Decades later, Michael Phelps tried to combine martial arts with the standards strokes of competitive swimming, with similar results…

Looking on Shannon's site, it appears Hartnell Who was usually shot on videotape, much cheaper but impossible to edit with any kind of precision.

I've notice a lot of early BBC dramas, including Hartnell Dr. Who, have strange, lugubrious pacing. Master shots with minimal editing and unnecessary long pauses. It seems not so much an aesthetic choice as some sort of economic decision, often there's some flubbed lines, someone trips over a piece of scenery, and…