please empty your brain below
This exhibition looks great and I’m only sorry that it’s a little too far for me to travel at the moment.
I will just have to content myself with the HHGTTG books, cassette tapes and even cds. Watched every Dr.Who from the first, yes I am that old. Oh yes and I am a woman. 😉

Jo W | 25.10.23 - 7:35 a.m. | #

What memories you have evoked in me (says a man of a certain age). However, nothing can best vthe method of dispatch of the original Cybermen,vwhen their victims were turned into pillow sized plastic bags of straw. This had me hiding behind the chair for the only time in my life, episode after episode. Truly scary! Mind you, the weeping angel statues come a close second.

Ken | 25.10.23 - 7:57 a.m. | #

We seem to have had very similar childhood tastes - but then we are both "of a certain age".

As well as Robots of Death being a cracking good story, it had the bonus - fascinating to a bus nerd - of all of the robots having "fleet numbers". I particularly enjoyed D84, as we had a D84 allocated to my local depot in Dublin :-)

As always, great stuff. I may not comment on many posts, but I enjoy them all.

Steve

Steve Conway | 25.10.23 - 7:58 a.m. | #

I never worked out what the colour coding was for daleks, as it rank related?

Adrian | 25.10.23 - 8:16 a.m. | #

I loved this post.

Tetramesh | Homepage | 25.10.23 - 8:23 a.m. | #

Great piece of writing: I still spend too much time in this place

tony williams | 25.10.23 - 8:42 a.m. | #

I will definitely be visiting this. Being a BBC sci-fi nut I can confirm you got all your facts correct. Great shame about the Tripods but that's Michael Grade for you.

daveid76 | 25.10.23 - 9:16 a.m. | #

My to-do list just got longer, though I'd be more of an 'Oh, I remember that' rather than having loved it.
Plus some I don't remember (Tripods, Star Cops)

Cornish Cockney | 25.10.23 - 10:45 a.m. | #

Thanks for always keeping a lookout for the cool things happening in town for us! Will try to give it a visit.

matthieu1221 | 25.10.23 - 10:59 a.m. | #

Stanley Greens placards were on display in the Museum of London. I hope they return when it reopens.

mclm | 25.10.23 - 12:23 p.m. | #

It must have been in the 70s when I followed a mysterious cable into a copse in the grounds of Leeds castle in kent, and found first an abandoned Tardis then further on Tom Baker beside a pond having a sword fight against a man with a shiny helmet.

dg writes: last week of July 1978.

kev | 25.10.23 - 12:54 p.m. | #

Fond memories of Blake’s 7. The only space ship in the universe with a plywood floor! Many other cheapskate locations too. I recall a scene where they were pondering how to break a tough padlock to gain entry into the compound over the fence, when in reality it was little over waist height so they could have easily jumped over it. The compound was something like a disused gasworks.

Bob S | 25.10.23 - 4:04 p.m. | #

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I went today and the exhibition aside, the museum and the rest of the park were lovely.

Alfie | 25.10.23 - 5:19 p.m. | #

Never saw Blake’s 7 but a character sharing exactly my name apparently came to a sticky end at Servalan’s hands. When a Sky remake was rumoured, I thought of asking for script and casting approval if my character was revived, but it doesn’t seem to have happened. Not sure if this is good news or not.

Coincidentally, as a junior BBC employee I watched several Pertwee-era Dr Whos being taped; the blend of live action, models, and mattes (no CSO) was surprisingly impressive.

Labourer | 25.10.23 - 7:00 p.m. | #

Good to see Marvin there. Brain the size of a planet.

Steven Saunders | 25.10.23 - 7:20 p.m. | #

Fantastic exhibition - will be swinging by on my next visit to my former home town. Thanks!

Matthew | 25.10.23 - 9:09 p.m. | #

The Tripods was a fab series.

Cornish Monkey | 26.10.23 - 1:16 p.m. | #











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