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C'mon would we lie to
you ...........
Bunce reveals life for
what it really is and shatters your
The Bunce.childhood beliefs...
In this
months edition, Bunce reveals truths behind two of  our
best loved Sci Fi series. Blakes 7
and Dr WHO. What really went on behind the
scenes of these legendary TV programmes ?
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The desolate wasteland, that
was planet Alpha B4 in quadrant 5. In fact it
was a clay pit just off the B456 near St Austell
The haunted landscape of the
Evil Empire. In actual fact a pleasant Summer evening in
Exmoor |
Bunce
on - The Locations
For large periods of time in
the 1970's and early 1980's, the BBC closed
large tracts of Devon and Cornwall to the public
whilst episodes were filmed.
Such classics as the 1972
classic 'Dr Who and the green wobbly things'
were filmed entirely on location in a china clay
pit near St Austell.
The 1983 Blakes 7 masterpeice
'Servalan slips into something less comfortable
to dominate the galaxy' used de-militarised
portions of Exmoor as the setting.
Bank holiday chaos on the M5
in Somerset can be directly attributed to the
activities of the BBC in the South West during
this period. |
 Bunce
on - The Sets
Set production for both
series kept an entire night shift in employment
at the Hemel Hempstead 'Bacofoil' plant for
three and a half years in the early 1980's.
An entire factory in the West
Midlands was employed solely to produce
chipboard and the plywood for the sets.
Plywood was designed and
produced to exacting standards that produced
just enough 'wobble' when actors accidentally
touched the set. Coincidentally this same
factory produced much of the 'Crossroads' set
for ITV. |
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on - The Actors
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 Peter
Tuddenham the actor and voice of Orac the
computer on the Liberator space craft in Blakes
7 took his job very seriously.
Peter, ever the perfectionist and long
time method actor spent three months inside a
used haddock crate prior to the start of filming
episode 1 of Blakes 7.
Strangely Peter was often seen alone at
the BBC bar during filming. |
 Jacqueline
Pearce, Servalan ruled the galaxy with a
wardrobe almost as large as her ego. Six entire
wardrobe departments worked day and night to
keep the character dressed in frocks fit to
conquer the universe.
Sadly, Jaqueline Pearce was often seen
walking down Wigan high street and in her local,
the Rat and Ferret in the outfits. |
 For
15 years the BBC ran workshops where jobbing
actors were taught the art of looking frightened
in the face of creatures fashioned from lumps of
putty, chicken wire covered with papier
mache and old colanders. |
 The
tardis was real.
It was stolen from Croyden high street by
BBC props department in March 1968.
The 'illusion' that the inside was much
larger than the outside was created by a BBC set
designer 'Archie Tubbs'. Archie claimed that it
wasn't an illusion and he had in fact created a
temporal distortion in the space time fabric. In
a bizarre accident Archie's plans and
calculations perished along with him in
Harpenden when a faulty pack of 'Walls' sausages
caused his bed-sit to explode. |
