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"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:

M. J. Powell wrote:

There was (so SWMBO tells me) a Doctor Who story set in a disused
tube stn,

From recollection three stories, though none feature disused stations.

In "The Web of Fear" (1968) the TARDIS materialises in the tube and
finds the network shut down and London evacuated due to an invasion by
robotic Yeti. A number of tube stations are seen, but all scenes were
recorded in studio (though the sets were so convincing that London
Underground believed otherwise!).

Was that the one where an actor died on the set and the others ad libbed
around his part? The sets were in the studio, but as a number of parallel
tunnels. It went out live.

I've never heard of an actor dying on set in Doctor Who (the only death in
production I've heard of was when an actor was cast in the 1980s but
murdered before recording).

The only death I've heard of in a BBC studio was a messenger who had a heart
attack during a live programme.


Oh and it wasn't live but recorded virtually "as live" with very few breaks
due to videotape being difficult to edit.


At that time videotape editing was done by physically cutting the tape and
splicing the wanted sections together. Something of a nightmare with 2 inch
tape. I'm not sure when Dr Who started being recorded but it was certainly
before 1970 when I started working on it.

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The only death I've heard of in a BBC studio was a messenger who had a
heart attack during a live programme.

YTV in Leeds famously had a guest die on their afternoon chat show
"Calendar People" in the seventies. (This was the same programme - but
not edition - which saw Richard Whiteley's famous encounter with a
ferret. I'm trying really hard to come up with a railway or London
transport connection here but can't!)
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Ian Jelf wrote:

In message , Graeme Wall
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The only death I've heard of in a BBC studio was a messenger who had a
heart attack during a live programme.

YTV in Leeds famously had a guest die on their afternoon chat show
"Calendar People" in the seventies. (This was the same programme - but
not edition - which saw Richard Whiteley's famous encounter with a
ferret. I'm trying really hard to come up with a railway or London
transport connection here but can't!)

I can help you there, the only time I saw Richard Whitely was on a train.

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Ian Jelf wrote:

In message , Graeme Wall
writes
The only death I've heard of in a BBC studio was a messenger who had a
heart attack during a live programme.

YTV in Leeds famously had a guest die on their afternoon chat show
"Calendar People" in the seventies. (This was the same programme - but
not edition - which saw Richard Whiteley's famous encounter with a
ferret. I'm trying really hard to come up with a railway or London
transport connection here but can't!)

I can help you there, the only time I saw Richard Whitely was on a train.

And now I've thought of one as well. Richard Whiteley's first TV job
was with ITN who were then at television House on the corner of Kingsway
and Aldwych.......just across from Aldwych station and literally above
the Aldwych branch featured (or not) in "Death Line"!

We make a great team, Mr. Wall! :-))
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Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

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Ian Jelf wrote:

In message , Graeme Wall
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[snip]

I can help you there, the only time I saw Richard Whitely was on a train.

And now I've thought of one as well. Richard Whiteley's first TV job
was with ITN who were then at television House on the corner of Kingsway
and Aldwych.......just across from Aldwych station and literally above
the Aldwych branch featured (or not) in "Death Line"!

We make a great team, Mr. Wall! :-))

The Old Firm, established censored, Mr Jelf.

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Graeme Wall
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