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13. Banto Is Watching A Real BBC Show

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You'd be forgiven for forgetting that Banto was an even a character in this episode.

He's the owner of the DVD store where Larry works. It's here where Sally is given the list of DVDs containing the Doctor's easter egg, and the story kicks into its next gear.

When we first meet Banto, he's watching something on TV instead of talking to his customers. Great business decision. He's watching a real TV show called Gangsters, which ran for two seasons in the '70s on the BBC, and then vanished from the cultural eye for good.

The other DVD covers and posters in the store were all made up, with the crew going to painstaking efforts to make the store seem populated.

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