Or did terry nation find some legal loophole to use his stories as a movie, like the bond movie “never say never again”, which was made by the co writer of “Thunderball” using a remake loophole?
Can’t seem to find any information on the production of it. But all the character are differant to the seires, maybe for legal reasons, apart from the character names which would be in the script or the tv series.
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The Cushing films were made by Amicus under licence from Terry Nation, who craftily retained the rights to his original teleplay and use of the Daleks in future productions. (Writing for television was a very different business back then.)
There were indeed some minor legal wrangles over the writing credit; however the script changes themselves were the result of what was deemed to be dramatically desirable by the film's producers (who, incidentally, had no absolute format from which to draw, since the TV show was in its infancy).
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Thank you for replying. This type of thing always interests me.
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the fact that the title is DR. who (not doctor) pisses me off and therefore i do not recognize it as a valid part of the doctor who universe lol
shareI read that it was because The Daleks were insanely popular at this time. Nation basically didn't like how Doctor Who was being made and wanted more control over The Daleks and the story. He then did this in a hope to crack the American market and hopefully make lots of money. There were meant to be 3 movies but obviously only 2 were made because they lost money or just didn't make enough (I forget).
Most of what we know about the Doctor wasn't even known at this time. The Doctor evolved over time and luckily in the first few seasons he didn't give away much about who he was or his past... If he didn't I think we'd never really know Doctor Who today.