Although broadcast second in the 2010 season, Amy Pond’s first outer-space jaunt in the company of her not-so-imaginary childhood friend, the Doctor, was actually the fourth episode to enter production – after The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone, then Victory of the Daleks.
The latter, like The Beast Below, was overseen by director Andrew Gunn – and so the first scene recorded for Beast was the concluding lead-in to Victory, with none other than Winston Churchill calling the Doctor to ask for his help with a tricky, pepperpot-shaped situation.