Doctor Who 14x13

Directed by Pennant Roberts

David Garfield as Neeva • Victor Lucas as Andor • Brendan Price as Tomas • Leslie Schofield as Calib • Colin Thomas as Sole

An unnamed planet, the distant future. Arriving in a place that seems oddly familiar, the Doctor finds the savage Sevateem tribe battling to free their captive god, Xoanon, from the Evil One and his Tesh servants. But can the whole situation really be the Doctor's fault?

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1. This episode was first shown on New Year's Day 1977, and was seen by 10.7 million viewers.

2. "The scene is barbaric and lit by guttering torches," begins the script,

3. "The people are all dressed in skins and hides."

4. Andor's throne is "the battered remains of an acceleration chair".

5. "His most striking decoration is a spacesuit which he wears like a cloak,

6. "the arms draped over his shoulders, the helmet hanging at the back of his neck."

7. As an atheist, he saw this as a sociological phenomenon,

8. so this is going to be a story about how Man created God, and what the consequences were.

9. 'The Face of Evil' took just under nine months to write.

10. The initial storyline was commissioned, under the title 'The Prime Directive', on 19 August 1975,

11. and the final script was delivered on 9 May 1976.

12. The programmes then took eighteen weeks to make: Pre-production began on 2 August 1976,

13. The serial spent just over five weeks in production, from 20 September to 26 October.

14. The filmed scenes amount to a little over sixteen minutes, mainly across the first two episodes.

15. This bit was shot on the first day, 20 September 1976.

16. That was a Monday. Filming continued on Stage 2 at Ealing through to the Friday.

17. It's only one Tracer in the script.

18. The production team wasn't keen on this kind of "Tom-to-camera" exposition,

19. By his own later admission, Tom wasn't as welcoming to her as he might have been.

20. He put much of his emotion into an intense disapproval of the character of Leela.

21. He felt an especial responsibility towards the series' younger viewers,

22. after meeting many admiring children during a run of personal appearances.

23. You'll see his solution later: To play up the Doctor's moral outrage at her violence,

24. along with an unspoken threat of the ultimate sanction -

25. if she doesn't mend her ways, he will no longer tolerate her presence. Goodbye, Leela...

26. So filming customarily took place before rehearsals. And so it was for 'The Face of Evil'.

27. And that's why Leela mispronounces Calib's name here

28. so it helps to give the Doctor an effortlessly cheeky anti-establishment air.

29. Many of the creepers are built around lengths of corrugated plastic tubing.

30. They are moved by a complex network of wiring festooned through the jungle set.

31. Louise Jameson found the next few shots especially alarming to make.

32. She had to take a very precise route, or risk garrotting on one of the wires.

33. The story broke during the week after Sarah Jane left the Doctor at the end of 'The Hand of Fear'.

34. Leela gets her nice name from a terrorist:

35. The earliest idea for Leela came about after producer Philip Hinchcliffe talked to a young next-door neighbour.

36. including a cave-girl whom Chris Boucher had been developing in successive drafts of this serial.

37. The character emerged in collaborative discussion between Boucher and script editor Robert Holmes:

38. The footprint is a cantilevered cut-out which drops when triggered by remote control.

39. The shot was slowed down on a videodisc machine to give it more weight.

40. During production it was Louise who tripped over one of the wires which animated the trees.

41. The "egg-timer" is hollow, and made of very thin vacuum-formed plastic.

42. A nylon line inside the clock fixes its top to a stage weight inside the rock.

43. Chris Boucher first made contact with Doctor Who in the form of 'The Silent Scream',

44. an unsolicited storyline he submitted early in 1975.

45. After a meeting, Boucher offered, among other ideas, 'The Dreamers of Phaidos'.

46. (which eventually grew into 'The Sun Makers' in the 1977-8 series of Doctor Who),

47. so he suggested a story showing the collapse of a computer-controlled society when the machine malfunctions.

48. The relics include what looks suspiciously like a white plastic tape spool.

49. They don't appear to include the "heavy-duty disrupter gun" specified in the script.

50. At this stage, Philip Hinchcliffe contributed several ideas to the story's development.

51. The start of the next sequence was cut. Andor bursts into the Inner Sanctum and confronts Neeva.

52. He complains that the people are hungry, and summons the shaman to appear before the Council Chair.

53. "He stalks up and down impatiently for a moment or two," then takes his place on the throne.

54. There follows a confrontation between secular and sacred authority:

55. And the scene as broadcast picks up from there...

56. By the time the scripts were commissioned, the title had changed again:

57. so it was called 'The Day God Went Mad'.

58. There was a significant trim to the start of Andor's next line, which begins,

59. "Tomas, my son."

60. Those words were recorded, but they were removed in editing.

61. It was because the episode's first edit was significantly over length.

62. This episode's final edit managed it with just two seconds to spare.

63. Notice how Leela cocks her head to listen to a distant sound.

64. It's a mannerism Louise Jameson developed by observing her basenji dog, named Bosie.

65. Bosie was a medium-sized hound with amazing pointed ears which he moved like radar antennae.

66. When he sensed danger, he would stretch himself up to his full height.

67. You may have noticed Leela doing that, too, extending her neck upwards when she gets a hint of trouble.

68. Lugo is played by Lloyd McGuire, and He's from Birmingham.

69. The ritual gesture is based on the Christian practice of "crossing yourself".

70. Philip Hinchcliffe was unable to be present on 24 September, the day this was filmed,

71. so Tom Baker took the opportunity to slip in a few more of his ideas than usual.

72. The Doctor was scripted to threaten the warrior with his own knife.

73. The script only calls for a blindfold; it was a rehearsal idea to use the scarf.

74. The cloth is pre-cut, but at this stage Leela's knife still has a sharp blade.

75. The script calls for "a small but complex arrangement of perspex tubes".

76. David Garfield, who plays Neeva, was best known for his Welsh character roles.

77. In The Onedin Line (1973), he played Samuel Plimsoll, deviser of the Plimsoll line,

78. He was later the regular gangster in the last series of Citizen Smith (1980).

79. Leela's bracelet was designed with half an eye on merchandising.

80. Plans to market "Leela jewellery" never came to anything,

81. There's another example of this episode's tight editing coming up now.

82. Andor is played by the red-haired, rubicund actor Victor Lucas (1919-2001).

83. He had once worked for Alfred Hitchcock, playing a clergyman in Under Capricorn (1949).

84. He was also a minor dramatist, with twelve plays to his name in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

85. Despite the failed jewellery project, Leela span off into merchandising very quickly indeed.

86. £3.40p would buy you Leela herself, with enhanced frontal projections.

87. which also included the Doctor, a Dalek, a Cyberman, the Giant Robot, and a not very posable Tardis.

88. It stood in for the fairy on top of the Christmas tree.

89. The tribe's responses were pre-recorded by ten actors speaking in unison.

90. that Janice Thorn sounded too much like the name of an out-of-work actress.

91. Chris Boucher was given a staggered schedule of deadlines for his four scripts.

92. He almost managed it. The first episode was delivered the day before deadline on 26 February.

93. Episode 2 was bang on the nose on 12 March, and Episode 3 was two days early on 24 March.

94. The guard bumps into the scenery as he enters.

95. The "dead" Lugo reaches out to catch himself as he falls.

96. At a very late stage, Robert Holmes decided the serial needed a different title.

97. Nobody was especially concerned that 'The Day God Went Mad' might upset religious people,

98. A replacement still hadn't been chosen on 30 September, the day of the initial read-through.

99. And so the story reached its sixth title, and finally became 'The Face of Evil'.

100. and that Leela had inherited some vestigial supernatural powers from her. Boucher the atheist demurred.

101. This scene, in the forest with dry ice, was the very first part of the serial to be shot, on 20 September 1976.

102. The image of a "Rushmore" mountainside with the Doctor's face was one of Philip Hinchcliffe's contributions.

103. The tabletop model landscape was built by effects assistant Steve Drewett,

104. using a moulded plaster cast of Tom Baker's face.

105. Also seen in this episode were:

106. David Nichol, Harry Fielder

107. Andy Dempsey, lan Munro, John Sarbutt

108. Alan Charles Thomas

109. John Bryant

110. Alan Harris, Michael Reynal

111. Uncredited production contributors

112. Dave Chapman

113. Karen Bryan, Sue Frear, Jennifer Hughes, Carol Wilson

114. Brenda Barker, Val Woodford

115. Ann Rickard

116. Nansi Davies