Doctor Who 10x24

Directed by Michael E. Briant

Richard Franklin as Mike Yates • John Levene as Sergeant Benton • Jerome Willis as Stevens • Stewart Bevan as Clifford Jones • Tony Adams as Elgin

The Brigadier calls in a full UNIT force to deal with the giant maggots while the Doctor infiltrates Global Chemicals to find out what is really going on.

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1. "The giant maggots escape from the coal mine

2. "and the Doctor is trapped by the real Boss of Global Chemicals."

3. This episode was first shown on 9 June 1973 and was watched by 6.8 million people,

4. a drop of a million viewers from the previous week.

5. Although the recap from the previous episode features the maggot entering the room,

6. it loses the final point-of-view shot as it crawls towards Jo.

7. Watch the very bendy pane of glass in the door as Hinks presses his nose to it.

8. The studio floor has been painted to look like wooden parquet flooring.

9. This was done with a stencil, so the pattern repeats every six blocks.

10. This meant the paint could just be slapped on by a painter, instead of hiring a scenic artist.

11. Notice the little protrusions that have been included on the rear of the maggot prop?

12. When maggots feed on a rotting carcas, the putrefying flesh will often begin to liquidise.

13. The maggots will often bury themselves in a tight mass, side-by-side and head-first in the ooze.

14. With the spiracles situated at the rear, they can happily consume the rotting flesh

15. whilst continuing to breathe through their bottoms!

16. In the next shot, listen out for the name of the soldier called by Sergeant Benton.

17. This was an unscripted addition referring to the programme's script editor, Terrance Dicks.

18. We'll be hearing another ad-libbed soldier's name in the next episode. Who will it be this time?

19. The reference to "Old Carlo" was typed into the script as a late addition.

20. "Carlo" is a Welsh form of "Charles" - though normally reserved for use as a dog's name!

21. As scripted, the milkman continues,

22. "And are you likely to give orders then, to take the milk from the babes in the village?"

23. Mr Ellis Davis, the colliery's safety officer, made a vital contribution to the filming.

24. He gave the crew an early-morning safety briefing on the location day for the pit-head shots.

25. When Cliff explains that they've been using his own mucus membrane cells to carry out their tests,

26. the script calls for him to turn his cheek inside-out and indicate the inside of it.

27. The end of this scene is different in the script.

28. After the Doctor starts to use the centrifuge and Nancy comes in with her news,

29. The Doctor says to Jo, "What! Switch off the centrifuge," and dashes out.

30. The location work on 'The Green Death' was handled by two film cameramen,

31. namely Bill Matthews, who headed up the main unit, and Ken Lowe, who filmed the second unit material.

32. Bill Matthews concentrated on filming the main sequences,

33. whilst Ken Lowe's team captured many the establishing and long-distance shots required for the story.

34. For this serial, the job fell to John Harris.

35. who would then make the final decision as to which ones best suited his needs.

36. The usual procedure was that production assistants would show the least likely locations first,

37. gradually working their way to the pick of the bunch towards the end of the recce.

38. For 'The Green Death', they visited a number of potential coal mines and factories in South Wales,

39. before settling on the Ogilvie Colliery at Deri in the Darran Valley.

40. "We were allowed to film at the head of the mine," recalled Michael E. Briant in 1987.

41. "And the Coal Board did let us use the cages, but only to send people down to the bottom and then back up again.

42. "We weren't allowed to shoot in the mine itself because of all the risks,

43. "which was a shame because originally I'd planned to shoot a lot of footage underground.

44. This resulted in the entire coalface of the south pit being permanently closed down.

45. The sealing of the mine in this sequence is, of course, achieved with a model.

46. Just before it blows up, you might be able to spot all the various pre-cut cracks in the front section,

47. which ensure that it breaks apart just as planned.

48. "The mine shaft blows up with a satisfying 'crump'," notes the script.

49. After 111 years of coal production, Ogilvie Colliery closed down in 1975 when it was deemed to be uneconomic.

50. Virtually all trace of the original mine has now gone: The site was turned into a country park, Parc Cwm Darran.

51. Ogilvie also featured in the film Above Us The Earth, shot by independent filmmaker Karl Francis in 1975.

52. Released in 1977, the film explored the impact of the pit closure on the local community

53. and in particular, the family of a retired mine worker, riddled with emphysema due to his years down the pit.

54. It is notable for its use of local amateur and professional actors mixed with documentary footage.

55. In this scene, BOSS refers to the German philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900).

56. Nietzsche favoured nihilism, the philosophy that traditional values and beliefs have no valid foundation.

57. Its corollary is the rejection of all established laws and institutions.

58. Between 1883 and 1885, Nietzsche wrote the four parts of his philosophical novel, Also sprach Zarathustra,

59. which details the travels and the spiritual enlightenment of his central character, Zarathustra.

60. The novel presents the concept of the übermensch, or "Superman", as BOSS refers to Stevens.

61. creating his own morals and values so that he would become a superior being.

62. In the 1930s, the übermensch concept became a philosophical foundation for Germany's Nazi party.

63. It was frequently used by Hitler and his regime during World War II to describe their ultimate objective:

64. "Der Tag" would see the establishment of a ruling Aryan master race of Nietzschean supermen.

65. But "D-Day", which BOSS used as a synonym for "Der Tag" was another day entirely:

66. 6 June 1944, the day when Allied forces landed in Normandy, and the beginning of the end for European fascism.

67. Another slight reordering of scenes occurs at this point in the story.

68. After Elgin's upcoming discovery of oil waste and giant maggots in the pipeline

69. the next scripted scene was his confrontation with Stevens. We'll see that in a few moments time.

70. The location scene with Benton that separates the two was scripted to come after that.

71. In the scripted dialogue, the soldier is named Reed.

72. As originally placed in the script, the slag heap scene was followed by one set in Cliff's lab.

73. As the Doctor places one of the slides into some advanced piece of equipment, Cliff comments:

74. "But even if we manage to establish the structure of the maggot cells,

75. "we still can't find an antidote without some living cells to try it on..."

76. Cliff holds up a test tube containing a piece of cotton wool covered with a greenish stain of cells.

77. "And you can't grow any more without some oil waste?" asks Jo.

78. "... or a maggot," continues the Doctor.

79. This unintentionally ended up being Tony Adams's final scene in the story.

80. As scripted, Elgin was due to appear again towards the end of Episode 5, now brainwashed.

81. But real life intervened in a rather uncomfortable and unexpected way.

82. We'll look at what happened when we meet a new character called Mr James in the next episode.

83. After the shooting done around the pithead itself, the next two days, Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 March,

84. were spent here on the slag heaps to the north of the mine, where the more familiar term "uphill" became "up slag".

85. The crew were also warned to be careful as they made their way up the road on the slag heaps.

86. As Ogilvie was still a working colliery, lorries were continually using the road to offload more slag.

87. Jo might be a self-confessed "cloth-head",

88. but she still seems to understand exactly what Cliff means when he talks about an "atavistic mutation".

89. The word "atavistic" implies a regressive throwback to an earlier form

90. but how Professor Jones thinks this relates to what they've seen with the maggots is anyone's guess!

91. The sound of a bullet ricocheting was dubbed on after the event.

92. Prepare now for a display of Doctorly ignorance, compounded by a small error on the part of his producer.

93. Jon Pertwee confessed to Barry Letts that he didn't know how to pronounce the upcoming word "chitinous".

94. Letts told him that it would be with the "ch" pronounced softly, as in "some chit of a girl".

95. In reality, chitin, the horny substance that forms the outer shell of many insects, arachnids and crustaceans,

96. is pronounced with a hard "ch", as in "chorus".

97. A few days after this episode was broadcast, Letts received a letter saying, in rhyme:

98. "Dear Barry Letts, The reason I'm writin', is how to say 'kitin'..."

99. After the Brigadier says, "There's any amount of it out there going begging," Benton arrives.

100. Benton gulps at the prospect. "Yes, sir," he says.

101. That's what the Doctor's reacting to here: The prospect of Benton in particular risking his life.

102. Jon Pertwee turned round twice during the various takes that were shot to make up the scene

103. and those turns were then edited together into one to remove the Brig's order and Benton's apprehension.

104. Assuming the top line in red are the days of the week starting on Monday,

105. the date is Monday 28 April, making this either 1969, 1975 or 1980.

106. In the studio, this small office set was separate from the rest of the Global Chemicals interiors.

107. It was snugly tucked in behind the main corridor of the Wholeweal house and Cliff's laboratory.

108. This is exactly the same free-standing window that was used for Stevens's office in the previous episode.

109. Jon Pertwee had spent much of his career doing comic voices

110. He'd not been given much of chance to do it in Doctor Who- until now.

111. He was still recording The Navy Lark on a regular basis during his time as the Doctor.

112. This scene was one of the last to be shot on Friday 16 March,

113. He then drove back to South Wales very early on Monday morning to continue the filming at RCA International.

114. The script calls this character just "Very Old Milkman".

115. Here, Jo refers to a comment made by the Brigadier in 'Terror of the Autons'.

116. After the Doctor's previous assistant, Liz Shaw, had gone back to Cambridge,

117. the Brigadier assigned him the newly recruited Jo Grant.

118. The Doctor protested, demanding a properly qualified scientist, as Liz had been,

119. but the Brigadier pointedly responded, "Nonsense. What you need, as Miss Shaw so often remarked,

120. "is someone to pass you your test tubes and tell you how brilliant you are."

121. "a brown stain is enveloping the green stain."

122. None of the business with the Doctor's moustache was scripted: It's all comedy improvisation by Pertwee.

123. These lamps were usually used to provide fill-lighting when a camera needed to get in close to a subject.

124. the cameraman will realise that you can see his lights reflected in the glass of the pinball machine by the fireplace...

125. so he quickly switches them off!

126. In this set, to the right of the wall telephone are a set of lift doors.

127. Once past the cleaner's cupboard, the set runs out,

128. so these shots of the lift were done back round the corner in the first part of the set.

129. So Jon Pertwee isn't facing Richard Franklin in these shots,

130. and Richard Franklin isn't looking at Jon Pertwee!

131. Coming up is a bit of unscripted ad-libbing from the two actors,

132. which, judging from Richard Franklin's face in a moment, may well have been a very last-minute change.

133. Notice Franklin's amused reaction when Pertwee "sloshes" him with his bucket.

134. As we begin the next scene of the Doctor and Yates entering his office to talk,

135. just notice the extent of the Doctor's disguise.

136. It's not just a cleaner's overall and headscarf that the Doctor's wearing.

137. He's also removed his trousers and put on a pair of wrinkled stockings as well!

138. Writing about these scenes in An Adventure in Space and Time, Michael E. Briant noted,

139. "These were totally Jon's idea which, against my better judgement, I let him get away with.

140. "Jon slipped away and came back a while later in full camp drag with this outrageous make-up job.

141. "By the time Richard Franklin added his 'I like your handbag' ad-lib, things had got totally out of control."

142. The very obvious pink bottle of "Windolene" window-cleaning cream must have escaped their notice.

143. The guard's chat with "Doris" was also unscripted, allowing Pertwee to do another of his voices.

144. Now for some poor laboratory technique from the Nobel-Prize-winning Professor Clifford Jones.

145. In order for him to see anything though his microscope,

146. one of the three magnification lenses should be pointing straight down at the slide, in line with the eyepiece!

147. This is actually Katy Manning's handwriting.

148. You can see the join.

149. Notice the Doctor's jacket is undone as he walks up the corridor.

150. A fortnight later, when these final shots were done for the episode, his jacket is done up.

151. You'll be seeing these lift doors again in a few moments' time, only they'll be somewhere else.

152. These are the very same set of lift doors that you saw the Doctor entering twenty seconds ago.

153. Doing this saved both money and studio space in the final recording session.

154. How do we know that? You'll discover the reason when we come back to BOSS's computer room in the next episode.

155. Also appearing in this episode were:

156. Edward Wyman, Roger Knott, Roger Chapple

157. John Cadwallader, Bill Baker, Peter McGowan

158. David Braddick, John Jeffries

159. Steve Ismay, Pat Gorman

160. There's a dodgy bit of grammar coming up from the Graphics Department here.

161. This should of course read "Yates's Guard"! Thanks.

162. - What's all the fuss? - Oh, some milkman,

163. wandering about where he shouldn't be. They'll find him.

164. - Okay? - Yes.

165. Oh, I've forgotten my attaché case.

166. I'll join you downstairs.

167. If you say one word...

168. I like your handbag.

169. Do you? Well, watch out I don't slosh you with it!

170. - Now, where can we talk? - In my office.

171. All right, come on.

172. - Hello. Looking for the Doctor? - Er...

173. Er... Yes.

174. He's not here. He's gone over to the complex.

175. Oh, well, I'll take a look around while I'm here.

176. Sorry, Miss Grant. Brigadier's orders and all that.

177. It's too dangerous up there,

178. with all those things popping out of the ground all over the place.

179. Oh. All right.

180. See you later, then. Bye.

181. All right, Captain Yates, what have you found out?

182. Well, clearly, Global Chemicals is responsible for the trouble at the pit.

183. Yes, yes, I know. That's obvious.

184. But have you been able to get a hold of any of that waste?

185. It'd be like stealing the Crown Jewels.

186. - Can you get a hold of the formula? - Not much chance but we could try.

187. - Where is it kept? - Everything important

188. is isolated on the top floor.

189. There's a special lift at the end of the block.

190. Mmm-hmm.

191. It works with some sort of key,

192. but the director's the only person who's got it.

193. Well done, Captain Yates. This could prove absolutely vital.

194. - There's one other thing. - Mmm-hmm.

195. The director isn't the real boss.

196. He takes his instructions from someone else.

197. - Oh, who? - Whoever lives on the top floor.

198. Ah, Mr Yates, we were looking for you.

199. You said you had to get an attaché case.

200. Yes, here it is.

201. - I'm ready now. Good.

202. How's the old man, Doris?

203. That's it. Of course!

204. Jo, we can cure it!

205. Jo?

206. "Gone to get you a maggot."

207. Silly young fool. She'll get herself killed!

208. - It won't be long now, Benton. - You mean reinforcements, sir?

209. Yes. I've just been onto the RAF.

210. They'll be flying a low-level strike with HE grenades in...

211. In just seven minutes.

212. In ten minutes' time, there'll be nothing left alive in that whole area.

213. How kind of you to drop in, Doctor!

214. I've been looking forward to having a little chat with you.

215. Who are you?

216. - Where are you?

217. You disappoint me, Doctor.

218. I should have thought you'd have guessed.

219. I am the Boss.

220. I'm all around you.

221. Exactly.

222. I am the computer.