Colour Separation Overlay 3. COLOUR SEPARATION OVERLAY Where William Hartnell’s time on Doctor Who had been one of innovation in storytelling and technology, Patrick Troughton’s three-year run had been one of consolidation, in narrative, budgetary and structural terms. As the series entered the 1970s, with colour television and ever-greater technological development ahead, it faced its biggest challenges to date. As the Conservatives returned to power in 1970 under Prime Minister Edward Heath, Britain was in crisis. Industrial strife was rampant, with a series of crippling strikes affecting transport and power. The global oil crisis was having an effect, while a growing environmental movement was enjoying its first popular successes. The new government’s desire to join the forerunner of the European Union, the European Economic Community (EEC), was beginning to play a part in British life and politics. Doctor Who was also facing a crisis as the 1960s drew to a close. Ratings had fallen off once more, with the potentially series-concluding epic The War Games averaging just under five million viewers, half the number who’d witnessed the arrival of the Daleks back in 1963.
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