Doctor Who 10x21

Directed by Michael E. Briant

Jerome Willis as Stevens • Stewart Bevan as Clifford Jones • Tony Adams as Elgin • Ben Howard as Hinks • Mostyn Evans as Dai Evans

While the Doctor plans a holiday to Metebelis Three, Jo and the Brigadier are intrigued by a mysterious death at a coal mine in Llanfairfach, which is being blamed on local company Global Chemicals.

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1. "A new oil refinery is to open in a small South Wales village. Good news - or is it?

2. "Deep in an abandoned coal mine something strange lurks, and a man dies mysteriously.

3. This opening shot is a piece of stock footage of a coal mine.

4. This scene mimics the brief speech that was given by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938.

5. During the conference, Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler signed an agreement,

6. which stated the German leader's desire never to go to war with Britain again.

7. When Chamberlain returned to England, he brandished the signed document,

8. Just eleven months later, Hitler's Germany invaded Poland and Britain declared war.

9. Bert the miner is played by John Scott Martin (1929-2009).

10. This coincided with the first large discovery of oil in the Ekofisk region of the North Sea in December 1969,

11. and by the 1970s, the energy pattern of the British Isles was indeed changing.

12. They were paid the grand sum of £7.50 each

13. On his death in 1895, the chemist, engineer and inventor, Alfred Nobel instructed in his will

14. In 1969, a sixth and final category was added to the list of prizes - that of Economic Sciences.

15. It's never explained in which category Professor Jones won his award.

16. The script refers to him as "a brilliant, if wayward, bio-chemist",

17. so perhaps he won his Nobel Prize for chemistry, physiology or perhaps even for his peace work.

18. The train is pulling a long line of cylindrical chemical goods trucks, all bearing the Global Chemicals logo.

19. Jo's rather muffled mouth-full question to the Doctor was scripted as:

20. "Deblobblesion ushket?"

21. The Time Lords sentenced the Doctor to exile on Earth at the end of 'The War Games' (1969)

22. And removed the knowledge about the TARDIS's dematerialisation codes from his mind.

23. At the end of 'The Three Doctors' (1972-3), the Time Lords revoked their sentence

24. and the Doctor was free to travel in time and space once more.

25. The newspaper Jo is reading appears to be a copy of the Daily Mail.

26. This was produced by Wing Commander Garby, who ran West London Offset Company.

27. The four-paragraph article was headlined "Government Go-Ahead for Global".

28. It reported that Global Chemicals had been given full planning permission and a grant running into the millions

29. to build their new oil refinery in Llanfairfach utilising their new method for cracking crude oil.

30. The article quotes Professor Jones as saying that the refinery would cause further massive pollution

31. Jo partially quotes the newspaper's comment that "common sense has triumphed at last"

32. and that "the futile protests of Professor Jones and his crackpots have been rightly ignored

33. "by a Government which has the true interests of the people in this area at heart".

34. Half of this scene was removed during the editing of the episode.

35. After Cliff comments that Hughes has only been dead for an hour, the scripted scene continues

36. with Elgin entering the Engine Room, telling them that the police are on their way.

37. "What about his auntie?" says Evans. "He lived with her. She'll have to be told."

38. "No... I'd rather you didn't," replied Elgin. "Why not?" asks Cliff.

39. "We don't want anyone to know yet how he died," says Elgin mysteriously.

40. "Who's we?" demands Cliff, and Elgin answers, "The company. The authorities."

41. A security guard stops Evans at the door. "I'm afraid I must insist," says Elgin.

42. "You see?" says Cliff pointedly. "Do you think they'll ever let you live the way you want to?"

43. The Brigadier's comment about Jo helping Professor Jones in his "noble fight against the windmills"

44. is an allusion to Miguel de Cervantes's picaresque novel, Don Quixote (1605).

45. In the book, Don Quixote asks his neighbour, Sancho Panza to join him on his adventurous quest

46. The incident of Don Quixote's attack on the windmills became a byword for pointless endeavour.

47. As we see in this scene and indeed throughout the course of the story,

48. Jo begins to make her own choices and starts to move away from the Doctor's influence,

49. eventually deciding that she can live without it and move on with her life.

50. In the script, Jo isn't quite so reflective.

51. She hurries to pick up her suitcase and rushes for the door when the Doctor stops her.

52. Jo quickly says goodbye and then quickly "goes in a whirl of happiness".

53. The location was the small village of Deri in South Wales,

54. situated very close to the Ogilvie Colliery used for the exterior mine sequences.

55. The milkman is played by Cardiff-born actor, Ray Handy (1929-87).

56. At the end of the scene, Handy mutters an ad-libbed retort under his breath,

57. but none of the Welsh speakers we asked could quite make out what he's saying!

58. The location used for the Wholeweal community was Troed-y-rhiw Jestyn,

59. a hillside farm situated next to the Ogilvie Colliery.

60. The production team insisted that the Brigadier should be seen to drive a "very expensive sports car",

61. so he was given a 1964 Mercedes 230 SL, which was hired at a cost of £60 per day

62. The Metebelis Three scenes were all filmed just off the road leading to the entrance to the colliery

63. In fact, the farm used in the previous scene is situated just above the walls of the quarry.

64. Under normal conditions, a day's filming on location would finish at 5.30 p.m.

65. However, to simulate Metebelis's dusk setting,

66. the scenes were all shot between 4 and 7 p.m.

67. As Pertwee played the Doctor being uncharacteristically frightened at some largely unseen horrors

68. The "Room for Living" and "Toadstools, Professors, etc." signs were scripted as "beautifully designed",

69. whereas the "Watch It" sign was meant to be "crudely done in big, black, forthright letters".

70. Jo's first encounter with Cliff strongly mirrors her original introductory scene in 'Terror of the Autons' (1971).

71. At the beginning of that story, when she meets the Doctor for the very first time,

72. However, as the script points out, "Jo can hardly be blamed this time.

73. Frank Sinatra recorded the song as Nancy In August 1945.

74. Okay, there's some fairly major script deviations coming up over the next few minutes.

75. Between this scene and the following one on Metebelis Three

76. Stevens forcefully emphasises to the Brigadier that security is their main concern.

77. "We've had enough trouble with the cranks down the road. If this got into the papers..."

78. "I don't quite understand. This accident down the mine. Nothing to do with you, surely?"

79. Stevens replies that "this whole valley is our concern now".

80. the Brigadier replies, "The Doctor? He decided it was time to take a little holiday..."

81. The action then cuts to the sequence of the Doctor fleeing from the thundering hoofbeats.

82. In the sequence it replaced, Jo explains to Cliff her decision to join the Wholeweal community.

83. "We're trying to find out how to live - an alternative that's a real one - and alternative technology if you like.

84. "We want to be human beings again - not robot slaves of the machine

85. "or 'the balance of payments' or whatever.

86. "And because we try to stop them, we're called cranks! Cranks!"

87. Finally understanding, Jo replies, "So, I'm a crank. Where do I throw the first spanner?"

88. Immediately following the deleted scene was a slightly longer version of this one.

89. Elgin gives a forced cough to break Stevens's flow. "Poor fellow..." he concludes.

90. To keep costs down, the giant talons were reused from Visual Effects stock.

91. Metebelis Three had first been mentioned three stories earlier in 'Carnival of Monsters':

92. The Doctor programmed the planet's coordinates into the TARDIS,

93. but unexpectedly landed in the cargo hold of the SS Bernice in the Indian Ocean.

94. So will the blue crystals that we saw the Doctor looking at with wonderment a few minutes earlier.

95. Many ideas for the Wholeweal community appear to have derived from an article

96. in the New Scientist magazine, published on 11 January 1973 just as this story was being scripted.

97. The opening lines of this scene were also lost in editing.

98. Following on from Elgin's statement, Cliff begins by saying, "And that's the biggest lie of the lot."

99. For example, small molecules of ethane join together to make poly, commonly known as polythene.

100. This is how plastics are made, hence Cliff's worried comment about it being like

101. "a thick sludge you can't break down in any way - like a liquid plastic".

102. Stevens is played by the well-recognised actor Jerome Willis.

103. And in Gerry Anderson's high-budget series Space Precinct (1994-5).

104. His work with the Royal Shakespeare Company included two productions of The Tempest fifty years apart:

105. As scripted, that scene also involved Mitzi McKenzie as Nancy,

106. but although she was booked for the episode, she wasn't available for the recording, for reasons unknown.

107. This meant that the laboratory scenes had to be reworked at the last minute.

108. but in the final scene, this was changed to the imaginary Saliota Orbis,

109. possibly because they used common button mushrooms for the scene rather than a bracket fungus.

110. Then Nancy enters, announcing that lunch is ready.

111. Cliff introduces Jo, telling Nancy, "Careful, she bites."

112. "Take no notice of that one, love," says Nancy. "You're very welcome, as I told you over the phone."

113. "Cliff! I'm talking to you!" says Nancy, and Jo suddenly realises who she's been talking to all along.

114. "Your obedient servant, ma'am," says Cliff.

115. Filled with rage, Jo storms out of the laboratory. "Shut that blasted door!" shouts Cliff.

116. Jo's infuriated exit was later tacked onto the end of the previous laboratory scene

117. to lead into the sequence of her walking over to the mine.

118. Watch the bottom right of the screen as Dai gets his cue!

119. Notice that there are two turnings at the top of the road on the right.

120. As scripted, Hinks appeared at the end of the last scene:

121. Through a window, we see him "slip up to the machinery and do something furtive and sinister".

122. given that he received his orders from Stevens after the Brigadier had already left for the colliery!

123. Remember that we said that Mitzi McKenzie's was originally due to appear as Nancy in this episode?

124. as you'll notice in a few moments' time!

125. Also appearing in this episode were:

126. David Braddick, John Jeffries, Wayne Warlow, Roger Mundy, Laurie Boyton

127. Frank Darroch, Mansel Wilks, Rendle Morris, Gordon Cecil, Michael Cunningham

128. Sonny Willis, Reg Cranfield

129. Vincent Gardener, Geoffrey Morgan

130. Jill Alexandra, Tricia Selby

131. Dennis Plenty, Leslie Bates

132. Frank Seton, David Waterman

133. I'm afraid I must disagree, sir.

134. Indeed, I intend to make the investigation of that mine

135. my first priority

136. as soon as the Doctor arrives.

137. If he ever does arrive.

138. Hello?

139. I'll speak to anyone!

140. Okay.

141. At last!

142. Now we can get on.

143. Will you excuse me, sir?

144. You still intend to investigate the mine?

145. Indeed I do.

146. Hinks. At once.

147. Sir?

148. Hinks, I want you to...

149. I want you to...

150. You all right, sir?

151. Yes, yes.

152. Nobody must go down the mine.

153. Hinks.

154. Nobody must go down the mine.

155. Nobody.

156. Yes, sir.

157. You're sure you're all right?

158. Yes. Yes, of course.

159. Go on. Get on with it!

160. Maybe we shouldn't have let Dai go down by himself.

161. Well, I tell you now, boy,

162. I once tried to stop him having a drink too many at the club,

163. and I can still feel the bruises and that's a fact.

164. - Oh, hello. Who's this now, then? - Here, private property, this is!

165. Oh, I'm sorry. But, you see, I'm with the UNIT people

166. and I was wondering if I could take a look down the mine.

167. Yeah, well, not without authority, you can't.

168. Oh. Where do I get it?

169. NCB, Cardiff.

170. Hang on here a minute.

171. Hello. Who is it?

172. Dave. Help me, Dave. Help me!

173. - What's happened? What's the matter? - Help me, quick! Help!

174. Dai's in trouble.

175. Then we gotta get him out. I'll go down.

176. You work the cage, Dave.

177. - Well, I'm coming, too. - Oh, don't be daft!

178. Well, look, I'm trained in first aid. I might be able save your friend's life.

179. - You mean that? - Yes!

180. She's got something there. Take her down and look after her.

181. Right, come with me. Now, we'll get you a helmet and lamp.

182. So, I thought I better get you here at once to have a look.

183. Yes, you're quite right, Brigadier.

184. Nobody must go down that mine until I've had a chance to do just that.

185. Someone's going down!

186. We must stop them.

187. Who's in the cage?

188. It's Bert Pritchard and the young lady from UNIT.

189. Well, stop winding!

190. No, I can't do that. They're going down below to help Dai Evans.

191. Stop winding, I said!

192. - Quickly, man! Quickly! - I can't.

193. The brake won't work. It's out of control!

194. What?