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It is sometimes casually asserted that ''Planet of Giants'' was a story that had been proposed by [[C. E. Webber]] as the first story of [[season 1]]. However, it was merely the general ''idea'' of shrinking the Doctor and his companions that linked Marks' script to Webber's idea. All the details were quite different. Indeed the story of how a miniaturised TARDIS eventually made it on screen was relatively complex. | It is sometimes casually asserted that ''Planet of Giants'' was a story that had been proposed by [[C. E. Webber]] as the first story of [[Season 1 (Doctor Who 1963)|season 1]]. However, it was merely the general ''idea'' of shrinking the Doctor and his companions that linked Marks' script to Webber's idea. All the details were quite different. Indeed the story of how a miniaturised TARDIS eventually made it on screen was relatively complex. | ||
The idea of a story that featured the miniaturisation of the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] crew went back to one of the foundational documents of ''Doctor Who'': [http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/doctorwho/6403.shtml?page=4 "Dr. Who: General Ideas on Background and Approach"] written by [[C. E. Webber]] and heavily amended by [[Sydney Newman]]. There, Webber said that the first story "may result from the use of a micro-reducer in the machine which makes our characters all become tiny". The idea was carried forward in a [[16 May (production)|16 May]] 1963 [[Dr. Who (memo)|document]], prepared by Newman, Webber and [[Donald Wilson]], in which the first story, called ''The Giants'', was proposed. Its first episode was to be broadly similar to ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', but instead of landing in [[Earth]]'s past, [[the TARDIS]] would land in the [[Coal Hill School]] laboratory — at a much-reduced size. The travellers would spend the next three episodes avoiding the now-huge students, teachers and classroom objects all around them. By [[4 June (production)|4 June]] 1963, Webber had completed his full outline, which now included a scene in which the travellers placed themselves under microscopes so the students could see and communicate with them. | The idea of a story that featured the miniaturisation of the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] crew went back to one of the foundational documents of ''Doctor Who'': [http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/doctorwho/6403.shtml?page=4 "Dr. Who: General Ideas on Background and Approach"] written by [[C. E. Webber]] and heavily amended by [[Sydney Newman]]. There, Webber said that the first story "may result from the use of a micro-reducer in the machine which makes our characters all become tiny". The idea was carried forward in a [[16 May (production)|16 May]] 1963 [[Dr. Who (memo)|document]], prepared by Newman, Webber and [[Donald Wilson]], in which the first story, called ''The Giants'', was proposed. Its first episode was to be broadly similar to ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', but instead of landing in [[Earth]]'s past, [[the TARDIS]] would land in the [[Coal Hill School]] laboratory — at a much-reduced size. The travellers would spend the next three episodes avoiding the now-huge students, teachers and classroom objects all around them. By [[4 June (production)|4 June]] 1963, Webber had completed his full outline, which now included a scene in which the travellers placed themselves under microscopes so the students could see and communicate with them. | ||
