Over the Edge: The Story of The Edge of Destruction (2006)
29 minutes
People interviewed for this documentary include
- Richard Martin (director, part one)
- Verity Lambert (producer)
- Keith Barnfather (freelance documentary producer)
- Waris Hussein (director of An Unearthly Child, Marco Polo)
- William Russell (Ian Chesterton)
- Brian Hodgson (sound supervisor, BBC Radiophonic Workshop)
- Carole Ann Ford (Susan Foreman)
- Frank Cox (director, part two)
- Richard Landen (former editor of Doctor Who Magazine)
- Jeremy Bentham (original features editor of Doctor Who Magazine)
- Ray Cusick (designer)
- Peter Anghelides (Doctor Who novel writer)
- budget for Edge of Destruction
- how the story was an inflection point in the relationships of the main characters
- the use of scissors as a weapon on a children's program
- differences in the approaches of the directors for the two episodes
- the handwritten label for the Fast Return switch
- the importance of the planet Quinis
- the mythology of the TARDIS
Thoughts
This documentary gave me a little more insight into what they were trying to do with The Edge of Destruction. It gives the story a little more legitimacy although at the same time they are fairly open about the fact that they shot their budget on the previous story (The Daleks) and had had almost no budget to speak of left for Edge of Destruction.
02/21/24
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