The first episode was the first shown after the 1979 ITV strike ended, and 1/3rd of City of Death Part 4’s audience decamped to watch Mind Your Language. Which is a shame, because if they were looking for racist sitcom, this was the Doctor Who story for them.
You’re spot on about the lucky number bit sounding very Adams - it’d the phone number of the script editor, i.e. him! A London telephone number that’s also some very unlikely odds for survival in space, now why does that sound so very familiar…
The first episode was the first shown after the 1979 ITV strike ended, and 1/3rd of City of Death Part 4’s audience decamped to watch Mind Your Language. Which is a shame, because if they were looking for racist sitcom, this was the Doctor Who story for them.
You’re spot on about the lucky number bit sounding very Adams - it’d the phone number of the script editor, i.e. him! A London telephone number that’s also some very unlikely odds for survival in space, now why does that sound so very familiar…