In his production notes for the BluRay, Martin Wiggins says that Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks planned Robot as a template for a new way of doing Doctor Who, which wasn't taken forward by their successors. I think part of that is the decision to make the whole thing on videotape, which is carried forward into The Sontaran Experiment but ditched for subsequent location/studio combinations which go back to film/tape (with the exception of The Seeds of Doom) for the rest of Hinchcliffe's run; but I wish Martin had expanded on the rest of it!
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Date: 2019-05-06 09:53 am (UTC)