Dolls' Shoes in Spearhead From Space

There are some things I don't talk about here because they're too esoteric, and then there's this, which I feel like I have to talk about _because_ it's so ridiculously esoteric.

Like, honestly, a lot of TV shows, there are Doctor Who episodes that have varying edits.  These edits tend to be very minor.  Sometimes the wrong master tape is sent to a station - for instance, the version of "Resurrection of the Daleks" I taped off PBS growing up had no music or FX track for the second half.  There was also a well-known early print of an episode of "Carnival of Monsters" sent to Australia that used a rejected re-arrangement of the theme put together for the tenth anniversary, the so-called "Delaware" theme.  As far as I know nobody has specifically said why they wound up not using the theme, but once I heard it I didn't have any questions as to why they made that decision.  The fourth episode of "Carnival of Monsters" was also edited for its 1981 rebroadcast, at the request of the director, to fix a particularly egregious special effects failure.  There's also the case where the official audio release of The Celestial Toymaker has narration applied so as to obscure the completely gratuitous and unnecessary use of a grossly offensive racial slur in an earlier episode.

There are other edits as well.  For instance, a number of times Doctor Who used popular music of the day on the soundtrack - The Master is seen listening to King Crimson's "The Devil's Triangle" in The Mind of Evil, for instance.  Where this gets relevant is in Jon Pertwee's debut as the Doctor, Spearhead from Space, there is a montage of a doll factory soundtracked with the Fleetwood Mac song "Oh Well".  Some releases have the music, some don't.

Well, it turns out the rabbit hole goes even deeper than that.  There are a couple of Youtube videos which miraculously haven't been taken down for copyright claims addressing an even more esoteric edit to this sequence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkSnVNDGRx8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f9QWqA6ppI

Towards the end of the sequence, there is a brief shot of dolls' shoes the version broadcast on the Dallas, Texas PBS station KERA.  (While doing some research for this post, I learned that there are apparently no longer any PBS stations in the US showing classic Who, as the BBC will no longer sell them to anyone but BBC America in the States.  I find this regrettable in the extreme and perfectly emblematic of the way the BBC has, for the past several decades, let down American fans and hobbled any attempts the show has made to appeal to prospective viewers.)

Anyway, MarcoPolo31West in his video refers to the shot as "curious", but frankly it's about the least interesting piece of obscurantist trivia I could imagine about the show.  It's literally a two second shot of dolls' shoes.  I am, however, delighted that somebody (a) noticed and (b) cares even a little bit about such marginalia.