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A Press Release From The Doctor Who Experience As part of our Filming Locations Tour programme, we’re pleased to announce additional dates for our exclusive TARDIS Studio Set Tour. This gives Doctor Who fans who missed out on visiting the BBC Wales studios and the TARDIS Studio Set at Christmas time an opportunity to visit. The TARDIS Studio Set Tour is an exclusive opportunity to visit the actual 360 degree TARDIS set that was used in the last series of…

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Jon Rollason, who played Harold Chorley in the recently recovered Doctor Who story The Web of Fear, has died at the age of 84. Born in Birmingham in 1931, he enrolled at the Old Vic theatre school in London after completing his National Service. In interviews he claimed that his early work in the theatre was somewhat disheartening, citing playing Henry V’s corpse at the beginning of Henry VI Part 1 at Birmingham Rep in 1952 as the low point…

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When BBC producers were on the lookout for an outstanding historic house in which to film a Doctor Who Christmas Day special, they stumbled upon a remarkable 19th Century Grade II listed stone-built manor in four acres of countryside, and views of the Bristol Channel and Somerset coastline. It was Vaendre Hall – and was exactly what BBC location manager Iwan Roberts was after for the 2014 episode. For the show, stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman filmed inside the…

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There’s been much speculation surrounding Maisie Williams’s future on Doctor Who, but the actress just disappointed us all by saying she won’t be returning. The Game of Thrones star has accompanied the Doctor for the last time, and will instead focus on “other really exciting projects”. “I’m not going to be working on Doctor Who again,” she told BANG Showbiz. “Everyone’s hyping about it, which is very exciting, but I guess that’s more of a publicity thing. But no, I’m…

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THE grandson of Doctor Who star Patrick Troughton says he would love to follow in his footsteps and become the next Time Lord. Harry Melling, now 26, has already found fame in the Harry Potter films as Dudley Dursley, Harry’s cousin who makes the boy wizard’s life a misery. But now he says he would love to become the 13th Doctor, 50 years after Troughton played the second Time Lord. His grandfather died before he was born, but it seems…

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