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It takes time...
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It takes... Things need to gel.
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So I think we would have reversed it -
shot on the sets and then finished on location.
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This is the beautiful Cliveden manor,
the home of the Astors, outside of London,
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which we were lucky enough
to get as the location for
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Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward's mansion.
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Again, colour. Get a load of this set.
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Ron Cook.
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Perhaps the most physically like
the marionette that he is playing.
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When we were auditioning actors,
it was one of the...
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One of the real treats was
that there were eight or ten actors
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who could have played Parker wonderfully.
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And Ron Cook somehow nailed it,
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not only with his acting and his timing
and his accent
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but he looks so much like Parker the marionette
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that it was a no-brainer.
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One of my favourite lines -
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"A volcanic eruption in Jakarta..."
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Time for Lisa Lowe, played by Genie Francis.
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Ford - product placement! Here's a reshoot.
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Ford said their cars didn't feature enough
so we had to go back on location.
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Actually, this is at Pinewood.
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We put in a couple more red Fords
to satisfy their product-placement contract.
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Here's one of the moments
from the original show -
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the teapot sending the signal to Tracy Island.