Doctor Who Exhibition Blackpool

Doctor Who Exhibition Blackpool
Features:	Regularly changing props
Location:	111 Central Promenade, Blackpool
Opened:	Easter - 30th October
Closed:	[[October (releases)|October]] [[1985 (releases)|1985]]

The Doctor Who Exhibition Blackpool was located at 111 Central Promenade, on the busy Golden Mile, a prime location for visitors. It ran for 11 years until the lease on the building it resided in expired.

Overview

Through a TARDIS-shaped entrance visitors followed the exhibition through a range of various displays of props, costumes, and models towards a working prop of the console room with console, before reaching the shop at the end.

Notable elements

• Displays were regularly updated with new exhibits as new stories were aired.
• Unlike the Longleat Exhibition, the Blackpool Exhibition also included a display of small scale models of landscapes and spacecrafts. Davros, Daleks, Cybermen and K-9 were among regular exhibits.

Promotion

• Promoted in continuity announcements at the time, following the programme broadcasts.
• In 1975 Elizabeth Sladen, Ian Marter and Tom Baker promoted the exhibition with a parade led by Tom Baker in the back of Bessie with the Mayoress and a UNIT driver. The parade also include a Zygon, Bellal, Sontaran, Sea Devil and Cyberman led to the switching on of Blackpools illuminations.
• In 1985, Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant were present signing autographs in the console area for Children in Need.

Notes

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Gallery

Exhibition posters

April 1974 Exhibition Ticket and Badge

Entrance October 1975

Exhibition layout 1975

Entrance 1982

Davros prop inside exhibition 1982

Dalek prop inside exhibition 1982

1984 Blackpool Illuminations

External links

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