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The Doctor Who Production Diary: 1988
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Birth of Mandip Gill (bio), who played Yasmin Khan |
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Kevin Clarke is commissioned to write
the final two episodes of Silver
Nemesis |
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Birth of Catrin Stewart (bio), who played Jenny Flint |
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Terry Nation's agents grant formal
approval to Remembrance
Of The Daleks, after initially raising objections to its use of
Davros |
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In the UK, the merger of the Liberal Party
and the Social Democratic Party brings about the formation of the
Liberal Democrats |
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Recording for Remembrance Of The Daleks takes
place in Southwark, London |
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Recording for Remembrance Of The Daleks takes
place in Southwark, London |
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Recording for Remembrance Of The Daleks takes
place in London, at Brentford and Southwark |
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Recording for Remembrance Of The Daleks takes
place in Brentford, London |
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Recording for Remembrance Of The Daleks takes
place in London, at Acton, Kilburn and Notting Hill |
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Recording for Remembrance Of The Daleks takes
place in Hammersmith, London |
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Recording for Remembrance Of The Daleks takes
place in Hammersmith, London |
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Recording for Remembrance Of The Daleks takes
place in Hammersmith, London |
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Recording for Remembrance Of The Daleks takes
place in Hammersmith, London |
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Recording for Remembrance Of The Daleks takes
place at BBC Television Centre Studio 8 in White City, London |
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Recording for Remembrance Of The Daleks takes
place at BBC Television Centre Studio 8 in White City, London |
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Recording for Remembrance Of The Daleks takes
place at BBC Television Centre Studio 8 in White City, London |
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The asbestos problem at BBC Television
Centre forces the cancellation of the second studio session for The Greatest Show In The Galaxy,
scheduled for June 15th and 16th, but permission has now been granted
for the serial to be completed in a tent erected on a parking lot at BBC
Elstree, which becomes known as “Laskey's Studio” after
designer David Laskey |
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Recording for The Greatest Show In The Galaxy
takes place at “Laskey's Studio” on the premises of BBC
Elstree in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire |
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Recording for The Greatest Show In The Galaxy
takes place at “Laskey's Studio” on the premises of BBC
Elstree in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire |
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Recording for The Greatest Show In The Galaxy
takes place at “Laskey's Studio” on the premises of BBC
Elstree in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire |
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Recording for The Greatest Show In The Galaxy
takes place at “Laskey's Studio” on the premises of BBC
Elstree in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire |
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Recording for The Greatest Show In The Galaxy
takes place at “Laskey's Studio” on the premises of BBC
Elstree in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire |
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Recording for The Greatest Show In The Galaxy
takes place at “Laskey's Studio” on the premises of BBC
Elstree in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire |
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Recording for The Greatest Show In The Galaxy
takes place at “Laskey's Studio” on the premises of BBC
Elstree in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire |
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Recording for The Greatest Show In The Galaxy
takes place at “Laskey's Studio” on the premises of BBC
Elstree in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire |
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Recording for Silver Nemesis takes place in
Greenwich, London |
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Recording for Silver Nemesis takes place in
Greenwich, London |
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Recording for Silver Nemesis takes place in
Greenwich, London |
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Recording for Silver Nemesis takes place in
Arundel, West Sussex |
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Recording for Silver Nemesis takes place in
Arundel, West Sussex |
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Recording for Silver Nemesis takes place in
Arundel, West Sussex |
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Recording for Silver Nemesis takes place in
Arundel, West Sussex |
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Recording for Silver Nemesis takes place in
Arundel, West Sussex |
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Recording for Silver Nemesis takes place in
Bramber, West Sussex |
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Recording for Silver Nemesis takes place in
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex |
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Recording for Silver Nemesis takes place in
Harefield, London |
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Recording for The Happiness Patrol takes place at
BBC Television Centre Studio 3 in White City, London |
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Recording for The Happiness Patrol takes place at
BBC Television Centre Studio 3 in White City, London |
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Recording for The Happiness Patrol takes place at
BBC Television Centre Studio 3 in White City, London |
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Recording for The Happiness Patrol takes place at
BBC Television Centre Studio 8 in White City, London |
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The terrorist organisation which will
become known as al-Qaeda is formed in Pakistan by Osama bin Laden and
others |
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Recording for The Happiness Patrol takes place at
BBC Television Centre Studio 8 in White City, London |
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The Iran-Iraq War ends after almost eight
years of fighting |
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The BBC confirms that Doctor Who
has been renewed for Season Twenty-Six |
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Ben Aaronovitch is commissioned to write
Battlefield |
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The launch of Discovery marks the
resumption of NASA's space shuttle program, two and a half years after
the Challenger disaster |
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Debut broadcast of The Happiness Patrol episode one on
BBC One |
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Debut broadcast of The Happiness Patrol episode two on
BBC One |
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Ian Briggs is commissioned to write The Curse Of Fenric |
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HB “Bev” Stokes, chairman
and chief executive of Bassett Foods, writes to John Nathan-Turner to
complain about the similarity between his company's Bertie Bassett
advertising icon and the Kandyman in The
Happiness Patrol |
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Debut broadcast of The Happiness Patrol episode three
on BBC One |
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Marc Platt is commissioned to write Ghost Light |
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Rona Munro is commissioned to write the
first episode of Survival |
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Debut broadcast of Silver Nemesis episode one on
BBC One |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 debuts
on the independent UHF channel KTMA in Minnesota |
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Debut broadcast of Silver Nemesis episodes two and
three on TVNZ in New Zealand |
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Brian Turner of the BBC Copyright
Department responds to Bassett Foods to deny that the Kandy Man has
infringed on their Bertie Bassett trademark, but also to reassure the
company that the character will not be used again |
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Silver
Nemesis episode two is broadcast on BBC One for the first time |
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New Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
is the first woman to lead the government of an Islamic country |
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Silver
Nemesis episode three is broadcast on BBC One for the first
time |
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Debut broadcast of The Greatest Show In The Galaxy
episode one on BBC One |
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Libyan terrorists detonate a bomb aboard
Pan Am Flight 103 as it is passing over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all
259 passengers and crew aboard, as well as 11 people on the ground |
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Debut broadcast of The Greatest Show In The Galaxy
episode two on BBC One |
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Death of Terence Dudley (bio), director and writer |
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Debut broadcast of The Greatest Show In The Galaxy
episode three on BBC One |
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