Paul Scott wrote:

That sounds more like Dr Who.

And in 1986's "The Trial of a Time Lord" the Doctor visits the future
where
Earth has been devasted by a solar flare and survivors live in "Marb
station", a complex built in and beneath Marble Arch station (although
the
set for the actual remains of the station bears little resemblence to
Marble Arch).

After my time.

Not very realistic - as every one knows, in the future the Doctor would
have landed up in a Crossrail tunnel....

Maybe, though in 1968's "The Web of Fear" the tube maps shown are for 1968
(lacking the Victoria and Jubilee Lines) despite dialogue that dates the
story as at least 1975 ("over forty years" after "1935").

But the series also expected the BBC to have a third terrestrial channel by
the erm 1980s at the latest (some of the dating is unclear), a British space
programme with regular trips to Mars and even shots to Jupiter in the same
period, the decimal system to have ten shillings in the pound, five pound
coins would be in circulation in the late 1990s bearing the head of a King
and that Gillian Taylforth would still be in EastEnders in 2013 (although
Letitia Dean keeps making and breaking that prediction as well!).

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).

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

"M. J. Powell" wrote in message
...

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.

It is an urban myth that Doctor Who ever went out live. It was simply
recorded "as live" for the first few years due to the difficulties in
videotape editing.


--
Ronnie
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According to the credits, the whole thing was filmed on location . Does
anyone know where it was filmed. Gloucester road and South Kensington seem
possibilities as there was a sign saying "District Line". The disused
station area where the trogoldytes lived was absolutely fascinating, does
anyone know where it was?

Barking

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"Paul Scott" wrote:


"Graeme Wall" wrote in message
...

That sounds more like Dr Who.


And in 1986's "The Trial of a Time Lord" the Doctor visits the future
where Earth has been devasted by a solar flare and survivors live in
"Marb station", a complex built in and beneath Marble Arch station
(although the set for the actual remains of the station bears little
resemblence to Marble Arch).

After my time.

-- Graeme Wall

Not very realistic - as every one knows, in the future the Doctor would
have landed up in a Crossrail tunnel....


Oh come on! It wasn't set /that/ far in the future.

--
Graeme Wall
This address is not read, substitute trains for rail.
Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html

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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.

--
Graeme Wall
This address is not read, substitute trains for rail.
Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html

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"Ronnie Clark" wrote:


"M. J. Powell" wrote in message
...

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.

It is an urban myth that Doctor Who ever went out live. It was simply
recorded "as live" for the first few years due to the difficulties in
videotape editing.



It certainly went out live in the very early years, most BBC programmes did.
Z-Cars was transmitted live well into the 1970s. By then it had become a
fetish for that programme and there were long and loud lamentations when they
went recorded. The reason being to do with studio scheduling rather than
editing.

--
Graeme Wall
This address is not read, substitute trains for rail.
Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html

Graeme Wall wrote:

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"Ronnie Clark" wrote:

It is an urban myth that Doctor Who ever went out live.

It certainly went out live in the very early years

Oh no it didn't (and I've read more than enough books on the topic to
prove it). 'Quatermass' and various plays went out live but 'Doctor
Who' never did.

Graeme Wall wrote:

It is an urban myth that Doctor Who ever went out live. It was simply
recorded "as live" for the first few years due to the difficulties in
videotape editing.

It certainly went out live in the very early years, most BBC programmes
did.
Z-Cars was transmitted live well into the 1970s. By then it had become a
fetish for that programme and there were long and loud lamentations when
they
went recorded. The reason being to do with studio scheduling rather than
editing.

I disagree - a lot of research has been done that shows that Doctor Who was
recorded in advance from the outset.

Z-Cars seemed to still do live episodes in 1965 but this was even then
regarded as anachronistic.

Graeme Wall wrote:

And in 1986's "The Trial of a Time Lord" the Doctor visits the future
where Earth has been devasted by a solar flare and survivors live in
"Marb station", a complex built in and beneath Marble Arch station
(although the set for the actual remains of the station bears little
resemblence to Marble Arch).

After my time.

Not very realistic - as every one knows, in the future the Doctor would
have landed up in a Crossrail tunnel....

Oh come on! It wasn't set /that/ far in the future.

Only 2,000,000 years!