Designs on Doctor Who
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- Not to be confused with Designing Doctor Who, a different documentary about Ed Thomas' work.
Designs on Doctor Who was an episode of On Show, the BBC 2W arts programme. As such, it was mainly only available in Wales. Narrated by Tom Baker, it investigated the work of production designer Edward Thomas and his team. It concentrated mainly on the role of the design department in a few scenes of The Runaway Bride, the then-most-recent episode of Doctor Who.
The designs of three key scenes were examined, all explaining different aspects of Thomas' job.
The rooftop scene between Donna and the tenth Doctor was revealed to have contained a small design error in that the Doctor's fire extinguisher was silver. Thomas criticized this, because he had asked for either a red or gold entinguisher, to fit in with the overall colour scheme of the TARDIS interior.
Next, the street scene in front of Henrik's where the Doctor sonics the ATM was explored as a model of how the art department has to liaise with both the special effects team and property holders on location. It was mentioned, for instance, that the shop doubling for Henrik's obliged Thomas by dressing their windows with their own Christmas decorations —in July. The segment also showed the design, production, use and eventual cleanup of all the currency that spewed forth from the ATM.
Finally, the documentary uncovered the production designer's role in performing a location recce.
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