Samuel Liddell

Here are restorations and colourisations of two design photos showing the full majesty of the set for Victoria’s cell from #DoctorWho and the Evil of the Daleks - both taken on the afternoon of Saturday 20th May 1967 in Lime Grove Studio D during camera rehearsals for Episode 2. Aside from highlighting how extremely tiny the set was, the main point of interest is the detailed view we get of the unique Dalek prop built by Shawcraft for this story. Presumably to more easily fit through doorways, this much narrower Dalek had only one column of hemispheres at the rear instead of two, a slimmer shoulder section, and its arm and (simplified) gunstick were both static, fixed into one position. It’s also the Dalek pushed off a cliff in Episode 6 and its thin skirt reappears (with a different upper section) at the end of The War Games.