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'''''Time-Flight''''' was the seventh and final story of [[season 19]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. | '''''Time-Flight''''' was the seventh and final story of [[season 19]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. | ||
For those interested in viewing statistics, it's a highly significant story, because different surveys of audience reaction have produced widely varying results. The most statistically valid of these measures — the actual television ratings — show that episode one was the most successful episode in [[John Nathan-Turner]]'s entire [[producer]]ship. The 26th-most-watched episode of [[British]] television in the week of initial transmission, it was the only time he cracked the top 30. However, the story also shed about two million viewers from beginning to end | For those interested in viewing statistics, it's a highly significant story, because different surveys of audience reaction have produced widely varying results. The most statistically valid of these measures — the actual television ratings — show that episode one was the most successful episode in [[John Nathan-Turner]]'s entire [[producer]]ship. The 26th-most-watched episode of [[British]] television in the week of initial transmission, it was the only time he cracked the top 30. However, the story also shed about two million viewers from beginning to end. | ||
Fan opinion — which, of course, is never the subject of truly valid statistical investigation — has changed dramatically over the years. Those who responded to [[DWM 69]]'s season 19 poll held it in reasonably high regard, placing it as the fourth-best serial of the year, ahead of ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'' and ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]''. Decades later, those fans responding to [[DWM 413]]'s "Mighty 200" poll in [[2009]] cited it as the 196th of the 200 stories that were then produced. A part of the explanation for this massive shift in negative momentum may be that fan leaders such as [[Paul Cornell]] and [[David J. Howe]] savaged the story in references works like ''[[The Discontinuity Guide]]'' and ''[[The Television Companion]]'', whose influence multiplied when [[BBCi]], and later [[BBC Online]], incorporated those opinions into the [[Doctor Who website|official ''Doctor Who'' website]]. Thus people skimming the official site in the [[2000s]] and [[2010s]] could well believe that opinion of the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] runs along the lines of, "Somebody, somewhere should have thrown this script in the bin the moment it had [[Concorde]] crash landing in [[Jurassic]] [[England]]..." | Fan opinion — which, of course, is never the subject of truly valid statistical investigation — has changed dramatically over the years. Those who responded to [[DWM 69]]'s season 19 poll held it in reasonably high regard, placing it as the fourth-best serial of the year, ahead of ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'' and ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]''. Decades later, those fans responding to [[DWM 413]]'s "Mighty 200" poll in [[2009]] cited it as the 196th of the 200 stories that were then produced. A part of the explanation for this massive shift in negative momentum may be that fan leaders such as [[Paul Cornell]] and [[David J. Howe]] savaged the story in references works like ''[[The Discontinuity Guide]]'' and ''[[The Television Companion]]'', whose influence multiplied when [[BBCi]], and later [[BBC Online]], incorporated those opinions into the [[Doctor Who website|official ''Doctor Who'' website]]. Thus people skimming the official site in the [[2000s]] and [[2010s]] could well believe that opinion of the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] runs along the lines of, "Somebody, somewhere should have thrown this script in the bin the moment it had [[Concorde]] crash landing in [[Jurassic]] [[England]]..." | ||