Not having everything shot on the same bland hallway sets is always a good way to inject life into a story.
Indeed! Oh, and while the production team may not be leaving the UK again until 1996, location filming was getting much easier and cheaper by this time in the 1980s, so by the time you get to Seven, they were tending to alternate between all-location stories balanced out by at least one totally studio-bound, so you will at least get to go outside again before you're done.
The twitter for Britbox US recently hinted that they might be looking into getting the streaming rights for B7 like the UK service does, which would be nice since there's currently nowhere I can legally watch it (and I'd rather watch it on a streaming service that would presumably have it in nicer quality).
Oh, that would be great. B7 Enterprises/Terry Nation Estate have been such a pain over copyright - I mean, supposedly because of trying to do a reboot, but why that should be aided by making it completely unavailable in the states for decades, God only knows.
Do Doctor Who actors pop up on there? I knew the series grabbed some writers but that's the end of my knowledge of it.
It shares writers, script editors, directors, producers, set designers, sets, costumes and actors, yes. Even more than most things made at the BBC at the same time did. Sometimes both ways round. Of the regulars, you've seen Paul Darrow twice and Michael Keating, Jacqueline Pearce & Brian Croucher once already in your voyages, and every other guest star will look oddly familiar. (Jackie was Chessene this season, Paul Darrow Tekker, although you'll have to forgive him for that. He was also, more briefly, a UNIT captain in Silurians, while Michael was in The Sun Makers.) And it was created by Terry Nation, obviously. Colin Baker has a major guest role in S3, something that resulted in Paul Darrow's performance choices and also what Eric Saward didn't like him in. (Although, to my mind, Eric Saward's reaction says more things about him than about Colin, who clearly understood his role in the episode, while the point seems to have gone sailing past Eric Saward's head and wound up creating Orsini instead, also in this season. It's a very B7 influenced season? That seems unfair, but maybe it's not! :lol:)
ETA: Here, have this little animated vid a Russian fan made for B7 to explain what it is. It's tiny, cute, spoiler free and 100% true!
I'm most of the way through the first one and I'm actually really enjoying it.
The Robert Holmes one? I don't think I ever got hold of that novelisation, but that's the one that's supposed to be good. I'm glad it is. The rest seemed very so-so? But a novelisation is not the same as a performed version.
I also got the Harry Sullivan and Turlough novels that were released in the 80s around this time to round out the "hiatus" era.
I read one of those! It made so great an impression that I, um, honestly can't tell you which one it was.
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Indeed! Oh, and while the production team may not be leaving the UK again until 1996, location filming was getting much easier and cheaper by this time in the 1980s, so by the time you get to Seven, they were tending to alternate between all-location stories balanced out by at least one totally studio-bound, so you will at least get to go outside again before you're done.
The twitter for Britbox US recently hinted that they might be looking into getting the streaming rights for B7 like the UK service does, which would be nice since there's currently nowhere I can legally watch it (and I'd rather watch it on a streaming service that would presumably have it in nicer quality).
Oh, that would be great. B7 Enterprises/Terry Nation Estate have been such a pain over copyright - I mean, supposedly because of trying to do a reboot, but why that should be aided by making it completely unavailable in the states for decades, God only knows.
Do Doctor Who actors pop up on there? I knew the series grabbed some writers but that's the end of my knowledge of it.
It shares writers, script editors, directors, producers, set designers, sets, costumes and actors, yes. Even more than most things made at the BBC at the same time did. Sometimes both ways round. Of the regulars, you've seen Paul Darrow twice and Michael Keating, Jacqueline Pearce & Brian Croucher once already in your voyages, and every other guest star will look oddly familiar. (Jackie was Chessene this season, Paul Darrow Tekker, although you'll have to forgive him for that. He was also, more briefly, a UNIT captain in Silurians, while Michael was in The Sun Makers.) And it was created by Terry Nation, obviously. Colin Baker has a major guest role in S3, something that resulted in Paul Darrow's performance choices and also what Eric Saward didn't like him in. (Although, to my mind, Eric Saward's reaction says more things about him than about Colin, who clearly understood his role in the episode, while the point seems to have gone sailing past Eric Saward's head and wound up creating Orsini instead, also in this season. It's a very B7 influenced season? That seems unfair, but maybe it's not! :lol:)
ETA: Here, have this little animated vid a Russian fan made for B7 to explain what it is. It's tiny, cute, spoiler free and 100% true!
ETA2: Oh, ok, Dreamwidth isn't going to do the embed for some reason
I'm most of the way through the first one and I'm actually really enjoying it.
The Robert Holmes one? I don't think I ever got hold of that novelisation, but that's the one that's supposed to be good. I'm glad it is. The rest seemed very so-so? But a novelisation is not the same as a performed version.
I also got the Harry Sullivan and Turlough novels that were released in the 80s around this time to round out the "hiatus" era.
I read one of those! It made so great an impression that I, um, honestly can't tell you which one it was.