“I’D HAVE BEEN FLATTENED!”
To make the most of limited studio space, writers of the early Second Doctor stories were encouraged to build their stories around an impressive main set rather than lots of small ones. In The Underwater Menace, for example, the Temple of Amdo was a large multi-level set. Even so, recalled Anneke Wills in a 1992 Doctor Who Magazine interview: “The set was too small. We had to be running around, so we were practically jogging on the spot.”