Doctor Who Exhibition Blackpool

Doctor Who Exhibition Blackpool
Features:	Regularly changing props
Location:	111 Central Promenade, Blackpool
Opened:	Easter - 30th October
Closed:	[[October (releases)|October]] [[1985 (releases)|1985]]

The Doctor Who Exhibition Blackpool was located at 111 Central Promenade, on the busy Golden Mile, a prime location for visitors. It ran for 11 years until the lease on the building it resided in expired.

Overview

Through a TARDIS-shaped entrance visitors followed the exhibition through a range of various displays of props, costumes, and models towards a working prop of the console room with console, before reaching the shop at the end.

Notable elements

• Displays were regularly updated with new exhibits as new stories were aired.
• Unlike the Longleat Exhibition, the Blackpool Exhibition also included a display of small scale models of landscapes and spacecrafts. Davros, Daleks, Cybermen and K9 were among regular exhibits.

Promotion

• Promoted in continuity announcements at the time, following the programme broadcasts.
• In 1975 Elizabeth Sladen, Ian Marter and Tom Baker promoted the exhibition with a parade led by Tom Baker in the back of Bessie with the Mayoress and a UNIT driver. The parade also include a Zygon, Bellal, Sontaran, Sea Devil and Cyberman led to the switching on of Blackpools illuminations.
• In 1985, Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant were present signing autographs in the console area for Children in Need.

Notes

to be added

Gallery

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  Exhibition posters

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  April 1974 Exhibition Ticket and Badge

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  Entrance October 1975

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  Exhibition layout 1975

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  Entrance 1982

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  Davros prop inside exhibition 1982

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  Dalek prop inside exhibition 1982

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  1984 Blackpool Illuminations