Battlefield

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Battlefield 1989 7N Season 26 Story 156

Mike Kelt Console

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[Mark]

I'd forgotten about this scene but it does go to confirm that the red slats on the column collar are translucent red rather than just painted on.

The darker set lighting also helps show how well the prisms distribute the time rotor lights which was perhaps the original intention.

[lofiscifi]

As much as I like the lack of harsh, over saturated light you typically got from BBC's studios at the time, it's a shame the walls are merely curtains by this point. It's almost as if they knew it wouldn't be returning.

[Kingpin]

As much as I like the lack of harsh, over saturated light you typically got from BBC's studios at the time, it's a shame the walls are merely curtains by this point. It's almost as if they knew it wouldn't be returning.

The writing may've been on the wall for some of the staff in the know, but I recall it being said the absence of the set's normal walls was because they just weren't fit for purpose by the time they filmed Battlefield.

[tony farrell]

Apparently, the Tardis set was accidentally destroyed after filming in a tent in Ealing Studios' car park for "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy".

[Cardinal Hordriss]

I wonder what that little nobly bit is for...

[timewomble]

Ah. So there's no truth in the story that Andrew Cartmel had them destroyed?

[Rassilons Rod]

The story sounds a bit aggressive (not heard it before tbh). But there's no reason there can't be some truth in everything we've heard. Nobody has gone on record with an explanation as yet.

So basically, everything is just hearsay at the moment.

[lofiscifi]

Apparently, the Tardis set was accidentally destroyed after filming in a tent in Ealing Studios' car park for "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy".

That's always been the general story ... I know there wasn't much love for DW at the BBC during that time, but it had still been going for 25 years, so you'd think most people would have recognised the set. It's quite bizarre.

[darren79]

It was the Eltree Studios car park rather than Ealing Studios one that Greatest Show was made on.

I totally expect that it was leaving BBC Television centre that did for the set. It probably got junked with the rest of the set as maybe the usual scene shifters weren't involved.

It did look quite tatty by Greatest Show but looking tatty never prevented the BBC keeping things in the past (see police boxes and Daleks:)).

[tony farrell]

It was the Eltree Studios car park rather than Ealing Studios one that Greatest Show was made on.

Thank you - I always seem to get these two mixed up.

T

[davidnagel]

If these were abandoned/junked, where did the walls for Dimension in Time come from? That became the Rani's interior walls?

Were fans actively making walls like those at that time?

[Kingpin]

I wonder what that little nobly bit is for...

I had a quick spin through a few episodes of Davison's run (season 21 to be specific), the "nobly bit" appears to have first shown up in Planet of Fire, but it doesn't seem to get any use.  It may've been installed for a sequence that was ultimately discarded from the story (Maybe something involving Kamelion, perhaps).

[Rassilons Rod]

Nobly bit?

[Cardinal Hordriss]

That thingymadoodle next to the speaker.