Daughter's Doctor Who obsession has been pandered to by repeated viewings of the first ever serial with its commentary and information subtitles. I have to say the first episode was really good though I struggle to tell the difference between the two different versions but my first view of the following episodes was that they were slow and uninteresting but with the commentary they became much more interesting. The original scripts pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable on teatime TV at the time, involving vegetable-originated sound effects for the crunching of bones and crushing of skulls in the wrestling scene. The director, Waris Hussein, threatened to resign after being asked to remove these sounds but he eventually gave in and the scene is strangely bloodless, as if the final dropping of a large rock was onto a mattress rather than the antagonist's head.
The escape of the Tardis at the end of the last episode would have been better had they all arrived back home rather than them segueing into the next serial - the first Dalek episode - a nice neat introduction but that may just be that I like the idea of a rest between traumas.
I am intrigued by the idea of Marsh Daleks.
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