Was that the result of Delgardo's death and the plan to follow on from Frontier in Space not being possible?
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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.
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.
The series can (or could be) found on youtube, as La Cloche Tibetaine.
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.
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.
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.
Possibly he was going to be in more episodes, but that's only a guess.
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Me too, except in "The Invasion of Time" when it was just a disused hospital or whatever. It bugged me that we went through the entire first Russell T. Davies era and two whole incarnations and never saw anything but the console room (and maybe one glimpse at the wardrobe?).
There is a transition: brick roundels. But still not great. However a strike at the BBC messed up the usual recording order (after Underworld overspent on the spaceship in episode one, Williams was pressured to end the series early. He worked it out by saving money on Underworld and Invasion).
Yeah, it kind of buggs me that we see so little of the TARDIS, especially compared to other sci-fi shows like the Star Treks or Farscape, where they were constantly showing us tons of different parts of their ships. It's a big ship, and really important to the show, but we rarely ever see more than the one room.
Yeah, but they eventually filled in the Doctor's backstory. When a show runs for decades, you have to fill in the gaps sooner or later or it gets repetitive.
And the two don't really go together. When the show started, the Doctor's origins were a complete mystery (they didn't even explicitly establish he was nonhuman until the Troughton era), but we were shown very early where the TARDIS crew slept and got their meals. It was only later that the focus narrowed to the console room exclusively.
While I'm fine with seeing more of the TARDIS, I feel a good 90% of established Doctor/Gallifrey backstory has only made things less interesting.
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