Sep 29, 2021
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Bruce Robinson, 1989).
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Bruce Robinson, 1989).
Ok so in the back of my mind I knew that the eleventh doctor’s original TARDIS was built on the site of the recently-demolished Torchwood hub set but youtube has been recommending me BTS videos and LOOK! The dragon mural was still there in one corner!!
(side note 1: this is never seen in canon afaik, since this part of the set was never meant to be visible on camera - a new wall was added there in series 7a to make the set 360⁰.)
(side note 2: the guy in the screenshot is the late Michael Pickwoad, production designer from series 6-10. He didn’t design this set, but did design the Eleventh Doctor’s second TARDIS & the updates it got for the Twelfth Doctor, along with Hartnell-style variants in Hell Bent and Twice Upon a Time and all other sets from series 6-10. By all accounts a lovely man and a genius.)
RIP Michael Pickwoad - set designer for Doctor Who 2010-2017.
Picture by Stuart Manning
Michael Pickwoad (1945 - 2018)
Some lovely words of tribute from Moff after the sad loss of Michael Pickwoad. I still treasure memories of the day back in 2015 when I visited the Tardis set.
Such an incredible structure, and really clever too the way it enabled 360 degree filming, and had several levels, which made it feel far more like a real space ship, rather than a flat TV studio.
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Remembering Those We Lost in 2018
Remembering Those We Lost in 2018
Toby Hadoke has paid a touching tribute to those we lost in 2018.
The actor and comedian has been releasing annual memorial videos since 2014; it’s always incredibly sad to see how the Doctor Who universe got smaller in just 12 months, but equally, it’s wonderful to know that their work, and thus their memory, lives on. Fans never forget, and that’s a truly special thing.
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