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The '''BBC Television Centre''' was located on [[Wood Lane]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invocation (audio story)|Invocation]]'') in [[Shepherd's Bush]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mystery Lady | The '''BBC Television Centre''' was located on [[Wood Lane]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invocation (audio story)|Invocation]]'') in [[Shepherd's Bush]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror of the Master (audio story)|Terror of the Master]]'', ''[[Mystery Lady (audio story)|Mystery Lady]]'') | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
A [[taxi driver (The Valley of Death)|taxi driver]] drove [[Godrin]] to the BBC Television Centre, believing that Godrin was method acting. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Valley of Death (audio story)|The Valley of Death]]'') | |||
With reported sightings of the [[Grey Man]] across [[London]] inciting fear in people, [[Vikram Shindi]] and his [[UNIT]] troops cordoned off a television station in [[Wood Lane]] and fought off the apparitions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invocation (audio story)|Invocation]]'') | Around the [[1970s]]{{note|See [[UNIT dating controversy]].}}, the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] visited the BBC Television Centre to check out "Dr Derek Drake", actually [[the Master (Terror of the Autons)|the Master]] in disguise, right after a [[television]] appearance. This led to a car chase with the [[Skaross]] around Shepherd's Bush. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror of the Master (audio story)|Terror of the Master]]'') | ||
In [[1976]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] made copies of a security badge he acquired in his [[third incarnation]] to allow [[Broadsword]] and [[Plasticine (group)|Plasticine]] to gain access to the BBC Television Centre and stop the [[Vardan]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') | |||
During the [[coup]] by the [[Internal Counter-Intelligence Service]], the BBC Television Centre was [[bomb]]ed, resulting in the [[BBC (in-universe)|BBC]] being knocked off-air. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Longest Night (audio story)|The Longest Night]]'') | |||
With reported sightings of the [[Grey Man]] across [[London]] inciting fear in people, [[Vikram Shindi]] and his [[UNIT United Kingdom|UNIT]] troops cordoned off a television station in [[Wood Lane]] and fought off the apparitions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invocation (audio story)|Invocation]]'') | |||
In late [[2012]], the BBC had sold the building to the [[Eightfold Truth]], who used the centre as their headquarters. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eight Truths (audio story)|The Eight Truths]]'') | In late [[2012]], the BBC had sold the building to the [[Eightfold Truth]], who used the centre as their headquarters. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eight Truths (audio story)|The Eight Truths]]'') | ||
== | By [[2111]], [[Bruce Forsyth (in-universe)|Bruce Forsyth]] was still alive and working at the BBC Television Centre. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] briefly brought [[Dermot O'Leary (in-universe)|Dermot O'Leary]] to this year and place in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] while trying to get him to the [[National Television Awards (in-universe)|National Television Awards]] in [[2011]]. Dermot stepped out of the TARDIS to find Bruce sitting in the studio, who confirmed to a surprised Dermot that he was still doing TV. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dermot and the Doctor (TV story)|Dermot and the Doctor]]'') | ||
[[File:TVActionComic.jpg|thumb|[[Beep]] | |||
=== Other realities === | |||
==== ''TV Action!'' ==== | |||
[[File:TVActionComic.jpg|thumb|[[Beep the Meep]]'s [[Beep the Meep's Neutron Drive Star Cruiser|ship]] punctures the side of Television Centre. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[TV Action! (comic story)|TV Action!]]'')]] | |||
[[BBC Television Centre (TV Action!)|A version of the BBC Television Centre]] also existed in [[Parallel universe (TV Action!)|a universe]], which the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Izzy Sinclair]] chased [[Beep]] the [[Meep]]. They arrived on [[12 October]] [[1979]] just outside the Television Centre, chasing Meep inside around the studios, with Beep finding and mistaking this universe's [[Tom Baker (TV Action!)|Tom Baker]] for the [[Fourth Doctor]]. Beep wished to extract revenge against Tom Baker, but in the end, the actor's tendency to ramble subdued the alien long enough to allow Izzy to overload Beep's [[Black Star drive]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[TV Action! (comic story)|TV Action!]]'') | |||
==== Earth-33⅓ ==== | |||
{{section stub|Info from ''[[Untitled 5 (It's Even Bigger on the Inside comic story)|Untitled 5]]'', ''[[Doctor Who? (DWM 161 comic story)|Doctor Who? 161]]'', ''[[Doctor Who? (DWM 190 comic story)|Doctor Who? 190]]'' needs to be added}} | |||
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== Behind the scenes == | |||
=== In non-valid sources === | |||
[[File:BBC Television Centre - The Dalek Appeal.png|thumb|left|The BBC Television Centre as it appeared when two of "''[[Doctor Who (in-universe)|Doctor Who]]''{{'}}s [[Dalek]]s were stolen from it. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Dalek Appeal (TV story)}})]]''[[Blue Peter (in-universe)|Blue Peter]]'' was broadcast from the BBC Television Centre. It was also there that two [[Dalek]]s were once stolen by unknown parties, having recently been transported back from [[Cardiff]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Dalek Appeal (TV story)}}) | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
=== Notes === | |||
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[[Category:BBC]] | [[Category:BBC]] | ||
[[Category:Buildings from the real world]] | [[Category:Buildings from the real world]] | ||
[[Category:Buildings visited by the Master]] | [[Category:Buildings visited by the Master (Terror of the Autons)]] | ||
[[Category:Buildings visited by the Third Doctor]] | [[Category:Buildings visited by the Third Doctor]] | ||
[[Category:Buildings visited by the Eighth Doctor]] | |||
