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* DuellingWorks: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in ''Doctor Who'''s eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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* DuellingWorks: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'' directly opposite at the same time as the serial's first episode, after during the midst of a high-profile promotional huge campaign. ITV had never previously attempted ITV's attempt to compete with is credited as a major reason for the stagnant views of ''Who'''s 18th season. Small audiences tuned in, and more continued to tune out each week. By the third week, ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in ''Doctor Who'''s eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did had done something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell fall out of the top hundred one-hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.aired.
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* DuellingWorks: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who's eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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* DuellingWorks: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who's ''Doctor Who'''s eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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* EarlyDraftTieIn: The novelization was a SelfAdaptation by original writer David Fisher; as he originally wrote the serial as a comedic parody of gangster movies before Creator/JohnNathanTurner ordered a MidDevelopmentGenreShift to make it a political drama, Fisher based the novelization on his original draft.
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** Creator/JohnNathanTurner planned on ditching the Fourth Doctor's scarf starting with this story, but backed down after costume designer June Hudson refused to comply. The pair compromised by instead giving the Doctor a new burgundy outfit with a red and purple version of the scarf.
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** Creator/JohnNathanTurner planned on ditching the Fourth Doctor's scarf starting with this story, but backed down after costume designer June Hudson refused to comply. The pair compromised by instead giving the Doctor a new burgundy outfit with a red and purple version of the scarf.scarf that blended in with his coat rather than popping out against it.
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* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: Writer David Fisher originally envisaged the story as a humorous pastiche of gangster movies, in keeping with the tone of the previous few seasons under Creator/GrahamWilliams and Creator/DouglasAdams. The desire of the new production team of Creator/JohnNathanTurner and Creator/ChristopherHBidmead to make ''Doctor Who'' more serious and science-focused meant the story ended up with a markedly different tone.
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* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: Writer David Fisher originally envisaged the story as a humorous pastiche of gangster movies, in keeping with the tone of the previous few seasons under Creator/GrahamWilliams and Creator/DouglasAdams. The desire of the new production team of Creator/JohnNathanTurner and Creator/ChristopherHBidmead to make ''Doctor Who'' more serious and science-focused meant the story ended up with becoming a markedly different tone.dystopian drama. Remnants of the original idea are still present in Fisher's novelization of the serial, however.
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* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: Writer David Fisher originally envisaged the story as a humorous pastiche of gangster movies, in keeping with the tone of the previous few seasons under Creator/GrahamWilliams and Creator/DouglasAdams. The desire of the new production team of Creator/JohnNathanTurner and Creator/ChristopherHBidmead to make ''Doctor Who'' more serious and science-focused meant the story ended up with a markedly different tone.
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** Writer David Fisher originally envisaged the story as a humorous pastiche of gangster movies, in keeping with the tone of the previous few seasons under Creator/GrahamWilliams and Creator/DouglasAdams. The desire of the new production team of Creator/JohnNathanTurner and Creator/ChristopherHBidmead to make ''Doctor Who'' more serious and science-focused meant the story ended up with a markedly different tone.
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* DuellingShows: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who's eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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* DuellingShows: DuellingWorks: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who's eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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** Creator/TomBaker and Creator/LallaWard's tumultuous off-screen relationship was at a nadir, causing the mood on set to be distinctly chilly.
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** Creator/TomBaker and Creator/LallaWard's tumultuous off-screen relationship was at a nadir, causing nadir. The two were also vocally opposed to practically all of the changes that Creator/JohnNathanTurner instituted, and as this was the first story of the season to be produced, the combination of CreativeDifferences and actor hostility caused the mood on set to be distinctly chilly.chilly right from the start.
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** Creator/JohnNathanTurner planned on ditching the Fourth Doctor's scarf starting with this story, but backed down after costume designer June Hudson refused to comply. The pair compromised by instead giving the Doctor a new burgundy outfit with a red and purple version of the scarf.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/SianPhillips was offered the role of Mena.
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** Writer David Fisher originally envisaged the story as a humorous pastiche of gangster movies, in keeping with the tone of the previous few seasons under Creator/GrahamWilliams and Creator/DouglasAdams. The desire of the new production team of Creator/JohnNathanTurner and Creator/ChristopherHBidmead to make ''Doctor Who'' more serious and science-focused meant the story ended up with a markedly different tone.
** Creator/SianPhillips was offered the role of Mena.
** Writer David Fisher originally envisaged the story as a humorous pastiche of gangster movies, in keeping with the tone of the previous few seasons under Creator/GrahamWilliams and Creator/DouglasAdams. The desire of the new production team of Creator/JohnNathanTurner and Creator/ChristopherHBidmead to make ''Doctor Who'' more serious and science-focused meant the story ended up with a markedly different tone.
** Creator/SianPhillips was offered the role of Mena.
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* TroubledProduction: Production of the serial was extremely challenging. Creator/TomBaker and Creator/LallaWard's tumultuous off-screen relationship was at a nadir, causing the mood on set to be distinctly chilly. Director Lovett Bickford's management of the shoot caused it to go so badly over budget that Creator/JohnNathanTurner was severely reprimanded by his superiors. Bickford would never work on the series again.
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* TroubledProduction: Production of the serial was extremely challenging. challenging:
** Creator/TomBaker and Creator/LallaWard's tumultuous off-screen relationship was at a nadir, causing the mood on set to be distinctlychilly. chilly.
** Director Lovett Bickford's management of the shoot caused it to go so badly over budget that Creator/JohnNathanTurner was severely reprimanded by his superiors. Bickford would never work on the series again.
** Creator/TomBaker and Creator/LallaWard's tumultuous off-screen relationship was at a nadir, causing the mood on set to be distinctly
** Director Lovett Bickford's management of the shoot caused it to go so badly over budget that Creator/JohnNathanTurner was severely reprimanded by his superiors. Bickford would never work on the series again.
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* DuellingShows: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who's eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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* DuellingShows: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury'' ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who's eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/SianPhillips was offered the role of Mena.
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* [[DuelingWorks Dueling Shows]]: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who's eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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* [[DuelingWorks Dueling Shows]]: DuellingShows: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who's eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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* [[DuelingWorks Duelling Shows]]: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who's eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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* [[DuelingWorks Duelling Dueling Shows]]: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who's eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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* [[DuelingShows Duelling Shows]]: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who's eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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* [[DuelingShows [[DuelingWorks Duelling Shows]]: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who's eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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* DuelingShows: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who's eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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* DuelingShows: [[DuelingShows Duelling Shows]]: Creator/{{ITV}} premiered ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury'' directly opposite the first episode, after a high-profile promotional campaign. ITV had never previously attempted to compete with ''Doctor Who'' by scheduling science fiction in that slot before, and its change of policy in 1980 is credited as being a major factor in the significant slump in ratings seen for the early stories in Doctor Who's eighteenth season. Not only did small audiences watch the first episode, but figures dropped each week. By week three, ''Doctor Who'' did something it hadn't done in eighteen years: it fell out of the top hundred programmes for the week it was transmitted.
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* CreatorsPest: Creator/JohnNathanTurner hated K9, so Part One opens with him being short-circuited after going in the sea and playing no part in the rest of the story. He'd be gone by the end of the season.
* DuelingShows: The serial suffered in the ratings against Creator/{{ITV}}'s import ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury''.
* DuelingShows: The serial suffered in the ratings against Creator/{{ITV}}'s import ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury''.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Laurence Payne had previously played [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters Johnny Ringo]].
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* YouLookFamiliar: Laurence Payne had previously played [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters Johnny Ringo]].Ringo]].
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* TroubledProduction: Production of the serial was extremely challenging. Creator/TomBaker and Lalla Ward's tumultuous off-screen relationship was at a nadir, causing the mood on set to be distinctly chilly. Director Lovett Bickford's management of the shoot caused it to go so badly over budget that Creator/JohnNathanTurner was severely reprimanded by his superiors. Bickford would never work on the series again.
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* TroubledProduction: Production of the serial was extremely challenging. Creator/TomBaker and Lalla Ward's Creator/LallaWard's tumultuous off-screen relationship was at a nadir, causing the mood on set to be distinctly chilly. Director Lovett Bickford's management of the shoot caused it to go so badly over budget that Creator/JohnNathanTurner was severely reprimanded by his superiors. Bickford would never work on the series again.
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* CreatorsPest: Creator/JohnNathanTurner hated K9, so the story opens with him being short-circuited after going in the sea. He'd be gone by the end of the season.
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* CreatorsPest: Creator/JohnNathanTurner hated K9, so the story Part One opens with him being short-circuited after going in the sea.sea and playing no part in the rest of the story. He'd be gone by the end of the season.
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* CreatorsPest: Creator/JohnNathanTurner hated K9, so the story opens with him being short-circuited after going in the sea. He'd be gone by the end of the season.
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* TroubledProduction: Production of the serial was extremely challenging. Creator/TomBaker and Lalla Ward's tumultuous off-screen relationship was at a nadir, causing the mood on set to be distinctly chilly. Director Lovett Bickford's management of the shoot caused it to go so badly over budget that Creator/JohnNathanTurner was severely reprimanded by his superiors. Bickford would never work on the series again.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Laurence Payne had previously played Johnny Ringo in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters The Gunfighters]].
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* YouLookFamiliar: Laurence Payne had previously played Johnny Ringo in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters The Gunfighters]].Johnny Ringo]].
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* DuelingShows: The serial suffered in the ratings against ITV's import ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury''.
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* DuelingShows: The serial suffered in the ratings against ITV's Creator/{{ITV}}'s import ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury''.''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury''.
* RealLifeRelative: The baby Pangol was played by Alys Dyer, whose mother was production unit manager Angela Smith.
* RealLifeRelative: The baby Pangol was played by Alys Dyer, whose mother was production unit manager Angela Smith.
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* DuelingShows: The serial suffered in the ratings against ITV's import ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury''.
* WorkingTitle: ''The Argolins'' and ''Avalon''.
* YouLookFamiliar: Laurence Payne had previously played Johnny Ringo in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters The Gunfighters]].
* WorkingTitle: ''The Argolins'' and ''Avalon''.
* YouLookFamiliar: Laurence Payne had previously played Johnny Ringo in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters The Gunfighters]].
