I thought the current theory was that Doctor Who was given 13 episodes initially and the only available scripts were four and seven episodes respectively so two episodes were needed to fill the gap (which isn't quite the same thing as a script falling through, sorry to be pedantic!).
I wasn't aware of that, though wasn't the Daleks also a bit last minute in some way, at least in a "we've honestly nothing even vaguely more educational we can replace this with and anyway mutation and radiation" or something.
It's definitely different and interesting, but I find it hard to feel its particularly good...
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Date: 2016-11-24 11:55 am (UTC)I wasn't aware of that, though wasn't the Daleks also a bit last minute in some way, at least in a "we've honestly nothing even vaguely more educational we can replace this with and anyway mutation and radiation" or something.
It's definitely different and interesting, but I find it hard to feel its particularly good...