1. "The Doctor and the Master
argue their respective cases
before the Draconian Emperor.Copy !req
2. "The Doctor seems to be winning
- but the Master's treachery
turns the tables."Copy !req
3. This episode was first shown
on 24 March, 1973, to
an audience of 7.7 million people.Copy !req
4. Turbulence is conveyed by rocking
the camera head from side to side...Copy !req
5. and also by Roger Delgado rocking
his own head from side to side.Copy !req
6. To be precise, he's quoting
Alfred Tennyson's 'Sir Galahad' (1842).Copy !req
7. Paul Bernard briefed John Woodnutt
to play the Emperor as a large lizard.Copy !req
8. The actor interpreted
the instruction in terms of
physical and vocal characterisation.Copy !req
9. He gave the Emperor a reptilian
stillness, combined with sudden, darting
movements such as you can see here.Copy !req
10. He also took the Draconian actors'
hissing voice-work to
a new level of sibilance.Copy !req
11. The script describes
the Emperor's court as "a setting of
simple but barbaric splendour".Copy !req
12. John Woodnutt and Peter Birrel
developed an
angular way of sittingCopy !req
13. which suggested that the Draconians'
legs were jointed like lizards'.Copy !req
14. Malcolm Hulke had a penchant
for reptilian monsters
like dinosaurs and giant lizards.Copy !req
15. He originally imagined
the Draconians as beings with
heads and faces like dragons.Copy !req
16. What he really wanted was an articulated
snout that was both nose and mouth
in one facial feature,Copy !req
17. but there was no way he was getting
that on a television budget!Copy !req
18. This reduced the pressure
on Jon Pertwee, who never
enjoyed learning his lines.Copy !req
19. The Draconians' masks were made
by effects sculptor John Friedlander,
working to a design by Paul Bernard.Copy !req
20. Bernard's concept sketch was very
similar to the final version, but with
rills at the back of the head and neck.Copy !req
21. The masks worked on a principle that had
been developed for the Ogrons when they
first appeared in 'Day of the Daleks'.Copy !req
22. Each mask, cast in latex,
fitted snugly over the actor's head,
leaving his eyes and chin exposed.Copy !req
23. Jon Pertwee was especially impressed
by the way this enhanced
his fellow actors' performancesCopy !req
24. by leaving the key elements
of their own faces free
to convey life and emotion.Copy !req
25. The many warts created air pockets on
the underside which meant that the latex
did not stick to the actors' faces.Copy !req
26. This made them comfortable to wear,
with a consequent gain in efficiency:Copy !req
27. Some of the masks were moulded
using individual face-casts of
the actors who were to wear them.Copy !req
28. Not this one, though: It's not
a perfect fit, so the eye sockets
move along with the actor's mouth.Copy !req
29. In the storyline, it is unclear how
the Doctor persuades the Emperor
to believe his story.Copy !req
30. Hulke solved that problem
by minor restructuring here.Copy !req
31. In the original version, the Ogrons
attack the spaceship carrying the Doctor
back to Earth on the Emperor's mission.Copy !req
32. The boarding party appear
to be Earthmen, but the
Doctor discovers otherwiseCopy !req
33. when he engages one of them in
hand-to-hand combat in an open airlock.Copy !req
34. In the struggle, he tears a "human" mask
from the attacker's face,
revealing the Ogron beneath.Copy !req
35. The startled Ogron plummets back into
space, leaving the Doctor with only
the mask as evidence.Copy !req
36. A debt of personal obligation
was also mooted.Copy !req
37. In the script, the Doctor's
intervention saves the Emperor
from being shot by an Ogron.Copy !req
38. The use of a fear-inducing device to
cause hallucinations was drawn
from an earlier Master serial,Copy !req
39. 'The Mind of Evil' (1971), in which
the Master also tries to provoke a war.Copy !req
40. It was worse in the script: Three Ogrons
were left behind, not just one.Copy !req
41. The BBC's Head of Drama Serials,
Ronald Marsh, enjoyed this episode.Copy !req
42. He praised it at that week's programme
review meeting and noted the whole
serial's good production values.Copy !req
43. In the script, the Ogron answers
all the questions,
but only has one thing to say:Copy !req
44. "We obey the Master."Copy !req
45. He also rather enjoyed
the comic opportunities afforded
by their low intellect.Copy !req
46. Sadly, a few British journalists are so
desperate for copy that, on
occasion, they resort to inventing it.Copy !req
47. For a long time, it was widely believed
that the Draconians' masks were
sculpted around a plaster bust ofCopy !req
48. the popular Irish comedian Dave Allen.Copy !req
49. The story was published in
the tabloid newspaper, The Sun,Copy !req
50. but you can't believe everything
you read in the papers:
There's no truth in it whatsoever!Copy !req
51. In the script, the Ogron becomes less
placid when he sees Jo and tries
to bend the bars to get to her.Copy !req
52. The Draconian's pistol is a prop made
for 'Day of the Daleks', when,
ironically, it was used by the Ogrons.Copy !req
53. "Honestly," she was scripted to say,
"I can't imagine how they
treat their poor wives."Copy !req
54. This determined some aspects of
how a serial would be structured.Copy !req
55. Apart from location filming, a writer
always had to confine his action
to a limited number of sets.Copy !req
56. In a serial like 'Frontier in Space',
where the setting moves around a lot,Copy !req
57. the changes tend to coincide
with episode pairings.Copy !req
58. For example, the cargo ship only appears
in the first two episodes, and
the Moon prison only in the middle pair.Copy !req
59. This meant that the sets could be used
for a single two-episode recording
session and then disposed of.Copy !req
60. Designers preferred to minimise
the number of sets which had to
be stored, partly because of the cost,Copy !req
61. and partly because there was
always the risk that a set
might be damaged in transit.Copy !req
62. An experienced writer would structure
his serial to accommodate
these practical considerations.Copy !req
63. Another limiting factor
was the size of the studio.Copy !req
64. All the sets required to make any pair
of episodes had to fit into whichever
studio was allocated to the recording.Copy !req
65. 'Frontier in Space' was made
in two medium-sized studios
at Television Centre:Copy !req
66. Studio 4 for the first four episodes,
and Studio 3 for the final pair.Copy !req
67. They were of almost identical size,
roughly 90 feet by 70,Copy !req
68. and they contained
adequate room for the six to ten sets
per episode that Hulke had written.Copy !req
69. However, Hulke planned an entirely new
setting for the final episode:
The Master's base in the Ogron citadel.Copy !req
70. His reasoning was that most of the sets
for Part 5 could be taken down overnight
and the citadel built in their place.Copy !req
71. Things did not go
quite according to plan.Copy !req
72. You may remember that about two minutes'
worth of material was moved up
from this episode into Part 4.Copy !req
73. The upshot was that this episode in turn
had to borrow two minutes of Ogron
citadel scenes written for Part 6.Copy !req
74. This led to an unusual
pattern of recording for this episode,
split across the two days.Copy !req
75. Paul Bernard opted to record
the Ogron citadel scenes on
the first studio day, 31 October.Copy !req
76. He wanted to be sure of getting
everything in the can before
the citadel sets were taken down.Copy !req
77. The remainder of the Part 5 scenes
were then recorded on
the final studio day, 1 November.Copy !req
78. "He's not really
a very good pilot, you know,"
gloats the Doctor in the script.Copy !req
79. In the script, the Doctor sent Jo to the
hold, a safe place where she would be
out of the way of the fighting Ogron.Copy !req
80. In the 1971 series of Doctor Who,
the Master was a regular character
who appeared almost every week.Copy !req
81. One person who was inconvenienced
by this was Roger Delgado.Copy !req
82. In consequence, he was spending more
time unemployed than he was used to.Copy !req
83. He discussed the problem
with Barry Letts during
the making of 'Frontier in Space'.Copy !req
84. Letts decided to give the Master
one last Doctor Who serial,
to be entitled 'The Final Game'.Copy !req
85. The adventure, to be made for
the 1974 series, would culminate in
the Master dying a spectacular death.Copy !req
86. A wind machine was deployed on set
to simulate the rush of escaping air.Copy !req
87. A storyline for 'The Final Game' was
commissioned on 15 February, 1973,
and delivered in early June.Copy !req
88. The serial proceeded no further.Copy !req
89. That June, Roger Delgado was in
a mountainous region of central Turkey.Copy !req
90. He was making a film
for a French production company.Copy !req
91. He didn't turn up for work
on the morning of Monday 18 June.Copy !req
92. His body was later found in
the wreckage of the hire car
which was driving him to the location.Copy !req
93. His last acting performance
was screened posthumously in 1974.Copy !req
94. So 'Frontier in Space' turned out to be
his final appearance as the Master.Copy !req
95. The next scene was scripted to open
on General Williams saying,Copy !req
96. "Surely we cannot be expected
to believe this story."Copy !req
97. Paul Bernard hoped to work
with Mike Catherwood, who had been his
vision mixer on 'Day of the Daleks'.Copy !req
98. A request was put in during
pre-production but, in the event,
Catherwood proved to be unavailable.Copy !req
99. Michael Hawkins, who plays
General Williams had worked with Paul
Bernard before in the series R3 (1965).Copy !req
100. Bernard directed, and Hawkins
played the head of a team
of scientific troubleshooters.Copy !req
101. After a few cinema bit-parts
in 1959-61, he mainly concentrated
on television work.Copy !req
102. A certain masculine precision of manner
ensured that he was often cast
as policemen and detectives,Copy !req
103. notably in Man in a Suitcase (1968)
And The Duchess of Duke Street (1976-7).Copy !req
104. He took another militaristic role,
a colonel, in the third series
of Survivors (1977).Copy !req
105. The Devil's Crown (1978) saw him
playing a medieval nobleman.Copy !req
106. This was the very last scene
that Roger Delgado recorded
in the role of the Master.Copy !req
107. The Master's quotation (from John Howard
Payne's 1823 song, 'Home, Sweet Home')
Was Roger Delgado's unscripted input.Copy !req
108. You'll remember that this episode
was restructured to include
material planned for Part 6.Copy !req
109. The scripted episode ended here.Copy !req
110. A line cut from the next episode says
that, "According to the Galactic Survey,
this planet is uninhabited,Copy !req
111. "contains a dense,
unpleasant atmosphere, has no valuable
minerals whatsoever, minimal vegetation.Copy !req
112. "There is one dominant life-form
- a large and savage reptile.Copy !req
113. "The planet is in a neutral sector of
the galaxy. Neither Earth nor Draconia
has shown any interest in claiming it."Copy !req
114. This is the first scene written
for Part 6 and recorded on 31 October.Copy !req
115. The Master's prison accommodation
in 'The Sea Devils' was indeed
a lot plusher than this.Copy !req
116. Malcolm Hulke imagined an even more
primitive setting: A cave.Copy !req
117. There are no fitted electric lights:
The Master has a torch,Copy !req
118. which he swings round here
to illuminate the TARDIS
in a gloomy corner of the cave.Copy !req
119. Hulke's script here plays to
one of Roger Delgado's strengths.Copy !req
120. The actor liked to bring out an ironic
sense of cliché in his performance,Copy !req
121. The TARDIS may have made an unplanned
detour during the week
after this episode was shown.Copy !req
122. In the 27 March edition of Whatever
Happened to the Likely Lads? the title
characters woke up in police custody.Copy !req
123. "What are we doing here?"
Panicked Bob. "I mean,
why are we in a cell? What happened?"Copy !req
124. "Do you remember the police box
and the strange Doctor?"
Replied the sardonic Terry.Copy !req
125. The Master hypnotised Jo
the first time they met,
in 'Terror of the Autons' (1971).Copy !req
126. The non-speaking Draconians were:Copy !req
127. Leslie Bates,
Rodney Cardiff, Andy DevineCopy !req
128. Richard King, Bill Matthews,
Stewart MyersCopy !req
129. Steve Tierney, Lawrence HeldCopy !req
130. Uncredited production
contributors included:Copy !req
131. Ron BristowCopy !req
132. Shirley CowardCopy !req
133. That's better. That's about it. Right.Copy !req
134. Fire!Copy !req
135. They're still after us.Copy !req
136. Fire!Copy !req
137. Can we not fire back?Copy !req
138. No. No, I'm afraid we're outgunned.Copy !req
139. This isn't a battle cruiser, you know.Copy !req
140. Hang on.
I think we're shaking them off.Copy !req
141. Doctor!Copy !req
142. He's broken out! Get out, Jo!Copy !req
143. We must have hit them.
They're losing speed.Copy !req
144. Shall I fire again?Copy !req
145. No, no, it might be possible
to take the Doctor alive after all.Copy !req
146. Muster a boarding party.Copy !req
147. Yes, Master.Copy !req
148. Right, there you are, my friend.Copy !req
149. Are you all right?Copy !req
150. JO: Oh, no, you don't!Copy !req
151. No, no!Copy !req
152. - No, let go of me!
- This way!Copy !req
153. JO: Let me go!Copy !req
154. We've been boarded!
We need the blasters, come on!Copy !req
155. - The prisoner?
- Don't worry about him.Copy !req
156. He's no use to us at the moment.Copy !req
157. JO: Let me go! No! Doctor!Copy !req
158. Get down!
The enemy!Copy !req
159. Fool, go!Copy !req
160. What is happening?
They should have taken that ship by now!Copy !req
161. Must I do everything myself?Copy !req
162. Look!Copy !req
163. An Earth battle cruiser.Copy !req
164. You'd better recall the boarding party.
I'll take over here.Copy !req
165. As soon as they're back on board,
we'll unlock.Copy !req
166. Fools!Copy !req
167. JO: Help! Doctor!
You come!Copy !req
168. - You must come!
- No!Copy !req
169. Look out! We must take the girl!Copy !req
170. No!Copy !req
171. JO: No!Copy !req
172. Bring the girl!
JO: Doctor!Copy !req
173. In here!Copy !req
174. Right. Unlock!Copy !req
175. We should be all right in a minute.Copy !req
176. The ship'll pump in more oxygen.Copy !req
177. This is Earth battle cruiser X29.Copy !req
178. Do you read me? Identify yourself.Copy !req
179. This is Earth battle cruiser X29.Copy !req
180. Do you read me? Identify yourself.Copy !req
181. Hello, this is Earth
police spaceship 2390,Copy !req
182. on a special mission
to the President of Earth. Over.Copy !req
183. Identify the ship
that has just unlocked from you.Copy !req
184. They refuse to answer our signals.Copy !req
185. Look, it's of vital importanceCopy !req
186. that you pursue and capture
that ship immediately. Over.Copy !req
187. You are in possession
of a stolen police spaceship.Copy !req
188. You are under arrest.
Stand by to be boarded.Copy !req
189. Look, you don't understand.Copy !req
190. The man who stole this ship
is escaping in that vessel.Copy !req
191. You are under arrest.Copy !req
192. You'll be given the opportunity
of making a full statement.Copy !req
193. Do not offer any resistance.
Stand by to be boarded.Copy !req
194. Oh, very well.
We're standing by.Copy !req
195. Poor Doctor.
Enmeshed in the throes of bureaucracy.Copy !req
196. It'll take him a long time
to talk himself out of that one.Copy !req
197. But he'll get to see the President,
eventually.Copy !req
198. She won't believe him.Copy !req
199. Oh, yes, she will,
when she sees the Ogron prisoner.Copy !req
200. He's our evidence.Copy !req
201. Your evidence is standing
right behind you.Copy !req
202. The Draconian Prince knows
the truth and he's with the Doctor.Copy !req
203. My dear, Miss Grant, in the climate
of opinion that I have created,Copy !req
204. do you think that any EarthmanCopy !req
205. is going to believe the word
of a Draconian?Copy !req
206. Your Highness,
we've heard the Doctor's theory before.Copy !req
207. And, with respect,
there is still no concrete evidence.Copy !req
208. I myself would like to believe you
but, as you can see,Copy !req
209. I need proof to convince my people.Copy !req
210. Then we must mount an expedition
to the planet of the Ogrons.Copy !req
211. The proof we need is there, madam.Copy !req
212. With Earth on the brink of war,
how can we divert our forcesCopy !req
213. into such a pointless expedition?Copy !req
214. Suppose this is yet another
Draconian trick to divide our strength?Copy !req
215. My dear chap,
I'm not asking for a battle fleet.Copy !req
216. All I require is one small spaceship.Copy !req
217. Your request is granted.Copy !req
218. On the contrary, your request is denied.Copy !req
219. My authority...Copy !req
220. In a purely military
matter of this kind, madam,Copy !req
221. your authority is limited.Copy !req
222. I can overrule you.Copy !req
223. Only with the backing
of the full Earth senate.Copy !req
224. And do you think they will give it?Copy !req
225. How can we expect help
from a man such as this?Copy !req
226. This is the man who deliberately
caused war between our people!Copy !req
227. That is untrue!Copy !req
228. Twenty years ago,
you destroyed a Draconian shipCopy !req
229. that had come in a mission of peace.Copy !req
230. A ship that was about to open fire on us
when we were damaged and helpless.Copy !req
231. They came in peace,
as had been arranged.Copy !req
232. Then why didn't they answer my signals?Copy !req
233. Their communications equipment
had been destroyed in a neutron storm.Copy !req
234. The same neutron storm
that damaged your ship!Copy !req
235. Is this true?Copy !req
236. I have read the records
of my father's court.Copy !req
237. It is the truth.Copy !req
238. But why a battle cruiser?Copy !req
239. The agreement was that both ships
were to be unarmed.Copy !req
240. Naturally, we sent a cruiser.Copy !req
241. How else should a nobleman
of Draconia travel?Copy !req
242. But its missile banks were empty,
the ship was unarmed.Copy !req
243. Well, very soon we shall be landing.Copy !req
244. I think, Miss Grant, you had better
prepare yourself for a long stay.Copy !req
245. I'm afraid it's not
a very comfortable place,Copy !req
246. but as the old song says,Copy !req
247. "Be it ever so humble,
there's no place like home."Copy !req
248. Your Highness,Copy !req
249. please accept my deepest regrets
for the wrong I have done your people.Copy !req
250. Then, can I take it, sir, that you will
now authorise the expedition?Copy !req
251. I intend to lead it.Copy !req
252. If the planet of the Ogrons exists,
we shall find it.Copy !req
253. Be careful down here.Copy !req
254. This way.Copy !req
255. Right, in there.Copy !req
256. Well, Miss Grant,
welcome to my humble abode.Copy !req
257. I think you were better off in prison.Copy !req
258. Oh, temporary quarters, my dear.Copy !req
259. I shall soon be changing them
for something better.Copy !req
260. Oh, you'll soon be back in jail.Copy !req
261. When the truth gets out,Copy !req
262. Earth and Draconia will combine
their forces to attack you.Copy !req
263. I don't think so.
There's too much distrust between them.Copy !req
264. The Doctor will find you, eventually.Copy !req
265. Ah, there I agree with you.
He must find me.Copy !req
266. Not only to rescue you,Copy !req
267. but also to be reunited
with his beloved TARDIS.Copy !req
268. You know, Miss Grant,
I'm going to set a trap for the Doctor.Copy !req
269. And you are going to help me.Copy !req
270. What?Copy !req
271. No noble speeches to the effect that
you'd rather die than betray the Doctor?Copy !req
272. You know I'm not going to help you.Copy !req
273. I know that you are.Copy !req
274. I know that you will obey me.Copy !req
275. You will obey me! I am the Master...Copy !req
276. "Mary had a little lamb,
his fleece was white as snow,Copy !req
277. "and everywhere that Mary went,Copy !req
278. - "the lamb was sure to go."
- You will obey me...Copy !req
279. "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall..."Copy !req
280. Stop that, Miss Grant!Copy !req
281. It's a form of self-conditioning.Copy !req
282. You fill your mind with nonsense
and then you can't be hypnotised.Copy !req
283. - "See-saw, Margery Daw...
- You will obey me.Copy !req
284. "Johnny shall have a new master.Copy !req
285. - "He shall have but a penny a day...
- You will...Copy !req
286. - "Because he can't work any faster..."
- Obey me!Copy !req
287. All right, all right,
all right, all right!Copy !req
288. I was never very fond
of nursery rhymes anyhow!Copy !req
289. Then you'll just have to give up
all hope of hypnotising me, won't you?Copy !req
290. Once was quite enough, thank you.Copy !req
291. Hmm.Copy !req
292. In that case,
I shall have to try something else.Copy !req
293. You may have heard this
noise before, Miss Grant.Copy !req
294. It works directly on the fear centres
deep in your mind!Copy !req