Production
| Episode | Broadcast date | Run time | Viewership |
Archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Episode One" | 29 January 1972 (1972-01-29) | 24:32 | 10.3 | PAL colour conversion |
| "Episode Two" | 5 February 1972 (1972-02-05) | 24:33 | 11.0 | PAL colour conversion |
| "Episode Three" | 12 February 1972 (1972-02-12) | 24:21 | 7.8 | PAL colour conversion |
| "Episode Four" | 19 February 1972 (1972-02-19) | 24:16 | 8.4 | PAL colour conversion |
The story was broadcast during the 1972 UK Miner's Strike, which led to many parts of the UK undergoing scheduled power cuts. This may account for the drop in viewers for the last two episodes. According to the DVD notes for The Peladon Tales this industrial action partly inspired the sequel The Monster of Peladon.
During production it was noted that Alpha Centauri had a somewhat phallic appearance. So director Lennie Mayne insisted on the addition of a yellow cape to the costume in an attempt to rectify this.
Working titles for this story included The Curse and Curse of the Peladons. The original 625-line master videotapes of the serial were wiped around 1975. In the late 1970s, 525-line NTSC copies were returned to the BBC from Canada. The tape of Episode Three was in a very poor condition and a salvage transfer to 625-line was made in 1982 for a repeat of the story. As a result it was feared that it may not be possible to make a new Reverse Standards Conversion of the episode. However, the tape of Episode Three had not been lost and was lent to the restoration team by Ian Levine, after heat treatment, tape was used to create new Reverse Standards Conversion 625-line videotape digital copy.
Read more about this topic: The Curse Of Peladon
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