Regent Street (filming location)
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Regent Street was a filming location for the Doctor Who season 2 story The Chase [+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"].
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By late April 1965, it had been decided that the serial's final episode "The Planet of Decision" would include two brief live-action film sequences and a photo-montage sequence which showed Ian and Barbara back on Earth after parting ways with the Doctor. As a late addition to the script, filming for this section of the episode was not handled by the director of the rest of the The Chase, Richard Martin,[1] but by Douglas Camfield, director the following serial The Time Meddler [+]Loading...["The Time Meddler (TV story)"][1][2] as part of pre-filming for that story.[2]
On 28 April, Camfield's assistant Cordelia Crawshaw sent a memo to Pauline Mansfield-Clark requesting that she book William Russell and Jacqueline Hill for a photocall on 6 May to take the stills for the montage. Around the same time, Crawshaw confirmed to Joan Jefferies of the Photographic Department a request made by Camfield for her to do the rostrum camera work for this sequence.[1]
After completing rehearsals for the serial's second episode "The Death of Time" earlier that day,[3] Hill and Russell met with Camfield and the session's photographer at BBC Television Centre at 2pm on 6 May.[1][3] According to the itinerary prepared in advance, the Piccadilly Circus/Regent Street area was their third stop of the day, arriving there by taxi having already taken pictures at the Albert Embankment and Trafalgar Square. Planned stills to be taken at this location included shots of the Eros statue, traffic, theatres, cinemas, Ian and Barbara eating ice cream as well as of the pair window shopping. After this was finished, they again went by taxi to their final stop at the Queensway station end of Hyde Park on Bayswater Road. Expenses incurred during the session included a £0-5-0 tip to a stallholder, £0-2-6 for fruit, £0-2-0 for peanuts, £0-3-0 for hot dogs,[1][3] a £1-0-0 tip to the hired driver, and £0-10-0 for two Serpentine boat tickets.
However, it is unlikely that this itinerary was followed exactly and not all of the planned shots featured in the montage included in the recorded episode.[1] Pictures on Regent Street included in the twenty-three second sequence as broadcast depicted Ian and Barbara catching a bus.[3] This was the final shot of the montage and immediately preceded Ian and Barbara's last live-action scene which was set on said bus.
