One thing that occured to me the other day was that ALL the regular characters suffered from roughly seasons three to five, because the production teams were interested in other things: John Wiles and Donald Tosh in concepts and Innes Lloyd and his script editors in monsters. Hartnell and Troughton were good enough actors to stand out (but the Doctor gets little to do in The Massacre and The Celestial Toymaker even when Hartnell is in the studio), as were some of the companion actors, but others got a bit lost.
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Date: 2012-04-22 11:59 am (UTC)One thing that occured to me the other day was that ALL the regular characters suffered from roughly seasons three to five, because the production teams were interested in other things: John Wiles and Donald Tosh in concepts and Innes Lloyd and his script editors in monsters. Hartnell and Troughton were good enough actors to stand out (but the Doctor gets little to do in The Massacre and The Celestial Toymaker even when Hartnell is in the studio), as were some of the companion actors, but others got a bit lost.