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Post by trt on Dec 5, 2012 16:05:56 GMT
 (Click for larger version) <<Edit: rincew1nd>> londonstuff has previously changed the picture to a link, I've now found a thumbnail though it's a bit small. Click the above or here for the full size image. <</edit>>Just what is he resting his feet on? Does this mean there will be some tube action in Who again? Possibly on the Met line, as it supposedly Victorian... Christmas Eve 1892, and the falling snow is the stuff of fairytales. When the fairytale becomes a nightmare and a chilling menace threatens Earth, an unorthodox young governess, Clara, calls on the Doctor for help. But the Doctor is in mourning, reclusive and determined not to engage in the problems of the universe. As old friends return, will the Doctor really abandon humankind or will he fight to save the world – and Christmas – from the icy clutches of this mysterious menace?So the Metropolitan Line would be opened, some of the Northern Line... The East London Line (Brunel's Thames Tunnel)... what else? The roundel on that box isn't used for the underground until 1908, possibly much later... |
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Post by railtechnician on Dec 5, 2012 16:19:12 GMT
How about a tin of LTE biscuits grabbed en route from present to past! I used to love one of those with a cuppa back in the 1970s.
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Post by trt on Dec 5, 2012 16:24:25 GMT
How about a tin of LTE biscuits grabbed en route from present to past! I used to love one of those with a cuppa back in the 1970s. You wouldn't believe what he can do with a Jammy Dodger! ;D |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Dec 5, 2012 16:46:13 GMT
So the Metropolitan Line would be opened, some of the Northern Line... The East London Line (Brunel's Thames Tunnel)... what else? ... The Met had been extended from Chalfont to Aylesbury earlier in 1892, so almost the entire sub-surface network, give or take a few outliers like east of Whitechapel (1902) and the Met branches to Uxbridge (1904) and Watford (1925). Of lines now taken over by deep tubes, the Hounsow btranch was open but niot the south harroiw and Stanmore ones. The first stage of the CSLR was open, but no other deep tube. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2012 17:11:28 GMT
Could Dr Who go back to 1962 somewhere on the MET where the A Stock was being introduced?
The monsters/baddies from the future could be the Salaks - long snake like machines from the future which prayed on unsuspecting passengers on parts of the UndergrounD! ;D
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Post by trt on Dec 25, 2012 19:14:25 GMT
Well that was that answered.
It was a 1967 tube map, which the Doctor showed to "The Great Intelligence", an intelligent form of snow. It was a nod to the 1967 Doctor Who episodes "The Abominable Snowmen" and "The Web of Fear", both of which involved "The Great Intelligence" attacking Earth. "The Web of Fear", famously, featuring Yeti invading "The London Underground". The Tube has, of course, featured in several episodes since then.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Dec 25, 2012 21:50:09 GMT
It was a nod to the 1967 Doctor Who episodes "The Abominable Snowmen" and "The Web of Fear", both of which involved "The Great Intelligence" attacking Earth. "The Web of Fear", famously, featuring Yeti invading "The London Underground".. A story I read about that was that, on seeing the broadcast, some senior person startyed a witch hunt to find who had authorised filming in the Tube after he had expressly forbidden it. he took some convincing that it had in fact been a studio set - a rather better one than most of the wobbly sets for which Dr Whoi had a reputation at the time. only the first episode survives. It is also notable as the first appearance of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart |
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Post by revupminster on Dec 25, 2012 22:09:16 GMT
In the late sixties they used to rehearse Dr Who in the hall of the White City training centre and I have seen a Dalek there.
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Post by mrfs42 on Dec 25, 2012 22:18:27 GMT
The eagle eyed will have noticed the Westinghouse power frame levers used to control the TARDIS, chromed - just like the LT ones.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2012 22:36:38 GMT
The eagle eyed will have noticed the Westinghouse power frame levers used to control the TARDIS, chromed - just like the LT ones. Indeed, and also the C.A.V. gearchange unit, as featured on many Omnibi from the 1960s and '70s! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2012 23:25:31 GMT
>>The roundel on that box isn't used for the underground until 1908, possibly much later...
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I don't think the roundel of red circle with plain blue bar was in use until maybe the 1980s. So obviously, the tin that is under the doctor's feet is one that he picked up on a visit to contemporary London earlier in his life. Or perhaps later in this life ...
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Post by trt on Dec 25, 2012 23:59:52 GMT
>>The roundel on that box isn't used for the underground until 1908, possibly much later... << I don't think the roundel of red circle with plain blue bar was in use until maybe the 1980s. So obviously, the tin that is under the doctor's feet is one that he picked up on a visit to contemporary London earlier in his life. Or perhaps later in this life ... Yes, the Doctor clearly referenced the fact that the box was one he had brought with him - presumably from 1967, though he did only date the map. And it was the correct map for 1967. Thank you, BBC props person, thank you! The eagle eyed will have noticed the Westinghouse power frame levers used to control the TARDIS, chromed - just like the LT ones. No, I missed that! Nice touch. |
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