Doctor on Display The Museum of Classic SciFi

In the early 1970s the BBC decided to launch a series of exhibitions featuring monsters and props from Doctor Who Over the next three decades untold thousands of children and adults too were thrilled by a mix of innovative exciting and stunning extravaganzas For many fans these exhibitions were their first and only real chance to get closeup to their favourite TV programme and the memories they share in this innovative documentary series are bound together by interviews with experts and people who actually worked at them The museum reopened in 2021 after extensive restoration work and we tell the story of that opening and the incredible journey that led to that memorable day