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SID EEFFECTS

FEATURE BY PAUL HAYES

After nearly half a century of operation, the BBC’s Visual Effects Department closed in 2003. Given that fact, if you were asked to name the last Doctor Who story on which the department worked, then you might hazard a guess at the likes of Ghost Light or Survival, from the tail-end of the show’s original run in 1989.

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