Main menuBill Strutton, Doctor Who - The web planet
Release details
| Title | Doctor Who - The web planet | ||||||||
| Artist(s): | Bill Strutton | ||||||||
| Category: | BBC - BBCDVD (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - BBCDVD DVD's.) | ||||||||
| Label and catalogue number: |  BBC DVD - BBCDVD 1355 | ||||||||
| Format: | Disc DVD's | ||||||||
| Country: | UK  | ||||||||
| Released: | 1965 | ||||||||
| Genre: | Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi. | ||||||||
| Run-off codes: | A0100625057-A911 18 IFPI L558 Sony DADC | ||||||||
| Item deleted? | No | ||||||||
| Distributed / printed by |  2 entertain | ||||||||
| Page views: | 2119 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 2546, rank in dvds is 111. | ||||||||
| My rating: | ***** | ||||||||
| Guest rating: | ***** | ||||||||
My copies information
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| Cover condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| Record condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| BBC records label code | - | ||||||||||
| Number have | 1 | ||||||||||
| What type of seller was used | Other online shop | ||||||||||
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Tracks
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| Side & track no | Track and Artist | Length | |||||||||
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| A1 | The web planet | 23.53 | |||||||||
| A2 | The Zarbi | 23.16 | |||||||||
| A3 | Escape to danger | 22.53 | |||||||||
| A4 | Crater of needles | 25.45 | |||||||||
| A5 | The invasion | 26.05 | |||||||||
| A6 | The centre | 24.28 | |||||||||
| A7 | Tales of Isop - The making of The web planet | 37.51 | |||||||||
| A8 | The lair of Zarbi supremo (from the first Doctor Who annual - Audio only) | 56.45 | |||||||||
| A9 | The Doctor Who annual [PDF] | ||||||||||
| A10 | Give-a-show slides (Slides) | ||||||||||
| A11 | Photo gallery | 6.46 | |||||||||
| Total length of media 4:07:42. | |||||||||||
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| My rating | 3 | |
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Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts | ||
StarringWilliam Hartnell William Russell Jacqueline Hill Maureen O'Brien Roslyn De Winter Arne Gordon Jolyon Booth Jocelyn Birdsall Martin Jarvis Arthur Blake Ian Thompson Barbara Joss Robert Jewell Hugh Lund Kevin Manser Jack Pitt John Scott Martin Gerald Taylor Catherine Fleming Written byBill Strutton Produced byVerity Lambert Directed byRichard Martin SynopsisA mysterious force pulls the TARDIS off course, stranding the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki on the mysterious alien world of Vortis. A fierce battle is raging between the moth-like Menoptra, and giant insects known as Zarbi. But what is the dark secret that hides at the centre of the Zarbi's lair ... ? BackgroundAlthough Doctor Who's first season had been well received by the viewing public, it was really only the ironic Daleks that had captured children's imaginations. For the show's second season, a rematch with the Daleks was planned early on, but still the production team hoped that they could achieve the same degree of popularity with other alien creatures. When writer Bill Strutton was a young child, he witnessed a fierce fight between rival fractions of ants, only to be badly bitten by both protagonists when he tried to intervene. Inspired by this recollection, he suggested a story about battling insect factions to the Doctor Who production team, who straight away hoped that the idea might provide them with an alien race that could match the Daleks popularity. The Web Planet was a truly brave and bold move the the series. Strutton's story of a battle between insects on a far-off alien planet was an idea that less-confident production teams would have perhaps passed on, but the idea was approached with vigour and enthusiasm. For the first - and only - time in Doctor Who's history, the only 'human' characters in the story were the regular cast. Every other character seen on-screen was alien. And what a selection of aliens Strutton came up with! Zarbi, Menoptra, Optera, Venom Grubs and the mysterious Animus. One of the main limiting factors for the story at the time was the requirement to record an episode a week. Sets and costumes which were new and shiny for the first week tended to quickly deteriorate after being taken down or put away, then reused and re-set a number of times. This became all too-apparent with the Zarbi props, as they got more and more fragile and creakier as the weeks progressed. It also meant that when members of the regular cast were given time-off to go on holiday, their characters tended to vanish from the narrative for weeks at a time - as does Jacqueline Hill's Barbara in the third episode in this tale. | ||
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