Doctor Who Prop Hunt

It’s been a while since this has happened, but my recent post about these washboard like metal panels prompted people to get in touch to suggest more stuff. So here it is Space Washboards - Part 2. RED DWARF: SERIES VI, 1993 @md05.bsky.social  has been a massive supporter of this blog, regularly supplying suggestions. For these metal boards they mentioned they had been part of the Starbug set in Red Dwarf. You can see the tell tale circular holes at the top of the image. SHADA, 1979 @markaldridge.info  sent me this photo of the studio set up for Shada. At the top of the image you can see a grouping of washboards. These do not feature in any of the completed Shada footage so Mark suggested the maybe part of the studio lighting rig. And then I was checking back through old Bluesky notifications and realised @beeblepete.bsky.social  had already sent me this some time ago. Like Mark, Pete suggested they could have been some kind of studio equipment. He suggested they might b...

Hello folks! It’s time for another quick update covering new finds of props I have already looked at. Let’s jump straight in.  The Prop Hunt blog turned one in October. One of the earliest props I looked at was The Master’s Iron Maiden TARDIS. In that post I mentioned I had found the Iron Maiden in The Avengers series 5 episode Murdersville. Well, I’ve noticed it’s also in the series 6 episode Fog.   THE AVENGERS : FOG, 1969 I covered this toast rack shaped prop here  , here  , and even one here  . So I thought I had it pretty well covered. But it seems I missed an appearance as no less than six of them turn up in The Dominators. THE DOMINATORS, 1969             In this post I looked at the computer from the International Electromatic Company computer. There turned out to be a few variants of that prop that appear in The Ambassadors of Death and other places. Well, here’s one more variant I missed, this time from The Tenth Planet....

As always, the hunt goes on. And it often throws up stuff I had previously missed. So it’s time for another round up of updates.                                                                                                                     Back at the beginning of this month I looked at these panels in The Pirate Planet, The Armageddon Factor and more. Well, I’ve found one I missed and it’s also from the key to time season. . THE POWER OF KROLL, 1978 THE ARMAGEDDON FACTOR, 1979 In the post about these panels I highlighted a large example from The Armageddon Factor. But also in this story is a smaller panel in the Marshall’s module. If you look at the top you can see the three rows of lights ...

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...

Here is a quick update on my last post about these cupboard like set dressings. You can read my previous post here The main thing I wanted to do today was to highlight a couple of non Doctor Who appearances. The first of which is from Who’s Seventies Sister programme - Blake’s 7. SPACEFALL, 1978 MISSION TO DESTINY, 1978 Both of these airings are from B7’s first season. Thanks goes to Tim Dickinson for pointing me in their direction. I’ve had a look through the four seasons of Blake and, as far as I can tell, these are the only time these cupboards are used. TIKKA TO RIDE, 1997 Zoe’s Feather Boa pointed out the cupboards use season 7 of Red Dwarf. Something else that came out of my last post was that Tim Dickinson sent a link to the catalogue of a company called Peter Evans Studio. Trading since 1960, Peter Evans Studio offer ‘scenic embellishment’ to the film and TV industry. And on page 57 of their catalogue is the very cupboards we have been looking at. Not only that, they also off...

I have a quick update on my post from last week all about the Classic Who props that turned up in an Ultravox music video . As always I’m indebted to the prop hunt brains trust for helping to track down more appearances of these props.  TERMINUS, 1983 On Bluesky, Zoe’s Feather Boa pointed out this Doctor Who appearance I’d missed. The example in this image actually differs slightly from those seen in The Twin Dilemma and Attack of the Cybermen. The circular screen is the same but the control panel is different. Here it features switches and dials whilst in the other stories it’s coloured lights. As mentioned in my last post, there are three units on set for Attack that are not clearly seen on screen or in photos. So this variation could be one of those.  NORTH SEA HIJACK, 1980 Some of the consoles in Attack feature a cylinder on top. This attachment is from the feature film North Sea Hijack starring Roger Moore. Again, thanks goes to Zoe’s Feather Boa for making this connecti...

It’s part 4 of a 2 part series all about the vac formed wall design from The Mutants! I thought I was done with this prop but I was tipped off to a couple of appearances I hadn’t previously found. So this post is just to wrap those new items before I move onto something else.  THE LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD, 1975 An unexpected period piece. The hexagon wall design is actually found on the ceiling this time. This show actually helps me to fill in the blanks a little. Originally I had not been able to find anything between The Mutants and The Stones of Blood. But, along with The Deadly Assassin which I covered last time, we can see that this prop was in use during the mid seventies after all. RED DWARF, 1988-99 The hexagons appear a few times during the shows original run. In particular in the enlarged Starbug set of series VII. You can see it at the top of this screen grab. So with these two appearances I have now found 10 Classic Doctor Who stories and 10 additional programmes that have ...