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Later, when extending the commission of the series on [[31 December]] [[1963]], he advised [[Donald Wilson]] to make sure that the internal logic of episodes was improved. | Later, when extending the commission of the series on [[31 December]] [[1963]], he advised [[Donald Wilson]] to make sure that the internal logic of episodes was improved. | ||
{{quote|I hope ... that you will brighten up the logic and inventiveness of the scripts ... I suggest that you should make efforts in future episodes to reduce the amount of slow prosaic dialogue and to centre the dramatic movements much more on historical and scientific hokum.|Baverstock to [[Donald Wilson]], 31 December 1963}} | {{quote|I hope ... that you will brighten up the logic and inventiveness of the scripts ... I suggest that you should make efforts in future episodes to reduce the amount of slow prosaic dialogue and to centre the dramatic movements much more on historical and scientific hokum.|Baverstock to [[Donald Wilson]], 31 December 1963}} | ||
He found it problematic that the Doctor and Susan seemed smart while they were in [[the TARDIS | He found it problematic that the Doctor and Susan seemed smart while they were in [[the TARDIS]], but then rather dull when they left the Ship and began to explore. He strongly felt that both the TARDIS team and the people that they met would overall behave differently than had been portrayed in ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' and the early episodes of ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]''. People from the past, he reasoned, should exhibit "lost simple knowledge", while those from the future should have "credible skills and capacities that can be conceived likely in the future". | ||
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