Doctor Who 8x3

Directed by Barry Letts

Roger Delgado as The Master • Richard Franklin as Mike Yates • John Levene as Sergeant Benton • Michael Wisher as Rex Farrel • Dermot Tuohy as Brownrose

The Doctor and the Brigadier head to Farrel's factory but the Master and the Autons have already left and are distributing plastic daffodils around the country.

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1. "The Doctor and the Brigadier find the Master's hideout,

2. This episode was first shown on 16 January 1971, and was seen by 8.1 million viewers.

3. Auditions for the role were held on 24 June 1970,

4. twelve weeks before 'Terror of the Autons' went into production.

5. Keep your ears open as Jo misses her footing whilst running away.

6. That's Katy spraining her right ankle.

7. they could easily replace her with "that other girl" who had been next on the short-list to play Jo.

8. Katy took him seriously - and Nick John got a roasting when Jon Pertwee found out.

9. Among those other prospective Jo Grants was the glamorous Danish actress Yutte Stensgaard,

10. who ended up playing the title role in Hammer's Lust for a Vampire (1970).

11. This sequence was scripted to take place in thick woodlands rather than a quarry.

12. The stunt sequence which starts here was unscripted, devised to suit the eventual location.

13. Barry Letts wanted to fake the stunt by cutting away to Yates's point of view,

14. Terry Walsh persuaded him to show the whole fall, as a matter of professional pride.

15. The white socks!

16. The stand-in was Marc Boyle, a member of the stunt team.

17. The view from the window is a painted backcloth.

18. The scene provided the germ of 'The Dæmons' later in the 1971 series.

19. Note that Jo has found time to change into a new outfit since getting back from the quarry.

20. In her next scene, set several days later, she'll be wearing the same clothes.

21. That's because the scenes were recorded together on the third studio day, 23 October.

22. As far as possible, costume changes were avoided during the evening recording time,

23. Who else could have been Jo?

24. The other hopefuls who auditioned on 24 June included

25. Gabrielle Drake Had recently been the Moonbase commander in UFO (1970).

26. One of the last girls to audition had recently played a swinger in Man at the Top (1970):

27. Katy Manning, who arrived with a problem.

28. She'd forgotten her glasses, couldn't see to read the script, and had to improvise.

29. He may very well think that, but the American comedian Groucho Marx thought it first.

30. Katy and Jon reacted very differently when each was told she'd been cast as Jo.

31. Katy fainted and dropped the telephone - and when she woke up, she assumed it had been a dream.

32. The casting meant there had to be a minor script change.

33. When he first wrote dialogue describing Jo, Robert Holmes assumed that she would have short, dark hair.

34. "He hesitates momentarily," says the script, "but the urge for freedom is strong."

35. but it's done by moving the camera - so Jo shakes wildly too!

36. This sequence is closely based on another abortive escape attempt in 'Spearhead from Space'.

37. The lamp on top poked through the glassless skylight above the box.

38. Effects assistant Peter Logan was responsible for the workmanship on the prop daffodils.

39. The actors see out through the holes in the inner corners of the eyes.

40. The daffodil emblems on the coach were made of fablon

41. They cost £50 and were supplied by the BBC Graphics Department.

42. "The Master is our servant," the Auton Leader was scripted to tell Farrel.

43. "We are Nestenes. You are an empty puppet."

44. These lines were written by Terrance Dicks.

45. This was the first Doctor Who production to be rehearsed in the BBC's new, purpose-built rehearsal facility,

46. Brownrose is played by Dermot Tuohy (1921-86).

47. He played the theatre impresario Crummles in the 1968 BBC adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby.

48. Later in 1971, younger viewers saw him as a villainous showman in Ace of Wands.

49. Terrance Dicks suggested including a montage sequence showing these sudden deaths.

50. Her estimate for both was £230, or £2,670 at early 21 st-century values -

51. a lot of money, but still cheaper than hiring them for the year.

52. Mrs Farrel is played by Barbara Leake (1903-91).

53. She was the schoolmistress in ind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

54. And Mrs Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes film, A Study in Terror (1966).

55. Barry Letts had previously directed her in Adventure Weekly and A Handful of Thieves.

56. She was cast early in a process which lasted more than a month.

57. On 4 September it was the turn of Harry Towb And David Garth.

58. Things then stopped for a week, before contracts were issued

59. to Stephen Jack And Roy Stewart On 11 September.

60. 21 September brought Bill McGuirk aboard to play a policeman who didn't make the final edit,

61. and Haydn Jones was contracted to do the Auton voices on 22 September.

62. But this isn't Haydn Jones: It's Norman Stanley.

63. Haydn Jones had won a more prominent part in the next serial, 'The Mind of Evil',

64. so the mechanic was recast and Norman Stanley got his contract on 21 October.

65. But there were still a few other parts to cast even after the location filming was finished.

66. Other actors who had costume fittings around the same time included Richard Franklin,

67. Everything had to be ready for the first day of production, 17 September,

68. There were five days of filming in all, 17-18 and 21-3 September.

69. 18 September was the day at the circus, followed by the quarry on 21 September.

70. The quarry, near Dunstable, was owned by the Totternhoe Lime and Stone Company.

71. and rehearsals began on the Tuesday, 29 September.

72. By now Nicholas Courtney was convalescent,

73. In consequence, Captain Yates ended up with an even stronger introduction than planned.

74. The studio sessions worked on a new system.

75. Hitherto, Doctor Who had been recorded episode by episode on a weekly basis.

76. but now scenes for more than one episode were being recorded on the same studio day.

77. New procedures had to be devised to keep track of which bits of which episode were on which tape -

78. The first two-day studio session was on 9-10 October in Studio 8 at Television Centre.

79. The second day saw a 17-minute overrun, caused by the breakdown of a videotape backing machine.

80. Once again, there was an overrun on the second day, this time lasting 35 minutes.

81. Even so, he deemed the production's use of CSO to be a qualified success.

82. not least because each different shot would require a time-consuming new set-up of the inlaid background image.

83. Why are the coach windows blacked out?

84. The landscape outside was to have been a CSO inlay,

85. as you can see here,

86. When we return to the UNIT lab, we'll witness what you might call 'A Tale of Three Trolls'. They are:

87. "Big troll", "life size troll", and "stunt troll".

88. This shot was pre-recorded with episode 2.

89. This saved calling Tommy Reynolds back to be "big troll" again just for that bit.

90. The other troll shots are not all they seem...

91. In the script, they force open a window and climb into a deserted machine room.

92. The "life size" troll is manipulated by an off-camera effects man, then thrown at Katy Manning.

93. Now for the visual effects "stunt troll", which has two explosive charges built into it.

94. On 20 January, the BBC's executives returned to the issue of whether this serial was too frightening.

95. Ronald Marsh pointed out that there were only two telephone complaints after the previous episode was shown.

96. which would need to be borne in mind when future episodes were made.

97. It's a 20-seater in the script.

98. The coach scene cut for CSO reasons came after this one.

99. The constable eventually realises that something is wrong:

100. The carnival heads must be hot, so why don't they take them off when inside the coach?

101. Getting no reply from one of them, he assumes the man must have fainted.

102. Taking off the head reveals an Auton - and its hand drops away...

103. "You've murdered a policeman," says Farrel. "They're bound to find out."

104. "Not for some time, Farrel," replies the Master. "And a little time is all we need."

105. Richard Franklin deviates from his scripted line about fetching "a tin of cocoa",

106. but Jon Pertwee remains incongruously word-perfect.

107. If he wasn't on a page of the script, he'd tear it out and throw it away.

108. But Jon, who became her acting mentor as well as her co-star, soon changed that!

109. In the storyline, the new telephone cord is installed in the Brigadier's office,

110. so it's he, not the Doctor, who gets the "snake-like" living wire round his neck for the cliffhanger.

111. This is another shot recorded in reverse and played back on videodisc.

112. Also seen in this episode were:

113. Dinny Powell

114. Eve Aubrey, Sylvia Lane, Sheila Power

115. Bob Blane, Les Clark, lan Elliott, Brian Gilman

116. Yeah.

117. Look out! Auton!

118. Remarkably persistent, aren't they?

119. This thing actually attacked you?

120. It was going to if Mike hadn't shot it. It was horrible.

121. Seems as though you may be right, Doctor.

122. I usually am.

123. Well, it's dead enough now.

124. Jo, where were you when this thing started moving?

125. - I was on the telephone. - And what about you, Captain Yates?

126. I wasn't here. I'd just gone out to, er, fetch a tin of cocoa.

127. Yes, well, something must have...

128. - Fetch a tin of what? - Cocoa.

129. Are you trying to tell me that you were going to make cocoa in my lab?

130. That was the general idea.

131. - I'm sorry, Doctor. - Yes, well, Sergeant.

132. Well, now, wait a minute.

133. You didn't by any chance use my Bunsen burner, did you?

134. - Well, yes. - Well, that's it then. Heat!

135. This thing was lying alongside my Bunsen.

136. It must be triggered off by a pre-determined temperature.

137. Yes, that may account for Farrel's death, Doctor.

138. What about all the others?

139. If this thing is what I think it is, we may have the answer right here.

140. Right, off you go, the whole lot of you.

141. - Me, too? - Yes, you too. No.

142. No, you go down to the stores and see if you can chase up

143. - that Mr Campbell, all right? - Okay.

144. Hello, yes? What is it?

145. Hello, Doctor. Is that you?

146. Who is this? What do you want?

147. Simply to say goodbye, Doctor.