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While the reduction of the show's punishing year-round cycles of shooting to a more concentrated "season" form in [[1970 (production)|1970]] is often noted, other shifts in practice implemented by the new producer were also underway. [[Barry Letts]] introduced a new principal photography schedule with ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|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''. | While the reduction of the show's punishing year-round cycles of shooting to a more concentrated "season" form in [[1970 (production)|1970]] is often noted, other shifts in practice implemented by the new producer were also underway. [[Barry Letts]] introduced a new principal photography schedule with ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|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''. | ||
''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'' — or, to put it another way, [[Season 14]] — 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 Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'' — or, to put it another way, [[Season 14 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 14]] — 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. | ||
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