Doctor Who 8x19

Directed by Michael E. Briant

Roger Delgado as The Master • Nicholas Pennell as Winton • John Ringham as Ashe • Helen Worth as Mary Ashe • Bernard Kay as Caldwell

The Master offers to help the colonists in exchange for information on the Primitive city and forces the Doctor to act as a guide by taking Jo hostage.

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1. "The Doctor and Jo try to learn the Master's reasons for visiting the planet, and fall into a deadly trap.

2. "Dent and IMC men plan a terrible revenge on the Colonists."

3. This episode was first broadcast on Saturday 8 May 1971 and watched by 8.8 million viewers.

4. Keep an eye on Pat Gorman (the IMC gunman kneeling beside the crate).

5. Now you see him, in the videotaped reprise from the previous episode's recording.

6. The reprise ends with the two colonists When we cut to Winton it's a whole new studio day.

7. This bit's are-enactment, played at a faster pace and without last week's wobbly wall next to Jo.

8. Here's the Master's recurring musical leitmotif.

9. "The Master has to lower his gun - he cannot shoot Doctor Who with Ashe and Mary as witnesses."

10. "Yes, we must stop it," agrees the Master in the script.

11. Winton carefully avoids knocking off Dent's page-boy wig with his rifle-butt.

12. It's because this week he's changed sides...

13. In a moment, keep a close eye on the Master's head.

14. Spot the microphone shadow.

15. "Winton obviously hasn't thought this far.

16. "Winton is angry at not getting the expected praise."

17. Here's turncoat Pat Gorman.

18. The script says: "The colonists come forward and grab the Master, but he doesn't move."

19. One word of scripted dialogue is about to change:

20. "Rashly".

21. "Winton cannot help reacting to the flattery."

22. Is the Master proposing to make Uxarieus a Galactic Heritage Site?

23. Will visitors flock there to view the rock formations,

24. and gawp at the local primitives making clay pots?

25. Roger Delgado is about to make another adjustment to improve the rhythm of the scripted dialogue:

26. "Can you substantiate this charge?"

27. It was a regular feature of the character's costume during the 1971 series.

28. In the script, Ashe replies: "Very well. Let's go upstairs to my quarters."

29. "If I were to intercede for you with Earth government," begins the Master as they go.

30. This week's BBC-1 Saturday Western will be Comanche (1956),

31. in which a scout is sent into Indian territory to contact and make peace with the Indian chief.

32. The Master's Tardis was disguised as a horsebox on the only previous occasion Jo has seen it.

33. It's a standard design, non-shape-changing Yale door key.

34. In fact, the Doctor used his own Tardis key to enter the Master's horsebox.

35. We cut from Jo on Camera 1 to the spaceship door... also on Camera 1.

36. In other words, there has just been a recording break to move Cameras 1 and 2.

37. Did you notice that the corridor outside was a lot narrower than in previous episodes?

38. In the script, Caldwell opens a bottle of champagne,

39. but the budget wouldn't even run to Ribena this time.

40. Winton is on another set, saying these lines into a boom microphone.

41. "There is a click, the message has ended."

42. "This is the interior of Doctor Who's Tardis, slightly re-dressed," elucidates the script.

43. The Doctor's Tardis is usually set up with the doors at screen left.

44. See if you can spot any other little differences.

45. The script calls for him to use "a torch-like gadget, which beeps as it scans the field".

46. Using the sonic screwdriver saved having to make another special prop.

47. The doors were an extremely lightweight piece of set - look at how they're moving here.

48. Malcolm Hulke is about to treat himself to one of his favourite story elements.

49. It's the old "female companion wriggling around under low objects or climbing into a ventilation duct" game.

50. He especially liked to see her flat on her back like this.

51. He'd written such a scene for Zoë in 'The War Games' (1969), but it was changed in rehearsal.

52. So here's his second attempt...

53. There was now another recording break while they reset for the next Tardis scene.

54. It's the same model planet as we saw in Episode 1.

55. All the IMC ship scenes in this episode were recorded together, before those in the Master's Tardis.

56. The sound effect was previously used for a mad computer in 1966's 'The War Machines'.

57. 1971 viewers would have been very familiar with this teleprinter.

58. This close-up was recorded at the end of the scene.

59. Who is the real Adjudicator?

60. Landing a spaceship apparently requires a recording break.

61. Like Ashe, the Master buys his library 'by the yard'.

62. Jo's mispronunciation and the Doctor's correction were not scripted.

63. Who is the real Adjudicator?

64. and also gives his name. It's Martin Jurgens

65. There was a recording break here.

66. This gave Camera 2 time to move to the dome set, to take the next shot.

67. The CSO insert was recorded after the main scene.

68. As scripted, the Master is poring over Ashe's maps and charts.

69. The "gas" is really dry ice.

70. The wall roundels behind the Doctor are looking a little wrinkled.

71. While we are in the dome set, the cabinet nearest the cameras is wheeled off the Tardis set,

72. to enable a close-up of the Doctor on the floor.

73. Presumably all Ashe's books have been brought from Earth.

74. No doubt they are useful titles about farming, leadership and beard trimming.

75. There was another break there. This is the final IMC ship scene, recorded earlier in the day.

76. This is model footage, not filmed on location.

77. This episode was recorded from 8.30 to 10.00 p.m. On Friday 2 April 1971 in Studio 3 at BBC Television Centre.

78. Another recording break follows, during which the CSO image is changed to a still photo caption slide.

79. You may have spotted that the buttons and lights on the wall panels have been painted onto the set flats.

80. Wearing French riot policemen's helmets this week are:

81. Brian Gilmar, Les Clark, Mike Stephens and Bob Blaine.

82. One of them must have overslept.

83. In the script, Caldwell claps ironically.

84. After a break here, the recording continued with the first of the Tardis scenes we saw six minutes ago.

85. As scripted, the Master squirts an aerosol spray into the Doctor's face to revive him.

86. Some of the roundels in the set wall look rather roughly done.

87. The one behind the Master doesn't have any backing.

88. The Doctor is on Camera 4, and Camera 1 is shooting the Master.

89. One possible influence on this serial is the 1940 cinema serial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe,

90. and in particular episode 8, entitled 'The Fiery Abyss',

91. It's speculated that these primitives are the descendants of a once-great civilization now in decline.

92. Our heroes escape by breaking out of a cell using a ruse no sillier than the Doctor's magic trick in Episode 4.

93. There's always one hothead in every group, itching to use a gun.

94. The scripted scene ends with Ashe returning to his work.

95. You'll have seen Pat Gorman in more television programmes than you realise.

96. He was one of the industry's busiest background actors.

97. He was in Adam Adamant Lives! Blake's 7, Doomwatch and The Professionals,

98. and over 40 different Doctor Who stories.

99. Back to Camera 1 now.

100. The dome interior is kept dark to conserve the colony's meagre power supply.

101. Hulke wrote that both Dent and Caldwell bring up the rear.

102. Dudley Simpson, Doctor Who's regular composer, provided the music for this serial.

103. As well as his scores for the three previous serials in the 1971 series, he was also busy on other BBC productions.

104. and two episodes of Out of the Unknown, a horror/science fiction anthology series running on BBC-2.

105. And now we have a mirror replay of the gun battle at the start of the episode:

106. IMC and the colonists have changed ends at half-time.

107. This week's gun-toting colonists are Charles Pickess, Ken Halliwell,

108. John Ceasar, Alan Peters, Jay McGrath and Les Conrad.

109. In the script, Dent has more to say about the fate of the defeated colonists:

110. "Once the Adjudicator gave his decision, the government of this planet passed legally in to my hands.

111. "Therefore your activities have been criminal."

112. A recording break follows, to reset all camera positions.

113. The scanner shows a photo caption, via Camera 5.

114. The Master's blaster is the same prop from the previous serial, 'The Claws of Axos'.

115. The two cubicles look very misted up - let's hope they remembered to put some air holes in them.

116. The door won't stay shut.

117. Note the reflection of the studio lights on the cubicle doors.

118. The script indicates that Jo screams, but no sound can be heard.

119. As scripted: "While the Master locks the door, Doctor Who unobtrusively drops his key beside it,

120. "in the hope that someone will find it and rescue Jo."

121. Another familiar trope of Malcolm Hulke's writing is the military trial.

122. 'The War Games', 'Frontier in Space' and 'Invasion of the Dinosaurs' also feature such scenes.

123. The script makes it clear that this is a drum-head court martial,

124. a type of trial held for soldiers who have committed an offence while on the field of battle.

125. An upended military drum served as a table for the judges.

126. The term was also associated with rigged civilian trials,

127. where the verdict has already been decided in advance, regardless of the evidence.

128. The script specifies that Mary and the other colonists are held under guard and made to watch.

129. In the unregulated days of the Old West, corrupt area governors could make up their own laws.

130. It was a good way of getting rid of their opponents under the pretence of legality.

131. There was a recording break at the end of this scene, to remove the tribunal's table.

132. Coming up is another scripted phrase that got tweaked during rehearsals. Originally it was "take-off",

133. but Morris Perry turned it into "lift-off" .

134. Look who's in the driving seat again.

135. These primitives were scripted to be at ground level.

136. This is not the first take: Look at all the tyre tracks on the ground!

137. It is Monday 15 February 1971, and this is the first sequence to be shot after a weekend off.

138. The boulder was made of polystyrene, built around a stage weight to make it bounce convincingly.

139. A car jack was taken on location to "topple" the buggy.

140. In the event, the rock bounced too far and really did hit the vehicle.

141. Buggy WAU776J had to be repaired, at a cost of £24.28, plus £25.05 to clean off the clay.

142. This fall is performed by Terry Walsh and is very similar to a stunt he did in 'Terror of the Autons'.

143. The other location savages are Dinny Powell, Alf Joint and Valentino Mussetti.

144. In this sequence, we can see the strong wind which troubled the location shoot.

145. In the script, there's an IMC guard forcing Mary to send the message.

146. Helen Worth was 20 when she played Mary,

147. but she had been appearing on TV for almost a decade.

148. She'd been in the BBC play A Handful of Thieves in June 1969,

149. and under her real name , she had appeared in Z Cars at the age of 12 in May 1963.

150. From July 1974 she played the long-running part of Gail in Coronation Street.

151. This entire scene was covered by Cameras 2 And 3.

152. They now have 43 seconds to get across to the primitive city entrance.

153. TV viewers of 1971 were only too well aware of the dangers of space travel.

154. Twelve months before, the world had watched and prayed

155. And here's where Cameras 2 and 3 had to move to. Looks like at least one of them made it in time...

156. The lowly floor assistant for this story would rise through the ranks to become producer of Doctor Who in 1980.

157. His name was John Turner.

158. There's no mistaking the distinctive shape of a Tardis door.

159. The walls are painted maroon to match the model spaceship.

160. So there's an entire spaceship hull, and they're looking for a tiny keyhole.

161. Lucky, aren't they?

162. There was a brief pause, while Camera 5 (which took the shot of the key on the ground),

163. moves to the adjoining set to show us Jo.

164. As scripted, she hammers on the cubicle wall in alarm, but cannot be heard.

165. It was more practical to have Katy mime.

166. Note the perspex bits glued to the top.

167. - I take it you admit the charges? - We've admitted nothing.

168. On three of these charges you could be sentenced to life imprisonment.

169. On two you could be sentenced to death.

170. The sentence is execution.

171. However, the sentence will be suspended on condition that you and your followers

172. depart this planet immediately.

173. - But that's impossible. - The alternative is execution.

174. You don't understand. That spaceship was old when we bought it,

175. it won't survive another trip.

176. The trial is now concluded.

177. If you send us up in that spaceship, you're condemning us all to death.

178. You will make preparations for lift-off immediately.

179. Yeah, well, you stay there. I'll go and shift that irrigation pipe.

180. Doctor, I hope you're not going to try anything clever.

181. - Remember Miss Grant. - I'll remember.

182. Look out!

183. Don't forget that you're still my prisoner.

184. Oh, come now, Doctor, not that old trick.

185. Is that what you're frightened of, Doctor?

186. Savages hurling stones and spears?

187. This is just the beginning.

188. Now, it may be. Let's be on our way, shall we?

189. What, with this?

190. It's somewhat clapped out and broken, isn't it?

191. In that case, we'd better walk.

192. Why not?

193. By order of Captain Dent,

194. all colonists must be on the ship one hour before blast-off.

195. There can be no exceptions.

196. Each of you can bring luggage to weigh not more than seven kilos.

197. Satisfied?

198. - I don't arrange these things. - Did you check our ship?

199. Yes, I've looked over it.

200. It's not what I call brand-new.

201. It was obsolete when we bought it!

202. You know, I don't understand you people.

203. Anything's better than living on Earth!

204. Risking your lives to come to a place like this.

205. Look! That ship of ours will never make another journey. You must realise that!

206. I've checked the motors. They'll be all right.

207. Would you blast off in it?

208. You'll make out.

209. We won't and you know it!

210. If you don't help us, we're all going to die!

211. I've checked every inch of the dome. There's no sign of him.

212. I want to see this fake Adjudicator.

213. He's playing some game of his own and I must know what it is.

214. - Have you tried his ship? - The hatches are sealed.

215. Caldwell, go with Morgan. Get inside that ship.

216. Use explosives if you have to.

217. Give me a moment.

218. I've just been checking over the colonists' spaceship.

219. Well?

220. Ashe is right. It's in pretty bad shape.

221. There's a fair chance it may blow up on the ground.

222. Make sure all IMC personnel are clear of the area before take-off, will you?

223. Well, Caldwell, we've got a job to do.

224. Well?

225. This is it. This is the entrance.

226. Is it? How do we get in?

227. I haven't the remotest idea.

228. Doctor?

229. No good. Nothing seems to shift it.

230. Well, we'll have to use explosives, then.

231. Hey, wait a minute.

232. Try this.

233. Wait.

234. Look, that girl.

235. What's that bleeping noise?

236. Someone's trying to rescue Miss Grant.

237. No, you can't!

238. I warned you, Doctor!

239. No!