EastEnders
"EastEnders" is often filmed on location, away from the studios in Borehamwood. Sometimes an entire quartet is filmed on location, which has a practical function and are the result of "EastEnders" making a "double bank", when an extra week's worth of episodes are recorded at the same time as the regular schedule, enabling the production of the programme to stop for a two-week break at Christmas. These episodes often air in late June or early July and again in late October or early November. The first time this happened was in December 1985 when Pauline (Wendy Richard) and Arthur Fowler (Bill Treacher) travelled to the Southend-on-Sea to find their son Mark, who had run away from home. In 1986, "EastEnders" filmed overseas for the first time, in Venice, and this was also the first time it was not filmed on videotape, as a union rule at the time prevented producers taking a video crew abroad and a film crew had to be used instead. In 2011, it was reported that eight per cent of the series is filmed on location.
List of EastEnders television spin-offs
In 1993, a charity special crossover between "EastEnders" and the science fiction television series "Doctor Who" entitled "Dimensions in Time" was made in aid of the charity Children in Need. It ran in two parts on 26 and 27 November 1993 and was filmed on the "EastEnders" set. It featured several of the stars of the programme at the time. Another Children in Need special, "Pudding Lane" was broadcast in a series of five-minute instalments throughout the 26 November 1999 telethon. It relocated the then current "EastEnders" characters to Pudding Lane in 1666, during the events leading to the Great Fire of London.