AUGUST UPDATE

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 Time for a round up of additional finds. Let’s dive right in.



This funky blue space rifle originally came from the film Madame Sin and appeared in Frontier in Space and Invasion of the Dinosaurs. Here it pops in The Tomorrow People episode A Man For Emily. In the image below it’s held by Sandra Dickinson. The episode also featured Peter Davison in a similarly outrageous wig.  


THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, 1975



Up next it’s more washboard fun. These metal objects (actually heat exchanger plates) appear in Destiny of the Daleks, Shada, Warriors Gate, and Terminus. Outside of Who they are in Blakes 7, Red Dwarf, Alien, and even Inspector Morse. Well, I have another Who appearance courtesy of Zoe’s Feather Boa as they turn up in The Twin Dilemma.
THE TWIN DILEMMA, 1984

And what’s more here is another Who adjacent appearance in the
infamous Lenny Henry Doctor Who sketch.
THE LENNY HENRY SHOW, 1985



This wedge shaped controlled unit was in The Space Museum, Colony in Space and The Claws of Axos. It’s also in Curse of the Fly and Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD. Here is another Sixties appearance, this time in the anthology series Out of the Unknown.The episode is called The Counterfeit Man. 
OUT OF THE UNKNOWN, 1965




I called these drums Davo Drums as they appear in Warriors of the Deep, Frontios, and Planet of Fire. As you can see below they also appear in Aliens. I’m wondering if these where commercially available drums as their earliest Who appearance is actually Destiny of the Daleks   

ALIENS, 1986



And finally, file this one under ‘well bugger me’ cos it seems I missed one of those bloody spiral staircases. This is the clockwise staircase that appears in The Daleks Master Plan, The Evil of the Daleks, The Ice Warriors, The Web of Fear, Fury From The Deep, The Sunmakers, and (phew) The Happiness Patrol.
THE GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY, 1988

That’s yer lot for this week. Back soon with something else. 












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