ApolloHoax.net
Off Topic => General Discussion => Topic started by: ajv on July 13, 2023, 08:15:20 PM
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I was rewatching a Classic Doctor Who story and remembered that I was going to point out the use of a prop to Apollo mission fans.
[I noticed this years ago and it's possible that I've posted it before on this forum or a previous one - sorry if it's a repeat.]
In the story "The Pirate Planet", the Doctor enters a control room - and what do we see as one of the control panels he walks past?
https://www.ad-lunam.com/vlcsnap-1978-10-07.png
(https://www.ad-lunam.com/vlcsnap-1978-10-07.png)
You can only see the left-hand side of the panel in this particular screen shot, but I think you can see this looks very similar to the Apollo Command Module main display console:
https://airandspace.si.edu/sites/default/files/images/5131h.jpg
(https://airandspace.si.edu/sites/default/files/images/5131h.jpg)
It's so similar that I wonder whether they reused a prop that was meant to match the real-life Apollo spacecraft - perhaps in their coverage of the real missions or a space drama show.
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Great pickup! I can't be sure if I ever saw that episode (I stopped watching after Tom Baker) but I never noticed.
It's possible it was left over from the Apollo 11 coverage, as you suggest:
The London studio set consisted of a long, angled desk, large models of the moon and the Earth, and a large picture of a rocket against a dark, “cosmic”- type background. On the front of the desk was a digital clock which counted down the time to lift-off etc. Film animations and models of various parts of the spacecraft helped explain certain stages of the journey.
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Great pickup! I can't be sure if I ever saw that episode (I stopped watching after Tom Baker) but I never noticed.
The Pirate Planet was Tom Baker episode ;)
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Great pickup! I can't be sure if I ever saw that episode (I stopped watching after Tom Baker) but I never noticed.
The Pirate Planet was Tom Baker episode ;)
LOL! Yes, I did see that it was him but that was the era when I wasn't watching as much; I don't remember seeing that ep... actually I don't think I ever saw his 'regeneration'.