I’m assuming that this pair of screen caps is from the season three two-part Dalek adventure set in New York, working title “Daleks in Manhattan”, given that the Statue of Liberty is pictured on the monitor behind Martha (Freema Agyeman). I’m also assuming, therefore, that common or garden authenticity isn’t, in any way, important to the Production team. There are two mistakes in the monitor’s caption. There are no motorways in the United States, just freeways and highways! Secondly, across the pond, centre is spelt center!! Surely this is common knowledge? Russell’s forever telling us that “Doctor Who” has to be grounded in reality if we’re to believe the unbelievable! Apart from those glaring errors, however, it’s looking good but then it always does until you hear the scripts!!
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Well spotted. My, isn't that lax of the production team! Smacked bottoms!
I don't really like the title "Daleks in Manhattan" - sounds really bizarre, like sci-fi meets romantic comedy or something!
I thought the title “The Runaway Bride” sounded like a rom com, too, when I first heard it though I suspect “Daleks in Manhattan” is a slight harking back to Hartnell’s Doctor materialising in the observation gallery of New York’s Empire State Building in Dalek story “The Chase”.
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