Doctor Who Prop Hunt

This wasn’t the post I’d planned to make. But this morning I watched Multi Coloured Saturdays on the iPlayer. It’s an old documentary about Saturday morning kids TV in the UK. It was repeated to celebrate the Multi-Coloured Swap Shop turning 50 this week. And couple of things caught my eye. Behind John Craven on the left of the picture is one of the consoles from Invasion of the Dinosaurs. I first posted about them here and this variant is the same one seen in the ‘Hallo My Dalek’ Crackajack sketch mentioned here .  Next to the Dino console is ever ubiquitous rectangular panels from UFO. I first posted about them here . But honestly they feature in about 80% of my posts. Fall down that rabbit hole if you must. The documentary featured a small clip of the Swap Shop gang doing a Star Trek skit. Here I think you can see that control panel from The Ark in Space and Planet of Evil. This prop, of course, has a movie heritage as it was initially from Live and Let Die .  And also in ...