The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis

The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis was the most comprehensive documentary to be filmed around a single story: the three-part serial celebrating the 25th anniversary, Silver Nemesis, first broadcast in 1988.

Including a series of archive clips from the BBC and candid behind-the-scenes interviews and features, presenter Eric Luskin takes the viewer through all the various stages of bringing a script to screen, from writer Kevin Clarke's first, somewhat ill-prepared pitch for the story, from the earliest rehearsals to actual location filming showing things going right and things going wrong, through to post production.

Fully supported by John Nathan Turner, it was a bold move to raise the Doctor Who profile in the USA with coverage of this action-packed, non-studio-bound story. With its Royal family theme of particular interest to the American audience, even the actress Dolores Gray featured as an American tourist tracing her family roots.

This documentary was only ever released with the extended edition VHS of the story, and on this occasion had to be slightly edited to remove clips from stories written by Eric Saward, from whom clearance permission had been refused. It was never shown on UK television and, because of copyright issues, could not be included with the 2010 DVD release as part of a box set with Revenge of the Cybermen.

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