Reception
Writer and journalist Matthew Sweet has compared the Doctor's strategy of feigning madness in this story to Hamlet.
Following transmission of the story, producer Graham Williams met with Head of Serials, Graeme MacDonald and they agreed that the story had contained too high a level of humour, resulting in a lack of credibility in Stor, and a lack of dramatic tension, and that in future any humour in the programme should counterpoint and strengthen the story rather than undermine and weaken it. Memos to this effect were to be issued to future directors of the show, in order to preserve a level of seriousness that both men felt to be necessary, however the humorous trend continued until Williams' tenure came to an end in 1979.
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