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The BBC tv Special Effects Exhibition opened on December 1st, 1972, at the Science Museum in South Kensington, London.
One notable aspect of the exhibition's title is the lower case spelling of "tv" — using a lower case "tv" was how the BBC's logo was written at that time.
Like the BBC's previous exhibitions of television special effects, in the 1960s, this one focused on shows other than Doctor Who, but this was the first to have a significant proportion of its exhibits drawn from Doctor Who.
The exhibition ran at the Science Museum for six months, until May 1973, drawing huge numbers of visitors. It then went on a very successful tour of the North of England.
The great success of the exhibition was adjudged to be due to the Doctor Who elements included in it. This led BBC Enterprises to create a permanent Doctor Who exhibition in 1974, on Blackpool's Golden Mile, which was a permanent attraction there every year until 1985, from the Easter holiday until the end of the Illuminations in October.
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.[1]
- 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 The Claws of Axos, the ship of the 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 on 1st December 1972.
Notes
- Power cuts, a feature of life in the early 1970s, affected the display of this exhibition.
- This exhibition was toured. [source needed]
- 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.[source needed]
Gallery
The Doctor and the Daleks.
TARDIS Commander badge given away to patrons.
