NEW VIDEO: Romana's Original Darker Exit 🌃 Did you know that Doctor Who Companion Romana almost returned to Gallifrey in her final story? Hear about the unmade Fourth Doctor story 'Sealed Orders' here! WATCH HERE: youtu.be/Yeh-Ofslbws - ThreadSky

joshsnares.bsky.social • 21 days ago

NEW VIDEO: Romana's Original Darker Exit 🌃

Did you know that Doctor Who Companion Romana almost returned to Gallifrey in her final story?

Hear about the unmade Fourth Doctor story 'Sealed Orders' here!

WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/Yeh-Ofslbws

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chrispycontent.bsky.social•21 days ago

Loving these 'what could've been' vids!

joshsnares.bsky.social•21 days ago

Thanks :)

nothinglane.bsky.social•20 days ago

Nice coverage, Josh. There is a bit more to it than you explain though. There's real no indication of any real friction over Sealed Orders. With the introduction of the E-Space concept, the whole background of the story needed to change and Priest was asked to perform a complete rewrite.

nothinglane.bsky.social•20 days ago

Contractually, the BBC only had 56 days after delivery to be able to request rewrites before additional money had to be paid. As rewrites were being discussed well over this period the decision seems to be that they wouldn’t take it any further on that basis.

nothinglane.bsky.social•20 days ago

There was evidently no friction with Priest as he was recontracted for The Enemy Within (which included the death of Adric) just 8 weeks later. Revisions were also required here and Priest rewrote the entire script, as directed. It was when JNT contacted him again 86 days after initial delivery

nothinglane.bsky.social•20 days ago

demanding yet another full rewrite and telling Priest that he had to come into the office for four days to work on it – all without pay - that things broke down. So, it wasn’t that Priest didn’t get paid for the scripts – he did. It was over payment for rewrites out-of-contract that was in dispute.

nothinglane.bsky.social•20 days ago

As far Eric Saward’s fan reply goes, it’s worth pointing out that he didn’t twice use the word “novelists” but “novalists” – what Priest described to me as being Saward’s “radical approach to spelling”!

nothinglane.bsky.social•20 days ago

Priest told me in 1990: “If the phone call from Nathan-Turner in 1981 was (and remains) the single most unpleasant conversation in my life, then his grovelling letter of apology is probably the one that caused the loudest cries of joy and triumph.”

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