35 stories[]
Bit of an edit war going on here. So let's have a discussion about it. There are 37 stories in the Tennant era, according to our own Appearance counter, excluding mini-episodes. (Exclusion of mini-episodes is reasonable, because there are no costumes in them she would have designed. The only thing she could have potentially designed that was original to a mini-episode was Attack of the Graske, but we have no definitive credits for that game, and its status as a "story" is contentious, in any event.)
Holman did 2 episodes of the Tennant era. That leaves 35 stories, according to the way this wiki has counted stories, which itself is based upon several production sources' accounting of what constitutes a story. A story is not an episode. If others have different ideas, please give them below, rather than making endless reversion without comment. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 10:23, March 26, 2010 (UTC)
- It would appear that some see that whilst the appearance list groups 2/3 parters together (like Human Nature/Family of Blood) as 1 story, they are generally classified as individual entities with their own article pages etc. --Tangerineduel 14:18, March 26, 2010 (UTC)
- Right, but surely that's a teeny bit unreasonable, especially from the perspective of the costume designer (or indeed any crew member). The designer designs for the story, not the episode, and it's the only unit of measurement that can be used to compare the 63 and 05 versions.
- (At any rate, my initial count was wrong, as I'd mistakenly included Parting of the Ways, which wasn't Page's work at all. So we're down to 34 stories.)
- The questions I'd have at this point in the discussion are a) what's the rationale for preferring to count episodes versus stories (when "classic" crew would almost always "win" those comparisons, simply by default of the format) and b) is it perhaps unreasonable to make the comparison at all? Somehow, saying "she's the longest-serving of all new series costume designers" seems myopic, when really, she surpassed a record that no one has even come close to since the 1960s. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 21:25, March 26, 2010 (UTC)