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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: The Lemonade Treatment
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:30:56 -0000 (UTC)
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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 - RTD is planning on giving us the
equivalent of 18 old size episodes a year, just 40% of what that team had
to produce.

But if we’re to make lemonade with our lemons - we need to consider all of
our ingredients as lemons.

-- 
“The timelines and … canon … are rupturing” - the Doctor