Now that the long journey to complete the telecomic of The Power of the Daleks is over, it’s time to turn our attention once more to the question of the recycling of props in Classic Who. And since we’ve just telecomic’d a Troughton story, let’s stick with Dr 2 and have a look at The Wheel In Space.
When I was fan editing the two surviving episodes recently I noticed a couple of props that I was certain I’d seen before. Take a look at this screengrab and see if you can spot them…
Here they are if you missed them, the slightly less noticeable one first:
Although it’s clearly been augmented since it first appeared in The Power of the Daleks, the circular grille thingy on the wall behind Ben & Polly is certainly the same prop Pat climbs out from behind in Wheel. The other one? Well, we all know where that came from…
…and where it went next!
And, from later in the same episode… do those round things on the wall look familiar?
They should, they’re from the Daleks’ space capsule!
