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|ext=|lead=The '''''Doctor Who'' theme''' was composed by [[Ron Grainer]] and made its debut with the first episode of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' series in 1963. Although it has undergone many rearrangements, this piece of music has remained the sole theme for the series throughout its history, making it one of the most recognisable themes in television.}} | |ext=|lead=The '''''Doctor Who'' theme''' was composed by [[Ron Grainer]] and made its debut with the first episode of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' series in 1963. Although it has undergone many rearrangements, this piece of music has remained the sole theme for the series throughout its history, making it one of the most recognisable themes in television.}} | ||
| 8 = {{feature|title=Planet of the Dead (TV story)|image=The Doctor calls UNIT for help - Doctor Who - BBC|ext=|lead='''''Planet of the Dead''''' was the first of the [[2009 Specials (Doctor Who)|2009 specials]] that ended [[David Tennant]]'s tenure as [[the Doctor]]. It teamed the [[Tenth Doctor]] up with an aristocratic thief named Lady [[Christina De Souza]] for a one-off adventure that also heavily involved [[UNIT]]. Behind the scenes, it was important for a number of innovations, as it was the first episode to be filmed in HD, and the first to involve [[location filming]] in the [[Middle East]]. As of 2013, it was the ''only'' ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Easter]] special.}} | | 8 = {{feature|title=Planet of the Dead (TV story)|image=The Doctor calls UNIT for help - Doctor Who - BBC|ext=|lead='''''Planet of the Dead''''' was the first of the [[2009 Specials (Doctor Who)|2009 specials]] that ended [[David Tennant]]'s tenure as [[the Doctor]]. It teamed the [[Tenth Doctor]] up with an aristocratic thief named Lady [[Christina De Souza]] for a one-off adventure that also heavily involved [[UNIT]]. Behind the scenes, it was important for a number of innovations, as it was the first episode to be filmed in HD, and the first to involve [[location filming]] in the [[Middle East]]. As of 2013, it was the ''only'' ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Easter]] special.}} | ||
| 9 = {{feature|title=|image=|lead=}} | | 9 = {{feature|title=Playback (terminology)|image=PlaybackExampleTheArk.jpg|lead='''Playback''' was a television production technique in which pre-recorded material was literally played into a scene, rather than being added as a post-production effect. It was universally used in the [[1960s]] as the method by which actors were seen on view screens. As seen in the picture at the left, [[William Hartnell]] was pre-recorded separately, then projected live into the scene with the actors in the foreground. Though antiquated, the technique was used even into the [[1980s]], most notably for the [[title sequence]]. The quality of the opening titles for the 1963 version of ''Doctor Who'' was never high, because it was never a first-generation copy of the titles. Instead, they were played live into the recording of the first scene of many episodes, causing actors to have to time their first lines to the final notes of the studio-audible [[Doctor Who theme|''Doctor Who'' theme]].}} | ||
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Revision as of 03:14, 6 October 2013
Planet of Giants was a First Doctor serial which had a long and interesting gestation. Its basic conceit — that of miniaturising the Doctor and his companions — was to have been the very first story in Doctor Who history, but the technical challenge was too great for that earliest of production crews. It was therefore rejected by producer Verity Lambert, but script editor David Whitaker continued to push the topic. By its third writer, the "miniaturisation idea" had become entertained with an important, pro-evironment message. The script that emerged was based on the non-fiction book, Silent Spring, and therefore contained an obvious warning against the environmental dangers of pesticide.
