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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?
Many people have attempted to watch every single episode of Doctor Who since it began in November of 1963. Many of those same people even managed to struggle through all 6 episodes of The Sensorites (Coming soon). But very few people ever manage to make it through all 6 episodes of The Web Planet.
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I wondered why it took so long for you to get around to reviewing this delight and yes I'm one of the few that has managed to sit through all 6 episodes and I've done it twice as well, even though I may have fallen asleep. The novelisation was slighter better but not by much though.
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The Web Planet is bad, I mean really really bad. So why didn't I include it sooner?Well because you just have to admire the balls to try to pull something like this off given the time it was made and the limited resources. The shows budget around this time was approx £2000 per episode which according to the Bank of England's inflation calculator is around £32,800 in todays money.That would have to pay the cast, crew, build all the sets and film the thing as well. Not only that due to the limited editing facilities you could only have 3 cuts per episode, the whole thing was filmed in one night and any special effects were painted onto the film, no CGI whatsoever.Compare that the the show now which is rumoured to cost £1 million per episode with 3 weeks to film plus many months in post production and you can see the vast difference.
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This explains a lot because the concept of the story is actually very good, as is the lunar type planet against the lunar sky backdrop. The Zarbi were just plain terrible though, the Menoptera some of the campest creatures ever seen on Doctor Who but the biggest embarrassment had to be the Optera hopping about! The only saving grace of the story was probably the Animus who was done well. Also the story was very much a pioneer effort that fell flat, which was in contrast to the earlier Keys of Marinus an absolute classic.
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