2001 thruster packs in Doctor Who!

[Treadwell]

From 1972's "The Mutants":

:eek

 

[Tremas]

Oh my God! Think this means that, deep within the crypt of the BBC, these things might still be laying about??

 

[zorg]

well spotted!

 

[robn1]

Awesome, nice find!

 

[Krel]

I remember watching "Doctor Who" on PBS back in the early 80s. I remember seeing one of the thruster packs attached to the top of a docking tube as set dressing. Not as good a view as that. I don't remember which Doctor it was, probably Tom Baker.

David.

 

[EvilRocketeer]

great eye!!!!!! one of my dream props is putting together a 2001 space suit......i highly doubt that will come true.....

 

[Treadwell]

Oh my God! Think this means that, deep within the crypt of the BBC, these things might still be laying about??

Some props would be made in-house, some would be bought (like a bunch of Jerry Andrerson models and set pieces around that time), and some would be rented. So it's hard to say whether the packs would've been knocking around the Beeb.

 

[Treadwell]

I remember watching "Doctor Who" on PBS back in the early 80s. I remember seeing one of the thruster packs attached to the top of a docking tube as set dressing. Not as good a view as that. I don't remember which Doctor it was, probably Tom Baker.

David.

Good recall! But different BBC Sci-Fi show!

From Blake's 7, episode 2, "Space Fall":

Those are opposite ends of the tube in the story, but probably the same set used from different angles (so just one thruster pack).

 

[NormanF]

I thought I read that Kubrick had all the models and everything else from 2001 destroyed for exactly this reason.

 

[Krel]

Bad post.

David.

 

[Krel]

Good recall! But different BBC Sci-Fi show!

From Blake's 7, episode 2, "Space Fall":

Well in my defense, it has been over twenty years since I have seen either show. :lol

I thought I read that Kubrick had all the models and everything else from 2001 destroyed for exactly this reason.

Kubrick didn't own any of it, MGM did, so it makes no sense that he could order studio property destroyed. I have read that it was 2001 that did in the UK MGM studios. The movie took so much of the studio space for so long that the studio lost all revenue from other productions, and it never recovered. As the studio shut down, most of the props costumes, and set pieces were put into storage with the other properties from MGM studios. Eventually the studio got tired of paying the storage costs, and had everything destroyed. They never bothered to inventory any of it, they just trashed it all.

David.