Production
| Episode | Broadcast date | Run time | Viewership |
Archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Episode One" | 8 April 1972 (1972-04-08) | 24:25 | 9.1 | PAL colour conversion |
| "Episode Two" | 15 April 1972 (1972-04-15) | 24:24 | 7.8 | PAL colour conversion |
| "Episode Three" | 22 April 1972 (1972-04-22) | 24:32 | 7.9 | PAL 2" colour videotape |
| "Episode Four" | 29 April 1972 (1972-04-29) | 24:00 | 7.5 | PAL 2" colour videotape |
| "Episode Five" | 6 May 1972 (1972-05-06) | 24:37 | 7.9 | PAL 2" colour videotape |
| "Episode Six" | 13 May 1972 (1972-05-13) | 23:43 | 6.5 | PAL 2" colour videotape |
Working titles for this story included Independence and The Emergents.
The opening shot of the story features a bedraggled, hermit-like bearded figure (Sidney Johnson) shambling out of the mist towards the camera. Both fans and Jon Pertwee alike have compared the scene to the "It's" man at the start of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The DVD release of the story also references this in the information text commentary.
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Famous quotes containing the word production:
“... this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)
“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“An art whose limits depend on a moving image, mass audience, and industrial production is bound to differ from an art whose limits depend on language, a limited audience, and individual creation. In short, the filmed novel, in spite of certain resemblances, will inevitably become a different artistic entity from the novel on which it is based.”
—George Bluestone, U.S. educator, critic. “The Limits of the Novel and the Limits of the Film,” Novels Into Film, Johns Hopkins Press (1957)