1. "Captured by primitive tribesmen,
the Doctor faces
the 'Ordeal of the Horda'."
(Radio Times)Copy !req
2. This episode was first shown
on 8 January 1977,
and was seen by 11.1 million viewers.Copy !req
3. Rehearsals are a good way
for everyone involved in a production
to grow comfortable with one another,Copy !req
4. but with pre-filming,
everyone starts off "cold".Copy !req
5. That's why, on Monday 20 September 1976,
Louise Jameson was feeling
a little self-conscious:Copy !req
6. It was her first day on the job,
and she was going to have to perform
half-naked in front of a crew
of total strangers.Copy !req
7. She stayed in her quilted dressing gown
as long as she possibly could,
but eventually had to remove it
for the lighting to be set up.Copy !req
8. Silence fell on the film set,
which was crewed entirely by men.Copy !req
9. "Well, I don't mind lighting this,"
said the chief technician,
and Louise suddenly found that
she was incredibly popular.Copy !req
10. This was Louise's
unscripted contribution.Copy !req
11. Long-time viewers may have recognised
the "oil drum" space helmet
which hangs at Neeva's shoulders.Copy !req
12. It was one of a batch made in 1960
for the ITV serial
and Doctor Who precursor,
Pathfinders to Mars.Copy !req
13. It made its Doctor Who debut in 1965,
adorning one of the Daleks'
assorted allies
in 'Mission to the Unknown'.Copy !req
14. It had since been worn by
the Doctor ('Frontier in Space', 1973)
And a dead Thal
('Planet of the Daleks', also 1973),Copy !req
15. and was most recently seen
on a sinister android "mechanic"
('The Android Invasion', 1975).Copy !req
16. Later in 1977,
it returned to BBC screens
in the unsuccessful science fiction
sitcom Come Back, Mrs Noah.Copy !req
17. This is the hole Leela cut last week
(or, in the story, last night).
In the script,
it has been "hastily patched".Copy !req
18. Brett Forrest (born 1943)
Plays the guard
and not the voice of Xoanon.
(That's an actor you'll already know.)Copy !req
19. He worked with Pennant Roberts again,
playing another guard
in the second episode
of Blake's 7 (1978).Copy !req
20. As scripted, "a length of plastic
tubing, strips of electric cable
and plastic sheeting, all hanging
loosely from a wire shoulder frame."Copy !req
21. As recorded, this scene began
with the Doctor entering the Sanctum
through the hole in the wall,Copy !req
22. but, once again,
this episode needed
some very tight editing
to bring it down to the right length,Copy !req
23. and, exactly like Part 1,
the final cut clocked in at two seconds
under 25 minutes.Copy !req
24. "Waiting for a voice,"
he adds in the script.Copy !req
25. The transceiver was scripted
as a box-shaped object
rather than a tube.Copy !req
26. In the background you can hear
the sounds of the jungle,
stock BBC tracks
added in post-production dubbing.Copy !req
27. Tom Baker's pre-recorded Xoanon lines,
however, were played "live"
into the studio from tape.Copy !req
28. The Doctor is less sympathetic
in the script:
"Will you just get up, please,"
he tells her.Copy !req
29. A character trait of Tom Baker's Doctor:
He often contradicts himself.Copy !req
30. In the last episode,
he told Leela
not to be certain of anything:
It's a sign of weakness.Copy !req
31. The serial's original costume designer
was Barbara Kidd,
who worked on Doctor Who
from 1973 until the 21 st century.Copy !req
32. In the event, she dropped out
and it was John Bloomfield
who got to design
Leela's iconic leather outfit.Copy !req
33. He originally planned that
she would wear a headband,
just like the male Sevateem.Copy !req
34. At an early stage,
they were also considering
giving her a distinctive hairstyle,Copy !req
35. which would have meant
asking Louise to wear a wig,
or alter her long hair.Copy !req
36. The costume turned out
to be very uncomfortable to wear,
and, because it was all-in-one,
calls of nature couldn't be urgent.Copy !req
37. When it wore out after four serials,
Louise asked that its replacement
should be a two-piece
- and in softer leather!Copy !req
38. Most of this scene was cut.Copy !req
39. Tomas has been scouting forward,
and reports back:
There is a gap in the wall,
the width of three or four men.Copy !req
40. Andor suspects a trap,
set by the Tesh or the Evil One
- but Tomas reminds him
that the Evil One has been destroyed.Copy !req
41. He lays his battle plan:
Tomas will take the left flank,
Calib the right, and he himself will
lead the main assault in the centre.Copy !req
42. The script describes the wall:
"It is as though the world was flat
and this was the edge,Copy !req
43. "except that there are no stars
or light of any sort, just a thick,
impenetrable blackness."Copy !req
44. It's a "blue-screen"
Colour Separation Overlay shot,Copy !req
45. with Camera 5's
"out-of-focus dark texturing"
inlaid into the output of Camera 3.Copy !req
46. No crossbow bolts are actually fired.Copy !req
47. A planned CSO model shot showed
three warriors charging at the wall;
they scream and die
as it closes around them.Copy !req
48. The "heavenly light"
is just a white outline
on a black caption card.Copy !req
49. The effect is achieved
by mixing the outputs
of Cameras 1 and 2 (on Neeva)
And 3 (on the card).Copy !req
50. In the script,
Leela starts the scene
sitting cross-legged on the floor,
whetting her knife on a stone.Copy !req
51. Calib is played by Lancashire actor
Leslie Schofield (born 1938).Copy !req
52. He spent a lot of his early
screen career in a policeman's uniform,Copy !req
53. in Twinky (1969), Out of the Unknown
(1971), Follyfoot (1972), Special Branch
and Hunter's Walk (both 1973),
and many more.Copy !req
54. But he'd also been
on the other side of the law:
A nuclear terrorist in Doomwatch (1972;
with Elisabeth Sladen),Copy !req
55. a highwayman in Boy Dominic (1974)
And a pirate in Rentaghost (1976),Copy !req
56. and, later,
a Death Star commander
in Star Wars (1977)
And a hit-man in The Wild Geese (1978).Copy !req
57. Pennant Roberts cast him again
as a sadistic prison guard
in the second episode
of Blake's 7 (1978).Copy !req
58. He was later best known for his
regular role as Jeff Healey
in EastEnders (1997-2000),
who didn't believe in ghosts either.Copy !req
59. Recording broke hereCopy !req
60. to stick a janis thorn
onto Leela's hand.Copy !req
61. On cue, she lifts it into shot,
giving the impression that
she has just been stabbed -
when in fact it was there all the time.Copy !req
62. After the battle, Tomas
is in "a fairly sorry physical state",
says the script.Copy !req
63. Tom Baker toned this sequence down:Copy !req
64. The scripted threat was
to break Calib's neck, not his nose.Copy !req
65. A typical make-up session
for Leela lasted an hour and a half.Copy !req
66. It was a long job
because it entailed darkening
every part of her skin that was
or might be exposed by her costume.Copy !req
67. The first make-up session was for
some publicity stills in costume,
with knife, crossbow, handbag,
and a deadly copy of Who's Who.Copy !req
68. It was a disaster.Copy !req
69. The slap was brown and muddy,
making it look as if Louise had
"blacked up" for the role,
which was never the plan.Copy !req
70. To make it worse,
they only did her face:
The rest of her was pale and pink.Copy !req
71. The least worst of the pictures
became the BBC's standard
colour publicity postcard of Leela,Copy !req
72. but when it came to making
the programme itself,
everyone knew
they'd have to do a lot better...Copy !req
73. The script identifies
the equipment behind the Doctor,
in the centre of the screen,
as a miniature electron microscope,Copy !req
74. but the prop looks a lot more like
an ordinary optical microscope.Copy !req
75. A microphone shadow
crosses his shoulder.Copy !req
76. "Not long now," he says in the script,
and "glares at the medikit
as though he can
will it to work faster".Copy !req
77. Louise Jameson (born 1951)
Had spent much of her early career
in the theatre,Copy !req
78. including
the Royal Shakespeare Company (1972-5)
And the Bristol Old Vic (1975).Copy !req
79. She and her agent had decided
that her next career move
should be a television series.Copy !req
80. She auditioned for the role of Purdey
in The New Avengers
(which was, in the event,
the making of Joanna Lumley),Copy !req
81. and she also tried
for one of the nurses
in the BBC hospital drama Angels
and a female lead in Survivors.Copy !req
82. The upshot was that
the first two-thirds of 1976
were relatively lean times for her.Copy !req
83. After leaving Bristol, she toured
in Noel Coward's Private Lives
with Prospect Theatre Company,Copy !req
84. and she filmed a period football drama
for the BBC, The Game
(shown two days after the first episode
of 'The Face of Evil'),Copy !req
85. but she also spent six months
out of work.Copy !req
86. When she auditioned
for Doctor Who in August,
she was making ends meet
with a job in a typing pool.Copy !req
87. "Ah, there you are"
was his scripted entry line.Copy !req
88. Robert Holmes later admitted
that his idea to pair the Doctor up
with a jungle girl was inspired byCopy !req
89. Raquel Welch in her fur bikini
in the dinosaur movie
One Million Years BC (1966).Copy !req
90. Chris Boucher was obviously thinking
of the resurrection of Christ here,Copy !req
91. but there's a similar theological
improvisation about the dead-but-alive
Beast in William Golding's novel,
Lord of the Flies (1954).Copy !req
92. "Flap-doodle!" was Tom Baker's
improvement on the scripted "Piffle!"Copy !req
93. Tomas is not played by David Ashton,
but he was the actor
originally cast in the role.Copy !req
94. Pennant Roberts later cast him
as a councillor in the last
Doctor Who serial he directed,
'Timelash' (1985).Copy !req
95. The Doctor "scores" the debate
using the terminology of lawn tennis.Copy !req
96. The Horda was scripted
as "a white, snake-like creature
about a foot long".Copy !req
97. About twenty Horda were built
by effects assistant Steve Drewett,Copy !req
98. including a rod puppet
with articulated jaws.Copy !req
99. The real-life inspiration was,
of course, the South American
piranha fish.Copy !req
100. Actually the pit is full
of hollow latex dummy Horda,Copy !req
101. but the self-propelled model
seen at the start of the scene
had a radio-controlled motor inside.Copy !req
102. A Horda was first seen on television
on 30 October 1976,
the Saturday after production wrapped,Copy !req
103. when effects designer Mat Irvine
dropped into the Swap Shop studio
to show off a model Tardis
and a few "pets".Copy !req
104. These also included "Boris",
a friend from the planet Metebelis 3,Copy !req
105. whose presence caused acute discomfort
to the arachnophobic presenter
Noel Edmonds.Copy !req
106. In his earlier years,
Tom Baker's Doctor was often
given to half-casual acts
of righteous violence.Copy !req
107. This whole sequence
was filmed at Ealing
on 23 and 24 September 1976.Copy !req
108. In the script, there's a plank
across the stone shutters,
which progressively sags
and cracks under the Doctor's weight.Copy !req
109. Looking the wrong way
was Tom Baker's unscripted contribution.Copy !req
110. The script speaks of "the whispering,
rustling hiss of thousands
of moving creatures".Copy !req
111. From the first, the production team
wanted Leela to have dark eyes,Copy !req
112. so blue-eyed Louise
had to wear red contact lenses
to turn them brown.Copy !req
113. The lenses were a fraction smaller
than Louise's own irises,Copy !req
114. so if you look very carefully,
you can see a blue corona in her eyes.Copy !req
115. The red traces of blood
and ropeburn are make-up,Copy !req
116. whereas the red contact lenses
caused genuine
claustrophobic discomfort.Copy !req
117. They turned Louise's world sepia:
It was like being imprisoned
inside her own head.Copy !req
118. She could only wear them
for four hours at a time
before she became breathless
with stress.Copy !req
119. In the script,
he acknowledges that
Calib always was convinced.Copy !req
120. William Tell was a Swiss folk hero
of the fourteenth century,
and a crack shot with a crossbow.Copy !req
121. The whole of the next scene was cut.
Back in the Council Chamber,
and Neeva summons the Doctor
to the Sanctum.Copy !req
122. "Perhaps he wants to congratulate me,"
quips the Doctor as he goes.Copy !req
123. The script calls for Neeva
to be prostrate on the ground
before the spacesuit.Copy !req
124. In the script, the Doctor picks up
only one object: A disrupter gun.Copy !req
125. The last line of the scene was cut:Copy !req
126. The Doctor politely asks
Neeva's permission
to borrow the "relics"
he has been collecting.Copy !req
127. One of the objects he's working on
is identified in the script
as a "stasis beam generator".Copy !req
128. Also in this scene as scripted,
the Doctor munches on something
from a pack beside him.Copy !req
129. Calib honourably refuses to partake:
"Not while the tribe is hungry."Copy !req
130. The Doctor explains that it is
"field ration concentrates:
One per person per day".Copy !req
131. He gives them to Calib to hand around,
and advises that the tribe
should drink "lots of water".Copy !req
132. "There is a thing to settle between us,"
Calib tells Leela in the script.
"But now is not the time."Copy !req
133. "All right," says Leela.
"But we will settle it."Copy !req
134. The Doctor is setting up
the stasis beam generator
he was working on in the last scene,Copy !req
135. but in the script
it will only keep the creatures
"away from this part of the perimeter"
- a more local fix.Copy !req
136. It's "several" attempts in the script,
but Louise's delivery
makes it sound like seven.Copy !req
137. This serial has some striking
similarities with a 1968 episode
of Star Trek, 'The Omega Glory'.Copy !req
138. It's a Cold War allegory
in which the descendants
of a party of colonists have become
two tribes at war with one another.Copy !req
139. One tribe is apparently savage,
the other more civilised
- the Yangs and Kohms respectively.Copy !req
140. The names are debased forms
of familiar English words:
Yankees and Communists.Copy !req
141. "Neeva is a broken man,"
says the script.Copy !req
142. In 'The Omega Glory',
the savage Yangs are religious fanatics
whose "holy words" are another garbling
from ancestral Earth:Copy !req
143. They are in fact the 1776
American Declaration of Independence.Copy !req
144. In the course of the story,
the Yangs identify Captain Kirk
as "the Evil One",
just as the Sevateem do the Doctor.Copy !req
145. The phrase "a good and faithful servant"
is quoted from one of the parables
of Jesus (Matthew 25.23),Copy !req
146. but in the Bible
the good and faithful servant
goes to heaven, not to sleep.Copy !req
147. "The shrubbery is moving
on a broad front," smirks the script.Copy !req
148. This sequence is supposed
to represent an invisible creature
moving over the fallen Koras,
squashing him.Copy !req
149. The gongsman was last seen
being nibbled by a Horda.Copy !req
150. The last line was cut:Copy !req
151. "Well, there's nothing there now,"
says Andor in the script,
and walks off towards the forest
and his doom.Copy !req
152. Leela's suggestion
was Louise's rehearsal input.Copy !req
153. In the script,
the route is "round the gums",
not down the throat.Copy !req
154. Other than the regulars,
Andor was the first character
in this serial to be created.Copy !req
155. He appeared as early
as the second storyline,
'The Mentor Conspiracy'
(which also featured Leela).Copy !req
156. The scripted scene starts
with them already inside the mouth;
climbing up was a rehearsal development.Copy !req
157. Leela rises into a microphone shadow
directly over her face.Copy !req
158. Here's the germ of an idea
for a serial that was being discussed
around the time 'The Face of Evil'
was made:Copy !req
159. 'The Invisible Enemy',
in which the Doctor really does end up
inside his own body
at the end of the second episode.Copy !req
160. According to the script,
Leela, it's "a hulking,
grotesque shadow...
wavering towards them".Copy !req
161. This effect was achieved live in studio,
mixing output from three cameras.Copy !req
162. Tom Baker performed against
a black background,Copy !req
163. and Camera 5 used a fish-eye lens
to shoot his reflection
in a flexible reflective sheet
of mirrorlon.Copy !req
164. Camera 2 took the master shot,
and Camera 3
the superimposed gun discharge.Copy !req
165. Wider shots were planned here,
with on-screen gunfire.Copy !req
166. Also seen in this episode were:Copy !req
167. Barbara Bermel, Peter Dean, Alan Troy
(Sevateem)Copy !req
168. Paul Barton, Mike Mungarvan, Peter Roy
(Guards)Copy !req
169. Alan Chuntz, Max Faulkner, Terry Walsh
(Stunt Sevateem)Copy !req
170. Uncredited production
contributors included:Copy !req
171. Ellen Grech
(Floor Assistant)Copy !req
172. Nick Lake
(Vision Mixer)Copy !req
173. Ron Bristow
(Technical Manager)Copy !req
174. Gordon Phillipson
(Grams Operator)
52,767 —> 00:18:53,802
I don't understand.Copy !req
175. I mean the planetary survey teams.Copy !req
176. That's where your tribe got its name
from. Sevateem, survey team.Copy !req
177. The question is, were you here
before them?Copy !req
178. Are we their captors or their children?Copy !req
179. You catch on quickly.Copy !req
180. Certainly they never returned to base.Copy !req
181. Is the weapon ready?Copy !req
182. Why? Are you taking charge here?Copy !req
183. - Would you object?
- I object.Copy !req
184. Leela, I don't expect you to like me.Copy !req
185. Then you won't be disappointed.Copy !req
186. Tomas, take this.Copy !req
187. How does it work?Copy !req
188. You just point it and press it.Copy !req
189. It's destructive up to about
20 times bow range.Copy !req
190. Short bursts, Tomas.Copy !req
191. It's self-regenerating but
it takes time to recharge.Copy !req
192. - Thank you, Doctor.
- Good.Copy !req
193. There.Copy !req
194. That should keep Xoanon's creatures
on their side of the perimeter.Copy !req
195. Now, you and I have got to
get inside that time barrier and soon.Copy !req
196. According to the old ones, the tribe has
had seven attempts at that.Copy !req
197. Hmm. I could build
a time bridge myself,Copy !req
198. but that would mean dismantling the
Tardis and even then it mightn't work.Copy !req
199. - Doctor?
- Yes.Copy !req
200. You know you said nothing could get
within that barrier?Copy !req
201. Yes.Copy !req
202. Not light or anything?Copy !req
203. No.Copy !req
204. - But Xoanon is inside it.
- Yes.Copy !req
205. How do we hear his voice?Copy !req
206. Well, it's quite simple. We...Copy !req
207. (LAUGHING) You're a genius.
(WHISPERING) A genius.Copy !req
208. What did I say?Copy !req
209. Come on, Neeva. Neeva!Copy !req
210. Come on, snap out of it, man.Copy !req
211. Yes, lord. What is your will?Copy !req
212. Neeva...Copy !req
213. Neeva, when you hear the voice of
Xoanon, is it when you're at the altar,Copy !req
214. or when the vestment is hanging
in its frame?Copy !req
215. Yes, master.Copy !req
216. Have you heard it anywhere else?Copy !req
217. - Yes, master.
- Where?Copy !req
218. Yes, master.Copy !req
219. Neeva! Neeva! This is Xoanon.Copy !req
220. Where have you heard my voice?Copy !req
221. Only here, lord, in your shrine.Copy !req
222. You've been a good and faithful servant,
Neeva. Go back to sleep now.Copy !req
223. It is a tight beam transmission.Copy !req
224. There's a bridge over the time barrier
and I know where it is.Copy !req
225. - What happened to him?
- Too much too quickly.Copy !req
226. This time I have to admit defeat.Copy !req
227. - (WHISPERING) But Doctor...
- Shh. Xoanon.Copy !req
228. - The fools!
- They must have panicked.Copy !req
229. - That'll attract the creatures.
- Yes.Copy !req
230. Come on, we haven't got much time.Copy !req
231. Idiot, you'll attract more of them!Copy !req
232. Something killed Korus.Copy !req
233. I saw it, over there.Copy !req
234. The nose could be a
shade more aquiline,Copy !req
235. and the noble proportion of the brow
hasn't been perfectly executed.Copy !req
236. Still, we mustn't complain.Copy !req
237. We live in an imperfect universe.Copy !req
238. Where's the bridge through the barrier?Copy !req
239. Up the nose?Copy !req
240. No, it isn't! Up the nose.Copy !req
241. It's over the teeth and down the throat.Copy !req
242. Tomas. Tomas!Copy !req
243. I think I can hear something.Copy !req
244. Andor! Come back!Copy !req
245. Odd feeling.Copy !req
246. What is?Copy !req
247. Standing in my own throat is.Copy !req
248. What is it?Copy !req
249. Andor, look out!Copy !req
250. Andor.Copy !req
251. Xoanon, save me!Copy !req