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Classic Who "The Leisure Hive" Parts 1&2 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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2024-01-05 13:45:01
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Ian Smith

Welcome to the start of 80's Who! New titles; new Doctor costume design; new style of music; new (for their time) video f/x - all courtesy of the new producer/showrunner. Tom Baker is reassuringly familiar, though.

Ryan

This story was under a lot of pressure to win the fans back after the last season abruptly ended with "My dreams of conquest!" And it does indeed look spectacular for the time, but that unfortunately came with a cost as it went wildly overbudget, and the director was never let back on the show. And there was plenty more behind the scenes trouble, as Tom and Lalla disagreed with basically every single idea from new producer John Nathan-Turner, and their own notoriously rocky relationship was at the lowest it ever got.

Andrew Vignaux

"The fibre-optic transmission system has a mean time between failure of 2000 years.", "We could do with that in the TARDIS.", Mena and the Doctor, "The Leisure Hive" Firstly, John Leeson is back as K9! - he just sounds so right. I like the new synth theme. There's a nice YouTube video with Peter Howell describing how he went about creating the new theme - but the video has a few tiny story spoilers so I'll post the link later. We also switch to using the Radiophonic Workshop for the incidental music. I'm not sure about the Doctor's new burgundy outfit - you're a better judge of this that I am, but I really don't like the `?' on the shirt collar (to emphasize the "Who?" I guess). That's all the new producer's (John Nathan-Turner = JNT) idea - and not his best. Barry Letts, the legendary Classic Who producer of the 3rd Doctor era, had an executive producer credit here to help out JNT as the new producer for this season. The Brighton beach stuff was JNT's idea as well. Even before watching this I knew I would have to turn down the reaction volume as K9 follows the ball into the sea. Talking about the Brighton beach scene, I had forgotton how long some of the non-dialogue panning shots were in this story. I love Classic Who but, wow, those pans really took their time. The production goes a bit overboard with their new video effects tool in this story - almost a "look what we bought - let's have a story that can use this effect's button". "How did you get out?", "There's a hole in the back.", "There isn't one.", "There is now!", Pangol and the Doctor, "The Leisure Hive"

Ed Green
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I watched this for the first time 3 days ago in anticipation of this, and I knew as soon as I saw this scene that I was going to enjoy Jess seeing it.

Josef Schiltz
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Ah, the burgundy outfit - sigh! - that the editor of an underground magazine I worked on back then asked me to do an illustration of. I wish he had actually stated his final decision on how large he was going to print the illo. I used an LT dot screen tint that I thought best matched the shade of the costume - as the book was to be in black and white. When I finally saw the finished book, it had been reproduced so small that all the space between the dots has filled in and Tom's costume was black all over. My dear ed took the executive decision to take a brush of process white and awkwardly reproduced some of the costume's detail on top. A right pig's breakfast it looked too! This, and others which were printed at the expected size, was for the magazine's interview with JNT. Nice enough chap. Closed mouthed as an Aldebaran Shellmouth about future plans - as we expected him to be - but, nonetheless, a pleasant enough day to remember and we got autographed postcards of the cast.