#ADVENTURES IN SPACE IN TIME DOCUDRAMA SERIES#
#ADVENTURES IN SPACE IN TIME DOCUDRAMA TV#

The studio looked like a broom cupboard, and everything seemed to take place in it, including the farewell party for Verity L.

#ADVENTURES IN SPACE IN TIME DOCUDRAMA TV#

The mistakes were many вЂ“ the dolly seen in use was a film dolly, floor managers communicated with the gallery via a boom or else a mic on a stand with a button, shot cards on the right instead of the left, never known a red light and bell system used in all my years at the BBC, director calling shot numbers instead of the PS, gallery bearing no resemblance to any BBC galleries (TC, Riverside, Lime Grove, and TV Theatre) in position relative to studio floor and layout, etc.etc. I joined in OctoberВ 1963 and as far as I recall, Lime Grove had one studio still using CPS Emitrons with focus on the left and the wrist wrenching lens change in the centre of the camera body at the back: not Marconi MkIIIs as seen in the drama. I watched this epic, and was appalled at the representation of the Lime Grove studio and gallery, and also at the mistakes in working methods at that time. The programme was originally intended to appeal to a family audience, as an educational programme using time travel as a means to explore scientific ideas and famous moments in history.

Writer Anthony Coburn, David Whitaker, a story editor, and initial producer Verity Lambert also heavily contributed to the development of the series.

#ADVENTURES IN SPACE IN TIME DOCUDRAMA SERIES#

The head of drama, Canadian Sydney Newman, was mainly responsible for developing the programme, with the first format document for the series being written by Newman along with the head of the script department (later head of serials) Donald Wilson and staff writer C. Discussions and plans for the programme had been in progress for a year. It was to be a regular weekly programme, each episode 25 minutes of transmission length.

вЂњDoctor WhoвЂќ first appeared on BBC1 television at 17:16:20 GMT, eighty seconds after the scheduled programme time, 5:15 pm, on Saturday, 23 November 1963. Details of the film were announced by the BBC on 9 August 2012, with the programme airing on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on 21 November 2013. It is written by the вЂњDoctor WhoвЂќ and вЂњSherlockвЂќ writer Mark Gatiss. вЂњAn Adventure in Space and TimeвЂќ was a British television docudrama commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the science fiction series вЂњDoctor WhoвЂќ, and which tells the story of its creation.

Adventures in space in time docudrama