Nothing wrong with Blake's 7, DarkStarBurning... again, once you get past the budget constraints, then the series itself was incredible - plot, characterisation, the lot. And the final episode has yet to be beaten by ANY long-running series, from whatever country.

Meanwhile, back to Doctor Who...

I think the BBC has finally decided not to overstrectch itself on things like this, and the children's TV series (a lot of the more recent ones, such as Shoebox Zoo, have had better effects and bigger budget by creating them in combination with another company, such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). It means they're not trying to create a multi-million dollar CG effect on a budget of 10,000 pounds - instead they either try and find a more subtle workaround to suggest the effect, or they simply work on a ten thousand pound shot.

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