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It's best to approach the classic pre-cancellation programme like a filmed stage play. And not a big, “good” stage play, like one of todays’ Broadway monstrosities such as “Spiderman: Turn Off The Dork” or a well-respected Royal Shakespeare Company production, but more like a production put on by a community puppet theatre that rehearses and performs for bored family members in the back room of a local church. Sure sure, Auntie Beeb paid for the cameras and cameraman, lighting and the occasional actor to all be there, but that’s it - it has always been up to the cast and crew to pass round the hat and see what they could find in the rubbish bin to re-purpose for costumes, sets and so on. This explains why the simplest of video effects and threadbare costumes that had been hastily painted

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  • It's best to approach the classic pre-cancellation programme like a filmed stage play. And not a big, “good” stage play, like one of todays’ Broadway monstrosities such as “Spiderman: Turn Off The Dork” or a well-respected Royal Shakespeare Company production, but more like a production put on by a community puppet theatre that rehearses and performs for bored family members in the back room of a local church. Sure sure, Auntie Beeb paid for the cameras and cameraman, lighting and the occasional actor to all be there, but that’s it - it has always been up to the cast and crew to pass round the hat and see what they could find in the rubbish bin to re-purpose for costumes, sets and so on. This explains why the simplest of video effects and threadbare costumes that had been hastily painted
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  • It's best to approach the classic pre-cancellation programme like a filmed stage play. And not a big, “good” stage play, like one of todays’ Broadway monstrosities such as “Spiderman: Turn Off The Dork” or a well-respected Royal Shakespeare Company production, but more like a production put on by a community puppet theatre that rehearses and performs for bored family members in the back room of a local church. Sure sure, Auntie Beeb paid for the cameras and cameraman, lighting and the occasional actor to all be there, but that’s it - it has always been up to the cast and crew to pass round the hat and see what they could find in the rubbish bin to re-purpose for costumes, sets and so on. This explains why the simplest of video effects and threadbare costumes that had been hastily painted silver were considered palatable up through the programme's demise in 1989. The British acting tradition has just never wavered in its strong affinity for stage work, perhaps because the country is so small that approximately one third of the population can clearly hear you when you raise your voice. It’s also best to keep in mind that television in those days was itself quite primitive, being broadcast in black and white and later simply-coloured patterns, only viewable with a surgically-implanted device in one’s head. No one planned for or expected the advent of mystique-killing technologies such as screen-caps, a freeze-frame feature on your Beta max Walkman, or holograms which might allow you to endlessly and obsessively rewatch episodes or whatever. These programmes were meant to be seen once and then promptly forgotten about as you drank yourself into the customary gin haze for the night surrounded by your numerous orphan siblings. Anyone experiencing the classic programme who tells you the show is terrible because of the special effects is, not to be too rude about it, a shallow prick with no understanding of history nor imagination. They’re probably fans of the Transformers movies as well, a solid fact about them which shall continue to inform you about their worth as a person the more you consider it or watch a Transformer movie.
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