Production
| Episode | Broadcast date | Run time | Viewers |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Part One" | 23 February 1984 (1984-02-23) | 24:26 | 7.4 |
| "Part Two" | 24 February 1984 (1984-02-24) | 24:20 | 6.1 |
| "Part Three" | 1 March 1984 (1984-03-01) | 23:57 | 7.4 |
| "Part Four" | 2 March 1984 (1984-03-02) | 24:44 | 7.0 |
The working title for this story was The Planet of Fear.
The decision to make Peri the daughter of a wealthy American family was inspired by the popularity of the soap operas Dallas and Dynasty. Nicola Bryant was cast in part because she held dual citizenship in the United States - because she was married to an American - and the United Kingdom.
Read more about this topic: Planet Of Fire
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“The growing of food and the growing of children are both vital to the family’s survival.... Who would dare make the judgment that holding your youngest baby on your lap is less important than weeding a few more yards in the maize field? Yet this is the judgment our society makes constantly. Production of autos, canned soup, advertising copy is important. Housework—cleaning, feeding, and caring—is unimportant.”
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“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.”
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“To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase production while decreasing consumption is to fly in the face of an economic law as well established as any law of nature.”
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