1. "Attacked by their fellow passengers,
the Doctor and Jo escape the ship,
only to face the monstrous Drashigs.Copy !req
2. "A greater danger threatens when
Vorg and Shirna are told the Scope
is to be destroyed." (Radio Times)Copy !req
3. This episode was first shown
on 3 February 1973.Copy !req
4. It was seen by 9 million people.Copy !req
5. This scene throws up all sorts
of questions about the subject of scale
in this story.Copy !req
6. Judging by the size of Vorg's hand,
the TARDIS is around two inches tall
inside the Scope.Copy !req
7. That means that the miniaturised
SS Bernice would need to be
at least 2-3 feet long,Copy !req
8. never mind all the other creatures
and environments we're going to see.Copy !req
9. Remember this the next time
we see the exterior of the Scope.
It must be a very crowded gadget!Copy !req
10. The start of this scene was trimmed
in editing.Copy !req
11. It begins with the Minorian officials
examining Vorg and Shirna's data-strips
on a video screen.Copy !req
12. Pletrac and Orum are satisfied that
they should be accepted onto the planet,
but Kalik is not so sure.Copy !req
13. Kalik insists that their machine
be examined. When Orum agrees,
Pletrac acquiesces.Copy !req
14. After Vorg replaces the miniature
TARDIS, he is questioned
about the Scope.Copy !req
15. The full-length version of this sequence
can be seen elsewhere on this disc.Copy !req
16. Remember the scene in Episode 1
when Shirna and Vorg explain that
they are entertainersCopy !req
17. and Pletrac takes away Vorg's
cassette-tape "document" to be examined?Copy !req
18. In the original cut it began here.Copy !req
19. This part of the sequence follows on
directly after Pletrac leaves.Copy !req
20. The Ogrons first appeared
in the first story of the 1972 series,
'Day of the Daleks'.Copy !req
21. Despite Vorg's terrifying description,Copy !req
22. Robert Holmes obtained the name
of his monster from something rather
more prosaic.Copy !req
23. The name Drashig was nothing more than
an anagram of the word "Dishrag"!Copy !req
24. Holmes liked to use sibilants in
naming monsters, and hard consonants
for villains like Kalik.Copy !req
25. Vorg's machine is known as the Scope
throughout the story,Copy !req
26. but Holmes had called it the Strobe
in his original storyline.Copy !req
27. Only the head and neck of the plesiosaur
needed to be seen attacking
the SS Bernice,Copy !req
28. so the monster was a simple glove puppet
operated by one
of the visual effects assistants.Copy !req
29. The Doctor (or Robert Holmes)
Is about to get his American 1920s
slang wrong here.Copy !req
30. The phrase is actually "23 skidoo"
and was often used in connection with
getting out of somewhere quickly.Copy !req
31. The exact origin of the phrase
is shrouded in mystery.Copy !req
32. Daly's original reply was, "I say!
That's jolly clever! You a mind-reader?"Copy !req
33. At this point, it was intended that
we should see Andrews enter the saloon
on the Scope's screen.Copy !req
34. Cut from the start of this scene
was Andrews telling the Doctor,
"I want the truth!"Copy !req
35. "We've tried to tell you the truth,"
says the Doctor.Copy !req
36. "You're stowaways," replies Andrews,
despite Jo's protestations
to the contrary.Copy !req
37. John L. Sullivan (1858-1918)
Was the last heavyweight champion
of bare-knuckle boxingCopy !req
38. and the first of gloved boxing,
a title he held between 1881 and 1892.Copy !req
39. As honourable men, they're fighting
under the Queensberry Rules,Copy !req
40. a 12-point code of boxing conduct
written by John Chambers in 1853,Copy !req
41. and named after the 9th Marquess
of Queensberry, a boxing enthusiast
who had the code adopted
by the Amateur Athletics Association.Copy !req
42. All the scenes filmed on board
the Robert Dundas were shot
on 1 and 2 June 1972.Copy !req
43. On the morning of Thursday 1 June,
the cast and crew drove to the Royal
Naval Dockyard in Chatham, Kent.Copy !req
44. The first two hours aboard
the Robert Dundas were spentCopy !req
45. dressing the deck areas and rehearsing
the scenes to be shot that afternoon.Copy !req
46. After lunch, the cast and crew
re-boarded the ship,Copy !req
47. which then left Chatham Dockyard,
for its two-hour journey down
the River Medway to Sheerness.Copy !req
48. Notice the built-up horizon
to the right of the picture?Copy !req
49. The journey between Chatham and
the Isle of Sheppey took two hours,Copy !req
50. but not under the ship's own steam: It
had already been decommissioned and was
on its way to be broken up for scrap,Copy !req
51. so it had to be pulled down
the Medway by tug.Copy !req
52. Filming began as soon
as the Robert Dundas left ChathamCopy !req
53. and continued for a further three hours
once the ship had arrived at Sheerness.Copy !req
54. That is why the "sea" is flowing
past the ship in some shots
and seemingly still in others.Copy !req
55. In the original edit of the episode,Copy !req
56. this sequence came as the Lurmans
and Minorians begin to watch the fight
between Andrews and the Doctor
on the Scope.Copy !req
57. Vorg was due to conclude
the scene by saying,Copy !req
58. "Perhaps we just haven't noticed them,"Copy !req
59. to which Shirna replies, "I've seen
every one of those Tellurians
a thousand times, Vorg."Copy !req
60. A few moments later, the scene
continues with Vorg saying that the only
explanation is that they are breeding.Copy !req
61. Shirna expresses her doubts:
These new Tellurians are fully grown.Copy !req
62. "We don't know who Tellurians
reproduce,"says Vorg."They might be
kept in an incubator until fully grown."Copy !req
63. As Shirna starts to argue, Orum asks
what rite the Tellurians on the screen
are about to engage in.Copy !req
64. Vorg replies, "The two in the centre
about to engage in physical conflict,
your worship."Copy !req
65. A copy of the original edit
of this episode still survives
in the BBC archivesCopy !req
66. and can be seen elsewhere
on this edition.Copy !req
67. Caesium is a very soft, silvery-white
metal with a very low melting point.Copy !req
68. Radioactive isotopes decay at a steady,
measured rate, although how this applies
to the Scope is anyone's guess!Copy !req
69. As scripted, Jon Pertwee is supposed
to say "capillary hydraulic pump".Copy !req
70. For the first two-day block
of studio recordings,Copy !req
71. the set for the interior of the Scope
was simply described as the "Shaft".Copy !req
72. Designer Roger Liminton's instructions
were that the set should "consist
of a metal-framed triangular shape"Copy !req
73. with an "interwoven 'path'
of rostra at various heights".Copy !req
74. The sets for the SS Bernice were planned
to take up the complete length
of one of Studio Four's walls.Copy !req
75. Studio Four was one of the medium-sized
studios at Television Centre,
measuring 90 feet by 71.Copy !req
76. The first day of studio recording was
taken up with all the "Ship and Shaft"
scenes from Episodes 1 and 2,Copy !req
77. whilst the following day saw the
completion of all the scenes requiring
the same sets for Episodes 3 and 4.Copy !req
78. However, the second day saw
an overrun of 15 minutes,Copy !req
79. which was due to a number
of experimental CSO effects, which took
a long time to rehearse and record.Copy !req
80. CSO was the BBC shorthand
for Colour Separation Overlay,Copy !req
81. a technique whereby a colour in the
picture is removed and the output of
another camera is overlaid in its place.Copy !req
82. This is more familiarly known by the
terms green-screen or blue-screen,Copy !req
83. but the colour used in 'Carnival
of Monsters' was actually yellow.Copy !req
84. Vorg's sarcastic little dance
was an unscripted addition.Copy !req
85. Pletrac is played by Peter Halliday
(born 1924).Copy !req
86. Halliday had first appeared
in Doctor Who as the villainous Packer
in the 1968 story, 'The Invasion'Copy !req
87. for which he also supplied the voices
of both the Cybermen
and the Cyber-Director.Copy !req
88. In 1970 he voiced the Silurians
in 'Doctor Who and the Silurians',Copy !req
89. and did the same for the alien
ambassadors in the next story,
'The Ambassadors of Death'.Copy !req
90. He later appeared as a soldier
in 'City of Death' (1979)Copy !req
91. And as the blind vicar in
'Remembrance of the Daleks' (1988).Copy !req
92. Orum was the second of Terence Lodge's
three appearances in Doctor Who.Copy !req
93. He had first appeared as Medok
in the 1967 story, 'The Macra Terror',Copy !req
94. and then in 1974, he was Moss
in 'Planet of the Spiders',
also directed by Barry Letts.Copy !req
95. Edited from the episode
was a short scene set
in the saloon of the SS BerniceCopy !req
96. showing Major Daly, Andrews and Claire
also recovering from the heat
of the Eradicator.Copy !req
97. Daly thinks the problem was either sun
spots or "refraction in the atmosphere".Copy !req
98. As the temperature cools down, they
return to their oft-repeated behaviour,Copy !req
99. with Andrews telling Daly that
he and Claire are going to take a turn
around the deck...Copy !req
100. It's not immediately obvious
from this camera angle that Jo drops
the Doctor's handkerchief.Copy !req
101. This will become relevant in a minute.Copy !req
102. This is the only time that a Cybermen
is ever seen moving during
the Jon Pertwee Doctor's time.Copy !req
103. The helmet comes from their
last appearance in 'The Invasion'.Copy !req
104. Did you notice that the back plate
on the helmet hadn't been attached
properly and was sticking out?Copy !req
105. The Cybermen didn't reappear
in Doctor Who until the 1975 story,
'Revenge of the Cybermen'.Copy !req
106. Michael Wisher relished his role
as Kalik, as he recalled
for Doctor Who Magazine in 1986.Copy !req
107. "There were three of us. Terence Lodge
(Orum) played the dirty old man
in the park,Copy !req
108. "Peter Halliday (Pletrac)
Was the moaning old woman,Copy !req
109. "and I was the absolute sadist.
Real whips in the cupboard stuff there!Copy !req
110. "Someone would describe
some hideously painful torture,Copy !req
111. "and Peter would wince, Terence looked
shocked, and I would grin nastily
and say, 'Oh yes, how interesting! 'Copy !req
112. "I loved Kalik. He was so...
oh, delightfully evil."Copy !req
113. There are a number
of structural differences between
Robert Holmes's original ideas
and the transmitted episodes.Copy !req
114. In the original scene breakdown
for 'Out of the Labyrinth',Copy !req
115. the entire opening episode takes place
on board the SS Bernice.Copy !req
116. There is no reference whatever
to anything happening on Inter Minor.Copy !req
117. As the Doctor and Jo emerge
from the TARDIS, which has landed
on the deck of the ship,Copy !req
118. they have to hide behind a lifeboat
as Andrews and Claire pass by
on their walk around.Copy !req
119. The scenes on the SS Bernice continue
largely as seen in the first episode,Copy !req
120. but the passing of time was to be noted
by a film sequence of the sun setting
over the ocean,Copy !req
121. first seen when the Doctor and Jo
are first captured as being stowaways.Copy !req
122. Later in the episode,
when the Doctor enters the TARDIS
to fetch his core extractor,Copy !req
123. Jo points out that the sun
is now higher in the sky than
it had been 20 minutes before.Copy !req
124. It's at this point that events
first start to repeat themselves.Copy !req
125. Andrews and Claire walk past discussing
the theatre and the "scaly monster"
attacks the ship again.Copy !req
126. Jo is bewildered as to why everything
is being repeated when she points out
that the sun is once again setting.Copy !req
127. As they watch the sky from the deck,
an enormous hand appears
groping downwardsCopy !req
128. and the Doctor and Jo cower
underneath a lifeboat for protection
as the episode ends.Copy !req
129. On his own copy of the storyline,
Terrance Dicks noted:Copy !req
130. "Do we need more alien effects
or a flash of alien world?"Copy !req
131. In Episode Two, after the Doctor and Jo
are locked up in Daly's cabin,Copy !req
132. Holmes planned to give us our first
glimpse of where we really are.Copy !req
133. The action moves to the Vol-Dome,Copy !req
134. the equivalent of a fairground tent,
only scientific in nature.Copy !req
135. In the middle stands the Strobe, looking
"a bit like an outsize juke box - bright
and garish with a Glo-sphere
video screen".Copy !req
136. Vorg is described in terms
of the American showman,
Phineas T. Barnum (1810-91).Copy !req
137. He identifies the cause of the fault
on the Strobe.Copy !req
138. As the Doctor and Jo make their escape
down into the machine's workings,Copy !req
139. Vorg extracts the TARDIS,
which grows to full size once outside
the compression field.Copy !req
140. Vorg begins a final check,
but Shirna urges him to hurry.Copy !req
141. If they're going to eat, they'll need
to put a show on before nightfall.Copy !req
142. Shirna changes into her ticket-selling
costume and Vorg starts rustling up
an audience over
the Vol-Dome's external tannoy.Copy !req
143. As a queue of a dozen individuals begins
to form, they are visited
by three officials:Copy !req
144. "Pletrac 4, a crusty black-clad
customs officer, and his two aides."Copy !req
145. Pletrac 4 points out the various
regulations that Vorg has contravenedCopy !req
146. and informs him that the Strobe
and its Glo-sphere will be confiscated
and destroyed unless
he files a valid plea in mitigation.Copy !req
147. Vorg is given a sheaf of forms
to be completed by sundown
and then Pletrac 4 leaves.Copy !req
148. The rest of the outlined episode
continues in much the same way
as it progresses on screen,Copy !req
149. with the Doctor and Jo escaping
into the Drashig swamps,
watched by Vorg and Shirna.Copy !req
150. As the months progressed,
Holmes refined his storyline.Copy !req
151. Episode One was altered to show that
Vorg and Shirna have brought
the Glo-sphere to the planet OdronCopy !req
152. for the purpose of attending a universal
congress of travelling showmen,Copy !req
153. which was really, as Holmes noted,
just an excuse to hold a Universe Fair!Copy !req
154. The cave mouth scenes were filmed
at Carwoods Quarry at Asheldam in Essex.Copy !req
155. In his storyline, Holmes had them emerge
from what he described asCopy !req
156. "a steaming geyser hole into
a monochrome world obscured
by sulphurous smelling mist".Copy !req
157. There's some rather nifty editing work
coming up here. Keep your eye
on the height of the bushes
as the Doctor peers through them.Copy !req
158. As high as the top
of Jon Pertwee's head here...Copy !req
159. but somewhat lower here.Copy !req
160. There's a good reason for that.Copy !req
161. The location used for the marshes
is actually around three miles east
of where the quarry is situated.Copy !req
162. For the close-up shot of the Doctor,
Jon Pertwee simply stood in front
of some similar foliage
at the swamp location.Copy !req
163. Even by the time the final scripts
were produced,Copy !req
164. Robert Holmes was imagining a swamp
rather more inhospitable than the one
that was eventually seen.Copy !req
165. He described it as being a
"Steaming jungle terrain. Hot geysers
and mud holes. Limited visibility."Copy !req
166. In a few moments' time, when Vorg
and Shirna spot the Doctor and Jo
on the screen,Copy !req
167. the script indicates that they were to
be seen emerging through the steam.Copy !req
168. "They stand together under the dripping
vegetation, looking about, listening..."Copy !req
169. The location used for the Drashigs'
swamp world is Tillingham Marshes
in Essex.Copy !req
170. The salt-water marsh, along
with the neighbouring Bradwell
and Dengie Marshes,Copy !req
171. form a natural defence barrier against
the sea along the east coast of Essex.Copy !req
172. In his storyline for
'Out of the Labyrinth',Copy !req
173. Holmes introduces the Drashigs at this
point in his own tongue-in-cheek manner.Copy !req
174. "Suddenly a Drashig comes swirling up
from the mud.Copy !req
175. "It raises its great hooter
and sounds the Last Post.Copy !req
176. "Then, through the mist,
get a vague glimpse of a solid shapeCopy !req
177. "bearing down on them like a train..."Copy !req
178. Also appearing in this episode were:Copy !req
179. Rick Lester (Ogron)Copy !req
180. Terence Denville (Cyberman)Copy !req
181. Mohamed Shamsi, Albert Moses
(Crew of SS Bernice)Copy !req
182. Jagdesh Kumar, Bob Babenia
(Crew of SS Bernice)Copy !req
183. Norman Commis, Rudolph Ramil
(Crew of SS Bernice)
nside the blueprintCopy !req
184. instead of looking down on it.Copy !req
185. What was that?Copy !req
186. You know, Shirna,
I'm not given to imagination,Copy !req
187. but I thought I saw two Tellurians
in the works.Copy !req
188. Slowly, Vorg.Copy !req
189. What are you gentlemen doing?Copy !req
190. - Where is the transmitter?
- Transmitter?Copy !req
191. - We know you've been sending signals.
- Signals?Copy !req
192. - Stop wasting time!
- But I... I have no transmitter.Copy !req
193. - What were you doing in there?
- Just minor repairs, that's all.Copy !req
194. Just silly little minor repairs.Copy !req
195. We had a fault in one of
the video circuits, that's all. Nothing.Copy !req
196. Nothing of consequence, nothing serious.Copy !req
197. Orum?Copy !req
198. If there is a transmitter in there,
Vorg, you're dead.Copy !req
199. What... What is a transmitter, Shirna?Copy !req
200. For sending messages, you idiot.
A beam pulser.Copy !req
201. We haven't got one, have we?Copy !req
202. I thought you told me
you had a master's degree in radionics?Copy !req
203. Not exactly a degree. I never really
did understand these electrical...Copy !req
204. Would you please keep that
a little further away?Copy !req
205. It's very frightening, you know.Copy !req
206. No, one can't see anything, Kalik.Copy !req
207. If there is a transmitter,
it'll be disguised.Copy !req
208. No, there's nothing in there. Only this.Copy !req
209. What is it?
- A bit of bric-a-brac, your worship.Copy !req
210. It was causing interference
inside circuit three.Copy !req
211. Better put it back in the scope.Copy !req
212. What is it?
And let's have the truth this time!Copy !req
213. I don't know. I swear I don't know.Copy !req
214. Some Lurman secret weapon perhaps?Copy !req
215. It's some kind of a container.Copy !req
216. It was causing interference
in circuit three!Copy !req
217. Bric-a-brac?Copy !req
218. Why does it keep changing size?Copy !req
219. You took it outside
the scope's compression fieldCopy !req
220. and kept it out too long, you see?Copy !req
221. After a bit,
things regain their normal size.Copy !req
222. Silence! It is an alien artefact.Copy !req
223. Where did it come from?
How did it get in there?Copy !req
224. Vorg, the Tellurians!
- (VORG SHUSHING)Copy !req
225. - What?
- Earlier in circuit three,Copy !req
226. I noticed two new Tellurians. Strangers.
I told Vorg at the time.Copy !req
227. - My assistant is an imaginative...
Quiet.Copy !req
228. - Is this possible, Orum?
- What?Copy !req
229. For Tellurian invadersCopy !req
230. to penetrate the scope
in containers such as that?Copy !req
231. Well, it wouldn't be possible
for our technology, no.Copy !req
232. Perhaps Tellurian science
is more advanced.Copy !req
233. And if they can get into the machine,
no doubt they can also get out of it.Copy !req
234. What are you thinking, Kalik?Copy !req
235. These Tellurians are not even
from our home galaxy.Copy !req
236. There is no way of telling what diseases
they may have brought with them.Copy !req
237. - Is there an exit from that machine?
- Quite impossible, your worship.Copy !req
238. Each group of specimens
is permanently containedCopy !req
239. in its own individual chamber.Copy !req
240. The scope is completely
and utterly escape proof.Copy !req
241. It's almost through.Copy !req
242. Free. Ladies first?Copy !req
243. No, not this time, Jo.Copy !req
244. After all, we don't know
what's behind this door, do we?Copy !req
245. - The Tardis, I hope.
- Yes, so do I.Copy !req
246. - Looks like some sort of cave.
- Yes. Come on.Copy !req
247. Yeah. Not quite what I expected, Jo.Copy !req
248. Hang on a minute, will you?Copy !req
249. - Can you see anything?
- No, it's just the same.Copy !req
250. - It's a bit scary, isn't it?
- Hmm.Copy !req
251. - What are all those bubbles?
- Oh, some sort of marsh gas.Copy !req
252. Probably highly inflammable.Copy !req
253. Come on, we'd better take a look around.Copy !req
254. There's nothing to look at.Copy !req
255. - I will not accept this, Vorg.
- Your worship...Copy !req
256. - One repeats to you...
- The scope handled with care...Copy !req
257. - Not accept this.
- One of the safest conveniences...Copy !req
258. It has been most clearly laid down
in regulations...Copy !req
259. - (BEEPING)
- Just a minute! What is that?Copy !req
260. (SIGHS) Another fault has developed.Copy !req
261. It's in circuit five this time.Copy !req
262. Oh, some insignificant
electrical matter.Copy !req
263. Switch on the circuit, my dear.Copy !req
264. There you are, you see?Copy !req
265. It's working perfectly.
Nothing wrong there.Copy !req
266. The fault is still being signalled.Copy !req
267. What do you call the creatures here?Copy !req
268. The Drashigs. My little carnivores.Copy !req
269. (LAUGHING) They're great favourites
with the children, you know,Copy !req
270. with their gnashing and snapping
and tearing at each other.Copy !req
271. Vorg, look!Copy !req
272. The Tellurians!
They've broken into the circuit!Copy !req
273. Vorg, you've got to get them out.Copy !req
274. How can I?
They're already as good as dead.Copy !req
275. Why?
- Once the Drashigs get their scent,Copy !req
276. they won't stand a chance.Copy !req
277. Fascinating.Copy !req
278. Something's wrong, Jo.Copy !req
279. Let's go back, Doctor.
I don't like it here.Copy !req
280. No, neither do I.Copy !req
281. They'll never make it.Copy !req
282. What was that?Copy !req
283. I don't know.Copy !req
284. But it didn't sound very friendly.Copy !req
285. Look!Copy !req