Talk:Doctor Who season 1

Pilot episode/Daleks episode the dead planet
Is it right to call the original version of an unearthly child a pilot? If it had been filmed correctly (ie of sufficient quality to pass Sidney Newman) then it would have been the episode that was used (and therefore not remounted). In a similar manner to this the first episode of the daleks (the dead planet) was remounted (according to the Doctor Who missing episodes page). Shouldn't this be included on this page in a similar manner? => Spudgfsh  ( Text Me! ) 10:15, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Don't see why not. GraemeLeggett (talk) 10:47, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Most sources refer to the 27 September recording of "An Unearthly Child" as the pilot episode. To describe it in any other way needs a reliable source which explicitly uses another term; to make up another one ourselves is WP:OR. This episode had many changes between original and remount: the scripts, sets and costumes were all changed, in some places significantly. Production techniques also differed - for example, fewer cameras were used.
 * As regards the 15 November recording of "The Dead Planet", that was remounted for technical reasons (the soundtrack was unacceptable), with few (if any) changes from the original scripts and sets. -- Red rose64 (talk) 15:11, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, I was only responding to last element of question. I meant I don't see why it couldn't be mentioned, not that it should be called a pilot. Apologies for vagueness.GraemeLeggett (talk) 15:29, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I understood the response. I added something in for the dead planet and some extra wording for the 'pilot'.  It doesn't stop me hating it being called a pilot as it was never intended to be as such.
 * was the soundtrack problem on the dead planet voices from the production team getting onto the soundtrack? => Spudgfsh  ( Text Me! ) 15:58, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, it was the talkback. -- Red rose64 (talk) 19:55, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

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Season/series
Why is this (and other Dr Who pages) titled 'season' when 'series' is the British usage and under WP:ENGVAR this page should be in British English? IanB2 (talk) 02:06, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
 * See : A season is [a] year's worth of episode broadcasts from the classic series. Although against UK convention, the term "season" is accepted usage for the classic series. A series is [a] year's worth of episode broadcasts from the new series. You will find the first series as Doctor Who (series 1). Alex&#124;The&#124;Whovian ? 02:11, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for the link; I imagined it would probably have been raised before. It's a shame that a solution to the disambiguation between the classic and modern series couldn't have been found that didn't break the convention, but there we are.  IanB2 (talk) 02:20, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Per the link, the classic era was actually referred to as seasons in the first Programme Guide in 1981, so it's a valid naming schematic per reliable sources. Alex&#124;The&#124;Whovian ? 02:24, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
 * And to back that up further with something accessible online, the BBC website uses the same convention . Cheers, Dresken (talk) 10:34, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

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