Last Sunday the BBC Television Centre in West London closed it's door for the final time; the BBC having, controversially, sold the building off for redevelopment (studios 1 to 3 will survive, but studios 4 to 7 are to be demolished and the rest of the building turned into "affordable housing" and hotels. The fate of studio 8 is currently unknown). Over the last fifty years it's been home to not just classic series Doctor Who but many other TV series too numerous to list here. Everything that was great about British television was probably made here.
There's been a number of tributes to the building popping up on YouTube but this one, by Doctor Who DVD producer Ed Stadling is probably the best.
If you want to know more of the history of Television Centre and what the future holds I refer you to Martin Kempton's website An Incomplete History of London's Television Studios. It also has histories of the other three studios where classic Doctor Who was filmed: Lime Grove, Riverside and Ealing Film Studios.
(Because I'm having trouble getting Blogger to find the video in YouTube the link to it is below)
http://youtu.be/ozdjrrIpXT8
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