Doctor Who- Unleashed - Season 2 Episode 01- The Robot Revolution
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00:00And Shelley O'Kiss, action.
00:03But she won't survive the process!
00:06What an episode to kick off the series. Welcome back.
00:10In this action-packed return, we go all heavy metal with some bionic baddies.
00:17You know what now?
00:19Things get explosive with my work experience.
00:22That is a bad, isn't it?
00:24Sparks fly with a doctor and his new companion.
00:27He's not a doctor.
00:28What qualifies you, actually?
00:30Oh, come on! I've got a sonic screwdriver!
00:35And spoiler alert!
00:37We've got an exclusive peek from the next episode.
00:40Welcome back to Doctor Who Unleashed.
00:51And action!
00:55Here we go.
00:57We've got liftoff on a new series of Doctor Who.
01:00And a new series of Unleashed.
01:02Where we bring you exclusive behind the scenes access to all things Who.
01:07That means new sets.
01:10New threats.
01:12New faces.
01:13And some familiar ones.
01:15That's complicated things.
01:16So shall we dive in?
01:17So shall we dive in?
01:22It's the 30th of November, 2023.
01:24So to put that into some sort of context for you, the first of the 60th anniversary specials with David Tennant and Catherine Tate, the Star Beast.
01:31That has just gone out on the telly.
01:34But we are here in a suburban Cardiff street in the middle of the night.
01:38It's a night shoot.
01:39It's freezing.
01:40But we're filming the first episode of Shooty Gatwa's second season as the Doctor.
01:46Are you keeping up with me?
01:47Look, there's robots and there's a rocket ship, so it's just classic Doctor.
01:51But the last few weeks have been especially busy for his new companion.
01:56You're what now?
01:57So it's a big Hooniverse welcome, or should I say welcome back to Varada Sethu.
02:04Some eagle-eyed Hoovians out there will recognise Miss Belinda Chandra from episode three in season one.
02:12I'm Anglican.
02:14Miss Belinda Chandra is a very, very, very, very distant descendant of Mundy Flynn.
02:21Did she look like me?
02:22Absolute much.
02:23Well, V, it's lovely to see you again, because this is the first time I've seen you on set, so congratulations.
02:29You're having a nice time so far.
02:30I'm having such a nice time.
02:32Yeah, I was really sad to leave last time, because I think I came for a grand total of maybe three weeks or something,
02:38and I had such a good time.
02:40Yeah.
02:41It felt really sad to, yeah, it felt sad to leave.
02:44And then I got the call to say that I get to come back for good.
02:47Yeah.
02:48So that was really exciting.
02:50Yeah.
02:51But how did Varada get from Mundy Flynn, Anglican space marine, to Belinda Chandra, NHS nurse and certified star queen?
03:00So I wrote Belinda Chandra, and we auditioned an awful lot of people.
03:04We searched high and low, and there were some great people.
03:07We saw some really great people, and the hardest piece of work you've got on this show is to get someone all match, shooty,
03:14because he's so blazing and stellar.
03:16And it was just one day, I was on like the 100th edit of Boom, sitting, watching it, thinking, God, Varada's so good.
03:22What a shame I don't get to work with her, what a shame I don't get to write for her, and what a shame she can't come back.
03:27And then I just suddenly thought, oh, we've done this before.
03:30Before Varada, Freema Adjaman, Karen Gillan and Catherine Tate made Hooniverse appearances before they became the Doctor's full-time companion.
03:39So why don't we cast Varada? And I ran it past everyone, and it was the fastest yes we've ever had of anything,
03:46because normally people sit in committees and discuss things, and everyone just went, oh, great, what a great idea.
03:51OK, thank you.
03:53When my agent called to say, would you be interested in meeting to potentially be considered for the companion?
04:01Yeah. It just, it was so out of the blue.
04:04And also, I think the first thing I said was, but they know I'm in it already, right?
04:08She was like, yes, they do. I really wasn't expecting it.
04:11It's obviously something that's sort of like a dream job.
04:14But yeah, that was really exciting to then be in the room with Jane and Russell,
04:18and kind of realizing about five, ten minutes into the meeting that it's not like an audition.
04:25It was an offer. And I was like, yes, yes.
04:28They were sort of like, no, go home and think about it.
04:30No, it's a yes right now.
04:32What does the Doctor make of it all?
04:34Very exciting to get to work with Varada again.
04:36She's an incredible actor and we are such great chemistry.
04:40And yeah, I think Belinda Chandra, she really brings out a different side to the Doctor
04:45because she's a little bit older.
04:47She knows herself and she's got a career and she's got a life and she's got responsibilities as well
04:53that allow her to see beyond the Doctor's charm.
04:57Like she's not charmed by him. She's not wowed by him. She's not overly impressed by him.
05:02I am not one of your adventures.
05:06She doesn't want to be the sidekick to some guy who's just turned up.
05:11It's like, no, I want to go back to what I was doing. I was, you know, changing the world.
05:16I was making a difference to her. The way that she was doing that was through her work.
05:21But, you know, she's pulled out of that world and all she wants to do is kind of go back to serving her purpose.
05:27It's interesting that it's a Doctor and Nurse.
05:29It is really cool that it's a Doctor and a Nurse.
05:31I don't know how it applies to other than it being funny to say like,
05:36oh, it's cool that it's a Doctor and a Nurse.
05:38Yeah, because obviously he's not a Doctor.
05:40Which gets pointed out regularly.
05:44I feel it should be pointed out. He's not a Doctor.
05:47What qualifies you actually to be a Doctor?
05:49Oh, come on. I've got a sonic screwdriver.
05:51What?
05:57It's a glorious day, if rather cold, in January 2024.
06:03So I've come to the Mumbles, this beautiful part of South West Wales.
06:07But a lot of that episode was actually written.
06:09I'm here to meet with Russell to find out what else he's got in store for us for Series 2.
06:14Who is that? Who is that bothering me?
06:17Who's bothering me and interrupting me?
06:20Hello. Nice to see you.
06:21Hello, darling. Thank you.
06:22Are you in a Doctor who scarf?
06:24Come on. Come on.
06:25Not just for you, either. This is just for...
06:27I wouldn't let you in without...
06:28Frankly, that's it.
06:29Oh, look at that. Look at that, then.
06:30Come on.
06:31Oh, this is why you work from here.
06:33Admire my... It is why I work from here.
06:35Look at that.
06:36It's a vista, is it not?
06:38Right, get the kettle on, is it?
06:40I could exterminate a cup of tea.
06:42Is this the place where you had the idea for what was going to happen in episode one?
06:47Or was it a germ of an idea that came to you walking around the Mumbles, or were you elsewhere?
06:50I was here. No, it was in this kitchen.
06:52I think I was thinking of a birthday present for someone.
06:54I was thinking, oh, God, the people used to name stars after people.
06:57And then I just kind of thought, what if you named a star for someone and the people who lived in that star thought that you were their queen?
07:02Welcome to Miss Belinda Chandraville.
07:04Don't you stop.
07:05Then, when that idea came, did you know that it was going to be Belinda?
07:09Or, you know, where were you at that?
07:11No, it was kind of like, it was a spare idea.
07:14I remember sort of saying about it, you could cast anyone with this.
07:16You could cast Kathy Burke and have her taken to a planet and then rescued and brought back by the Doctor as a one-off.
07:23You just kind of leave ideas, sit there, and they kind of sit and they tick away and gather around them.
07:28And some ideas you abandon, but that one kept on growing.
07:32So it just kind of fell into place quite naturally.
07:35It was a good idea, sitting there waiting.
07:37It would be a great one-off story, but it would be a fantastic introduction for a companion.
07:41So what's your name?
07:42Doctor what?
07:43Just the Doctor.
07:45What?
07:46You're actually called the Doctor?
07:48Yeah.
07:49All right, then.
07:51I'm called the Nurse.
07:52Doctor and Nurse.
07:54Good team.
07:56When you started thinking about CD's Toolage,
07:58did you know roughly what the journey you wanted to take the audience on,
08:01or does that change a lot as you've been writing?
08:03It's both.
08:04It changes.
08:05And bear in mind, I've been thinking about this ever since season one.
08:07We didn't just think of season one and then season two.
08:10It's like these are conversations that have been ongoing.
08:12Some of these scripts were commissioned way back.
08:14Some have changed.
08:15We've dropped some scripts.
08:16There's gorgeous stuff to come.
08:18Like next week, we're in Miami in 1952.
08:21We've got great things coming out.
08:23We've got a very unexpected sequel coming up.
08:25We've got the Interstellar Song Contest.
08:27I mean, we'll be publicising that one right away.
08:29That one is going to kill us making that.
08:31Also, keep your eye on Anita Dobson.
08:33Yeah, well, of course.
08:34Because she's been ticking away for a year now.
08:36Yeah, she has.
08:37She ended season one with that flourish in the snow on the rooftop,
08:40promising terror to come.
08:41That's on its way.
08:42Yeah.
08:43And where does that magic happen?
08:46Upstairs.
08:47Up in the stairs.
08:48Could I be rude and asked to have a look at where...
08:50Yes, you can.
08:51Come on, love.
08:52What's a typical day for you like in here?
08:54Do you lock yourself in?
08:55Are you here for like 10 hours or...?
08:57There's no such thing as a regular day, really.
08:59I mean, I suppose I'm here by 9.30.
09:01Yeah.
09:02Which depends how late I work.
09:03Sometimes I work at night.
09:04So if I worked at about 2 in the morning last night,
09:06then I would be later in the morning, obviously.
09:08Sometimes I don't even walk in here.
09:10Sometimes if it's a thinking day, I'll just potter about
09:12and I'll go down and have a coffee and potter about.
09:15So I'm not always here.
09:16I don't sit here and have ideas.
09:18Oh, that's a good idea.
09:19And type.
09:20I've had the ideas before.
09:21The ideas can be like when you're brushing your teeth.
09:24Yeah, yeah.
09:25Or sitting with your family.
09:26Or walking.
09:27Or watching telly.
09:28Or reading a book.
09:29It's like the idea.
09:30That's when they pop up.
09:31It's very rare for an idea.
09:32In fact, I couldn't tell you.
09:33I don't think I've ever had an idea happen here.
09:35Do you fist punch the air when you've nailed it?
09:38When you think inside your head you nailed it?
09:40Do you scream?
09:41Do you dance in celebration?
09:43I do sit here laughing at my own jokes.
09:45You do.
09:46And then I laugh every time I read it back.
09:48Which is terrible.
09:50I have a little camera on me doing that.
09:52I do.
09:53And I cry at the sad bits.
09:54I think, yeah, yeah.
09:55And I get excited.
09:56What I do is play music all the time.
09:57Do you?
09:58If it's exciting.
09:59If you're writing chases, which Doctor Who is mostly,
10:01one long chase.
10:02I'm coming up at the end of episode seven now.
10:05The peak of it's going to go higher and higher and higher.
10:08So I'll absolutely have loud chase music on then.
10:11When you're pottering and you have an idea.
10:14Yeah.
10:15Do you stick it on your phone?
10:16Do you voice note it?
10:17Do you write it down?
10:18Never.
10:19No.
10:20A lot of people do.
10:21That's fine.
10:22Good.
10:23But I think you have a good idea you don't forget it.
10:25And if I do forget it I won't know.
10:28It's gone.
10:29Like the silence of you.
10:30No, they just stay there.
10:32And there's nothing on a piece of paper for late.
10:34It's all up here.
10:35No.
10:36If I get run over by a bus no one will know how it ends.
10:38No.
10:39Have I told anyone?
10:40No.
10:41No one knows.
10:42Partly because I haven't decided there's a couple of ways to get to the ending.
10:44Yeah.
10:45The choices I've got to make over the next few weeks is choosing which way to go.
10:49Yeah.
10:50I know what happens but I don't know how it happens.
10:51Yeah.
10:52It's like one of those books where it's like turn to page 72.
10:54Yeah.
10:55Yes.
10:56Exactly.
10:57Turn to page 71.
10:58Yeah.
10:59It's just in your mind.
11:00Yeah.
11:03Still to come on Doctor Who Unleashed.
11:06Whilst the crew shoots shooty on set, I shoot off to shoot a little something of my own for my work experience.
11:13Oh.
11:15We discover how stage three is transformed from this, to this, to this, and spoiler alert.
11:23We've got an exclusive peek at the next Doctor Who episode.
11:29But first.
11:31As well as his no-nonsense new companion in this episode, the Doctor also had to deal with megalomaniac baddie A.I. Allen.
11:40Behold!
11:42Played by Johnny Green.
11:44How long does that take then, Johnny? How long have you been creating?
11:47Ten minutes?
11:48I got here, I wish.
11:49I got here at seven.
11:52And I think about half nine we've done it.
11:54So actually it was pretty quick really.
11:57That's pathetic score.
11:58That's not too bad, right?
11:59Actually two and a half hours.
12:00Maybe you've got the short straw there.
12:02Are you putting a voice on or did you think about that or was that a conversation?
12:09Yeah, I had a conversation with Vicky about that.
12:11Yeah.
12:12About what we sort of feel is going to work best for it.
12:15Because I think I'm going to be on a mic for some of it.
12:17Once I've sort of heard that in the space I think it'll help.
12:19Yeah.
12:20The robots will bring her to you so metal and steam may weld within this Belinda Chandra.
12:29Maybe some of it will do further down the line if you want to go back and kind of...
12:33I think it's just about playing with it in the space and what sort of is feeling best.
12:36I've got ideas obviously.
12:37Yeah, yeah, yeah.
12:38But I'm not married to one version at all.
12:41Yeah, that's interesting because the whole characters change and develop, right?
12:45Because we sometimes think that you turn up as like a, right, there you are, there's your box and you go just do that.
12:50But actually with something like this that's so unique and part human, part AI, part robot, part all of those things.
12:57Exactly.
12:58What would you sound like?
12:59The robots will bring her to me so metal and skin may weld within Miss Belinda Chandra.
13:08There's also that factor of I want the end to be where I'm upset.
13:11I want that to, I don't want that to be on the same level as everything I've done in the scenes before.
13:16Because otherwise people go, oh, he's shouting again.
13:18Yeah, yeah.
13:19That would be the worst thing ever.
13:20So I don't want to do that.
13:21Belinda.
13:22Oh my God.
13:24Alan, are you all right?
13:27I am supreme.
13:30But it's exciting.
13:31There's a lot going on in the scenes as well.
13:33So I don't think there'll be much time for me to sort of overthink or anything like that.
13:37Just be able to sort of feel it and feel what's working, you know?
13:40Sharing the robotic limelight is Alan's mechanical muscle.
13:44No, I don't mean him.
13:46Let's meet the Miss Belinda Chandra bots.
13:52This is probably one of the most surreal things we've ever done.
13:55Because this is a street in the middle of Cardiff that I used to live on the corner of.
13:59And then there are just two giant robots in the back of someone's garden.
14:05It's a bit mad, isn't it?
14:07Working with the robots was...
14:09It was an experience.
14:10My parents!
14:12Oh, my poor parents!
14:14The first bit that I had to shoot in the garden, I nearly got squashed between the two of them.
14:19Yes.
14:20Because they can't actually see where they're going.
14:22Robots are kidnapping me!
14:24I was getting pushed up from my back by one robot onto the front of the other one.
14:30And I was like, they're not stopping.
14:32I'm just...
14:33I'm just going to get crushed on camera.
14:37So who are the men behind the mechanics?
14:40That's Robert.
14:41This is Robert.
14:42Recognise him yet?
14:44This is actually the third time we've met Robert on Unleashed.
14:48Firstly, he played a Roth warrior in the 60th anniversary specials.
14:52And last season, he played the bogeyman in Space Babies.
14:57How are you doing?
14:58This looks very complicated.
15:00It is, I guess.
15:01But the amazing people at Millennium have made it so streamlined, so comfortable.
15:07It's kind of remarkable.
15:08What I love about it is once you're in it, it looks like you're kind of operating a suit
15:13with like handles or something.
15:14Yeah.
15:15But it's all just us.
15:16Although right now it gives us these funny little T-Rex arms.
15:19Yeah.
15:20These bionic behemoths are the work of Millennium FX,
15:23the team responsible for bringing the live-action creatures of the Hooniverse to life.
15:29Designed digitally, the suits were then 3D printed,
15:33with each robot split into 28 individual pieces for the torso
15:38and then six pieces for the legs,
15:40as well as all the mechanisms on the inside too.
15:44The pieces were then glued together before being moulded with silicone
15:48and then cast out in fiberglass to make a sturdy shell.
15:51In all, it took eight weeks to make the four full robots.
15:57And before they went on to set, the suits had to be tested.
16:01The man in the second robot can is Stephen,
16:04who also played a Roth warrior alongside Rob in the specials.
16:09What you have to make sure is that you're ready to be on camera.
16:12That feels lovely and padded.
16:14So you need to know that they will work with the cameras, with the shot size,
16:18with the whole staging of it on the stage, on the set,
16:21to make sure that everything's working.
16:22Where would you like me?
16:23One of the things in particular is the movement,
16:26making sure that the robots would be able to move at the right time.
16:31I mean, ultimately you could do this on a day,
16:33but you never have enough time.
16:36So it's like rehearsal, it's kind of testing, it's a practical test,
16:40like how long it takes them to put them in.
16:42I don't know if you've noticed, but there are two stands for their arms,
16:45so they can rest, because it cuts off the circulation otherwise.
16:51Cool. Just turn around, let's do that once more.
17:02It's preparing. You have to be prepared with anything.
17:04If you encounter anything, you know what to do
17:07or you've got a rough understanding of how to solve,
17:10because you've already had some testing.
17:12After a few further checks and adjustments,
17:16the suits are signed off and are ready for set.
17:20When you were the bogeyman, you talked about your performance.
17:23In this, because it's quite static,
17:26can you still sort of give a performance,
17:28or is the suit doing a lot of that work?
17:30Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it?
17:31I guess, I mean, that applies to every kind of creature.
17:34This one is obviously the biggest suit on top of the performer.
17:38We kind of wanted to bring an expressive life to it,
17:41but then there are also robots, you know,
17:43so it's got to have that kind of digital feel.
17:45Yeah.
17:46But then also, it's got a fluidity to it.
17:48You want to make it look like it's made of metal,
17:50so that there are these, like, car-sized things.
17:52Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:53That are lumbering in.
17:54So that's part of it as well.
17:55And then making the moves kind of very economic, you know,
17:58because it's not an organic thing.
18:00Yeah.
18:01I think there's a lot of expression you can still get,
18:03even though it's really the other end of the spectrum to the bogeyman.
18:06Yeah.
18:07It's not wasted.
18:08Well, I'll let you get finished up.
18:09I'll let you get back to your TV.
18:10Yeah, I know.
18:11Keeping me warm.
18:12I don't want to say it's helping keep me warm,
18:13because I know you're cold in there,
18:14because you've only got, like, one layer on.
18:16Well, I can put a little hot water bottle in here.
18:18Oh, hello.
18:19And then between takes, we stuff two days.
18:21Thanks, Mum.
18:24They're looking after us.
18:26Eh?
18:27And I've got a heat pack on my kidneys.
18:28You know the highest tech TV show in the land?
18:31Hot water bottle.
18:32That's all you need.
18:33Hot water bottle.
18:34Tea and a pink car.
18:35Perfect.
18:36Thank you very much, mate.
18:37Right, I'll see you later.
18:38Good luck, thanks.
18:39Bye.
18:40Bye.
18:41Season two of Doctor Who has been filmed entirely in South Wales,
18:47and Mission Control is Wolf Studios in Cardiff.
18:51Consisting of seven stages and a back lot,
18:54the studio has a constant buzz of sets being built,
18:57dismantled and repurposed for future episodes.
19:00And, of course, there's sets being filmed on.
19:03One of the advantages of filming here in Wolf Studios in Cardiff
19:06is it's got these giant stages for big, complicated sets.
19:10Look how big it is.
19:12For the designs in this episode,
19:15Russell had something very particular in mind.
19:18I just wanted the aesthetic of the 1950s.
19:22There's something a bit dumb about the robots.
19:25There we go.
19:26Hello.
19:27If they'd been very modern AI robots,
19:29they would have looked a bit too stupid.
19:30So they've got a bit of old-fashionedness.
19:32They've always got an old-fashioned courtesy about them.
19:34And there's almost a politeness about them.
19:37You are Miss Belinda Childress?
19:39How do you know my name?
19:40Name confirmed.
19:41Your Majesty.
19:42You're what now?
19:44So that made me think there should be something a bit retro about them.
19:48So once you start thinking of that,
19:49once you start thinking of robots,
19:50and I wanted them to have great big laser guns.
19:52I love those laser guns.
19:53An old-fashionedness just creeped into it,
19:55and it just became the 1950s.
19:57That kind of bled into the whole thing
19:59and became part of the design and the style of it.
20:01And it's lovely.
20:02And it's lovely.
20:03I love it.
20:04Rewind to October 2023 with filming of the episode still eight weeks away,
20:10I met production designer Phil Simms to ask him how he planned on transforming this empty studio into Russell's retro dream.
20:18Phil, when you see it in this state, which is basically an empty room with some wooden floors,
20:24Are you excited about what it will become?
20:27Are you...
20:28Is it panic maybe?
20:29Because there's quite a lot to do, isn't there?
20:32Are you filming it?
20:33Mainly, I feel great.
20:34This is perfect.
20:35Yeah.
20:36As soon as it starts to be built, then the anxiety levels build.
20:38Yeah.
20:39And the stress levels build.
20:40Yeah.
20:41I think, I mean, it just gives us a chance to, you know, hark back to your childhood or your favourite B movies,
20:48your favourite 50s movies.
20:49So this is quite influenced by something like Forbidden Planet and This Island Earth,
20:55which was a reference Russell had that he really liked.
20:57Yeah.
20:58And it will inhabit this space.
21:02Yeah.
21:03Soon.
21:04Very soon.
21:05Fast forward through eight weeks of hard graft and a whole load of green paint,
21:09and the empty studio has been transformed into a 1950s sci-fi set.
21:15Wow.
21:16Well, this is it then, Phil.
21:17It's crazy to think that the last time we were in here, it was just basically tape on the floor.
21:22It was, yeah.
21:23And your brain.
21:24On the floor.
21:25Yeah.
21:26Yeah, it was.
21:27Yeah.
21:28And now you're going to be filming on it in like less than an hour.
21:30Yeah, I think so.
21:31Yeah, the crew are coming in now, so it's all going to kick off any minute now.
21:34How do you feel?
21:35I love it.
21:36I'm really pleased.
21:37I'm relieved.
21:38Yeah.
21:39Because it's a huge set to build in the time that we had.
21:41Yeah.
21:42It's big, isn't it?
21:43Yeah, but I'm over the moon.
21:44It's amazing.
21:45The guys have done so well.
21:46It's brilliant.
21:47I think the catwalk.
21:48I do love that.
21:49And then obviously the console is just great, isn't it?
21:53Yeah, that's the AI generator.
21:54Yeah.
21:55That's Alan.
21:56Alan?
21:57Is that your favourite part of it, Alan?
22:01Oh, it's one of my favourite parts.
22:03I mean, the set itself is one of my favourite things of all time that we've worked on so
22:08far.
22:09Is it?
22:10It is.
22:11Of all our time walking around all the different sets that you've built, Phil, I know that you've
22:14reused lots of stuff.
22:15Yeah.
22:16But this is the first time I've seen a set like this where you've got so many different
22:20locations in one spot.
22:22Yeah.
22:23It's kind of evolved as these things do to become a parallel set so it's going to work
22:29as the AI generator where Alan lives.
22:32Yeah.
22:33And then it also becomes a robo chamber.
22:35That's how we designed it.
22:36Yeah.
22:37And how difficult is it for you to dress it so that it feels different enough for those
22:42other sets?
22:43It's not very difficult at all.
22:44We've got two bits of dressing.
22:45We take them out.
22:46It's dressed.
22:47It's done.
22:48We've changed the lights.
22:49It's all down to Sam Kerr, the DP.
22:50It was amazing.
22:51It was really atmospheric, Phil, I have to say.
22:53It's good.
22:54I think I might agree with you.
22:56What's your favourite?
22:57I think...
22:58Is it your favourite?
22:59Shhh!
23:00I think I kind of don't...
23:01Shhh!
23:02Yeah, and it's very sensitive.
23:03It's just me and you here.
23:04And Alan.
23:09With everything from laser gun battles, to walking through walls, to dry ice and even
23:18a light dusting, the SFX team are involved in almost every scene of this action-packed episode.
23:27So, to kick off my work experience for this series, I'm going in all guns blazing.
23:33Alongside SFX supervisor Danny Hargreaves.
23:37Action!
23:38And if I'm a good boy, he's promised me I can shoot some stuff and blow some stuff up.
23:45But not on the actual set.
23:46That's only for the professionals.
23:48I've got to play outside.
23:49Right, let's drag that back.
23:50What we're setting up here is a typical Doctor Who, where it's like bullet hits, laser hits.
23:56Yeah.
23:57So, we wouldn't necessarily test this now, but we're going to give you a go.
24:00Yeah, we are.
24:01This is why we're setting up for you to get familiar about what the effect is, how it's
24:07going to work, and we'll even get you to press the button as well.
24:09Ooh!
24:10Is that alright?
24:11Pressing buttons, yeah.
24:12Okay, the best thing I love to do on Doctor Who, which is the paintball gun, the Zerk gun.
24:16Action!
24:17Put the three in order!
24:24So, it's a paintball gun.
24:25Yeah.
24:26But we have these little pellets inside, which are, basically, they look like, can we get
24:30one out for you?
24:31It's a material that, with friction, it's far, alright?
24:34So, it's not casing inside.
24:36Yeah.
24:37Really good fun effect, but it's super serious, because what we're doing is we're shooting
24:40a projectile.
24:41Yeah.
24:42And we never shoot them at the cast or anyone like that.
24:44We're shooting behind them.
24:45And what this does, this is just a really quick way of achieving those spark effects
24:49that you see.
24:50Yeah, but, obviously, safety in mind.
24:52Yeah.
24:53We treat it like a real gun.
24:54Cocked ready to go.
24:55Yeah.
24:56Safety's off.
24:59Oh, wow!
25:00Alright.
25:01So, take your aim.
25:02I'm here, thank you.
25:03So, the safety's on at the moment.
25:04Yeah, yeah.
25:05And then you're gonna shoot at where I was shooting, okay?
25:07Yeah, perfect.
25:08So, aim up, aim up now.
25:09Okay, ready?
25:10Yeah.
25:11And then we're gonna take the safety off, and then we're gonna shoot.
25:16Very good.
25:17There we go.
25:18What are you thinking, Danny?
25:19That's three from three there.
25:20Did you see that?
25:21That was pretty good, actually.
25:22Did you see that?
25:23Yeah, very good.
25:24Very good.
25:25Three from three, then.
25:26Time to take things up a notch.
25:28What this is, is this is my remote firing system.
25:30You're right.
25:31Alright?
25:32Now, what this means is there's very little wiring that needs to happen.
25:35So, my team at the moment are plugging in the pyrotechnics.
25:38Yeah.
25:39Each one of those has a thing called a receiver.
25:41And then they put them in a sequence.
25:44Are you with me on this?
25:45Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:46Are you still with me on this?
25:47Pyrotechnics, receiver, sequence.
25:48That's exactly it.
25:49And then we put them in order.
25:50So, wherever we want to start the sequence, we start with number one.
25:53Yeah.
25:54So, what we're going to do is we've programmed this and it's going to go bum, bum, bum, bum.
25:58Bang!
25:59This looks very much like you're a Bonneville.
26:01It is pretty cool.
26:02You know what I mean?
26:03It's one of the boxes that you have.
26:04Every time I pick it up, I think I am.
26:05Yeah.
26:06Yeah, I mean, this is so powerful.
26:07I mean, essentially, we could program this.
26:08I can take this in my car and drive off down the road.
26:11Just press a button and it still happens.
26:12Because it basically means you can be far enough away.
26:14I can, yeah.
26:15So, we obviously, this is programmed so that we are far away.
26:19I'm pretty much nearly really quite close a lot of the time.
26:22And that's purely because I need to see what's going on.
26:24So, anything changes, the action changes, the doctor slips over, or something falls not quite how we want.
26:30We've got to be quick and not fire.
26:32So, the first thing to do now is obviously make sure that the environment around us is safe, okay?
26:36Yeah.
26:37So, there's a few people that have turned up.
26:38We've got fire protection here.
26:39The gentleman here is with the fire protection to make sure that we're all good to go.
26:43Now, you're going to press the button on this occasion.
26:45I will.
26:46All right.
26:47So, if you press that button number one.
26:48Yeah.
26:49Things are going to happen.
26:50Right.
26:51All right.
26:52Okay.
26:53So.
26:54I don't know if I will.
26:55You get all nervous now.
26:56Okay.
26:57I was all full of bravado.
26:59I can blow stuff up.
27:00I know it's come down to it.
27:02Right.
27:03Are you ready?
27:04Yeah.
27:05And we're going to count three, two, one.
27:06And you're going to press that button.
27:07Okay.
27:08All right.
27:09You ready?
27:10Yeah.
27:11We're preparing in three, two, one.
27:14Oh, wow.
27:15Flipping heck.
27:16That is a bang, wasn't it?
27:19You didn't know I thought it was going to be like some smoke going off.
27:22That's like a whole bang.
27:23Oh, I told you it was going to be a bang.
27:24What was that?
27:25That's amazing.
27:26It feels weird, isn't it?
27:28The power when you press the button.
27:30Yes.
27:31So, we've seen what that does now.
27:32So, imagine we're going to put that into the set.
27:34Probably a bit more.
27:35Yeah.
27:36So, yeah.
27:37Ready to go.
27:38As the SFX team tool up, I'm going to observe from a safe distance.
27:43And...
27:44Action!
27:49One, two, four!
27:52Three, two, one!
27:58Pull back!
28:04Now, that is how you blow stuff up on set without hurting anyone.
28:08How cool is that?
28:15Stop it.
28:18Next time, on Doctor Who.
28:20Uh, on Doctor Who.
28:21Ha ha ha ha ha...
28:23Exactly...
28:24Let's go!
28:25Here we go!
28:26Here we go!
28:27Here we go!
28:28Here we go!
28:29Here we go!
28:30Here we go!
28:31Okay, you need to go!
28:32Now, where are we going?
28:33Here we go!
28:34To who?
28:35This is...
28:36Right!
28:37That's right!
28:38Here we go!
28:39Another one!
28:40Here we go!
28:41Okay!
28:42Here we go!
28:43Here we go!
28:44Here we go!
28:45Here we go!
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