Doctor Who 18x12

Directed by Peter Grimwade

Matthew Waterhouse as Adric • June Page as Keara • James Bree as Nefred • George Baker as Login • Alan Rowe as Garif

Marshmen invade the Terradonian ship thanks to Romana, who seems to be in communion with them. While the ship's inhabitants flee for their lives, the Doctor discovers a crucial fact why these humanoids can never return to the planet Terradon.

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1. "What is the secret legacy of Dexeter's research? How does the Doctor give evolution a small nudge? E-Space which way out?" (Radio Times)

2. This episode was first shown on 15 November, 1980.

3. It was seen by 5.5 million people.

4. This final episode of 'Full Circle' was the most heavily edited of all: A number of scenes were cut entirely,

5. whilst others had some significant trims made to them.

6. In 1980, Madame Tussauds, the famous waxworks museum in London,

7. mounted 'The Doctor Who Experience'.

8. This display was based mainly on characters from the most recent series.

9. Amongst the exhibits were a Foamasi, K9, Davros, a Dalek, a Sontaran and a Nimon.

10. There were also two versions of Tom Baker, one as the Doctor and the other in his prickly Meglos form,

11. which became a newsworthy event, as it was the first time that a person had appeared twice in the museum.

12. Tying in with 'Full Circle' were waxworks of a Marshman and Lalla Ward as Romana,

13. replicating this hand-to-hand pose.

14. Before this scene of the Marshmen making their way into the Starliner,

15. there was to have been a brief shot of Romana running down a corridor

16. towards the second floor deck where she opens the other hatch.

17. A cutaway in this scene would have made us aware of the vague shadows of the Marshmen before Varsh hears them.

18. "What's that?" says Varsh.

19. "Keara and Tylos hear it too," says the script, "but the Foreman in charge of the party gives them a look

20. "which commands them to pay attention to the lesson.

21. "All eyes revert to the manuals as the party gathers round an inspection hatch."

22. Suddenly they spin round to find themselves surrounded by Marshmen.

23. 'Full Circle' was made over three separate recording and filming blocks.

24. First came the location filming in Black Park, shot over three days from 23-25 July, 1980.

25. This was followed by two studio recording blocks at Television Centre in London.

26. The first block was recorded in Studio 3 on 7 and 8 August, 1980.

27. It involved all the TARDIS interior scenes, the lower decks and passage of the Starliner and the Outlers' cave.

28. The second recording block was held in Studio 6 between 21 and 23 August, 1980.

29. During this block the scenes in the Science Unit, the Great Book Room,

30. the Boarding Area and various corridors and passageways were recorded.

31. Also recorded in this block were the model shots of the Starliner,

32. as well as a number of scenes in the Outlers' cave that were not completed in the first block.

33. The angle of Tylos' body means you can't quite see that his face has been painted with the same Marshman-like veins as Romana.

34. Cut from the scene at this point is the Doctor's response, "Please don't hit me with that. It's irreplaceable."

35. The Marshman seems to react to the Doctor by backing away.

36. The Doctor then reaches forward and snatches K9's head.

37. During rehearsals, Tom Baker started to make woofing sounds as he hid behind K9's head.

38. The veins on Lalla Ward's face were coloured blue so that they could be made to "throb" using Colour Separation Overlay,

39. as you can see here.

40. Andrew Smith felt that aspects of the plot became a little obscured by the changes to his script,

41. especially in relation to the history of the Starliner and its crew.

42. Basically, this is how Smith had envisioned what had happened in the distant past.

43. The Starliner had set out from Teradon 120,000 years earlier on a stellar cruise.

44. It crashed on Alzarius, way off its intended flight path.

45. When Mistfall came, the Marshmen entered the Starliner and killed the crew before they could fight back.

46. However, when the mists ended, a number of Marshmen were trapped in the Starliner,

47. sustained by the remnants of Mistfall that were locked within the spaceship.

48. Whilst many of the Marshmen died, some managed to adapt to the Starliner's atmosphere.

49. They began to evolve into different creatures.

50. As they developed, they read the Starliner manuals, learning Teradonian culture,

51. as well as the technicalities of the Starliner itself.

52. As time passed, the new species largely forgot their origins,

53. and to make sure it stayed that way, control was passed to three Deciders.

54. Only the First Decider would fully know all their ancestral secrets.

55. Every new Teradonian baby would have its brain analysed and classed accordingly.

56. A 'Norm' would receive minimal education.

57. An 'Elite' would receive superior education.

58. Only the Elite would go on to become Deciders in the community.

59. Any two Deciders could overrule the third,

60. except when information from the System Files came into play, then the First Decider would have the ultimate say.

61. Adric was amongst the highest of the Elite class

62. and would have become a Decider had the Doctor not appeared.

63. Andrew Smith had begin his writing career in his mid-teens, contributing to Week Ending and Not the Nine O'Clock News.

64. He went on to contribute to the comedy shows Three of a ind and ick Up The Eighties,

65. as well as a television play called Thieves starring Michael Sheard and a radio drama entitled Goal.

66. It was this latter work that brought Smith to the attention of Doctor Who's scriptwriter, Eric Saward.

67. But more on that later!

68. The beginning of this scene was cut during recording.

69. In the script, the Doctor enters the Science Unit followed by Adric, Varsh and Keara.

70. The Doctor says, "Dexeter hinted he was on to something... I didn't care for his methods, but he was certainly thorough."

71. The Doctor roots around amongst the bottles and instruments looking for clues about Dexeter's line of research.

72. "We can't do anything useful in here," says Varsh.

73. "Oh, but we can, Varsh," the Doctor responds. "Life isn't all running up and down like demented whippets. Not for us or the Marshmen."

74. "What do you mean?" asks Adric.

75. "Lock that door and barricade it!" says the Doctor. "They haven't come out of their marsh just for the exercise."

76. Finding a bottle he continues, "Reverse transcriptase! I thought so. There's probably a centrifuge round here somewhere..."

77. The scene continues as transmitted with the Doctor saying, "Dexeter's been doing DNA analysis."

78. Just before this scene, another was cut set in the Boarding Area.

79. Romana is still by the TARDIS but "something about her manner gives us the impression that the effects of the crab-spiders might be wearing off.

80. "She reaches out and touches the TARDIS, and we see her trying to form the word with her lips.

81. "She hears a sound, and turns to see: A bulkhead closing to shut off the passage.

82. "Obviously incensed, she turns in the other direction. There too a bulkhead closes.

83. "Romana is trapped. Anger blazing in her eyes, she approaches a ventilation grill: And rips it out of its housing."

84. Originally, Smith had not given the Teradonian spaceship a name.

85. In their first script meeting, Christopher Bidmead said that they would need to give it a title.

86. Off the top of his head, Smith suggested calling it "The Starliner".

87. The young rebels didn't originally have a collective title either.

88. It was Bidmead who decided to call them "Outlers" in his initial rewrite of the scripts.

89. As recorded, the previous scene continued with the Science Unit doors giving way and three Marshmen entering.

90. "Don't let them touch you!" Says the Doctor,

91. as the Outlers retreat behind the Time Lord.

92. Watch the space between the Doctor and Adric.

93. Matthew Waterhouse suddenly notices a camera pushing between them!

94. As the pure oxygen is released from the cylinders,

95. it was originally intended that the Marshmen would begin to foam at the mouth.

96. Along with 'The Keeper of Traken',

97. 'Full Circle' was chosen as one of the two stories that would be repeated in the summer of 1981.

98. The story was shown over four consecutive weekday evenings,

99. between Monday 3 and Thursday 6 August.

100. The repeats achieved ratings of 4.9, 4.2, 4.6 and 6.4 million respectively,

101. which means that this episode was watched by almost a million more viewers on its repeat than on its original transmission.

102. Karyotype is a word used to describe the visual profile of the chromosomes in any given species.

103. Karyotypes are usually prepared in the metaphase stage of cell division,

104. when duplicated chromosomes become aligned along the centre of the cell, rendering them easily visible under a microscope.

105. Electrophoresis is the technique of sorting proteins according to their response to an electric field.

106. In the script, the citizens on board the spaceship are sometimes referred to as the "Starliners".

107. This part of the scene ends with Varsh fighting back the Marshman,

108. but originally it concluded with the sequence we'll see in a moment, of Varsh being pulled under the descending bulkhead.

109. Adric sees what's happening and rushes back to help, but the hatch closes between them.

110. With Adric's cry in his ears, Varsh turns to see the Marshman descending on him.

111. The original version of this scene begins with Adric returning with the Doctor, Keara and Login.

112. He bangs helplessly on the closed bulkhead.

113. Opening the door, the Doctor talks to Login about getting more oxygen,

114. and then he kneels by the body of Varsh before looking up grimly to Adric.

115. The image of Adric clutching Varsh's belt

116. is one that would be repeated just before Adric's death in the final episode of 'Earthshock'.

117. At this point, a further scene with the Doctor, Login and Garif in the Boarding Area was cut.

118. "All the oxygen valves are open, Doctor," says Login.

119. "Let's hope it's not too late," the Doctor replies.

120. "What do you mean?" asks Login.

121. The Doctor responds, "They've already begun to adapt to the enriched air."

122. "It might not kill them then?" Garif asks.

123. "Kill them?" says the Doctor. "I certainly hope not. But if we're lucky, it'll drive them back to the marsh."

124. "Shouldn't we open the doors, then?" Romana replies.

125. Cut from this scene was the direction that when Romana opens the door

126. she should be overcome with a powerful sense of déjà vu.

127. "Dismissing it with a shrug she returns to her labours."

128. Following 'Full Circle', Andrew Smith continued to submit further story ideas to the production office.

129. Two months after 'Full Circle' had finished recording,

130. Smith was commissioned to submit a four-part storyline with the working title of 'The Torson Triumvirate'.

131. This was delivered on Tuesday 9 December, 1980.

132. Later, in January 1984, when Doctor Who had changed to 45-minute episodes,

133. Smith was commissioned by Eric Saward to write a scene-breakdown for a story entitled 'The First Sontarans'.

134. Set on Earth in 1872, the story concerned three Kaveetch scientists posing as humans.

135. With their home world of Sontara invaded by the Rutans,

136. the Kaveetch had initiated a rapid-cloning process to produce a race of brutish fighting warriors.

137. After winning the war, the clones turned on the Kaveetch and claimed Sontara for themselves, forcing the survivors to flee.

138. Having developed a weapon to use against the clones, the Kaveetch, the Sontaran progenitors, hoped to reclaim their planet.

139. The climax was to have been a battle between the Sontarans and Rutans on board an ocean-going cargo ship.

140. When all the aliens are destroyed, it turns out that the vessel is none other than the Mary Celeste.

141. Neither story was developed any further.

142. Andrew Smith disliked the fact that the script was changed to the Doctor very simply telling the Deciders how to fly the Starliner.

143. In his original script, a large part of the final episode dealt with the Outlers learning how to pilot the spaceship.

144. Smith novelised his script, taking the opportunity to expand the televised story.

145. However, producer John Nathan-Turner exercised his editorial control to remove an epilogue that Smith had included,

146. involving the Starliner crash-landing on another planet soon after take-off, starting the cycle all over again.

147. The novelisation was published in hardback by W. H. Allen and paperback by Target in September 1982.

148. According to the script, the image on the scanner was to have been of the Starliner.

149. As the TARDIS is now showing negative coordinate images of what's outside the ship,

150. there is no real reason why it should display movement through E-Space

151. At this point, it was scripted that we should glimpse Adric watching as well from the cover of his hiding place.

152. Also appearing in the episode were:

153. Peter Dukes, lan Ellis, Tom Gandl (Citizens)

154. Robert Goodman, Malcolm Harvey (Citizens)

155. Uncredited production contributors

156. Stephen Jones (Floor Assistant), John Bush (Properties Buyer), Dave Child (Film Lighting)

157. John Morris, lan Dabbs (Film Camera Assistant), Patrick Quirk (Film Sound Assistant)

158. John Atkins, Roy Prichard, Arabella Shaw, Tom Reeve, Mel Freedman (Dressers)

159. Julie Shepherd, Caroline Gibbs, Eve Barker, Christine Vidler (Make-Up Assistants)

160. Claire Tinsley (Design Assistant)

161. Production subtitles written by Richard Bignell. 2:17,087 —> 00:22:20,875 - It works! - Yes, unfortunately.

162. - Negative coordinates. - Yes, that settles it.

163. We're out of our own time and space, Romana.

164. - Exo-Space? - Yes. That thing we came through

165. was a Charged Vacuum Embointment.

166. - A CVE. - Hmm.

167. One of the rarest Space-Time events in the universe.

168. Doctor, look. The Starliner is taking off.

169. Well, they've made a decision.

170. And we're trapped.

171. Unless we can find another CVE.

172. Affirmative.