Doctor Who 14x14

Directed by Pennant Roberts

David Garfield as Neeva • Victor Lucas as Andor • Brendan Price as Tomas • Leslie Schofield as Calib • Brett Forrest as Guard

The Sevateem launch another attack to try to free Xoanon as the Doctor tries to figure out his role in their past. But his only chance to win their trust is to face a deadly test.

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1. This episode was first shown on 8 January 1977, and was seen by 11.1 million viewers.

2. Rehearsals are a good way for everyone involved in a production to grow comfortable with one another,

3. but with pre-filming, everyone starts off "cold".

4. That's why, on Monday 20 September 1976, Louise Jameson was feeling a little self-conscious:

5. Silence fell on the film set, which was crewed entirely by men.

6. This was Louise's unscripted contribution.

7. Long-time viewers may have recognised the "oil drum" space helmet which hangs at Neeva's shoulders.

8. and was most recently seen on a sinister android "mechanic"

9. As recorded, this scene began with the Doctor entering the Sanctum through the hole in the wall,

10. and, exactly like Part 1, the final cut clocked in at two seconds under 25 minutes.

11. "Waiting for a voice," he adds in the script.

12. The transceiver was scripted as a box-shaped object rather than a tube.

13. Tom Baker's pre-recorded Xoanon lines, however, were played "live" into the studio from tape.

14. A character trait of Tom Baker's Doctor: He often contradicts himself.

15. He originally planned that she would wear a headband, just like the male Sevateem.

16. At an early stage, they were also considering giving her a distinctive hairstyle,

17. which would have meant asking Louise to wear a wig, or alter her long hair.

18. Most of this scene was cut.

19. The script describes the wall: "It is as though the world was flat and this was the edge,

20. "except that there are no stars or light of any sort, just a thick, impenetrable blackness."

21. It's a "blue-screen" Colour Separation Overlay shot,

22. with Camera 5's "out-of-focus dark texturing" inlaid into the output of Camera 3.

23. No crossbow bolts are actually fired.

24. The "heavenly light" is just a white outline on a black caption card.

25. Calib is played by Lancashire actor Leslie Schofield.

26. He spent a lot of his early screen career in a policeman's uniform,

27. a highwayman in Boy Dominic (1974) And a pirate in Rentaghost (1976),

28. Recording broke here

29. to stick a janis thorn onto Leela's hand.

30. After the battle, Tomas is in "a fairly sorry physical state", says the script.

31. Tom Baker toned this sequence down:

32. The scripted threat was to break Calib's neck, not his nose.

33. A typical make-up session for Leela lasted an hour and a half.

34. It was a disaster.

35. To make it worse, they only did her face: The rest of her was pale and pink.

36. The least worst of the pictures became the BBC's standard colour publicity postcard of Leela,

37. but the prop looks a lot more like an ordinary optical microscope.

38. A microphone shadow crosses his shoulder.

39. Louise Jameson Had spent much of her early career in the theatre,

40. including the Royal Shakespeare Company (1972-5) And the Bristol Old Vic (1975).

41. She and her agent had decided that her next career move should be a television series.

42. The upshot was that the first two-thirds of 1976 were relatively lean times for her.

43. After leaving Bristol, she toured in Noel Coward's Private Lives with Prospect Theatre Company,

44. but she also spent six months out of work.

45. "Ah, there you are" was his scripted entry line.

46. Robert Holmes later admitted that his idea to pair the Doctor up with a jungle girl was inspired by

47. Raquel Welch in her fur bikini in the dinosaur movie One Million Years BC (1966).

48. Chris Boucher was obviously thinking of the resurrection of Christ here,

49. "Flap-doodle!" was Tom Baker's improvement on the scripted "Piffle!"

50. Tomas is not played by David Ashton, but he was the actor originally cast in the role.

51. The Doctor "scores" the debate using the terminology of lawn tennis.

52. The Horda was scripted as "a white, snake-like creature about a foot long".

53. About twenty Horda were built by effects assistant Steve Drewett,

54. including a rod puppet with articulated jaws.

55. The real-life inspiration was, of course, the South American piranha fish.

56. Actually the pit is full of hollow latex dummy Horda,

57. but the self-propelled model seen at the start of the scene had a radio-controlled motor inside.

58. A Horda was first seen on television on 30 October 1976, the Saturday after production wrapped,

59. These also included "Boris", a friend from the planet Metebelis 3,

60. whose presence caused acute discomfort to the arachnophobic presenter Noel Edmonds.

61. This whole sequence was filmed at Ealing on 23 and 24 September 1976.

62. Looking the wrong way was Tom Baker's unscripted contribution.

63. The script speaks of "the whispering, rustling hiss of thousands of moving creatures".

64. From the first, the production team wanted Leela to have dark eyes,

65. so blue-eyed Louise had to wear red contact lenses to turn them brown.

66. The lenses were a fraction smaller than Louise's own irises,

67. so if you look very carefully, you can see a blue corona in her eyes.

68. The red traces of blood and ropeburn are make-up,

69. whereas the red contact lenses caused genuine claustrophobic discomfort.

70. They turned Louise's world sepia: It was like being imprisoned inside her own head.

71. In the script, he acknowledges that Calib always was convinced.

72. William Tell was a Swiss folk hero of the fourteenth century, and a crack shot with a crossbow.

73. "Perhaps he wants to congratulate me," quips the Doctor as he goes.

74. The script calls for Neeva to be prostrate on the ground before the spacesuit.

75. In the script, the Doctor picks up only one object: A disrupter gun.

76. The last line of the scene was cut:

77. One of the objects he's working on is identified in the script as a "stasis beam generator".

78. Also in this scene as scripted, the Doctor munches on something from a pack beside him.

79. Calib honourably refuses to partake: "Not while the tribe is hungry."

80. The Doctor explains that it is "field ration concentrates: One per person per day".

81. He gives them to Calib to hand around, and advises that the tribe should drink "lots of water".

82. "There is a thing to settle between us," Calib tells Leela in the script. "But now is not the time."

83. "All right," says Leela. "But we will settle it."

84. The Doctor is setting up the stasis beam generator he was working on in the last scene,

85. It's "several" attempts in the script, but Louise's delivery makes it sound like seven.

86. This serial has some striking similarities with a 1968 episode of Star Trek, 'The Omega Glory'.

87. One tribe is apparently savage, the other more civilised - the Yangs and Kohms respectively.

88. The names are debased forms of familiar English words: Yankees and Communists.

89. "Neeva is a broken man," says the script.

90. They are in fact the 1776 American Declaration of Independence.

91. The phrase "a good and faithful servant" is quoted from one of the parables of Jesus,

92. but in the Bible the good and faithful servant goes to heaven, not to sleep.

93. "The shrubbery is moving on a broad front," smirks the script.

94. The gongsman was last seen being nibbled by a Horda.

95. The last line was cut:

96. Leela's suggestion was Louise's rehearsal input.

97. In the script, the route is "round the gums", not down the throat.

98. Other than the regulars, Andor was the first character in this serial to be created.

99. The scripted scene starts with them already inside the mouth; climbing up was a rehearsal development.

100. Leela rises into a microphone shadow directly over her face.

101. This effect was achieved live in studio, mixing output from three cameras.

102. Tom Baker performed against a black background,

103. Camera 2 took the master shot, and Camera 3 the superimposed gun discharge.

104. Wider shots were planned here, with on-screen gunfire.

105. Also seen in this episode were:

106. Barbara Bermel, Peter Dean, Alan Troy

107. Paul Barton, Mike Mungarvan, Peter Roy

108. Alan Chuntz, Max Faulkner, Terry Walsh

109. Uncredited production contributors included:

110. Ellen Grech

111. Nick Lake

112. Ron Bristow

113. I mean the planetary survey teams.

114. That's where your tribe got its name from. Sevateem, survey team.

115. The question is, were you here before them?

116. Are we their captors or their children?

117. You catch on quickly.

118. Certainly they never returned to base.

119. Is the weapon ready?

120. Why? Are you taking charge here?

121. - Would you object? - I object.

122. Leela, I don't expect you to like me.

123. Then you won't be disappointed.

124. Tomas, take this.

125. How does it work?

126. You just point it and press it.

127. It's destructive up to about 20 times bow range.

128. Short bursts, Tomas.

129. It's self-regenerating but it takes time to recharge.

130. - Thank you, Doctor. - Good.

131. There.

132. That should keep Xoanon's creatures on their side of the perimeter.

133. Now, you and I have got to get inside that time barrier and soon.

134. According to the old ones, the tribe has had seven attempts at that.

135. Hmm. I could build a time bridge myself,

136. but that would mean dismantling the Tardis and even then it mightn't work.

137. - Doctor? - Yes.

138. You know you said nothing could get within that barrier?

139. Yes.

140. Not light or anything?

141. No.

142. - But Xoanon is inside it. - Yes.

143. How do we hear his voice?

144. Well, it's quite simple. We...

145. You're a genius. A genius.

146. What did I say?

147. Come on, Neeva. Neeva!

148. Come on, snap out of it, man.

149. Yes, lord. What is your will?

150. Neeva...

151. Neeva, when you hear the voice of Xoanon, is it when you're at the altar,

152. or when the vestment is hanging in its frame?

153. Yes, master.

154. Have you heard it anywhere else?

155. - Yes, master. - Where?

156. Yes, master.

157. Neeva! Neeva! This is Xoanon.

158. Where have you heard my voice?

159. Only here, lord, in your shrine.

160. You've been a good and faithful servant, Neeva. Go back to sleep now.

161. It is a tight beam transmission.

162. There's a bridge over the time barrier and I know where it is.

163. - What happened to him? - Too much too quickly.

164. This time I have to admit defeat.

165. - But Doctor... - Shh. Xoanon.

166. - The fools! - They must have panicked.

167. - That'll attract the creatures. - Yes.

168. Come on, we haven't got much time.

169. Idiot, you'll attract more of them!

170. Something killed Korus.

171. I saw it, over there.

172. The nose could be a shade more aquiline,

173. and the noble proportion of the brow hasn't been perfectly executed.

174. Still, we mustn't complain.

175. We live in an imperfect universe.

176. Where's the bridge through the barrier?

177. Up the nose?

178. No, it isn't! Up the nose.

179. It's over the teeth and down the throat.

180. Tomas. Tomas!

181. I think I can hear something.

182. Andor! Come back!

183. Odd feeling.

184. What is?

185. Standing in my own throat is.

186. What is it?

187. Andor, look out!

188. Andor.

189. Xoanon, save me!