Post by LanceM on Apr 20, 2007 12:04:40 GMT
Hello All Again,
I was browsing as usual through all manner of information sites about early BBC broadcasts, and BBC equipment when I came across a interesting bit about the early beginnings and inspiration of TVC that added to Dr Who:
Actually, there is one exception to this. The Tardis that was used in all the original Dr Who series was never destroyed but over the years has been quietly moved from place to place and hidden around the building. I suppose nobody could quite bring themselves to give the order to load it onto a truck for disposal. After all, it hardly takes up much room. Of course, the new 2004 series was made in Wales with its own new 'machine' but the original (extremely tatty) Tardis was still on site in 2005 and was used for a spoof opening to Jet Set on the day in April when the new Dr Who was first transmitted. I had the dubious honor of lighting this sequence. Spookily - I also lit the same thing in 2006, with Eamonn Holmes exiting the Tardis in the Blue Peter garden on the day the new Dr Who series began. I have been told recently which dark corner it is currently stored in but if I say where then the suits may find it so I'll keep mum. (After all, its cloaking device hasn't worked for centuries.) The day it is at last destroyed because it costs too much to store we might as well all give up and go home. Oh - and by the way, it really is much bigger inside than out. No really.
The photo below shows the interior of the scenery block. Adam Tandy has written to let me know that he understood that the original Dr Who production designer (Warris Hussein?) got the idea for the treatment of the interior of the Tardis walls from this roof. I see what he means. In fact, I think even the current Welsh version has an echo of it.
For some reason the photo would not upload, so here is the kink to the entire article. Which is also a very informative read about BBC TV studio runnings, development, plus some rare photos. There is one of a BBC tech running a EMI 2001 color BBC camera. Apparently this photo was sitting in the bottom of a drawer for a good 30 years or so, so looks kind of tatty, but still a rare look at the past of the BBC.
www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/tv%20centre%20history.htm
The lights really do bear a good resemblance to the circle lights of the tardis console room in the classic series, way neat. There is also a cool photo of Arthur Askey standing in the middle of a then, cavernous TV studio. Let me know what you think, hope you enjoyed it.
Cheers, Lance.
I was browsing as usual through all manner of information sites about early BBC broadcasts, and BBC equipment when I came across a interesting bit about the early beginnings and inspiration of TVC that added to Dr Who:
Actually, there is one exception to this. The Tardis that was used in all the original Dr Who series was never destroyed but over the years has been quietly moved from place to place and hidden around the building. I suppose nobody could quite bring themselves to give the order to load it onto a truck for disposal. After all, it hardly takes up much room. Of course, the new 2004 series was made in Wales with its own new 'machine' but the original (extremely tatty) Tardis was still on site in 2005 and was used for a spoof opening to Jet Set on the day in April when the new Dr Who was first transmitted. I had the dubious honor of lighting this sequence. Spookily - I also lit the same thing in 2006, with Eamonn Holmes exiting the Tardis in the Blue Peter garden on the day the new Dr Who series began. I have been told recently which dark corner it is currently stored in but if I say where then the suits may find it so I'll keep mum. (After all, its cloaking device hasn't worked for centuries.) The day it is at last destroyed because it costs too much to store we might as well all give up and go home. Oh - and by the way, it really is much bigger inside than out. No really.
The photo below shows the interior of the scenery block. Adam Tandy has written to let me know that he understood that the original Dr Who production designer (Warris Hussein?) got the idea for the treatment of the interior of the Tardis walls from this roof. I see what he means. In fact, I think even the current Welsh version has an echo of it.
For some reason the photo would not upload, so here is the kink to the entire article. Which is also a very informative read about BBC TV studio runnings, development, plus some rare photos. There is one of a BBC tech running a EMI 2001 color BBC camera. Apparently this photo was sitting in the bottom of a drawer for a good 30 years or so, so looks kind of tatty, but still a rare look at the past of the BBC.
www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/tv%20centre%20history.htm
The lights really do bear a good resemblance to the circle lights of the tardis console room in the classic series, way neat. There is also a cool photo of Arthur Askey standing in the middle of a then, cavernous TV studio. Let me know what you think, hope you enjoyed it.
Cheers, Lance.