WATCH ALONG | CLASSIC DOCTOR WHO | 12x7 | The Ark in Space: Part 3
Added 2025-01-27 10:15:37 +0000 UTCEpisodes 12x9 and 12x10 are currently being edited and will be posted shortly.
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Comments
You are correct in suspecting that something was cut in the sequence early in the episode when the Doctor and Vira confront the half-transformed Noah. The new production team were determined to take the show in a more adult direction, and following the part we see, the scene originally continued with the tormented Noah throwing his pistol to Vira and begging her to kill him, and her being unable to do so as the door slowly closed between them. After the studio recording was completed, producer Philip Hinchcliffe began to worry that they had gone too far (especially given Kenton Moore's intense performance as Noah), and produced something that would be too traumatic for the young children in the audience. Following BBC standard procedure in cases of this kind, he referred the question upward to his boss Bill Slater, Head of Serials, who viewed the sequence and agreed it had to go. So they trimmed the scene as best they could to remove the problematic part while keeping the sense of the story.
Steven Cooper
2025-01-28 11:56:57 +0000 UTC
