The Power of the Daleks (TV story): Difference between revisions

* At the start of rehearsals, [[Anneke Wills]] and [[Michael Craze]] decided to prank [[Patrick Troughton]] by dressing in t-shirts which proclaimed “Come back Bill Hartnell -- all is forgiven”. Troughton, insecure about taking over, initially reacted badly to the joke, but the three actors soon overcame this misstep to forge a close camaraderie.

*Some colourised images of the surviving black-and-white photographs incorrectly depict the Dalek torso as being bright blue, similar to the spheres on the lower casing, even though numerous official photographs in colour depict the original props as having silver torsos with a slightly brighter tone compared to the rest of the Dalek shell.

*Charles Norton, the director of the animated release, revealed in the information booklet that accompanies the 2020 Special Edition that they were originally given ten months to make the six animated episodes and he thought that they might be able to do it in eight months which he called "an almost impossibly tight deadline". However when the release date was changed, so as to coincide with the 50th anniversary of when episode one of this serial was first broadcast, this cut their deadline to ''five'' months. Though Norton admitted that this release date made good sense, he was obviously panicked that they now had "terrifyingly little time" to complete the episodes. Production concluded when Norton met [[Rob Ritchie]] at a car park near [[Canary Wharf]] in the early hours of the morning where the latter handed over the, still hot, hard drive containing the masters due to go for grading a few hours later and then delivery a few hours after that. Ritchie had been animating the last few shots on a laptop while sitting in the back of a car on the drive down.

*The rushed production of the 2016 release of the animated version meant that none of the production team were happy with the finished result. Charles Norton remarked "it didn't really feel like a ''finished'' result at all" and that the animation on some scenes was very "rough" and in others there was hardly any animation at all. Therefore, when they were given the chance to revisit the project for the Special Edition release, they "greeted it with no little degree of elation". The worst looking scenes were re-animated from scratch while minor tweaks and adjustments were made to other parts. Norton claims the most notable differences between the two versions are in episodes one and five.