On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:23:03 -0000, "Tim Roll-Pickering"
wrote:
Chris Tolley wrote:
There was (so SWMBO tells me) a Doctor Who story set in a disused tube
stn,
From recollection three stories, though none feature disused stations.
Six, seven, or eight, depending on definitions, and how much actually
appears for it to count!
'The Dalek Invasion of Earth' made extensive use of the disused "Wood
Lane" station (also popular with 'The Tomorrow People'), just over the
road from TV Cent
http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...mtv/dwdioe.htm
The film version featured an anachronistic "Embankment" station:
http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...tv/d2150ad.htm
'The Chase' has a fleeting glimspe of "White City" station,
establishing Ian and Barbara's return to London:
http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...v/dwthcase.htm
In "The Web of Fear" (1968) the TARDIS materialises in the tube and finds
the network shut down and London evacuated due to an invasion by robotic
Yeti. A number of tube stations are seen, but all scenes were recorded in
studio (though the sets were so convincing that London Underground believed
otherwise!).
Some filming in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, but otherwise sets
representing "Covent Garden," "Charing Cross" (the current
"Embankment"), "South Kensington," "Piccadilly Circus," the
"Bank"-"Monument" escalator link, and the WW2 Deep Level Shelter under
"Goodge Street":
http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...mtv/dwtwof.htm
London is evactuated again in 1974's "Invasion of the Dinosaurs", where the
monsters of the story's title have been transported back in time by renegade
scientists operating an a base beneath (I thin) Aldgate tube, accessed by a
lift in a broom cupboard.
Exteriors were shot at "Moorgate," but the station name is not
visible, although it was (presumably erroneously) on the SPFX model of
the same; the interior studio sets have LU roundels with a name
starting with "TRAF..." which could only be "Tragalgar Square" i.e.
the Bakerloo part of the current "Charing Cross." This makes perfect
sense in the context of it leading to the secret bunker under
Whitehall:
http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...mtv/dwiotd.htm
'The Sunmakers' was part-filmed in the Deep Level Shelter under
"Camden Town" station:
http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...lmtv/dwtsm.htm
The same location was also used in 'Survivors' ('The Lights of London'
#1&2, along with the Waterloo and City line platforms at "Bank"), and
the 'Blake's 7' episode 'Ultraworld' as the titular planet.
And in 1986's "The Trial of a Time Lord" the Doctor visits the future where
Earth has been devasted by a solar flare and survivors live in "Marb
station", a complex built in and beneath Marble Arch station (although the
set for the actual remains of the station bears little resemblence to Marble
Arch).
It will have to be a very dull day before I get round to going through
that story again!
Finally, the opening episode of the new series did have an indication
of an Underground station, but obviously completely fictional, it
being shot in Cardiff:
http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...mtv/dwrose.htm
--
Nick Cooper
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The London Underground at War, and in Films & TV:
http://www.nickcooper.org.uk/