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'''Riverside Studios''' are primarily television studios on Crisp Road in the [[London]] borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. They were the principal, though not exclusive, home to studio recording for ''Doctor Who'' from the second to the early fourth seasons of the original run. They are perhaps most significant to historians of the programme as the location where the first regeneration scene was filmed. | '''Riverside Studios''' are primarily television studios on Crisp Road in the [[London]] borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. They were the principal, though not exclusive, home to studio recording for ''Doctor Who'' from the second to the early fourth seasons of the original run. They are perhaps most significant to historians of the programme as the location where the first regeneration scene was filmed. | ||
==Site history== | ==Site history== | ||
Riverside's buildings were not originally meant for film or video production. Instead, they were constructed in [[1903]] as simple industrial space. It was only in [[1933]] that the site gave up its industrial roots and was converted into a film studio by Triumph Film Company. For the next 21 years, | Riverside's buildings were not originally meant for film or video production. Instead, they were constructed in [[1903]] as simple industrial space. It was only in [[1933]] that the site gave up its industrial roots and was converted into a film studio by Triumph Film Company. For the next 21 years, the studios passed through a succession of at least moderately-successful film producers. Perhaps the most famous movie produced at the site was the long-running, Academy Award-winning, ''The Seventh Veil''. In [[1954]] the studios were used for the final time as a film studio to produce the Alec Guinness film, ''Father Brown'' (USA: ''The Detective''). | ||
Like nearby [[Lime Grove Studios]], Riverside was then acquired by the BBC as a "temporary" solution to its recording needs whilst [[BBC Television Centre]] was being built.<ref>[http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/studioone/tvcentres.php Barfe, Louis. "Television Gets a Complex".] EMC Studio One. Transdiffusion Broadcasting System. 1 January 2005.</ref> Equally like Lime Grove, it was used far after the 1960 opening of the TC. | Like nearby [[Lime Grove Studios]], Riverside was then acquired by the BBC as a "temporary" solution to its recording needs whilst [[BBC Television Centre]] was being built.<ref>[http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/studioone/tvcentres.php Barfe, Louis. "Television Gets a Complex".] EMC Studio One. Transdiffusion Broadcasting System. 1 January 2005.</ref> Equally like Lime Grove, it was used far after the 1960 opening of the TC. | ||
