Favorite reused props in classic Who?

[Chris227]

Classic Who was of course a very low-budget show, and more often than not, certain props were reused. I'm not talking about obvious stuff like Daleks, Cybermen costumes, but stuff that would often be completely unrelated being reused.

A few I can think of:


The "Earthshock" helmets-reused in "Trial of a Time Lord:The Mysterious Planet" and "Delta And The Bannermen"

A Cybergun was used as a Silurian device in "Warriors of the Deep"

Any others....

 

[Candlelight]

The Silurian that popped up in the season four opener of Blake' 7.

 

[Rarewolf]

In the 60s many props were hired which is why they reappear, some of the computer banks from The Space Pirates turn up in Inferno.

Mind you it's not just low budget UK shows that recycle

 

[wamdue]

still happens in the new series, apparntly the pool of water seen in "The Fire of Pompeii" was reused as the clone tank in the Sontaran two parter.

 

[diankra]

One of the most noticeable reuses was actually across Doctor Who and Blake's 7: part of a spaceship cockpit set from The Armageddon Factor was reused in the Blake's 7 episode Hostage, which ran partway through that story.
What made it really obvious was that in the Who story the ship was caught in a time loop, so the same close-up shot of a hand reaching for a very distinctive firing button had been run again and again and again for three weeks before it turned up in B7...

Within Who, there was a very nice cartoon run in Celestial Toyroom, showing the Doctor saying:
'Close the doors - the TARDIS is surrounded by Krynoids. Or maybe Axons. It's difficult to tell the difference in a black and white strip."

 

[26138]

Wasn't that tardis navigation thing used in "The Web Planet" also reused in a later serial?

 

[diankra]

Wasn't that tardis navigation thing used in "The Web Planet" also reused in a later serial?

Yes, the Astral Map turns up in Galaxy Four. As Tat Wood points out in the About Time book, it's very obviously the first story to have been written by a fan, or at least someone who was watching the show before being asked to write for it, as it includes quite a few passing references to old stories, including specifying the reuse of the Map.

 

[Rarewolf]

I couldn't remember the name of it! but that prop became the X-ray laser cannon console in Wheel In Space as well I think.

The lift from The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit was reused as Lazurus' rejevenation chamber.