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