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''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'' — or, to put it another way, [[Season 15]] — brought with it a significant, lasting change to the progress of principal photography. The idea of ''always'' recording on Fridays and Saturdays was abandoned in favour of a sliding schedule of two studio days one week being followed by three the next. This not only added a fifth day of studio recording, but also allowed for a whole month to be used. Location filming would usually be done for three days some time prior to the studio recording. In the case of ''Mandragora'', this location filming occurred two weeks before the start of studio recording, which meant that the total time elapsed for principal photography was five weeks.<ref>[http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/4m.html Shannon Sullivan's guide] to ''The Masque of Mandragora''</ref> This schedule was retained for the rest of the original series, although stories with fewer episodes, such as ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'', were completed in less time.

The [[Doctor Who (TV story)|TV movie]] starring [[Paul McGann]] was the first "modern" production of ''Doctor Who''. Filmed as a movie, it had a long and complicated shoot which lasted nine weeks.<ref>[http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/bbb.html Shannon Sullivan's guide] to the TV movie</ref> As a one-off production, it did not establish any particular patterns or continue any legacies from the past. It undoubtedly established the record, however, for the longest principal photography of any single ''Doctor Who'' story. However, depending on one's views of what constitutes a "story", it would be bested by later, multi-episode arcs of the next incarnation of the program.

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