Firstly, hugely grateful to see a further DW studio tour. This video is a great illustration of the economy of sets to achieve a fantastically well established story location. Glad to see such praise for the corridor, we get obsessed with corridors in DW and this is the best. Also interesting to have noted what else was repurposed for Revenge. I’m curious as to why the three storey chamber loses a layer, was the set moved within the studio between weeks? Good excuse to rewatch the video. Thanks again
Sets were never kept up longer than required, so they would be taken apart and reconstructed for each block. In fact, the second block was a fortnight later in a different studio, and the original studio would have been used for a half-dozen different productions in the meantime! For the second block they didn't need the third storey so didn't bother to build it.
Why did they change the main chamber from three storeys to two for later shooting? Did they dismantle the sets between blocks and not need it to be as high for the second block or did something happen to the set?
The former - sets were never left up longer than they were used for at the BBC because the studio would be used for a different programme the day after, so it was dismantled and stored for the next block a fortnight later. In this case, the upper floors weren't seen in the later scenes, so they just built it two storeys high.
@@solidbronze Thanks! I hadn’t realised they’d need to collapse and re-build the sets like that. It must have been extra annoying for Doctor Who as they were complex sci-fi sets, not like most shows where it would likely be more domestic looking sets!
@@dreamcastfan I know, right? Though, with all the differenr programmes the BBC made, I think any of them would be tricky. Imagine doing a complex Victorian street for a Dickens adaptation or a murder mystery in a fancy manor house...
@@solidbronze I recently bought the vhs off ebay and had a watch. It's definitely an enjoyable story and after watching your virtual set tours, it would be interesting to see what the set layout was for Planet of Evil. The design work on that, especially Zeta Minor's landscape is fantastic. :)
