Broadcast
"Plant Of Doom" is notorious for its place in the original ITC broadcast order and its continuity place in the series. The episodes marks the first appearance of Aphony, Marina’s father, and shows that the other characters know little about Marina. Aphony himself reappears in the episode Tune Of Danger, which was broadcasted before this episode. For continuity purposes this story should have been the second episode to be broadcast, but was moved to being the 34th (7th from last) to be broadcast. ITV commonly changes the broadcast order of many of its series, because ratings for shows drop during the middle, so they like to have the strongest episodes at the beginning and end, with the weaker episodes in the middle. This must have meant they thought "Plant Of Doom was a good episode", and thus should have been left at number 2.
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