Doctor Who 8x10

Directed by Timothy Combe

Roger Delgado as The Master • Richard Franklin as Mike Yates • John Levene as Sergeant Benton • Michael Sheard as Dr. Summers • Bill Matthews as Prison Officer

The Brigadier has recaptured Stangmoor but the Master still has control of the Thunderbolt and the Doctor must find a way to stop him and destroy the Keller Machine.

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1. This episode was first shown on 6 March 1971, and was seen by 7.3 million viewers.

2. In the draft, the last episode ended with the Master about to fire the missile at the peace conference.

3. Jo drags the Doctor out of the way, and the Master escapes in the truck - with the primed missile still aboard.

4. Elsewhere, UNIT and the convicts are shooting it out.

5. The Doctor's ingratitude is even more surly in the draft: "You took your time, didn't you?"

6. In the draft, of course, the missile was at the prison,

7. but the Master drives it straight out of the prison gates, which are open to admit the rest of the troops.

8. He then takes it to a disused quarry - not unlike the Auton coach in the previous adventure.

9. No documentation exists to prove that Don Houghton saw the scripts for 'Terror of the Autons',

10. to show a writer an example of what was required with new format elements such as the Master.

11. "The rocket's effect is limited," insists the Doctor.

12. "The box can devastate and destroy this planet," retorts the Doctor.

13. As they claw at their temples in agony, inanimate objects begin to clatter around the room.

14. "It's turning my soldiers into raving maniacs!" Shouts the Brigadier.

15. who was cornered in the prison workshop beside the lorry.

16. causing it to screech and disintegrate, in true mythological fashion.

17. The box, however, immediately conjures up another Gorgon, which advances on Jo and Mike,

18. The story panned out in this earliest version as follows.

19. The Master gets into the lorry, the Doctor follows, but the Master hits him with "a giant spanner".

20. The Master then threatens to press the missile's firing button if the UNIT troops come any closer.

21. He deliberately crashes the vehicle into a wall, and is knocked unconscious.

22. The firing cable has been severed, but the missile has become automatically primed.

23. The Master staggers from the lorry and makes to flee from the prison -

24. but sees it is surrounded by troops or police summoned earlier by the Governor.

25. The Doctor recovers, but the missile is going to fire in just 29 minutes' time.

26. The Doctor hatches "a plan to get rid of the primed rocket - and also the 'box"':

27. The Doctor himself will meanwhile locate the box within the prison.

28. Then he will connect the box to the firing cable, hoping that when the missile explodes,

29. a "vortex-vacuum" will "drain the 'box' of its evil power".

30. Mike sets off for the moors, and the Doctor orders the prison evacuated while he looks for the box.

31. The Doctor finds the box and repels the Gorgon with a pocket mirror.

32. The Master radios through that he will kill Mike if the Doctor proceeds.

33. The Master then tries to defuse the bomb, but Mike jumps him and gets the upper hand.

34. Mike yells into the walkie-talkie that the Doctor should go ahead.

35. He drives away from the missile in the jeep, but the Master clambers in as well.

36. The Master is eventually thrown out of the jeep, and starts running for safety.

37. The Gorgon grabs the firing cable and is about to tug it free of the box when the missile explodes.

38. The box splits asunder and the Gorgon vanishes.

39. Did the Master die in the explosion, or could he have escaped?

40. This sequence of the Machine breaking free and vanishing was done as part of the Friday evening pre-recording.

41. The dialogue here was unscripted.

42. Another pre-recorded shot.

43. Now back to the main Saturday evening recording.

44. The actors are Dave Carter - called "Big Dave" at one point in the script - and Bill Matthews.

45. "Dr Who is calculating", directs the script.

46. Jo's confidence in Benton's caring nature was unscripted, developed in rehearsal.

47. Also in rehearsal, numerous sections of dialogue were pruned, as the episode was again found to be overrunning.

48. Benton's brief puzzlement about the whereabouts of the phone was also worked out in rehearsal.

49. In the earlier versions there is no indication that Dr Summers survives the prison riot.

50. Katy Manning can be heard coughing off-camera in a moment.

51. The end of this scene was cut.

52. Dudley Simpson composed a total of 25 minutes and 32 seconds of music for this serial.

53. This was done over nine days at the end of January and the beginning of February 1971.

54. Simpson was loaned a Shibaden helical scan video player for two hours on each of three dates, 15, 16 and 18 January,

55. The Keller Machine's materialisation here was the last shot to be done during the Friday evening pre-recording.

56. and just not shown until after the materialisation was supposed to have occurred.

57. In the script, the Doctor persuades Barnham to return simply by reassuring him.

58. His strong-arm tactics here were worked out in rehearsal.

59. In the draft script, the box is in the condemned cell at this point rather than the Process Room.

60. 'The Pandora Machine' was the title of the first two versions, breakdown and draft.

61. Here is the only shot we see of UNIT's mobile HQ exterior. Note the flowery pattern on the step.

62. In the draft, the missile has a fail-safe device:

63. If it's not launched within a set time after priming, the warhead will blow itself up automatically.

64. It's made of pasta, a glass eyeball, and lashings of the cleaning gel swarfega.

65. The parasite was constructed on top of an air bladder.

66. It's made to pulsate by inflating and deflating the bladder with a pump.

67. He was scripted to say "National Grid".

68. to visit neighbouring BBC rehearsal rooms and sing Christmas carols.

69. The recasting of a prominent guest role;

70. an unplanned extra day's filming at Dover Castle;

71. studio recordings overrunning and scenes having to be remounted later;

72. scripted scenes shortened and dropped for timing reasons;

73. costumes made as a rush job after the original costumier was imprisoned;

74. several hired vehicles failing to work properly;

75. and scripts needing late adjustments.

76. The story ended up going significantly over budget.

77. Don Houghton had some reservations about the finished product.

78. Overall, he preferred how his previous story, 'Inferno', was brought to the screen.

79. Timothy Combe was more satisfied,

80. though he was disappointed with the Chinese dragon seen in the Episode 2 cliffhanger.

81. rather than a man in a rigid suit adorned with pink quilting material.

82. Combe was not invited back to Doctor Who.

83. He was the first drama producer on their fledgling video cassette line.

84. He left the BBC in January 1981, and became an actors' agent.

85. At the time of transmission, BBC Enterprises made black-and-white film copies

86. of all the early 1970s Doctor Who stories for possible use by non-UK broadcasters.

87. This was because some countries did not yet have colour television facilities.

88. However, the only overseas countries actually to see 'The Mind of Evil' in that decade were the USA,

89. and Saudi Arabia, where the rights were picked up by a station for American oil workers.

90. In the USA, local PBS stations transmitted the episodes from standards- converted colour videotapes.

91. We don't know what format was used for the Saudi Arabian showings.

92. The colour copies were subsequently lost, and the BBC's master tapes wiped.

93. In the final version, they just disappear from the action.

94. The scripted line was: "Just in case someone decides to destroy it by remote control."

95. As scripted, Benton was also seen from the start of this scene.

96. It begins with him entering the room and telling the Doctor that everything was laid on.

97. In the recorded version, he appears only near the end.

98. Helpful Benton shifts the scenery out of Barnham's way.

99. Unfortunately he's pushed it right into the path of the camera as it tracks forward. So... boing!

100. This formed part of the first day's filming, on 26 October 1970.

101. effectively trapping him on Earth - for the time being...

102. Katy Manning rejoined the crew on location for this filming.

103. In the draft, the Doctor challenges the Master to what is in effect a game of Russian roulette with the box.

104. He gets Barnham to leave them alone with it: Which of them will succumb first to its evil power?

105. The upshot is another brawl...

106. All these sequences at the Alland Grange Lane site were filmed on 29 October 1970.

107. It was a very windy day (hence the aforementioned damage to the Black Maria's doors).

108. Gunge is pumped out of the Keller Machine prop.

109. This was intended to indicate that the box is now overflowing with evil.

110. The occupants - the Brigadier, Cosworth, Jo, Mike and Benton - start clawing at each other "in a mad fury".

111. "Destroy and kill them! Kill them all!" Yells the Brigadier.

112. including the previous series' 'Doctor Who and the Silurians' and 'The Ambassadors of Death'.

113. In the draft, Barnham picks up the box, stilling its evil effects, and carries it over to the missile.

114. He holds the box out like an offering, his face set in "an expression of sublime resignation".

115. A mushroom cloud blossoms in the air.

116. Katy Manning is severely myopic.

117. The helicopter did not feature in the draft, but Timothy Combe thought the scene as written did not work.

118. Here is the model.

119. Its explosive end was shot on film at the BBC's Ealing Studios over two days, supervised by Ward.

120. The six-inch model missile beside it was made by Ward's assistant Dave Havard.

121. "Other people get grapes when they're ill," he says, gracelessly. "I get dahlias."

122. The Brigadier brings him, as a souvenir of their encounter with the machine, a novelty gadget box:

123. "Next time, grapes please," he adds, sneezing, and the serial ends with laughter all round.

124. The Doctor explains that the Master has a talent for losing himself: He won't be found unless he wants to be:

125. "He'll turn up again," says the Doctor in voice-over. "Bad apples always do."

126. In the final version, the Master's call to the Doctor recalls Moriarty's telegram to Sherlock Holmes

127. at the end of The Valley of Fear (1915).

128. UNIT extras seen in this episode's studio scenes were:

129. Charles Marriott, Roger Ely and Roger Marsden.

130. Francis Williams was again seen as the Master's chauffeur on location.

131. but only for the scenes post-recorded for Episode 3.

132. Production text commentary by Stephen James Walker and Martin Wiggins never have left him there.

133. Well, how do you think I feel?

134. Sorry.

135. Yeah.

136. Here you are, have some coffee.

137. Well, at least we're rid of the Keller Machine.

138. And the Master.

139. Yes, we've probably killed off that machine all right,

140. but I'm not so sure about the Master.

141. Well, even if he wasn't killed, Doctor,

142. he won't get far if you've still got his circuit.

143. That's true.

144. The circuit.

145. I must have lost it in my struggle with him.

146. Probably destroyed in the explosion.

147. Yes, but what if it wasn't? Supposing the Master found it?

148. - Hello, Governor's office. - Put me on to The Doctor, will you?

149. Yes. It's for you, Doctor.

150. The Master?

151. Yes?

152. Ah, Doctor. I was afraid you'd be worried about me,

153. so I thought I'd let you know that I'm alive and well.

154. I'm extremely sorry to hear that.

155. I made the safety of my Tardis, which, thanks to your generosity,

156. is in perfect working order.

157. So we won't be seeing you for quite some time?

158. Not for quite some time.

159. But one day... I will destroy this miserable planet

160. and you along with it.

161. Goodbye, Doctor.

162. Oh, by the way,

163. enjoy your exile.

164. What did he say?

165. His usual threats.

166. Never mind, Doctor. You've beaten him.

167. Have I, Jo?

168. He's got his Tardis back.

169. He's free to come and go where he pleases,

170. while I'm stuck here on Earth.

171. With you, Brigadier!