Doctor Who 14x19

Directed by Michael E. Briant

Russell Hunter as Uvanov • Pamela Salem as Toos • David Bailie as Dask • David Collings as Poul • Gregory de Polnay as D.84

One of the crew is the insane Taren Capel, who is using robots to carry out the murders. The Doctor discovers that there are also others who aren't what they appear to be either.

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1. "Sabotage aboard the Sandminer... and the killer robot strikes again."

2. This episode was first shown on 12 February 1977.

3. It was seen by 13.1 million viewers, the serial's largest audience.

4. Chris Boucher's intention was that, by this point, the Doctor already knows whodunnit.

5. "The tortured whine of the motors dies away," says the script.

6. This line was written for Toos.

7. This sequence may draw on Arthur C. Clarke's 1961 novel, A Fall of Moondust,

8. which centres on the plight of a vessel that sinks beneath the dust of an alien desert.

9. For Dask's benefit: The "unsinkable" RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in 1912.

10. The serial was cast in October 1976.

11. Uvanov and Dask were considered the star parts, followed by Poul and then Zilda.

12. The injury is more serious in the script: A broken arm.

13. In the script, Poul is "rather battered", and has to be helped in by the Doctor.

14. The make-up line around the eyes and nose mimics the design of the robots' faces.

15. The design inspiration for this detail was the face of the robot Maria in Metropolis.

16. "A cover-up?" was Toos's scripted line.

17. This influenced the horizontal wall panelling effect, the columnar uprights in the corridors,

18. and the warm orange colour scheme here in the crew room.

19. The model stage was around twenty feet square, which was large by BBC standards.

20. There were four days of model filming on Stage 2 at Ealing Studios: 1-2 and 4-5 November.

21. Along with the live-action shoot on 3 November, it produced 201 feet of 16mm film.

22. So the specially shot footage comprised less than half the total film content of the four episodes.

23. He initially asked for Derek Slee as senior cameraman and Peter Winn on sound.

24. The business with the additive was unscripted, worked out in rehearsal.

25. Chris Boucher imagined that the planet's centres of population were in the polar regions,

26. so the climate is evidently rather unlike that of Earth.

27. Chris Boucher imagined something more like a mortuary cold store, with horizontal trays set into a wall.

28. This scene contains a vital clue which should leave the observant viewer in no further doubt about whodunnit.

29. Think about how the two characters react to the damaged robot - and particularly its left hand...

30. One especial problem in casting the serial concerned the robots.

31. This was a problem because, professionally speaking, they were unattractive parts:

32. The actors' faces would never appear on screen.

33. SV7 is played by Miles Fothergill.

34. He had previously been Judas in the early '70s stage musical, Godspell.

35. He later gave up acting to work in public relations.

36. The masks, though technically a costume item, were designed by Kenneth Sharp.

37. The hair on the prototype was simulated using strips of plasticine.

38. She modelled the head and breastplate in plasticine, then cast them in plaster.

39. She then paid some young London sculptors to make resin and fibreglass casts from the plaster moulds.

40. One of these freelance robot makers was Richard Wilson, later of the Royal Academy,

41. who became famous for his "architectural" sculptures.

42. Rose Garrard then spent weeks finishing and painting the masks, and fitting them to the actors.

43. The scene's last scripted line was cut.

44. "You have no programmed inhibitions," the Doctor tells D84. "You see, I know what you are.

45. "What I need to know is why you're here."

46. Note the manufacturer's "marigold" logo on the robot's left-hand glove.

47. Boucher imagined a sound effect similar to a dentist's drill.

48. In both books, Olivaw the robot 'tec works with a human partner, Elijah Baley, like D84 with Poul.

49. The narrative of The Naked Sun turns on a method of reprogramming a robot

50. in order to make Capel seem slightly more mysterious and threatening.

51. The name was arrived at by shuffling the syllables of Karel Capek (1890-1938),

52. the Czech dramatist whose 1921 play R. U. R. introduced the concept of a robot, and also the word itself.

53. but are surrounded by their positronic robots, just like young Taren Capel.

54. D84 is played by Gregory de Polnay.

55. He was best known for his regular role as a detective in the later years of Dixon of Dock Green (1974-5).

56. where his productions of rare Jacobean plays were justly renowned.

57. Hence the characterisation of D84.

58. The "robot's eye view" was shot with a hand-held camera.

59. As always, work began with a full script read-through on the first day.

60. They rehearsed six days a week for nine days before each of the two studio sessions.

61. The first studio session (for Parts 1 and 2) took place on 22-3 November 1976 in Studio 8 at Television Centre.

62. For the first session, only two hours' recording time was allocated each day.

63. For the second session, an extra half-hour per day was allowed.

64. because so little had been filmed beforehand.

65. Tom enjoyed exercising his mental muscles on the Times crossword at rehearsals,

66. and Russell Hunter was in the habit of arriving early to do it with him.

67. One day the combined brains of the two stars were stuck for an answer.

68. "Upanishads," piped up Greg involuntarily - and, to Tom's glee, he was right.

69. But being a creative artiste, Tom didn't always get on with everyone in the cast.

70. David Bailie Felt he'd been cut dead throughout the production,

71. and Tom didn't want a regular co-star, so he wasn't as welcoming to Louise Jameson as he might have been.

72. "Dark, isn't it?" Leela was scripted to say.

73. In her early serials, Leela's knife had a sharp blade.

74. In the camera rehearsal, Louise's aim was off, and the knife nearly hit a cameraman.

75. Not long afterwards, the prop was replaced with a dull-bladed knife...

76. Gregory de Polnay was not told that Chris Boucher intended D84 to be a SuperVoc in disguise.

77. so he worked on the analogy of someone who has learned English as a foreign language:

78. He was especially impressed by this line's poetic use of language, so he decided to develop

79. a delicate, ethereal voice, moving around the octaves to avoid sounding altogether human.

80. This was Greg de Polnay's unscripted contribution.

81. "Police issue?" asks the Doctor in the script.

82. Toos is played by Pamela Salem.

83. She had auditioned for the role of Leela in August ,

84. Her most significant and best remembered work still lay ahead.

85. She graduated from playing hookers in The Professionals (1978) And Strangers (1982),

86. to the villainous witch Belor in Into the Labyrinth (1981-2),

87. And co-founded the theatre company Salem K, which had its inaugural season in 2008.

88. The whole arm comes off in the script.

89. "Stop snivelling, woman!"

90. After a moment, the reply comes back: "Stop snivelling, commander, if you don't mind."

91. "Better," smiles the Doctor.

92. The Doctor had benevolently bullied Sarah Jane in much the same way in the 1975 serial.

93. "Why would anyone do this?" She asks the Doctor, but gets no answer.

94. When V5 has gone, she peers out, then drops to the floor.

95. The script calls for the traumatised Poul to be curled up in a foetal position.

96. On the day this episode was shown, Louise Jameson was a guest on The Multi-Coloured Swap Shop.

97. She'd been due to appear on the BBC's Saturday morning children's series two weeks earlier,

98. but she had glandular fever and could only phone in her apologies live on air.

99. where she got an early Valentine from "Eric", the out-of-vision prop man who lived in the rafters.

100. Eric's globe would regularly descend containing letters with the answers to the previous week's competition.

101. This week it came down festooned with roses, to the tune of 'Isn't She Lovely'.

102. Get to the Command deck.

103. Take Leela, Dask, Poul, everyone, and get them to the Command deck.

104. Get the robots out of there and secure the doors. Is that clear?

105. No, it isn't. It's impossible that the...

106. Just... Just do it, Toos.

107. All right.

108. Attend to your duties.

109. Get away!

110. Please go away!

111. Get out!

112. Doctor. Doctor!

113. Doctor!

114. - Doctor! - What is it, Toos?

115. Help me, please. It's outside.

116. - What's outside? - It's a robot.

117. It wants to kill me.

118. D84: Please let me go.

119. I am faster and stronger.

120. - Are you sure? - I think so.

121. - Good. Doctor, are you there?

122. Please help me. Help me, please.

123. Help is on the way.

124. - It had better hurry. - It is hurrying.

125. V5: The door is not a barrier, Commander Toos.

126. - What do you want?

127. To kill you. I must obey my orders.

128. It is forbidden for robots to harm humans.

129. My command programme has been restructured.

130. All humans are to die.

131. Poul.

132. No. Please, no.

133. - Are you hurt? - Please, go away.

134. They know I talk to you. They watch me all the time.

135. They hate me!

136. They did what I told them,

137. but only because that gave them the power, you see.

138. Do you mean the robots?

139. Not robots, walking dead.

140. They pretend we control them, but really... but really...

141. Poul, you can't stay here.

142. No! They don't mind me being here. It's you they want, not me.

143. - Poul, you need help. - No!

144. - Come on, now. - No, please!

145. Help! Help! She's in here. Help!

146. You can stay here but you mustn't make another sound,

147. do you understand?

148. What are you doing here?

149. Why? Does it upset you?

150. The penalty for what you have done is death.

151. That's far enough. What are you doing here?

152. - I followed you. - Ah.

153. I'd come over here, if I were you. Slowly.

154. What?

155. Now, either it followed you or else it homed in on this.

156. It depends which of us is going to be killed first.

157. That is, you or me.

158. V4: ill the Doctor.

159. I'll the Doctor.

160. I'll the Doctor.