“It was the beginning of digital effects,” McCallum says. “We were the very first to have real visual effects that were done digitally. I mean, they were done on an Apple computer, but nevertheless, we had sometimes 50, 60, 70 shots in each episode. And the dream was how could we make something all around the world for the same cost of a typical show in the United States that shot on the stage in five days.”

The team did that by basing itself out of Prague, working exclusively with local crews, and keeping the department heads in England. “That group became very intensely close,” McCallum says. “We all became very close, still great friends. I took everybody from Young Indy on to Star Wars, so altogether we were together for 15 years.”