Well as someone who actually worked on it (I made Fifi and the Pipe people and my friend made the Kandyman) the reason it looked cheap was because it was. There was practically two pence and luncheon voucher in the kitty for this one. *g*

Every season had at least one story that had to suffer due to the budget going on other stories and HP was ours.

All things considered I think it could have turned out much, much worse sadly.