Doctor Who 8x25

Directed by Christopher Barry

Roger Delgado as The Master • Richard Franklin as Mike Yates • John Levene as Sergeant Benton • Damaris Hayman as Miss Hawthorne • Don McKillop as Bert the Landlord

The Master decides to sacrifice Jo to Azal and when the Doctor and his friends try to intervene they come under attack from Bok.

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1. "Jo's life and the fate of the world depend on the Doctor's success."

2. This episode was first shown on 19 June 1971, and was seen by 8.3 million viewers.

3. Before joining the BBC, he worked in the script department at Ealing Studios in the mid-1950s.

4. His subsequent credits included Moonbase 3 (1973),

5. Poldark (1975), Angels (1976), All Creatures Great and Small (1978-80), and The Tripods (1984).

6. It was stuck on with spirit gum - so it kept coming off in the wet weather.

7. Sunny weather brought its own complications.

8. The script makes it clear that Yates is knocked out with the butt of his own gun.

9. Thorpe the dishonest grocer Is played by John Owens.

10. His long screen career ran from Pardon the Expression (1966) To Spooks (2002) and beyond,

11. including numerous episodes of The Two Ronnies (1971-87).

12. He actually comes from the Wirral, not the West Country.

13. Despite all that care to avoid offending devout Christians,

14. it proved impossible to edit out the ad-libbed profanity here.

15. "His voice shows his fear of losing his belief in the Master," says the script.

16. Bert's newspaper suit was put together during the first filming week ,

17. using papers published in the preceding ten days, including The Guardian,

18. The Sunday People, and The Observer and Sunday Times.

19. At the end of the filming fortnight, Damaris Hayman fell ill with a sore throat.

20. Rehearsals for the studio scenes were due to start the following Tuesday after a long weekend,

21. On 3 May, Room 203 of the BBC's purpose-built rehearsal block at Acton had its floor marked up with tape,

22. which represented the set walls as they would be configured in the studio.

23. The cast then assembled there on 4 May to begin rehearsing.

24. Damaris Hayman was among them, thanks to the intervention of her own doctor.

25. Katy Manning loathed this outfit.

26. followed by a mid-week studio session at Television Centre, the first on Tuesday 11 May

27. and the others on successive Wednesdays, 19 and 26 May.

28. In Jewish mythology, the name is Azazel, a fallen angel who became a goat-like demon.

29. "Azael" is Hebrew for "made of God".

30. In part, this meant paying attention to a recent American arrival on British screens: Star Trek.

31. It draws on the episode 'Who Mourns for Adonais? ', first shown in Britain on 27 April 1970.

32. He cuts off the landing party from the Enterprise using a force-field

33. which Mr Spock, like the Brigadier, spends much of the episode trying to break through.

34. The most direct lift comes at the climax of the episode, as we'll see in due course.

35. Bok's squeals were not performed live, but dubbed on when the film was edited.

36. Bert now turns into a still photograph inlaid onto the film by CSO.

37. There was a late casting change to the coven:

38. He pulled out, for reasons unknown, and was replaced at very short notice

39. by another actor represented by the same agent, Vincent Shaw.

40. It's a metal frame festooned with tinsel.

41. A streak of vaseline on a foreground sheet of glass served to blur that part of the image.

42. where the Master looms over her with what the script calls "the witch knife".

43. But there is a slight mystery in this:

44. Every studio shot in a camera script is numbered.

45. In the last scene, the three shots were 76 to 78,

46. and the next studio scene Will be shot 79.

47. There's no answer to that!

48. The "explosion" sound effect here was more often used as a thunderclap.

49. This was because the making of Doctor Who was catching up with its transmission:

50. Part 1 on 11 May, Parts 2 and 3 on 19 May, and Parts 4 and 5 on 26 May.

51. The first episode was shown only 11 days after the first studio session, and four days before the third and last.

52. The first episode was shown only 11 days after the first studio session, and four days before the third and last.

53. Bok's blast rocks the entire wall - or is it the Doctor closing the door?

54. One last word now about the mystery of the censored sacrifice shots.

55. Might they perhaps have been proposed and vetoed during pre-production?

56. Dudley Simpson composed a total of 24 minutes and 6 seconds of music for the serial.

57. The last two episodes feature significantly more music than the first three.

58. This episode is the most musical of them all (7'4"), while Part 1 features the least (3'1 ").

59. This line was one of Robert Sloman's contributions.

60. The chest hair was mounted on a transparent plastic "tabard" slung over Thorne's shoulders

61. and tucked into his furry trouser waistband.

62. He also wore long false nails,

63. How do you fit a pair of human feet into the quite different shape of animal hooves?

64. It trebled the number of cameramen and assistants needed on the crew,

65. The BBC's planners did not deem the saving in location time sufficient to outweigh the extra costs,

66. "As part of your programme?" The Doctor asks Azal in a cut line here.

67. It translates as "universal ruler".

68. Publicity for this serial emphasised four "selling points":

69. The new filming technique which had enabled an increase in the amount of location material;

70. "an exciting story in which the trappings of magic prove to be the cloak

71. "for the alien science of a super-being from another planet's

72. "mysterious and terrifying events set against the placid background of an English country village's

73. and "a number of 'magical' special effects and three new and fearsome monsters".

74. Hang on - three monsters?

75. Two are obviously Azal and Bok, but the third?

76. In the script, it's a UNIT corporal who fires the bazooka.

77. Both Bok and the bazooka are effects mock-ups.

78. And now - reverse the film!

79. And then Ronald Marsh excited the meeting with some news about next year:

80. The Daleks were coming back...

81. whereupon the female lead interposes her own body and saves him

82. (though she plays on the alien's vanity rather than confusing him to death like Jo).

83. This was originally planned as a filmed effects sequence with Azal smoking as well as glowing.

84. Not a serial but an 89-minute compilation, cutting about 20 minutes of material.

85. Jon Pertwee took the model Bok home and kept it in his garden as a quirky alternative to a gnome.

86. Since it was made of polystyrene, it disintegrated after a while.

87. After this episode was first shown, the BBC received some complaints about the next shot.

88. though there remains the problem of why she's hasn't got them with her as she walks into the pub now...

89. In the script, the Brigadier takes over from Yates here.

90. It was a very heavy cloak, and John Levene was unexpectedly floored by its weight.

91. The compilation edition of 'The Dæmons' was shown on 28 December 1971, a few days later than first anticipated.

92. The compilation was praised by Aubrey Singer At the management review meeting.

93. The Master will be back in 'The Sea Devils'.

94. This exchange was unscripted, and worked out by the actors on location.

95. Christopher Barry asked the villagers to boo the Master as he goes,

96. but the children liked him so much that they wanted to cheer instead.

97. They had more than three months off before 'Day of the Daleks' started filming in mid-September.

98. This allowed Nicholas Courtney to put a bit of himself into his role.

99. At 6'2½", Jon Pertwee was too tall for the ribbons and had to keep stooping.

100. Katy Manning also felt self-conscious and uncomfortable doing the fertility dance.

101. How do you keep the "destroyed" church out of a panoramic shot of the village? Film from the top of the tower.

102. Ramsbury Fire Brigade helped them get up there.

103. You have also been watching:

104. Ernest Blythe

105. Frank Bennett, Ray James, Ray Taylor

106. Andrew Butcher, Jim Davidson, Terry Denton, George Mackie, Paul Stone

107. Beryl Houghton, Monica Kidd, Helge Lorgen, Jane Woods

108. Gary Edwards, Robin Ford, S. Ford, Daryl Grove

109. Bob James, S. Madden, Roger Marcham, Dave Martin

110. Jerry Melbourne, Terry Relph, Clive Wentzel, Monty Yerger

111. Uncredited production contributors

112. Cheryl Thornton, Irena Walls

113. Gordon Phillipson

114. John Gorman

115. Geoff Burford

116. Text commentary written by Martin Wiggins er have a pint.

117. You're right, Jo, there is magic in the world after all.