Someone on the production team was obviously a dab hand at miniature creation.
The BBC had in-house departments for everything in those days, so despite the crappy quality of the video, the sets, costumes and SFX/model work were pretty amazing in general, because they had all the stuff and expertise in TV Centre already.
I'm a trifle ashamed to admit that I thought Janet Fielding's performance was very less than stellar. Mind you, she got a lot better.
I seem to remember that she says on the commentary that she's surprised she's not worse here - she was pretty young and had done nothing but theatre. (I think there was one brief guest role pre-DW, but that was it.) She learned quickly, though - she always says that Peter Davison was a huge help, just watching how he did things.
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The BBC had in-house departments for everything in those days, so despite the crappy quality of the video, the sets, costumes and SFX/model work were pretty amazing in general, because they had all the stuff and expertise in TV Centre already.
I'm a trifle ashamed to admit that I thought Janet Fielding's performance was very less than stellar. Mind you, she got a lot better.
I seem to remember that she says on the commentary that she's surprised she's not worse here - she was pretty young and had done nothing but theatre. (I think there was one brief guest role pre-DW, but that was it.) She learned quickly, though - she always says that Peter Davison was a huge help, just watching how he did things.