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<blockquote data-quote="pete lashmar" data-source="post: 329309" data-attributes="member: 606">I feel that Eric Saward was trying to do his very best for the show but was constantly undermined by JNT and scripts suffered because of it. Seward wrote some brilliant stories, he was a great writer and got the script editor&#039;s job after writing The Visitation, which is one of my all time favourites. Earthshock is an out and out classic, as are Resurrection/Revelation of the Daleks - his scripts were darker and much more to my taste than some of the other scripts around the same time.JNT hated using writers who had previous written for the show, Saward fought with him over it because older writers knew the show, they knew the characters and how to sculpt a story, but JNT insisted on using new writers, leaving Seward having to edit, rewrite and babysit them, so he was always against the clock on getting the scripts finished.Stories like Arc of Infinity and The Two Doctors had been written when JNT insisted on overseas filming, so scripts had to be rushed at the last minute just because JNT wanted to go on a jolly.Saward also felt that casting an actor as The Doctor (Colin) because he made JNT laugh at a wedding was not the best way to go about casting - and let&#039;s not forget JNT&#039;s insistance about Colins (awful) costume.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pete lashmar, post: 329309, member: 606"] I feel that Eric Saward was trying to do his very best for the show but was constantly undermined by JNT and scripts suffered because of it. Seward wrote some brilliant stories, he was a great writer and got the script editor's job after writing The Visitation, which is one of my all time favourites. Earthshock is an out and out classic, as are Resurrection/Revelation of the Daleks - his scripts were darker and much more to my taste than some of the other scripts around the same time. JNT hated using writers who had previous written for the show, Saward fought with him over it because older writers knew the show, they knew the characters and how to sculpt a story, but JNT insisted on using new writers, leaving Seward having to edit, rewrite and babysit them, so he was always against the clock on getting the scripts finished. Stories like Arc of Infinity and The Two Doctors had been written when JNT insisted on overseas filming, so scripts had to be rushed at the last minute just because JNT wanted to go on a jolly. Saward also felt that casting an actor as The Doctor (Colin) because he made JNT laugh at a wedding was not the best way to go about casting - and let's not forget JNT's insistance about Colins (awful) costume. [/QUOTE]

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