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In the [[Verity Lambert]] era, most episodes were completely taped in a few hours, largely because they were photographed sequentially as theatrical plays with minimal editing. As the editing of videotape became more affordable, ''Doctor Who'' was filmed out of sequence, and thus more time could be spent filming each scene. Location filming also became increasingly common. From the advent of significant location filming in the waning half of [[William Hartnell]]'s involvement with the program, principal photography was split between "studio days' and "location days". The total time needed to complete most episodes naturally increased for that reason alone. | In the [[Verity Lambert]] era, most episodes were completely taped in a few hours, largely because they were photographed sequentially as theatrical plays with minimal editing. As the editing of videotape became more affordable, ''Doctor Who'' was filmed out of sequence, and thus more time could be spent filming each scene. Location filming also became increasingly common. From the advent of significant location filming in the waning half of [[William Hartnell]]'s involvement with the program, principal photography was split between "studio days' and "location days". The total time needed to complete most episodes naturally increased for that reason alone. | ||
There were three major patterns in the program's studio recording schedule. From ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' to ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'', the studio recording for stories would generally happen once a week. Material for only one episode would be completed during each day's recording. Until ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'', this day was invariably Friday. From [[William Hartnell]]'s last story until [[Jon Pertwee]]'s first, studio recording was done each Thursday.<ref>[http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/dd.html Shannon Sullivan's guide] to ''The Tenth Planet''</ref> | There were three major patterns in the program's studio recording schedule. From ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' to ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'', the studio recording for stories would generally happen once a week. Material for only one episode would be completed during each day's recording. Until ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', this day was invariably Friday. From [[William Hartnell]]'s last story until [[Jon Pertwee]]'s first, studio recording was done each Thursday.<ref>[http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/dd.html Shannon Sullivan's guide] to ''The Tenth Planet''</ref> | ||
[[Barry Letts]] introduced a new principal photography schedule with ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''. He decreed that the studio work for two episodes be completed on consecutive days each week. Thus, instead of it taking a month to complete the studio work for an entire four-part episode of ''Doctor Who'', it would now only take two weeks. The innovation was born of necessity. The outside contractor [[Barry Newbery]] had used to build the cave sets for ''Silurians'' had delivered flimsy sets. Because they would be damaged by striking them each week, Letts came up with the solution of recording two studio days back-to-back, greatly reducing the number of times the sets would have to be taken down and put back up.<ref>[http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/bbb.html Shannon Sullivan's guide] to ''The Silurians''</ref> The plan kept the cave sets from disintegrating. The patten of once-a-week studio filming never returned to ''Doctor Who''. | [[Barry Letts]] introduced a new principal photography schedule with ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''. He decreed that the studio work for two episodes be completed on consecutive days each week. Thus, instead of it taking a month to complete the studio work for an entire four-part episode of ''Doctor Who'', it would now only take two weeks. The innovation was born of necessity. The outside contractor [[Barry Newbery]] had used to build the cave sets for ''Silurians'' had delivered flimsy sets. Because they would be damaged by striking them each week, Letts came up with the solution of recording two studio days back-to-back, greatly reducing the number of times the sets would have to be taken down and put back up.<ref>[http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/bbb.html Shannon Sullivan's guide] to ''The Silurians''</ref> The plan kept the cave sets from disintegrating. The patten of once-a-week studio filming never returned to ''Doctor Who''. | ||
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