Doctor Who Prop Hunt

As promised, this week is a round up of all the props from Gerry Anderson’s UFO that I’ve found in other shows and films. There will be no Doctor Who, but I keep finding these things and felt the need to really wrap up this avenue of prop hunting. The list here is as broad as it is long and really demonstrates just how ubiquitous these items were. I’ve organised it into prop type rather than by time. And I’ll kick it off with a favourite… WIDE BLUE - as seen in THE GREEN DEATH, THE TIME WARRIOR, THE ANDROIDS OF TARA, and DESTINY OF THE DALEKS plus episodes of THE GOODIES and of course UFO. JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN / DOPPELGÄNGER, 1969 As mentioned last week, despite me calling them UFO props they actually come from the earlier Anderson live action feature film Doppelgänger. The wide blue computer unit is on the right hand side of this screen grab. CARRY ON LOVING, 1970 ACE OF WANDS, 1972 BLAKES 7, 1979 From the season 2 episode Killer. On the face of it, this is not the same...

As promised last week, this one is a return to the props of Gerry Anderson’s UFO. Back in March I published several posts covering the many props from that show that ended up in episodes of Doctor Who. One prop I covered was a squat, wide bodied, blue computer. It appeared in The Green Death, The Time Warrior and other stories. Well, that prop has a taller cousin that so far I haven’t looked at. So here are the Doctor Who appearances of tall blue. TALL BLUE ON THE LEFT, WIDE BLUE ON THE RIGHT Like Ant and Dec, they stand in this order so you can remember which is which. JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN / DOPPELGÄNGER, 1969 Any time I’ve covered the UFO props I have always referred to them as just that, UFO props. As it was Anderson’s first live action TV show I had wrongly assumed they had originated on UFO. However before he made UFO, Anderson made a feature film. And many of the familiar objects from the world of SHADO actually first appeared there. Known as Doppelgänger in the UK...

Hey folks. It’s time for another quick update, rounding up additional finds of props I have already posted about. Let’s dive straight in.  THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, 1975 A couple of people mentioned that the prop panel that had appeared in a Bond flick also turns up in Thames Television’s kids SF show The Tomorrow People. The panel appears in the hero’s lab. This screen grab is from season 3 tale The Revenge of Jedikiah. Thanks to Rob Lubbock for pointing me to this. MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE, 1985 Some familiar props can be seen in this screen grab from the mid eighties British comedy Morons From Outer Space. The arrows point to two of the consoles that were seen in Attack of the Cybermen and an Ultravox music video. The one on the left has columns of lights and the one on the right has a circular monitor. Incidentally, the console next to the one the right also turns up in the first episode of…. RED DWARF, 1988 When I was originally looking from these consoles this one had been sugge...

Hey guys. I’m a bit tight for time this week so I thought I’d just provide a few updates on props I have looked at in the past. Probably the best place to start is with the prop I looked at last week .  COLONY IN SPACE, 1971 David Brunt  let me know that four of the pill shaped props from my last post can be seen at the conclusion of Colony.  THE MOONBASE, 1967 I first wrote about the unusual stools from The Sensorites  here and again here . I was watching The Moonbase the other day and I spotted a very brief cameo I’d previously missed. One of these stools can be found hiding out with the Cybermen in the shadows of a store room. THE MUPPET SHOW, 1976-81 In the top left of this Pigs in Space screen grab are the vac formed cupboards from Peter Evan’s Studios. I wrote about their Doctor Who appearances here . In a follow up post I mentioned their appearances in Blake’s 7 and Red Dwarf but I wasn’t aware of any other shows. Well here is another one to as to the list. R...

Hello folks! I’ll start by saying I think this is my last Gerry Anderson themed post for now. I have one more avenue to look into but otherwise I think this one covers everything that I know about and haven’t posted so far. And I’ll start with a well known one.  THIRD DOCTOR’S SONIC The Sonic Scewdriver was actually created by combining two Gerry Anderson props. The main body is a full sized prop from the film Thunderbirds Are Go and the topper is from the Captain Scarlet episode, Model Spy. Like all of the props I have featured so far, these were obtained by the BBC in the early Seventies when Century 21 closed its doors.  CAPTAIN SCARLET, MODEL SPY, 1967 / THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO, 1966 ************************************** SMALL BLUE TICKER TAPE THINGY in SHADO CONTROL ROOM To the left of George Sewell in the UFO screen grab above is a small blue unit that spews out a ream of ticker tape. This turns up in the laboratory of Professor Whitaker.  INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS, 19...