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Are Friends Electric? (38'57")
The making of Robot.
- Barry Letts sets the scene of the importance of Robot.
Philip Hinchcliffe explains his and Barry's work on it while
George Gallaccio shares his thoughts and Terrance Dicks on his
thoughts about leaving the show and handing over to Robert
Holmes.
- Elisabeth Sladen and Letts on the UNIT family breaking up.
- Letts talks about casting a new Doctor (and the
possibilities he went through such as Graham Crowden and Michael
Bentine) and Tom Baker explains what he went through to get the
part.
- Hinchcliffe, Letts and Christopher Barry on inheriting great
cast from Bill Slater.
- Dicks, Baker, Letts and Hinchcliffe explain how the fourth
Doctor was created - Baker admits it's just him.
- Sladen, Baker and Barry on the costume - and specifically
the scarf.
- Baker shares with us what it is to be a children's hero.
- Dicks, Barry, Letts, on the plot of Robot and its
links to King Kong.
- Dicks, Letts and Alec Linstead talk about feminism, while
Sladen and Gallaccio talk about Barry.
- Letts, Barry, Sladen and Baker remember Ian Marter, and the
relationships between the lead actors.
- Patricia Maynard gives us her views on Miss Wynters and
Sladen on the importance of casting - Ed Burnham particularly.
- Edward Burnham and Barry on the character of Professor
Kettlewell. And his hair.
- Burnham and Baker remember Michael Kilgarriff. Kilgarriff
shares his memories, both of being cast and of the difficulties
in the costume.
- Letts and Barry explain CSO and its limitations. Letts also
explains why they began using video cameras during outside
recordings where CSO was planned.
- Sladen defends the low budget of Doctor Who,
and final thoughts from Baker...
Clips are letterboxed to remain in 4:3
For Craig Hinton
Interviewers: Victoria Berry, Conrad Turner
Photographic Research: Derek Handley, Ralph Montagu
Thanks to: Mark Ayres, Andrew Martin, Gareth A Roberts, John
Sheen
Robot Costume courtesy of Doctor Who Museum, Golden Mile Centre,
BlackpooL
Additional Camera: Une Herzer, Steve Broster
Additional Sound: Angus Anderson
Colourist: Jonathan Wood
Filmed and Edited by John Kelly
Devised and Produced by Andrew Beech
(C) 2007 2entertain
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The Tunnel Effect (13'47")
An interview with Bernard Lodge, who explains what brought him to
his career, how the howlaround effect was created (and the decisions
he made when updating it for Troughton and Pertwee), where he found
inspiration for the time tunnel titles, his thoughts on the Sid
Sutton starfield titles, his thoughts on the 2005 titles and how the
time tunnel effect was created.
Narrator: George Kelly
With thanks to Bernard Lodge, John Leatherbarrow, Ken Morse, Begonia
Tamarit
Music by Jan Cyrka, Toby Brincheno, Christian Henson, Joe Henson &
Saba Winter
Lighting Cameraman: David Simmons
Production Runner: Louis Yung-Hoi
On-Line Editor: Leanne Sheppard
Colourist: Jonathan Wood
Executive Producer: Dan Hall
Produced & Directed by Brendan Sheppard
(C) 2007 2entertain
Blue Peter
Photo Gallery (4'12")
60 b/w and colour photos from the production. Thanks to Derek
Handley, BBC Photo Library
(C) 2007 2entertain
Radio Times Listings
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Commentary
By Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen and Terrance Dicks.
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