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Good articleThe Web Planet has been listed as one of the Media and drama good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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Article milestones
DateProcessResult
January 7, 2022Good article nomineeListed
March 17, 2023Good topic candidatePromoted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 25, 2022.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the fifteen bags of seaweed used as set dressing for the Doctor Who serial The Web Planet emanated an overpowering vegetable smell under the hot studio lights?
Current status: Good article

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I think mention of the Animus in the annual is more likely a plug for the forthcoming DVD of this serial :P </cynicism> Tim! (talk) 12:55, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm inclined to agree with you, although you'd think the giant butterflies and giant ants would be enough. Who doesn't love giant ants? :) -Sean 20:27, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Broadcast and reception

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Believed lost in the BBC's early 1970s purge, negative film prints of all six episodes were recovered from BBC Enterprises in the late 1970s. These prints appear to have stemmed from a 1973 sale to Algeria and as a result the final episode was amended so that the "Next Episode" caption referred to "The Space Museum" instead of "The Lion", as the next story The Crusade was not sold to Arab countries. There were also some edits to the first episode. Unedited prints of all six episodes were also discovered in Nigeria in 1985.

These points are simply not true, and come from long-standing unsupported fan-rumours from the 1980s. Sales documents found at BBC by Paul Vanezis in 2008 have revealed the truth, some of which hve een published in Richard Molesworth's book, Wiped (published by Telos): 1) The negatives held at the BBC were in English, not Arabic. 2) Algeria never screened the story, so prints cannot have been returned from there.(per documentation found at BBC in 2008, and reported on the BroaDWcast website with Paul's assistance.) 3) No story after The Rescue was sold to Arab-speaking countries, so the subject matter of The Crusade really had nothing to do with the serial not screening in that region; it's a coincidence (ibid) 4) The caption was changed after The Crusade was withdrawn from sale; The Space Museum was still available for sale, so the caption was changed to reflect this (ibid)

There are many fan-rumours dating back to the early days of fandom that are still be perpetuated despite being debunked.

Jpreddle (talk) 22:44, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to cite the book. DonQuixote (talk) 03:12, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk10:43, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Improved to Good Article status by Rhain (talk). Self-nominated at 01:57, 7 January 2022 (UTC).[reply]

ALT3 to T:DYK/P4