Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in 1987. Longleat House tour The tour of the house comprises: The Elizabethan Great Hall, with a minstrels' gallery The lower east corridor, a wide room originally used as servant access to the main rooms. This now holds fine furniture and paintings. Also on display are two visitor books, one showing the signatures of Elizabeth II and Philip, the other Albert (George VI) and Elizabeth (the Queen Mother). The ante-library, with a magnificent Venetian painting on the ceiling The Red Library, which displays many of the 40,000 books in the house The Breakfast Room, with a ceiling to match the ante-library The Lower Dining Room Stairs up, past a display of large early Meissen porcelain animals The bathroom and bath-bedroom: the bath is a lead-lined tub of coopered construction, originally filled by hand from buckets and drained the same way; taps and drains are now provided. The lead lining was replaced in 2005. The room holds the first plumbed-in flush lavatory in the house. The State Dining Room, with a Meissen porcelain table centrepiece The Saloon The State Drawing Room, designed by Crace The Robes Corridor The Chinese Bedroom The Music Room, with instruments including a barrel organ The Prince of Wales Bedroom, so named because of a large painting of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the brother of Charles I The upper west corridor The Grand Staircase The banqueting suite on the top floor: the furniture and interiors designed by Claire Rendall, the dining table commissioned from John Makepeace and the chandelier from Jocelyn Burton Events and filming In the 1959 film Libel, Longleat is used as the estate of Dirk Bogarde's character. Several episodes of the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who were filmed at Longleat, and for 30 years a Doctor Who Exhibition was hosted on the grounds. A major event celebrating the series's 20th anniversary was also held at the house at Easter 1983. The 2000 Indian Hindi film Mohabbatein was filmed at Longleat, which served as the location for a school in the film. Longleat staged the Red Bull Air Race in 2005. It was transformed into 'Memory Manor', a laboratory to explore memory skills and the working of the brain for the 2006 BBC show How to Improve Your Memory. A copy of the painting The Fallen Madonna, a running joke from the BBC television sitcom