The British Museum is presenting us something interesting in this episode of Curator’s Cornet with Henry Flynn: a banknote inspired from the Doctor Who show. In the 2006 Doctor Who Christmas special episode ‘The Runaway Bride’ a huge quantity of money was needed to billow out of a cash machine. Normally, an art department would just knock up a relatively simple set of one-sided prop notes and be done with it, but this was not the case with the BBC team and the Doctor Who art department.
In the 2020 Curator’s Corner Christmas special affectionately referred to by the British Museum people ‘The David Tenner’ a curator was needed to talk about a Christmas object. Normally, an in-house museum production team would just sit a curator down, and get them to talk about a Christmas object… not the case with the British Museum production team (or curator Henry Flynn from the video for that matter).
This video is a re-upload, just for fun, because in the episode 2024 Curator’s Corner Christmas Special… they added a few minutes, made it 4K but mostly it was identical. The video chapters are the following:
- 00:00 Introduction
- 00:38 Bank notes from Doctor Who ‘The Runaway Bride’ episode
- 01:00 Low effort attempt to summarise the episode with no copyright infringement
- 02:34 Something weird is happening
- 03:00 Maximum effort!
- 03:05 Runaway Bride Robot Santa Scene
- 03:10 Wrong Doctor?
- 03:25 Almost every Doctor (all of them except the 14th and the 15th, the video being filmed this in 2020)
- 4:55 Right then, where were we?
- 7:00 David Tennant‘s Tenth Doctor Bank Note Easter Eggs
- 9:10 Phil Collinson’s Bank Note Easter Eggs
- 11:46 Yeah, we redid the theme tune…
- 12:41 Your best view yet at the cuneiform