The settings for Episodes 2 to 7 are more familiar to us than those for Episode 1, because publicity photos exist of Maxtible’s country house and the Dalek Emperor’s chamber on Skaro. Indeed, designer Chris Thompson rebuilt the Emperor’s chamber for the 1993 documentary Thirty Years in the TARDIS, using his original plans - plans he thinks he’s since mislaid.
We can still glean information about the colour of those later episodes, though. A few colour photographs of the Emperor’s chamber, taken during .lming at Ealing Studios, show it was largely silver and black. More can be worked out from watching colour TV and .lm shot at Grim’s Dyke, the dilapidated Gothic mansion featured as the Victorian country house in Episodes 2 to 5. Its exterior - seen in a night-time establishing photo caption in Episode 3 - featured frequently in television series throughout the late 1960s, among them episodes of The Saint, The Champions, The Avengers, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Department S. The Tigon horror .lms The Blood Beast Terror (in which The Faceless Ones guest actor Wanda Ventham turns into a giant moth) and, more substantially, Curse of the Crimson Altar (as scripted by Troughtonera Doctor Who writers Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln) used Grim’s Dyke inside and out. Shot in August 1967 and January 1968 respectively, both .lms contain colour views of the interiors.
What’s more, the renovated Grim’s Dyke is today a hotel… meaning residents can pick up the Daleks’ trail for themselves.
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