This wide-angle panoramic shot over London, looking east towards Hoban and then swinging
past the British Museum before focusing down on the corner of Bedford Square, was taken
from the upper floors of the Centre Point building on the junction of Oxford Street,
Tottenham Court Road and Charing Cross Road.
Bedford Square was not the original location chosen for the TARDIS scenes.
Originally, the plan was to film the opening panoramic shot from the top of the GPO Tower,
but as the building was due to officially open to the public only a few days before
the planned filming dates, permission was refused.
When the high vantage point was moved to the Centre Point Tower not far away, the choice
of the TARDIS landing area was likewise changed to one in direct line of sight of the building.
The Doctor's arrival at the Royal Scientific Club was likewise filmed in Bedford Square,
on the other side of the road from where the TARDIS lands.
The taxi and driver were real ones, hired especially for the shot, with the vehicle
pulling up outside number 41.
The original options for this location looked very similar to Bedford Square.
The original choice was here at Portman Square in Marylebone.
Whilst Fitzroy Square, just a short distance from the GPO Tower, was also considered.
And indeed Conway Street, leading away from Fitzroy Square, was used for the scene at
the beginning of episode 1, showing the Doctor and Dodo making their way towards the Tower's
entrance on Maple Street, situated at the end of the road.
In the story, the construction of the first war machine took place in a warehouse in Covent
Garden, and scenes showing Ben making his way there in episode 2 were filmed here, next
to Bedford Chambers, in the heart of the Old Market.
Shots for this sequence were also filmed just around the corner in Bow Street, outside the
front entrance of the Royal Opera House, with Ben walking past both the theatre and the
floral hall adjacent to it.
The sequences showing War Machine 9 on the Rampage were all filmed very close to the
GPO Tower.
From the upper window of the Duke of York pub in Charlotte Place, the scene of the attack
on the man in the telephone box was filmed, the war machine finally making its way down
Charlotte Place towards Chitty Street.
Gress Street, much developed over the years since 1966, was used for the scene of the
advancing war machine crashing through the dustbins.
Whilst the fleeing bystanders were actually filmed several streets away in Burners Mews.
Originally however, it was planned that this particular shot would be filmed at a different
location a short distance away, here in Newman Passage.
The exterior of the new Connacht Rooms in Great Queen Street formed the view of deserted
London as the police warned the public of the imminent danger.
The final capture of War Machine 9 was staged here at Cornwall Gardens Walk in Kensington,
with the Doctor and Sir Charles Summer arriving at the top of the walk in Cornwall Gardens
itself, whilst the army prepares the Doctor's trap below.
These high angle shots of the trapped war machine were taken from the
upper window of 50F Cornwall Gardens, with the then owner Mrs Lessing being paid £2.02
for the privilege.
The shot of the reprogrammed war machine making its way across London towards the GPO Tower
in order to attack Wotan, were once again filmed in Burners Mews, using the same passageway
through which the two bystanders had previously fled from the war machine.
Finally the war machine arrives at the base of the GPO Tower, which was filmed just outside
the entrance of the building in Maple Street.