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Thought the second episode was back to the usual...and then there's the Jodrell Bank clanger! Clanger? It was only known as the Pharos Project in the original Tom Baker story, never by the name of the place it was modeled on. The Pharos Project was just that. A project being run at a radio telescop...

Mark wrote:Thought the second episode was back to the usual...and then there's the Jodrell Bank clanger!

Clanger?

prisoner5 wrote:My boss whom ive worked for many years has a publicity photo of him dressed as a silurian when he appeared albeit briefly in Doctor who,

What's his name?

And Levine's feeling is clearly as he spent over £40 000 on his version, because the BBC clearly had no interest in such a project, to now have the BBC come along and do the exact same thing... Can you not see the reason he may be miffed? or do you simply chalk that up to more raving petulant lunac...

And once completed, the Levine Shada could have been allowed to be viewed online for free. There are other fan reconstructions that are extraordinarily easy to find for free online viewing. But the Ian Levine Shada was the one that the BBC had an obsession with removing all traces of it. That's pre...

Richard Charles Skryngestone wrote:In other words, the very thing Ian Levine thought of(and did) years ago, and which the BBC declared could never work.

I don't think they *ever* said that.

I was always rather sad that the BBC's Paradox got cancelled after the first series. I thought it was rather good and the termination left a lot of unanswered questions.

Mark wrote:Indeed...although it's a shame there is unlikely to be any extras, especially a photo gallery, as there are many excellent colour photos taken of the production.

Hardly any of those are BBC photos though, so they wouldn't be used.

Yes, isn't there a contemporary memo from someone reminding directors about the required length of the "black gap"? Not the length, but during the 1960s, directors were instructed to insert two fade-to-black points in each episode to "facilitate Television Enterprises" (i.e. to allow for advert bre...

In the clip they used from the studio recording of Play School, what was that the name of the female presenter with Jonny Ball?

David Savage wrote:So were probably a Shiver and Shake reader, Richard?

That page from Who Killed Cockney Robin sent a strange shiver up my spine. Yes, that's exactly how I remember it and I was indeed a Shiver and Shake man. Got it from the first issue, with my free plastic joke biscuit!

I have very fond memories of various mystery/adventure stories appearing in 1970s comics and at the end of each week, you'd be asked if you'd spotted the next clue as to what was going on. I'm fairly sure that one comic used to print little slips at the end of each week's edition that you could fill...

Was there any particular reason that the studios were originally situated where they were in the building, rather than being on the ground floor?

Here's something that came up on another forum.

When did the BBC start recording their full daily output for internal review or legal purposes? What sort of format was it done on and how long was the material kept?

I thoroughly enjoyed 'Listen' as I did 'Robot of Sherwood' last week, but for completely different reasons. Great fun.

I'm just putting a general call out to see if anyone has ever seen a photo of scriptwriter David Ellis, who penned many episodes of Z-Cars and Dixon of Dock Green as well as other programmes such as Doctor Who, Spyder's Web and Paul Temple. I've asked a few people over the last few weeks who think t...

Bill had another series commissioning moment. He was in Las Vegas at some tv conference and after a few drinks took a strong interest -and maybe actually bought - something called Supertrain - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertrain. I've just watched a couple of clips of this on YouTube. Oh dear....

Barry Boxall and John Jefford were BBC staff photographers employed by the Graphic Design department. They photographed all kinds of stuff, including resetting reference shots for the set design division of Design Group. One of their colleagues was former BBC photographer Chris Capstick, who now ru...

With many released themes, it often felt that someone had gone back to the composer and asked them to expand their original 45 seconds worth to fill 2-3 minutes of a 7" single and as a result, something really inappropriate had to be crowbarred into the middle in order to pad it out. I wonder if any...

LOL! Was it as simple as that? :D

Many thanks.

I wonder if anyone can help with the name of this series? It was shown on BBC2 around 1999/2000 and from memory was a three-part series from BBC Scotland about the British film industry. One edition focused on ther making of 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels', whilst another featured Christopher ...

I'm not sure that was true of the Hartnell/Troughton changeover. The publicity was there, but according to Kim Newman's book on the show in the bfi classics series, it was very muted. Both Newman and other sources have said that the BBC milked the first Troughton story as featuring the return of th...

Bit of a long shot, but if anyone here happened to see the touring version (not the original London run) of 'Steptoe & Son: Murder at Oil Drum Lane' - and especially if you happen to have kept the programme, could you possibly send me a quick PM.

Many thanks.

It comes from his online CV of a couple of years ago when he was at a different agent.

That's exactly the connection I'm trying to work out, Simon. On Monday, the Doctor Who: Inferno - Special Edition DVD is released which features the edition of the Dr Forever! series, 'Lost in the Dark Dimension' (on which I was the researcher). This contains an amusing interview with the infamous D...

Does anyone know anything about a production called 'The Garbologist', which was supposed to be shown on Channel 4 around 2004 and directed by Jan Schernik?

An internet search doesn't appear to pick up anything on the title or the director.

I've seen 625-line recordings marked as 6LT or 6HT for either low or high-band recordings, but not a 6ET.

Can you make sure we don't have a repeat of "Watch the Donut, Not the Hole" again!

I really can't have that going round my brain for another year... :D

There is an oddity in the credits though, it says 'A BBC TV PRODUCTION in association with WARNER BROS. TELEVISION'. I've never heard of any other BBC show being produced like this. 'Jack the Ripper' from 1973 was a part-funded by on of the big US studios, but for the life of me, I can't recall whi...

Which episode of Knight Errant Limited is still in existence?