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Post by Richard Marple on Jul 21, 2022 20:34:46 GMT
Virtually every TV series does that. Think of Star Trek - either the original or Next Generation. Several stories set in, or almost entirely in, the Enterprise. They are known in the trade as bottle episodes.
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Post by mattg on Jul 21, 2022 21:18:48 GMT
Virtually every TV series does that. Think of Star Trek - either the original or Next Generation. Several stories set in, or almost entirely in, the Enterprise. That and the venerable ‘clips’ episode of course - a longstanding staple of U.S. tv shows in particular whenever they need to save a bit of cash. The components are always the same: diminished regular cast, only one or two sets and a wafer-thin plot designed purely to enable the copious incorporation of footage from previous episodes! To it’s credit Doctor Who never resorted to those sorts of cost saving measures as ‘clips’ episodes are universally awful, though they obviously serve their purpose. In its early years at least Nu Who even went one better by actually producing genuinely great ‘cheap’ episodes: Midnight and Blink being two obvious examples…
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Post by John Wall on Jul 21, 2022 22:13:32 GMT
It’s sometimes worth looking at things like DW and seeing how the (limited!) budget was used. Look at Season 11 for example. Monster of Peladon - one of my favourites - is 6 parts, almost entirely studio. A six parter would’ve usually had a reasonable amount of location filming, but this was divvied up between the other stories.
Some of the all time classics were made with very few sets - which meant they could be excellent. Think of Moonbase, Tomb and Web for starters.
Blake’s 7 was the same. In the first three seasons there’d be scenes on the Liberator, some location filming and, usually, one very good set.
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Post by Nicholas Fitzpatrick on Jul 27, 2022 19:17:12 GMT
Virtually every TV series does that. Think of Star Trek - either the original or Next Generation. Several stories set in, or almost entirely in, the Enterprise. That and the venerable ‘clips’ episode of course - a longstanding staple of U.S. tv shows in particular whenever they need to save a bit of cash. Ah yes ... "remember the time that ...". I've not seen one of those for a long time. Perhaps I simply don't watch enough 22-episode a year sitcoms. Perhaps why 1980s/1990s Star Trek loved the holodeck.
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Post by John Green on Jul 27, 2022 19:32:01 GMT
Virtually every TV series does that. Think of Star Trek - either the original or Next Generation. Several stories set in, or almost entirely in, the Enterprise. They are known in the trade as bottle episodes. I suppose that I Dream of Jeannie did this?
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Post by Richard Marple on Jul 27, 2022 20:31:15 GMT
They are known in the trade as bottle episodes. I suppose that I Dream of Jeannie did this? Maybe, sometimes some episodes mostly used Tony's house & the NASA sets.
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Post by mattg on Jul 28, 2022 7:10:04 GMT
FYI, just received notification that The Abominable Snowmen animation has now finally got a release date: 5th September.
Great news of course as I know I wasn’t the only one beginning to wonder whether recent financing issues had put the project on indefinite hold!
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Post by John Wall on Jul 28, 2022 7:53:32 GMT
FYI, just received notification that The Abominable Snowmen animation has now finally got a release date: 5th September.Great news of course as I know I wasn’t the only one beginning to wonder whether recent financing issues had put the project on indefinite hold! Excellent news, a further step towards a complete b&w season.
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Post by RhysH on Jul 28, 2022 16:08:34 GMT
Yes, fantastic news about TAS animation! Also got my email from Amazon to say the same. Now we just need to keep fingers crossed that a way can be found for the animations to continue!
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Post by RhysH on Aug 16, 2022 14:30:56 GMT
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Post by George D on Aug 16, 2022 15:55:33 GMT
Would be great if they recovered the crusade but will they at least animate it?
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Post by Richard Hall on Aug 16, 2022 16:23:16 GMT
Would be great if they recovered the crusade but will they at least animate it? It'll be a Telesnap reconstruction.
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Post by RhysH on Aug 16, 2022 16:33:13 GMT
Would be great if they recovered the crusade but will they at least animate it? It'll be a Telesnap reconstruction. Yep - shame, but always one of the harder ones to animate they said, and with the funding seemingly pulled for now, it is what it is. Hopefully in the future we might have it done and a replacement disk can pop into the the box hey. The trailer was so good! Really touching!
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Post by John Wall on Aug 16, 2022 19:00:31 GMT
Amazon say it’s due on 31 December 2025?
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Post by John Wall on Aug 16, 2022 19:24:00 GMT
And the country of origin is Poland?
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