Over thirty years ago now in 1985 I was lucky enough to go on a set visit at Television Centre to see `Revelation of the Daleks` being filmed in what turned out to be the last two days of production before the infamous eighteen month hiatus. This account was originally published in the fanzine Zygon...
It’s 1985 on a warm and windy Thursday and
we are about to enter a building that is familiar yet also unknown. That is to
say its exterior is something everyone in the country knows but it’s interior
is altogether more shrouded in secrecy. On Blue
Peter when it looks like they’re going to show you what TV Centre is like
it turns out that the big studio doors open onto the outside. In fact it is
even more circular than it looks from the outside to the extent that if you
start off anywhere and keep walking you will eventually return to your
demarcation point after passing hundreds and hundreds of rooms. There are so
many rooms that you wonder whether every single employee of the BBC is entitled
to one!