Really trivial correction -- Doctor Who had gotten a slight budget increase by 1966. The first batch of Troughton stories were around £3000 an episode, so it was *merely* 25 episode of Who for one of Trek. :-)
And in the modern era? The first series of new Who was rumored to be around £750,000 an episode, or $1.4 million US... where the first season of new BSG was around $1.5 million. Except that big chunks of BSG's sets, props, etc were recycled from the miniseries -- which cost $4.5 million an hour. "Heroes" is in the $3-$4 million range. Who is still half to a third the cost of the competition... which isn't that much beyond 1987!
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Date: 2009-03-05 12:01 pm (UTC)And in the modern era? The first series of new Who was rumored to be around £750,000 an episode, or $1.4 million US... where the first season of new BSG was around $1.5 million. Except that big chunks of BSG's sets, props, etc were recycled from the miniseries -- which cost $4.5 million an hour. "Heroes" is in the $3-$4 million range. Who is still half to a third the cost of the competition... which isn't that much beyond 1987!