BBC tv Special Effects Exhibition

BBC tv Special Effects Exhibition
Features:	Full-sized TARDIS console
Location:	Science Museum, Kensington, London
Opened:	[[December (releases)|December]] [[[[1972 (releases)|1972
Closed:	[[May (releases)|May]] [[[[1973 (releases)|1973

The BBC tv Special Effects Exhibition, also called the BBC TV Visual Effects exhibition in some media,^{[statement unclear]} One notable aspect is the lower case "tv" which appears written on the promotional badge — the lower case "tv" was how the BBC's logo was written at the time.

It opened in December 1972. While this, like the earlier 1960s exhibitions, was a BBC TV Special Effects focusing on shows other than Doctor Who, this is one of the first exhibitions to have a significant portion dedicated to Doctor Who.

Overview

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Notable elements

• A glass box with a miniature UNIT jeep within showing how the heat barrier effect would work in TV: The Dæmons.
• Two Daleks
• A TARDIS console and some interior TARDIS panels
• Cybermen from The Invasion
• A Draconian Prince
• An Ogron
• An Axon and an Axos model
• A Sea Devil

• Three model spaceships - the Axon from Claws of Axos, the ship of the Ambassadors of Death (An airfix Apollo Saturn rocket painted fluorescent purple) and one other. All on a starscape set into the TARDIS wall.

Promotion

• Jon Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney and Katy Manning appeared in costume at the Press Launch in December 1972.

Notes

• Power cuts, a feature of life in the 1970s effected the display of this exhibition.
• This exhibition was toured.
• In May 1973, a smaller version of this exhibition opened at Longleat House.
• The TARDIS console, following the end of the exhibition went to the Doctor Who Exhibition Blackpool and then was moved to the Longleat House exhibition.

Gallery

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  The Doctor and the Daleks.

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  TARDIS Commander badge given away to patrons.

Footnotes