Behind the Sofa: Robot (2018)
44 minutes
Group 1: Tom Baker (The Doctor), Sadie Miller (daughter of Elisabeth Sladen), Philip Hinchcliffe (producer)
Group 2: Louise Jameson (Leela), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa)
The two groups named above sit and watch Robot. Presumably they watched the whole story but they only show clips of them talking about it.
This was my first experience with a Behind the Sofa feature. It was okay. I don't recall any anecdotes from the chit chat. This is the first time that I can recall seeing or hearing Sadie Miller in anything. She has replaced her mother in a few Doctor Who audio dramas.
35 minutes
This is footage of a read through of the script for Robot. It was filmed for a BBC documentary that never came to be. All of the actors who had leading or supporting roles were there for the read through. Chistopher Barry (director), Robert Holmes (script editor), and Terrence Dicks (writer) were also present.
The footage was almost destroyed. Unfortunately the sound elements for this footage were lost or destroyed. Sounds from the show as it was broadcast have been used to replace some of the missing sound elements.
The first 5 minutes of this feature sets things up. The next 20 minutes are spent actually reading through sections of the story. The last 10 minutes are spent discussing how the read through went.
There are some subtitles in the first 5 and last 10 minutes. Lip readers were employed to try and figure out what people are saying but the subtitles in the last 10 minutes are so sporadic as to not provide a true sense of what was going on.
One things that stands out is how many people are smoking, including Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen.
Two cameras were used to film the read through.
It was nice to see this footage but I'm not sure if it was worth sitting through all 35 minutes of it.
The Tunnel Effect (2007)
14 minutes
Graphic Designer Bernard Lodge explains how the various graphics for the opening and closing credits were made for the original run of Doctor Who from the early 1960s to the late 1980s.
This was interesting stuff. It was just about the right length.
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