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'''''Planet of Giants''''' was the first serial of [[season 2]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. | '''''Planet of Giants''''' was the first serial of [[season 2]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. | ||
The first episode, "Planet of Giants", was the first episode set on contemporary [[Earth]] since "[[An Unearthly Child (episode)|An Unearthly Child]]", and the first set in [[England]] (of any time period) since the same episode. Though it was similar to an idea proposed by [[C. E. Webber]] for the ''Doctor Who'' pilot, [[writer]] [[Louis Marks]] claimed the inspiration for the story was the seminal pro-ecology work by Rachel Carson, {{wi|Silent Spring}}, which warned strongly against insecticides. He reckoned that by shrinking the [[First Doctor]], he would have the opportunity to put the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] crew face-to-face with the dangers Carson had warned against in her book. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who The Handbook: The First Doctor]]'') It was, therefore, the first "environmentalist" ''Doctor Who'' story, a kind of gently moralistic tale — like ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'' and ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'' — later to be particularly favoured by [[Barry Letts]], and seen again in revived era stories | The first episode, "Planet of Giants", was the first episode set on contemporary [[Earth]] since "[[An Unearthly Child (episode)|An Unearthly Child]]", and the first set in [[England]] (of any time period) since the same episode. Though it was similar to an idea proposed by [[C. E. Webber]] for the ''Doctor Who'' pilot, [[writer]] [[Louis Marks]] claimed the inspiration for the story was the seminal pro-ecology work by Rachel Carson, {{wi|Silent Spring}}, which warned strongly against insecticides. He reckoned that by shrinking the [[First Doctor]], he would have the opportunity to put the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] crew face-to-face with the dangers Carson had warned against in her book. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who The Handbook: The First Doctor]]'') It was, therefore, the first "environmentalist" ''Doctor Who'' story, a kind of gently moralistic tale — like ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'' and ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'' — later to be particularly favoured by [[Barry Letts]], and seen again in revived era stories, notably ''[[Orphan 55 (TV story)|Orphan 55]]'' and ''[[Praxeus (TV story)|Praxeus]]''. | ||
Though fully scripted and recorded as a four-parter, the third and fourth episodes, titled "Crisis" and "The Urge to Live" respectively, were merged into a single episode called "Crisis", effectively leaving an episode on the cutting room floor. This edited material was not retained by the BBC — though some of it was reinstated by [[Terrance Dicks]] for the [[Planet of Giants (novelisation)|novelisation]]. | Though fully scripted and recorded as a four-parter, the third and fourth episodes, titled "Crisis" and "The Urge to Live" respectively, were merged into a single episode called "Crisis", effectively leaving an episode on the cutting room floor. This edited material was not retained by the BBC — though some of it was reinstated by [[Terrance Dicks]] for the [[Planet of Giants (novelisation)|novelisation]]. | ||
