Doctor Who Prop Hunt

A quick update slash correction to my last post. I was previously looking for props from The Goodies and had inadvertently found a number of items from Gerry Anderson’s UFO. You can see what I found here .  Amongst the props featured in that post was a pair of blue computer consoles. These were originally from UFO (in SHADO’s HQ), they crop up in The Goodies, and they are also found in several Doctor Who stories of the Seventies. UFO / THE GOODIES / THE TIME WARRIOR One of the stories I said featured these props was Destiny of the Daleks. And the picture I used to demonstrate this was this one.  DESTINY OF THE DALEKS, 1979 However, even quickly looking this picture it’s very easy to see that this is not the same prop. I was certain I had seen the right blue computer in Destiny so I went back to look at it again, and here it is.  DESTINY OF THE DALEKS, 1979, right pic this time! The geography of the Dalek control room is a little confusing. Something that’s not helped by t...

It’s been a bit of a break but I’m back to look at some more recycled Classic Doctor Who props. This post actually started life as something else but has turned into a line of enquiry that might keep me busy for a while.  Before Xmas I posted an update confirming I’d found one of the Unearthly Statues in an episode of The Goodies. The Goodies is a show I watch for fun so it wasn’t long before I’d found another one! That got me thinking that I have probably missed lots of Doctor Who props hiding in this 1970s BBC comedy. So the original idea of this post was to check as many episodes of the Cricklewood three as I could to see what I could find.  THE TIME MONSTER, 1972 / CUNNING STUNTS, 1975 A couple of quick ones to start. As I said I have found another of the statues from An Unearthly Child, The Time Monster and a whole bunch of other stories. You can read all about them here . This now makes 14 different shows or episodes that feature these statues. Cunning Stunts was an epi...

Hello folks! Unfortunately, with all the hussle and bussle of the festive season I haven’t been able to put together a longer post. But I wanted to post something this Christmas week. So I here is a quick update to one of my earlier posts.  Back in November I posted about this statue  here . It’s been around since the beginning of Doctor Who and was still about in the late Eighties. I thought I’d found all the occasions it had been used but as always with prop hunting, there are still more to be found.  THE TIME MONSTER, 1972 Can’t believe I missed this one but there you go. As you can see several statues appear on the Atlantis Plaza set. To fit their surroundings their dresses have had a lick of paint. THE GOODIES, 1973 In my original post I included an appearance in a 1977 edition of The Goodies. But a couple of these statues had already appeared four years earlier. The episode is That Old Black Magic. I don’t know if it means anything but in both Goodies episodes the s...

One year ago this statue kick started my interest in looking for reoccurring props in Doctor Who. It had always been something of an interest and I had covered the topic on my Instagram many times. But when I initially found this prop at the very beginnings of Who it sparked a little  bit of an obsession. In the intervening 12 months I’ve uncovered this lady (and 5 of her Sisters) in a variety of places. Presented here is all of my research so far. This has been previously published on my Instagram, @doctor_who_60s_70s_80s but includes a couple of new finds. STEP AND SON, 1962-65 Before Doctor Who, our statue lived in the front room of the Steptoes. She’s in this spot for pretty much all of Step and Son’s initial run.  DON SMITH RADIO TIMES PROMOTIONAL PHOTO, 1963 BBC TELEVISION CENTRE Radio Times photographer Don Smith was tasked with taking the initial publicity stills of the regulars on the 20th September 1963. However at this point the sets for An Unearthly Child had yet t...