Doctor Who 8x20

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 Doctor and the Master are taken into the Primitive city, where the Master hopes to find the doomsday weapon, while Dent forces the colonists to leave the planet even though their ship is likely to explode.

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1. "The Doctor fights to prevent the Master from gaining control of the most deadly weapon in the galaxy.

2. "The final battle between Colonists and IMC begins."

3. This episode was first broadcast on Saturday 15 May 1971 and was watched by 8.7 million viewers.

4. This is a new performance of the reprise.

5. This is the only time we see the priest "outside".

6. Note the painted "eye" design on the rock door.

7. The right-hand tube door was left open last week, but someone has now closed it.

8. This episode was again recorded in set order.

9. After the early sequences in the Master's Tardis and the city entrance,

10. recording moved to the dome, then the IMC ship, before the concluding dome scene.

11. The script specifies that this is the same room the Doctor and Jo were in earlier.

12. That's handy, it saves building a new set.

13. "The priest, realising the Master is saying something, looks at him short-sightedly."

14. In very large houses, with very large stocks of furniture, larger than was needed to fill up the rooms,

15. all the surplus furniture would be stored in a place known as the lumber room.

16. In modern parlance, it might also be called the box room.

17. Take a look at this side of the glass frieze.

18. Now compare the other side: The figures are only painted on the side nearest the camera now.

19. We cross over a recording break here.

20. Dropped before recording was Jo telling the sceptical Caldwell,

21. "He found the real Adjudicator, killed him then took his place."

22. Why the cut? Perhaps someone realised that there is no way Jo could know this.

23. The script notes that the colonists are piling items of battered personal luggage into the centre of the room.

24. But it has already been established they all live in their own domes around the area outside,

25. so why are they bringing them downstairs here?

26. Note the Haflinger nameplate on the front of the buggy, making its first appearance in the studio.

27. It's Camera 1 that's peering through the back of the frieze.

28. Jon Pertwee was kept busy on both TV and radio in the spring of 1971.

29. On 12 May, he recorded a guest appearance on the antiques quiz Going for a Song.

30. And on 15 May, the day this episode was shown,

31. rascally CPO Pertwee was due back aboard HMS Troutbridge in the long-running radio sitcom The Navy Lark,

32. He also had to promote The Navy Lark on Late Night Extra on 14 May,

33. and again on Today, early on the morning of Saturday 15 May.

34. While the camera's out here, lowly floor assistant John Turner

35. was handing some props to Roger Delgado. Stay tuned...

36. The script specifies more than one priest here.

37. Here's the props: The gas mask and some silver pellets.

38. At the same time, Jon Pertwee got a white handkerchief. Better than just holding his breath.

39. As scripted, both the Master and the Doctor lunge for the gun.

40. His other Doctor Who appearances were as a sailor in 'Enlightenment' (1983)

41. And a rogue in 1965's 'The Crusade', with Bernard Kay

42. John Ringham had been a blood-spattered high priest in 1964's 'The Aztecs',

43. and on the side of good in 'The Smugglers' two years later.

44. He is best remembered as Penny's father in the 1980s sitcom Just Good Friends.

45. The IMC men this final time were: Brian Gilmar, Les Clark, Barry Stephens and Brian Justice.

46. The red trim on the IMC helmets is actually gaffer tape.

47. Recorded but cut from here: Dent tells Morgan to post guards on the colonists' spaceship,

48. In the background, the Master "produces an old map from his pocket".

49. As scripted the Master rubs the dust and grime from a wall plaque, "on which there is a strange symbol".

50. This is "A section of the battered old space ship, which includes the door".

51. Dent is now master of all he surveys.

52. And master of all the surveys, too. He sees some of Ashe's agronomy charts hanging up,

53. "rips them from the wall, crushes them in his hands, and throws them to the ground".

54. Such charts would show the progress of the planted crops,

55. how long they would take to grow and which areas could be replanted.

56. Nothing of any interest to Captain Dent, then...

57. This is a rare speaking role for stuntman Terry Walsh (1939-2002).

58. His voice is played into the studio direct from the film insert.

59. This scene was scheduled for filming at the end of Thursday 11 February 1971,

60. but it was apparently not completed until the following Tuesday.

61. By then, the ground had got unexpectedly wet and sticky from the unexpectedly heavy rain.

62. A small wet patch had turned into a huge clay swamp.

63. The cast and crew's vehicles, and the two Haflingers, were all badly affected by the wet clay.

64. Jon Pertwee's Lancia got clay on the underside of its engine.

65. When he drove it home, the heat of the motor baked the clay on,

66. creating a coating of porcelain, which had to be chipped off.

67. So it was wet, windy, cold, and mucky on location. Not a pleasant experience?

68. The stunt team made up for it all by getting a little Merry in the hotel bar.

69. The room invasion by drunken stuntmen was - shall we say - not appreciated.

70. Here we see the light change required to bring up the blue backing for the CSO screen.

71. Ashe appears to be sitting in the dome to record this scene.

72. The most recent - Apollo 14 - had been in early February 1971, shortly before the location filming.

73. The Haflinger probably looked just like this when the weighted boulder hit it.

74. Note the silver blanket hanging from the back of Caldwell's The one Jo hid under.

75. Or will hide under: It's Monday 15 February, nearly seven weeks before the studio scene was shot.

76. Compare the spaceship's angle now with the doorway we saw a few minutes ago.

77. The scene ends differently in the script:

78. "Jo turns away from Caldwell, goes and sits back in her place on the buggy, looking straight ahead.

79. "After a second, Caldwell turns and joins her, and without a word drives away."

80. The Saturday Western schedule is back on form this week.

81. Do you recognise the wall with the screen?

82. It was seen on the planet of the Time Lords five episodes ago.

83. Hulke wrote: "We zoom in to the heart of the galaxy so that numbers of suns come rushing at us.

84. "Finally one target, one particular sun fills the screen.

85. "If possible, we can just see the outlines of nine planets around it."

86. Nine because Pluto was then classified as a planet.

87. The Crab Nebula is an area of space that turned supernova around the year 1054.

88. After initial discussions, a storyline for this serial was commissioned on 29 June 1970.

89. A week after it was delivered, the six scripts were contracted on Tuesday 15 September 1970.

90. Malcolm Hulke was a fast worker, once he had the story in his head.

91. He delivered Episode 1 on 19 October, then 2 on 18 November, 3 and 4 the following day,

92. and the final two episodes were submitted on 20 November, to end the week.

93. The identity of this primitive isn't given on the filming schedule.

94. The scene was shot right at the end of the same day as the other city entrance scenes,

95. that is, at around 7 p.m. On Friday 12 February 1971. The cast and crew then had the weekend off.

96. The script indicates that the screen is now shuttered again.

97. Instead, they electronically keyed in a neutral black using CSO.

98. The Doctor rubs his chin - is he seriously considering it?

99. Tony Caunter took over as Morgan on 29 January after Susan Jameson's contract was cancelled.

100. The regular series cast had all been contracted between March and July 1970.

101. With more than a decade of TV roles, Morris Perry was one of the more recognisable members of the cast.

102. After this scene, recording moved to the IMC ship.

103. The Doomsday Machine console only cost £22.50 to make.

104. They cut corners by making it out of junk and cheap household products,

105. such as the plastic jelly moulds seen on top here.

106. "On the screen, the sun recedes from us and countless stars close in, as we pull back."

107. It's from the German poem 'Ein Koptisches Lied', by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

108. When we next see the CSO screen, it'll be black again, now that the galactic film insert has come to an end.

109. Norman Atkyns pre-recorded his Guardian voice for this episode on 31 March 1971.

110. More slight word changes now. As scripted:

111. "... a wonderful invention..."

112. Roger Delgado's amendment is a bit of a giveaway...

113. The film features radiation-mutated humanoids with telepathy and advanced knowledge.

114. They live in an underground city which hides a secret weapon - in their case, a nuclear bomb.

115. We've already noted one familiar element in the technology

116. a radio-cassette tape recorder - with the record button switched on...

117. Two recording pauses coming up, first to lock off one camera,

118. then to remove the gun from Roger Delgado's hand between shots.

119. Note the "before" and "after" repositioned thumb.

120. Unlike cameras, actors can't be locked off!

121. "In the grip of an invisible force and struggling all the way to resist," says the script,

122. "the Master is forced to go over to the machine and operate controls."

123. But instead, the Doctor gets something heroic to do.

124. Camera 3 was directed to shake as soon as the switch was thrown.

125. Effects men shake the Guardian's throne from behind.

126. "The picture of stars on the screen disappears and is replaced by swirling patterns of light.

127. "Already the Guardian is beginning to flicker and disintegrate."

128. The primitive and priest are moving as if hypnotised to the doomsday room.

129. "From off there is a rumble of falling masonry."

130. Keep an eye on the tunnel wall on the right of screen when the shot changes.

131. It wants to join in with the wobbling going on inside the city.

132. They're escaping from a concrete pipe. Can you see the edges?

133. Hulke wrote this a little differently:

134. "Just as they emerge there is a tremendous explosion,

135. "the shock of which throws them all to the ground, and black smoke belches from the exit.

136. "As they fall to the earth, the Master takes the opportunity to grab Caldwell's gun."

137. The filming of this entire scene took up much of Thursday 11 February 1971.

138. Some more script rewording coming up:

139. "They're going to kill us."

140. If this story is basically a Western, where's the 7th Cavalry when we need them?

141. Aha - it's the 7th Cavalry's beardie division!

142. Like all good Westerns, there's a big gun battle ending...

143. On the plucky colonists' side are Terry Walsh, Charles Pickess,

144. Max Diamond, Val Mussetti, Billy Horrigan, Bob Blaine.

145. The no-good dastardly IMC men are Dinny Powell, Mike Horsburgh, Les Clark, Alf Joint and Brian Gilmar.

146. Watch as the buggy drives off, right through a shadow

147. cast by the camera filming it from atop a hillock.

148. If you don't want to know the results of the fight, look away now.

149. The colonists won with four men standing to IMC's two.

150. Why don't the colonists arrest Caldwell? They don't know he's now on the Doctor's side.

151. Remember, this is long before seat belts became compulsory.

152. The script notes that we now hear the Tardis start to sound off.

153. The film stops before the camera moves off it.

154. The Master's Joe 90 spaceship disappears with the same "popping" effect as the Doctor's police box.

155. Nicholas Pennell was best known as the romantic lead Michael Mont in the BBC's The Forsyte Saga (1967),

156. He had also played very prominent roles in A Tale of Two Cities and The Woman in White.

157. Later in 1971, younger viewers could see him as a Victorian vicar in ITV's The Flaxton Boys.

158. Hark, we hear the voice of the lesser moustached Gorman.

159. The booted lady walking past in the background is Monique Briant, the director's wife.

160. She also faced the Ice Warriors twice, playing a brace of Doctor Who technicians.

161. Winton wanders off to start some dialogue originally scripted to open

162. "Mary. The only thing to do is get going again. Put up this new agronomy chart."

163. Playing colonists in studio this week were:

164. Charles Pickess, Ken Halliwell, John Ceasar,

165. Clay Hunter, Charles Finch and Les Conrad.

166. And with a pop - and a recording pause - they were gone.

167. Here we have yet another break, to set the Tardis into position.

168. Whose shadow can that be crossing the Brig?

169. You'd have thought they would have pre-recorded this lab scene with the other one in Episode 1.

170. But no, they put up the set and got back Nicholas Courtney just for this 45-second scene.

171. It's the final scene of the studio day, and in real life it is well past 10 p.m.

172. And, yes, that's not where the Tardis took off from five weeks ago...

173. Uncredited production contributors were:

174. Nicholas John

175. Graeme Harper

176. Pauline Silcock

177. Bernard Fox

178. Crew Nineteen

179. Derek Medus

180. Eddie Dougall

181. Alec Curtis

182. Lan Scoones, Colin Mapson,

183. John Friedlander

184. Gordon Phillipson

185. John Turner

186. Jim Stephens

187. What are you two talking about?

188. Don't try and explain, Jo.

189. He'd never understand.