Douglas Adams Written Dr. Who Episode Goes Into Production
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chrisd
on from the let-go-of-my-coat-tegan dept.
oddsheep writes "The BBC have announced they will be showing a new version of an episode originally written by Douglas Adams and that was never shown after industrial action halted the original production in 1979." "Shada" will star Paul McGann as the Doctor.
Re:serious question
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PCM2
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What exactly does 'industrial action' mean?
It means the BBC Unions went on strike during the original filming. They never completed the episode, though a restored version was produced for home video with Tom Baker narrating the missing bits.
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Re:Why remake it?
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Graspee_Leemoor
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The Tom Baker version of Shada, i.e. the original and proper version of Shada was never completed due to a strike at the BBC. Way back whenever the BBC did the post-production on the unfinished scenes and got Tom Baker to do some new segments where he stands in a Dr. Who museum and narrates what happens in some scene that is missing.
They then released this version of Shada as a boxed set with the script.
I admire any new Who stuff they do, or rather I admire the effort, but nothing will ever be able to match the on-screen chemistry between Tom Baker and the sexy sexy super-sexy Ms. Ward.
In particular there is a scene at Prof. Chronotis' where the Prof., Romana and the Doctor are talking about Galifreyan stuff, and it just rocks. I think some of it is ad-libbed.
Most of the plot of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a retread of Shada. When the video release of the filmed bits of Shada plus Tom Baker's linking narration came out. Adams donated his royalties to charity, which stopped any annoying legal turmoil over the fact that he'd used the same plot in Dirk Gently.
Life, The Universe and Everything used large amounts of a rejected Dr. Who plot which was originally put forward as Dr. Who and the Krikkitmen. Once Adams ran out of radio series and old Dr. Who ideas to recycle, he really went downhill...
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Re:I am quite looking forward to this...
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jeremyp
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Douglas Adams wrote lots of Dr Who episodes many of which were aired.
-- All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
The entire script used to be online, but I can't seem to find it anymore. A shame, because it had some funny lines in it.
If you've read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, you already have a vague idea of Shada's premise. Adams re-used some characters in Shada to create DGHDA.
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There was a BBC strike in 1979. The script was complete, but it never went into production due to the stoppage.
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Breakfast served all day!
The Tom Baker version of Shada, i.e. the original and proper version of Shada was never completed due to a strike at the BBC. Way back whenever the BBC did the post-production on the unfinished scenes and got Tom Baker to do some new segments where he stands in a Dr. Who museum and narrates what happens in some scene that is missing.
They then released this version of Shada as a boxed set with the script.
I admire any new Who stuff they do, or rather I admire the effort, but nothing will ever be able to match the on-screen chemistry between Tom Baker and the sexy sexy super-sexy Ms. Ward.
In particular there is a scene at Prof. Chronotis' where the Prof., Romana and the Doctor are talking about Galifreyan stuff, and it just rocks. I think some of it is ad-libbed.
graspee
Most of the plot of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a retread of Shada. When the video release of the filmed bits of Shada plus Tom Baker's linking narration came out. Adams donated his royalties to charity, which stopped any annoying legal turmoil over the fact that he'd used the same plot in Dirk Gently.
Life, The Universe and Everything used large amounts of a rejected Dr. Who plot which was originally put forward as Dr. Who and the Krikkitmen.
Once Adams ran out of radio series and old Dr. Who ideas to recycle, he really went downhill...
"Information wants to be paid"
Douglas Adams wrote lots of Dr Who episodes many of which were aired.
All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
The entire script used to be online, but I can't seem to find it anymore. A shame, because it had some funny lines in it.
If you've read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, you already have a vague idea of Shada's premise. Adams re-used some characters in Shada to create DGHDA.
Anyway, check out the detailed plot summary. A fun story.
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