February 17th, 2013
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The Daleks Invade Westminster Bridge – Video
Filming for An Adventure in Space and Time continued this morning on Westminster Bridge in London
News from the BBC website
The Daleks in London, earlier this morning!
The Daleks invaded London earlier this morning and resistance was useless – insofar as it was impossible to resist the striking sight of the Doctor’s iconic enemies swarming through the capital!
But their presence was not part of a plan to enslave Earth – or at least that’s what the production team was telling us! The cast and crew of An Adventure in Space and Time were there to recreate some of the most memorable moments from Doctor Who’s early years – the scenes from The Dalek Invasion of Earth where the metal monsters imperiously glided through London, gloriously framed against the backdrop of famous sites like the Palace of Westminster.
Back in 1964 the photos of the ‘invasion’ became instant classics and over the years the imagery of those episodes has been referenced and updated on several occasions. But this is the first time that a production team has attempted to faithfully replicate the 1964 shoot using Daleks that were unique to that single adventure. The results look set to be stunning, as you can find out for yourselves when An Adventure in Space and Time – a one-off drama exploring the genesis of Doctor Who – debuts later this year.
The official BBC website will be posting a video shot on location later today.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/Daleks-Invasion-of-Earth-2013AD
They’re having another go! twitpic.com/c4h3qt
— Mark Gatiss (@Markgatiss) February 17, 2013
An original scene from the 1964 story The Dalek Invasion of Earth
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DOCTOR WHO ONE
February 19th, 2013 - 3:55pmThey look ok to me, nothing wrong with them as far as I can see.
Far as I’m concerned they are perfect replicas of the original 1964 used props, and don’t forget, the story ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’ was in black and white, so just because they don’t appear to have blue bumps and orange lights when featured in the series, didn’t necessarily mean where completely devoid of colour when they was filming the story.
Tardis’nt
February 19th, 2013 - 1:04pmI am looking forward to seeing this, and it is great that they are doing this but, the plungers are not long enough, the discs are too small and the domes are grey! plus the lights are painted on!
DOCTOR WHO ONE
February 19th, 2013 - 10:21amWell I can’t seem to find any colour pictures taken in 1964 when they was filming the original scenes of the Daleks on Westminster Bridge, but if you own the Dalek Invasion of Earth on DVD, the lights on the Dalek on the cover are also orange, so clearly it’s not an error made by the people who built these new reproductions of the 1964 version of the Daleks, it’s just that Doctor Who was filmed in black and white back in those days, so while the lights on the original 1964 Daleks where infact orange, they just appeared white on screen, same the Tardis really. Everyone in the 1960’s knew the Police Box disguise of the Tardis was blue, but it looks looked somewhat grey just cos it was black and white TV for Doctor Who back in those days.
thedaleksdeath
February 19th, 2013 - 9:04amAnd plus my grandad was there
thedaleksdeath
February 19th, 2013 - 9:03amI’ve found colour images of the Daleks lights in that story and there white
DOCTOR WHO ONE
February 19th, 2013 - 8:24amThe Daleks Death – The Daleks lights and disc on their back is the same as it was on the original props for 1964’s ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’.
The lights where no doubt orange in that story, it’s just that the story, as Esterath pointed out, is a black and white story, so while it appeared black and white on screen, the actual colour that would have been seen in 1964 was infact orange.
It’s the same case with the original Tardis console prop, it was painted a pale green, but no fan knew that until the show went into colour, says so in a book called ‘Doctor Who – The Tardis Handbook’ by Steve Tribe.
Esterath
February 19th, 2013 - 8:09amHow do you know what colour the lights were? It was in black and white!
Davros and The Daleks is
February 19th, 2013 - 7:42amOk thanks
booboo
February 18th, 2013 - 10:43pmno i doubt that very much
MyLittleTripod
February 18th, 2013 - 5:31pmActually his name was Andy.
Davros and The Daleks is
February 18th, 2013 - 5:15pmBooboo will this be in 3d too
thedaleksdeath
February 18th, 2013 - 4:59pmLooks really good but the dalek lights are the wrong colour and the disc on there back is to small 🙁
DOCTOR WHO ONE
February 18th, 2013 - 4:29pmOn Doctor Who Online, they say an actor called Reece Shearsmith has been cast to play Patrick Troughton / The 2nd Doctor for Mark Gatiss’ ‘An Adventure in Space and Time’.
Funny, I thought this documentary drama was only supposed to be set during 1963 in the months leading up to ‘An Unearthly Child’ being broadcast on Saturday 23rd November 1963, not what came later for Doctor Who after 1963.
Jonno in Brisbane
February 18th, 2013 - 11:53amI was there back in 1964 when they shot those scenes but my recollection was a bit earlier in the day and was it not summer time ..
Don’t diss the sonic!!!
February 17th, 2013 - 5:44pmI am so looking forward to it; it looks absolutely amazing and a great added extra to celebrate the shows 50th anniversary.
DalekTheSupreme
February 17th, 2013 - 5:33pmOh my giddy aunt! This is amazing! 😀
HITCH66
February 17th, 2013 - 5:33pmGood point but if it was a swastika I think he would rightly be in a lot of trouble. The evil of these regimes should never be forgotten however long ago. Gatiss and Gary Russell are always sporting Communist kistch despite both being involved with the BBC.
DOCTOR WHO ONE
February 17th, 2013 - 5:03pmWell, at least it aint a Nazi Germany Swastika, people get very touchy about that, like about a year or two ago, the Sun Newspaper mentioned about a Dad’s Army game being taken off EBay just cos the packaging had a Swastika on it.
HITCH66
February 17th, 2013 - 4:46pmGatiss has the greatest life of anyone i’ve even seen. A
DOCTOR WHO ONE
February 17th, 2013 - 4:31pmI hope they recreate the original console room made by Peter Brachkarki 😀
DOCTOR WHO ONE
February 17th, 2013 - 4:30pmYeah, his son, Sean Pertwee 🙂
2doctors2000
February 17th, 2013 - 3:40pmThis programme looks good. Nice to see recreations of iconic scenes like these 🙂
MyLittleTripod
February 17th, 2013 - 2:53pmWhat about using David Warner and David Troughton for the First and Second Doctors? David Warner already plays William Hartnell in Mark Gatiss’ Documentary about the shows beginnings, and there wouldn’t be anything that a wig and some Prosthetics wouldn’t do to make David Troughton look more like his father.
As for the issue of the Third Doctor, I already know someone who works for the Reel New Ross Film Project who looks a lot like Jon Pertwee…
DOCTOR WHO ONE
February 17th, 2013 - 9:36amAnd yes I am aware they could do the first 3 Doctors in CGI, but CGI just don’t look convincing when portraying real people.
The only feasible way I could see anyone doing an 11 Doctors story would be either an animated adventure, a comic-strip in either Doctor Who Magazine or Doctor Who Adventures, a novel [with some illustrations ?], or perhaps an audio adventure, with someone doing the voices of Doctors 1,2,3, and someone voicing Chris’ 9th Doctor.
Either that or just play around with the 11 Doctors figure set if like me you own it too.
DOCTOR WHO ONE
February 17th, 2013 - 9:32amNot sure how you can say it sounds sad but looks better then the actual 50th Anniversary special when we don’t even know what the actual 50th Anniversary special even is.
Obviously won’t be something involving all 11 Doctors, that obviously is not going to happen, considering that the first 3 Doctors are sadly no longer with us, and old Christoper Eccleston want’s nothing to do with Doctor Who ever again yet clearly people just don’t get the message when he says he wants no more to do with it. They may as well just do a story with Doctors 5,7,8,10 and 11, a new Five Doctors, with maybe 1 companion per Doctor, say for example Tegan, Ace, Grace, Donna and Clara.
Anonymous
February 17th, 2013 - 9:15amYay the daleks are in it :). This might sound sad but this looks much better then the actual 50th aniversary special
booboo
February 17th, 2013 - 9:07amthey are really going to town on this i think its going to be brilliant
lawrie yates
February 17th, 2013 - 9:03ami would love to see that photo above (the one in black and white recreated in colour. it would look awesome 🙂
TheWhomobile
February 17th, 2013 - 8:59amSo far this actually looks set to be better than the actual 50th anniversary special
DOCTOR WHO ONE
February 17th, 2013 - 8:50amWas about to leave a comment telling you about this BooBoo. Guess I don’t need to now 😀
EX-TER-MIN-ATE !!!!!!!! 😀