniseries's completion. Wikipedia says he only had a minor role in one episode, which makes it all the more tragic.

Possibly he was going to be in more episodes, but that's only a guess.