BBC Television Centre

BBC Television Centre is a television production facility in Shepherd's Bush in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is located within walking distance of the former site of Lime Grove Studios and close to Riverside Studios. It is one of the oldest buildings in the world specially built for television production.

Although most intimately connected to the color era of the original series of Doctor Who, it has been used to record at least parts of stories of each of the first nine Doctors, except the Eighth. and has been the subject of an episode of Doctor Who Confidential directed and hosted by David Tennant.

Alternate name

Television Centre is sometimes referred to as "Shepherd's Bush" by BBC employees, perhaps because it is the usual penchant for studios to have simple geographic names, like "Ealing", "Lime Grove", or "Teddington". This would have been especially appropriate during the period Television Centre was being most heavily used by Doctor Who, as it was merely the center of a whole cluster of buildings in Shepherd's Bush that the BBC used in various capacities to produce their content. This tradiition has been maintained in the BBC Wales production of Doctor Who, in which the "BBC Studios" are frequently called "Upper Boat", in deference to their location.

Stories Filmed at BBC Television Centre

• The War Games
• Doctor Who and the Silurians
• The Ambassadors of Death
• Inferno
• Terror of the Autons
• The Mind of Evil
• The Claws of Axos
• Colony in Space
• The Dæmons
• The Curse of Peladon
• The Three Doctors

As location

The front doors of Television Centre doubled as the entrance to the World Ecology Bureau in The Seeds of Doom.

As documentary sibkect

Television Centre was the subject of David Tennant's documentary, "Do You Remember the First Time?", aired as episode 10 of the third series of Doctor Who Confidential. Extensive historical and modern footage of the building was featured, including a cursory examination of which episodes of classic Doctor Who were filmed in which specific studios. For most of the "walkabout" tour of the complex, Tennant was accompanied by writer and future Doctor Who showrunner, Steven Moffat.