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Thirty Days of Doctor Who: Day Two
Aug. 4th, 2010 03:02 pmDay O2 - Your Favourite Classic Series Episode
It wasn't an altogether promising start. David Fisher wrote a Bulldog Drummond parody set in 1920s Monte Carlo that had be completely rewritten after John Nathan Turner (production manager at that stage) figured out it would be cheaper to set it in contemporary Paris than to build the sets. Then Fisher wasn't available for the rewrites because he was going through a messy divorce, so the script editor and producer had to do it ... in three days.
If anyone other than Douglas Adams had been that script editor, it probably would have been an shambles, an acceptable script at best. But because he was a certified literary genius, after three days of black coffee and whiskey, a miracle had been performed.
( They call the miracle 'City of Death'. )
It wasn't an altogether promising start. David Fisher wrote a Bulldog Drummond parody set in 1920s Monte Carlo that had be completely rewritten after John Nathan Turner (production manager at that stage) figured out it would be cheaper to set it in contemporary Paris than to build the sets. Then Fisher wasn't available for the rewrites because he was going through a messy divorce, so the script editor and producer had to do it ... in three days.
If anyone other than Douglas Adams had been that script editor, it probably would have been an shambles, an acceptable script at best. But because he was a certified literary genius, after three days of black coffee and whiskey, a miracle had been performed.
( They call the miracle 'City of Death'. )