Nothing in which Daleks invade a haunted house and fight Dracula and Frankenstein could possibly be the worst anything... No matter how nonsensical and anticlimactic the final reveal is.
You've made a glaring error, there: Frankenstein is the name of the creator, not the monster. It’s like people who say Tannoy when they mean public address system; Tannoy is a brand name!
@Captain-Cardboard I really enjoy this episode where Frankenstein meets Dr. Who. I used to draw pictures of Dr Who and Frankenstein with my biro. Sue me. 🙄🙄🙄
I've loved this serial ever since I first saw it in 1965, when I was nearly 8 years old. I thought at the time that it was the best Doctor Who ever! I still remember writing about it at school, accompanied by a drawing of the Dalek time machine pursuing the Tardis through time and space! I was the target audience and it was the greatest thing ever as far as I was concerned!
Please keep these coming. I am about as unobservant as can be but even I was thrown by the premature Dalek in Frankenstein's laboratory. The plastic bat is just great.
Another for episode 5: when Vicki first finds the light corridor in the jungle, in the distance behind her a stagehand’s hand visibly reaches down to the ground and then slowly pulls back out of shot again.
I feel like the director was strictly thinking of the footage in terms of what the average British viewer would realistically be able to see in a low-quality, small TV screen without being able to pause or rewind. In that sense, the Daleks in the funhouse and William Hartnell's stand-in probably wouldn't be nearly as obvious. Personally, I like the pragmatism. I even dig the fun kind abstraction of the Doctor moving over to the Dalek screen in a close-up; they must have seen the reels to check what the background looked like, so you have to conclude changing it must have been intentional.
Part of the fun of classic Who is all it's quirks, I read a comment once that said a lot of the choices were two things: 1. We didn't have the budget. 2. The director said "let's do x". To be honest, a lot of the quirks of "The Chase" aren't really noticeable unless they're pointed out. I'm not saying that makes them forgivable, but I don't think it hurts the overall story. Another unrelated BTS story. In "The Stones of Blood", the director wanted to celebrate 15 years of Doctor Who by having Romana present the Doctor with a cake for his 751st birthday. But the producer felt the idea was "self-indulgent," so they didn't shoot it. The cake was later eaten by the production crew, and sadly, no photos of this cake exist (to my knowledge).
To be honest who would have seen these errors on an old black and white tv back in the 60s and even then as kids would we have realised they were mistakes?
This is definitely why I don’t like to be too nitpicked about goofs from this period, they would have been almost unnoticeable. The way the stories were filmed, they also often had no retakes. You need to essentially see this era as being akin to a series of filmed stage plays more than TV as we see it now.
@@adamsinclair1959 Whenever I watch 60's WHO - or more specifically, Hartnell - I just shrug off the production errors. I know in reality they'd been doing tv for - you know - like almost a decade... so should know what they're doing, right? (ha!) I think it's pretty amazing considering the time frame that they were dealing with, that they had as few problems as they did!
The good thing about being a Dr Who fan is that you spend your life rewatching the stories, and as a result, you go from basic "this story is rubbish" opinions in your childhood to being more critical and analytical when you get older. It can either redeem a story when you can pinpoint what does and doesn't work, or at the very least it helps you understand why you don't like a certain story. I'm really enjoying the bluray collection releases for giving me a chance to rewatch stories in the context of the season they were made, and to see what works and what doesn't.
When you have a short studio time (just a coule of hours at most) and no real time for reshoots (physical edits to video tape were restricted that that time too, what do you expect?
Yep agreed those reasons did make it hard to make a perfect show. But there were also other Hartnell episodes that were far far better under the same restrictions.
@@Dalek6388 It's what happens when studio delays forces the blocking of the episode to start several hours late. The cast and crew were largely winging it throughout because they hadn't been able to block and fix any problems. Hence a lot of cameras off position, cast coming in early for cues, stray Daleks, etc. A lot of the glaring errors would have been better planned and rehearsed if they'd had time to rehearse it all on the day.
@@DVB0 And I'm pretty sure the film telercording by merging two field shows up the problems on cuts between cameras more than when seen on original transmission as they would have been visible for half the time. (1/50th rather than 1/25th of a second)
Just found your vid and really liked it. I would be interested to see a review of The Chase after it was watched on a 1960's TV set. I am old enough to remember to the poor quality black and white TV's and quite frankly, a lot of those issues would be almost invisible or indeed, concealed by the snow or fuzz or horizontal hold issues you experienced more often than not.
yes i would be very interested to hear more about The Chase - one of my favourite adventures & your critique of its production values only enhances my enjoyment
It would be interesting to see a video about all the retouches they've done. I had no idea they were doing any editing outside of the marketed new vfx versions included as special features.
Great stuff, some of the errors add to the charm... I would leave to see an episode looking at the evolution of Davros- mask and prop over the years if it is something that can be done!
Absolutely continue going through The Chase as it is such a fun story, and I'm eager to know how much changed for the DVD release. Although I'd change the title for this video into something less clickbait-y. You're gonna get a ton of people who'll just comment without seeing the video just so they can complain about Chibnall and Moffat and Russell (something I've already been guilty of).
Love videos like this, though on CRT TVs some of the crew etc slipping into shots wouldn't be visible as old TVs cropped the edges off (and even more so at the rounded corners)
Dracula's voice clearly not working on the first go,(sounds like its played in rather then an an actor doing the voice line) before eventually working always makes me chuckle.
If you don't enjoy The Chase, you have no joy in your soul. If nothing else, it's a damn ambitious story, kinda wish we'd got a film adaptation like the earlier Dalek stories, could have smoothed out some of the rough edges and better realised some of the bigger ideas.
You forget that back in those days (a) the TV image quality was often much poorer than you present here (thus obscuring odd shadows etc.) and (b) audiences, even children, knew how to suspend their disbelief when presented with a story.
I think people always forget that back in the 60s TVs were not as big back then as they are now. Not only that, but you can't see the entire picture on the screen. The edges were mostly not visible and that's why you can see the microphones on the edges in some episodes now on newer screens. If you watch these scenes on a CRT monitor, you probably won't see the microphones anymore or other problems will not be immediately apparent like with today's screens.
I have to admit, I did enjoy those episodes a lot. They had a more-personable feeling like the old network dramas - _Westinghouse Theatre_ or whatever; better yet, it seemed like the actors were having fun. As you've said in other videos, the little defects in production were'n't going to show up on a small TV but watching them now only makes them more charming. I mean, as long as the characters didn't see the bat string* then it makes the final reveal even funnier. BTW just noticed recently that William Russell passed away in June, almost 100. :( *Not to be confused with the Bat String™ that you find in Batman's utility belt.
All of them. 405 lines is hardly so bad that you can’t see the errors. People were just used to production errors like these as the rest of British TV was made in the same multi-camera way so didn’t really pay much attention to errors like these anyway.
Watched this video in 144p so I can live the 1960's television experience (or what I imagine it to have been like). To be fair, it did disguise things like the string on the bat puppet and the camera reversing behind Ian... but not the actors waiting for their cue or someone scurrying across the DARDIS floor in front of the daleks! Perhaps if I watch it from a screen on the other side of the room instead of right in front of me...
Production quality & mistakes are not in anyway detracting from my enjoyment of The Chase. The poor, uncreative & pedestrian - back of a ceral-packet style story - on the other hand - is less exusable- and yet - I still enjoy it. I clearly have that very necessary low quality threshold that seems necessary for early Doctor Who!
On the DVD commentary Maureen O'Brian says the only thing she remembers from The Chase is the day they went filming at Camber Sands, which is odd because it's the only part she wasn't in. They used stand-ins for the filming which you can clearly see.
Great video, however, I was always told that the worst Doctor Who was in fact "The Gunfighters", which I have seen, and in my opinion is way worse than "The Chase", one thing that you have to remember is that at the time of the original broadcast, almost every person viewing was doing so on a small screen, B&W, 405 line television set, like the one that I'm told I watched it on aged 5 and half in 1965, a lot of those things wouldn't have so obvious to the viewer. You guys are doing a great job.
And also that these episodes were expected to be watched, enjoyed, then forgotten about. No one back then could have dreamed that years later they could be watched repeatedly, argued over, and subject to intense analysis! Contemporary episodes of Z Cars or other drama series were probably just as bad/good!
@@denniscattell Also, the BBC didn't have a reputation of showing loads of repeats back in those days, they were only really kept for export, apart from the reshowing of the very first episode, I don't think that any were repeated until (I'm probably wrong here lol) "Spearhead from Space".
@@Poliss95 Actually I do agree, I think that the reason why The Gunfighters was considered the worst because it had the lowest viewing figures for a lot of Dr Who history, but that isn't always a mark of quality, or lack of, besides I don't think that the American accents were any worse than Peter Purves on top of the Empire State building in the Chase.
Technically flawed, but some good writing in places. In terms of writing, the worst would probably be something from the last few years, after the revival went off a cliff.
@@DrWhoFanJ If you want to convince me that Chibnall, RTD2, and a surprising amount of Moffat come to think of it, aren't terrible, you're going to have to come up with a much stronger argument than "you're stupid".
Is it me but Martin's work on the show always seems really undisciplined? There's a sense of "this is really too ambitious for me, so that'll have to do" about his stuff. But I do love The Chase. It's terribly executed. Lazily directed. But it is riveting car crash telly. See also The Web Planet.
Obviously you're very accurate and very passionate, but this was a bit sad to watch. How hard Dickie Martin must have tried and how difficult it must have been.
I love the Chase. It’s just so completely bonkers and daft I can’t help but enjoy it every time I watch. My favourite character has to be the “bumbling” Dalek stationed in their time machine whose only job seems to be to be to grumble at everything it’s asked to do. It’s my little theory that this was a relation of the Supreme Dalek or the Emperor and none of the rest of them are allowed to complain how useless they are at their job.
I had a dream last night in which at one point I was grumbling that I was missing an episode of Dalek6388 and, lo & behold, a new Dalek6388 video gets uploaded the next day! It’s like we were lodged for a period in an area of human thought… (Also, yes do Ep. 1 - 3 please!)
Man, I understand the reasoning behind "correcting" the mistakes for the dvd release, but surely include the original transmitted version, faults and all, as an option?
By the way, another (very!) nitpicky observation: the VHS release of The Chase (included in the Daleks boxed set) had some rear cover text claiming the haunted house section took place "within someone's nightmare", mirroring what the Doctor theorizes after the TARDIS departs. Whoever designed the cover apparently missed or didn't understand the reveal about it being a funfair attraction! Even in the 90s they were still screwing up The Chase...
I watched every Dr Who episode as it was broadcast until Tom Baker when I missed a couple of series through being at college. It is still one of my favourite stories, and much better than the crap we were served by Chinballs and Witless. Medieval knights beating a Dalek? You wish. The biggest disappointment was never seeing the Mechonoids again.
Did you watch the video? You know, the bit where someone literally picked up and threw a dalek against the floor? You seem to have some rather incoherent little double standards there, don't you? ;)
I agree. This was back in the era of cheapish sets and improvised not very special effects. One was expected to use a certain amount of imagination watching shows like this (and dispense with most thoughts of reality). I loved the story as a kid and I’ve got a DVD copy of it as an adult. Still get a chuckle out of it and I think it is STILL better than a lot of TV shows today.
@@csbenzo Well said that man, it’s almost like going to the theatre where your imagination takes over. TV was like that in those days. Unfortunately I can’t remember this story as a child, it’s one that didn’t stick with me for some reason, although I can remember looking forward with anticipation to ‘An Unearthly Child’ like it was yesterday. What with the Kennedy thing, that weekend will be with me forever. I was only five at the time, well three months off of being six 😊
every time I see the Dalek time machine from "The Chase" I think it's what I would expect a Dalek public toilet to look like And I would love to see an episode rounding out The Chase, absolutely fascinated by that serial
The chase is fine, and got to remember it was never intended to ever be seen again Aren't the versions on iplayer unrestored? Is it possible they got the wrong cut of the episode when adding the soundtrack and that's just what they went with, I know there is evidence for some episodes that didn't yet have one, for example the enemy of the world trailer is without music but there is music dubbed into the episode
I've always been a bit ambivalent about Richard Martin as a director on "Doctor Who" but if memory serves he had a fairly long career so I've always wondered how he was perceived in the industry.
Where there any other strong examples of DW episodes being fixed for blu-ray? I don't meant special editions or new FX, just like here smoothing out all the jagged edges.
Other than rescanning film elements and rebuilding effects onto earlier versions of the tapes, not really. (And this one was "fixed" for the DVD, not the BD; the BD simply repeats the DVD version.)
They reduced the level of the crash as the Zarbi bashes into the camera in "Web". They took out the floor-manager's arm cueing the miner in "Green Death". Out with a couple of cars in the background of "Dalek Invasion". Added a spanner into a Tom Baker episode (can't remember which). Did some morphing to cover a film break in "Keys of Marinus" (and a few slow-downs to cover some other cuts). There are probably loads more than I've forgotten, and probably yet others that haven't been noticed.
@@sambda They asked about BD, not DVD. (And the spanner in _The Pirate Planet: Part Four_ was because the background film footage still survives to be rescanned, but overlaying the original spanner from the 1978 tape would be too jarring, so they recreated it to match the original, just as they do every other time a video effect plays over footage that survives in a better quality without it.) (And TKoM was reinstating cuts to the original since it was broadcast were the audio still survived without the original visuals to cover it, again like happened with other episodes where small visual fragments are still missing.)
I think due to the slapdash pacing, variety of locations, and comedy elements I absolutely love The Chase. In fact, put me in a room with a DVD player, The Daleks, DIoE, and The Chase, I’ll probably reach for the Chase first. Are the other two better? Probably, definitely more stable plots, tones, characters, effects, and overall design. But I’ve got to sit here for 6-7 parts or 2+ hours, I’d rather laugh my arse off and enjoy myself with the variety The Chase has to offer. I wish Doctor Who would still attempt what the Hartnell era did with Keys of Marinus, The Chase, or Master Plan. Going to a different location every week as part of the same story is just such a fun format. The only thing modern thing like it is Flux, which despite major flaws, you have to admit it’s hard to get bored with it. That fun is why Keys of Marinus will always be near the top of any Hartnell, 60s, or even Classic lists, and The Chase probably isn’t far behind. Whilst not as varied but moreso abstract I think that’s why The Mind Robber sticks out as a shining star for me among the Troughton era because it’s one of the rare times after Hartnell that kind of variety in one serial is attempted.
It would be fascinating to see the other adventure serials they had had in the same time slot, to see if they were made exactly like Dr Who or not. Were they also done in Lime Grove? Were they also on a tiny budget? etc
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Nothing in which Daleks invade a haunted house and fight Dracula and Frankenstein could possibly be the worst anything... No matter how nonsensical and anticlimactic the final reveal is.
You've made a glaring error, there: Frankenstein is the name of the creator, not the monster.
It’s like people who say Tannoy when they mean public address system; Tannoy is a brand name!
Yeah it's actually a great episode lol. 👌
@@Captain-Cardboardhoover for a vacuum cleaner,Dyson for an expensive brand of shit?we get it. But it's English usage,get over it.
@Captain-Cardboard I really enjoy this episode where Frankenstein meets Dr. Who. I used to draw pictures of Dr Who and Frankenstein with my biro.
Sue me. 🙄🙄🙄
Clearly the person who made this hasn't seen Space Babies...
The visible string of the bat can be forgiven, since the concept is that this is a fun house, and the bat is meant to be visibly fake.
I really like The Chase, it's honestly my favourite Hartnell Dalek story. It's just a lot of fun, honestly, I can't explain it beyond that.
the chase is one of the greatest stories of all time, it's completely perfect in every way and so qwirky
As a kid I thought this was a fantastic story. Bought the DVD as an adult (more 👴🏼than 👨🏼) and watched it twice over again.
It's absolute bonkers but one of the most enjoyable Doctor Who stories ever made. I never tire of watching it, especially 'Journey into Terror'.
Back then, it was amateur special effects but professional story-telling... these days, it's the reverse.
Said no-one with a brain ever.
Could not have said it better OP
At least 22 people would disagree ‘drwhofanj’
@@Bronasaxon Couldn’t have lied better, you mean.
@@Bronasaxon Facts do not care how many people disagree with them.
The battle between the Daleks and the Mechanoids at the end of The Chase is awesome. One of my all time favourite Doctor Who scenes
I've loved this serial ever since I first saw it in 1965, when I was nearly 8 years old. I thought at the time that it was the best Doctor Who ever! I still remember writing about it at school, accompanied by a drawing of the Dalek time machine pursuing the Tardis through time and space! I was the target audience and it was the greatest thing ever as far as I was concerned!
Please keep these coming. I am about as unobservant as can be but even I was thrown by the premature Dalek in Frankenstein's laboratory. The plastic bat is just great.
It's a silly and very entertaining serial.
I still find The Chase a fun time to watch.
I really wish we had A Cushing version of The Chase. I can imagine that the haunted house would have a real Hammer Horror feel to it!
Another for episode 5: when Vicki first finds the light corridor in the jungle, in the distance behind her a stagehand’s hand visibly reaches down to the ground and then slowly pulls back out of shot again.
I feel like the director was strictly thinking of the footage in terms of what the average British viewer would realistically be able to see in a low-quality, small TV screen without being able to pause or rewind. In that sense, the Daleks in the funhouse and William Hartnell's stand-in probably wouldn't be nearly as obvious. Personally, I like the pragmatism. I even dig the fun kind abstraction of the Doctor moving over to the Dalek screen in a close-up; they must have seen the reels to check what the background looked like, so you have to conclude changing it must have been intentional.
Part of the fun of classic Who is all it's quirks, I read a comment once that said a lot of the choices were two things: 1. We didn't have the budget. 2. The director said "let's do x". To be honest, a lot of the quirks of "The Chase" aren't really noticeable unless they're pointed out. I'm not saying that makes them forgivable, but I don't think it hurts the overall story.
Another unrelated BTS story. In "The Stones of Blood", the director wanted to celebrate 15 years of Doctor Who by having Romana present the Doctor with a cake for his 751st birthday. But the producer felt the idea was "self-indulgent," so they didn't shoot it. The cake was later eaten by the production crew, and sadly, no photos of this cake exist (to my knowledge).
Marvellous rundown! Fully support the idea of of doing eps 1-3, please & thank you!
For me, being technically perfect doesn't make a show entertaining or even necessarily add that much to the quality of entertainment.
If the dalek had just seemed a bit more solid.. especially the one broken open.. then I would have been happy with that
To be honest who would have seen these errors on an old black and white tv back in the 60s and even then as kids would we have realised they were mistakes?
405 lines was a very forgiving format. It even convinced us that 25 year old Jackie Lane was 17 years old as Dodo.
This is definitely why I don’t like to be too nitpicked about goofs from this period, they would have been almost unnoticeable. The way the stories were filmed, they also often had no retakes. You need to essentially see this era as being akin to a series of filmed stage plays more than TV as we see it now.
@@adamsinclair1959 Whenever I watch 60's WHO - or more specifically, Hartnell - I just shrug off the production errors. I know in reality they'd been doing tv for - you know - like almost a decade... so should know what they're doing, right? (ha!) I think it's pretty amazing considering the time frame that they were dealing with, that they had as few problems as they did!
The good thing about being a Dr Who fan is that you spend your life rewatching the stories, and as a result, you go from basic "this story is rubbish" opinions in your childhood to being more critical and analytical when you get older. It can either redeem a story when you can pinpoint what does and doesn't work, or at the very least it helps you understand why you don't like a certain story. I'm really enjoying the bluray collection releases for giving me a chance to rewatch stories in the context of the season they were made, and to see what works and what doesn't.
When you have a short studio time (just a coule of hours at most) and no real time for reshoots (physical edits to video tape were restricted that that time too, what do you expect?
Yep agreed those reasons did make it hard to make a perfect show. But there were also other Hartnell episodes that were far far better under the same restrictions.
@@Dalek6388 It's what happens when studio delays forces the blocking of the episode to start several hours late. The cast and crew were largely winging it throughout because they hadn't been able to block and fix any problems. Hence a lot of cameras off position, cast coming in early for cues, stray Daleks, etc.
A lot of the glaring errors would have been better planned and rehearsed if they'd had time to rehearse it all on the day.
@@DVB0 And I'm pretty sure the film telercording by merging two field shows up the problems on cuts between cameras more than when seen on original transmission as they would have been visible for half the time. (1/50th rather than 1/25th of a second)
The Chase has my favourite Dalek design 🐙
Just found your vid and really liked it. I would be interested to see a review of The Chase after it was watched on a 1960's TV set. I am old enough to remember to the poor quality black and white TV's and quite frankly, a lot of those issues would be almost invisible or indeed, concealed by the snow or fuzz or horizontal hold issues you experienced more often than not.
yes i would be very interested to hear more about The Chase - one of my favourite adventures & your critique of its production values only enhances my enjoyment
It would be interesting to see a video about all the retouches they've done. I had no idea they were doing any editing outside of the marketed new vfx versions included as special features.
The war on The Chase continues I see, this channel just wouldn't be right without it
I'd love to see you cover episodes 1-3 too. This was lots of fun, and really makes you appreciate how primitive TV was in the 1960s.
Great stuff, some of the errors add to the charm... I would leave to see an episode looking at the evolution of Davros- mask and prop over the years if it is something that can be done!
Episode 5 also famously features a whole camera in shot in the scene where the Daleks are discussing their plans near the TARDIS.
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Absolutely continue going through The Chase as it is such a fun story, and I'm eager to know how much changed for the DVD release.
Although I'd change the title for this video into something less clickbait-y. You're gonna get a ton of people who'll just comment without seeing the video just so they can complain about Chibnall and Moffat and Russell (something I've already been guilty of).
Yep getting plenty of those comments 😂
A fun, but definitely wobbly episode! 😂
Body slamming the Dalek is a little bonkers.
Being a Star Trek fan, I did not see the pattern in the stars as an ‘A’ but the Starfleet Delta instead!
It's really dumb, but at least there's a lot of stuff going on in it and the climax with the Mechonoids is actually kind of spectacular.
Most of these, especially things like the visible string, would have been much less noticeable on the tvs the audience had in their homes at the time
Is the Special Weapons BBC Camera in episode 6?
Love videos like this, though on CRT TVs some of the crew etc slipping into shots wouldn't be visible as old TVs cropped the edges off (and even more so at the rounded corners)
Dracula's voice clearly not working on the first go,(sounds like its played in rather then an an actor doing the voice line) before eventually working always makes me chuckle.
@younglad1 Dracula is a robot that hasn't been used in ages. The attraction is closed remember. It's not surprising that the voice is out of synch.
Yes - the video's compilers missed that one.
First Dr Who Story I ever saw when I was 6 years old .
The whole serial is amazing and very entertaining.
If you don't enjoy The Chase, you have no joy in your soul. If nothing else, it's a damn ambitious story, kinda wish we'd got a film adaptation like the earlier Dalek stories, could have smoothed out some of the rough edges and better realised some of the bigger ideas.
Are there any other classic story’s the “fixed” for the DVDs? I had no idea they did that
There are a few that have had bits and pieces tidied I think
As a kid I saw the first broadcast, I thought that it was wonderful!
You forget that back in those days (a) the TV image quality was often much poorer than you present here (thus obscuring odd shadows etc.) and (b) audiences, even children, knew how to suspend their disbelief when presented with a story.
I think people always forget that back in the 60s TVs were not as big back then as they are now. Not only that, but you can't see the entire picture on the screen. The edges were mostly not visible and that's why you can see the microphones on the edges in some episodes now on newer screens. If you watch these scenes on a CRT monitor, you probably won't see the microphones anymore or other problems will not be immediately apparent like with today's screens.
Amazing job getting Sir Christopher Lee to narrate your videos.
😂
yes please do more, I love these :)
I have to admit, I did enjoy those episodes a lot. They had a more-personable feeling like the old network dramas - _Westinghouse Theatre_ or whatever; better yet, it seemed like the actors were having fun. As you've said in other videos, the little defects in production were'n't going to show up on a small TV but watching them now only makes them more charming. I mean, as long as the characters didn't see the bat string* then it makes the final reveal even funnier. BTW just noticed recently that William Russell passed away in June, almost 100. :(
*Not to be confused with the Bat String™ that you find in Batman's utility belt.
The Dalek 63*88 website is down. What's going on behind the scenes?
Shouldn’t be? It’s working for me
@ I found the problem: it doesn’t work on HTTPS protocol.
Is this the last Dalek 63-88 video ever made? I hope not!
I wonder how many of these mistakes would be apparent on a 545 scan line TV of the period?
@eddiegaltek 405 lines.
All of them. 405 lines is hardly so bad that you can’t see the errors. People were just used to production errors like these as the rest of British TV was made in the same multi-camera way so didn’t really pay much attention to errors like these anyway.
Watched this video in 144p so I can live the 1960's television experience (or what I imagine it to have been like).
To be fair, it did disguise things like the string on the bat puppet and the camera reversing behind Ian... but not the actors waiting for their cue or someone scurrying across the DARDIS floor in front of the daleks!
Perhaps if I watch it from a screen on the other side of the room instead of right in front of me...
405 lines in digital resolution would be 377i so watching in 360p is akin to 405 line resolution.
Production quality & mistakes are not in anyway detracting from my enjoyment of The Chase. The poor, uncreative & pedestrian - back of a ceral-packet style story - on the other hand - is less exusable- and yet - I still enjoy it. I clearly have that very necessary low quality threshold that seems necessary for early Doctor Who!
I used to watch the living daylights out of my VHS of The Chase when I was younger yet I never noticed most of these!
Always thought it was a bit of a romp.😁
The production was a bit rough, probably because it was so ambitious but I thought the story was fun.
On the DVD commentary Maureen O'Brian says the only thing she remembers from The Chase is the day they went filming at Camber Sands, which is odd because it's the only part she wasn't in. They used stand-ins for the filming which you can clearly see.
Yep we cover that in our first ever Terry Nation Army video!
Great video, however, I was always told that the worst Doctor Who was in fact "The Gunfighters", which I have seen, and in my opinion is way worse than "The Chase", one thing that you have to remember is that at the time of the original broadcast, almost every person viewing was doing so on a small screen, B&W, 405 line television set, like the one that I'm told I watched it on aged 5 and half in 1965, a lot of those things wouldn't have so obvious to the viewer.
You guys are doing a great job.
@storkythepunk The Gunfighters is one of my favourite Hartnell stories. It's much better than The War Machines.
And also that these episodes were expected to be watched, enjoyed, then forgotten about. No one back then could have dreamed that years later they could be watched repeatedly, argued over, and subject to intense analysis! Contemporary episodes of Z Cars or other drama series were probably just as bad/good!
@@denniscattell Also, the BBC didn't have a reputation of showing loads of repeats back in those days, they were only really kept for export, apart from the reshowing of the very first episode, I don't think that any were repeated until (I'm probably wrong here lol) "Spearhead from Space".
@@Poliss95 Actually I do agree, I think that the reason why The Gunfighters was considered the worst because it had the lowest viewing figures for a lot of Dr Who history, but that isn't always a mark of quality, or lack of, besides I don't think that the American accents were any worse than Peter Purves on top of the Empire State building in the Chase.
Man I love The Chase
Honestly? All the mistakes add to how fun the Chase is
The Chase is great fun
Technically flawed, but some good writing in places. In terms of writing, the worst would probably be something from the last few years, after the revival went off a cliff.
Said no-one with a brain ever.
@@DrWhoFanJ If you want to convince me that Chibnall, RTD2, and a surprising amount of Moffat come to think of it, aren't terrible, you're going to have to come up with a much stronger argument than "you're stupid".
Yes please, more of this.😊
Is it me but Martin's work on the show always seems really undisciplined? There's a sense of "this is really too ambitious for me, so that'll have to do" about his stuff. But I do love The Chase. It's terribly executed. Lazily directed. But it is riveting car crash telly. See also The Web Planet.
The Chase is a romp. It's fun.
Obviously you're very accurate and very passionate, but this was a bit sad to watch. How hard Dickie Martin must have tried and how difficult it must have been.
I love the Chase. It’s just so completely bonkers and daft I can’t help but enjoy it every time I watch.
My favourite character has to be the “bumbling” Dalek stationed in their time machine whose only job seems to be to be to grumble at everything it’s asked to do. It’s my little theory that this was a relation of the Supreme Dalek or the Emperor and none of the rest of them are allowed to complain how useless they are at their job.
@andrewwebb3431 I call him Dozy Dalek because he always seems to be half asleep. 😂😂
Its a shame this wasnt the basis of a 3rd Cushing Dalek movie. Was the Dalek that was hoisted in the air a new light weight prop?
Great vid as always
It was lightweight yes. We cover more about it in our first ever Terry Nation Army video.
@@Dalek6388 It's the same one that falls off the Marie Celeste...
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I gotta be honest I really loved The Chase
Definitely the m.ost bonkers 60s Dalek story
Why was a William Hartnell stand in used?
Because he couldn’t be in two places at once.
They didn't have time for him to move between two parts of the studio.
@@Poliss95 😂
To be fair, considering these were essentially 'one and done' episodes that would have been viewed on small screens, we can forgive a fair amount.
Regarding the shoulder slats , the bbc never seemed to learn as they were always breaking off in places through the classic series
is no one going to mention the irony of Bradley Walsh presenting a quiz show called the chase, as well as playing Graham O'Brien IN doctor who!
I love the chase ❤
I had a dream last night in which at one point I was grumbling that I was missing an episode of Dalek6388 and, lo & behold, a new Dalek6388 video gets uploaded the next day! It’s like we were lodged for a period in an area of human thought…
(Also, yes do Ep. 1 - 3 please!)
Given the pace with which they popped out these stories in the sixties it is perhaps unsurprising they messed up on occaision
Man, I understand the reasoning behind "correcting" the mistakes for the dvd release, but surely include the original transmitted version, faults and all, as an option?
The airbrushing of the DVD still grates, same goes for the removal of the disappearing "exploding" Dalek props in Destiny.
I watched this adventure back in the 60s and thought it was great
I like "The Chase", and I'll gladly watch it over "The Asylum Of The Daleks" and the Peter Capaldi era Dalek stories any day.
By the way, another (very!) nitpicky observation: the VHS release of The Chase (included in the Daleks boxed set) had some rear cover text claiming the haunted house section took place "within someone's nightmare", mirroring what the Doctor theorizes after the TARDIS departs. Whoever designed the cover apparently missed or didn't understand the reveal about it being a funfair attraction! Even in the 90s they were still screwing up The Chase...
I watched every Dr Who episode as it was broadcast until Tom Baker when I missed a couple of series through being at college. It is still one of my favourite stories, and much better than the crap we were served by Chinballs and Witless. Medieval knights beating a Dalek? You wish.
The biggest disappointment was never seeing the Mechonoids again.
Did you watch the video? You know, the bit where someone literally picked up and threw a dalek against the floor? You seem to have some rather incoherent little double standards there, don't you? ;)
Said no-one with a brain ever.
There are no people by those names.
Worst story ever?
No.
Worst Dalek story of the 1960’s?
Yes, by a country mile. Other 5 are all fantastic
This video - much like the Chase itself - is an utter delight.
LOL, Yes please, more of this.
The Chase is a great little story…….who cares about the technical stuff.
I agree. This was back in the era of cheapish sets and improvised not very special effects. One was expected to use a certain amount of imagination watching shows like this (and dispense with most thoughts of reality). I loved the story as a kid and I’ve got a DVD copy of it as an adult. Still get a chuckle out of it and I think it is STILL better than a lot of TV shows today.
@@csbenzo Well said that man, it’s almost like going to the theatre where your imagination takes over. TV was like that in those days. Unfortunately I can’t remember this story as a child, it’s one that didn’t stick with me for some reason, although I can remember looking forward with anticipation to ‘An Unearthly Child’ like it was yesterday. What with the Kennedy thing, that weekend will be with me forever. I was only five at the time, well three months off of being six 😊
Great video. More please! I hope it inspires someone to do a complete digital fix on as many of these issues as possible.
Short answer: No.
Long answer: noooooooooooooo.
But great video :)
every time I see the Dalek time machine from "The Chase" I think it's what I would expect a Dalek public toilet to look like
And I would love to see an episode rounding out The Chase, absolutely fascinated by that serial
They have those "pissoir" public urinals in France which do actually look a bit like the Dalek time machine!
Is there enough info to do a special on Dalek ships, particularly the second film saucer?
The chase is fine, and got to remember it was never intended to ever be seen again
Aren't the versions on iplayer unrestored?
Is it possible they got the wrong cut of the episode when adding the soundtrack and that's just what they went with, I know there is evidence for some episodes that didn't yet have one, for example the enemy of the world trailer is without music but there is music dubbed into the episode
Don't be bloody daft, The Chase rules.
almost like he said he loves it at the very start of the video you didn't watch
I've always been a bit ambivalent about Richard Martin as a director on "Doctor Who" but if memory serves he had a fairly long career so I've always wondered how he was perceived in the industry.
Whenever someone asks me what serial they should watch that encapsulates 60s Who, I kindly draw their attention to The Chase
Where there any other strong examples of DW episodes being fixed for blu-ray? I don't meant special editions or new FX, just like here smoothing out all the jagged edges.
Other than rescanning film elements and rebuilding effects onto earlier versions of the tapes, not really.
(And this one was "fixed" for the DVD, not the BD; the BD simply repeats the DVD version.)
They reduced the level of the crash as the Zarbi bashes into the camera in "Web". They took out the floor-manager's arm cueing the miner in "Green Death". Out with a couple of cars in the background of "Dalek Invasion". Added a spanner into a Tom Baker episode (can't remember which). Did some morphing to cover a film break in "Keys of Marinus" (and a few slow-downs to cover some other cuts). There are probably loads more than I've forgotten, and probably yet others that haven't been noticed.
Oh, made the film insert of the Dalek falling into the pit ("The Chase") darker, as it's supposed to be night-time.
@@sambda They asked about BD, not DVD.
(And the spanner in _The Pirate Planet: Part Four_ was because the background film footage still survives to be rescanned, but overlaying the original spanner from the 1978 tape would be too jarring, so they recreated it to match the original, just as they do every other time a video effect plays over footage that survives in a better quality without it.)
(And TKoM was reinstating cuts to the original since it was broadcast were the audio still survived without the original visuals to cover it, again like happened with other episodes where small visual fragments are still missing.)
I think due to the slapdash pacing, variety of locations, and comedy elements I absolutely love The Chase. In fact, put me in a room with a DVD player, The Daleks, DIoE, and The Chase, I’ll probably reach for the Chase first. Are the other two better? Probably, definitely more stable plots, tones, characters, effects, and overall design. But I’ve got to sit here for 6-7 parts or 2+ hours, I’d rather laugh my arse off and enjoy myself with the variety The Chase has to offer.
I wish Doctor Who would still attempt what the Hartnell era did with Keys of Marinus, The Chase, or Master Plan. Going to a different location every week as part of the same story is just such a fun format. The only thing modern thing like it is Flux, which despite major flaws, you have to admit it’s hard to get bored with it. That fun is why Keys of Marinus will always be near the top of any Hartnell, 60s, or even Classic lists, and The Chase probably isn’t far behind.
Whilst not as varied but moreso abstract I think that’s why The Mind Robber sticks out as a shining star for me among the Troughton era because it’s one of the rare times after Hartnell that kind of variety in one serial is attempted.
You have never seen "What a Whopper"? - disgraceful
It would be fascinating to see the other adventure serials they had had in the same time slot, to see if they were made exactly like Dr Who or not. Were they also done in Lime Grove? Were they also on a tiny budget? etc