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| rdfs:comment | - Planet of Giants is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts from October 31 to November 14, 1964. The story was the first since the series' début episode to be set on a contemporary Earth .
- Planet of Giants was the embarrassing first story of the second season of the surely-soon-to-be-cancelled British childish science teleimages series Doctor Snooze, which was so dull that they edited it down from four to three weekly parts broadcast from 31 October to 14 November 1964. The story was the first since the very first episode of the simplistic programme to set on a then-contemporary Earth, which I’m sure thrilled all the kiddies tuning in hoping to see more Daleks.
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| Guests | - * Alan Tilvern — Forester
* Frank Crawshaw — Farrow
* Reginald Barratt — Smithers
* Rosemary Johnson — Hilda
* Fred Ferris — Bert
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| Companion | - Carole Ann Ford
- William Russell
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| abstract | - Planet of Giants was the embarrassing first story of the second season of the surely-soon-to-be-cancelled British childish science teleimages series Doctor Snooze, which was so dull that they edited it down from four to three weekly parts broadcast from 31 October to 14 November 1964. The story was the first since the very first episode of the simplistic programme to set on a then-contemporary Earth, which I’m sure thrilled all the kiddies tuning in hoping to see more Daleks. It once had the working title “Minuscule Story” which is really damn accurate, but perhaps not in the way they might have intended. The story writer Louis “Karl” Marx claimed the inspiration came from the pro-ecology book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, so this marks the programme’s first simplistic presentation of all those silly ideas about nature and so on. Long before it was written, David Whittaker was on record as saying (and I’m not making this up) "We badly need a serial about our four running characters being reduced in size.” Christ, what was he thinking? A novelization of the story, written by - who else? - Tenninch Dicks was published in 1990 and was unsurprisingly the final serial of the William Hartwell era to be novelized. Of interest mainly only to fans of BBC giant rats, it’s not very good. Despite all of the above, viewer ratings for all three parts neared 9 million disappointed fans.
- Planet of Giants is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts from October 31 to November 14, 1964. The story was the first since the series' début episode to be set on a contemporary Earth .
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