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Have you heard the one about the
eye patch? The making of Season 7

IS The Stories
In which UNIT take charge, the
Doctor takes a shower, Bessie takes
off, and Liz Shaw takes a break

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ZZ In Production
Masterpiece? Or Master disaster?
The making of Season 8

ZB The Stories
Inwhich UNIT fights flowers, the
Doctor goes to prison, Jo shows her
knickers, and Yates fancies a dance

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3M In Production
How to meet old friends and
hypnotise people. The making
of Season g

3B The Stories
In which Daleks attack, Jo gets

wooed, the Master watches The

Gangers, and Benton wears a nappy

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It's my party and I'll cry if want I to!

"A longshdnked rascal with a mighty nose!" The making of Season 10

n January 1970, when Doctor Who returned for its seventh season, it was a vastly
SB The Stories
In which the Brigadier has treble
different show to the one which viewers had been enjoying just a few months
trouble, Jo splits her trousers, UNIT
earlier. The series was now in full colour, had a dynamic new actor-Jon Pertwee
turns green, and the Doctor ends
-in the title role, and with the Doctor exiled to Earth and teamed up with military
up on the slag heap
organisation UNIT, the series had a more contemporary, adult feel than before.
Drawing on the 1950s Quatermass serials and the popular James Bond movies, this
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new-look Doctor Who was both a critical and ratings success.

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This special issue presents an in-depth study ofJon Pertwee's tenure, including
Season 11
addenda and errata for all of DWM's Third Doctor Archives, meticulously researched
and complied by Andrew Pixley as a definitive companion to the original features. BZ The Stories
In which the Doctor uses Linx, UNIT
So, whether you're emerging from the sea in a string vest, crawling with maggots on
battles dinosaurs, Sarah sports
a slag heap, or maypole dancing in the debris of your local church, The Complete Third
spiders, and Yates discovers himself
Doctor contains everything you'll ever need to know about the Pertwee years, crammed

into 84 pages of velvet-jacketed, frilly-shirted, polarity-reversed, Earth-bound fun! FDDTHEH RDUEDTDRES

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Splendid chap or ham-fisted bun

uendor? Philip MacDonald peers behind
the i/eluet, the violence and the vehicles

for a look at the true character of the

Third Doctor. Hai!
 and Ambassadors even on UNIT prop- greater warmth, wit and elegance. Season Seven is

There is a critical paradox at the heart

of any discussion of the Pertwee era:
in Silurians
erty, let
is

alone at the secret inner-city headquarters very good, but it might also be accused of being

it's a period of Doctor Who that is seen in Spearhead From Space; and from Season Nine rather cold, po-faced and samey.
impossible not to love but which, at onwards, UNIT seems to become readily As well as offering a more welcoming and
the same time, isn't always easy to contactable by everyone from Naval captains to colourful show, die revised Letts/Dicks formula re-

like. Perhaps that's why no other period of the government scientists - by the time of The Three injects a valuable element of mysticism into Doctor
show has been subject to such extensive and turbu- Doctors, there's even a big sign outside UNIT HQ Who. There's precious little in that first season that

lent revisionism. advertising the supposedly secret taskforce! would have looked out of place in The Avengers,
In fandom's infancy, during die late 1970s and Notwithstanding its own success, Season Seven Department S or Quatermass - hardly surprisingly, as

early 1980s, the Pertwee erawas usually upheld as a provides an eloquent demonstration of why Jo these shows are clearly among its models - but

glorious benchmark of quality. In those days, The Grant, Mike Yates and the Master - cruder Season Eight consolidates many of the Third
Damons could be relied upon to win every 'Best creations though they may be - make complete Doctor's more essentially Doctor Who-ish touches,

Story' poll going, and you'd be hard pressed to find sense within the Doctor Who format. And this is notably his habit of historical name-dropping and
his encyclopaedic knowledge of bizarre alien races.

Briefly glimpsed in the Delphon eyebrow-language

of Spearhead From Space, the Third Doctor's

Seasons
a single Pertwee tale in fandom's accepted roll-call
penchant for preposterous outer-space anecdotes
soon becomes a defining feature of his era.
Also restated from Season Eight onwards is the

of bad stories.

reactionary,

parade of cheap
By the early 1990s, however, the tide
had turned. While previously despised 'turkeys'
were being hailed as misunderstood gems, the
Pertwee era began to find itself lambasted as a
unimaginative aberration, which side-
stepped Doctor Who's unique values in favour
and gaudy Quatermass knock-oflfs.
of a
in the Sun
Doctor's wide-eyed excitement with the universe;
not really until Colony in Space that we meet the
The once-praised production values were now seen it's

as tatty, the stories repetitive, and the attempt at an childlike Doctor who later dreams of holidaying on
underlying morality decidedly suspect. the beauty-spots of Florana and Metebelis III. If

A more measured reaction would fall some- Spearhead jrom Space had constituted a major

where between these two extremes, but conceptu- relaunch at the beginning of 1970 then Colony in

ally there can be little doubt that the Pertwee era Space a year-and-a-bit later was an equally radical

marks a departure from pretty much everything (literally - radical means 'relating to the root')

thatcomes before and after it. The earthbound restatement of Doctor Who's original format.
UNIT scenario fosters the impression of the Third In 1971, a seven-year-old viewer would need a

Doctor as an establishment figure who is pretty good memory to recall what the inside of the

summoned to the scene of each new crisis: a more TARDIS - last seen two years previously in The War
fundamental reversal of the earlier Doctors' rela- Games - even looked like. Jo Grant is cast in the role
tionship with authority is difficult to imagine. of the panic-stricken, uncomprehending sceptic,

There was an initial effort to play up the Doctor's previously fulfilled by Ian Chesterton in 100,000

solipsism and the antagonistic aspects of his reluc- BC, giving the TARDIS's journey to Uxarieus a more
tant bargain with the Brigadier, but inevitably the emotive urgency than any since her original trip

hard-edged confrontations of the first Pertwee back to prehistoric Earth. As Jo begs to be taken
season are soon softened into comic put-downs home, the Doctor's renewed thirst for exploration

and the Doctor's anger hived off onto hapless ("That's an alien world out there, Jo - think of it-
bureaucrats. As the era stretches on, any remaining don't you want to set foot on another world?") is

edginess is gradually ironed out - and replaced by couched in almost exactly the same terms as
the cosy domesticity of the so-called 'UNIT family'. William Hartnell's memorable line about birds
Such compromises are entirely to be expected; a wheeling in an another sky, so it's rather delightful

couple of years ago, in an in-depth overview of that the first thing Jo does after stepping onto alien

Pertwee's debut season (see DWM 286), I argued soil is to stoop and pick an exotic flower, just as
that whatever the merits of that experimental year, Susan did on Skaro back in 1963. Colony in Space

its format and characterisations were patently has been criticised in some quarters for making the
and Pertwee brings a splash of panache to the Doctor. Third Doctor's initial journey into space such a dull
untenable. Script editor Terrance Dicks

THE PERTWEE mHRHS H DEPARTURE PROW PRETTH

mucH THHT COmeB BEFORE HRD HFTER IT,
WITH THE DDCTDR SET UP R5 HR ESTHBLISHRIEnT FIGURE
incoming producer Barry Letts knew this - and it's interesting: even those with mixed feelings about one, but in its breathless reassertion of the Time
no surprise that they set about restructuring the the Pertwee years tend to forgive Season Seven, Lord's wanderlust it acquits itself well. His

show's format after the dramatically successful but perceiving it as the saving grace of an otherwise complaint to the Master in the same story ("You'll

curiously un-Doctor Who-ish Season Seven. Liz wobbly era. This has something to do with the never understand - 1 want to see the universe, not to

Shaw was to be replaced by a new companion in a season's much-vaunted 'grittiness', which, if it rule it!") is as good a character-note for the Doctor

more traditional mould. The comparatively faceless means anything at all, means less humour, more as any in the show's history.

UNIT captains of Season Seven (whose one-story violence, and a certain prevailing air of industrial There are, however, other developments in the
contracts had offered the tantalising possibility starkness in the designs and locations. There's no characterisation of the Third Doctor that sit oddly

that they might not survive their encounters with need to apologise for liking these four stories - together - and, even to the most partial eye, make
the Doctor's opponents - as is indeed the case with they're certainly very good indeed - but the jury uneasy bedfellows. The appearance of Buddhist
Captain Hawkins in Doctor Who and the Silurians) remains out on whether they're actually better motifs in the later Pertwee stories, notably in the
were to be replaced by a new ongoing regular. Doctor Who than the rest of the Pertwee era. It's no pseudo-mystical explorations of the Doctor's past
There was to be a redefined and more domestic great surprise that fans feel safer praising the in the successive season finales co-scripted by
feel pressed home by the introduction of the new macho grimness of Inferno rather than, say, the Robert Sloman and Barry Letts, represents a funda-

semi-rural UNIT HQ first seen in Terror of the Autons. high-camp lingo jinx of The Time Warrior - but it's mental plank in the producer's perception of the

There's no real indication that the Doctor's garage not difficult to spot which of the two has the character. This development seems appropriate,

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delightful and suitably other-worldly, but does it Ambassadors simmered down to perhaps the least make unequivocal moral judgements. Here was a

really gel with Jon Pertwee's outward interpretation appealing aspect of the Third Doctor: his propen- Doctor whose vision was of a universe that was
of the Doctor, surely the most worldly and materi- sity for producing pat moral sermons at the drop of balanced, organic and understood, its heroes and

alist Time Lord of them all? With his taste for a hat. War is not an exciting game, he sententiously its culprits identifiable and its mysteries explicable,

expensive clothes, fast cars, fisticuffs and wine- informs the Thais at the climax of the 'tutorial on The tendency of the Letts/Dicks stories to offer

and-cheese evenings, is this ruffle-shirted James courage' that is Planet of the Daleks - and of course these tacked-on morals was perhaps a function of

Bond even a halfway credible disciple of he's quite right; but this is the same Doctor who the production team's increasing concern about

Buddhism? Planet of the Spiders proposes the regularly sends opponents flying with Venusian exactly what kind of show they were making.
intriguing and stimulating idea that, by allowing aikido, who relies on Lethbridge-Stewart to get Similar changes were in the air regarding Doctor

his acquisitive nature to run rampant, the Third him out of scrapes by wheeling in the heavy Who's attitude to violence. At the beginning of the
Doctor has become a flawed hero, straying from artillery,and whose every story, despite ending with Pertwee era, the show had adopted a fairly dispas-

the path laiddown by his childhood guru, and that a lecture on the sanctity of life, tends to do so just sionate approach to its action scenes, weaving

the rime has come to atone by becoming a new after various sanctified life-forms have been blown them into the fabric of the stories as a natural

man. That's certainly rather neat - but how about

prior to that, in other quasi-Buddhist stories, like
The Time Monster and The Green Death? How could
such a rampant egotist as the Third Doctor have
the gall to preach to anyone about humility, daisies
and self-abnegation?

n the face of it, the Third Doctor's

endearing vanity is one of his defining
characteristics - its humorous potential
providing the bedrock of his affectionate relation-
"Oh come on, you love all that
ship with Jo Grant.
Chairman Delegate stuff - admit it," she taunts
playfully in The Curse of Peladon. Pretty much any
episode chosen at random will at some stage
feature the comforting spectacle of Jon Pertwee's
expressive features crumpling in comic resignation
as yet another pieceof lashed-up circuitry or
impromptu bluffing backfires on him. And yet,
when played straight, this same lovable pomposity
seems to give way to an arrogance that ill befits the

Doctor we know and love.

There are instances - such as his cold and insin-

uating manner with Quinn Who and the
in Doctor

Silurians, or his high-handed behaviour when drop-

ping in on the pub to seek directions in The Da-mom
- when you can't help thinking that he'd get his
answers a lot more quickly (and possibly save more

Cunning stunts and nifty gizmos: two

defining characteristics of the Pertwee
era seen (right) in Spearhead From Space

and (below) in The Sea Devils.

THE THIRD DOCTOR'S EODEHRIRG UHRIT!

PRDUIDES THE BEDROCK FDR HIS
HFFECTIODHTE RELHTIODSHIP WITH JD
to smithereens. He guns down Ogrons in result of the plotting; but after the Bryam/Sherwin
cold blood in Day of the Daleks, then has the team's high-tech political thriller had breathed its
nerve to tell the Master that "violence will last, somewhere between The Mind of Evil and The

get you nowhere" in The Sea Devils. show's approach to violence

Claivs of Axos, the

But let's not get frantic. If the Third rapidly underwent a rethink. In the place of the
Doctor's occasional inability to practice gritty motorbike accidents and rifle-butt fights of
what he preaches looks a little like yore, stunt teams were instead kept busy portraying
hypocrisy, then at least we're always aware the knock-on effect of the violence itself. Thus, in

that he is striving for peace and concord on stories like Day of the Daleks, The Sea Devils and
a universal scale, as is demonstrated by his Carnival of Monsters, humans and aliens alike are
readily adopting the role of arbiter between seen to fall from high ledges after being shot - but
lives) if he wasn't so snide and aloof. Perhaps races in Ambassadors of Death, Frontier in Space and the 'shot' itself is a bloodless video effect.

Chinn wouldn't spend the whole of The Clams of both of the Silurian/Sea Devil encounters. The fact Meanwhile, the Doctor himself becomes increas-
Axos being quite so intransigent if the Doctor from the pen of Malcolm
that all these stories hail ingly involved in one-to-one set-piece fights that

hadn't chosen to pick such a gale-force shouting Hulke demonstrates that here was a writer willing have an unspontaneous, gladiatorial feel - hence,
match with him at the outset. Nobody, however to integrate a moral argument into the overall his swordfight with the Master in The Sea Devils, his

stupid, likes being spoken to like that, and the recipe, rather than popping it on top at the last trial by combat in The Curse of Peladon, and his slo-
Third Doctor's ritualistic belittling of civil servants minute like a precarious glace cherry on an other- mo tussle with the dark side of Omega's mind in
in every story from Terror of the Autons to The Sea wise trifling adventure. The Three Doctors. It's almost as though, by
Devils is, however dramatically justified, in danger It's worth remembering, too, that the Pertwee presenting this kind of 'mediated' violence as
of diminishing him more than it does them. era happened to coincide with a particularly bleak merely another element in Doctor Who's entet-
And this is an ongoing matter of concern in period of the twentieth century, when Western taining variety-show package, Letts and Dicks were

these second-phase Pertwee stories. What Barry civilisation had good reason to feel bad about aiming to neuter criticism of a programme which,
Letts once rather grandly referred to as his 'moral itself. In this ethically blackened era of Vietnam, in a 1071 BBC audience survey, had been declared
passion' would eventually see the complex, multi- Watergate and Bloody Sunday, was comforting to
it the most violent 'dramatic fiction' series produced
faceted ethical debate of the likes of Silurians and have a hero at hand who was willing and able to by the Corporation.

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 After the well-documented controversy the Third Doctor's own ecological zeal - thus out of vaulting ambition but a misplaced sense of
surrounding Terror of the Autons, Letts and Dicks darkly counterpointing the way that Jo isprompted duty. In the same way, subordinate villains like

were quick to veto specific acts of violence, such as in The Green Death to 'fly the coop' by the influence Stevens in The Green Death and the Controller in Day

a sequence in the breakdown of The Mind of

initial of a moral campaigner who reminds her, as she of the Daleks are portrayed as weak-willed appeasers

Evil in which the conditioned Barnham was to play tells the Doctor, "of a younger you" - is a pleas- (the Doctor's branding of the Controller as a

Russian roulette with a loaded revolver, or the ingly subversive means of suggesting that the 'Quisling' makes the point explicit), but eventually

wholesale massacre of the Thais in the original show's young viewers still need to make their own turn the tables on their masters and achieve

Planet of the Daleks. At least one completed scene - ethical choices and should resist the temptation to redemption. Best of all is the refreshingly banal

Kalik being eaten by a Drashig in Carnival of swallow the Doctor's homilies whole. In fact, villainy of Lupton in Planet of the Spiders, who
Monsters - was cut after recording because Letts there's so little difference between the voiceover in nonchalantly freshens up at the washbasin while

considered it too violent. theReminder Room in Invasion of the Dinosaurs - giving his colleague Barnes a potted history of his

What's interesting are the strategies employed which the story requires us to perceive as hectoring failed career as a sales director, and thence his
by the show to circumvent the cutback in violence. propaganda, however well-intentioned - and the plans to take over the world. It's one of the oddest

In this respect, the final Pertwee season, often Third Doctor's own diatribe about mankind's and yet curiously most convincing 'villain-motiva-
written-offby fans as the tiredest and most disap- poisoning of his planet in The Dsmons that one tion' scenes in the whole of Doctor Who. The

pointing of the five, is in fact sharply innovative. might almost suspect Malcolm Hulke of trying to Pertwee era certainly has its fair share of black-
make a seditious point. hearted baddies, but by comparison with the
And although plenty of the Third distilled, all-or-nothing evil of later characters like

Doctor's opponents are so blacker- Sutekh and Morbius, it also scores an impressive
than-black that theirs is an almost tally of authentic villains.

symbolic villainy (the Master is the Also to the credit of the Letts/Dicks team is its

most obvious example, sold to the attempt to breathe new life into potentially

The Doctor's badly executed, stuntman- Top left: With the Master and 'monster-of-the-
revealing fight with Ettis in The Monster of week' in The Claws ofAxos. Above: This is what
Peladon may be a particularly flaccid piece happens if you don't pay your TV licence.
of old hat, but elsewhere in the season Bottom left: A bit tied up in Day of the Daleks
novel approaches abound. In Death to the

Daleks, subjective camerawork allows Sarah

to beat an Exxilon with a crank-handle in unpromising rematches by the application of what
such a way that the violence is implied are nowadays called 'high concept' ideas. Thus, The

rather than seen. Both The Time Warrior and Curse of Peladon both wrong-foots and charms the

Planet of the Spiders use language to suggest viewer with the unexpected news that the Ice
far more violence than is ever shown - in Warriors are now allies, making a tasty meal of the
the former there's incessant talk of flog- Doctor's understandable mistrust along the way.

ging, beheading and pickling in oil Similarly, after the disappointingly lifeless Planet of

(Irongron's threat to crunch Lady Eleanor's the Daleks, full marks go to Dicks for suggesting a

eyeballs in his soup was famously excised story in which the Daleks lose their firepower:
by Dicks at the scripting stage) - while, in Death to the Daleks duly squeezes some new mileage
the latter, Lupton's mental torture at the out of the deadly dustbins and paves the way, in
hands of his Spider ("I can twist your mind as viewer as an all-purpose flipside to the Doctor's Season Twelve, for the most 'high concept' Dalek
easily as a two-leg boy twists another's arm," she heroism), it's admirable how many others are story of all.

crows, and Lupton later describes the pain as "like portrayed not as hubris-driven megalomaniacs but
red-hot needles") suggests plenty of violence while
portraying none. Say what you like about Season
as misguided individuals
grounded in
whose actions are
what they consider to be ideals worth
For every such innovation, it can't be
ignored that the Pertwee era has a disap-
Eleven, but a great deal of it is very well written. fighting for. Malcolm Hulke cited Invasion of the pointing appetite for drab, watered-down

The Writers' Guild certainly thought so, jointly Dinosaurs as his favourite script for this very reason, sequels. The Monster of Peladon is an unimaginative

honouring its scriptwriters with the only heavy- "because of this idea I got of these rather sad retread of Curse without any of the twists, while

weight industry award ever won by Doctor Who. people behind it all, who didn't fit in".Hulke is Terror of the Autons is little more than a high-octane

And there's plenty of room for surprise and particularly fond of characters like Major Baker in replay of Spearhead From Space in the gaudy new
subversion in the Letts/Dicks format. Every fan can Doctor Who and the Silurians, Colonel Trenchard in house style. The Time Monster feels like a step-by-
reel off a list of companions who began their The Sea Deuils and General Williams in Frontier in step remake of The Dzmons in which only a few

travels as morally ambiguous characters before Space - men of courage and honour whose native names have been changed to protect the innocent,
being reformed by the Doctor, but no other period patriotism sadly beguiles them into blind hostility but much of the original's charm is fatally
show has the audacity to let an established towards other races. bypassed. Perhaps the worst offender is The Sea
of the
and popular character go to the bad as Mike Yates Hepesh in The Curse of Peladon and General which mechanically rehashes only the most
Devils,

does in Invasion of the Dinosaurs. The fact that Mike Carrington in The Ambassadors of Death, although the superficial elementsof Doctor Who and the Silurians,
is led astray by an extremist misappropriation of nominal villains of their respective stories, act not substituting hardware and an inspired monster

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(on the contrary they're pointedly avoided considered depiction of the world in which its
on screen - witness the Controller's line to young viewers might well find themselves growing
Jo in Day of the Daleks: "Now you've already up - and it's more realistic and engaging than, say,
told me the year ..."), what's important is Gerry Anderson's attempts to do the same thing in
that the Pertwee era's 'present day' is UFO or Space: 1999.
supposed to be just a few years into the How important any of this may be to Doctor
future,demanding a particular kind of Who's dramatic success is open to debate, but

discipline on the part of the writers' imagi- what's beyond question is that the Pertwee era

nations. There's no hologram TV, but we operates according to a firmer game-plan than had
do get BBC3 in The Dzmons and space-age previously been the case. Jo's reference to Solos in
video screens in The Sea Deuils; there's no the first episode of Frontier in Space is part of a delib-
interplanetary hyperdrive, but we do get erate programme of cross-referencing which
gruelling, believable (albeit British) Apollo- continues in the following story when the Doctor
asks the Thais about Ian,
Susan and Barbara. Indeed,
kicked off by The Three Doctors,

Season Ten heralds the show's

first systematic investment in
long-term 'continuity'. The
four Letts/Dicks seasons
feature more returning foes
than any other period in the
show's history - at least two
majot comebacks per season,
in addition to monster cameos
in The Mind of Euil, Carnival of
Monsters, Frontier in Space and
Planet of the Spiders. This last

story operates as a kind of

Above: The Doctor and Sarah, gloss on the whole era: Jo's letter to the Doctor
vehicle-swapping in Planet of the marks the first ever instance of a Doctor Who
Spiders. Top right: The Season companion returning to the narrative after her offi-

Seven team ("grit" not shown). cial departure and, appropriately enough, it's to
Right: The Doctor and Jo in trouble return the Metebelis crystal from The Green Death,
(again) in Frontier in Space. which in turn reawakens the Doctor's memories of
die mentor last mentioned in The Time Monster.
design in place of the earlier Although Season Eleven pays lip-service to the

story's multi-textured morality original Pertwee format in its hardware set-pieces

play. It's exciting and it's flashy (famously, the chase in Planet of the Spiders was a

and something explodes every kind of leaving-present for the show's star, but it's

ten minutes, but the real drama the manhunt in Part Five of Invasion of the Dinosaurs

has vanished. that feels like a real Season Seven throwback), it's

ultimately these latter-day stories, with their

isappointing sequels are mingling of domestic reality, outer-space fantasy

one thing, but the era's and gende mysticism, which seem to offer the
impressive sense of
narrative coherence is quite another. Every Doctor's
own microcosmic additions
THE PERT til EE ERH OFFERS THE
reign brings forth
the ongoing legend
its

(Sil, the Yeti, the Meddling

to
SHOUTS DHLS HTTER1PT
Monk), but the Third Doctor's universe creates
more internal mythologies than any other - it's a
TO IflWGinE
universe in which there's a Venusian proverb, style missions to Mars in The Ambassadors of Death; keynote of the Pertwee era. The restless wanderer
lullaby or karate-chop for every occasion, and there's no time travel, of course - but by Invasion of who repels Irongron's siege with smoke-bombs,
against whose psychedelic CSO backdrop the the Dinosaurs, Professor Whitaker has already hails the Exxilon city as one of the Seven Hundred
Doctor's tall stories about purple horses, hairy jelly- applied for a government grant to develop it; and in Wonders of the Universe, and is jolted from a
fish, thraskins, plinges and perigosto sticks are all that same story, the high-jumping athlete Mark deathiy trance by the aroma of Sergeant Benton's
apparently true. cleared "2.362 metres at the last Olympics" -a feat coffee (second only to that of Mrs Samuel Pepys,

But there's more to it than that. Even though the nowhere near matched in our real world until 1980. you know) - shows the side of the Third Doctor
Second Doctor's travels took him repeatedly to a And there's scant mention of the Eastern power which, after all the claims and counter-claims
nebulous near-future of moonbases, refineries and bloc (although the Brigadier's ears do prick up surrounding this most controversial era of Doctor

international space stations, there was seldom any suspiciously at Dr Tyler's coy reference to "the other Who, seems to go to the very heart of the character.
genuine sense that these times and places coexisted lot" in The Three Doctors), but there are international Okay, so we might dismiss much of the Pertwee
in a coherendy imagined Earth history. By compar- peace conferences at which communist China is an era - with our cynical old hats on - as cartoonish,
ison, the Pertwee era's universe seems meticulously important delegate in both The Mind of Etui and Dai) paternalist or derivative, but the Pertwee era wasn't

mapped-out. The Doctor's trips to Uxarieus, 0/ the Daleks. There's no day-to-day discussion of made for a clique of media-sawy adults living in

Draconia and Solos offer respective glimpses of the British politics (thank goodness), but in The Green the early twenty-first century; it was made for a

rise, the glory and the decline of die same Earth Death the Prime Minister is called 'Jeremy', a future nation of eight-year-old boys living in the early
empire (and, for once, the dates given on screen scenario which seemed eminendy plausible to 1970s. It on a wide-eyed sense of wonder,
trades

even match up). The 'Dalek wars' of which we hear many voters in 1973. which is perhaps why so many of Doctor Who's
in Death to the Daleks are perhaps those that took By the time of the Fourth Doctor's early UNIT most iconic moments (the Sea Devils rising from
place in the aftermath of Planet of the Daleks; and it stories, this air of surreptitious futurism has the waves, the giant spider on Sarah's back, and of
seems likely that the Galactic Federation of the become a little more exaggerated - Robot's spacey course 'the one with the maggots') are to be found
Peladon stories is the geopolitical successor of Disintegrator Gun, The Android Inuasion's manned in these five seasons. To those who saw the stories

collapsed empires like Earth and Draconia. Jupiter rocket, and The Seeds of Doom's Krynoid- at the right age, they were the most magical thing
More significantly, the Pertwee era also offers bashing laser cannon all seem a step more flam- possible - and that much know I for certain. When
Doctor Who's only sustained attempt to imagine the boyant than anything suggested during the Third all's said and done, the fact that we're still

near future. An awful lot of pointless head-banging Doctor's incumbency. So, for the first and last time watching it, and loving it 30 years
discussing it

has gone on over the years about 'UNIT dating' - in its history, Doctor Who during the Pertwee era later suggests that they must have got something
but, although specific dates are never mentioned makes an ongoing attempt at an intelligent, very right indeed ... ©

B ctdfi who moonsinE

Instant Karma
A radio comedian famous for his funny uoices and his cabaret act? And he's been chosen as the

new Doctor Who? Shome mishtake, shurely? Andrew Pixley spearheads his look behind the scenes

of the Third Doctor's era with the story of Season Seuen

- and one Jon Devon Roland Pertwee

t was apparently at the ParisTheatre on Sunday 12 January 1969 that pointed with what they saw. Ray was keen to get better known writers

I the notion of Jon Pertwee becoming the new star of Doctor Who first working on the series, but an approach for a story from Troy Kennedy

I occurred to the actor. Pertwee was rehearsing his role as the rascally Martin, the creator of Z Cars, fell flat.

I CPO Pertwee for two episodes of The Nauy Lark, a highly successful While negotiations with Pertwee were underway, young Doctor Who
I BBC radio sitcom which was then in its tenth season. Fellow actor viewers made their suggestions via BBCi's Junior Points ofVieu) on Wednesday

Tenniel Evans,who played the roles of Pertwee's Uncle and Leading-Seaman 12 February; Brian Rix, Rolf Harris, John Le Mesurier, Marty Feldman, Peter

Goldstein, commented on the news that Patrick Troughton's departure Cushing and Dick Emery were all nominated. Behind the scenes in mid-
from Doctor Who had just been announced, and maybe Pertwee should put February, Robert Holmes was asked to develop a storyline to introduce the

himself forward for the role. new format under the title Facsimile. Holmes had written two stories recently
Pertwee had never really considered himself for such a part, and was for Dicks at short notice and the script editor know he could deliver a work-

more used to playing comedy characters. He was well known for his cabaret able script; his idea -a partial reworking of a 1965 film storyline called
along with elements of Quatermass II - concerned an attempted inva-
act, variety compering, appearances in Carry On ... films and almost 200 Inuasion

episodes of The NauyLark. Having convinced himself that Evans' suggestion sion of Earth by a race of aliens able to manipulate plastic. The second
was vaguely possible, Pertwee contacted his agent, Richard Stone, and nerv- potential serial for the new season was Doctor Who and the Mists of Madness, a

ously proposed that his name be put forward to the BBC. Stone thought this tale about the Doctor finding an artificially created community of humans,
commissioned from a new writer to the series, Brian Wright on Monday 17
was an awful idea, but agreed to help his client. Calling Doctor Who producer ,

February. Wright had sent an idea on spec to the production and

Peter Bryant, Stone found his suggestion met with a dreadful silence - but
office

only because Pertwee was already Bryant's second

choice after character actor Ron Moody. PERTUIEE FELT THHT CLOUII1IIIE UIRS
Bryant's desire to consider Pertwee arose
appearance in 1965's Carry on Cowboy in which he
from his
HOT APPROPRIATE FOR HIS DOCTOR;
played an ailing Sheriff; the producer very
Pertwee would bring an outlandish
much hoped
humour to
HE UIDULD PLHS THE PRRT STRAIGHT
that

the Doctor from his considerable experience in found that the script editor was none other than his
comedy. Pertwee's discussions over the role were old school friend, Terrance Dicks. Wright's target for

generally conducted with BBC Head of Drama Shaun the storyline was Monday 3 March.
- an old associate of Pertwee's from stage The planned second serial for the season, a topical
Sutton
work in the 1930s. The actor stretched out these talks space-shot story about xenophobic attitudes to alien

as long as possible (since each one was held over a

contact called The Carriers of Death, was commissioned
meal at Sutton's expense) and confessed that he was from veteran writer and former story editor David
worried about how he should play the Doctor. "Play Whitaker at the start of May, and with the storyline
him as yourself," was Sutton's advice which for The Mists of Madness soon delivered, the next run

concerned Pertwee; in his long career he had always began to take shape. The new stories were generally
to be longer than before - most being seven episodes
immersed himself in fictional characters. Viewing the
later Troughton episodes made Pertwee feel that his
-which was thought would reduce the costs by
it

predecessor's clowning was inappropriate for his minimising the overall number of sets.

own portrayal; he would play the part straight and, However, by now Bryant and Sherwin were also
for once in his career, not use one of the funny voices keen to move on from Doctor Who by creating a new
he was famous for. BBC family adventure series. After their work with the
armed forces on The Inuasion, Sherwin and actor Jon
The new format for the series had been in develop-
ment with Bryant and his co-producer Derrick Rollason developed SP Air which concerned RAF

Sherwin since December 1968, by which time security troubleshooter Wing-Commander Routledge,

Troughton was becoming increasingly unhappy with played by Peter Barkworth. A lavish two-part pilot

some of the scripts and the demanding production with location filming in Singapore was scheduled to
Jon Pertwee came from a be made during Doctor Who's summer break and -
schedule. On New Year's Eve 1968, Sherwin had
of radio comedy and cabaret. Until this prove successful - would then go to a full
outlined to BBC Copyright the new series - which should
was planned to start studio recording at the begin- series with Sherwin and Bryant in charge.

ning of September 1969. UNIT, as created by Sherwin earlier that year for During the Spring, Pertwee toured in My Dear Gilbert - a play about Gilbert
The Inuasion, would be retained, still led by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Sullivan by former Doctor Who writer Donald Cotton - and received his
(providing die character's creators, Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln, BBC contract while appearing in Norwich. The actor was formally booked
were amenable). The Doctor would also have a new female companion for a minimum of 21 episodes of Doctor Who on Wednesday 21 May, with

called Liz since Troughton's co-stars, Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury, had shooting to start mid-September; Nicholas Courtney, who played
also decided to leave the show in June. Liz would be a more mature Lethbridge-Stewart, was booked on similar terms six days later. Since late

companion than seen in recent years - a highly qualified scientist who 1968, there had been some major rethinks on Doctor Who. The new series

would assist the Doctor in his attempts to repair the TARDIS. would be made in colour, since BBCi would start operating a colour service
The new series would be more down to Earth - literally, since the Doctor from mid-November 1969. The show would then debut in January, rather
was now to be exiled to late twentieth century England by the Time Lords. than for die Autumn season, and would only run for six months rather than
Sherwin's plan was that the stories, like The Inuasion, would be set a few nine. Because of this, there would be slightly more time to make the shows

years in the future, somewhere around the mid-1970s. He was also keen to in comparison to the demanding pace of production in previous years.

borrow from the style of the three BBC science fiction serials featuring The scripts for Facsimile were in development by June, and a suitable - if
Professor Quatermass which were made in the 1950s. Script editor Terrance slightly confused - storyline for The Carriers of Death had been received,

Dicks and his assistant Trevor Ray arranged to view the existing episodes of although the production team were now engrossed on SP Air. Dicks left the

new pilot to concentrate on Doctor Who, and commissioned Doctor Who and
1953's The Quatermass Experiment for stylistic inspiration ... and were disap-

THE COmPLETE THIRD DDETDR

Senson 7

the Monsters from his old writing partner Malcolm Hulke; Hulke was scep-
tical about the new format, believing it allowed only alien invasion and mad
scientist serials, but developed the notion of Earth being reclaimed from
mankind by the original dominant reptile species which had been in hiber-
nation. Unfortunately, Wright had now been appointed to an academic
writing post in Bristol and would not be able to script The Mists of Madness,
the storyline for which had been delivered on Friday 9 May.

n Tuesday 7 June, Pertwee was announced to the press as the new

Doctor by BBC press officer Kevin O'Shea. The actor cut quite a ered, Whitaker's scripts were going awry. Ray rewrote the first episode as an
dashing figure when he turned up dressed in a velvet smoking example for Whitaker to follow, emphasising the new, more adult style of

jacket, a trendy shirt with a frilled front from 'Mr Fish' and an Inverness the show. As a back up, Dicks brought forward Hulke's serial, now entitled
cape he had inherited from his grandfather. Photos of Pertwee with an actor The Silurians, to fill the second slot, dropping Whitaker's back to run third.

in a Yeti costume adorned the newspapers, with The Sun and The Daily Mai! Caroline John had her first costume fitting on Thursday 21 August, and

unveiling the new star and the show's new Quatermass-style format over the appeared - in swimsuit - to pose for the press on Wednesday 10 September.

next few days. Bryant also announced the character of Liz, although at the Meanwhile Pertwee discussed his new role on Radio 2 on Pete's People on
time was focusing far more on his retitled Special Project Air -
pilot - now Saturday 23 August, four days before his first fitting. Colour shooting began

which was due to start a week's shooting in Singapore on Friday 11 July. The on Doctor Who on Saturday 13 September 1969, with a week of location work

final episodes of The War Games were shown, ending Troughton's tenure on on Spearhead jrom Space (the new title for Facsimile) scheduled some way in
Doctor Who. Plans started for recording of the new colour serials - now advance of the October studio recordings. However, with the pre-filming
delayed to October - and it was hoped to have an experimental studio completed, industrial action at BBC Television Centre was announced the

session on Wednesday 6 August where the team could play with Colour following week. Rather than lose the serial and risk missing the New Year
Separation Overlay, a more sophisticated picture mixing technique than the debut, Sherwin, Bryant and director Derek Martinus elected to complete

Inlay of the monochrome era. Spearhead Jrom Space on location and totally on film, during the same four

scripts for Facsimile and The Carriers o/Death arrived, Junior Points of
As the week period in October when the actors had been booked for the studio
View on 23 July made unfavourable comparisons of Doctor Who with Star Trek, rehearsals and recordings. With the public still familiar with Troughton's

the slickAmerican SF series which had replaced Doctor Who on Saturdays. incarnation of the Doctor, it was Pertwee's predecessor who featured on the
cover of World Distributor's edition of The Dr Who Annual which hit the
Meanwhile, the role of Liz was filled by a young actress whose 'glamour fifth

shot' photograph was passed onto Bryant and Sherwin by BBC producer shops in September.
The new format of die show was expanded in early October to include a
James Cellan-Jones. A member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Caroline
regular form of transport for the Doctor. A customised kit car in the form of
John was contracted for her first two serials as Liz Shaw on Monday 28 July.

PERTWEE CUT QUITE H OHSH UIHEU HE TURUEU UP FUR

HIS PRESS CULL CLHU IR H UELUET SmUKIUS ORCKET,
FRILL FRDRTED SHIRT RRU HIS GRRRUFHTHER'S CRPE
Although Pertwee saw his Doctor as wearing a plain black outfit like a an Edwardian roadster (albeit on a Ford Popular chassis) was purchased by
Pandit Nehru suit, the character's look was taken by costume designer theBBC and christened 'Bessie' in the scripts for The Silurians. This aspect
Christine Rawlins largely from Pertwee's garb at his press call; she already had been suggested to Bryant by both Ray (who had seen a TV magazine
had a cape in mind in an aim to evoke the romantic image of the hero from programme about some replica cars made in Weymouth) and Pertwee (who
the BBC fantasy adventure Adam Adamant Liues! Pertwee's first work on the himself was a gadget and vehicle fanatic). The vehicle was to prove very
show was the new colour title sequence, filmed in Television Centre Studio popular, with toy manufacturers Louis Marx unsuccessfully applying to
on Sunday August; this used a variation on the feedback patterns created market a die-cast of Bessie in late 1969 and Meccano-Triang making similar
5 3
for the previous two title sequences and tests were shot with Pertwee in a approaches in 1970.

variety of poses. The CSO which might be used on

tests for various effects Shooting on Spearhead jTom Space, largely on BBC property, began again on

the second story took place on the afternoon of Wednesday 6 August in Wednesday 8 October, and from Sunday 19 October, Pertwee could also be
Studio 7. By Project Air team were back from Singapore and
now the Special found back at the Paris Studios on an almost weekly basis recording the
recorded their pilot on Thursdays 7 and 14 August. But there were now eleventh season of The Navy Lark, the new episodes of which were due to

problems with Doctor Who. With two episodes of The Carriers of Death deliv- start on Radio 2 a few days before his debut as the Doctor. It was also

DOCTOR WHO mRGRZinE

 The Yeti might not be happy, but Per
Left:
unprecedented support from the Radio Ti
tenure. Above: The Doctor gets to grips w

it was now clear that he was unable to develop the serial

along the lines which the production team required. With

filming due to begin in late January, Dicks called upon Hulke
for help, asking him to redraft the existing scripts and
develop the four final ones from scratch based on Whitaker's
original outlines.
was transmitted on Sundays 16 and 23
Special Project Air

November on BBCi's new colour service; its lukewarm

reception was now academic, since Sherwin and Bryant were
on Paul Temple. A reshoot on the climax of Spearhead _from Space
was executed during filming on The Silurians, and the triumvi-
during October that matters reached crisis point on another BBC drama rateof Pertwee, Courtney and John made an appearance in full costume at
series, Paul Temple. This expensive thriller serieswas a German co-produc- BBC and ITV at Euston on Friday 21
the Colour Exhibition staged by the

tion but, after a great deal of pre-publicity, it was clear that there were major November. Doctor Who was a major item in BBCi's first colour season, and
script problems and the series was not living up to expectations. While the images of Pertwee featured prominendy in trade magazines, heralding the
first season of Paul Temple was still in production, Sherwin and Bryant were new-look serials.

moved over from Doctor Who to prepare the second season which would start
shooting in the New Year. As such, part-way through filming Spearhead from Ithough Doctor Who was still somewhat 'on probation', Dicks

Space, Sherwin departed for die Paul Temple, leaving Bryant (who had been considered story ideas for a further season, and commissioned
due to return as credited producer on The Silurians) to hand over the produc- Bob Baker and Dave Martin, a pair of writers based in Bristol, for a
ership of Doctor Who to BBC staff director Barry Letts, a former actor who trial episode of The Gift at the start of December after a sitcom script of theirs

had directed on Doctor Who in 1967. Appointed to the show on Monday 20 had arrived on his desk. By now, Ray had also departed to join Sherwin and
October, Letts immediately struck up a close friendship with Dicks - a Bryant on Paul Temple; he was replaced for a few months as assistant script
which exists to this day.
strong rapport editor by sometime-pop-singer Robin Squire, but after Squire departed the
While Ray performed further editing work on The Carriers of Death's post was abandoned. A pay dispute with the Plimmers over the storyline of

opening episode to make it suitable for production, Dicks continued to cast The Shadow People meant that Houghton's story - now entitled The Mo-Hole

around for a finale to the season. Husband and wife playwrights and jour- Project - would conclude the first colour season.

nalists Charlotte and DennisPlimmer submitted a seven-part outline for Pertwee was taken ill of December, and with Doctor Who being
at the start

Doctor Who and the Shadow People on spec on Monday 10 November. Dicks a major priority was replaced by Frank Thornton on The Nauy Lark which was
recorded on Sunday This allowed the star to recuperate for the first colour
also commissioned Don Houghton, an old colleague of his from his time 7.

on the ATV soap opera Crossroads, for Operation: Mole-Bore, a storyline about studio recording for Doctor Who - a serial which, through a
the next day

the first was based on actual scientific

penetration of the Earth's crust which caption misunderstanding, become known as Doctor Who and the
was to

projects from the 1960s. Another storyline submitted on spec to the produc- Silurians. Some weeks later, The Nauy Lark would take priority, and recording

tion office was The Vampire Planet by William Emms. Emms had worked on of the cave scenes for Serial BBB on Sunday 21 was arranged to release
the series in 1965 and had previously pitched the story as The Harvesters a Pertwee to tape his radio show instead. Set problems plagued Doctor Who and
couple of yearsearlier; The Vampire Planet had the Doctor and UNIT battling the Silurians, necessitating the studio sessions to be structured around the

metallic Roboes which land on Earth from a purple planet that enters the cave scenes rather than one episode per evening as usual; flexibility of elec-

solar system under control of the Masters who are scared away by film of tronic editing, however, now meant that scenes recorded with other

nuclear explosions. episodes could more easily be combined together into a single programme.
With Spearhead from Space in the can, The Silurians started location shooting Lettsnoted the problems with damage to sets, and considered new
from mid-November; since Letts was still tied up on episodes of the BBC recording patterns which he could introduce later on in the season.
soap The Doctors, shooting was supervised by Ray in an associate producer On Tuesday 23 December, Pertwee recorded his first major television

capacity. Whitaker delivered his third instalment of The Carriers ojTJeath - and interview about Doctor Who for broadcast on Junior Points of View the day

THE COmPLETE THIRD DOCTOR

Season 7

Left: New Doctor, New Danger! The move to colour heralded a

new era of action-packed, gadget-filled adventures for Doctor
o. Above: The Doctor and the Brigadier go in search of the
ians ... or the Eocenes ... or the Cave Monsters. Or something.

before Episode i of Spearhead jrom Space was ro be transmitted. New Year's Day a Moriarty to his Sherlock Holmes. Letts contracted an old acting friend,

1970 saw the new Doctor seizing the cover of the Radio Times (after a behind Roger Delgado, in the role of "Renegade Time Lord" for a minimum of 20
the scenes batde with the Light Entertainment Department who had wanted episodes on Monday 23 March.
CiliaBlack to appear in this spot); disappointingly, there was no feature inside The cast heard about the introduction of the Doctor's new nemesis, soon

to back up the high profile. Previewed by various trailers which also included christened the Master, during the location shooting on the final story of the
the closing moments of The War Games, Spearhead Jrom Space launched the colour season - now entitled Inferno - which began at the end of March. By now, a
era of Doctor Who BBC on Saturday 3 January - the same day that the
at the firm bond of friendship had emerged between Pertwee and Courtney (after an
production team tested out more CSO effects for The Carriers of Death. initialperiod where Courtney was wary of the new star); on Wednesday 8

For its new season, Doctor Who maintained the 5.15pm slot which it had April, Courtney was also re-booked for the new season. By now, the combina-

occupied the previous season, reclaiming it from Star Trek. The competition tion of John's pregnancy and Letts' unease as to how to use her character had

from the ITV regions was an uneven mixture of sitcoms (Doctor in the House, F sealed Liz's fate. Aiming for more of a 'family' atmosphere to the series given

Troop), Westerns (Cowboy in Africa, The Big Valley) and filmed adventure series that the Doctor was now a long-term visitor to UNIT HQ, Letts and Dicks

(Tarzan, Voyaae to the Bottom of the Sea, Garrison's Gorillas, The Secret Service and devised two new characters for the following season. The first of these would

Flipper). It was soon clear that Doctor Who was enjoying far better ratings than be Liz's replacement, Jo Grant - a younger and more vulnerable assistant to
the previous winter with an average of eight million tuning in. And younger the Doctor who was originally conceived as a UNIT lieutenant. In an echo of

viewers with an appetite for the new Doctor could follow his rather more juve- Jamie - the Second Doctor's companion - UNIT Captain Mike Yates was

nile escapades in Polystyle's TV Comic every Monday from mid-January. created as potential romantic interest for Jo.

On Monday 5 January, Caroline John was contracted for the remaining 14

episodes of the season, although Letts already Shaw was too
felt that Liz s April progressed, Dicks started to line up new serials to showcase
new villain. The sctipt for The Gift submitted by Baker and Martin
sophisticated for the programme's format since the character was too clever. the
demonstrated a of ideas, but their lack of television experience
John joined her two co-stars and Bessie on the banks of the Thames on lot

Tuesday 13 to pose in costume for a publicity session mid-way through showed. Elements of the notion were kept, and the writers given a new
production on Doctor Who and the Silurians. Scripts for The Mo-Hole Project started commission entitled The Friendly Inuasion. Since the Autons had proved popular
being delivered by Houghton, and the Hulke version of The Carriers of Death was in Spearhead from Space, Holmes was asked to bring them back to launch the

frantically in pre-production. In the outside world, public reaction to the new Master's reign of menace in The Spray of Death.

Doctor and stories was mixed. Young viewers voiced more unfavourable Inferno again saw a considerable location shoot with lots of stunt work from

comparisons to Star Trek in Junior Points ofVieiu on Friday 16. But after Spearhead 'Havoc' and began to hint at the Doctor's more action-orientated new persona
with the introduction of his use of Venusian karate (later Venusian aikido) and
Jrom Space had concluded, Matthew Coady of the Daily Mirror delivered a
a few brief fight sequences. With the serial set on both 'our' Earth and a
glowing review on Tuesday 27, declaring "Jon Pertwee's Doctor is wholly

amine uieuieh wrote to aooion poiots OF UIEW,

CDOIPLHIOIOG OR WHO WOULD DE OIOCH IO TIOIE
5PHCE RGHIR. HE JUST ISO'T THE Ofl EHRTHr
acceptable". On Saturday 7 February, the Mornina Star's Stewart Lane was also parallel dimension Earth, Letts opted to experiment with studio scheduling to

generally positive, commenting favourably on the charm of the new Doctor. record all the scenes in one 'warp' together for several episodes at once.
- was of episodes on two consecutive days after a
Shooting on The Ambassadors of Death - the new title for The Carriers of Death Another trial to record a pair

began at the end of January and expanded the notion of set-piece filmed action fortnight's rehearsals, meaning the sets only needed erecting half as often.

sequences devised by Derek Ware and his stunt team, 'Havoc'. By now, John Dr Who's Who's Who - the season's major feature in the Radio Times - was
had become pregnant and was aware that she would not be available next finally published on Thursday 7 May to promote the transmission of Inferno at

season, although she kept the situation to herself at this point; she was also a time when Letts was mid-way through recording the serial in studio (after

aware that the plans made by Sherwin and Bryant for her character were not Camfield had collapsed with a heart murmur). The magazine also printed a

shared by Dicks and Letts. colour portrait of Pertwee in their series of 'Favourites' on 11 June in conjunc-

The remaining scripts for The Mo-Hole Project were delivered by the end of tion with the penultimate episode of the season. Dicks was now considering
anothet storyline from the Plimmers, this time entitled The Cerebroids; the six-
February, and soon As recording on The Ambassadors of
retitled Project Inferno.

Death continued, another semi-regular cast member was added to the team. part outlinewas commissioned on Tuesday 12 May for delivery on Sunday 14
Director Douglas Camfield decided to cast John Levene as a UNIT sergeant in June. Meanwhile, the final recording on Inferno took place on Friday 22 May.
Project Inferno, re-naming the character 'Benton' to tie in with Levene's minor Doctor Who got a generally negative review on Junior Points of View on Friday

UNIT corporal character in The Inuasion; as such, Levene was also used to play 29 May where one young viewer opined that "Dr Who would be better in time
a UNIT sergeant in The Ambassadors of Death. and space again. He isn't the same on earth." However the new look Doctor
The positive reaction towards the first two colour stories meant that by the Who, which had entered the 1970s with a regenerated Doctor and an
start of March Doctor Who had been given the go-ahead for another season to Earthbound format, was getting improved audience reaction scores and had
from January 1971; on Monday 9 March, Pertwee was booked for a further seen about a million more tuning in for the Third Doctor's battles alongside
air
from UNIT. The was a long way from the popularity and
Letts and Dicks had decided that, as a new gimmick, each his friends series still
25 programmes.
- had enjoyed but the outlook was very promising
serial of the next season would be linked by a new arch-enemy for the Doctor profile it five years earlier, ...

CTDH WHO ITlPGB2inE

Spearhead From Space
Back Home BH RUSSELL T DAWES (f I

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The new Doctor (Jon Pertwee) noses around, e bbc Wed 12 Feb 69 Facsimile treatment
commissioned for Fri 21 Feb 69;

delivered Fri 14 Mar 69

Tue 3 Jun 69 Facsimile (working
have to run to and fro from the kitchen whenever someone title] scripts commissioned for
on TV screamed or roared or died loudly. Mon 30 Jun 69; Episode 1 deliv-
And that's my first precise memory. Running from the eredMon 23 Jun 69, Episode 2
kitchen, just in time to see the Doctor, gagged and wheel- delivered Fri 1 8 Jul 69, Episode 3

chair-bound, being shot. (Gagged? In a wheelchair?? Being delivered Mon 21 Jul 69, Episode

shot??? Blimey, try showing that now!) 4 delivered Fri 25 Jul 69

I remember the plot, vividly. This is what happened:

glowing balls fell from the sky, and if you went up to one and
PRDDUCTIOn
Sat 13 Sep 69 Favourite Doll
touched it, YOU GOT TURNED INTO PLASTIC!! You did!
Factory, Holloway, London
Cos that's what happened to the old poacher, he found a [Plastics Factory]; NCP, St
ball, touched it, and the next time you saw him walking Pancras Station [Car Park]
through the woods, he was a plastic man. What a great story! Sun 14 Sep 69 The Broadway,
And with all these deadly things happening, who did I care Ealing, London [High Street]

about most? Not the Doctor, not the Brigadier, certainly not Mon 15 Sep 69 Royal
Horticultural Society, Wisley,
the companion (can't remember her at all, sorry). No, the
Surrey [Woodland]
most important character was the poacher's wife. I cared for
Tue 16 Sep 69 Royal
her so much, because she was doomed. Her husband's been
Horticultural Society
turned into plastic, and he's come back home to kill her, and [Woodland/Woodland Track]
she hasn't got a ray-gun, all she's got is a shotgun which we Wed 17 Sep 69 Hatchford Park
going to stop him. And she doesn't run.
just knoiu isn't School, Surrey [Hospital

That's the important bit, that's the bit I'd like to think got me Entrance, Drive and Gates]

standing up with fear. She's brave. She stays. She fights the Thu 18 Sep 69 TCC Condensers,
might have been six, I might have been seven. monster. And, as I remember it, her plastic husband murders Ealing, London [Plastics Factory]

Fri19 Sep 6g TCC Condensers il

To know how old I was when I first saw her, dead.
[Woodland; Plastics Factory]
Spearhead, I'd have to look up transmission And they wonder why I never married.
N.B. The subsequent doilu break-
dates, and I don't want to do that. I want to I remember all sorts of bits and bobs after that. The wrist-
downs are best estimates based on
remember it as it was. I'm remembering the flip guns, perfect for school adventures. The plastic man available contractual information:

Spearhead in which the glass broke. whose hand can make a zip in the back of a tent, where no Wed 8 Oct 69 BBC Engineering &
was probably squinting. The telly - black and white -
I zip should be. The bit in the waxworks, when waxworks Training Centre, Wood Norton,

was in the back window, so if the sun was setting I'd be seemed exotic. I seem to remember asking, "Mum, what's a Here/Wore [Tracking Station;

blinded by the light. And worse, the TV screen would reflect spearhead?" but I might be making that up. And then a few Hospital Room; UNIT HQ]
Thu 9 Oct 69 BBC Wood Norton
the sunlit room. Dazzled, twice. My dad would never let us Fridays later, there came The Greatest Scene Of All Time. The III
[Hospital Room; UNIT
draw the curtains on the principle of sunlight good, telly scene that's not just a memory, it's an instinct now, a spider
HQ/Hospital Corridor]
bad, so that even today, I bloody love closing the blinds on a in theback of my head every time I pass a shop window. And
Fri 10 Oct 69 BBC Wood Norton
summer's day and watching telly cos it's my house and no no good watching it on video or DVD, because the six- or
it's
[UNIT HQ; Hospital Corridor]
one can stop me. seven-year-old me saw the best version of all. The Spearhead Sat 11 Oct 69 BBC Wood Norton
Anyway, there I was, six or seven, never smoked a ciga- in which the glass broke. [Hospital Foyer]

rette and never kissed a boy, and it's a Saturday evening, The evil man at the factory, who is also an octopus, has Sun 12 Oct 69 BBC Wood Norton
which means Doctor Who ... Except that's not true, I watched disguised his humans-turned-into-plastic as shop window [Hospital Room; Hospital

Spearhead on a Friday. I don't know where I was for the first dummies, and they're gonna kill eueryone. They jerk into Corridor; Locker Room]
Mon 13 - Tue 14 Oct 69 BBC
transmission, maybe I was hooked on hopscotch. But they action. They step forward. They lift up their arms, they swing
Wood Norton [Hospital Foyer]
showed it again, in the days when repeats were rare and them down. And there it is, the crucial, brilliant, perfect
Wed 15 Oct 69 BBC Wood Norton
good, after Crackerjack, or when Crackerjack should've been on. memory; the shop windows break into tiny pieces of glass [UNIT Laboratory; Ante Room;
I wonder if that's true. But that's how I remember it. So I sat right in front of my eyes. I swear to you, that's what UNIT HQ]
there, maybe squinting, on a Friday afternoon ... except happened. I saw it. I'm sitting there now, six or seven, Thu 16 Oct 69 BBC Wood Norton
that's not true either. Because there was tea. A Saturday tea in dazzled or eating my tea on a Friday or a Saturday, watching [UNIT Laboratory; UNIT HQ] X
front of the telly was fine, but not Friday. My mum, alive those wide shop windows shatter and fall, and I love it with
then, was a stickler for tea at the table on a weekday, so I'd all of my heart.

I:I:M!UI1 r

9 In Episode 1 of the original story break- tioned by a man whose face we do not see ... Doctor appears and demands to be allowed to
down, Facsimile, the nameless poacher who The Doctor makes no reply and we see that he leave: he must get back to his Police Box.

finds the sphere is attacked by something with is given an injection. After a moment he simply Monro tells him that the Police Box has been

"two oddly white and waxen hands"; the crashes to the floor. Baffled, his questioners taken to UNIT HQ in London and that's where
tracking station operatives were not UNIT leave. ... [The Doctor] manages to smash open the Doctor's going too, whether he likes it or

personnel. Government research scientist "Liz a small window and make his escape." In not." When Ransome breaks into the deserted

Shore" enters a branch of UN IT via "a shabby Episode 2, Channing was to be shown transfer- factory, "He finds limbs of autons ready for

run-down shop" in a London street. Captain ring energy out of one of the globes, animating assembly and completed autons standing
Munrowas called "Captain Monro" and when a "man-like auton" . The Doctor emerges from motionless against a wall. As he goes by one of

the Doctor was kidnapped from his private his coma at the hospital and demands that Dr them turns its head to watch him pass."
ward, he is held in a storeroom "The Doctor is Henderson returns his clothes; Henderson Channing becomes aware of his presence and
slumped on a chair in a circle of light, ques- informs Monro of the Doctor's recovery. "The gives the command "Destroy him". The Auton

THE CfjmPLETE THIRD DOCTOR

 hand to reveal the nozzle of a from the hospital." This version introduced the filming at Hatchford Park School and he
"unscrews its

concept of Channing creating the creature in almost drove it backwards through a hedge
gun and blasts at him." In Episode 3, the

Poacher is keeping the swarm leader globe in the plastic coffin, seen from Episode 2

an old metal trunk in his hut. Channing onwards. The Poacher finds another globe in ^ Visual effects designer John Horton and

arranges to have the globe collected after dark. the woods while out rabbitting with a small assistant Alan Whibley used explosive charges

Having heard about the Poacher's enquiry boy; they later ask a policeman about a reward when the Autons shot people, extracting

about a reward, the Brigadier tells Monro to for finding the object. The Doctor escapes from powder from a 'dry simulator' which

locate him. The Poacher is having his supper in the hospital via a window and makes his own contained orange or yellow Aniline dye. The

way to UNIT HQ. Episode the small boy is Auton hands fired using jack plugs connected
his hut when the door crashes open to reveal In 3,

with the Poacher the hut when the auton to a battery, and the 'victims' wore a steel
an Auton. "Monro's men enter. The auton in

way through them and attacks; he runs for help, finding Munro and plate under their costume, with the charge
smashes its retreats.

and men. Episode 4 varied substantially, with activated by wires up their leg
Their shots have no effect on it it gets his

away." Monro takes the globe back to the Army only the Doctor and Liz initially visiting

Tent to show the Doctor. In Episode 4, the Madame Tussauds while the Brigadier visits ^ The original schedule for the interior

were more pronounced. While theHome Secretary. The real Scobie is in a scenes stated that Episode 1 would start
differences

waiting for UHF equipment to be delivered, the container at the Security Area - and his replica rehearsals at St Helens Church Hall on

prepares to recover the globe. The Brigadier, Wednesday 7 October to record on Monday
Doctor visits Madame Tussauds with Liz and 13;

the Brigadier where Auto Plastics have Liz and a UNIT team leave to get a facsimile Episode 2 would rehearse from Friday 17 to
Aside from the massacre of
free display. Later, while the Doctor from the waxworks for the Doctor; there is a record on Thursday 23; Episode 3 would
a bus queue and a cyclist, mounted a
continues his work at HQ, Liz and the Brigadier battle with the activated Autons which are rehearse from Friday 24 to record on Thursday
the anti-capitalist march
go back to the waxworks to steal a facsimile for forced to retreat. In the UNIT Lab, Munro 30; and Episode 4 would rehearse from Friday
was wholly peaceful., ©bbc
brings two MI5 men who are guards from 31 to record on Thursday 6 November.
him. The Doctor momentarily unshields the in

Auto Plastics; in the ensuing fracas, Munro and However, during the initial week of location
globe, allowing Channing and Hibbert to
Fri 17 Oct 69 BBC Wood Norton waxworks, the one MI5 man are shot, but the other assailant filming, the ABS (Association of Broadcast
locate the swarm leader. At the
[UNIT Laboratory] When UN IT attack the Staff) started to stage industrial action over a
Brigadier and Liz see Channing activate the escapes with the globe.
Mon 20 Oct 69 BBC Wood Norton programmes being
autons and narrowly escape. UNIT HQ is factory, the Doctor and Liz now arrive with the pay dispute which hit all
[Factory Office]
UHF transmitter and the Doctor confronts recorded at Television Centre. Sherwin fought
attacked by Autons, but the Doctor finds the
Tue 21 Oct 69 BBC Wood Norton
exploding Channing, Hibbert and the Autons whereupon to keep the serial in production and on
[UNIT HQ] frequency he has been looking for,

makes the Autons collapse. As he attacked by the monster in the plastic Thursday 25 September announced that the
Wed 22 Oct 69 BBC Wood Norton the globe which is

UNIT The UHF unit sends the monster serial would be completed on film and shot on
[UNIT Laboratory] the shop window dummies come to life, coffin.

Thu 2} Oct 69 Wheelbarrow Castle attack and the Doctor makes plans berserk, "destroying the autons and Channing location during October, using a film crew
plans its

Cottage, Radford, Here/Wore and Hibbert, and finally collapsing into a from Ealing Studios. The dates for shooting
with Liz for 6 o'clock. Facing Channing,
[Cottage; Cottage Garden] UNIT HQ, roughly matched the original rehearsal and
Hibbert and the Autons in the factory, the shapeless puddle of plastic." Back at
Fri 24 Oct 69 BBC Wood Norton recording period, but Sherwin needed extra
Doctor learns that the Aliens exist "in vast the Brigadier blackmails the Doctor into
[Factory Office; Factory Centre]
England continuing to work for UNIT days. By now, Jon Pertwee had left to holiday
- Mon hives which cover entire planets ... will
Sat 25 27 Oct 69 BBC Wood
at Club Nautico in Ibiza, so Sherwin sent a
Norton [Factory Centre] be reduced to chaos and conquered then used
Holmes wrote the new Doctor as being telegram on Thursday 25 asking if Pertwee
Tue 28 Oct 69 Mansion House as a springboard to take over the world." At 6
Evesham, Here/Wore on a transistor radio more polished or pompous than Troughton. could return early for Sunday 5 October which
Hotel, o'clock, the Doctor turns

[Scobie's Home]; BBC Wood in his pocket and the high pitched sound from The Autons were written as "man-like" so that would allow two days rehearsal. Pertwee
Norton [Phone Box] it defeats the Autons. UNIT find the real they could be played convincingly by actors replied on Sunday 28 September: "Sorry
Wed 29 Oct 69 Unknown, London
Hibbert and Scobie in the factory in suspended cannot get back before October 7. Pertwee".
[Factory Centre]

Thu 30 Oct 69 Unknown, London

animation. At UNIT HQ, "The Doctor explains 9 Derrick Sherwin was not writing The The revised production dates meant some

how Liz was sent to Broadcasting House to Timekeepers concurrent with this serial; this minor recasting; Henry McCarthy was to have
Fri 31 Oct 69 Unknown, London
arrange for the broadcasting of the frequency edition of Thirty Minute Theatre had in fact been provided the voice of Doctor Lomax as well as
Mon 3 - Tue 4 Nov 69 Van Arden
broadcast on Monday 9 October 1967 playing Doctor Beavis; this role was given to
Studios, Ealing [Army Tent] that destroyed the Aliens."
Ellis Jones who played the UNIT technician
Wed 5 Nov 69 Madame Tussauds,
London [VIP Room] (> Robert Holmes revised his story break- Sunday 3 August 1969: New opening and
Wed 19 Nov 69 Ealing Film down for Facsimile. The facade for UNIT entered closing credits were shot in Television Centre t> The BBC Centre at Wood Norton was the

Studios: model shot

by Liz Shaw was now "a Railway Station/ Studio 5 between 6.30pm and 7.30pm. The former home of the Duke of Orleans, acquired
Sat 22 Nov 69 Ealing Film Studios:
standard opening film ran to 35 seconds and by BBC before World War II for emergency
Shopping Arcade" and Captain Monro has
Factory Centre [remount] broadcasting. The underground nuclear
become "Captain Munro". When the Doctor is the closing to 90 seconds, with Jon Pertwee

adopting various different poses for the tests bunker built by the BBC in the 1960s was used
UNDID Times kidnapped, this time in reception, "There is a
for the scenes in the Tracking Station in
Sat 3 Jan 70 Episode 1 : A swarm of struggle between the intruders and the Unit

- and Guard. The intruders are forced to retreat. In t> Although the title Spearhead from Space was Episode 1 on Wednesday 8 October and then
'meteorites' lands so

does the Tardis. From it ^ the melee, the Doctor recovers and escapes adopted before filming began, the serial was as the Brigadier's UNIT HQ office and adja-

still being referred to as Facsimile on some cent UNIT Laboratory for the rest of the serial.

paperwork as late as Christmas 1969 The Auxiliary Building was dressed as the
Hospital Room in Episodes 1 and 2 used for

Saturday 13 September 1969: Liz was several days from Wednesday 8 October, while

driven around Euston Road and Midland Road the bathroom of the main Wood Norton hall

near St Pancras. Holmes' scripts suggested featured in Episode 2 on Sunday 12 October.

that UNIT HQ was accessed via the top level of The Rose Garden was used for a scene set in

a multi-storey car park. The part of the UNIT the Hospital Foyer where Munro showed the

commissionaire was originally played by extra Brigadier the meteorite fragments in Episode

Geoff Brighty; when he failed to give the 2; this was filmed on Tuesday 14 October.
performance required, Sherwin took over the While at Wood Norton, Pertwee found an

role himself. For Liz's costume, Christine abandoned console table in an attic and

Rawlins recalled some vacuum moulding work arranged with some of the crew to have it

done by the Royal College of Art in her lowered out of a back window so he could get

teaching days; vacuum formed beige panels it back to his home in Barnes.

were added to a red jacket made from jersey

material. Caroline John found that this 9 for the Wood Norton shoot, the crew were

costume was not very warm - nor what she based at the Manor House Hotel, Evesham

expected a Cambridge scientist to wear which was also used as Scobie's home in

Episode 3; Wheelbarrow Cottage, north of

O Original plans to film the Doctor and Liz Evesham, appeared as the Seeley's home

arriving at Madame Tussauds in London in

"Sir, it's a cheque for your residuals ... John Breslin and Nicholas Courtney
Beavis' car do not seem to have been followed. 9 Further shooting was conducted in

The 1920s Vauxhall 30/98's gate-change gears London during November. Director Derek
on location at Hatchford Park School.
gave Pertwee considerable problems during Martinus deemed the original climax with the

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 Nestene creature to be unsuccessful and
arranged for a reshoot on 22 November - part

way through filming on The Silurians. Since

Hugh Burden was no longer available to play

Channing, he was doubled by Ivan Orton

0 All episodes had various edits made to

them. Episode 1 had cuts made to the UNIT

officer and technician discussing the meteorite
shower, Munro calling the Brigadier from the
hospital as Liz scoffs at the Brigadier's claims,

the Brigadier pondering if the Police Box found

by Munro could be the TARDIS as he tells Liz

they are leaving for Essex, part of the conversa-

tion between the disorientated Doctor and the

Brigadier in which the former makes reference
to the Yeti and Cybermen, Forbes telling the

other UNIT soldier that Seeley could have got

himself shot, and a short scene showing how

the UNIT sentry at the TARDIS is very jumpy -
levelling his rifle at a sound in the trees.

Episode 2 lost a scene in the hospital foyer at

the start of the episode as the Brigadier returns

and Munro tells him about the raid and the

start of the next scene in the private ward scene between Channing and Hibbert in which "Give me the gun!" "No, want I it, it's mine!" Producer Derrick Sherwin oversees
where Henderson discusses his comatose Channing explains about the Nestenes and a small difference of opinion during shooting. No pun intended. - bbc

patient, part of the dialogue between Ransome how they needed to keep Hibbert alive since

and Hibbert in Hibbert's office, the end of a the replicas can be detected, the end of the

scene at the UNIT Lab where the Brigadier tries UNIT convoy leaving HQ - which showed that commentary for the February 2001 DVD ^ emerges a new Doctor - or

the UNIT attendant was now an Auton release at the Television Centre Voice Studio is it an impostor? The new arrival
to explain to Liz that the police box is the (as
is immediately the object of
Doctor's TARDIS and the start of the next scene referred to by Scobie), and part of the final on Wednesday 20 June 2000; when a power cut
suspicion and a target for an
in Hibbert's office where Channing reprimands scene in which it is indicated that Scobie is blacked out the Centre, recording for Episode
attack.
Hibbert for handling Ransome badly, the end recovering and is in a "shocking temper" 4 had to be rescheduled. This version had to UNIT
Sat 10 Jan 70 Episode 2:

of a scene where Seeley considers how valuable have Oh Well - Port One removed and replaced
soldiers find a meteorite with
his 'thunderball' is as he looks at it, an entire 9 Around 25 minutes of music for the serial by machinery sound effects disastrous consequences.

scene in the hospital ward where Henderson was recorded at Riverside Studios on Friday 28 Ransome investigates the

tells the nurse that the eccentric Dr Beavis is November by eight musicians. Oh Well - Port 9 In the Extras section, most artistes are Plastics factory and makes a

coming to examine their patient, the Brigadier One, the Fleetwood Mac track heard in Episode now identified. The complete extras listing as strange and horrible discovery.

known as follows: Dennis Sat 17 Jan 70 Episode 3: The

complaining that he is surrounded by idiots 2, was from their 1 969 album Then Ploy On currently is
Doctor discovers that the
when informed of the Doctor's escape, the end MacTighe UNIT Driuer; Derrick Sherwin Car
captured meteorite is alive. An
of a scene in the restricted area where O Friday 19 December 1969: Producer Barry Park Attendant; Brian Nolan, Patrick Milner,
Auton begins to hunt down its

Channing tells Hibbert he needs more carbon Letts complained to the Radio Times that their Antonio de Maggio, Peter Kaukus, Brian
prey ...

disulphide and that this section is no longer preview of the serial in their Christmas issue Justice, John Spradbury UNIT Soldiers; Vicky Sat 24 Jan 70 Episode 4: The
safe for him, the start of a Lab scene where had given away major plot points because Maxine, Rosemary Turner, Lindy Russell, Aliens make their final move
Munro tells the Brigadier about the globe they' had printed restricted information from Christine Bradley Nurses; Rachel Hipwood, against civilisation and the

being taken, and finally some dialogue the Drama Early Warning Synopsis Arthur Judd, Marie Johnson Patients; Ellis Monster emerges at last. Can the

Jones Walter Dalby Doctor find the answer in time?

between the Doctor and the Brigadier about Voice of Dr Lomax; Hospital

the former's partial amnesia. Episode 3 lost 9 Friday 27 February 1970: An Audience Receptionist; Dennis MacTighe Ambulance Driuer;
REPEATS
the very start of the scene with Ransome in the Research Report on Episode 1 gave feedback Trevor Cuff, Hugh Wood, Dave Mobley, John
Episode 1* 16 November 1999
Army tent, the end of a scene with Seeley being from 200 viewers; the programme had been Hughes, Alan Cooper, June Jenson Press;
6.oopm-6.25pm 2.7M - -

evasive about the meteorite with Munro, the found "satisfactory" but "seemed naive" David Dewhurst UNIT Soldier (Hawkins); Victor
Episode 2* 16 November 1999
start of the Brigadier questioning Ransome, compared to Star Trek (which it had replaced). Crocksford, Roy Brent Autons/Hospitol Porters; 6.25pm-6.5opm 2.9M - -

the start of the scene where Liz gives the stolen Pertwee's Doctor was readily accepted by Michael Horsburgh Stunt Double for Doctor Who; Episode 3* 23 November 1 999
- -
TARDIS key to the Doctor, some dialogue in the young viewers, although they were disap- Constance CarlingAuton/Secretaru; Ivan Orton 6.oopm-6.25pm 2.4M

Brigadier's office about Auto Plastics being in pointed the new series was set on Earth Auton; Ronald Mayer Auton/Commissionaire; Episode 4* 30 November 1999
6.oopm-6.25pm 2.2M - -
the middle of the search area, the Doctor Robert Willman Walk On; Gideon Kolb, Reg
* Broadcast on B6T2
suggesting the Brigadier pays a friendly visit to 9 Spearhead from Space was sold to Australia Lloyd, Alan Clements, Alfred Hurst, David

the factory after the attack at the cottage, and in January 1971 (screened in August 1971, Billa, Walter Goodman, Maurice Quick,
some dialogue at the factory where Hibbert May 1974 and February 1986), Singapore in Sandy Stein, Sonny Willis, Bill Matthews,
tells the UNIT team that shops ordering their 1971, Hong Kong and Gibraltar in 1972, Dubai Maurice Selwyn, Leonard Kingston, Anthony
mannequins have to pay extra for faces. in 1975 and Qatar, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia Maine, Sheila Knight, June Gray, Bernadette

Episode 4's cuts included the scenes of Liz and in 1977. New Zealand screened it from March Barry, Joy Burnett, Lola Morrice Cara ,

the Doctor running tests on the sphere, a small 1975, May 1985, July 1991 and September Stevens, Claire Maine, Vi Kane Waxworks
part of the phone conversation between the 2000. It was part of a syndication package sold Visitors/Auton Replicas; Henry Rainer Policeman;

Brigadier and the fake Scobie, a short scene of to the USA in 1972. UK Gold have screened the Dennis Hayward, Roger Houghton, Tom
the Doctor telephoning UNIT HQ from the serial many times since February 1993 Segal, Keith Simon, Kenneth Lindford, Roger
waxworks, a sequence with the fake Scobie MinnisAutons/Displou Mannequins; Doris Lang,

arriving at UNIT HQ where Munro says the 9 Sound effects from the serial were Fred Davis, Grace Dolan, Colin Cunningham
Brigadier is at Whitehall, part of Munro included on the BBC CD Doctor Who: 30 Years at Passers-by; Billy Horrigan Stuntman/Passer-by;

refusing to hand over the globe to 'Scobie', the Radiophonic Workshop in July 1993. Norman Littlejohn UNIT Officer; Barry

part of Munro explaining to the Brigadier Harlequin produced Auton figures in 1998 Kennington Regular Army Officer; David

about 'Scobie's visit, the end of a scene where Melbourne, Derek Hunt, Alan Granville,
the Doctor starts to explain things to the 9 Spearhead from Space began a run of Doctor Michael Earl, Garry Dean, Michael Harrison,
Brigadier and the start of the next scene where Who repeats on BBC2 on Tuesdays at 6.00pm Laurence Ross, Bill Matthews, Robert Murray
'Scobie' tells Channing that UNIT is being from November 1999; ratings were low in Regular Soldiers; Hein Viljoen, Barry Ashton,

watched, some of the material with Liz and the opposition to news programmes and Channel Bob Williman, Arnold Chazen, Cy Town,
The Brigadier was always
Doctor working through the night, part of the 4's The Prioru. Most of the episodes were taken Keith Ashley Autons; Ivan Orton Double for
happy to sign autographs
montage at UNIT HQ as news of the attacks from regraded film prints made in 1990 which Channing; Derek Martin Stuntman; Terence
when the press were
coming in, the Doctor asking the Brigadier to were transferred to D3 tapes. Nicholas Denville, Leslie Bates, Diana Collins, John
watching. Creep, s bbc
trust him in raiding the factory, the middle of a Courtney and Caroline John recorded a Spradbury Walk Ons; Chris Rushton Extra

THE CfjmPLETE THIRD CTDR "J"

 Who and the Silurians
Neanderthal Man BH HLHSTHIR II1CBD111I1
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CDmmissinmnB Isn't he bold? It's a bona

Sun 15 Jun 69 Doctor Who and the Earth Reptile, duckie. s bbc

Monsters [working title] storyline

commissioned for Sun 29 Jun 69;

III delivered Fri 11 Jul 69
"But there should have been another way." So someone once
Mon 1 1 Aug 69 The Silurians scripts
said. While I like a laugh as much as the next man, I tend to
commissioned for Mon 29 Sep 69;

Episode 1delivered Fri 15 Aug 69,

concur. Doctor Who and the Silurians gave us just a tantalising

Episode 2 on Mon 18 Aug 6g, glimpse of what an era that could have been. As the second
Episode 3 on Fri 22 Aug 69, story in, it's an exercise in consolidation. Spearhead jrom Spact
Episode 4 on Mon 25 Aug 69, could really have been another Web of Fear or Inuasion, with the
Episode 5 on Fri 29 Aug 69, Doctor arriving handily just in time to thwart another alien
Episode 6 on Tue 2 Sep 69, and attack before making off again. Silurians is the first story to
Episode 7 on Mon 15 Sep 69 exile is permanent and show him adjusting to
confirm that the
his new role as a member of UNIT. Bessie appears. The
PHDOUCTinn Doctor's hat disappears. The format is taking hold.
Wed 12 Nov 6g Marylebone
Station, Westminster [Station];
What Doctor Who and the Silurians does best of all is provide a

Dorset Square and Balcombe template outlining the Doctor's marriage of convenience with
Street, Westminster [Police Car; UNIT and the Brigadier. The tensions that should exist between
Taxi]; Edward Woods Estate, UNIT - the sharp end/blunt instrument of international politics
Hammersmith [Office Block] - and the Doctor should reaffirm the Time Lord's unique alien-
Thu 13 -Fri 14 Nov 69 ness, wanderlust and moral codes with a fresh clarity.
Sheephatch Farm, Tilford [Farm]
The Clams of Axos is where the dynamic ideas of Derrick
Mon - Tue 18 Nov 6g Hankley
17
Sherwin were finally softened into more agreeable family fare
Common, Rushmoor, Surrey
by Barry Letts as, with the regular army placing UNIT under
[Hillside; Moor]
III Wed 19 Nov 69 Milford Chest
house arrest, it is finally made explicit that the Doctor and UNIT
you continue to astonish me." So are the good guys, standing shoulder to shoulder. This denies
Hospital, Milford, Surrey [Country

Road; Hospital]
Thu 20 Nov 69 High Street,
E^HH I
I someone
I
listair,

confess that
or other once said.
I
I

surprised myself the night

have to
I
the underlying message of Doctor
UNIT are quite possibly the
Who
bad guys, an affront
and the Silurians
to much
- that

of
Godalming, Surrey [High Street];
I momentarily became a gushing, smarmy what the Doctor stands for.
Hog's Back Transmitter Station,
Imfl show host by accident. One night, I
chat That message is most powerfully put across in just one
Guildford, Surrey [Research
found myself interviewing Who legend Nicholas Courtney at a wonderful look from Nicholas Courtney in the final episode of
Station; Country Road; Cave
Mouth; Hillside]
Glasgow fan event. As Nick reminded me that the DWAS had Doctor Who and the Silurians. With the Silurians once more in

elected him Honorary President of the society, flashing his hibernation, the Doctor feels the situation is under control.
I! Mon 24 Nov 69 Marylebone
Station [Station (remount)] chain of honour to the assembled throng, it somehow slipped "There's a wealth of scientific knowledge down here," he

Mon 8 Dec 69 Television Centre out: "Seriously," I said, "I can't think of a better choice they enthuses, "and I can't wait to get started on it". The plotiine is

Studio 3: Episode 1
could have made." The audience broke into warm applause, as oft-quoted, but go back and check out the look that the
Mon 15 Dec 69 Television Centre I wondered how obsequious that might have sounded. Brigadier gives the Doctor behind his back. It's perhaps the
Episodes 4 Caves
Studio 1 : 1 ,
2,
- 6:
Everyone loves the Brigadier. It's not just Nick Courtney's look of a man who feels his strings have been jerked once too
Sun 21 Dec 69 Television Centre
affable portrayal. His friendship and loyalty to the Doctor is an often. If not malicious then it is dispassionate; the blank
Studio 1: Episodes 2, 4 - 6: Caves
iconic part of Who lore. Whenever the Brigadier is around, we expression of a man who has surrendered any notion of a
Mon 22 Dec 69 Television Centre
Studio 1: Episodes 2 and 3: other know it's Doctor Who we're watching. We know we're in the personal agenda in favour of acquiescence to his superiors. The

scenes; Quinn's Cottage for presence of a hero. Doctor is patronised and ushered away from Wenley Moor, but
Episode 4 "Right, stop that! It started off as a nice story about a time not before the blasting of the caves begins with indecent haste.
Mon 5 Jan 70 Television Centre travellerwith a broken down police box, forced to form an Only Doctor Who and the Silurians makes their total incompati-
Studio 1: Episode 4 uneasy alliance with a shadowy military organisation, but now bility so plain. Compare the Doctor's bitter expression here
Mon 12 Jan 70 Television Centre just got silly." It was The Three Doctors that finally co-opted
it's with the playground insults - 'pompous, self opinionated idiot'
Studio Episode Closing Titles - which Had the
1 :
5;
Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart, replacing steely military ways jocularly end Inferno only two stories later.
for Episode 4
with a permanent bluster and pomposity reminiscent of Monty template of Doctor Who and the Silurians been taken, we might
Mon 19 Jan 70 Television Centre
Python's stick-in-the-mud army top brass. From thereon in, have had a very different impression of our 'hero' the Brigadier.
Studio 8: Episode 6; Closing Titles
Alistair was largely there for the Doctor to make a mockery of- As it was, this bold part of the series' reformatting lasted only as
for Episode 3

Mon 26 Jan 70 Television Centre the line about Cromer sealing his fate. long as putting Doctor Who and ... ahead of your story title.

Studio 8: Episode 7

radio Times
Sat 31 Jan 70 Episode
in an Atomic Research centre and
1 1 Trouble l:l:M!IMI:l:i:n
rumours of monsters the nearby

caves. The Doctor investigates

in

- and $ Wednesday 6 August 1969; A CSO test 9 Friday 17 October 1969: Use of Ealing from the first floor of the Sun Hotel in

session was held in Studio TC7 from 4pm to gpm Stages 3A/B for filming on Thursday 13, Friday Godalming which was the crew's base for the
finds more than he bargained for.

14 and Monday 17 was abandoned, with the week. For the scene in Episode 7 where the
Sat 7 Feb 70 Episode 2: The
Brigadier insists on exploring the Tuesday 23 September 1969: Director Tim location shoot being extended instead Silurian base was blown up, the 36 gallon

caves. The party have a terrifying Combe considered the logistics of using some drum of petro-gel detonated by visual effects

encounter - leading to great of his filming allocation to shoot the cave ^ Monday 10 November 1969: Location designer Jim Ward and his assistant Rhys
danger for Liz.
scenes at Wookey Hole in Somerset rehearsals took place at St Helens Church Hall Jones accidentally set the dry grass of Hog's
Sat 14 Feb 70 Episode 3: The
Back alight and assistant script editor Trevor
wounded Silurian is hunted by the
9 Wednesday 24 September 1969: Industrial Monday 17 November 1969: Animal King- Ray had to deal with the local fire brigade

9
hi
Brigadier and his men. But

Doctor
face to face.
who first meets a Silurian
it is the
action put filming back to

with weekly recordings from

Monday 10 November
1 December.
dom provided the three Alsatians used by UNIT
Q) Monday 24 November 1969: The filming at

Sat 21 Feb 70 Episode 4: The Margaret McKinnon was to have taken over on 9 Thursday 20 November 1969: The shot of Marylebone Station had to be remounted

Doctor and Liz discover the ^ make-up, but was replaced by Marion Richards Bessie driving down the high street was filmed because the processing labs ruined the film.

CTLTR WHO mnGRZinE

9 The latex Silurian masks, made by visual 28 December (Episode 1), Tuesday 30 ^ Doctor Who and the Silurians was sold to ^ secret of the monsters in

assistant Gerry Abouaf, housed a light (Episodes 2 and 3), Wednesday March 1971, and Hong Kong, the caves.
effects
7 January 1 970 Australia in to

operated from a 1 2V battery. Abouaf made a (Episode 4), Thursday Sunday Sat 28 Feb 70 Episode 5: The Doctor
1 5 (Episode 5), Gibraltar, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Singapore
tries to save the Brigadier and his
u" Silurian figurine as a memento for Combe 25 (Episode 6), Friday 30 (Episode 7) and and Korea around 1977. New Zealand
men, and the Silurians strike a
Monday 2 February (Episodes 6 and 7) screened it from April 1975. A version of the
terrible blow against mankind.
f) Monday 15 December 1969: The dinosaur colourised reconstruction was used in a run of
Sat 7 Mar 70 Episode 6: The
was operated by visual effects assistant 9 Thursday 5 February 1970: Marjorie BBC2 repeats on Tuesdays in 1999/2000 Doctor struggles to find a cure for
Bertram A Collacott and was listed in scripts FJilbow of The Stage observed that Pertwee had the disease the Silurians have
as 'Bertram, the Friendly Monster' played by already "created a brand new Superbrain with ^ Fine Art Castings released Silurian figures unleashed ... and the Silurians
'Himself; oxygen was pumped into the outfit, all the eccentric charm of his predecessors but in 1986 and 1987, Imagineering produced a plan to deal with the Doctor.

made by effects assistant Anna Braybrooke. with a humour and forcefulness of his own" Silurian mask in 1987 and Jonder released a Sat 14 Mar 70 Episode 7: The
Silurians attack the Research
phone card based on serial in 1996. Further
-
H Thursday 18 December 1969: Jack Kine of 0 Monday 9 February 1970: A young Silurian figures followed from Harlequin and
Centre the
recapture the world.
first step in a plan to

visual effects noted that there was no credit for viewer's letter on Junior Points of View pointed Dapol in 1998. Carey Blyton re-recorded part
bis department on Episode 1 and asked if this out that the reptile men could not have come of his music score for the CD Sherlock Holmes
REPENTS
would be present for later episodes; Letts from the Silurian era. The edition of Friday 3 meets Dr Who issued in July 1999 Episode 1* 7 Dec 1999
replied in January saying that he would April had presenter SallyThomsett demon- Episode 2* 14 Dec 1999
arrange for a credit from Episode 4 onwards strating how the Silurian's third eye operated & In the Extras section, further clarification Episode 3* 21 Deer 1999

for episodes with heavy visual effects content. of cast is now possible: Peter Blackburn and Episode 4* 4 Jan 2000

9 Thursday 7 May 1970: An Audience Bruce Cox along with Jay Neill were UNIT Episode 5* 11

Episode 6* 18 Jan 2000

Jan 2000 1.7M

f} Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 January Research Report on Episode 7 summarised Soldiers/Policemen; Richard Pickup and Dennis
Episode 7* 25 Jan 2000
1970: Six musicians recorded the music score comments from 200 viewers; the episode had McTighe were UNIT Driuers/Ambulonce Men;

at Riverside for the first four and last three been well received on the whole, and Pertwee Graham Warwick was UNIT Dog Handler. * -
All episodes broadcast 6.00
episodes; this was the first use of post-dubbed was often singled out for praise since his Omitted were Bertram A Collacott as Bertram 6.25pm on BBC2. No uiewina figures
music on a videotaped Doctor Who serial Doctor was "much more modern and the Friendly Monster, Paul Barton as Wounded available for Episodes 1-4 and 6-7

sensible". The serial had been felt to be too Silurian Voice and Richard Pickup and B G
f) Editing on the serial took place on Sunday horrific for some younger children Heath as Police/Ambulance Driuers

The Ambassadors of Death

Bridge Over Troubled Water BB
DUim HRCHHIE
DWM 252

Final proof of the existence of CDmmissiomnE

Ready-Brek on Mars? bbc Thu 1 May 69 The Carriers of Death

[BBB] storyline commissioned for

Mon 19 May 69 from David
Death, and I scan the brief synopsis. A "London warehouse" Whitaker; delivered Mon 9 Jun 69
seems an odd setting for Doctor Who, and I assume that when Wed 25 Jun 69 The Corriers of Death
"Dr Who" makes his "solo space mission" to find "the real scripts commissioned for Sun 31
astronauts", he does so in the TARDIS. The outline leaves me Aug 69 from Whitaker; Episode 1

very curious indeed about this particular adventure ... delivered 8 Jul 69, Episode 2 on 20

It's May 1978. I'm reading my first batch of J Jeremy Jul 69, Episode 3 on 1 2 Nov 69.

Episodes 4 to 7 not delivered

Bentham's Story Info files from the Doctor Who Appreciation
Tue 18 Nov 69 Doctor Who and the
Society, absorbing fuller details of storylines for serials chat I've
Carriers of Death Episodes 2 and 3
never seen nor been able to read a Target novelisation of. The
script revisions and Episodes 4 to 7
Ambassadors of Death catches my attention; clearly the plot is far
scripts for 28 Nov 6g from Malcolm
more complex and involved than I'd imagined, and I try to visu- Hulke; delivered 30 Jan 70
- from the scant pictures I've seen - what some of these
alise
characters and situations must have looked like. The PRDDUCTIOn
cliffhangers are a bit tricky to get a handle on, and the closing Sat 3 Jan 70 Television Centre
Studio Experimental Session
comments on the document seem to indicate that it's a 3:

Fri 23 Jan 70 Wycombe RDC

confused story where nobody ever understands who's on whose
Sewage Works, Little Marlow,
side. It's not a monster invasion storyline, nor a mad scientist
Bucks [Factory]; Spade Oak
one. The fanzines don't seem terribly enamoured with it either,
Quarries, Bucks [Gravel Pit]
which doesn't bode well ....
Mon 26 Jan 70 Southall Gas
It's July 1980. I've just walked several miles through the Works, Southall, Middx [Space
summer heat to the post sorting office at Totley. Waiting there HQ: Fuel Areas/Decontamination

is a package mailed from Kelvin Mead, my pen-friend in Miami Unit/Roadway; Quinlan's Office]

and most fervent of the USA's new breed of Tue 27 Jan 70 Southall Gas Works
and one of the first jfl
[Space HQ: Fuel Areas]; White
he Ambassodors of Death is my favourite Doctor Who Doctor Who fans. Inside are cassette tapes with soundtracks to
Street, Southall [Warehouse]; TCC
serial,and has been for a couple of decades now. about 20 old serials. And the two I want to hear the most are The
Condensers, Ealing [Warehouse]
Every time I watch it, I find it a complete pleasure, Ambassadors of Death and Inferno. As I set to work on my O-level
Wed 28 Jan 70 TCC Condensers
5i
and the memories of how my enjoyment esca- art project, I listen to The Ambassadors o/Death, and am immedi- [Warehouse]
lated are also crystal clear ... by the evocative music score from Dudley
ately captivated Thu 29 Jan 70 Wycombe Air Park,

leave
It's December 1973. The papers have arrived
for school, and with them this morning
early before
is the added
I Simpson, with its Procol Harum overtones, percussive
suspense numbers and melodious UNIT themes. Malcolm
High Wycombe, Bucks [Heldorf's
Laboratory; Roads]; Gossmore
I
bonus of a Radio Times special celebrating Doctor Who's tenth Hulke's clever dialogue makes the protagonists distinct and Lane, Marlow, Bucks [Country

anniversary.

prior to
Being only eight years old,
Colony in Space is patchy, and now
my memory
this colourful
of stories
maga-
fascinating. The vocal performances are tremendous: the dry
reasoning of Ronald Allen, the laconic callousness of William
Roads; Field]; Marlow Weir, Mar-
low, Bucks [Country Roads; Weir]
1
Fri 30 Jan 70 Claycart Bottom, nr
zine presents an instant pictorial history of what I've missed. Dysart, the xenophobic morality of John Abineri, the luckless
Farnborough [Field; Country
On the first of the blue colour-coded pages for Jon Pertwee, snivelling of Cyril Shaps, and even Robert Cawdron's turn as a
Road]; Puckeridge Hill Road
there's the striking photo of a spacesuited 'Michaels', and a trio Pythonesque 'French Taunter'! The story captivates me Bridge, Aldershot [Country Road]
of smaller shots that seem to depict his transformation into a completely on the first of many, many listenings ... Sat 31 Jan 70 Royal Engineers
strange, cocooned being. This relates to The Ambassadors of It's August 1985. We're staying in the beautiful Portmeirion Driving Circuit, Farnborough,

THE CDITIPLETE THIRD DOCTOR

I!
 ^ Hants [Country Road: hijack] after the annual PortmeiriCon convention for The Prisoner... and advancing on a jump-suited, blonde Liz Shaw; and how 'OF
Mon 2 Feb 70 Beacon Hill, Ewshot, amongst the non-stop videos being shown is a rather blurry DEATH' zooms up to the screen, punctuated by a thundercrack
Hants [Pillbox: Country Road] opening Michael Ferguson's
camera copy of The Ambassadors of Death that flashes between in the credits. stylish direction is I

Tue 3 - Wed 4 Feb 70 Blue Circle

every bit as potent as Hulke's dialogue. At the end of the hazy
colour and monochrome. Everyone knows that the story's a
Cement Works, Northfleet, Kent
turkey from the received wisdom of this modern fan age, but three hour session, I am delighted ...
[Space HQ: Roadway: Main Gate]
Fri 1 3 Feb 70 Television Centre
I'm captivated at putting visuals to a soundtrack I know off by It's August 2001. I've just watched The Ambassadors of Death for

Studio 3: Episode 1
heart. And my anticipation of the show is being rewarded: I the umpteenth time ... but this time with my fiancee, who's !

Fri 20 Feb 70 TC3: Episode 2 drink in the warehouse battle, which looks like something out never seen it before. It's brilliant sharing my favourite serial
Fri 27 Feb 70 TC3: Episode 3 of The Suieeneu; Derek Ware's stunt fall from the helicopter; the with her in our odyssey through the series. And as the final

Fri 6 Mar 70 TC3: Episode 4 crash zooms on the quarry sequences; the Doctor floating down credits roll, she smiles and says, "That was good. I can see why
Fri 1 3Mar 70 TC3: Episode 5 out of the Recovery 7 capsule; the bizarre, lumpen alien you like it ..."
Fri 20 Mar 70 TC4: Episode 6
Fri 27 Mar 70 TCi : Episode 7

RnDin Times
Sat 21 Mar 70 Episode 1 1 After months
1 : 1 :i H :i in
of silence, Mars Probe 7 is on its way
back to Earth. But the Doctor suspects Thursday 13 November 1969: David 9 Caroline John wore a blonde wig because much remembered by the cast, was a quick

that something has gone terribly Whitaker ran into problems with scripting and her own hair went frizzy in the rain. At the time rehearsal at the fastest pace possible in which
wrong in space ...
did not deliver anything beyond Episode 3. A the actress had things on her mind: firstly she they were allowed to use peculiar voices and
Sat 28 Mar 70 Episode 2: Cornish and
deal was agreed where Whitaker would be paid was pregnant and had not told the production so get any silliness out of their systems
his team continue their efforts to save
only for this work and Malcolm Hulke would team, and secondly she was required to film a
the astronauts and the Doctor fights
complete scripting as soon as possible; on car chase driving Bessie but had not yet passed («V Friday 1 3 February 1 970: As part of his
enemies who seem determined to
Wednesday 26 November it was agreed that her driving test performance as Wakefield, Michael Wisher
prevent them from succeeding.
Hulke would not be credited. In an early outline had to move his eyes to simulate his reading
Sat 4 Apr 70 Episode 3: The mystery of

the missing astronauts deepens and of the serial, an Army officer called Lieutenant 9 Saturday 31 January 1970: During the off an autocue; Ferguson had said an autocue
the Doctor's investigations put Liz in Pollard featured in Episodes 2 and 3, Heldorf shooting of the hi-jack scene, one of the motor- would be available, but this was not the case
terrible danger. was originally a "German radiation expert" bikes ridden by a stuntman hit the camera crew
Sat 11 Apr 70 Episode

prisoner, the enemy

4: With
plan an attempt on
Liz a called Professor Kuhn, and a cyclist and tractor after the performer had fallen from it. Pauline 9 Editing took place between 22 February

driver were to have been in Episodes 3 and 4. Silcock, the director's assistant, had her leg and 5 April, with dubbing from 5 March to 7
the Doctor's life. Quinlan promises to
The original fake names on Reegan's van were gashed open and was replaced by Michael April. Ferguson had to request extra editing
tell the truth - but by now it is too late.
to read 'Progressive Launderers Ltd' and Jackley. Shooting on this day was delayed due time above the standard six hours - work on
Sat 18 Apr 70 Episode 5: The Doctor
'Masons Bakery' but were changed to reflect to a security alert caused by a UFO sighting - Episode 1 over-ran so badly that eight hours
prepares to blast off, unaware that his

rocket has been sabotaged. the names of the production staff the UFO being the BBC's own Recouery 7 prop! were requested in future.

Sat 25 Apr 70 Episode 6: On board the

Alien space ship, the Doctor learns the 9 Saturday 3 January 1970: The CSO test Tuesday 3 February 1 970: Blue Circle £ Monday 6 July 1970: Terrance Dicks wrote
ll truth at last. Cornish and the Brigadier session incurred a seven minute over-run Cement were in the midst of an industrial to Whitaker commenting that "part of the
await the Doctor's return - but so does
because of VT line-up problems dispute regarding the use of wet weather first episode was shown to an international
eVI Regan - with a plan to silence him.
working clothes, but the employees enjoyed drama conference to great acclaim!"
May 70 Episode General
i
Sat 2

Carrington goes ahead with his plan to

7:
^ Visual effects assistant Rhys Jones envis- the BBC's visit so much that they called off the

provoke a Space War. Only the Doctor

aged the inside of the alien satellite as being strike. Delighted, Blue Circle waived their fee 9 The serial was screened on BBC Prime in

can prevent him. But the Doctor is a like the interior of a whale; it was made in and sent beer to the production team as thanks 1995 with the colourised Episode 5; New
prisoner and the Brigadier is powerless pink coloured fibreglass and dressed with Zealand repeated it in October 2000 and the

to rescue him. latex cobweb strands Q> A technique of director Michael Ferguson, !
BBC Video release came in May 2002

I
ll I""] Fjj irt l ll

Paranoid BU STEUEI1 mOFFHT

CDDIDIISSIDDIDE Doctor Who's plan to block the shaft with an enormous

Thu 27 Nov 69 Doctor Who and the Edam was foiled when the Primords nicked it. e bbc
Mo-Hole Project [working title only]

storyline commissioned for Fri 19

Dec 69 delivered Thu 4 Dec 69
leaned in the kitchen doorway, hands shoved in my
Fri 9 Jan 70 Doctor Who and the Mo-
Hole Project scripts commissioned
pockets, my air of cool detachment only slighdy
for Fri 27 Feb 70; Episode 1 deliv- dispelled by the fact that I was a chubby eight-year-old
ered Thu 8 Jan 70, Episode 2 deliv- with bad hair. Mum was doing the dishes.
ered Thu 15 Jan 70, Episode 3 I cleared my throat casually. I'd read about clearing
delivered Thu 29 Jan 70, Episode 4 your throat casually in a James Bond book only recendy and was
delivered Tue 3 Feb 70, Episode 5 worried that I never seemed to clear my throat at all, casually or
delivered Thu 12 Feb 70, Episode 6 odierwise. Now
would spend two or three minutes a day casu-
I

delivered Tue 17 Feb 70, Episode 7

ally hawking and gobbing in the sink. If that was how James
delivered Fri 27 Feb 70
Bond liked to start a conversation, who was I to argue?
PRDDUCTIOn "I'm trying to do the dishes," said Mum, pushing me gendy
Tue 31 Mar 70 Berry Wiggins 8t Co away from the basin.
Ltd, nr Rochester, Kent [Warp I: "So?" I continued, urbanely wiping my chin on my sleeve.

Main Gates; Rooftop Nuclear "Doctor Who is coming on."

Reactor; Warp U: Huts; High "Okay."
Tanks]
"Are you coming to watch it?"
Wed 1 Apr 70 Berry Wiggins & Co
"No."
Ltd [Warp I: Catwalks; Railway;
She didn't even turn. Didn't even look at me. My heart was
Warp II: Catwalks; Red Tank Area]
ll Thu 2 Apr 70 Berry Wiggins & Co thumping so hard my chest was banging against my chin. This
Ltd [Warp I: Operational Building; was a disaster!
Nuclear Switchroom; Warp II: "Why don't you ask your Dad? He's working on the car."

DOCTOR WHO ITIPGRZiriE

 I narrowed my eyes to fierce slits, just like James Bond ?f Roadway; Operational
Building; Low Flash Area; Nuclear
always did when faced with deadly danger, and started groping
Switchroom]
along the wall for the back door.
Fri 3 Apr 70 Berry Wiggins & Co
"And stop walking around with your eyes shut," said my Ltd [Warp I: Doctor's Hut; Warp
Mum, who didn't understand Doctor Who. Or James Bond. II: Wasteground; Doctor's Hut;
My Dad was trying to fix the car engine by Angry Staring. High Tank Fall]

"Dad," I said, wittily. Mon 6 Apr 70 Ealing Film Studios

Dad grunted. Stage 2: Int. Doctor's Hut;

Nightmare Warp
"Doctor Who is coming on," I volunteered.
Tue 7 Apr 70 Ealing Film Studios
"Uh-huh," said Dad. He didn't break eye contact with the
Stage 2: Drill Head; Complex
engine in case it got any ideas.
Model
"Are you coming to watch it?"
Tue 7 Apr 70 Ealing Film Studios
"Maybe later", said Dad. Stage 2: Central Control; Drill

I swallowed hard. It was true. It was real. What had I always Head
feared had finally come to pass. This was to be the day. Fri 24 Apr 70 Television Centre
And so it was, a little on an otherwise unremark-
after five Studio 3: Episodes 1 and 2

able Saturday, that 1 sat alone with a television set and waited Thu 7 May 70 Television Centre
Studio Episodes 4 and 6:
for Doctor Who to come on. 3: 3,

Warp I scenes
Alone, I said.
Fri 8 May 70 Television Centre
lust me. And the television set. And Doctor Who.
Nicholas Courtney as the evil Brigade Leader. For eyepatch story dial Studio 3: Episodes 3, 4 and 6:
I had, by this stage, been watching Doctor Who devotedly for Warp
6. Or press * on your handset for further anecdote options, e bbc
II scenes
as long as I could remember - several weeks in fact - but there Thu 21 May 70 Television Centre
was one thing that had never done. One challenge that
I Studio 6: Episodes 5

remained unfaced. One rite of passage unpassed. I had never scooters and zip fasteners, probably think you've spotted a Fri 22 May 70 Television Centre

watched what was clearly the most terrifying television flaw in my design.Surely, you say, someone would notice that Studio 6: Episodes 6: Warp II

scenes
programme ever made on my own. I was choosing to sit there and watch a darkened television?
Fri 22 May 70 Television Centre
This bleak Saturday was to be my first solo Who experience. How you know of the world before your time!
little
Studio 3: Episodes 7
I was facing nothing less than the end of my childhood. I sat Televisions, in those days, were made of bakelite and wet string
there, more clenched than any boy had ever been, gripping the and prone to mechanical failures, such as the wick going rhdid Times
chair remember how
without the aid of my hands, and tried to out. Reception was a sort of witchcraft and our television-top Sat 9 May 70 Episode 1 An :

to The clock wasn't any help - time just kept on

breathe. aerial only worked if everyone kept their breathing shallow and apparently motiveless murder
passing like there was nothing to worry about. People walked stood in carefully assigned positions around the room. My brings the Brigadier to the

along the pavement outside as if they knew nothing of soul- parents were forced to have a third child purely so that they 'Inferno' -a terrifying project to

freezing terror. And the television flickered away the remaining could receive BBC2. Best of all, though - at least for me on drill through the Earth's crust.

- was that The Doctor and Liz are already

seconds of my innocence. that particular Saturday televisions took a while to
there as observers - but the
And then something terrible happened. Something that still warm up ...
Doctor has plans for a dangerous
churns my stomach to think of it. The announcer spoke. Here was my plan in all its giddy brilliance. I would tell any
experiment of his own.
Here's a new fact. Here's something you don't know about passing parent, curious at my lack of entertainment, that the
Sat 16 May 70 Episode 2: The
Doctor Who. Here's what the announcer said before Episode i of television was warming up!
still Doctor is a victim of a savage
Inferno: "And now Dr Who's most terrifying adventure!" Which is what I said to my mother as she passed
exactly attack. His quarrel with Professor

I ask you! Seriously! 1 ask you! through the room a few seconds later, before she briefly Stahlman comes to a head and

Even as I shook in my father's armchair in the grip of the inspected the television, clicked it on again, and plunged me the Doctor makes a desperate
effort to reactivate the Tardis
most deranging terror I had ever known, I formulated a plan so into 25 minutes of solitary terror!
console.
fantastically cunning that I hoped one day I'd get to write about That Monday at school, I was able to tell my friends, gath-
Sat 23 May 70 Episode 3: The
it in a specialist magazine. I remember growing almost dizzy ered and gaping around me, that had watched Doctor Who
I
Doctor's attempt to reactivate the
with the brilliance of my vision, as I leaned forward and turned alone! I had been hard. I had been dangerous. Finally, I
Tordis console hurls him into a
the television off. Sweaty with relief, I sat back to watch a realised, Ihad a way to impress girls.
situation where old friends seem
screen of blissful blankness. My name is Steven Moffat. I am 40 years old. I am still deadly enemies.
Now you lot, in your smug world of internets and fold-away a virgin. Sat 30 May 70 Episode 4: The
Doctor fights to survive in a
frighteningly different duplicate

m
world. Stahlman orders that he
1
>
shall be shot on sight ...

Sat 6 Jun 70 Episode 5: In the

parallel world Earth's crust is

f) Director Douglas Camfield found the loca- penetrated - and the results are
tion of Berry Wiggins & Co when travelling to even more horrifying than the
view the site of the Kingsnorth Power Station Doctor had feared.
on the Isle of Grain Sat 13 Jun 70 Episode 6:

Powerless to save the parallel

world in which he is trapped, the
9 Wednesday 1 April 1970: April Fools
Doctor fights to reactivate the
Day. Jon Pertwee and the crew led Havoc
Tordis console and return to 'our'
stuntman Derek Martin to believe that his
world - before it is too late.
cherished Jaguar 2.8 had had its front
The
Sat 20 Jun 70 Episode 7:
smashed in at the unit hotel by a brewer's Doctor returns to 'our' world only
delivery van to see the same terrifying pattern

of events repeat itself- and no

t) Friday 3 April 1970: The sequence one will listen to his warnings.

abandoned from the end of the day had

Benton and the UNIT soldiers searching

around the huts and concluded with Slocum
killing Collins, a UNIT soldier

9 The serial was screened on BBC Prime in

1995 and repeated in New Zealand in October

2000. Colin Howard's artwork for the cover of
the BBC videotape was issued by Slowdazzle

asapostcard in 1999. Sound effects from the

serial were included on Doctor Who at the BBC Alan Barnes really
Radiophonic Music - Volume 2: New Beginnings let himself go after
released by BBC Music in May 2000 leaving DWM ... e bb

THE CrjITIPLETE THIRD CTTJH

 Something Old,
Something New
With the new, colourful, action-oriented Doctor Who judged a success, producer Barry Letts

and script-editor Terrance Dicks, were free to fine-tune the series. Andrew Pixley g'wes us the

lowdown on Season Eight, the year that the Doctor gained a new friend - and a new foe

nlike his predecessors, Jon Pertwee was allowed the luxury of production team had hoped for, Dicks discussed some changes prior
at least three months holiday away from Doctor Who during commissioning Pandora Machine at the start of August. The Pandora Machine

the summer months, and a generally less punishing schedule scripts began to arrive towards the end of August, with Roger Delgado
- with filming of one story now seldom overlapping with the having his first costume fitting as the Master on Monday 24 August, and
recording of its predecessor. As such, the reduced seasons Manning attending hers the next day to settle on the look of the contem-
allowed him to take on other projects. The actor recorded an episode of the porarily fashionable Jo Grant. Pertwee was also given a new look for the

radio sitcom Brothers in law at the Playhouse on Friday 12 June 1970 (broad- new season with a more colourful selection of jackets than those of the
cast Tuesday 11 August) and then filmed a story for Amicus' portmanteau previous year.
horror The House That Dripped Blood before taking on cabaret assignments Further discussions with Bob Baker and Dave Martin led to The Friendly

and enjoying a holiday in Morocco; the actor also celebrated his 51st Inuasion being tentatively commissioned as scripts under the title of The
birthday in early July. Less exotic was the brief holiday enjoyed during early Axons in mid-September, soon followed by the scripts for Colony. On
June by script editor Terrance Dicks in Broadstairs, since the new scripts Wednesday September - the day before filming started on Dicks' revised
16

and stories had to be lined up for pre-filming from September. scripts for The Spray of Death - Pertwee was interviewed by Pete Murray on

It was also around now that Pertwee turned his hand to writing. Teaming his Radio 2 Open House programme. Shooting then got underway in

up with American actor/writer Reed de Rouen he submitted the seven-part Buckinghamshire, with the short-sighted Manning demonstrating her acci-
storyline Doctor Who and the Spare-Part People (aka The Brain Drain and The dent-prone nature by twisting her ankle the following week. Nicholas
Labyrinth). In this, the Doctor and
UNIT investigate the disappearance PERTUIEE TURNED HIS MHID TO UIRITIRC,
of famous

Doctor pose as
people by having the
Dr John Madden, a SUBmiTTinB "DOCTOR UIHD HDD THE SPHRE-
Cambridge don, and allow himself
to be kidnapped by mummy-like
TO THE PRODUCTIDO OFFICE
creatures and taken to a strange, ancient civilisation Courtney was also going through a bad patch,
in Antarctica where he sees barbaric games and suffering from nerves and depression during
encounters a monster in a labyrinth. It seems that the filming, but made a good recovery in time for
actor's proposition was never seriously considered. the studio recordings.

The new look of Doctor Who was attracting atten- On Friday 25 September, a four-part storyline

tion from other media, and a Lancaster-based Mega was delivered from Bill
entitled The

production company called Century Theatre Ltd Struttonwho had worked on Doctor Who in 1965;
expressed interest in transferring the format to stage thesame day, producer Barry Letts, composer
for children, going as far as having the BBC send a Dudley Simpson and Brian Hodgson of the
draft contract to them on Thursday 18 June. Radiophonic Workshop met to discuss the new
Meanwhile, the regular cast continued to grow for electronic incidental scores for Doctor Who which
thenew television adventures with John Levene being would debut with Terror of the Autons - the new

[
contracted for 18 episodes on Monday 22 June. adopted for The Spray of Death. Around this
title

I Auditions for the new characters of Jo Grant and time, Pertwee's Doctor made his debut in World

Mike Yates were held on Wednesday 24 June, the Distributors' The Dr Who Annual in which he was
same day that The Cerebroids was formally commis- accompanied by Liz and the Brigadier. Terror of
'
sioned as scripts from Charlotte and Dennis Plimmer the Autonswas then recorded during October;
- only to be written off five days later. Letts had chosen to directed this serial himself,

At the end of June, two more storylines - Pandora experimenting considerably with CSO tech-

Machine from Don Houghton and Colony from niques, out of sequence recording and the two

Malcolm Hulke - were commissioned and given the episodes over two days technique which had
The former used the Doctor Who's new schedule meant that proved so successful on Inferno.
go-ahead as scripts within days.
Pertwee had more time for other projects The Mega storyline was retrospectively
violent setting of a prison to investigate advanced
scientific forms of rehabilitation while Hulke's commissioned on Monday 19 October while
outline took note of the criticisms from Junior Points of View and saw the Dicks helped Baker and Martin to develop their scripts for The Vampire from
Doctor whisking Jo away to another planet in the future where a human was now known).. Around the same time, Louis Marks,
Space (as The Axons

colony's desire for self-sufficiency was failing. Houghton's outline soon who had written for the series in 1964 and was now a BBC script editor, also

incorporated the Master in place of its original villain, while the renegade submitted a storyline in which ghosts were revealed to be time travelling
Time Lord also appeared in the closing stages of Hulke's serial. fugitives from the future. A further story, The Space War by Ian Stuart Black

The parts of Jo and Yates were cast; Richard Franklin was contracted as (another 1960s writer), was commissioned as a six-part storyline on
the latter on Wednesday 1 July, followed by Katy Manning for a minimum of Monday 9 November, with a target delivery date of Tuesday 1 December; the
20 episodes as Jo two days later. There was then little development on the outline was delivered on Friday 27 November - shortly after most of the
show during July, with Dicks - now refreshed from his holiday - concen- scripts for Colony arrived from Hulke. Other ideas for stories around now
trating on Robert Holmes' which were deliv-
scripts for The Spray of Death included one from Martin Worth about plant life taking over, and another

ered at the start of the month. Because these weren't entirely what the concerning a hidden Amazon city from director Douglas Camfield.

THE CDITIPLETG THIRD CTOH

Benson B
Below: Katy Manning makes her debut as Jo Grant on location for Terror of the
Pertwee takes a fag break at Robert Brothers Circus. Bottom:
Atrtons. Right: Jon
Pertwee and the crew enjoy the sunshine at the GPO relay station, Caddington.

ft** *J

The Mind of Euil - the new title for Pandora Machine - started shooting at from The Power of the Daleks Episode Two alongside the Auton Daffodil Men
the end of October and continued the trend of ambitious action set pieces, from Terror of the Autons Episode Four.
with the stunt talents of 'Havoc' this time being augmented by the loan of While The Mind of Evil was being shown on BBCi, filming started in
hardware from the RAF. Recording continued through to Christmas, during Cornwall on Colony in Space (formerly Colony); this serial featured only a
which time the final story for the new season was settled upon. Using the fleeting appearance from the Brigadier in the first and last episodes, and

audition piece for Jo and Yates as a starting point, Letts developed the new offered viewers a glimpse of the Time Lords again as the exiled Doctor was
Robert Sloman under
storyline, The Demons, in conjunction with playwright sent on a mission by his peers. And while the 3D Doctor battled alien mind
the pen-name of 'Guy Leopold'; this was commissioned just before parasites at Stangmoor Prison, the adventures of the 2D Doctor took on a

Christmas, and would see the Doctor Who format being used to explain away more colourful and adult tone as Polystyle transferred its Doctor Who strip

mythology and the occult with alien science. from TV Comic into its lavish, SF-orientated title, Countdown.

Delgado featured prominently on the cover of the Radio Times on At the start of March, writer Brian Hayles - who had created the Ice
Thursday 31 December as a colourful comic-strip style photomontage Warriors - returned to the Doctor Who fold when two of his unused story

TERRnnCE DICKS U1RS nOUl DRIUMfi HIS WRITERS

THMH in TERmS DF R1RRE RERLISTIC CHHRHCTERS HRD
nHRRHTIllES, OFTEH IRSPIRED RU REHL
introduced the colourful comic-strip style ideas (The Brain-Dead and The Shape of Terror)
Terror of the Autons which began on BBCi on were discussed, and Hayles was asked to take
Saturday 2 January 1971; the Master was also certain elements from them to develop as a

the focus of an article inside the magazine. four part serial. On Wednesday 3 March

For its eighth season, Doctor Who was running during work on Colony in Space, Pertwee
at5.15pm again, against light entertainment became the unsuspecting victim ofEamonn
show Stewpot on LWT and the likes of Bonanza, Andrews on Thames Television's This Is Your
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Joker's Wild on Life; die programme, broadcast on Wednesday 1

other regions. Against this variable competi- 14 April, saw Pertwee joined by his Doctor Who
tion, Doctor Who maintained its eight million colleagues and reunited with many of his

viewers from the previous season. friends and fellow actors.

Two days after viewers saw Jo and the The start of The Claws ofAxos on BBCi was
Master for the first time, the cast and crew of heralded in Radio Times by a short piece enti-
The Vampirefrom Space braved the winter chill to tled That Golden Feeling about guest star
start filming atDungeness while The Demons Bernard Holley. However, while this new serial

was given the go-ahead as a set of scripts. On was being broadcast, an item in the Daily
BBCi, Terror of the Autons' scenes showing H^39H9|HH13i Sketch on Saturday 20 March seemed to echo

everyday plastic objects and even policemen as the feeling that the show was becoming

instruments of evil was raising a few eyebrows. Reviewer Sylvia Clayton increasingly adult - and this opinion was being voiced by none other than

referred to these elements in the Daily Telegraph on Monday 18 January, William Hartnell, the original Doctor, who declared from retirement that
commenting that the show was tending more towards adult horror. Doctor Who was "no longer a programme for children".

As January drew to a close, Marks was formally commissioned for a story Continuing to line up serials for the next season, Letts opted for the
breakdown on his time-travelling idea under the title The Ghost Hunters, return of another old monster, albeit in a revised form, and commissioned
which Dicks saw as a favourite to open the next season of Doctor Who. The The Sea Silurians as a storyline from Hulke at the end of March; this would

Vampirefrom Space changed its title to The Claws of Axos between its first and feature the Master, but since the production team felt that the character had
second studio recordings, and on Friday 29 January, letters to BBCi's Ask already been over-used, his appearances next season would be less
Aspel (the replacement for Junior Points of View) about how Doctor Who was frequent. Colony in Space was launched to the public in a blaze of colour in
less scary than it used to be prompted the screening of a clip of the Daleks the Radio Times on Thursday 8 April as the legendary comic strip artist Frank

DOCTOR WHO ITIRGRZine

 kitten! In studio for The Mind of Evil. Above:
ertwee and Nick Courtney larking about at Oungeness for The Claws of.
elow: DJ Ed Stewart pays a visit during recording of The Daemons.

Bellamy provided some stunning illustrations of the new serial's opening

minutes; this was to be the first of numerous pieces which Bellamy would
provide for Radio Times in conjunction with the series, having previously
given Star Trek a similar strip page in June 1970.
From Colony in Space, Doctor Who was given a new regular time slot of

6.15pm; this moved it clear of the new Gerry Anderson film series UFO from Sunday 16 May (running a day after Doctor Who), Pertwee did another
which a number of ITV regions had started screening in direct opposition round of promotional interviews, this time on Radio 2's Late Night Extra on

to Doctor Who during February and March. In the new slot, the competition Friday 14 and the following morning with Michael Aspel on Radio 4's Today
was a variety of old movies, Whittalcer's World of Music on LWT and shows like programme. The growing popularity of Doctor Who meant there was now no
The Golden Shot and Nearest and Dearest in the regions. The new time slot saw doubt about further seasons; on Friday 14 May, Manning was contracted for
about a million viewers joining the series, and unlike the previous year, at least 20 episodes out of 26, while Pertwee was booked for the full run

these figures did not tail off with the summer months, giving a consistent four days later, with production to run from September through to May
average of eight million through the run. At the same time, on Sunday 10 1972. Since it was now planned that UNIT would be appearing on a less
April The Sun continued the string of comments about the show being too regular basis, Courtney, Levene and Franklin would in future find them-
frightening, and welcomed the return of the Doctor's adventures away from selves contracted on a story-by-story basis.

contemporary Earth. Doctor Who's profile was rising again, especially with Pertwee keen to be
associated with lucrative merchandise deals and public appearances.

y mid-April, Letts was having even more ideas for the return of old Jigsaws were issued by Michael Stanfield Holdings, an iron-on transfer was

B
Doctor
monsters in the

the copyright situation

who had appeared
next season, and started to make
on the Daleks - the arch-enemies of the
on the show between 1963 and 1967.
regularly
enquiries about marketed, and Nestle produced a Dr
wrapper
A film
in which the Doctor and
Who chocolate bar with a picture story
Jo fought the Master's 'Masterplan Q'.
company also expressed its interest in the series' format via Don
Pertwee started recording episodes of The Nairy Lark again on Sundays from Houghton. Doctor Who was represented at a Radiophonic Workshop concert
18 April - albeit with a break for filming on Aldbourne on The Darnons May, and featured at a Paris Design Exhibition.
at the Royal Festival Hall in

(formerly The Demons) a week later. By now, the Doctor Who production team Taping on the new season concluded with the final episode of The Demons

and cast had formed a very strong bond and there was a family atmosphere on Wednesday 26 May; the following day, the Radio Times promoted the
to production. However, the rudimentary Doctor Who Fan Club was starting to second episode of that serial with a piece about Katy Manning entided
lose interest in the series, and was devoting an increasing amount of Doctor, Doctor ...

coverage to Star Trek, which since April 1970 had been airing in a more adult
slot around 7.15pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Busy with production on ITC's big budget series The Persuaders! at
Pinewood, Dalek creator Terry Nation indicated that he was too busy to
write a new Dalek serial towards the end of April, but gave his blessing for
their use in another writer's scripts. Holmes was commission for a story-
Baker and Martin were formally commissioned for the first script of a
new story called Independence, which they had been discussing with Letts
and Dicks for some months; this was a comment on South African system
of apartheid, and was one of an increasing number of Doctor Who serials
inspired by real world events. Dicks was now often driving writers to think
in terms of realistic characters and narrative more akin to Star Trek. At the

line entitled The Labyrinth at the start of May; this was to be a fun piece of end of May, two more stories advanced in planning with scripts green-
fantasy, pitching the notion of a travelling showman with performing lighted on The Sea Silurians and Sloman asked to develop a storyline
livestock on a galactic scale. entitled The Daleks in London. It seemed that the new incarnation of the

In between studio sessions on The Daemons, Pertwee recorded a guest Doctor would be able to face off against his oldest enemies in the new

appearance on the BBC antiques quiz Going Jor a Song on Wednesday 12 May season - and build upon the increasing success which the new decade had
(broadcast Sunday 25 July). With The Naoy Lark due to start transmissions brought the show.

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 ! Terro r of the Autons
Just Mu Imagination B!l SCOTT BRRSJ
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cammissiDmnB "I am
Universally.
usually referred to as the Master.
Heh heh heh." • bbc
Tue 28 Apr 70 The Spray of Death
[provisional title only] storyline

commissioned for Tue May And

h delivered Mon 8Jun 70
1 2 70; Daleks.

then it
And
was all
The Monster of Peladon.
over. Huh?
Planet of the Spiders. And

Fri 12 Jun 70 The Sproy of Death

I guess someone in the New Zealand TV hierarchy took a
[working title only] scripts

commissioned for Mon 14 Jul 70;

look at the UK viewing figures that Tom Baker was racking up ]

delivered Mon and decided that we should catch up with him sooner rathet
7 Jul 70
than later. So, in 1977, the bloke with the scarf arrived. And to !

PRODUCTION be honest, at the time, the fickle bunch that we were, we didn't
Thu 17 Sep 70 St Peters Court, really care. The new Doctor was mesmerising, even if he did
1 Chalfont St Peter, Bucks
[Shopping Centre]; Church Lane,
look a bit like Arnold Horshack from Welcome Back, Kotter. We I

carried on with him happily.

Chalfont St Peter, Bucks [Car
But look what we missed. No Jo Grant. No Master. No
Park]; Hodgemoor Woods, Bucks
Pigbin Josh. Nada. Three whole years of Doctor Who were
[Woods; Road]; Queen's Wharf,
Hammersmith, London [Canal]
pinched right out from under our noses, and we never even
Fri 18 Sep 70 Lea Bridge Road, noticed. But I could have lived with that if only they had left us

Waltham Forest, London [Circus] with Terror of the Autons ...

1= Mon 21 Sep 70 Totternhoe Lime &

Stone Co Ltd, Dunstable, Beds
What an amazing time we would have had with
My Dad had a black plastic beanbag that would have become
this story.

[Quarry] the nasty armchair that dispatches poor Mr McDermott. There

Tue 22 Sep 70 GPO Relay Station,
would have been lunchboxes aplenty, filled with plastic
Caddington, Beds [Beacon Hill]
soldiers shrunken by the Master's pencil-thingie. There would
Wed 23 Sep 70 GPO Relay Station
have been deadly telephone cords wrapped around skinny
[Beacon Hill]; Thermo Plastics Ltd,
ll Dunstable, Beds [Plastics Factory] necks, lethal daffodils stolen from the school gardens, and I

Fri 9 Oct 70 Television Centre evil dolls built out of papier-mache. UNIT troops would have

Studio 8: Episodes One and Two: battled Autons all afternoon on the upper rugby field. God, it ,

CSO- Police Car; Chair; Doll; would have been fantastic!

II Lunchbox Children have always enjoyed pretending to be adults, but
Sat 10 Oct 70 Television Centre
Robert Holmes understood that what they most love to see is
Studio 8: Episodes One and Two:
the exact opposite: adults acting like kids. As enjoyable as the
other scenes
first Pertwee season is, it's all slightly too mature, too
Fri 23 Oct 70 Television Centre
polished. That changes with Terror. When the Master arrives
Studio 6:

CSO - Research
Episodes One to Four:

Lab; Farrel's ^^H^B e were robbed. No - more than robbed. We on Earth, we instantly see the Doctor for what he truly is - the
head boy suddenly getting challenged by the new kid in
Kitchen; Doll; Lunchbox; Monster I were depriued.
Sat 24 Oct 70 Television Centre Of course, we were just schoolkids. We school. The Master gets higher marks than the Doctor. He I

Studio 8: Episodes Three and Four: I had no way of understanding the magni- gathers cronies more easily. He outwits him on the sports
other scenes HBBHRRRRHi mde of the crime, or even to realise that a field. The playground isn't big enough for the two of them -

crime had taken place. and they both know it. The Doctor becomes increasingly juve-
RRDio Times You see, the thing is, we had fallen a bit behind with Doctor nile as the story progresses, snapping at anyone who gets in
Sat 2 Jan 71 Episode One: A myste-
Who in New Zealand in the 1970s. Pat Troughton didn't really his way. He back-talks the Brigadier as he skives off to see the i

rious arrival at a circus .... sabo-

tage at a deep space research kick in until the start of the decade, and sporadically at that. circus. "I like being childish," he puffs, just before giggling at
i centre ... and the Doctor is warn- Then there was a gap of a year or two which lasted Jbreuer, and the thought of the Master also getting stuck on Earth. The

ed that his most deadly enemy has then finally - finally - the Doctor returned in 1975, with Master misbehaves just as badly, pulling a series of killer prac-
arrived on Earth. The Doctor has a Spearhead From Space. Yep, while you lot were gaping at Tom deal jokes while pretending to be a James Bond villain. This
life-and-death struggle on his we were watching was only the first innings in their endless contest, but
Baker chopping bricks and skipping rope, it

hands - and a new assistant to

Jon Pertwee tumbling out of the TARDIS in Pat's outfit. And remains their best.
add to his troubles.
we Iouedand we loved
it, him - but most of all, we loved the When I finally got to watch Terror at the not-so-tender age of
Sat 9 Jan 71 Episode Two: Unit
monsters. The Autons were bloody amazing, and the Silurians 22, I didn't feel cheated - I was thankful to see it at all,
continues to hunt for the Master -
t who is ruthlessly destroying all
even better - every lunchtime was devoted to re-enacting their admiring its concise dialogue and unusual pace. It's only now,

who stand in his way. The Doctor assaultson the hapless residents of Ealing Broadway and at 36, that what could have been. The further away you
1 see
follows a clue to the circus - and Wenley Moor. I was ten, and far too grown-up to be scared travel from your childhood memories, the more precious they

falls into the hands of his enemies. back behind the sofa. Doctor Who now spelled epic adventure, become. This story would have inspired some great ones.
Sat 16 Jan 71 Episode Three: The not sleepless nights! Darn. We were robbed.
Doctor and the Brigadier find the But not as badly as today's generation of schoolkids.
And then it was 1976 ... and suddenly we had Death to the
Master's hideout, and walk into
the trap he has set for them -
unaware that Jo too is in terrible

danger. The Doctor discovers that

the most everyday objects can be
l:l:IH:ilU:-l Mil III:*
the source of a mysterious attack.

Sat 23 Jan 71 Episode Four: The 9 Saturday 21 December 1970: The first two 1999. On Wednesday 7 November 2001,
Doctor discovers the deadly secret episodes were dubbed for transmission; the Katy Manning, Barry Letts and Nicholas
of the daffodils - but is captured DVD commentary
last two followed on Monday 21 Courtney recorded a
before he can warn the Brigadier.
for the serial for future release in
The Master's plan moves into its
I jH final stage - the opening of a
C> BBC Prime screened the serial in 1995, Dubbing Theatre Y, Television Centre

Australia repeated it in Spring 1986 and New

channel for the Auton invasion of
ll Earth.
Zealand repeats came from February 1992 and & In the Extras section, Marc Boyle
October 2000. Harlequin Miniatures issued was omitted from the final batch of

various Autons in their range of figures during Stuntmen

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The Mind of Evil
Black and White
DUim HHCHIUE
DWM 208

"Your dressing gown clashes with my cape, sir! Now destroy cammissioninB
all colour copies of this story or won't let go!" s bbc
I
Mon 29jun 70 Pandora Machine
treatment commissioned for Fri 10

Jul 70
This isdue in no small part to its settings. It's a surprisingly
Thu 6 Aug 70 Pandora Machine
'real' and adult world we're drawn into, with swathes of the scripts commissioned for Tue 1

story entirely absent of sci-fi trappings. A beautiful female

Sep 70; Episodes One to Five deliv-
killerarranges death by appointment ... Hotel rooms are lit ered Tue 1 Sep 70, Episode Six
eerilyby neon hoardings outside ... The Master smokes a fat delivered Fri
4 Sep 70
cigar and reads the Financial Times ... and eschews his sci-fi
shrinking stick in favour of a shotgun and pistol. PRODUCTIOI1
Small but wonderful touches abound thanks to a clearly Mon 26 Oct 70 Dover Castle,
Dover, Kent [Stangmoor Prison:
caring director in Timothy Combe. In particular, the gritty
Tower Area; Gate]
prison scenes with their strong 1970s concerns - rioting,
Tue 27 Oct 70 Dover Castle
clamouring inmates, Clockwork Orange-esque medical experi- [Stangmoor Prison: Courtyard]
ments in rehabilitation, and philosophical debate on the Wed 28 Oct 70 Archers Court
nature of evil - seem more suited to a Play for Today than a Road, Whitfield, Kent [Missile
show more usually celebrating killer mannequins and talking Ambush]; Dover Castle, Dover,

reptiles. And the proliferation of ethnic characters in the first Kent [Stangmoor Prison:

half of the story - OK, about three, but that's still something Helicopter]

Thu 29 Oct 70 Alland Grange, RAF

of a record - is also unexpected. Even if the communist
Manston, Kent [Hangar; Stanham
contingent speak largely in cliches, the colour their characters
Airfield]
bring to these black and white proceedings - and the relative
Fri 30 Oct 70 RAF Swingate,
respect they're given - marks the story out as hugely atypical Dover, Kent [Roads]; Pineham
of its times. Road, Pineham, Kent [Roads]
It's important, too, to recall the actual Who context of the Sat 31 Oct 70 Dover Castle
serial. Back in January 1971. the 'UNIT family' - to coin that [Stangmoor Prison: Battle

was actually conceived around the time of The Mind of most noisome of fan cliches - was not yet close. The Doctor (remount)]

himself, by turns affable and abrasive - and, rather wonder-

Mon 2 Nov 70 Cornwall Gardens,
Euil's first broadcast; so by the time I was old enough
Kensington, London [UNIT HQ]
to be properly scared by Doctor Who, the Pertwee era fully, not always to the same people - can do everything
Tue 3 Nov 70 Cornwall Gardens
was over. I was an adult before I saw this story for the convincingly except 'terrified'. This was something Letts and
[UNIT HQ]; Cornwall Walk
first time. For me, there's nothing of childhood about Dicks surely noted, as, after Colony in Space, he's rarely
Gardens, Kensington, London
The Mind of Evil in the way there about Carnival of Monsters, or
is required to show fear again - an important development in [Chin Lee and Benton];
The Three Doctors - indeed, it doesn't really feel like Doctor Who of the character overall. And of course, he's only just been given Commonwealth Institute,

the time at all. his best enemy; this was probably the only time when viewers Kensington, London [Conference]

Since The Mind of Evil, alone of all the Pertwees, exists purely exclaimed, 'Oh look, it's the Master again,' rather than 'Oh Wed 4 Nov 70 Commonwealth
Institute [Conference]
in black and white as a film recording, it's easy to blame this Christ, it's the Master again!'
Fri 20 Nov 70 Television Centre
atypical feel on its misplaced medium. The story certainly feels As for the rest of the regulars ... The Brigadier was still a
Studio 3: Episodes One to Three
more akin to stories like The Invasion than post-1969 Doctor Who, clever, competent soldier, rather than a cuddly caricature;
Inserts: Process Chamber; Chinese
as - arms windmilling with powder-
soldier after grainy soldier Benton (earnest bungler makes good) and particularly new Delegates Suite; US Delegate's
puff grenades - rush blearily past the camera on location, and boy Yates (good egg with bent aerial) were still finding their Hallway
key-characters go AWOL for whole episodes at a time. But there feet; but the biggest surprise is Jo. Over the months since the Sat 21 Nov 70 Television Centre
are more fundamental factors, both subde and glaring, that events of Terror of the Autons, she has blossomed from the Studio 3: Episodes One and Two:

distance the show from its times ... plucky but dim accident-waiting-to-happen into an assertive, remaining scenes

For a start, the structure of this six-parter is so unusual. professional, often aggressive agent. With the Doctor still too Fri 4 Dec 70 Television Centre
Studio 6: Episodes Three and Four
Having not yet hit upon the 'four-parter with two-parter tagged spiky in Stangmoor to act the doting patriarch of later
Inserts: Condemned Cell; Main
on' formula that would end up serving the series so well, seasons, she is allowed a measure of resourcefulness and
Prison: Fight; Process Chamber
Houghton and Dicks here opt for a sort of three-three split. The competence she would never enjoy again.
Sat 5 Dec 70 Television Centre
Master's menacing the World Peace conference storyline is In short, The Mind of Evil serves as a unique snapshot of the Studio 6: Episodes Three and Four:
suddenly dropped in favour of him hijacking a big missile with Pertwee era's full potential; caught forever, documentary- remaining scenes
hazy plans of world domination. Just what his plans actually are style, in grainy black and white. All the regulars display the Fri 1 1 Dec 70 Television Centre
-and why he laboured for so long on the Keller machine when traits that made us love them dearly, before they stuck around Studio 3: Episodes Three

it's of so little practical value to his scheme - is never explained, so long - rather like the mind parasite in the story - that they (remount), Five and Six Inserts:

began to pall. There may be nothing of my childhood in The Condemned Cell; Main Prison:
but it doesn't dampen our gratitude. Six episodes of the Doctor
Fight; Process Chamber; Warder's
menaced by a roaming cafetiere could've been disastrous, but Mind of Evil, but that's strangely appropriate. Doctor Who had
Office
The Mind of Euil is actually hugely entertaining. been growing up too - but post-Stangmoor, this era of the
Sat 12 Dec 70 Television Centre
Studio 3: Episodes Five and Six:

i: 1 :i h : 1 un 1 :i :
other scenes

hhdid Times
Sat 30 Jan 71 Episode One: The

^ The outline for The Pandora Machine was East/West distrust at the peace conference conclusion of Episode Two was markedly Doctor and Jo Grant
Stangmoor Prison where the
visit

heavily influenced by Anthony Burgess' 1962 was far more prominent, with the American different, centering around an attempt to by
Doctor senses something alien
novel A Clockwork Orange and methods of delegate being framed for the murder of the Chin Lee to destroy the conference using
and evil behind a revolutionary
rehabilitating dangerous criminals. The Chinese delegate when Chin Lee leaves his ID Kredalite explosive which will be detonated by
new treatment for the criminal
method created by the Master was the tag in the corpse's hand to be discovered by a sonic timer. The Brigadier was to be
mind. The Brigadier meanwhile
Malusyphus Process, and the first prisoner to Yates. The Malusyphus box's first attack on captured during the prison riot, along with grapples with a mysterious death
undergo the test was Prisoner 829 (George the Doctor conjured up glowing octopoidal the Doctor and Jo, while the prison governor at a vital Peace Conference.

Patrick Barnham) who subsequently plays tentacles which attempted to strange him; was hypnotised by the Master; the Brigadier Sat 6 Feb 71 Episode Two: The

Russian Roulette with a loaded revolver. The Jo's greatest fear was revealed to be bats. The was then hypnotised to alter the convoy route Doctor becomes convinced of ^

THE CQmPLETE THIRD DDCTDH

 Friday 28 August 1970: Houghton sub- effects assistant Dave Havard. The prison
mitted a draft of Episode Six to Terrance Dicks, uniforms caused problems for designer Bobi
commenting on how the closing scenes at Bartlett who had contracted the work out to a

UNIT HQ could be modified to lose Benton and former Nathan and Bermans employee who
the radio operator, and that he imagined the had gone freelance. Unfortunately he was
Stangmoor Quarry scenes to be done in studio arrested before making the outfits, so Bartlett

had to visit him in prison to locate the material

<t Friday 4 September 1 970: The serial was and have another contractor finish the work
retitled The Mind of Evil. In the camera scripts,

the Governor was "Major Victor Camford" 9 Wednesday 21 October 1970: Fernanda
described as "military bearing, a bit 'old Marlowe was contracted to play 'Corporal

school' and set in his ways". Doctor Roland Bates'. Andy Ho, the original Fu Peng, was
Summers was "a tired-eyed, subdued man" dropped after filming on Tuesday 10
while "Professor Charles Ketting" was November with his replacement, Kristopher

"consultant neuro-surgeon to the Ministry of Kum contracted two days later

Prisons and Social Resettlement -a keen,

impatient, professional man." The Keller C) Wednesday 28 October 1970: The

Machine was "an elevated operating-type Thunderbolt was a genuine Bloodhound
table. At its head there is a dome large missile loaned to the BBC by the 36th Heavy
enough to cover a man's head. From the Air Defence Regiment based at Horseshoe
The Master really was for the missile, allowing it to be hijacked. dome there runs a series of tubes. Some of Barracks in Shorburyness. At the end of the
jolly proud of his When confronting his past enemies, the them clear plastic, others opaque, and wires filming day, Pertwee was driving John Levene
enormous weapon ... Doctor combated the visions by using which are fed into an electronic console. And and both were still in costume. Pertwee
-BBC Andromedic Yoga. The stolen missile was from this console a single heavy duty metallic suggested that Levene, who still had fake
hidden at the workshops of Stangmoor Prison tube runs to the reservoir, hereinafter called - blood on his face, should run into a chemists

^ a link between events at with Yates hidden on board; the UNIT Captain the 'Box'. Its size is about two feet by three and ask for an elastoplast, whereupon he
Stangmoor and the Keller Process. was then menaced by a Gorgon-type monster feet deep, made of heavy steel and lead and would run in too. The actors performed the
A prison riot puts Jo in danger - conjured up by the Malusyphus box, and the strongly re-enforced. It's probably black in stunt, but Levene's metal studded boots
and a terrifying monster strikes at
same creature later menaced and Yates colour and stands on a heavy cabinet some caused him to slip on the shop floor and hit
Jo it

the Peace Conference.

when the Master placed them in its path. The distance from the table. On the front of the the counter. Both artistes then signed auto-
Sat 13 Feb 71 Episode Three: Jo's
cliffhanger to Episode Four was of the convicts 'box' is an indicator dial numbered from zero graphs for the public
life is threatened as the prison riot
surrounding the Doctor's party in the prison, to one hundred. A pointer registers at sixty-
reaches a climax; the Master
shows his hand; and the Doctor
only to be scared off when the box creates five." In the camera script, "Emil Keller" was £ Rehearsals for the three studio sessions

walks into a trap ...

visions of the gallows in their minds. Another amended to "Emile Keller" and Captain Chin began on Sundays 8 and 22 November and 6
Sat 20 Feb 71 Episode Four: The attempt to disrupt the conference was the Lee was described as "an attractive, crisp girl December. During rehearsals leading up to

Doctor realises the full horror of Master telephoning a bomb scare and of about 24 ... She is dressed in a smart Christmas, Pertwee had the cast singing carols
the creature inside the Keller blaming the American delegate. Prisoner 829 uniform of the Chinese People's Army,
Machine. The Master goes ahead
with the next stage of his plan -
is killed at an earlier stage and, in Episode Six, Diplomatic Division (not the shapeless, baggy 9 Recordings ran from 8.30pm to 10pm on
the Doctor uses a mirror to defeat the Gorgon uniform of the Red Guard or infantry)". Fu Fridays and 7.30pm to 10pm on Saturdays
the theft of the nerve gas
with its reflection - in this case the missile Peng was introduced in Episode Two as "a
missile ...

transporter's mirror. The Doctor then crashes stone-hard, un-bending man"; for the scenes Saturday 21 November 1970: It was origi-
Sat 27 Feb 71 Episode Five: The
creature in the Keller Machine the missile transporter out of the workshop, in Hokkien or Cantonese, the script suggested nally planned to superimpose the pulsating

begins a reign of terror. The although the Master has primed the weapon superimposing "sub titles, translating the Keller Machine over the film of Chin Lee
Brigadier launches his attack on to fire in 29 minutes. Yates then drives it to dialogue, as per a foreign film". The dialogue destroying the papers in Episode One, but this
Stangmoor Prison. the countryside where it will explode and was given in Hokkien/Cantonese and in was abandoned on recording. Dropped from
Sat 6 Mar 71 Episode Six: The destroy the Malusyphus box, but the Master English. Mailer is described a "tough, vicious the show at this point was the film of the
prison is in Unit's hands. But the
tries to recapture it disguised as the driver of thug". When Chin Lee attacks "Senator Doctor talking to Fu Peng at the conference
Master is still free - with a deadly
a jeep. After the missile and box are Alcock" in Fu Peng's suite, "over her entire centre because of the recasting of the role
nerve gas missile, primed and
destroyed, a farmer's truck picks up a ragged figure a horrific Chinese devil-mask is
ready to fire. The Doctor finds an
unexpected ally in his fight to
hitch-hiker - who turns out to be the Master forming, suspended in the air ... Its eyes 9 Friday 4 December 1970: At 8.15pm, Katy
control the alien mind parasite blazing fearfully, its mouth opening as though Manning's back was injured when an extra fell

and embarks on a last desperate C) The draft scripts for The Pandora Machine to devour him. Chin Lee herself has against her while recording an action scene.
gamble ... were closer to the finished serial. Observing completely disappeared. Alcock screams as the Other monsters planned for the Doctor's vision

the Malusyphus Process, the Doctor recalls nightmare monster blots out everything else at the end of Episode Three included photos of
how he advised that a similar method be in front of him. It swoops in to attack him ... the Slyther (Dolek Invasion of Earth), the Servo

abandoned on Larpis Major 2000 years ago. He sinks to his knees as the devil-mask towers Robot (The Wheel in Space) and a Sensorite (The

The Master's alias was Emil Dalbiac. Chin over him appallingly ..." In Episode Three, Sensorites). Time ran out leaving the scenes of
Lee's appearance as the Chinese dragon was when the Master arrives at Stangmoor, he is Mailer and the Master starting the prison riot in

defeated by the Doctor using a Venusian pres- "dressed like a Harley Street surgeon, and Episode Three unrecorded

sure hold on her neck, and the American dele- carries a small black bag". When faced with

gate is told that the beast was a hallucination the Keller Machine, the stage directions indi- 9 Saturday 5 December 1970: Episode Three
bought on by his allergic reaction to jellied cated "We see a whole host of the Doctor's lost all the filming at RAF Swingate with the
eels! The Doctor's return to Stangmoor is past, nightmare opponents moving slowly RAF crew handling the Thunderbolt missile;

delayed when he has to rebuild Bessie's faulty towards him. Daleks, Primords, Silurians, the scenes had a motorcycle convoy passing a

engine en route; he releases himself and Jo Cybermen ..." When the Master was exposed research station, one of the jeeps failing to

from their prison cell using a handkerchief to the box in Episode Four, "The screen fills start, the Doctor with the convoy in Bessie and

owned by Madame Pompador and the with an image of the Master's own particular Yates telephoning the Brigadier to confirm that

Master's sonic transmitter which knocks out fear -a giant Doctor Who". The script indi- the convoy was underway. It was apparently
their guard. Yates is present at Stangmoor cated that the box, when mobile, could "swing dropped for timing reasons and not trans-
with the hi-jacked warhead, and the Doctor round" to confront its victims. Major ferred to videotape with the rest of the episode

mends his radio with carbon paper so that Cosworth, introduced in Episode Five, was "a

they can warn the Brigadier about the Master precise, fussy man", and the dialogue from 9 Editing on The Mind of Evil ran from

launching the missile. As UNIT arrives, the the prisoner who found the Doctor and Jo Monday 21 December 1 970 to Monday 4
Master steals the missile and takes it to signalling to the UNIT helicopter was origi- January 1 971 . Various cuts were made to the

Stangmoor Quarry to trade for his dematerial- nally scripted to be Fuller. The device rigged finished episodes. Episode One lost film of

isation circuit; the Doctor is caught in the up by the Doctor was described as "a special Yates leaving the peace conference and
The Doctor and Jo "hide"
explosion and recovers in hospital where the 'Dr Who' type junction box" arriving at UNIT HQ, as well as the subse-
from the deadly Keller
Brigadier has humorously bought him a quent scene where he enters the UNIT office.
Machine. (They're not even
trying, are they?) © bbc
'magic hand' money box as a present. The 9 The Keller Machine prop and the model Further trims were the end of Yates and the

Master joins a group of hikers on the moors Thunderbolt missile were made by visual Brigadier discussing Chin Lee, the

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Governor leaving Kettering in the Process of the scene in the Governor's office between and Robert Bald as UNIT Soldiers. Roy
Chamber, a scene in the Process Chamber Summers and Benton, part of the scene where Scammell and Terry Walsh did not play

where the Doctor tells Jo to get Kettering's Jo sits with Barnham in the Process Chamber, Prisoners; Marc Boyle, Alan Chuntz, Mike
medical history while he checks the machine the start of a scene where the Doctor tells Jo to Stephens and Val Musetti played Prisoners (not

and a short scene of the machine activating as do as he tells her, and a film sequence of the Prison Officers); Derek Chafer, Ricky Lancing,
the Doctor starts work on the box. Episode Doctor, Jo and Barnham leaving Stangmoor Johnny Clump, Pat Donahue, Max Diamond,
Two dropped a filmed scene of the Master in Bob Blaine and Derek Martin played Prisoners

his car listening to Captain Yates speaking to 9 Dudley Simpson was booked on Monday 4 (not UNIT Soldiers). The following were omitted:

the armoury. Episode Three lost the end of Jo January 1971 to score the serial, and recorded Paul Blomley from Demonstration Audience, B G
and Summers being pushed into the the music over nine days into February Heath as Milkman, Roger Marsden, Leslie

condemned cell, their discussion about what Weekes, Charles Marriott and Michael Carter
Mailer will do with them and the start of the 9 The Mind of Euil was sold to Australia in as UNIT Soldiers, Cy Town as Medical Orderly,

next scene where Fu Peng tells the Doctor that August 1971, but deemed unsuitable for Richard Atherton and Les Clark as Prison

Chin Lee must be punished. Episode Four lost screening; it was shown in April 1986. New Officers; Les Conrad as MP (omitted from

Jo asking Vosper to get Summer, Jo and the Zealand screened the serial from August 1985. finished programme); Marc Boyle, Roy
Doctor looking out of the Governor's office The serial formed part of a Time Life syndica- Scammell, Terry Walsh and Mike Stephens as
USA from 1972 and was UNIT Ted The Master always recalled his
and seeing Mailer and the convicts being met tion package in the Motorcyclists; Michael Ely as Prisoner;
mother's advice to wrap up
by the Master, and the end of the film screened by BBC Prime in 1995 Novak as UNIT Pilot. Although filmed, Basil
warm before attempting
sequence at the convoy where the Brigadier Tang as Chinese Chauffeur and the team of
universal domination ®bbc
tells Benton to rendezvous with Major 9 Sound effects and music from the serial Sergeant Herridge, Bombad ier Andrew
...

Cosworth while he looks in at Stangmoor. were included on Doctor Who at the BBC Graham, Gunner Kenneth Davenport, Lance
Removed from Episode Five was film of the Radiophonic Music - Volume 2: New Beginnings Bombadier Berkley, Bombadier Robert
Brigadier in the UNIT copter, a short scene of released by BBC Music in May 2000. Thompson, Bombadier John Lamb, Sergeant
the Keller Machine appearing in the Process David Talbot and Bombadier Barry Hall
Chamber, Fuller having the Doctor and Jo H In the Extras section, the following can (Missile Crew) were also deleted from the

returned to their cell, the Master leaving the now also be clarified: Frank Bennett, BG programme. Also, Mr Kerr should be Mr Carr

trapped Machine in the Process Chamber, and Heath and Gary Gregory as Black Maria

Filler alerting Mailer that soldiers are Driven; B G Heath and Laurie Ayres as Rocket 9 In the Credits section, Film Editor Howard
storming the prison. Episode Six lost the end Driuers; B G Heath as Van Driuer; Tony Jenkins Billingham was not credited on Episode Three

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The Claws of Axos I I — Iflih

Hot love
DUim RRCHIUE
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When spaghetti attacks! An Axon on the cDmmissianmB

rampage at Nuton (nice day for it, too!) -
bbc Mon 1 Dec 69 Doctor Who and the

Gift Episode 1 of 6 commissioned

for Fri 2 Jan 70; delivered Mon 6
I really took Doctor Who to my heart. The show became the most Apr 70; rejected Fri 17 Apr 70
important thing in the world and, if I'm honest, that was some- Mon 6 Apr 70 The Friendly Invasion

thing that didn't change for me until well into my twenties. 6 episode storyline commissioned

Ion Pertwee was mu. Doctor. I wouldn't now say that he was for Fri 8 May 70; delivered Fri 8
May 70
my favourite Doctor, but he's certainly the one I have the most
Fri 1 1 Sep 70 The Axons [formerly
affection for. many ways he reminded me of my Dad
Oh, and in
'Gift! Episode 1 commissioned for
- and still does. I'll happily watch a Doctor Who story from
Mon 21 Sep 70; delivered Tue 20
almost any era of the programme now, but it's only when Oct 70
watching the Jon Pertwee stories that I experience any genuine Sun 18 Oct 70 The Axons Episode 2

nostalgia. I'm remembering where I was and what I thought commissioned for Sun 25 Oct 70;
the first time I saw each episode. delivered Sun 1 Nov 70
I have no particular fondness for The Claws of Axos or indeed Thu 29 Oct 70 The Axons Episodes 3

and 4 commissioned for Mon

any other story from this era - it all seemed like one long adven- 9
Nov 70; delivered Mon 9 Nov 70
ture at the time, and I suppose I still regard it as such. However,
The ClauK of Axos could be said to be the quintessential Jon
PHDDUCTian
Pertwee story - all
the Master, Jo, a malfunctioning
the elements are there: UNIT, the Brigadier,
TARDIS and, of course, alien
Tue 22 Dec 70 Television Centre
Studio 7: Experimental Session
1
invaders. Mon 4 Jan 71 Dengemarsh Road,
To criticise The Claws of Axos - as many do - for some dodgy Lydd, Kent [Road]

blue screen work and a couple of meagre explosions

to rather overlook the real qualities of the story. Axos and the
Axons are really quite high-concept for Doctor Who, and the real-
is, I think, Tue 5 - Wed 6 Jan 71 Dungeness
Road, Lydd, Kent [Roadside; Axos]
Thu 7 Jan 71 St Martin's Plain
3
Camp, Shorncliffe, Kent [Bridge;
isation of Axos - psychedelia and all - is quite an achievement
Attack on Road]
for Who production of this era. In particular, that giant sphincter
Fri 8Jan 70 Dungeness 'A' Nuclear
ou know you're getting old when you meet fellow in the ground (for want of a better description), which allows Power Station, Dungeness, Kent
Doctor Who fans who tell you that the earliest serial access to the interior of Axos, is such a memorable image and [Nuton Complex]
that they can remember watching was Time Fliahr. one that certainly etched itself into my young mind. Fri 22 Jan 70 Television Centre

My earliest recollections of the show are of The The true form of the Axons - or spaghetti monsters, as we Studio 3: Episodes One and Two:

Mind Robber, The Invasion and The Space Pirates. I've referred to them in the playground - must rank amongst the UNIT HQ; Mobile HQ
nothing against the Davison era
- but
of die show, mind you - far scariest of the Pertwee monsters. I remember being particularly Sat 23 Jan 70 Television Centre
Studio 3: Episodes One and Two:
I
from it I have difficulty relating to the idea of hiding disturbed by the brief scene where the Brigadier passes Bernard
Spacedome Cell; Outer Area; Brain
behind the sofa from the Plasmatons. Holley's golden Axon man, who has just begun to metamor-
Area; Inner Chamber; Corridor;
Although I remember Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee was phose into a 'full' Axon. The lump of malevolent Axonite that Replication Section; Winser's Lab;
the Doctor that I grew up with. I was four when he began his chases the Doctor and company around the psychlotron also Hardiman's Office
reign, and turned nine during the run of Planet of the Spiders. gave me a sleepless night. Yes, I know that it's just a man in a Fri 5 Feb 70 Television Centre
Important years for any child - and it was during this time that bag, but that didn't seem to occur to me at the time. Studio 4: Episode Three; ?f

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msnii B
The interior of the TARDIS has always been a source of inex- snide remarks that Anthony Ainley wasn't a patch on him, etc.
plicable excitement to me and, even as a five-year-old, I Ail trueof course. One only has to watch Delgado's perform-
remember being thrilledabout going 'inside the spaceship' ance in The Claws of Axos, or indeed any of his stories, to realise
again for the first time since The War Games. The console being that he is a truly superb actor who can make even the most
dumped outside in The Ambassadors of Death and Inferno hadn't cliche'd of lines work. The interplay between Delgado and
Pertwee during their temporary truce at the climax -
really sat well it was quite a relief to find it 'home'
with me, so is a joy

again. We alsohad the added bonus of seeing the Master's and you almost feel sorry for the Master. He obviously just
TARDIS in what we should assume to be its natural form - a wants a friend to enjoy all that death and destruction with.
boring white box! - but again, I seemed to be quite excited by As with all good Pertwee stories, there's a bloody big bang
this, and spent hours drawing it. Maybe because it was just a at the end of The Clams of Axos - and the Doctor is pulled back

few straight lines? to Earth to make his "galactic yo-yo" joke. Thank goodness I

And let's not forget the Master himself. It's easy to take was too young to cringe at the time. It might have put me of
Roger Delgado's performance for granted, with the usual the series forever and then who knows where I'd be today ...

Axon Man and Axon Woman

(Bernard Holley and Patricia
Gordino). Axon dog and Axon
_ mortgage not shown, e Bsc
liliMllllj JMifTTTTl
ft
^ Closing Scenes for Episode Two 0 Writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin were Four, the Master's TARDIS was "a round, Havard operated the 'arms' inside Axos in the

Sat 6 Feb 70 Television Centre part of the Bristol-based Marker Films organic-looking object in the spacedome" studio sessions

i Studio 4: Episode Four; Opening

Titles for Episodes One and Two
9 Monday 14 September 1970: Terrance 0 Tuesday 29 December 1 970: Dicks sent 9 Thursday 28 January 1971 : Dicks informed

Dicks wrote to Baker and Martin regarding The rehearsal scripts to the writers and asked for Baker and Martin that the serial was now
rhdid Times called The Clams of Axos - which the team
Axons Episode One, saying it was generally changes regarding the Master's escape from felt
Sat 13 Mar 71 Episode One: An
acceptable but more of Filer was needed and the complex and his return with the TARDIS, "strikes the correct ominous and sinister
Unidentified Flying Object lands on

the English coast. Unit investi- the Axons' appearance should be minimised. A the scenes with Chinn's Minister and some note". Dicks commented that neither he, lefts

gates. They are prepared for an revised draft of the script as The Gift was deliv- colloquialisms to distinguish the real Filer from or Michael Ferguson had been happy with the

alien spaceship - but what they ered on 24 September. Dicks responded on 1 his duplicate. Dicks requested the first two former title because of the word 'Vampire'
actually find amazes even the October saying that it was too short scripts by Tuesday 5 or Wednesday 6 January
Doctor ...
C> Saturday 6 February Recording
1971 :

Sat 20 Mar 71 Episode Two: Chinn

turns the tables on the Brigadier
9 The title The Axons was still in use on <3t Tuesday 5 January 1971: The film unit was overran by 27 minutes due to complex effects

Wednesday 9 December, but by Wednesday 1 visited by the Kentish Express who interviewed a
and the Doctor learns the sinister

secret behind the Axons' apparent

the Drama Early Warning Synopsis was head- freezing Barry Letts and Jon Pertwee; the item 9 Editing took place from Monday 8 to

benevolence - but by then it is too ed Vampire from Space. In later breakdowns for was printed on Friday 8 January Tuesday 1 6 February. Dudley Simpson was

late. Vampire from Space, a film sequence was booked to provide the score on 27 January; this

III Sat 27 Mar 71 Episode Three: With planned of the Master overhearing Winser's 9 Wednesday 6 January 1971: Dicks wrote to was recorded at the Radiophonic Workshop
Jo and the Doctor in the hands of instructions about having the TARDIS thank Baker and Martin for prompt rewrites, over 13 days from 15 February to 19 March
the Axons, the Brigadier is forced
collected in Episode Two. Episode Three was saying Dungeness had been "bloody cold"
to turn to a strange ally.

Sat 3 Apr 71 Episode Four: The

then to have the Master arriving at the UNIT H Harlequin issued both humanoid and

Doctor and Master work together

Motor Pool as the TARDIS was being loaded, 9 The Axos model was crafted from fibre- monster Axon figures in 1998. Effects and

and the outline also had the Brigadier telling glass by visual effects assistant Dave Havard music from the serial were included on Doctor
to defeat the Axons. Filer suspects

may have a Yates and Benton about the Doctor vanishing and covered in unlubricated contraceptives. Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Volume
their collaboration

more sinister purpose. as well as stock footage of jets. In Episode Along with Colin Mapson and James Ward, 2: New Beginnings released in May 2000

Colon u in ',
Space __
____ ______ ______
Another Time, Another Place BH PHILIP 111 HC DO MILD
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cnmmissiDmnE "Not the hair! Please!" Danger for the Doctor

IMC robot attacks! e bbc
as the
Mon 29 Jun 70 Colony treatment
commissioned forTue 1 4 Jul 70,
revised to Tue 1 Sep 70; delivered
long time ago, when the universe was less than
Mon 7 Sep 70
half its present size and the idea of erecting giant
Tue 15 Sep 70 Colony scripts
commissioned for Thu 1 9 Nov futuristic domes in a Cornish claypit was taken
70;

Episode One delivered Mon 19 Oct seriously by nobody, it was a well-known fact

70, Episode Three delivered Wed 18 that old Doctor Who was better than new Doctor

Nov 70 Episodes Five and Six

, Who, and that the Pertwee era was best of all. There were many
delivered Thu 19 Nov 70, Episodes reasons for this, including the curious fact that the experts who
Two and Four delivered Fri 20 Nov
had stumbled across this immutable truth were coincidentally
all seven years old when the Pertwee era was at its height. It lay
PRDDUCTIOn beyond the wildest imaginings of even the most barking fan to
Wed 10 Feb 70 The Old Baal China
believe that the BBC might one day repeat these old
Clay Quarry, Carclaze, Cornwall
[TARDIS; Leeson's Dome] programmes, let alone release them on video, so the most
Thu 11 Feb 70 The Old Baal China compelling reason of all, and thus the final proof that the

Clay Quarry [Primitive Entrance; Pertwee era was undoubtedly the greatest thing ever in the
Fight] history of everything, was that the books were so damned good.
12 Feb 70 The Old Baal China
Fri
Borrowed from a friend towards the end of 1974, when I

Clay Quarry [Caldwell's Tent;

myself had just attained the grand old age of seven, The
Chase; Primitive Entrance]
Doomsday Weapon was the first Doctor Who novelisation that I

Mon 15 Feb 70 The Old Baal China

Ambush; ever read. The front showing a pop-eyed Pertwee
cover,
Clay Quarry [Rockfall
Valley]
cradled by grasping purple talons, was impossibly exciting.
Tue 16 Feb 70 The Old Baal China Even more thrilling was the blurb on the back about 'myste-
Clay Quarry [Fight] ?f rious, savage, monster lizards with frightful claws!' I fell upon

DOCTOR LUHO mOGFKinE

 this literary feast with the kind of relish that only a blood- Roy Heymann as the
thirsty seven-year-old with an insatiable appetite for frightful alien priest of Uxeri...

claws could possibly muster. Exari... Ucksari... an

Ulysses it ain't, but I still think of The Doomsday Weapon as alien planet, c bbc

one of the most important books I've ever read. It was the first
novel I'd come across in which the characters' actions were
coloured and countered by their private thoughts and hidden ^ Fri 5 Mar 70 Television
agendas. Any initial disappointment I might have experienced Centre Studio 4: Episode One

at discovering the frankly marginal extent of the story's Sat 6 Mar 70 Television Centre

Studio 4: Episode Two; Leeson's

reliance on frightful claws was tempered by an extraordinary
Dome for Episode Three
fascination at being invited to ponder the hopes, fears and
Fri 19 Mar 70 Television Centre
emotional histories of the characters. It was, in short, my first
Studio 3: Episode Three
grown-up book. Sat 20 Mar 70 Television Centre
When, many years I finally saw the TV story from
later, Studio 3: Episode Four
which this masterpiece was adapted, it would be fair to say Fri 2 Apr 70 Television Centre

that was a little shaken. The book's rich web of interlocking

I Studio 3: Episode Five

lives just wasn't there. Far from sharing Jane Leeson's evoca- Sat 3 Apr 70 Television Centre

tive memories of meeting her husband on a moving pavement

Studio 3: Episode Six

in an overcrowded Earth city, the viewer hardly has time to

pick her out from a crowd of nondescript extras before she's
hrdid Times
Sat 10 Apr 71 Episode One: The
bumped ofFby stock footage of an iguana. There's no thumb-
Doctor faces the unknown
nail history of Captain Dent's career, nor of the infiltrator
dangers of an alien planet.
Norton's boyhood ambition to be an actor. The wonderful Sat 17 Apr 71 Episode Two: The
sequence in which the Doctor takes charge at the Leesons' Doctor and Jo are caught up in

funeral, which I'd long considered a touchstone of his infinite oner? (Because Mr Pertwee rather fancied doing so on the day, the struggle between IMC and the
wisdom and compassion, doesn't appear in the TV version. one imagines!) And as for the claws - yes, frightful is indeed Colonists for possession of the

alien planet. The Doctor risks his

Neither does the scene in which Ashe, who will later lay down the word.
to discover the secret of the
his life to save his friends, is found struggling to understand For all that, though, Colony in Space remains my favourite
life

lizard monsters.
'a copy of something written thousands of years ago' that Eschewing the cartoonish edge of some of
story of its season.
Sat 24 Apr 71 Episode Three: Jo
includes 'four versions of a story about a man who sacrificed its it concentrates instead on moral argu-
contemporaries,
looks for fresh evidence against
his own life for the sake of others'. Re-reading these passages ment: even if those lovely back-stories from the book aren't IMC, and falls into a trap. The
today, it's easy to smile at their naivety, but they're the bits that spelled out, you can believe they exist under the skin of the Doctor tries to rescue her while

brought the book to life for me when was I seven. characters. The Master is deftly dealt into the pack as late as the Colonists plan to attack the

So, it's not entirely surprising that when the Pertwee era Episode Four, perking up the plot without swamping the IMC ship - with Jo still a hostage.

ceased to be an unimaginably perfect golden age - not only for other characters from the outset. Morris Perry's stony, calcu- Sat 1 May 71 Episode Four: Jo is a
prisoner the underground city
me, but for many fans - and instead became 24 videotapes on lating Captain one of the great unsung villains
Dent is surely
in

of the Primitives. While the

a shelf, one of the stories selected for particularly unforgiving of Doctor Who. And in the stirrings of compassion in the trou-
Doctor goes to rescue her, the
reappraisal was Colony in Space. It is, after all, an easy target for bled mineralogist Caldwell, we see one of the few genuine
Adjudicator arrives on the planet
scorn - with its feeble miniatures, dated crash-zoom camera- moral journeys in an era in which most characters tend to be - and proves to be an even
work, irksome music and unconvincing detail. Why is one of either goodies or baddies. For these and many other reasons, greater source of danger.
the extras wearing an Ambassadors of Death spacesuit? And why I find that Colony offers more substantial fare than Autons, Sat 8 May 71 Episode Five: The

exactly does the Doctor drive the IMC buggy when he's a pris- Daemons or Mind. Not to mention the frightful Clauis. Doctor and Jo try to learn the
Master's reason for visiting the
planet, and fall into a deadly trap.

Dent and IMC men plan a terrible

L AL i 1 revenge on the Colonists.

Sat 15 May 71 Episode
Doctor fights to prevent the
Six: The

9 Concurrent with writing Colony, Malcolm Joe 90 and purchased when Century 21 was Zealand screened the serial from September Master from gaining control of
Hulke was working with Terrance Dicks on a closing down. Some of the model shots were 1985, February 1993 and November 2000. The the most deadly weapon in the

Gilbert and Sullivan project done on location to use the real sky serial formed part of a Time Life syndication galaxy. The final battle between

package in the USA from 1972. BBC Prime Colonists and IMC begins.

& Monday 1 1 January 1 971 : Promotional C> The location team were based at a hotel in screened the serial in 1995
material for Colony in Space emphasised that it Newquay; late one night after a drinking
was the first non-Earth serial in some time session, a group of crew and Havoc stuntmen 9 Harlequin Miniatures issued a Primitive

and set in the "Year 3000" planned on a naked dip in the pool at 2am, figure in 1999. The story was released on video

but were accidentally led by assistant floor as part of a limited edition Master Tin Set in

9 Wednesday 27 January 1971: Although manager Graeme Harper into the bedroom November 2001
contracted as Miss Morgan, Susan Jameson occupied by production assistant Nicholas The Doctor an Jo help the
was informed that she would no longer be John and his wife 9 In the Credits section, Studio Liahtina colonists of Uxeri... Exari...

playing the role Ralph Walton was omitted; Walton was cred- Ucksari... Oh sod this for a

9 The Guardian and Alien Priests were ited on Episodes One and Six only game of Primitives!, e bbc
9 On location in Cornwall, the crew had to designed by Scoones and crafted by assistant
contend with bad weather such as rain, snow John Friedlander
and fog. One of the Haflinger buggies used for

IMC transport was damaged when a heavy C> Rehearsals for studio began on Mondays
stage weight came out of a prop rock rolled at 22 February, 9 March and 23 March.

it and struck the vehicle. Jon Pertwee drove Friday 19 March 1971: Technical problems
his Lancia GT to the location - and weeks later caused a recording over-run of six minutes
found that china clay slurry had dried on the
underside of its engine and had to have it Dudley Simpson was booked to score the
chipped off serial on Wednesday 27 January; the music
was recorded at the Radiophonic Workshop

9 The IMC robot was built from ply and over fourteen days from Monday 29 March to

heavy card by Magna Models but failed to Friday 30 April. Dubbing on the serial began
move easily on location; it was often operated on Monday 5 April

by visual effects assistant Ian Scoones who

had to pick it up and carry it. The prop was 9 Colony in Space was sold to Australia in

badly damaged when left out in the rain December 1971 (screened from April 1973 and
overnight. The IMC spacecraft was a canni- around April 1986) as well as Singapore,

balised aircraft model made for an episode of Gibraltar and Canada in the 1 970s. New

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cammissmninB "If yername's not down, yer not comin' in!" Bok
(Stanley Mason) guards the entrance to the Cavern: ~ bbc
Thu 17 Dec 70 The Demons
storyline commissioned for Mon
25 Jan 71 from Robert Sloman; Strange to see a rain-machine used in that night-filmed horror-
delivered Mon 4 Jan 71 movie opening. So many innovations, so much pace and energy
Wed 6 Jan 71 The Demons scripts - and yet, The Demons is now remembered as something sickly 1

commissioned for Mon 1 Feb 71

and unthreatening, like cod liver oil or aniseed twists.
from Robert Sloman; Episode One
So, who took the best hundred-plus minutes of early 1970s
delivered Mon 25 Jan 71, Episodes
Two to Five delivered Fri
Doctor Who away from us and replaced it with something twee
29 Jan 71
and silly, all chummy performances and an unsatisfactory Star (

PRDDUCTIDI1 Trek finale?

Mon 19 Apr 71 Campbell Aircraft We did.
Company, Membury, Wilts [UNIT Somewhere between the umpteenth convention panel with
Garage]; Crossroads, Membury,
Richard Franklin and John Levene, die interview anecdote
Wilts [Crossroads]; Oaken Coppice,
about the "chap with wings", "Klokkeda partha mennin
Knighton, Wilts [Lane to Barrow]
klatch" ... in the space between what it was, what we remem-
Tue 20 Apr 71 Church of St
Michael, Aldbourne, Wilts
bered and what we expected it to be, The Demons got diminished I

(Churchyard); Aldbourne [Street]

- miniaturised, like Azal's buried spacecraft. We forgot that The
Wed 21 Apr 71 Four Barrows, Demons transplanted the John Wyndham/Auengers sci-fi village
Aldbourne, Wilts [Devil's Hump] to Doctor Who, failed to notice that it became a cliche only by
Thu 22 Apr 71 Crooked Corner, repetition. We ignored the charms of the character parts - the
Aldbourne, Wilts [Street]; Four
chaste not-romance between Benton and Miss Hawthorne, the j
Barrows [Devil's Hump]
Fergus/Horner interview bit, the singed-face 'D'oh!' that I
Fri 23 Apr 71 Darrell's Farm,
Sergeant Osgood mugs to camera. We forwarded through all
Ramsbury, Wilts [Heat Barrier;

UNIT Mobile HQ]

the zip and the fun - the 'copter chase, the sniper scene, the I

Sat 24 Apr 71 Aldbourne [Village weathercock spinning at Quiequaequod's command. And we j

Green] hey probably don't get many strangers round missed the point when the devil is defeated by love - of course he is! I

Mon 26 Apr 71
[Helicopter; Baker's Van]

Tue 27 Apr
Darrell's

71 Darrell's

[Heat Barrier; Country Lane]

Wed 28
[Village Green];
- Fri
Farm

Farm

30 Apr 71 Aldbourne
Church of St
T
essential a
Aldbourne these days - not of the myopic, placcy
bag-carrying fanboy variety, at Time was, a
trip round the byways of Wiltshire, to wander the

village where The Daemons was filmed, was as

rite-of-passage for the fandom initiate as watching a
least.
- but it's

clever heads.
so uncynical a moral,

Worst of all, we neglected the

binding ethos, in the 'science, not magic' scenes - which

it flew right over our

fact that The Daemons is

few Doctor Whos to articulate something interesting, a

just a very
clever-

one of '

seventh-generation copy of Enemy 0/ the World Episode 3 before makes for as perfect a summary of what, if anything, Doctor Who
Michael [Churchyard; Church]
Tue 11 May 71 Television Centre breakfast in theEmbassy Suite of the Holiday Inn, Cardiff, or is all about: salvation not just through knowledge, but under-
Studio 4: Episodes One and Two: Letrasetting up a fanzine named after a random episode of The standing. (The rest of the time, it's all about monsters. And The
Cavern; UNIT Duty Room; Pub; Daleks' Master Plan. But like video rooms at conventions and Daemons has one of the best monster bits ever, when Bok the

Vestry; Barrow; Brigadier's Flat half-column ads in Celestial Touroom at £7.50 a throw, going to gargoyle pops up over the rim of the barrow towards the end of
Wed 19 May 71 Television Centre
Aldbourne for an underage half in the pub that they dressed up Episode Two - like he's waited for the cameraman to get there.) [

Studio 4: Episodes Two to Four:

as The Cloven Hoof has passed out of fashion - some quaint The final scene of The Demons has 'the world born anew'. It's I

Pub Bedroom; Vicarage; Barrow;

custom from that far-off dreaming England where binmen the most romantic ending the programme ever had - the little I

Pub; Mobile HQ
went on strike each week and every day's the Silver Jubilee. miracle of life in Little England reasserting itself, a place where
Wed 26 May 71 Television Centre j

Studio 4: Episodes Four and Five: You can see that England in The Damons, and the people who small children can play in the road, the bad guys stand up to be

Cavern; Pub; Vestry lived in it - a cast of Snap characters (the Verger, the Landlord, jeered at, and instant happiness is there to be found, as the I

the Squire). They're the ones dancing round die Maypole in Brigadier suspects, in a cloudy pint of Real Ale. "You see, Jo - I

rhdid Times furry slacks and Terylene. Their children - all with pudding- there is magic in the world, after all ..." why Devil's End
That's
Sat 22 May 71 Episode One: An
basin haircuts, boys and girls alike - are the ones who boo the is a place worth looking for, and that's why Who fans used to
archaeological 'dig' planned
is
Master off. Strange to see Doctor Who's audience, on screen, en make that pilgrimage to Aldbourne.
near the village of Devil's End. Jo
and last time. Strange to see the BBC globe,
masse, for the first I went in 1987, with Peter Ware. It rained. The pub was shut ,

and the Doctor visit the dig and

of
and that mocked-up Outside Broadcast, in Episode One. We naffed off home soon after.
get caught up in a series

terrifying events.

Sat 29 May 71 Episode Two: Jo and

the Doctor continue to investigate

the mysterious events at Devil's

lil:lH!llUi=B*HlillM -

End, and find themselves trapped

in the village. The Master sends a

them.
9 The pen-name 'Guy Leopold' was used as Thursday 29 April 1 971 : The Wiltshire 9 Dudley Simpson's score was recorded
terrifying creature to destroy May and 6june
Robert Sloman was in another writing part- Gazette Herald reported that the facilities fee over seven days between 10
Sat 5 Jun 71 Episode Three: The
nership at the time, and did not wish it to paid to Aldbourne for filming there would go
Doctor reveals the truth behind
the events at Devil's End.
appear that the partnership had split up towards a scheme for pond drainage 9 New Zealand repeated the serial in April

Sat 12 Jun 71 Episode Four: The

1993 and November 2000. BBC Prime broad-

Villagers are in the Master's power 0 Tuesday 9 February 1971 : Promotional C) Tuesday 4 May 1 971 : Anthony Jackson's cast it in 1995, while Episode Five was shown

and attack the Doctor. Jo falls into material for The Demons referred to the barrow unused voice for Azal was taped at Maida Vale as part of The Take on BBC Choice in

the Master's hands - and comes as "Devil's Dyke" and the local witch as "Lady November 1 998 and July 1 999. Fine Art
face to face with the Daemon.

Sat 19 Jun 71 Episode Five: While

Olivia Featherstone". On some documents for ^ Tuesday 11 May 1 971 : Because he was not Castings issued Bok and Azal figures in 1 986,

the serial, Bert's surname is given as "Ford" required much in studio, Nicholas Courtney with Harlequin also issuing Azal in 1999
the Brigadier and his men try to
wandered into an adjacent studio where Eric
break through the heat barrier, the
Doctor begins his final battle with 9 Rehearsals for filming began on Tuesday 6 Morecambe and Ernie Wise were recording ^ Extras: John Crane was Motorbike Double

the Master - and the Daemon. Jo's

April, with studio rehearsals commencing on one of their shows - allowing Morecambe to for Captain Mike Yates; J
W Phillips and R
Matthew Corbett was make fun of the formal dinner jacket Courtney Dixon were UNIT Drillers; Frank Bennett, Ray
life and the fate of the world 3, 13 and 20 May. a late

depend on the Doctor's success. addition to the cast, replacing Bill Weisner was wearing James and Ray Taylor were UNIT Driuers

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Familu Affair
Success follows success as Doctor Who looks to its past for inspiration - and hits the jackpot!

Andrew documents the making of Season Nine, as the Daleks and Ice Warriors are dusted
Pixley

off to do battle with Pertiuee's Time Lord, and the 'UNIT family' seems more secure than euer ...

CSO on Tuesday 7
The the
long-awaited return of the Daleks to Doctor Who was one of
main concerns for the production team during
1971, although producer Barry Letts continued to exploit co-
Summer
session to try out new colours for September, inviting
other BBC producers and directors to see the sample effects they had in
mind for use in Day of the Daleks. Shooting on the new season began on
operation with the armed forces as he conducted meetings Monday 13 September around Buckinghamshire. Although production had
with the Ministry of Defence during mid-June to see what begun, Pertwee was still making other appearances wherever possible. He
facilities could be offered on The Sea Silurians, which Malcolm Hulke was in appeared as a panellist on the radio quiz Sounds Familiar (broadcast in

the process of writing. Since the stories were now being recorded so far in December), did more editions of Right or Wrong after filming on Day of the

advance, would be possible to film The Sea Silurians in the Autumn during
it Daleks and recorded an appearance on the final of BBCr's Quiz Ball on
fair weather - and yet broadcast it after the next story in production as this Monday 27 September.
would give a better balance to a season where two of the five stories would With Day of the Daleks recorded, director Michael Briant took a film crew
have the Doctor acting on other worlds as a Time Lord agent. to the south coast for a major location shoot on The Sea Devils (the new title

During the summer break, Jon Pertwee appeared as a panelist on a new
radio pilot called Rig ht or Wrong which was recorded on Wednesday 2 June.
Nicholas Courtney, however, found himself out of work apart from a film
called Endless Night and used his military bearing to help out at military
memorabilia shop.
for The Sea Silurians)which saw considerable assistance from the Royal
Navy. In the meantime, the return of the Daleks was being hinted at - the
three refurbished props made an appearance on Blue Peter with former
companion Peter Purves on Monday 25 October alongside a clip from The
Daleks' Master Plan: Devil's Planet. Young viewers were also being prepared for

With Robert Sloman not having made much of a start on The Daleks in the new season when a Doctor Who promotion began from Kelloggs on their
London, Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks decided to bring the return of Sugar Smacks serials; the packets promised the sugared cereal would
Skaro's finest forward to the 'first night' of the new season in an attempt to provide "the timeless energy of Doctor Who" and offered a series of badges
replicate the gimmick of the Master from the previous year. The Daleks to collect on special packs featuring Pertwee's Doctor.
were hurriedly grafted onto Louis Marks' 'ghost hunters' scripts, now enti- It was around now that The Official Doctor Who Fan Club seemed to be

tled Years of Doom, and Dicks undertook some substantial rewrites, winding up as the organiser's enthusiasm for the new format dwindled.
producing the new scripts under
the title The Day of the Daleks by
Tuesday 13
taking his
July, shortly before
annual leave. Sloman "FIRST RIGHT' OF
'
meanwhile continued to develop a
new storyline about the Master
n publicum BimmicH
I
tinder his original commission. Towards the end of 1971 the reins were taken up
'
In a new experiment for Doctor Who, Spearhead jrom by Keith Miller, a 14-year old devotee whom Letts'
. was granted a Friday evening repeat on BBCi
Space production office aided in establishing Doctor Who
weeks after The Daemons had ended; this
only three Fan Club Monthly (latterly DWFC Mag) which was
pas a new night of the week for Doctor Who and its then issued from the end of December. As
later slot of 6.20pm again emphasised that the BBC recording took place on The Sea Deuils back in

no longer regarded it as purely a children's show. London, Something for the Children, an edition of
While Dicks was on commissioned a
leave, Letts BBCi's Tuesday Documentary about the merchan-
somewhat experimental four-part storyline on dising of children's television characters
Monday ig July; bearing the working title of Multiface, discussed Dalek toys and showed an extract from
this was to be written by Godfrey Harrison, a veteran The Chase: The Executioners on Tuesday 9 November.
comedy writer on series such as Life of Bliss who was Mid-November also saw a new experiment for
renowned for not meeting deadlines. Harrison's DoctorWho - a compilation of a previous serial to
target for delivery was Monday 23 August. be broadcast over the Christmas period as a lead-
The scripts for Brian Hayles' new serial, The Curse in to the new season. The Daemons was selected for
ofPeladon, arrived at the end of July, just before it was this process and trimmed down to 89 minutes as
Letts' on leave. Hayles' scripts drew paral-
turn to go Doctor Who the Demons to screen on Tuesday
and
lels with Britain's proposed entry into the European 28 December. At the end of November, Holmes
'Common Market' as a primitive world was judged as was finally given his commission on The Labyrinth
to its suitability to join a Galactic Federation. The which would form part of the tenth season.
story also reintroduced the Martian Ice Warriors - On Saturday 4 December, Pertwee and his
but this time as the Doctor's allies. daughter Dariel recorded a special message for
Back from leave in August, Dicks spent much of the BBC Overseas Christmas Day broadcast From
bis Bob Baker and Dave Martin with
time guiding Us To You. Filming on The Curse ofPeladon at Ealing
their scripting on Independence, and helping to fillet took place the week before Christmas, along with
They're back! Pertwee and a friend
down their mass of ideas into workable notions. And some posed shots of Pertwee with Daleks and
promote Day of the Daleks at TV Cei
over a year after a contract had been issued to them, Ogrons to further the hype for Day of the Daleks.

Century Theatre were still interested in a Doctor Who On Tuesday 21 December, Pertwee and Letts

stage play and met with BBC representatives at the Mermaid Theatre on attended a Young Observers presentation at the London Planetarium along
Thursday 26 August. On Tuesday 31 August, the BBC informed Andrew with some of the monsters from the new series - including the Daleks. The
Leigh of Century Theatre that any prospective play script would have to be Daleks were also filmed out and about in the heart of London for a special
cleared by Letts before production. The same day, Harrison delivered his BBCi trailer to showcase their forthcoming return.
Multiface storyline - only a week late. Just before Christmas, the scripts for The Labyrinth were delivered by
At the start of September, Robert Holmes delivered his new storyline, Holmes, and the following week Robert Sloman was formally commis-
now under the title Out of the Labyrinth. As things geared up for production sioned to script The Time Monster from his revised storyline; this Master story
later that month, Letts and director Paul Bernard conducted another test would again draw upon mythology and explain elements of it away with

THE COITIPLETE THIRD CTC1R

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of the TV series. A new approach came from the agent Harvey Unna on
Thursday 20 January on behalf of Hulke and Dicks, with the BBC
responding that a licence could be granted once a story had been
formulated.
Thursday 27 January saw an extract of the recently broadcast Day of the
Daleks Episode Four appearing in the BBCi news magazine programme 24 I

Hours, and as The Curse ofPeladon began transmission the scripts for The Time
Monster started to arrive. Production on The Mutants (the new title for

Independence) began at the start of February, with Dicks asking Baker and
Above: 21 Oecember 1971, Pertwee, Letts and a Dalek pay a visit to the London
Planetarium. Right: Aggedor rehearses his roar for The Curse ofPeladon! Martin to get thinking about new ideas for non-Earth stories for the

Below: Pertwee and Manning make a friend during filming for The Mutants. anniversary season. The tenth season had been assured, and on Wednesday
9 February, Pertwee was contracted for a further 26
episodes. However, in a I

move back to the 1960s style of production, one serial was now to be taped
science. This time, Sloman would be writing under his own name, in the spring and held over Autumn. Thus, a four-part story would be
to the I

although still with Letts contributing. made during June/July with the other 22 from September through to May
1973. The popular Katy Manning was booked for a minimum of 22 shows I

screamed Frank Bellamy's colourful Radio Time the day after her co-star.
The Daleks Arc Back!
cover on Thursday 30 December, launching a story-writing compe During February, Doctor Who continued to pop up in all manner of places;
tition in which young viewers could win a state-of-the-art auto- the Obseruer Magazine on Sunday 13 carried pictures of the London
mated Mark Seven Dalek toy. Debuting on New Year's Day 1972, the series' Planetarium event, Mr Dinwiddie of Chiselbury School in die sitcom Whack-

new slot was a compromise between the two extremes of the previous 0!was determined not to miss Doctor Who on Saturday 19 (indeed, the show |

season: 5.50pm. At the start of the season, ITV retained its local schedules aired on BBCi just before the final episode of The Curse ofPeladon which
with quiz shows (Sale of the Century), light entertainment (Who Do You Do?, didn't feature die Daleks that Dinwiddie had hoped to see), and a film

The Comedians), sitcoms (Please Sir!) and film series re-runs (The Auenaers). report showing the winners of the Mark Seven Dalek enjoying their prize

The promise of Daleks appearing ensured appeared on Nationiuide on Tuesday 22

that the ratings at the start of the season February. The kids from Beckenham

were better than ever -well over nine Junior School also appeared in a Radio

million - and continued to grow until Times feature ('Meet the Dalek Winners!') I

badly hit by the nationwide powercuts a couple of days later, while the entries

during February. were displayed - along with monsters

The day after the new season began, such as Aggedor and Alpha Centauri - at
Pertwee was back at the Paris Theatre to an exhibition at the Ceylon Tea Centre in I

start recording the thirteenth season of London's Lower Regent Street from the
The Navy Lark; during the following week following week.

he also taped more editions of Right or Despite Harrison doing "a great deal of
|

Wrong (as he did throughout the month)

work" on Mulnface, on Friday 25 February I

and on the morning of Friday 7 did Letts decided that the writer should be

another interview with Pete Murray for paid-off and the storyline abandoned.

Open House. The return of the Daleks Meanwhile, industrial disputes across
ensured an amount of press attention - England were causing power blackouts, I

but the dip into the show's own past was a double-edged sword with disrupting television audiences for several weeks. Those who had missed ,

Matthew Coady of the Daily Mirror commenting that Doctor Who was starting Hepesh's demise at the end of The Curse ofPeladon had a chance to catch it

to look a little tired on Monday 3 January. Meanwhile, The Curse ofPeladon again on Ask Aspel on Sunday 27 February, with host Michael Aspel then

was hurriedly being recorded to be ready for broadcast at the end of the promising that Pertwee would be his guest the following week. Pertwee
month. recorded his appearance at Presentation Studio A on the afternoon of
By now, Century Theatre's proposed stage version of Doctor Who was Thursday 2 March, and answered younger viewers about whether he was
floundering, as Letts didn't consider their proposed script to be in the spirit ever frightened watching Doctor Who, and about the design and operation of
 Far Left: Alpha Centauri minus
itscloak. Erm ... Left: Jon
Pertwee, dedicated follower of
fashion, during rehearsals.
Below left: Filming at
Swallowfield Park for The
Time Monster. Below: The many
faces of the Third Doctor!

the Daleks who also featured in a much-requested extract where they were
blown up in the climax to Day of the Daleks. This edition was shown on
Sunday 5 March; later that evening BBCi viewers were treated to the rather
bizarre sight of Alpha Centauri joining The Black and White Minstrel Shorn for a
Mi
rendition of Walking Down The Road.

t and Martin submitted a story idea enti-

the start of March, Baker
tled Death World which picked up on a notion suggested by the fans

and also considered by Letts and Dicks as the gimmick for the
anniversary season; this story would see all three Doctors teaming up
against the hellish forces of Death which opposed the Time Lords. While

The Sea Devils was on air, discussions about the feasibility of a "three
Doctors" story continued. On Sunday 26 March, The Nauy Lark returned to

Radio 2, running the day after Doctor Who.

Filming on The Time Monster got underway at the end of March, and at
the start strip Doctor's profile shot up significandy as
of April, the comic
his adventuresnow appeared on the cover of the relaunched TV Action +
Countdown. As The Mutants started transmission, ITV changed their
Saturday night policy and began to network shows across the country, programme; this landmark book appeared in the

starring with an extremely popular Ken Dodd show called Funny You Should shops on Thursday 20 April. A week later on
Soy That. When Doddy concluded his run, most of the network then Thursday 27, Manning took time off from rehearsals
screened the sitcom The Train Nou> Standing (although LWT opted for Sale of on The Time Monster to record a guest appearance on

innusTRniL disputes across EHELRHD WERE

EHUSinS POWER THHT DISRUPTED
the Century). Although the audiences again tailed off towards the summer the antiques quiz Goinafor a Song (broadcast on
and never recaptured the pre-power cut highs, the season still showed a Sunday 7 May).
half million viewers improvement on average. The scripts for Hulke's Frontier in Space were
Hulke submitted the story idea Frontier in Space - a space opera in which commissioned at the start of May, followed quickly
the Master attempted to provoke a space war on behalf of the Daleks - in by the retitled Destination Daleks from Nation. One of
mid-April, and Dicks soon confirmed to Baker and Martin that the "three Nation's Daleks recorded a sketch about computer
Doctors" idea was on after tentative arrangements had been made with dating with Adrienne Posta on Look - Mike Yaruiood on
Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell. Bearing in mind that the next Monday 15 May for transmission on Friday 30 June.
season was the show's tenth anniversary, Dicks and Letts decided they In the meantime, recording on season finale The Time

wanted an epic storyline set over two serials; as such, Frontier in Space was Monster concluded on Wednesday 24 May - although
to serve as the curtain-raiser for a new Dalek serial, Planet of the Daleks, the team would now continue with work on the first
commissioned from Terry Nation. Indeed, the decision was taken to part of the subsequent season with Peepshoui (the
suspend the Doctor's exile on Earth and allow him to travel in the TARDIS new title for The Labyrinth). On television, The Time
again - albeit still helping UNIT where necessary with terrestrial terrors. Monster saw the Doctor, lo, Bridagier Lethbridge
Pertwee took part in another couple of radio interviews; After Seuen on Stewart, Captain Yates and Sergeant Benton battling
Tuesday 18 (broadcast Tuesday 2 May) and Radio 2's Late Night Extra on against the Master's plans to control a lethal being
Wednesday 19 April. To increase the show's profile, Hulke and Dicks had from outside time. Nobody realised that it was the
also written a book about The Makina of Doctor Who for Piccolo, focusing on last time this UNIT 'family' and their arch-enemy

the production of The Sea Deuils and giving a lot of background to the would be appearing together ...

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Day of the Daleks
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cammissioninB
Fri 22 Jan 71 Ghost Hunters story- "Quick, Zeg - get his autograph" a bbc
line commissioned for Mon 8 Feb

71; delivered byTue 23 Feb 71

Thu 1 Apr 71 Scripts commis-
pre-pubsecence, they must have been all but forgotten. And
sioned; delivered by Mon 5 Jul 71
yet, here they were - back. So, despite
all that had happened in

PHDDUCTIDI1 and despite the apparent good health of the show,

the interim,
Tue 7 Sep 71 Television Centre first - possibly unwarranted - acknowl-
Day of the Daleks saw a
'

Studio 4: Experimental Session edgement that here was a show with a past that it must feed
Mon 13 Sep 71 Dropmore Park, off; a past that it couldn't escape.
Burnham, Bucks [House Area] Perhaps, looking at what was waiting in the queue behind
Tue 14 Sep 71 Dropmore Park
Day to form the bulk of Doctor Who's ninth series, one might
([House Area]; Harvey House,
perceive Day itself as an act of despair on the part of Letts and
Brentford, London [Flats Car
Dicks; despair of being able to live up to their earlier work
Park]; Bulls Bridge, Hillingdon,

London [Tunnel Area] without a crutch, with much creative energy perhaps being

Wed 15 Sep 71 Bulls Bridge expounded on the embryonic Moonbase 3. But look beyond all 1

[Tunnel Area; Ambulance; meta-information and simply match these four episodes; Day of I

Devastation Area] the Daleks may have been the first Pertwee-era story that I

Thu 16 Sep 71 Bulls Bridge watched - missing as I did die opening episodes
in its entirety
[Tunnel Area; Devastation Area]
of The Three Doctors and Carniual of Monsters' 1981 repeats
Mon 4 Oct 71 Television Centre
because of music lessons, and 1982's rerun of The Curse of
Studio 4: Episode One
Peladon because I didn't know it was on - but I'm sure such
Tue 5 Oct 71 Television Centre
Studio 4: Episode Two nostalgic issues aren't blinding me to anything; even now,

Mon 18 Oct 71 Television Centre comparing Day 0/ the Daleks with most Doctor Who - including
Studio 8: Episode Three its immediate peers - produces astoundingly little to

Tue 19 Oct 71 Television Centre complain about. Day of the Daleks is actually damn good stuff.
Studio 8: Episode Four Tension, pace, drama, nice make-up on the Ogrons, and
excellent acting from the guests - possibly bar that bizarre
nnnin Times woman in the 22nd century waving her arms over a control
Sat 1 Jan 72 Episode One: A
t only has three Daleks in it, pretending to be an panel and intoning like a victim of something debilitating. It's
mysterious attack on a high-
ranking diplomat ... savage guer-
invading army. Let's get that smug, abrasive little almost and it looks quite lovely, and it has nice music;
scary,

rillas, who vanish into thin air ...

factoid out of the way from the outset. Pertwee and Courtney are giving it plenty; Manning's hit a
ape-like monsters in pursuit - and One could argue - absurdly - that Day 0/ the Daleks stride of amiably earnest conviction; Franklin and Levene
behind it all, the Doctor's dead- (or, as our BBC VHS copies maintain to this day, The almost resemble actors. New and exciting - for Doctor Who,
liest enemies. Day of the DALEKS - those capitals struck me as significant, anyway - dramatic possibilities of time travel are exploited
Sat 8 Jan 72 Episode Two: once upon a time) was the beginning of the end for Doctor Who. and addressed. It is, all round, absolutely the best set of I

Convinced that the Doctor is Sir

Okay, told you it was absurd. For six years, though, Doctor Who episodes of the Barry Letts era, showing up Terry Nation's not-
Reginald Styles, the guerrillas
rarely bothered to give a toss about episodes preceding the yet-imminent contract-requirement exercises Planet and Death I

plan to kill him. Jo tampers with a

time machine and is carried off
one currently screening, and only reused Daleks and as the tensionless time-servers they were always, inevitably,

into a terrifying future. The Doctor Cybermen because they had proven so popular it would have going to be. It's almost a truism now to say that Daleks are

comes face-to-face with his dead- been foolish not to. With the second recasting of the lead role never better than when written by anyone except the bloke
liest enemies ... and the move to colour, the Doctor Who of 1970 bore consider- from whose creative loins they sprang.
Sat 15 Jan 72 Episode Three: The ably less resemblance to the Doctor Who of the preceding year Of course, the only common complaint, and it's been heard
Doctor hunts for Jo in a Dalek- than usual. Pertwee's first series epitomised a show moving from many a source, from Jon Pertwee downwards, is that - I

ruled Earth of the future. Jo mean- get ready, here it comes - "it only has three Daleks in it,
unashamedly forward into an unfamiliar style. His second did
while thinks she an honoured
pretending to be an invading army". True - but who cares?
is
likewise, with yet another change of emphasis in the story-
'guest' of the Controller. By the
telling paradigm; Season Eight showcased a ubiquitous recur- Why worry? As production difficulties go, especially for Doctor
time she learns the terrible truth,
ring villain we'd never even met before in seven years of the Who, it's a minor one and almost completely unimportant. I'd
the Doctor is a helpless prisoner of
the Daleks. show, for goodness' sake! But Season Nine ... be more worried about the fact that the Dalek voices are, well,

Sat 22 Jan 72 Episode Four: Jo and Well, the Daleks were back, after five-ish years. Previous a bit crap - but even then, they're better than the ones from
'

the Doctor fight to get back to Dalek adventures, however occasional they may have been, Revelation, so, well ... I'm not sure what that proves except that,
'our' time to prevent the death of had deployed Daleks as an ongoing, occasional aspect of the if you hunt hard enough, you can always find a bit of Doctor
- and war that will deliver
Who worse than whatever
Styles a
show's core format. From 1967 onward, they were no longer it is you're watching.
Earth's future to the Daleks. In
intrinsic. By 1972, with manias left way back in the mists of Unless you're watching The Mutants.
Style's wine cellar, Share starts
assembling his bomb.

iiniHiuu^nTTT-
O The UNIT semi-regulars were now 9 It had originally been planned to shoot from the serial issued from 1998 included Jo,

booked on a story-by-story basis; for Day of the Auderly House scenes at Osterley Park Yates, Benton, a guerrilla and Ogrons, while a

the Daleks, Richard Franklin was contracted on House in Osterley close to the wasteland of plate from Danbury Mint with art from Colin

Friday 1 3 August 1971 Nicholas Courtney on

, Bulls Bridge, but the venue was changed Howard appeared in 1999. New Zealand
Thursday 26 August and John Levene on about a week before shooting repeated the serial in November 2000
Wednesday 1 September
Larkfield issued a postcard of three Daleks t> In the Cast section, Brigadier Lethbridge-

By now, the freelance company Westbury from the serial in 1980. Frank Bellamy's Radio Steurart should be hyphenated. In the Credits
Tyres in the 22nd Century!
Design were contracted to store and maintain Times cover appeared in Who Dares' Frank section, there should be no copyright date at
The Doctor and Jo at large, c bbc
the Daleks at Pinewood Studios Bellamy Art Prints in 1987. Harlequin figures the end

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wrong series ..." e bbc Fri 14 May 71 The Curse of Peladon

scripts commissioned for Sun 1

Aug 71 ; delivered Fri 30 Jul 71

The upshot of these phone calls was that we were invited to PRODUCTinn
visit the BBC studios during a recording, and were both given a Wed 15 Dec 71 Television Centre
day off school by the headmaster to do so. On a snowy January Puppet Theatre: Model Filming

day in 1972, we made our way to a hushed studio and tiptoed Thu 16 Dec 71 Television Centre

Mr our host Puppet Theatre: Model Filming;

our way behind the sets, dutifully following Letts,
Ealing Film Studios Stage 2: Pit;
and guide. I hoped that we would be there for the next Master
Cliffs
story, which we knew was imminent, but instead it seemed to
Fri 17 Dec 71 Television Centre
be an old Earth casde. Hmm, not very futuristic. All, but at least Puppet Theatre: Model Filming;
there was a strange alien in a tank! Then there was Jon Pertwee, Ealing Film Studios Stage 2:

lyingon a bed and being visited by a High Priest Pertwee was .

Cliffs; Ledge
concerned that the camera angle might make it seem he had Mon 17 Jan 72 Television Centre
multiple chins, and I was fascinated that Hepesh was Geoffrey Studio 4: Episode One
Tue 1 8 Jan 72 Television Centre
Toone, who had played the marvellous villain in The Freeumeelers.
came for a chat ... and what
Studio 4: Episode Two
After the scene ended, Jon Pertwee
Mon 31 Jan 72 Television Centre
a pleasant person he was! My estimation of him increased
Studio 3: Episode Three
significantly.
Tue 1 Feb 72 Television Centre
Then, only a few weeks later, the trailers appeared for The
Studio 3: Episode Four
Curse of Peladon; while over on a
homework was being pored
Friday night, the television was on just in case a trailer was hhdid Times
shown. It was always a treat, and a bit of a thrill, to see Doctor Sat 29 Jan 72 Episode One: The

Who being mentioned. And there it was: "What is it, Grun? Doctor takes Jo to a far planet in

be the distant future.

ltliough I started with Doctor Who from Day One, What is it?" "The ancient curse of Peladon will fulfiled!" It
Sat 5 Feb 72 Episode Two: Dr
the Troughton years had a stronger influence on looked all rather interesting ...
Who falls foul of the Ice Warriors
me than the Hartnell era - even into the 1970s, But it wasn't just on Peladon that drama was unfolding.
- and comes face to face with the
because 1 had so many Troughton episodes taped There was trouble in the real world too, as we suffered from
Royal Beast, Aggedor.
(on audio, of course)! Jon Pertwee's 'in your face' strikes that meant scheduled power cuts. In those pre-internet Sat 12 Feb 72 Episode Three:
style went much against the grain of Troughton's unobtrusive days, the power-cut schedules were posted on the window of HRH Princess Jo receives a right

Doctor - and so, even by the flamboyant one's third season, I the local Electricity Board shop (something else that belongs in Royal proposal.

was still considering him the 'new Doctor'. Fortunately, over the past) and, to my horror, I discovered that the first ten Sat 19 Feb 72 Episode Four: Dr
Who tames the untameable -
the years, I grew to appreciate the Pertwee style - and I am now minutes of Episode Four would be affected! But where there's a
and King Peladon is to be
much fonder of his tenure as the Doctor than T was at the time. will there's a way, and 1 managed to borrow a battery-powered
crowed. Will Jo be his Queen?
The first edition of The Malawi of Doctor Who had still to radio that could pick up TV signals. On my original audio

appear, so 1 had yet to be jolted into that fan phase of needing
to know every single fact about the series. Without any organ-
ised fandom, each story was a surprise and the first hint of its
existence was (when it only listed BBC
either the Radio Times
transmissions) or a TV trailer. But I was blessed by not being a
solitary Who fan; my best friend at school was of the same
recording of that instalment, you can hear the distorted radio
gradually being drowned out by the TV as the power began to
flow again and the set warmed up - yes, it was a valve-operated
colour TV!
Listening to the audio, it was very difficult to hear what was
happening - a lot of gun blasts and shouting, it seemed - and

persuasion, and he also had - indeed, still has - an impressive it was some years before I discovered what had actually
boldness in his dealings with people. So, while I watched the occurred. Overall, though, the story had been a nice change;
series and, wisely for the time, chose not to let on to my peers there was a rare chance to see inside the TARDIS, for a start,
and, after the Daleks in the preceding story, it was nice to see
that was an avid fan, my friend was ringing up producer Barry
I

Letts and chatting about all sorts of odds and ends. (I eventually another reference to the series' past with the Ice Warriors - and
plucked up the courage to ring him myself, by the way, and he a genuinely surprising twist that they were now the good guys. The Doctor's back.
kindly called back later that night, after supervising the 'Well,' thought this Troughton fan, 'that certainly put the And so are the Ice

recording of the last episode of The Time Monster.) over-confident 'new Doctor' in his place!' Warriors! e bbc

: I : I H : 1
1
1 1
-M : : I :

9 Synopsis: In Episode Two, "trisillicate" castle/temple. Hayles indicated that the sabo-

should read "trisilicate" taging delegate was "not the Ice Warrior",

that the royal beast was like The Hound of the

9 Monday 1 March 1971 As a : result of two Baskervilles, and a trial by combat would

on-spec storylines entitled The Shape of Terror allow the Doctor to "do the full Douglas

and Doctor Who and the Brain-Dead - Brian Fairbanks"

Hayles attended a brain-storming session

with Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks and O The original story breakdown for Episode

outlined a new story headed "Four Part One had Hepesh hypnotising Grun into doing

Doctor Who Serial"; this would feature no his bidding and sabotaging the conference.

location filming. The setting was an alien Aggedor was envisaged as an "ape-like" crea-
planet inhabited by medieval warrior-like ture, but ended up resembling a bear
humanoids ruled by a king and a priest caste
from a citadel with a mountaintop (> Wednesday 26 May 1 971 : Dicks thanked

THE CrjITlPLETE THIRD DDCTDR

 Hayles for the quick delivery of a draft for colleague from his days on the Century 21 condemn us for being ruled by our ancestors.

Episode One; further scripts followed with a Supermarionation shows) to handle the model We have many primitive traditions that will

draft Episode Four arriving on Monday 28 sequences since he had more experience than seem strange to you. We are willing to learn"

the BBC crews, but the use of freelancers at was also dropped. "One down, three to go"
June. Dicks acknowledged these on Friday 2
was too busy on Day of the Daleks to BBC premises caused some friction, after was how Lennie Mayne's camera script ended
July, but

consider them which Scoones tended to hire independent

studios, such as Bray, for model filming 0 Tuesday 1 8 January 972: Some of the 1

& In his scripts, Hayles described "the whenever possible episode was recorded out of sequence with the
Room
scenes in the Delegates Room, Izlyr's
Citadel of Peladon [as] a many-turreted

edifice in Alien Gothic. It is a night of dark and 9 Friday 17 December 1971: Visual effects and the Corridor grouped together; "and now
designer Jack Kine was taken and unable to the fun really begins" said Mayne's camera
storm. Winds howl round the castle, thunder- ill

lightening illuminates the work on the serial; he was replaced by Ian script as taping went out of story order,
claps rend the air,

wearing Scoones as acting designer and Bernard Wilkie followed later on by "stay with us; it gets
Citadel in fitful flashes". Jo was to be

the TARDIS. asked for a joint credit on the serial for them worse". A short scene after the statue attack
"evening dress with cloak" in

Alpha Centauri (usually referred to as of Peladon pondering about this, Torbis'

King Peladon of Peladon
thinks Princess Josephine's
Various rewrites were conducted on death and why Aggedor does not appear was
"Centauri") was not described beyond being
when Hayles' scripts including the later part of the not recorded. The final scene was expanded on
"very slightly precious and neurotic";
TARDIS scene Episode One, the opening recording to give Hepesh more dialogue
Hepesh bows, "Alpha Centauri performs an in

pleading awful, bbc alien equivalent". The Delegates Room was scene between Peladon and Hepesh (which

On one wall, hands, was rewritten twice), Jo and the Doctor Q> Monday 31 January 1972: There was a
"small, but luxurious ...

Peladon's royal banner - in one quarter, the finding the shrine, Hepesh and Peladon small amount of outof sequence recording on

discussing Torbis' death, and Hepesh telling Episode Three with the scenes in the Delegates
Aggedor emblem". Arcturus was "A trans-
parent globe of fluid, mounted on its own the delegates about the legend of Aggedor. A Room taped together. The spinning hypnotic

support attach- new short scene of the Doctor and Jo device with which the Doctor hypnotised
traction unit, including life

ments. Contained within the fluid is a deli- commenting on the strange storm as they Aggedor was part of a model aeroplane made

organism. voice entered the tunnel from the cliff-face by Century 21 . Recording over-ran by fifteen
cate, multi-strand Its is

mechanical, produced by the self contained ("Continuous sheet lightening and no rain ... minutes because of a camera breakdown.

instantaneous translator in its life support Weird ...") was inserted to account for the Barry Letts apologised to Wilkie that Scoones

- "dry" storm at Ealing. Episode Two was had been given sole visual effects credit on
unit flat, stilted, emotionless"; Arcturus
on a statue revised with more dialogue from Hepesh, the Episodes One and Two, promising this was
originally demonstrated his ray

rather than a vase. In Episode Two, Hayles Doctor and Jo discussing the other delegates, now rectified.

described the Inner Sanctum as containing "a the Doctor repairing Arcturus, Jo's abortive

escape attempt from Izlyr's room via the Tuesday 1 February 1972: Although
huge statue of Aggedor (CSO)" (a)

ledge, and the remainder of the episode from booked, Terry Bale, Murphy Grumbar and
Walsh
£ Terry Walsh was contracted to arrange the Izlyr and Ssorg encountering Jo in the corridor Terry Walsh were not needed

was busy working on

in studio;

Lord Peter Wimsei). As

fights while still working for 'Havoc' on onwards. The complete scripts for Episodes
Three and Four were then heavily rewritten with earlier episodes, scenes in the Delegates
Thursday 2 December. David Purcell was origi-

on Tuesday throughout; the device the Doctor used on Room were generally taped together mid-way
nally contracted to play Ssorg 7,

"Cuddly Aggedor" was described only as "a through the evening. According to the camera
but replaced by Sonny Caldinez two days later.

thing" or "mirror device". The rhyme script, the final credit slide was to read
Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 December 1971:
sequences were rehearsed "Klokleda partha mennin klatch" was added "Directed by LOVELY LENNIE MAYNE"
The filmed fight

with Jon Pertwee, Terry Walsh and Gordon St from The Damons, and although quoted in full

Clair of 'Profile' at St James Church Hall on in Episode Three, by Episode Four was abbre- ^ The serial was edited on Wednesday 19

Gloucester Terrace. viated to "Aroon, araan, aroon and so on and and Thursday 20 January and on Wednesday 2

so forth". The entire challenge climaxing and Thursday 3 February 1972. Episode One

9 Working as a visual effects assistant on Episode Three was described as "Grun & Dr lost the short inserted scene of the Doctor and

the serial was Mat Irvine who was on holiday fight. The tension is unbearable. Will our hero Jo discussing the dry storm, the end of the

attachment to the department; his first work survive to fight another day? He will". In first scene with Arcturus where Centauri is

Episode Four, Grun originally jammed the told that the Martian delegates are in their
on the show was on the scenes with the
was a new secret door open with his dagger. Aggedor quarters, a scene in a corridor by the throne
miniature TARDIS on the cliff; this

from plasticard was now referred to as "Aggie" in the stage room where Hepesh tells Grun that since
prop made by Ian Scoones
and when Peladon said he would Aggedor spared him it is a sign for them to
with photocopied windows. The castle was directions,

keep asking Jo to stay with him, the stage protect the King from the alien delegates
The impressive Citadel made of cardboard and mounted on plastic

freelance direction read "Filth"! The script ends with (indicating the statue), another scene where
of Peladon as crafted by cliffs. Scoones opted to bring in

lighting cameraman Mike Wilson (an old the TARDIS vanishing and the stage direction Hepesh summons Centauri and Arcturus to
Ian Scoones a bbc
"Collapse of stout party" join Peladon (and Centauri, "an inter Galactic

civil servant" complains about the uncivilised

9 Rehearsals for recording began at Acton planet), and part of the delegates reacting to

on Monday 3 and Thursday 20 January; Katy the Doctor accusing them of acting like

Manning liked the character of Alpha Centauri, children.

but Jon Pertwee had to explain to her what

'hermaphrodite' meant. Terry Bale pre- 9 Episode Two lost some dialogue after Izlyr

recorded his Arcturus dialogue on Monday 10 thanked the Doctor for saving the delegates

January, and the next day Manning and from the statue (where Arcturus coldly

Pertwee dubbed their film sequences comments "The gravitational forces involved

were in excess of humanoid resistance.

(> Monday 17 January 1972: The opening Serious tissue damage would have resulted"),

TARDIS scene and the film sequences either the end of the scene where Jo is left in Izlyr's

side of it were pre-recorded at the start of the room and attempts to escape via the locked

evening; a stagehand stuck a 'naughty' door, and the start of the next scene where

photograph on the TARDIS console to divert Hepesh tells the aliens to leave after the

Pertwee's eyeline. During recording, one attack on Arcturus. Episode Four lost the end

section of dialogue was omitted from the of the scene where Hepesh summons the dele-

scene where Centauri comes before Peladon; gates, omitting Izlyr saying that Ssorg will kill

in the script, Centauri reminds Peladon of the Hepesh if they are being tricked

conditions of Federation membership and

Peladon says that he is committed to have his 9 Dudley Simpson had been booked on the

formal coronation only when his world has story on Wednesday 24 November 1 971 the ;

achieved this status. Another speech from conventional music for the first two episodes

Peladon in which he says to Centauri "Do not was taped with three musicians at Lime

CTOR LUHD mRGRZiriE

Grove on Monday 24 January after which elec- "Princess, you appear to have left your
tronic elements were added at the rollers in!" "Shut it, big head! At least I

Radiophonic Workshop on Tuesday 25, don't look like an enormous d-" s bbc

Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 in time for the

first transmission the next day. Music for the

last two episodes was recorded in a similar

manner first on Monday 7 February and then 9 In 1994, Spacescapes marketed a print of

enhanced electronically over the next two days the citadel by visual effects designer Ian

Scoones, while Jondar produced a phonecard

9 The Curse of Pelodon was sold to Australia with images from the serial around 1996.

in July 1972 (screened from August 1973 and Harlequin issued figures of Aggedor, an Ice

repeated in 1978 and 1986), as well as Hong Lord and Alpha Centauri from the serial in

Kong around 1 973, Canada around 1 976 1998. Jon Pertwee recorded an abridged =1
(screened 1979) and Singapore, Gibraltar, the version of Hayles' novelisation in Spring 1995

Philippines and Saudi Arabia in 1977. BBC which was issued on cassette by the BBC in

Prime broadcast it in 1996 and New Zealand July 1995. The BBC retains D3 copies of all

repeated the serial from November 2000 episodes taken from the NTSC transfers

The Sea Devils

Heart of Gold BU ROBERT SHEHRHIHR
II 111 III HHCHIUE
DWM 192

The Doctor was unimpressed with the effect CDmmissiDninG

his new deodorant was having... bbc Mon 29 Mar 71 The Sea Silurians

(working title) storyline commis-

sioned for Fri 30 Apr 71 delivered
;

Mon 26 Apr 71
A small act. Malcolm Hulke doesn't give it much attention Tue 25 May 71 The Sea Silurians
- he knows full when that he has to get back to describing the scripts commissioned for Mon 2

MONSTERS! and ACTION! But it still seems to me one of

the Aug 71 ;
Episodes One and Two

most moments in Doctor Who, a moment of

truly beautiful
delivered Mon 28 Jun 71, Episode
the
Three delivered Thu 1 Jul 71,
quiet dignity afforded to a flawed man. It sums up what Doctor
Episode Four delivered Mon 5 Jul
Who and, on top of chat, the character of the Doctor - should
-
71, Episode Five delivered Fri 9
be about. And since then, every moment I have spent in the
Episode Six delivered Sat ll|
Jul 71,
Doctor's company has had to measure up to that act of tender- 10 Jul 71
ness. 1.
A few years after I'd read the book, a friend let me see a PRDDUCTIDn
video of The Sea Devils. It was a copy of a copy of a copy, I think Thu 21 - Fri 22 Oct 71 Fraser

- whatever, it was like watching a series of coloured talking Gunnery Range, Portsmouth,
Hants [Beach; HMS Seaspite]
blobs running away from and shooting at a set of coloured
Mon 25 Oct 71 Fraser Gunnery
hissing blobs. I was spellbound, in spite of what it was doing
Range [HMS Seaspite]
for my long-term vision, waiting for that defining sequence
Tue 26 Oct 71 HMS Reclaim,
chat had turned me into a fan. And it never came. On screen,
Portsmouth, Hants [HMS
Trenchard blazes away at the Sea Devils with his gun. He even Reclaim]; No Man's Land Fort,

killsone of them - what the hell was that all about? No need Solent [Sea Fort]

for the Doctor to show his compassion at all. Its omission Wed 27 Oct 71 Red Cliff;

meant I lost some faith in the Doctor - and it coincided with a WhitecliffBay, Isle of Wight
Beach; Minefield]
disillusionment with the series as a whole, and my sliding out
[Cliff;

Thu 28 Oct 71 Bembridge Sailing

of fandom altogether.
Club, Bembridge, Isle of Wight
single act of compassion turned me into a fan. In 1992, the BBC repeated the story; I tuned in more to
[Quayside]; Bembridge Harbour,
I hadn't been interested in Doctor Who at all mock it than enjoy it - but was caught entirely by surprise. In
Bembridge, Isle of Wight [Sea];
before I was u. Frankly, had been too terrified
I retrospect, the way that the broadcast version handles Priory Bay, Seaview, Isle of Wight

of the theme music to make it past the opening Trenchard's death is exactly right. What was so powerful and [Beach] 7f
credits. But I felt brave enough to buy a Target throwaway on the page would have been cloyingly sentimental
book one day at a school jumble sale - probably because it had on screen. Clive Morton's terrific portrayal gives Trenchard
a submarine on the cover. his own dignity without the Doctor's help, as he reassures a

Doctor Who usually hasn't got the time to worry about being frightened guard in the face of his own death. And in a series

moving. Its job is to provide lots of ACTION! and MONSTERS! all about ACTION!, director Michael Briant shows enormous
- if it gets concerned about the consequences when those two restraint in not evenshowing us the moment when Trenchard
explosive ingredients meet, that's the job for the end-of-story is gunned down. The unspoken simplicity with which the
m~
coda in which the Doctor can reflect upon the moral message camera reveals his dead body in the background to the next
of the week. In no era of the programme is this more true than scene is subtle and affecting. (Even if Malcolm Clarke accom-
in the Pertwee years; the MONSTERS! are more garish, the panies the sequence with an ooooooeeeeeoooohphthphthph
ACTION! more thrilling, and the moral message delivered to sound. But then, it would have stood out more if he hadn't.)
camera with the gravity it deserved. I'dbeen lying if I said I shed a tear - hey, I was a cynical adult
But that Target book Idevoured in one sitting was moving. now, not a hormonal teenager. But I had a lump in my throat.
It wasn't so much how Governor Trenchard died. He was an It's quite odd, I suppose, that two of my favourite Doctor Who

annoying old fool who had been helping the Master; even at moments are actually the same moment. I love the one for
that age, I recognised the fitting irony that when he decided to what it says about the compassion of the Doctor, and love the
regain his honour and go down fighting the monsters, he other for what it shows about the compassion of Doctor Who. I
forgot to take the safety catch off his gun. No, it was the can look on them both now as valid and entirely non-contra-
Doctor's reaction to it. It was the way that when he found dictory. So everyone's a winner.
Trenchard's body, he secretly reset the gun so that no-one Well, everyone except Trenchard, of course. This way he
would realise that he had died a failure. gets killed twice. Poor sod.

THE COmPLETE THIRD CTDR

 1

iiinHiuu^nTm
O Barry Letts' first meeting with the the Royal Navy Diving School in Portsmouth, Admiralty House to study plans of nuclear
Ministry of Defence was in mid June 1971 and a week later the Ministry of Defence gave submarines - and found that, since they did

when he had outlined the hope to do a "Naval permission for filming; the film crew were not have suitable security passes, they were

serial" with shooting from 21 October. He also allowed to shoot one underwater explo- unable to leave at first. The model was made
hoped to include diving operations, a small sion for Episode Six from polystyrene with plastic kit parts from

landing by the Royal Marines and an air-sea- Woolworths, and filmed over two days at the

rescue with a helicopter 9 Thursday 21 October 1971 arriving on : Television Centre Puppet Theatre; it was never

location, Michael Briant suddenly realised that in a real tank of water, the ocean being simu-

9 Saturday 10 July 1971: By the time the the Sea Devils were naked and so the netting lated by lighting effects

final script was delivered, the title had become outfits were hastily arranged. Visual effects

The Sen Deuils. In the camera script, Trenchard designer Peter Day and his assistant Len Late rewrites on Episode One included Jo
Cunningly disguising
was described as "a middle-aged man, Hutton devised the Sea Devil guns from flash and the Doctor discussing the Master in
himself as a sea fort,
dressed in conventional country-gentleman wool, gunpowder and aluminium disks Trenchard's office, the Master and Trenchard
the Doctor lies in wait for
clothes - tweed suit, old school tie". At the debating the sinkings, the scenes with Clark
unwary Sea Devils! a bbc
start of Episode Two, the stage directions indi- £ Tuesday 26 October 1971 The motor boat : and Hickman on the fort (originally an oil rig),

cate that "Doctor Who grabs [ClarkJ's wrist Vera Lunn was used for Robbins' boat while and Hart checking the Doctor's pass. Changes
~% Fri 29 Oct 71 Norris Castle, and applies a Venusian judo lock, so that Home's Launch transported the crew and acted to Episode Two included Hart hearing from

East Cowes, Isle of Wight [Prison] Clark is helpless". At the climax of Episode as a camera platform. Stuntman Mike Jane that the Doctor and Jo were missing, and
Mon 15 Nov 71 Television Centre Two, the Master was originally to have taken Stephens dived to play the Sea Devil, while the Master summoning the chateau guard
Studio 8: Episode One the gun from the chateau guard to threaten Terry Walsh and Stuart Fell doubled Pertwee into his room. Much of the material about the
Tue 16 Nov 71 Television Centre
the Doctor with rather than using a knife; he and Manning climbing the fort ladder. submarine was rewritten in Episodes Three
Studio 8: Episode Two
was about to shoot when Trenchard enters at and Four (largely conducted on Thursday 1

Mon 29 Nov 71 Television Centre

the start of Episode Three. At the start of f> Wednesday 27 October 1 971 : Whitecliff November), along with the Doctor's escape
Studio 8: Episode Three
Episode Four, having reached the Naval Base, Bay was owned by Bembridge Caravan site. from the Master's cell in Episode Three. Other
Tue 30 Nov 71 Television Centre

Studio 8: Episode Four "Doctor Who sits back, with his feet up and The original plan had been for two Marine changes to Episode Four included the Sea

Mon 13 Dec 71 Television Centre shows off, wiggling his toes". In Episode Five, abseilers from R Company, RMB Eastney to Devil attack on the chateau and the Doctor in

Studio 8: Episode Five the Sea Devil Base was described as "Not just double for Jon Pertwee and Katy Manning as the diving bell. The script for Episode Six was
Tue 14 Dec 71 Television Centre a cave but a chamber with metallic walls, but they descended to the beach. While filming also adjusted so that the Master and the
Studio 8: Episode Six
there is a damp, disused, moulding and the minefield sequence, at 3pm Pertwee badly Doctor should refer to "Eocenic bases" and

verdegris - overgrown look about the place, bruised his ribs when he fell on a "six inch "Eocenic friends" although these references
UNDID TIDIES and a subdued underwater kind of light ... metal tube" - the sonic screwdriver prop - were dropped on recording
Sat 26 Feb 72 Episode One: |o and
Some wet sea devils enter carrying a coffin- which was in his breast pocket when he hurled
the Doctor visit the Master, now
safely locked up in an island size pod-shaped container". When Ridgeway himself onto the fake barbed wire ^ Studio recording was generally performed
prison. Or is he? When the Doctor communicates with his crew using Morse, the in story order; the exceptions were Episode Five

and Jo find themselves caught up message written down by Summers and 9 Thursday 28 October 1971 : Bembridge which was recorded on a set-by-set basis (Sea
in the mystery of the missing shown to the rest of the submarine crew was Sailing Club was owned by Lord Brabazon; it Devil's Base, Hart's Office, Base Corridors,
ships, and the creatures that "Keep them busy - we're coming in. had been planned to film the opening of Prison Area and Submarine) while the Sea Devil
emerge from the sea, they begin
Ridgeway"; originally it was Doctor Who Episode One here with Jo meeting Robbins on Base scenes were recorded together in Episode
to wonder if the Master is up to
rather than Ridgeway who shot down the Sea the beach, and the pair then being joined by Six. Recording for Episodes Three and Four had
his old tricks.
Devils as they entered the sub the Doctor who has been water-skiing. Fell been planned for TO. Monday recordings ran
Sat 4 Mar 72 Episode Two: After
doubled Manning on Robbins' bike. The craft 8.00pm to 10.00pm while Tuesday recordings
his escape from the Sea Devil the
Doctor tries to convince Captain 9 Wednesday 25 August 1971 : Plans were in the chase scene were hired from Brealy began at 7.30pm. It was usual for all the major

Hart of the danger. There is a made to use an extract from The Rock Collector, Smith Speedboats film sequences to be transferred to videotape at

daring robbery at the Naval Base. an episode of Clangers broadcast on 25 April the end of the evening after the live recording
Certain that the Master is
9 Friday 29 October 1 971 : The Victorian folly
involved, the Doctor pays

second visit - and falls into

him a
the
O At the start of September, Letts arranged Norris Castle was owned by an elderly Grand ^ Monday 1 5 November 1971: The two

for himself, Terrance Dicks, director Michael Dame; Pertwee was fascinated by the antiques establishing shots of the Chateau were colour
Master's trap.
Briant, production assistant Colin Dudley and there and borrowed a book on 1 1th century photocaptions of Norris Castle
Sat 11 Mar 72 Episode Three: Now
completely under the Master's
designer Tony Snoaden to visit the HMS recipes to help his wife with a cookery book

domination, Trenchard holds the Reclaim; Lt-Commander K G Lees replied she was writing. Major Coventry provided a Backing Track, heard on the fort radio, was

Doctor prisoner. Captain Hart saying that the best dates were Monday 20 horse to be ridden by a Havoc stuntman the B-side to Johnny Reggae, a Jonathan King-

sends a submarine to hunt for the and Tuesday 21 September, whereafter Reclaim penned hit by The Piglets from 1971
Sea Devils. Jo and the Doctor was sailing to Falmouth and Scotland. The To help design the model submarine,
escape, and find themselves in
visit took place on Monday 20 at HMS Vernon, Peter Day and Jack Kine were allowed to visit ^ In editing, Episode One lost a short group
even more danger ...
of shots of the Master on his rowing machine
Sat 18 Mar 72 Episode Four: Sea
as Trenchard guided the Doctor and Jo to his
Devils attack the patrolling
cell. In a later scene in Trenchard's office,
submarine. The Doctor persuades
Captain Hart to investigate the
three cuts were made to remove Wilson

prison, but arrives too late. showing Jo and the Doctor in, the Doctor

Sat 25 Mar 72 Episode Five: evading Jo's questions as to why they came to
Frustrated by the Master in his see the Master by saying that he thought they
attempts to make peace, the would enjoy "a trip to the seaside", and also
Doctor is held prisoner.
when "Won't they ever him go?"
Jo asks let
Sat 1 Apr 72 Episode Six: With the
the Doctor replies "After all he's done?".
Naval Base in the hands of the Sea
Episode Two lost the Doctor commenting that
Devils the Doctor is forced to help
Clark should be in hospital, and some dialogue
the Master. After a spectacular
battle, the Doctor and the Master to Jo about the Sea Devil he encountered being

reach a final confrontation in the "a related species" to the cave creatures. A
Sea Devils' base. whole scene in the Master's cell was also

removed; in this, the Master tells the governor

that if he cannot persuade the Navy to part

with the equipment they need, then they will

have to steal it to prevent further loss of life

"Row, row, row your boat
gently down the stream...
Stream? Why, that's an d Monday 21 February 1971: The BBC

anagram of" e bbc Schools programme Television Club: Putting on 11

CTrjR who mnGRZine

 Shorn 2 was broadcast. The programme had a sufficient for them to recommend that any pewter Sea Devil in 1995 while a kit appeared

lengthy film report from presenter David royalty fees be waived." on the UK market in 1996. Dapol released a Sea

Freeland at the model shooting for the subma- Devil figure in 1998, while the video cover art

rine and in TC8 for the recording of Episode 9 The Sea Deuils was sold to Australia in was issued by Slowdazzle as a postcard in 1 999.

One. Snoaden, effects assistant John 1972, Hong Kong in 1973 and Canada, The incidental music was included on the BBC

Friedlander and costume designer Margaret Singapore, Gibraltar, the Philippines and Music CD Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic
Fletcher were interviewed Saudi Arabia in 1977. New Zealand screened it Music - Volume 2: New Beginnings in May 2000

in November 1985 and November 2000

H The score for the serial was to have been d The Sea Deuils has been shown in episodic

provided by John Baker of the Radiophonic 9 Tuesday 20 February 1973: An Audience and compilation forms on UK Gold since April

Workshop, but when he was taken ill the task Research Report was produced for the repeat 1993 and on BBC Prime during 1996. The

was handed to Malcolm Clarke. Clarke was compilation based on 1 7 viewers' comments; serial was released on video in September 1995
1

able to view Shibaden tapes of the rough the reception was mixed since the audience with a cover by Colin Howard. The BBC retain

episodes during December, and created his had seen the story before and so felt it lacked D3 copies of the converted Episodes One to

53-minute score using the Delaware PCS-3 excitement. While there was praise for Delgado Three and the 625 line Episodes Four to Six
The Doctor makes good
and Pertwee, reaction was mixed over the Sea

$ Saturday 4 March 1972: Because of the Devils ("too pathetic for words" or "most 0 Cast: June Murphy 3rd Officer Jane Biyth
his escape

and his
from Trenchard
guards s sbc
widespread power cuts, Episode Two's broad- effective monsters") and Hugh Futcher Hickman [1] were omitted.

cast was preceded by a two minute sixteen Extras: omitted were Stuart Fell Castle Guard;

second resume of Episode One at 5.49pm d Sea Devil miniatures have been issued by Philip Weston, Brian Gilmar Naual Base

Fine Art Castings in 1985, FASA in 1986 and Sailors; Derek Ware Stuntman/Sailor; Alan

9 Wednesday 17 May 1972: The Purchased Harlequin from 1997 to 1999. The 1972 poster Chuntz, Billy Horrigan Stuntmen/Sea Deuils.

Programming Department informed Barry was produced by Personality Posters; the Credits: Tony Millier was in charge of Sound

Letts that "The Director of Public Relations same image was used on a Slowdazzle poster in on Episodes One to Four (credited on One and

(Navy) has informed me that they consider the 1 996, the same year a Eurodesign Print for the Six) while Colin Dixon supervised Episodes

publicity derived from [The Sea Deuils] was story was marketed. Danbury Mint issued a Five and Six (credited on Six).

I III

The Mutants
r There Are More Questions Than Answers BU dDlinTHHIl
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Ky and the Doctor explore the caverns of Solos, e bbc

commissinmnE
Thu 20 May 71 Independence
ll|
Episode 1 commissioned for Wed
i6Jun 71; delivered Fri 2 Jul 71
empire-builders and the heroes are the wronged natives. It
Wed 4 Aug 71 Independence III
embraces the birth of the counter-culture, what lazy researchers Episode 2 commissioned for Fri 27
call 'Flower Power', an obsession with spiritualism, environ- Aug 71 ; delivered Thu 26 Aug 71

mentalism, and wearing far too many beads. And it features Fri 3 Sep 71 Independence Episode 3

that peculiar brand of low-maintenance psychaedelia that the commissioned for Mon 20 Sep 71;

new colour delivered Fri Oct 71

BBC adopted in the early 1970s in order to justify the 1

Fri 1 Oct 71 Independence Episodes

license fee.
4 to 6 commissioned for Mon 18
In other words, it is very, very groovy. But it's always rather
Oct 71 delivered
; Mon 25 Oct 71
peculiar to watch a Jon Pertwee story, as I grew up with these
tales through die books. It's odd how the stories always seem PRDDUCTIDn
so much slower and laborious because of the amount of waffle Mon 7 - Tue 8 Feb 72 Western
Terrance Dicks excised from his novelisations. Quarry, Northfleet, Kent [Solos

On the other hand, though, you get to see the monsters; in Surface]

this case, the staggering Mutts, which so successfully distort Wed 9 - Thu 1 0 Feb 72 Stone
House Farm Caves, Frindsbury,
the human body shape that it's difficult to believe that they
Kent [Cave Mouth]
contain John Scott Martin. And you can see the actors, most of
Fri 11 - Sat 12 Feb 72 Chiselhurst
whom seem to have been employed under some sort of interna- Chalk Caves, Chiselhurst, Kent
tional exchange programme - one wonders whether Michael [Caves]
Sheard spent six weeks appearing in a Soviet sci-fi show in Mon 28 Feb 72 Television Centre
return for George Pravda. You also get to see the dangerous- Studio 4: Episode One
looking explosions - particularly on the two occasions that Tue 2g Feb 72 Television Centre

George Pravda is forced to lean over a desk primed to detonate Studio 4: Episode Two

- and the beautifully-achieved effect of Super-Ky gliding down Mon 13 Mar 72 Television Centre
Studio 8: Episode Three; Hut and
spaceship corridors. And most of all, you have Tristram Cary's
Clearing for Episodes Four & Five
gorgeous, scintillating incidental music; a bizarre, space-rock
Tue 14 Mar 72 Television Centre
he past is a foreign country", as the saying score performed on vintage Moog synthesisers - well, they were
Studio 8: Episode Four

T goes, and pasts don't come much more state-of-the-art synthesisers at the time - which sounds like the
Mon Mar 72 Lime Grove Studio
13
foreign than the 1970s; a strange unworldly missing link between Wendy Switched-On Bach Carlos, Rick E: Experimental Session

place, with garish, ill-fitting clothes, chunky Wakeman, and traffic-cone-era Kraftwerk. Mon 20 Mar 72 Television Centre

spectacles, and powerful trade unions. Being The Mutants is also the first proper Doctor Who story of the Studio 4A: Experimental Session

and fun, whereas all of those

vibrant, imaginative Mon 27 Mar 72 Television Centre
bom too late to have experienced it all first-hand, die 1970s is a 1970s. It is
Studio Episode Five; Radiation
foreign country that I can only learn about through books and preceding it - where the Doctor works for the army - were 3:

Chamber, Hyperion Fuel Store and

television programmes. I don't watch 1970s Doctor Whos out of rather drab, serious and lacklustre, with greeny-grey monsters
Skybase Corridor for Episode Six
nostalgia, but out of historical curiosity. fighting greeny-grey soldiers in a greeny-grey power station.
Tue 28 Mar 72 Television Centre
The Mutants is a profoundly dated piece of television. And that With The Mutants, Doctor Who gets back to doing what it does Studio 3: Episode Six
is what is so great about it. It's obviously part of the same era as best- fantastic, colourful, adventures in time and space. Colony
Bowie on Top Of The Pops, Love Thy Neighbour and Monty Python's in Space and The Curse of Peladon are the first buds of hope, but UNDID TIDIES
Flying Circus. It even opens with a ragged, panting "It's ..." man! with The Mutants you can see Doctor Who flowering again. Sat 8 Apr 72 Episode One: A

informed by post-colonial guilt, where the villains are the The other unusual thing about The Mutants is that it is actually mysterious summons from
It's

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 2

about something. Doctor Who stories only ever had a point to them and resourceful - if occasionally a bit quick to take offense and

during the early 1970s; Doctor Who under Barry Letts was very squabble amongst themselves?
much a forerunner for John Crown's Neiusround. Each story would It's frustrating that the story poses difficult and complex
explore a topical issue, whether it be entry into the Common questions but only gives easy answers. After all, if Earth is a

Market or more esoteric concerns such as the ethics of war. poisonous slagheap, where are all the people supposed to live?

Admittedly, it never did so to any great depth, but it did nonethe- And if the Marshall wasn't ugly, sadistic and mad, would he still

less present clear and justified arguments for the children. be a villain? But it's nevertheless laudable that Doctor Who, at

The Mutants' case is simple and straightforward: why are we least for a while, wore its ideology on its sleeve. Nowadays, of
granting independence to our former colonies? Because we course, a children's TV show would never dare to address a

have reduced our own world to ash and clinker, what right do contentious political issue. Which is a great shame; television
we have to impose our society onto others? Because the colo- should have a point to it. Like it did in the early 1970s.
nialists are ugly, sadistic and mad? Because the natives are brave

h Paul Whitsun-Jones as the

malevolent Marshal of Solos L HM^!m:I:I
* the Time Lords takes Jo and
9 In

inspired by
the scripts, the Solonians were heavily

Samurai warriors, with Varan

school children arrived to watch the shooting

one afternoon. Shooting was delayed at times

£ Tristram Cary's music score ran to 61
minutes, recorded in a ten hour session on
the Doctor straight into danger. by the use of heavy tractors nearby. At the Tuesday 25 The was dubbed by
carrying a Kukri-type sword and his body- April. serial
Sat 15 Apr 72 Episode Two: Jo is a
guard giving a samurai-type yell as he time, the country was being hit by power Monday 1 May
hunted fugitive on the poisonous
attacked the Doctor (who was referred to as blackouts because of industrial action. Time
1 surface of Solos. The Marshal

blackmails the Doctor into helping

"Doctor Who" throughout the script) was lost on one day because alarm calls failed 9 Ratings for the serial saw a distinct drop

to happen, while on another occasion shooting for the series - partly due to lighter Saturday
him with his plans.

Sat 22 Apr 72 Episode Three: The 9 Rehearsals for filming took place from was taking place in Chiselhurst Caves when evenings arriving. In almost direct competi-

Doctor hunts for Jo in the caves of Thursday 3 February 1972, with Terry Walsh cast and crew found themselves plunged into tion, ITV scheduled a new Ken Dodd variety

Solos. In the shadows the mutants training Jon Pertwee in karate on the morning total darkness. The map used by the Marshal show from ATV entitled Funny Vou Should Say

prepare to attack. of Saturday 5 February was a genuine map of Chiselhurst Caves That ... which got high ratings
Sat 29Apr 72 Episode Four: The
Doctor and Sondergaard make
an amazing discovery in the caves
t> Saturday 5 February 1972: Sending the 9 Studio recording times were 8.00pm to 9 The Mutants was sold to Australia in

revised rehearsal scripts to Bob Baker and 10.00pm on Mondays, and 7.30pm to 10.00pm August 1972 (screened from September 1973
of Solos. Jo falls into the
Dave Martin, Terrance Dicks also invited a on Tuesdays and repeated in 1986), as well as Hong Kong
Marshal's trap.
Sat 6 May 72 Episode Five: The submission for the next season: "Start around 1973 and Canada, Singapore and the

Marshal's plans for Solos go thinking! Dr/Jo/Tardis stories, like this current & Monday 13 March 1972: Recording over- Philippines around 1977. BBC Prime screened
disastrously wrong. Can the one are wanted." ran by five minutes because the sets had not the serial in 1996 and New Zealand repeated it

li Doctor save the doomed planet in been ready in time from December 2000
time to save Jo's life?
9 Monday 7 February 1972: At 9.1 5am, Katy
Sat 13
Marshal
May 72
is on
Episode
trial
Six:

- with the
The
Manning stumbled on uneven ground and ^ Tuesday 14 March 1972: Recording over- The BBC retain the NTSC tapes of Episodes
received a ligament strain in her right ankle ran by thirteen minutes due to a CSO failure One and Two and D3 recordings of the
Doctor as chief witness. But Jo and
remainder
the Doctor's friends are the
Marshal's prisoners. Will the <]f Although filming at Frindsbury was cold £ Monday 20 March 1972: A 45 minute
doctor chose to reveal the truth and tiring, Jon Pertwee ensured that he did not experiment session was held at Lime Grove in 0 In the Cast section, John Scott Martin

about the Marshal's crimes? disappoint his young fans when a group of the 24 Hours studio at 6.00pm Mutt was billed only on [5].

[The Time Monster All The Young Dudes

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cDmmissiomnG
Tue 25 May 71 The Doleks in Kronos: 'A demented parrot', apparently, a bbc video
London storyline commissioned for
Mon 2 Aug 71 ; delivered Tue 3

Aug 71 ; new storyline as The Time

Monster accepted Tue 28 Dec 71 t's 1972 - class 2KS, Furze Piatt Junior School,

t Tue 28 Dec
scripts
71 The Time Monster
commissioned for Tue 1
Maidenhead. In those days, before video, before UK
Gold - heck, even before Target novelisations! -
Feb 72; Episode One delivered Doctor Who was an essential ingredient of school life.
Wed 26 Jan 72, Episode Two on
I mean, come Monday mornings, you weren't 'cool'
Wed 2 Feb 72, Episode Three on
unless you sat in the (inappropriately named) 'quiet courtyard'
Sun 6 Feb 72, Episode Four on Tue
and nattered endlessly about the Doctor. And - be warned, for
8 Feb 72, Episode Five on Sat 1

here's a revolutionary thought - it was a programme that all

Feb 72, and Episode Six on Mon
ii
14 Feb 72
nine-year-olds watched avidly.
1= This was in the days when Doctor Who wasn't a 'cult' show;
,' PRDDUCTIOn 'cult' usually conjured up images of Moonies or Charles
1
1 Wed 29 Mar 72 Ealing Film Manson mumbling the lyrics to the Beatles' Helter Skelter. And
Studios Stage 2: Lab Floor; we weren't 'fans' - they were those things that either went
Temple; Stairs; Limbo Black
round and round and made the curtains blow, or were long-
Thu 30 Mar 72 Ealing Film
haired weirdoes who screamed at Donny Osmond and David
Studios Stage 2: Kronos;
Cassidy. No, we were just viewers - plain and simple. Doctor
Labyrinth; Crystal Chamber
Tue 4 - Wed 5 Apr 72 Who wasn't even a 'British institution' back then; it was just a
Swallowfield Park, Swallowfield, bloody good television programme in the prime of its life -
Berks [Newton Institute] clever, witty, scary and thrilling. It had a hero, the hero's girlie

Thu 6 Apr 72 Stratfield Saye Park, who screamed a lot, a bunch of army guys with guns, and
Stratfield Saye, Hants ^ slimy, tentacled monsters that could kill you with a touch, or

, IB
I I

J CTrjR who mnGFizinE

 looked-Iike-a-computer! What about the cat?
But that summed up the The Time Monster for me, really. I
mean, I was hooked - missing an episode of Doctor Who was
unthinkable! - 1 still bemoaned the fact that I never knew what
happened to the Ambassadors of Death, and I shan't tell you
what was thought about the man at the Camber Sands
Caravan Park who switched off the communal TV halfway
through the last episode of Colony in Space.And yet, The Time
Monster kind of got forgotten. When the Radio Times Tenth
Anniversary Special was issued two years later, I didn't recog-

nise the description of the story at all, bar the Adantis bits -
maybe my child's mind thought the first four episodes were
one story about strange old men at a university, and then the
Atlantis thing was a two-parter that I really enjoyed?
As the summer wore on and 30-odd boys and girls of 2KS
discussed the good and bad bits of the stories (actually we
loved everything - you do when you're nine - but some of the
boys thought Jo was daft), I still fretted about the black cat.

Alas, we never found out the fate of the poor moggie, and I Ingrid Pitt as the voluptuous
confess that I spent much of the following summer - which Queen of Atlantis. She'll

always seemed pointless, as Doctor Who wasn't on - hoping to be all right when it sinks,

see the cat in the TAIU)IS the following year. then ... . BBC Video

Then The happened - and, as much as I loved

Three Doctors
seeing the older Doctors (having a September birthday meant
that I was the eldest in my class and so could proudly point out
"I am the Master and obey me will you ... me. Oh. Oh knackers ... 7f [Country Road]; Mortimer
that I remembered the first one) and the marvellous Cell
I'll get me coat." s bbc video Lane, Mortimer, Bucks [Woods];
Guards (I didn't know that was their name until I suddenly School Lane, Heckfield Heath,
gained a curious - and brief - love of Weetabix a couple of Hants [Road]
point at you and you'd vanished. Or, in the case of The Time years later), there wasn't any sign of the cat. It sounds so daft Fri 7 Apr 72 Old Church Farm,
Monster, fly around like a demented parrot and drop big bricks now, but even into the first Tom Baker stories, I think, I still Hartley Witney, Hants [Roads];

- well, that's what thought happened at the end hoped would turn Stratfield Saye, Hants [Road]
on your head I that the cat up.
Tue 25 Apr 72 Television Centre
ofEpisode Six ... I now own two cats. Neither of them have ever shown any
Studio 3: Episode One
I remember beingmore concerned that said parrot
far intention of getting into a TARDIS and heading back to
Wed 26 Apr 72 Television Centre
avoided dropping the big bricks on the Queen's cat than the Atlantis to rescue their kitten kin. Indeed, they've watched The
Studio 3: Episode Two
Queen herself, and was most upset that when confronted by Time Monster only recently thanks to that odd BBC Master Tue g May 72 Television Centre
tlie parrot turning into a big set of eyes
(I got that bit, you see), video box set tin thing - and they never even asked about the Studio 4: Episode Three
neither he, nor (as I would have expected) Jo asked about the poor cat. Wed 10 May 72 Television Centre

cat. I mean, bugger the Master and his silly TARDIS-that- I still fret, though. I hope she's all right ... Studio 4: Episode Four
Tue 23 May 72 Television Centre

Studio 3: Episode Five; End of

Episode Four
Wed 24 May 72 Television Centre
Studio 3: Episode Six; scenes for
Episode Five
$ In preparing his story research, Robert
Sloman visited both Greece and Crete rrdid Times
Sat 20 May 72 Episode One:

9 Thursday 30 March 1972; The crystal of Strange happenings at the

Kronos was made from strips of normal Newton Research Institute. Is

the extraordinary machine the

window glass with glass drops from a chande-
mysterious Professor Thascales
lier company. Michaeljohn Harris designed
has built all it seems to be?
and made the Minotaur mask
Sat 27 May 72 Episode Two: The
Doctor learns of a danger to the
9 Tuesday 28 March 1972: Film rehearsals entire Universe. A visitor arrives -
took place at Acton a visitor from another age.
Sat 3 Jim 72 Episode Three: The
comes under a strange
9 Wednesday 5
April 1972: Reading Euenincj Tardis
attack and the Master nearly
Post covered the location shoot with 'Look
loses control of the Time Monster.
Who's Here - Stratfield Saye is about to be
Sat lojun 72 Episode Four:
Exterminated' in which locals were warned
Trapped in their Tardises, the
about the explosions to be heard the next day.
Doctor and the Master engage in

The Basingstoke Gazette attended the shoot the a desperate battle of wits - which
following day the Doctor loses. Or does he?

Sat 17 Jun 72 Episode Five: The

9 Friday 7 April 1 972: An Episode One scene Doctor follows the Master to

planned for shooting in the afternoon had the

Atlantis and Jo faces a very
different sort of Monster.
Doctor and Jo in Bessie held up by a herd of
Sat 24 Jun 72 Episode Six: The
cows supplied by Mr Hewitt of Old Church Farm
Master's rashness brings about
the destruction of Atlantis and the
9 Wednesday 10 May 1972: Recording over- Doctor's compassion nearly
ran by five minutes because of problems with brings about the destruction of
the Kirby wire supporting Kronos 9 Dudley Simpson was booked to provide Back at the lab, the Doctor contemplates his the Universe.

the music score on Monday 14 February; each future: "A whole magazine devoted to me?
$ Wednesday 24 May 1972: Recording over- pair of episodes had music recording with How splendid!" a bbc video

ran by 53 minutes because of more Kirby wire three musicians at Lime Grove on Monday 1,

problems and CSO issues Monday 15 and Wednesday 31 May with

electronic elements added at Maida Vale on 9 The story was screened on BBC Prime in

$ Thursday 22 June 1972: Barry Letts Tuesday 2, Wednesday 3, Tuesday 16, 1996 and repeated in New Zealand in

complained to the Radio Times that the Wednesday 17 May and Thursday 1, Friday 2, December 2000. November 2001 saw BBC
Brigadier's name had been abbreviated to Saturday 3 and Monday 4 June. Dubbing was Worldwide release The Time Monster as part of
"Stewart" in their cast list for Episode Six completed on Friday 8 June the limited edition Master Tin Set.

THE COmPLETE THIRD DOCTOR

 Saturday Night's
Alright For Fighting
As three of a kind squabble their way to the top of the ratings, changes are afoot behind the scenes.
Andrew Pixley takes us through Season Ten, Doctor Who's anniversary year, as celebrations
turn to comiserations when the fledgling files the coop and the UNIT family begin to drift apart

ith only a week's break after completing recording on Pertwee could be found stories with Jo, the Master and UNIT as well as a skir-
The Time Monster, Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning and a film mish with monsters called Kelads!
crew under producer/director Barry Letts travelled to Recording on Roger Delgado's only appearance for the anniversary season
Tillingham Marshes on Tuesday 30 May 1972 to start - now entitled Frontier in Space again - ran through October and concluded at
shooting location sequences for Peepshotv - planned as the start of November; for both thisand Carnival of Monsters (the new title for
the second serial of Doctor Who's tenth anniversary season. During June, Peepshoiv), anew arrangement of Ron Grainer's famous theme tune was used,
Pertwee recorded further editions of the Sounds Familiar radio quiz while realised by Paddy Kingsland at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop on a piece of
rehearsals progressed on die serial. Given the structuring of Robert Holmes' equipment known as the 'Delaware'.
story, Letts opted to attempt a new experiment in his studio recordings; all the By now though, there were last minute changes on the 'three Doctors'
scenes set in the Indian Ocean for all four episodes would be recorded on the story; William Hartnell had already proved to be in poor health suffering from
first pair of studio days, leaving the second studio session exclusively for the arteriosclerosis, and had his contributions reduced to a single day of filming
serials' scenes set on Inter Minor. This final recording before the summer which would be played back on monitors. Also Frazer Hines was unable to
holidays was attended by a film crew for Looking In, a special edition of the recreate his role as lamie because of his commitments to the soap opera
Tuesday Documentary which was celebrating 50 years of the BBC. Taping Emmerdale Farm, meaning that his part was given to John Levene as Sergeant
completed on Peepshotu on Tuesday 4 July, a few days before Pertwee's fifty- Benton. During mid-October, Letts and the production office started to press
third birthday, and the regulars departed for their summer break. In the mean- for the fourth New Year Radio Times cover in a row to showcase Pertwee,
time, Nicholas Courtney took on other television work
including an episode of Doomuiatch (Cause oJDeath) recorded
who urns now ee jbhiee
on Friday 2 June.
At the end of June, Bob Baker and Dave Martin were immense popularity despite beiee
commissioned to write The Three Doctors

was starting to deliver his scripts for

and Malcolm Hulke
Frontier in Space.
En FEE EELS SIR lEDETHS BP THE SEflfl
Although The Time Monster had brought the ninth season Troughton and Hartnell - united for the anniversary.
of Doctor Who to a close on Saturday 24 June, devotees Past stories were the focus of attention on Friday 3
were treated to the first BBC screening of the 1965 Aaru November when Henwood contacted the production
movie Dr Who and the Daleks, starring Peter Cushing, the office and asked if Target could rejacket the Hartnell
following Saturday. The colourful cinema adaptation of novels with illustrations featuring Pertwee's Doctor, and
die original 1963 Dalek story aired in the High Adventure to seek permission to have a series of Pertwee serials

slot, promoted by truncated versions of the Dalek cinema novelised to continue the range. While the first request
I

trailer in die preceding week. was denied, the notion of adapting scripts into books
During July, Baker and Martin continued to craft dieir appealed in particular to Dicks. By now, both Letts and
extravagant ideas for the three Doctors story into scripts Dicks were looking to move on from Doctor Who; Letts
which now carried the tide The Black Hole, and Terry had expressed an interest in creating a series about the
Nation's scripts for Destination Daleks were arriving on the Royal Navy after production of The Sea Devils, but this was
desk of script editor Terrance Dicks. The first filming for too similar to another new BBC series Warship. In late
the next production block actually began in mid-August 1972, Dicks developed a format entided Moonbose 3 for
with model filming for what was now entided Frontiers in an anthology set in a lunar colony in the year 2003; to be
Space; Letts was, as usual, away on leave during August, produced by would be a co-production with
Letts, this
enjoying a well-earned rest after n hectic months. During 20th Century-Fox and ABC in America. Letts and Dicks
August, BBCi also scheduled Daleks - Invasion Earth wrote a pilot script and the other episodes were commis-
2150AD in High Adventure on Saturday 19 August; both this sioned from mid-December 1972; the plan was to record
film and its predecessor got excellent ratings of around the six editions of Moonbase 3 over the summer of 1973.
ten million. Shooting on The Black Hole (which had swapped tides
Doctor Who was enjoying immense popularity, despite again) started early in November, with Hartnell giving
only being on air for six months. Personality Posters what would be the final performance of his career at
issued a pin-up of Pertwee (which had to be withdrawn Ealing film studios on Monday 6 November. The same
and replaced at the actor's request) and Michael Stanfield produced more week, Carnival of Monsters was previewed on Looking on Tuesday 7 November
In

jigsaws, as well as asking for licences on other products. Most significandy, and Pertwee released Who is the Doctor? -a novelty single in which he spoke
editor Richard Henwood of Target Books found copies of the three Doctor Who lyrics written by David Maclver over a glam-rock version of the Grainer theme
novelisations published in the 1960s and optioned them to launch his new - on Friday 10; the actor promoted this with an interview on Late Night Extra.

children's book range. Rupert Hines produced the single for Purple Records, though it failed to make
Principle shooting for the new production block started on Frontiers in Space any immediate chart impact.
on Sunday to September on London's South Bank, while later the same week, As with the previous year, a compilation repeat was planned for Christmas
the anniversary series - now entided The Three Doctors again - was formally and this time The Sea Devils was selected for Yuletide editing in mid-November.
announced; ideally, the celebration story would have been recorded first but A Sea Devil was to feature - alongside the Daleks, an Ogron and a Draconian
Patrick Troughton's gap for the first
availability ruled this out. After a year's (as yet unseen by BBCi viewers) - at a BBC Visual Effects exhibition at the

time since 1965, TheDr Who Annual 1973 was published by World Distributors, London Science Museum at the end of the year, and the events was promoted
carrying a year on its cover for the first time. Behind the colour photo cover of as Peter Purves met several rather static monsters on Blue Peter on Monday 27

the cnrnpi ETt: third ddctdr

 Left: Katy Manning on location for Planet of the Daleks, her penultimate
tory as Jo Grant. Below: Jon Pertwee and one of his many motorcycles -
is love of vehicles would be put to good use in the following season ...

Pertwee did another interview with Pete Murray on Open House and
was also contracted for his fifth year as the Doctor; 26 more
episodes would be made, again with the first serial to be recorded
by mid-June, starting again in mid-September after a summer
break. Pertwee's Open House interview prompted a letter from
Brenda G Hoyle which appeared in the Radio Times on 15 February,
informing Letts that the Doctor Who theme music terrified her son.

Although The Automata storyline was delivered by Holmes on

Friday 26 January, it was not really whar Dicks and Letts wanted;
the production office were also having problems creating a new
companion to replace Jo. An actress had been selected for the new
role, but then in early Spring 1973 there was a
November. At the end of November, Robert major rethink, the actress dropped and the char-
Sloman was commissioned for The Green Death - acter abandoned. Holmes was asked for a
an ecological thriller which would feature UNIT - replacement storyline at short notice and
and the edited tapes of Carnival of Monsters were commissioned under the title The Time Fugitive;

viewed back. Internal reaction to the 'Delaware' this tale of a Sontaran military officer landing in
versionof the theme was poor, so the 1969 the middle ages introduced a new companion
arrangement was retained for The Three Doctors (the called 'Smith'. There were to be other changes to
tide for which had now been settled on) and plans the line up as well. With the Master's appearances
were made to dub this back onto both Carniual of in Doctor Who becoming more sporadic, Delgado
Monsters and Frontier in Space in the new year. asked Letts if the Master might be written out of
The theft of a Dalek from outside the offices of the series permanently so he could concentrate on
Purple Records made the news on Tuesday 5 other work. Letts agreed, and early in 1973 started
December, but did nothing to stimulate sales of to outline such a storyline with Sloman, resulting
Pertwee's novelty single. Doctor Who also received in the commissioning of a storyline entitled The
coverage in the news on Thursday 7 when papers Final Game in mid-February. This story would
such as The Times and The Daily Telegraph promoted reveal the Master and the Doctor to effectively be
the Visual Effects Exhibition which opened that two aspects of the same character, and conclude
day, and Nationwide ran a film report on the event. with an act of self-sacrifice from the Master.
Visitors through to Sunday 10 June at the Science The sculpting talents of visual effects designer
Museum were able to see various monsters and John Friedlander in making the show's monsters
buy a special "TARDIS commander" badge. were highlighted in The Sun on Saturday 3 March,
The scripts for The Green Death started to arrive promoting Frontier in Space and the Draconians.
during December; by now it had been decided
that the character of Jo Grant was
with the series for three years, and
to be written out. Katy Manning had been
was mutually agreed that it was time for
the PRonucTinn office were
HHIfillG PRDBLEmS CRERTIRG I
it

her to move on. No specific companion featured in Malcolm Hullce's

Bridgeheadjrom Space, the first potential storyline for the next season,
delivered in mid-December.
which was
REUJ COOlPROIOn TO REPLACE
Discussions regarding a Doctor Who stage play were again in the air, with David
ednesday 27 December saw BBCi broadcasting both the compi- Cardwell of Dimension Productions chasing up the possibility of a Summer
lation repeat of The Sea Devils and a trailer for The Three Doctors revue or Christmas show at the start of March; Letts responded that he was
which used the Delaware version of the theme. Pertwee, agreeable if the play was done in the style of the television series and agreed to
Troughton and Harmell featured together on the cover of the Radio Times on supervise the production. The first serial for the next season - now entitled The
Thursday 28 as the listings magazine posed the question 'Which Doctor is Time Suruiuor- was also rapidly given the go-ahead from Holmes, with 'Smith'
Who?' to lead into an article about the show's first decade. The same day, now being fleshed out fully as Sarah Jane Smith - a no-nonsense, resourceful
Pertwee recorded another guest appearance on Bruce Forsyth and the Generation journalist who further diminished the Doctor's links with UNIT.
Game. Pertwee started recording the fourteenth season of The Nauy Lark on Sunday
The three stars of The Three Doctors were interviewed by The Sun on Saturday ri March, the day before filming began in Wales for Manning's swansong, The
30 to tie in with transmission of the first episode. In its anniversary season, Green Death; the atmosphere during production was very emotional because the
Doctor Who maintained its 5.50pm slot - with ITV back into chaotic localised regular cast and crew had all become very close, and Manning's departure was
programming. LWT opted for either Sale of the Century or Doctor at Large while particularly upsetting for her co-star. Continuing to accumulate stories for the
other regions aired Bonanza, Tarzan and Riptide. The multi-Doctor gimmick was following season, Dicks commissioned the now annual Dalek story from Terry
even more potent than the Daleks, with over ten million following the series Nation in late March. With no firm decision on the stage licences for Doctor
rather than watching ITV. The press gave their plaudits on New Year's Day Who, Peter Oyston of The Duke's Playhouse in Lancaster contacted Letts on
1973 with Matthew Coady of the Daily Mirror commenting on the show's Friday 6 April to say that he was still keen to pursue a stage play for Christmas
feeling of nostalgia while Richard Last of the Daily Telegraph congratulated the 1973 and proposed it should be written by one David Pownall.
cast for playing the fantasy as if it were real. As with the previous year, ITV adopted largely networked programmes
Pertwee and Manning were back at work on the location shoot for Planet of against Doctor Who in April, with specials such as The Julie Andrews Hour and The
the Daleks (as Destination Daleks had once again become known) on the second Mike and Bernie Show (while other regions ran repeats ofThe Persuaders!); this was
day of the New Year. As well as supervising the scripts for Moonbase 3 followed in June by The Rolf Harris Show. However, the lure of the Daleks again
(including two from former Doctor Who writer John Lucarotti), Dicks continued boosted audiences by several million and, overall, the ratings for the year were
to line up storylines for Doctor Who's eleventh season. Brian Hayles was again half a million up. The show and its star were hugely popular; Pertwee
commissioned for Return to Peladon, a sequel to his previous tale, in mid- now had his own fan club run by Stu Money, and the DWFC Mag was going
by a four-part outline called The Automata from Robert
January, followed strong - though the show's star was irked by its coverage of his predecessors.
Holmes on Tuesday 16 January, and then Timescoop - a revised version of During production of The Green Death, Letts finally found his replacement for
Bridgeheadfrom Space - from Hulke the next day. Target were also gearing up for Manning in young Liverpudlian actress called Elisabeth Sladen; the actress
a
their launch, providing cover roughs from artist Chris Achilleos for the three immediately gelled with Pertwee and attended her first costume fittings for
reprints on Wednesday 10. Meanwhile, a relaunch by Polystyle meant that the Sarah on 25 April. By now, Letts was also booking the regulars on Moonbase 3
Dr Who strip was knocked off the front cover of their revised title, TV Action, a which started filming at Ealing Studios in late April. The Green Death ended on a
far more thriller-orientated comic. tearful note with its final recording on Monday 30 April as both Katy Manning
Wednesday 10 January saw Pertwee taking time off from rehearsals on and Jo Grant departed. It seemed clear that UNIT'S days were numbered, and
Planet 0/ the Daleks to join Troughton on Pebble Mill at One where they were inter- with more adult science-fiction fare already underway, those at the show's
viewed by Tom Coyne and promoted the anniversary serial. Two days later, helm were also contemplating a parting of the ways ...

THE CdmPLETE THIRD DOCTOR

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The Three Doctors

Yesterday Once More BH BHRB BILLHTT
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cnmmissiDmnG "I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky!"

Tue 27 Jun 72 The Three Doctors And who are we to argue with Omega? s bbc
(working title) scripts commis-
sioned for Mon 17 Jul 72 (Episode Hall", "dandy and a clown", "pretty sure that's Cromer". Some
One) and Thu 17 Aug (remainder);
Doctor Who stories grow up with you, as one finds new levels and
Episode One delivered Mon 7 Jul
1
meanings to explore. The Three Doctors is just too simple-minded
72, Episode Two on Mon 21 Aug
for that.
72, Episode Three on Thu 24 Aug
72, and Episode Four on Fri 25 Aug
"Enough! There is no may he can help us, but he has tjiuen me an idea ..."
72
"What can uie do, Lord President?"
PRDDUCTIOII "Show his earlier form. Shouj me the last meek of November, 1981"
Mon 6 Nov 72 Ealing Film Studios

Stage 3A: Black Void The Three Doctors is very good, and certainly the best of the old
Tue 7 Nov 72 Summerfield Everyone school agrees.
stories I've seen so far. at
Bungalow, Rickmansworth, Bucks
The good thing about this Fine Faces of Doctor Who season of
[Cottage]; Spingwell Reservoir,
repeats is that it lets you see things you thought you'd neuer get
Rickmansworth, Bucks
a chance to see. The Time Lords are just as good as I thought
[Sanctuary]; Harefield Lime
Works, Rickmansworth, Bucks they would be, but Gallifrey looks better in the comic strips. Jon
[Omega's World)] Pertwee's Doctor is great, but I think Patrick Troughton's
Wed 8 Nov 72 Harefield Lime Doctor is the best.
Works [Omega's World] I like Omega, but why does he have old TV sets stuck in the
Thu g Nov 72 Harefield Lime
wall of his palace? If he's all-powerful, surely he can do better
Works [Omega's World];
than that? And if he's never taken his mask off, why does he
Summerfield Bungalow [Garden]
have a big mirror?
Fri 10 Nov 72 Haylings House,
ii Denham, Bucks [UNIT HQ]
My brother says that you come to realise that all Doctor Who
Tue 14 -Wed 15 Nov 72 looks a bit naff. I know I'll never think that.
Television Centre Puppet Theatre: 've just watched The Three Doctors. And I'm sorry to tell

Model Filming you that it really isn't very good. "Hold it there. This still isn't suitable."

Mon 27 Nov 72 Television Centre

have no doubt that the brief return of William
I "What more can u>e do, Lord President?"
Studio 1: Episode One; Time Lords "Go back further. Shom me his Jirst review. Access August 1979"
Hartnell and Patrick Troughton to the series was, in
for Episode Three
1973, officially The Most Exciting Thing Ever. But it's
Tue 28 Nov 72 Television Centre
upsetting to see Hartnell struggling to perform when so obvi- Doctor Who and the Three Doctors is just amazing, and my
Studio 1 : Episode Two; Time Lords
ously laid low by illness. Only when he barks the command favourite storyof the six that I've read so far. It wasn't as hard
for Episode Four

Mon 11 Dec 72 Television Centre "Well stop dilly-dallying, and cross it!" do you have some sense to read as some of the others, like the one about the Cave
Studio 6: Episode Three; Omega's of the great power and presence he once brought to the Doctor. Monsters or the one with the Wirrrn.
Stronghold and Corridor for With Patrick Troughton providing his usual masterclass in The bits I really like are in Omega's special domain, where
Episode Two controlled and intelligent acting, it is this story's nominal star, he has a big casde and can make things appear and disappear.
Tue 12 Dec 72 Television Centre The Time Lords
Jon Pertwee, who most in comparison.
suffers the are really brilliant, too.
Studio 6: Episode Four the Doctors worked out now. There's the
The Three Doctors no more than an excuse to bring these
is I think I've got all

RnDin Times
Sat 30 Dec 72 Episode One:
streak of 'space lightning' heads
actors together - and once that is achieved, it has no idea what really old one, the less old one, then the old one, then my one.
The best Doctor is certainly Doctor Three. Doctor Two is really
A to do with itself. Parts Two and Three are spent trying to find
things to occupy the Doctors until mad Omega finally tells annoying and doesn't take things seriously enough. Doctor

for Earth from a distant galaxy, them what he wants. At one point, Dr Tyler literally runs round One is really mean and, in that book with the Daleks where the
bringing with it a strange new Doctor does some magic tricks to pass the time;
in a circle; the man tears his jacket, he is very nasty to everyone.

enemy for the Doctor. The Time the Time Lords clump about some intergalactic call centre, No, Doctor Three is the best. I like the way that Doctor Three
Lords, themselves under attack, reading notes from oversized coffee filters while complaining thinks everything is serious, because it all seems much more
are powerless to help. But perhaps Anyone who Who something to joke about.
that nothing much is happening. claims that The exciting then. Doctor isn't
the Doctor can help himself... Who and love Doctor Three the most. wish
Deadly Assassin was the story to strip the Time Lords of their I love Doctor I I I

Sat 6 Jan 73 Episode Two: With his good.

ethereal majesty is being very kind to The Three Doctors. could see this adventure on the TV. I bet it's really

1 'other self' besieged in the Tardis

by the 'hunting organism', the

There's nothing sophisticated about this adventure, which is

Doctor, with Jo, passes ^ why we know it now as only a string of catchphrases: "Libery "That's it. We've found our level. Cut it there, please."

j l:l:M!lll] Villi:!:
9 Thursday 3 February 1972: During
meet up outside time in an afterworld like the Judas goat in a power struggle between

production on The Mutants, Bob Baker and Hades. Episode One would start like Ingmar the Time Lords and a Federation of Evil which

Dave Martin wrote to Terrance Dicks indi- Bergman's film The Seuenth Seal with a game aims to overthrow them. The Time Lords enter

cating that they hoped to attend the last of chess in which Death is playing the "High into a gamble with Evil that the three Doctors

couple of recordings, and looked forward to King" (or President) of the Time Lords. "In fighting on their behalf is better than all-out

devising a new serial during the summer. this game Death takes the King - not interstellar war. In Episode Two, the Doctors

Since Dicks had discussed the notion of a story sporting, but that's Death ..." observed the try to determine why they are in the

with three Doctors in it, the duo declared "As writers; this action caused an accident in the Underworld and realise that they must pass

you know we are not very good at storylines Doctor's lab, vaporising himself and Jo who tests in which they are menaced by the Four

but here is an idea we had on our last trip ... find themselves in Limbo to be faced by one of Horsemen, Zombies and Demons. The Doctor

on the train that is." The attached proposal Death's many manifestations. The Doctor was realises all these figures are connected with
"Wibble wobble, wibble
was entitled Deathurarld and was a suggested allowed to enter the Underworld by the Time Death. In Episode Three, the combined efforts
wobble!" A Gel Guard, e bbc
season opener in which the Doctors would Lords as part of a super initiative test; he is of all three Doctors make an escape attempt,

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with the "Doctors Hartnell and Troughton" episodes for the Brigadier. A romantic interest Manning and Nick Courtney waited nervously
sacrificing themselves so the Pertwee Doctor between Jamie and Jo was suggested. Dicks to see if Jon Pertwee would get on with him
and Jo can escape ("Thus we have the two liked the idea of there being three Ohms in

older Doctors appearing briefly in Eps One, Episode Three - one for each Doctor to 9 Thursday 9 November 1972: Dicks sent the
two and Three but figuring more largely in confront. Dicks also asked for a "moment of revised scripts to Baker and Martin, saying

Four"). In the final episode, the interaction charm" - a scene which Pertwee would enjoy that a contractual mix-up had meant that
between the three Doctors was to provide light playing. The notion of the anti-matter world Frazer Hines was no longer available so

relief from the struggles; also, not all of being inside a black hole was inspired by Benton had taken over Jamie's role. Hartnell's

Death's monsters were terrifying, with some 'Death Traps in Space', a Times article about role had been minimised again; the actor had
like the giant Polyphemus being blundering black holes by Bryan Silcock from ifjjuly 1972 hoped to attend a recording but his schedule

and stupid. The writers saw similar elements was now down to one day at Ealing again

to The War Gomes with "baddies" from 9 Monday 21 August 1972: Dicks thanked the
different cultures - from "Goddess Kali to writers for Episode Two, commenting that The Omega mask and Gel guards were

Spiderwoman" - fighting the Doctor as Jamie's dialogue should be more English made by freelancer Alistair Bowtell

different guises of Death rather than Scots. The script editor suggested

an alliance between Jo and Jamie in the final O Incidental music for Episodes One and Two Inside the spaceship: The

9 Thursday 1 3 April 1 972: Dicks wrote to two episodes where they could discuss the fail- was recorded on 18 December while that for the Doctor (a clown) and the
Baker and Martin to indicate that the "three ings of their respective Doctors and set off on a final two episodes was taped on 27 December. Doctor (a dandy) argue
Doctors" idea was on, but that William scheme of their own in which Jo is more inde- Dudley Simpson used three musicians for the amongst himself, e bbc

Hartnell would only be available for a few pendent than Jamie. Jamie was still present in score at Lime Grove's music studios. Electronic

hours at Ealing so his appearance should be the Drama Early Warning Synopsis for The Three elements were added at the Radiophonic
minimal, maybe as an "enigmatic figure" Doctors issued on 14 September 1972 Workshop on 1 9, 20, 28 and 29 December ^ through the Black Hole in

brooding over the whole serial. Troughton was Space, and arrives in the strange

keen to be involved, and other previous d The designer was Roger Liminton who had 0 Australia purchased the story in June 1973
world of anti-matter.
Sat 13 Jan 73 Episode Three:
companions such as Frazer Hineswere being worked on Corniuol of Monsters a few months and screened it uncut; New Zealand broadcast
Transported through the Black
considered. Dicks asked the writers to start at earlier. Costume designer James Acheson had it from October 1975, January 1986 and
Hole in Space, the Doctor's
once on an outline along these lines also worked on Carnival of Monsters after December 2000. BBC Prime screened it in 1996 'other self joins him in the anti-
starting out on The Mutants; Michaeljohn
matter world. Both Doctors risk

9 Thursday 18 May 1972: Dicks wrote to Harris had supervised visual effects since The 9 The original cover for Doctor Who - The their lives - or rather life - to
Baker and Martin regarding a draft script for Evil of the Daleks; and this was Ann Rayment's Three Doctors was by Chris Achilleos and oppose the will of Omega, the
the serial; he particularly liked the concept of first Doctor Who as a full make-up supervisor appeared in Titan Books' Doctor Who Portfolio No seemingly all-powerful being

the aniti-matter universe, the villain Ohm, its 1 in 1986. The 1978 edition had artwork from who has kidnapped them.

fungus servant, and the first meeting of the O Dicks' rewrites placed all the "Doctor Jeff Cummins and was latterly numbered Book
Sat 20 Jan 73 Episode Four: The
'original' Doctor joins his fellows
Doctors. However, much of the content - Three" (Hartnell) sequences on film, with his No 64. Alistair Pearson provided the covers for
in Omega's world. All three
"mass suicide, corpse filled morgues, transportation described as a "transparent the BBC Video and Target reissue in August
Doctors take a desperate gamble
lumbering ghastly zombies and man-eating bubble containing the unmistakable figure of 1991 . Harlequin released an 'Omega Guard' in
to defeat Omega, with cosmic
fungus" - was more suited to Hammer films, Doctor Three ... [he] flicks up his transmitter 1998 and Omega in 1999. A Colin Howard post- annihilation as the price of
and Dicks felt that a formal script conference lid - it looks like an old-fashioned snuffbox" card appeared from Harlequin in 1999 failure.

was needed prior to commissioning in June

9 Rehearsals at Acton began on Wednesday 9 On Wednesday 7 November 2001 ,

Katy

9 Wednesday 26 July 1972: Dicks thanked 15 November; neither Laurie Webb nor Manning, Barry Letts and Nicholas Courtney
Baker and Martin for the revised story break- Stephen Thome were required until the second recorded a DVD commentary for the serial in

down which was still a bit vague. The script block. Patrick Troughton arrived at rehearsal Dubbing Theatre Y, Television Centre. The Three

editor asked that a good role be added to all reading Transcendental Meditation and Katy Doctors is set for DVD release during 2003

Carnival of Monsters
Monster Mash BSI
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DWM Winter Special 1994

The Doctor and Jo go in search of some decent cammissinmnG

photos from this story. Best of luck ... ® bbc video Thu 6 May 71 The Labyrinth

(working title) storyline commis-

sioned forTue 1 Jun 71; delivered
erewith, ten good reasons to love Carnival of
Wed 1 Sep 71
Monsters (as if you needed them): Wed 24 Nov 71 The Labyrinth
1. It's the real beginning of Doctor Who: the scripts commissioned for Thu 23
most significant and influential story in the Dec 71 Episode One delivered Thu
;

series. There is no story like Carnival of Monsters 23 Dec 71 ,

Episodes Two to Four

before Carnival of Monsters- gaudy, hilarious, too clever for kids, delivered Fri 24 Dec 71

unashamedly intellectual - afterwards there are tons, from The

Time Warrior all the way up to Ghost Light.
PHDDUCTIOn
Tue 30 May 72 Tillingham
2. Robert Holmes knew all about science fiction, but he
Marshes, Tillingham, Essex
never forgot that the audience didn't. He sweetens the big, [Marshes]
bitter pill of the Miniscope for the mundane audience, coating Wed 31 May 72 Carwoods Quarry,
it with instandy recognisable types. Vorg and Shirna and the Asheldham, Essex [Cave];
interminable Inter Minorans may look odd, but we soon know Tillingham Marshes [Marshes]

exacdy who they are; a couple of clapped-out, end-of-the-pier, Thu 1 - Fri 2 Jun 72 RFA Robert

after-they-were-famous sad cases, and some bureaucrats who Dundas, Chatham, Kent [SS

Bernice]
have lost humour. Holmes always loved to poke gende
all their
Mon igjun 72 Television Centre
fun at conservative military types, from Scobie to Stike, and the
Studio 4: Episodes One and Two:
Minorans make a neat parallel to Major Daly on the SS Bernice Ship and Machine Interiors
with his sundowners and chota pegs. Tue 2oJun 72 Television Centre

3. Jon Pertwee is at his best, striding from the cabin of the SS Studio 4: Episodes Three and Four:
Bernice to the third satellite of planet Grundle, and finally out Ship and Machine Interiors ^
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THE COfTIPLETE THIRD DETER

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onto the quarantine zone of Inter Minor with utter conviction, The Wallarian Exhibition. The Great Zarb. Chu Chin Chow. The
moral authority and beaky aplomb, belonging to none of these Tryzon focusser. The Eternity Perpetuity Company. Vorg using
strange places but perfectly at home in all of them. Doctors Five what Terrance Dicks called 'theatrical palare' to try to commu-
to Eight are all naughty schoolboys; Pertwee is stylish, daring, nicate with the Doctor.
in control. Dare I say it, he always seems better away from Earth 8. The Eradicator special effect and sound effect. Death by

and the Brigadier, less impatient, and with more room to glam-rock!
spread his caped wings. 9. Very unusually, the Doctor doesn't get involved in the
4. Blockbuster by the Sweet is number one as this story is main thrust of the story - that is, Pletrac's attempt to release the

transmitted. We've all seen the clip of Steve Priest mouthing to Drashigs - until Part Four. Holmes often kept the Doctor away
the camera "We just haven't got a clue- oowahhl!" Look at Jo's from the main action while it brewed, treating him as just
boots and Vorg's coat. And "does anyone know the way" out of another element in the story until the very end. He was so
the Scope? Doctor Who and the wider pop-cultural scene never skillful at drawing the guest characters and involving us with

collided more perfectly. them that it never seems to matter.

5. Of the Functionaries: "Give them a hygiene chamber and 10. Vorg's showman's patter is a neat allegory for the allure

they store fossil fuel in it". of Doctor Who itself. In the 1960s and 1970s at least, the big
6. One of the most disappointing visual effects in Doctor Who, question was never really 'Where will the TARDIS land next
Claire Daly (Jenny McCraken) the plesiosaur attacking the ship, inspired one of the finest book week?' but 'What hideous creature will appear next week?' 'An
shows off her pins. Insert covers in Doctor Who history - the plesiosaur attacking the ship. Adventure in Space and Time' is a dull, inaccurate subtitle for
wolf-whistle here. « bbc video As always, Robert Holmes - like J K Rowling in this and in
7. Doctor Who. How much better to use 'Doctor Who - roll up, roll

much else - provides a rich tapestry of mad background detail. up, for a carnival of monsters!'

^ Mon j Jul 72 Television

Centre Studio 6: Episodes One and
Two: Planet
Tue 4 Jul 72 Television Centre

Studio 6: Episodes Three and Four:

Planet
H In Holmes' original storyline, Out of the destruction". Inside the Strobe, the Doctor and cargo of Jacrac yananas" explained Holmes.

Labyrinth, the sub-plot about the overthrowing Jo attempt to escape and leap across a giant Since then, Odron has been an insular world -
Hiram Times of the president by his brother on the alien cog mechanism - but their weight sets the until X8 recently raised the iron curtain,
Sat 27 Jan 73 Episode One: The
planet was totally absent, and the whole of wheels in motion. This movement of the increased intergalactic travel and encouraged
Tardis lands on a cargo-ship, in
Episode One took part on board the steamer in thermal compression tube's balance wheel is exchanges of trade and culture. In the final
the Indian Ocean. Or does it?

- the ocean with the TARDIS landing on the corrected by Vorg, saving the Doctor and Jo. episode, Xi o's tinkering allows the Doctor to
Fellow passengers act strangely
a monster appears from the deep deck. Andrews was the "Third Officer" on the Pletrac 4 says that it will be at least three escape the Glo-Sphere, but the Doctor is still

- and alien giants look on dispas- SS Bernice. As the giant hand reaches down weeks before the "engine of destruction under threat from the Abstractor, a device
sionately. from the sky at the end of the episode, the arrives" and enjoys the Strobe's display on its levelled at the Glo-Sphere to suck away its

Sat 3 Feb 73 Episode Two: Doctor and Jo hide behind a lifeboat. Episode Temporary Performance Licence. At the end of noxious substances. Jo and the Doctor are now
Attacked by their fellow passen- emerge from separated during Episode with Jo trapped
Two introduced the outside world in the Vol- the instalment, the Doctor and Jo 3, in

gers, the Doctor and jo escape

Dome ("This must be a stunning CSO alien the Strobe and collapse. In Episode Four, the the ship's hold and guided to safety by the
from the ship, only to face the
set" noted Terrance Dicks); Holmes indicated Doctor rallies the Lurmans to use their Doctor's voice in Episode 4. The Chief
monstrous Drashigs. A greater
"This is the equivalent of a fairground tent but weapons against the Drashigs; Shirna wants to Technician makes connections to the Glo-
dangers threatens when Vorg and
Shirna are told that the Scope is to scientific. Plumb in the centre stands the disconnect the power from the Strobe although Sphere to resolve the situation, and Pletrac 4

be destroyed ... Strobe which looks a bit like an outsize juke this will kill all Vorg's livestock; she steals the is asks Vorg and Shirna where the Doctor and

Sat 10 Feb 73 Episode Three: The box - bright and garish with a Glo-sphere power key to the Strobe and gives it to the Jo have gone; he needs them as witnesses
Drashigs attack the ship, and the video screen as its centrepiece." Shirna was "a Doctor. Pletrac 4 tries to cut the power without
Doctor and Jo are separated. Jo is
lovely young Lurman girloid" and Vorg - who success, but when the first Drashig emerges, O Wednesday 23 November 1971 ; Holmes
left behind as the Doctor escapes
is "like P T Barnum" - squeezes out from the the Doctor electrocutes it with a power cable. submitted revisions for the storyline to Dicks,
to the alien world beyond the
back of the scope after making repairs. Shirna After those on board the SS Bernice have been commenting on the changes keeping Jo in the
Scope.
changes into her "ticket-selling costume" and returned to Earth, the Doctor and Jo are given machine longer and that the TARDIS should
Sat 17 Feb 73 Episode Four: The
drums up business from a dozen other Application for Immigration forms by Pletrac 4 materialise in the ship's hold (as "crates are
Scope is about to break down. This
will mean the end for all the living Lurmans when they are visited by the "black- always good for action sequences"). Holmes

creatures inside - including Jo clad customs officer" Pletrac 4 and his two un- 9 Tuesday 1 June 1 971 : Dicks wrote to also enclosed an advert he had seen asking for

Grant. The Doctor struggles to named aides who tell Vorg that he is contra- Holmes saying that he would discuss Labyrinth 'Freelance Writers ... Knowledge of fetishes
save them, while Kalik and Orum vening regulations with the Strobe. (Dicks with Barry Letts, adding that Spearhead from and erotic an advantage', joking that this
carry out the final stages of their new market
noted that he wanted more of a threat to Vorg Space was to be repeated. A month later on could be a lucrative for them.
plot ...
and Shirna than bureaucracy.) In Episode Friday 2 July, Dicks sent Holmes his apologises Dicks responded on Wednesday 1 December,

Three, the Doctor uses a Very pistol to wound a for not replying before as he had been busy on confirming that Holmes could have more ship

Drashig, who is then eaten by its colleagues; Dai) of the Daleks, but confirming that he liked scenes in Episodes Three and Four, and also
"I look better on the
book cover, you know!" the Doctor and Jo escape back into the Strobe the storyline, although Episode Four would commenting "My script, 'The Secret Sex Life of

A terrifying Plesiosaur, via a geyser hole. Vorg's plea for mitigation require some changes. On Wednesday 28 July, Doctor Who' is already on its way ... I'll spare

yesterday. 1 bbc video fails and Pletrac 4 sends for "an engine of Dicks again apologised to Holmes for the you the details but it is sufficient to say that

delay, and explained that since Letts was now it's not only hearts that he has two of..."

on leave they would contact him again at the

start of September after his return £ Visual effects designer John Horton made
the nose of the spaceship from a salt cellar.

& By early September, a series of amend- Assistant Colin Mapson created the Drashigs
ments were drafted by Holmes as a result of from flexible hose ducting, incorporating the

discussions with Letts and Dicks. Vorg and jaws and teeth of Terriers which had been put
Shirna now brought the Glo-Sphere to a down at a dogs' home
universal congress of travelling showmen
("an excuse to hold a Universe Fair!") on the 9 Rehearsals for recording began on

planet Odron. Here they are confronted by a Tuesday 6 June and Thursday 22 June. Face
Tribunal of Examiners, Pletrac 4, Xi 0 and the casts of the three actors playing the Minorian

"yes-man" Grig 07. Xio's older brother, X8, is officials were taken from which masks were to

the "President of the Odronocracy", and if X8 have been created, but the masks were aban-
can be toppled then the more dynamic X10 doned in favour of make-up before production

will succeed him. X8 has established a benevo-

lent regime, and it would only take the escape 9 Tuesday 2oJune 1972: Jon Pertwee's boot
of a life-form from the Glo-Sphere to create skidded on the smooth Scope surface while

uproar with the nervous Odrons - "The Odron running with Katy Manning, causing him to

civilisation was almost ended in i6oi3rec by crash into the perspex tubing. Production was

the accidental importation of an alien bug in a held up by a bomb scare which turned out to

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be an overnight bag left in the studio. Complex <3t Carniual of Monsters was sold to Australia in Just like Harru Potter.
CSO meant recording overran by 15 minutes June 1973, as well as Hong Kong, Brunei, Apparently, s bbcvioeo
Qatar, Dubai, Singapore and Saudi Arabia in

9 Dudley Simpson's score was played by five 1 977. New Zealand first screened it in Sept- DVD commentary for the serial in late

musicians at Lime Grove on 10 and 20 July ember 1975. Carniual of Monsters has been shown September 2000; the DVD, containing remas-
with electronic elements then added at Maida episodically and as a compilation on UK Gold tered versions of the episodes, was released in

Vale. Dubbing was completed on 23 October, since April 1993, and on BBC Prime in 1996 July 2002 with a cover by Clayton Hickman.
but the theme music had to be replaced The BBC hold D3 copies of all episodes
during January 1973 9 Barry Letts and Katy Manning recorded a including the alternate Episodes Two and Four

-4,1 Ir-1
Frontier in Space
Power To All Our Friends
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You can't get quicker than a cnmmissinninG

Kwik Fit fitter, ©bsc Fri 14 Apr 72 Frontiers in Space

storyline commissioned for Mon

1 May 72; delivered Mon 1 May
to drag Britain back to the Dark Ages and beyond! ...

Hulke's adventures of the Third Doctor can be seen as one Thu 4 May 72 Frontier in Space

big adventure - a series of skirmishes of the non-historical scripts commissioned for Mon 3

Doctor with the vast forces of capital and anti-capital, that Jul 72 (Episode One) and Sat 1 Jul

finally ends in triumph. Frontier in Space is a brilliant example 72 (remainder); Episode Two
delivered Thu Jun 72, Episode
of Hulke's Who at its best. When I was a kid, the political
1

One on Tue 6 Jun 72, a revised

complexities of life aboard the lunar penal colony were mind-
Episode One, plus Episodes Three
stretchingly brilliant: so, there could be adventure stories
and Four on Thu 15 Jun 72, and
where there weren't just 'good' and 'bad' people, but people Episodes Five and Six on Tue 20
who, for very good reasons, were forced to prey on each other! Jun 72
This situation is left unresolved too. There are political pris-
oners in this supposed capitalist democracy, as well as victims PHDDUCTIOH
of torture, and the Doctor not saving them makes us want to, Mon 14, Fri 18, Tue 22 Aug 72
makes us see the injustice, alienates us from the drama so that Bray Studios: Model Filming

we think about the content. Sun 10 Sep 72 Hayward Gallery,

Belvedere Road, London [Prison]

The larger plot of this serial presents us with another
Mon 11 - Tue 12 Sep 72 "I
degenerate empire, the Draconians, just as flawed as the
Beachfields Quarry, Redhill,
humans, but with a touch of Old Money, of aristocratic III
Surrey [Ogron Planet]
noblesse oblige. The Doctor intervenes to turn this cosmic
Wed 13 Sep 72 Fitzroy Park,
version of World War I - with the Master playing Gavrilo Highgate, London [Draconian
Prinzip, the assassin of Archduke Ferdinand, and fascism Embassy]
waiting in the wings - into a cultural rather than wartime Thu 14 Sep 72 Ealing Film

synthesis that won't require the sacrifice of millions. Along Studios Stage 3A: Spacecraft Hull

the way, he discovers that there is a literal 'false conscious-

Mon 2 Oct 72 Television Centre
Studio 4: Episode One
ness' at work. Both sides are genuinely being deluded by the

PnPHB com alcolm Hulke was a committed Marxist; so power of fascism. And Jo, bless her, can see through it all
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III I humanist
f° rt:a t>le m
funeral,
his beliefs that
with
he had a
no religious
because of the distance that she has on the situation, having
travelled with the Doctor.
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Mon
Two
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Studio 4: Episode Three
I elements. It's interesting to apply his How much of this was conscious? Impossible to say. But a Tue 17 Oct 72
MWBHH philosophy to his fiction. The Doctor of writer's belief system can't help but impact on their work. The Studio 4:
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Episode Four

Hulke's six Pertwee stories is largely a spectator to the forces telling of Hulke's Marxist, Letts' Buddhist and Dicks' liberal Tue 31 Oct 72 Television Centre

of capital and revolution, which clash in die process that tales combined to make the Pertwee seasons the most left- Studio 3: Episode Six; CliflF-

- hanger for Episode Five

Marxists call 'synthesis' the method by which the course of wing, socially-concerned era of the show. (And then there was
Wed 1 Nov 72 Television Centre
history unrolls towards the inevitable Communist state. In Nation's troubled libertarianism, which rather blunted the
Studio 3: Episode Five
Doctor Who and the Silurians and The Sea Devils, the Doctor is point of Frontier but was very excitingly told, The damn it!)
Mon 22 Jan 73 Television Centre
unable to reconcile separate civilisations to the forces of Letts/Dicks/Hulke Doctor may have been the very model of Studio Episode Six: New
4:
capital, and sees them collapse. In The Ambassadors of Death, the authoritarian patriarchy at the start - but, during the course of Ending; TARDIS
military industrial complex conspires to turn xenophobia into these seasons, he wasn't immune to the persuasion of the
both cash and a method of social control. In Colony in Space, we historical forces that he'd initially seen as a trap. He grew to rhdio Times
first hear of Hulke's vision of the future: that Earth is destined love those he detested as being less Lordly than himself, those Sat 24 Feb 73 Episode One: The
Tardis materialises inside a space
to become the slag heap of industry, and that colonists trying tied to history, and didn't leave his Earth 'cell' when the door
ship which is under attack by
to escape the corporations will be pursued by them. There's a was opened. He cut the shackles of humanity's past, freed the
hostile aliens ... But why do the
happy ending for our heroes, but IMC escape. The process of workers of Peladon, and finally experienced his own revolu-
ship's crew see Jo and the Doctor
history is too large for one person to do more than win a small tion; only, the next production team along had no interest in
as part of the attacking force?
barde; until, that is, Hulke's last story, Invasion of the Dinosaurs, making their Doctor politically as well as aesthetically Sat 3 Mar 73 Episode Two:
where the Doctor defeats - by having a better sense of history Bohemian. The revolution died with the Third Doctor. Long Accused of being Draconian
than anyone else - a bunch of reactionaries who literally want live the revolution! spies, Jo and the Doctor are taken
back to Earth. The Doctor is

caught in the middle of a power

F TTTTT li:|:l!n:!:l
1 struggle between two Empires -
and comes under attack from
both sides!
Sat 10 Mar 73 Episode Three:
9 Malcolm Hulke's original storyline for when it hits turbulence and another spaceship of the Andromedan Empire; these man have Imprisoned on the Moon, the
Frontier in Space was developed on Tuesday 1 appears on the scanner. The Doctor and Jo "the distinctive aquiline features of the Doctor plans his escape.
April 1972. In it, the TARDIS is travelling land the TARDIS in an Earth ship which is Andromedan humanoids". The President of Immediately, his life is endan-
through the "Space Time Continuuem" [sic] being attacked by armed men in the uniform Earth is a male figure, and the Doctor and Jo gered by treachery from Jf

r-J-
THE EDITIPLETE THIRD DDETDR
 n in
are sent to the Moon where "prisoners toil in rank. He is a strong dominant personality, ^ Wednesday 1 November 1972: Recording

underground workshops". There they receive formal and stiff necked, but no fool." The in studio over-ran by 23 minutes, part of

a prison visitor, the Master posing as a attackers on the C-982 are "two giant figures, which was taken up when a caption scanner
"Colonel in Earth's security forces" who wearing protective masks" which, when broke down whilst recording the credits for

claims to take them back to Earth. After removed, show they are Ogrons. Episode Two. At a late stage, Letts had asked

persuading the Andromeda Emperor that a Paul Bernard to include an extra scene to link

third party is provoking conflict, the Doctor 9 In the script of Episode Two, the Doctor's into the next serial which, it was planned,
becomes involved in a fight with a human escape from the Draconian Embassy sees him would save time and money; this took 15

raiding party as the group head for Earth on encounter "an astonished Draconian minutes to record at the start of the evening.

an Andromedan ship: "He grapples with an gardener" as he makes for the woods. The This episode was originally to have been

attacker in ship's airlock, the door of which is Doctor escapes over a wall out of the Embassy recorded on Monday 30 October
hanging open into Space. In the struggle the grounds, and on the outside sees that
Doctor rips the "human" mask from the someone has whitewashed "DRAGONS GO 9 Editing took place from 3 November; there

attacker's face - it is an Ogron. The Ogron HOME" on it. Episode Three originally had were disagreements between Letts and Bernard
plummets back into Space, and is lost." With different dialogue when the Doctor was over editing around the Ogron monster in

only the mask as evidence, the Doctor brought before the President and Williams; Episode Six. In the end of the original version of

persuades Earth and Andromeda to collabo- this was changed prior to recording. Another the serial, after the Draconian Prince and
The prisoner's dilemma:
rate in a joint mission to the Ogron's home new inmate at the Lunar Penal Colony was General Williams leave, they are captured by
Jo finds herself at the
mercy of the malevolent planet. However, the Master has agents in the originally called Doughty, but the character Ogrons and brought back as the Master

Master. Heh heh heh ...bbc expedition who sabotage the venture and name was changed to Patel and the prison confronts the Doctor. The Doctor then activates

betray the party to the Ogrons. "The Doctor is governor was referred to in the script as the Master's hallucinatory box to create an

taken before the Master, who has a Dalek by Stevens; for recreation the prisoners were image of the Ogron monster. The Ogrons panic,

^ within. Meanwhile an old his side." Back on Earth, "If no news is "seated holding tiny black boxes, each with a and in the chaos one Ogron knocks the Doctor
enemy reappears in a new role. received within the next few hours, the wire to an earpiece: they are listening to aside as the Master fires at him. The Master
Sat 17 Mar 73 Episode Four:
President will be forced to press the War talking books". The Master was originally runs off, and the Doctor sends Williams and
'Rescued' by the Master, the
Button." The Daleks are revealed to be posing as "Special Commissioner Masters the Prince after him. Jo asks "Aren't we going
Doctor and Jo find themselves
awaiting to invade both galaxies, with a war from Alderberan Four" (later altered to home?" to which the Doctor explains "I'm
prisoner in his space ship. The
force hidden on another planet. The Doctor "Sirius Four"); in Episode Four, Hulke speci- afraid not, Jo. We're going after the Daleks".
Doctor's escape plan involves a
creates a diversion so the humans and fied that he should be reading H G Wells' They enter the TARDIS and it leaves. A new
daring space walk. But the
Master is not fooled. Andromedans can escape, taking the Master novel. When the Doctor goes through the ending, written for recording with Planet of the

Sat 24 Mar 73 Episode Five: The prisoner as he and Jo escape the Ogrons and spacecraft locker looking for a spacesuit, he Daleks, required only Jon Pertwee and Katy
Doctor and the Master argue depart in the TARDIS too finds a book - Archbold's Interplanetary Lou; Manning on a re-creation of the Master's base
their respective causes before the - and the spacesuit he wears has and the TARDIS set
Draconian Emperor. The Doctor
winning - but the
^ In the scripts, Hulke refers to Cargo Ship "Interplanetary Police" written on the back.
seems to be

Master's treachery turns the

C-982 as "a stubby, plain, workmanlike Episode Four originally ended with the 9 Dudley Simpson was asked to provide the

vessel, old and battered, the equivalent of a Draconian Captain telling the Doctor's party music for Frontiers in Space on Saturday 8
tables.
tramp steamer"; in its flight deck, the stage that since they have violated Draconian space, September 1972. The score was recorded by
Sat 31 Mar 73 Episode Six: With
directions suggest "A pin up girl (eg Jane "The penalty is death." In the rehearsal script, five musicians at Lime Grove on 16 and 27
Jo a prisoner on the Ogrons'
planet, the Doctor and his friends Fonda in Barbarello)" should be visible and the Doctor then commented to the Master, November, 5 December and 11 January 1973.
plan rescue. They face a that Hardy and Stewart approach their job like "Well, you wanted to start a war, and it looks Electronic elements were added at the

dangerous journey - the greatest "longdistance lorry drivers". The script as if you're going to succeed. How does it feel Radiophonic Workshop on 28 and 29
danger of all awaits them on outlines the Draconians as "basically to be on the receiving end?" At the start of November, 6 and 7 December 1972, and 12 and
their arrival ...
humanoid in shape, but their faces and heads Episode Six, Jo saw the Master turn into a 15 January 1973. Episode Five was then re-

are dragon-like. Their hands are clawed ... Drashig, Mutant, Sea Devil and Auton. For the edited with a shorter reprise on 1 January 1973.

They wear military uniform and insignia." On Doctor's second spacewalk, Hulke suggested Dubbing took place during January, and the
Earth, the Draconian Ambassador/Prince "This can be the hull of the Master's space episodes had the theme replaced in February

"wears the ornate uniform of a Draconian ship, as seen in ... Episode 4, but redressed to

court official ... He is a young warrior, proud show the insignia on Williams' ship." Friday 27 July 1973: An Audience Research
and a little arrogant, like all Draconians" and Report summarised comments from 170

speaks "in a clear, icy, emotionless voice". 9 Monday 1 7 April 1972: Jack Kine confirmed viewers of Episode Six; although the serial had

The President is "an attractive woman in her to Barry Letts that no models from Thunderbirds been seen as dull, the appearance of the Daleks

Forties. A strong personality, but still warm would be used in the model filming since they had given it a much-needed boost. Pertwee,

and feminine. Nothing 'Womens Lib' about were too well known; only heavily cannibalised Manning and Delgado were singled out for

her - that battle was won long ago and she is Century 21 props would appear. Later, on 31 good performances. The show as a whole was
not the first woman president." General July, the Doctor Who office asked for John felt to be an "enjoyable piece of fantasy"

Williams is "a handsome, striking man in his Friedlander to cast the Draconian and Ogron

Jo Grant's karate teacher was mid Forties, a life-long professional soldier, masks. Contrary to an article in The Sun, the O Australia screened the serial in February

excessively strict, ® bbc now involved in politics because of his high Draconian masks were not based on a cast of 1974 and repeated it in 1978 and 1986. Other
comedian Dave Allen's head sales included Dubai, Gibraltar, Saudi Arabia,

Singapore, Brunei and Hong Kong. New

At the time of commissioning, the serial Zealand repeated the serial from December
was also referred to as Frontiers in Space; this 2000. Frontier in Space has been screened

title was also used for the filming of the serial episodically and as a compilation on UK Gold
since August 1993, and on BBC Prime in 1996

O Model shooting took place at Bray as

effects assistant Ian Scoones wished to use a O The serial was issued on videotape with 1

freelance lighting crew. The Ogron ship was a cover by Colin Howard in August 1995; this

bastardised version of a craft seen in the UFO included a longer version of Episode Five with

episode Close Up an extended reprise and the unbroadcast

Delaware version of the theme tune. The BBC

9 One of the Ogron extras was to have been retain D3 copies of the serial plus the longer

Dave Prowse, but he was replaced by Bruce Wells Episode Five. Harlequin issued Draconian
figures in 1998 and 1999, and a postcard of

& Recording was scheduled to take place Colin Howard's video artwork was issued by
between 8.00 and 10.00pm on the first day of Slowdazzle in 1999
a block and 7.30 and 10.00pm on the second
O Cast: The first two footnotes were trans-

9 Monday 2 October 1972: For the point-of- posed. Roy Pattison and Louis Mahoney only

view shots of people changing shape, vaseline appear in Episode One but are also credited on

on the camera lens was employed Episode Two, while Lawrence Davidson and

ctdr who mRGRZine

 5

Timothy Craven appeared in Episode Two but Wade, Steve Tierney, Richard King and Clinton Morris and Jim Delaney played

were not credited. Extras: Some cast can now be Rodney Cardiff were Draconian Emperor Guards; Presidential Guards (not Draconians and Earth

clarified: John Moore, Jean St Louis, John Wolfgang Van Jurgan was an Earth Guard. Guards); Ian Yardley played an Earth Prison

Hughman, George McFarlane, Fred Looker, Corrections: Ken Wade, Ray Millar, Terry Guard (not a Lunar Prison Guard). Omissions:

Michael Mulcaster and David Layton were Sartain and Kevin Moran played Draconians (not Kathy Jones was the Stunt Double for Jo Grant,

Prisoners; Steve Tierney was a Lunar Guard; Leslie Earth Prison Guards); Steve Ismay, Pat John Scott Martin was the Mutant and John
Bates and Stewart Myers were Draconians; Ken Gorman, Wolf Van Jurgen, Jamie Griffin, Bradburn was the Oqron Eater

Planet of the Daleks

Too Good To Be Forgotten BH
Dium nncHiuE
DWM 202
Proof positive that hiding in

plain sight can work, ebbc cnmmissioninG

Fri 21 Apr 72 Planet of the
Daleks storyline commissioned

and childish preconceptions, capturing the imagination - and for Mon May 72 1

Thu 11 May 72 Destination

attention, which was a far greater feat - of a hard-to-please pre-
Daleks scripts commissioned for
teen with consummate ease. The following five episodes did
Tue 1 Aug 72, extended to Tue 1

nothing to dampen my newfound enthusiasm for Doctor Who. I Aug 72; delivered Mon 72
24 Jul
was hooked! Today, therefore, I am saddened by the serious lack (Episode One), Mon 31 Jul 72
of kudos attached to such an inspirational serial. (Episode Two), Fri
4 Aug 72
Planet of the Daleks is at best deemed 'ordinary' or 'average', (Episodes Three and Four), Tue 8

which is, frankly, unfair. My elders have no sense of style, quite Aug 72 (Episode Five), Thu 17

clearly, because Planet ofthe Daleks simply smoulders with worth. Aug 72 (Episode Six)

Not unlike my then-self, on the very verge of pubescence as I

was, Planet of the Daleksis sometimes awkward, often clumsy,
PRDDUCTIOn
Tue 2 - Wed 3 Jan 73 Beachfields
and unintentionally absurd - but it is also ambitious, energetic,
Quarry, Redhill, Surrey
passionate, unashamedly exciting, and morally sound; ask [Lakeside]
yourself, which qualities outweigh the others? Undeniably Thu 4- Fri 5 Jan 73 Ealing Film
childish, Planet of the Daleks is just how Doctor Who should be: Studios Stage 3B: Chimney

conspicuously unpretentious, but remaining utterly watchable Mon 8 Jan 73 Ealing Film Studios

when more competendy-made productions fail to deliver. Stage 3B: Ice Tunnels

and Tue 9 Jan 73 Ealing Film Studios

Planet of the Daleks proves that artistic sophistication
Stage 3B: Ice Tunnels; Corridor
'grown up' aspirations just don't fit Doctor Who. After all it isn't
Tue 16 Jan 73 Unknown: Model
the intellectually superior 'fan favourites', but the likes of Planet
shots: TARDIS
of the Daleks that have made Doctor Who a 'timeless classic'; I can
Mon 22 Jan 73 Television Centre
assure you that, bedtime or not, I wouldn't have stuck with, say.
Studio 4: Episode One
The Robots of Death or The Caues of Androzani on those late- Tue 23 Jan 73 Television Centre

November evenings back in 1993. It may be difficult to rate Studio 4: Episode Two; TARDIS

was born late. Or so I'm told. At least a decade late, Planet of the Daleks highly by any conventional creative criterion, and Jungle for Episode Six

am, you young. Too young. The but theserial achieves integrity largely because it is not held Sat 27 Jan 73 Unknown: Model
apparendy. I see, a bit
shots: Shaft
only Doctor Who that I've seen on its first transmission back by clever-clever 'grown-up' attitudes - thus it evokes
Mon 29 Jan 73 Unknown: Model
is that 1996 Paul McGann TV Movie, which hardly even wonder and manages to be effordessly spellbinding, some-
shots: Ice Tunnel
counts, so I know not of that legendary 1970s Saturday thing which many more refined serials fail miserably to
Mon 5 Feb 73 Television Centre
teatime sensation of counting down the minutes to a thrilling achieve.
Studio 6: Episode Three; Dalek
new episode (what exactly is a 'basil brush'?). I meant to be
get the feeling that Planet of the Daleks never Control Room for Episode Two
Don't pity me, please! I never overlooked Doctor Who by acci- this good - but, by accident or intent, it is the template by Tue 6 Feb 73 Television Centre

dent; as soon as I was old enough to think for myself, I strove which all Doctor Who should be measured. And far from being Studio 6: Episode Four; Rocky

hard to avoid the embarrassment of catching an episode. A a soulless imitation of the first Dalek serial, Planet of the Daleks Section for Episode Six

manages to surpass it - better looking, brighter, bolder, braver Thu 8 Feb 73 Unknown: Model
primary school mate of mine was an ardent devotee throughout
shots: Dalek arsenal
McCoy's tenure, you see, so we all just laughed at him hysteri- ... And with truly terrifying Daleks -like, mom! Pertwee doesn't
Mon 19 Feb 73 Television Centre
cally during playtime. Few boys were brave enough to watch the give his most striking performance, I grant you, and his
Studio 1 : Episode Five; City
show back then; even fewer were brave enough to admit to it in preachy sermons are cheesier than fondue - but I was 11 years
Entrance for Episode Three;
public. I have since viewed the McCoy era myself on video, so old, so didn't care! And neither did most other viewers - not
I
Sprayed Dalek for Episode One;
I'm not laughing now. Obviously. in 1973, not in 1993. We were preoccupied - captivated, even- Spaceship Explodes for Episode
But I digress. Despite my lack of years, I am just about old by bonafide alien worlds, bloody scary monsters, thrilling fire- Two; Filmed inserts for Episode

enough to get married, splash out on alcohol, drive a car, and power, stunning atmosphere, unbelievable action, cliff- Three and Four

have several different types of sex, so I should be old enough to hanging tension, and a pretty girl. Go figure! Tue 20 Feb 73 Television Centre

Studio Episode Six; Model film

know better than to try to persuade long-time, dyed-in-the- I can honestly say (though I've been warned that I 1 :

for Episodes One and Six

wool, incorrigibly obstinate older fans that Planet of the Daleks is, shouldn't), that Planet of the Daleks changed my life. This
Who neglected, rejected and ignored Doctor Who serial will never top
let's face it, the finest Doctor serial ever.
rhdid Times
Episode One - not the original screening, of course, but the any 'best of polls, I know - but when Doctor Who returns to Sat 7 Apr 73 Episode One: The
repeat on BBCi in 1993 - was the first Doctor Who that 1 ever saw. our screens, Planet of the Daleks is exactly what it should be like.
Tardis lands on a strange planet
(And only then as a desperate attempt to avert the threat of Believe me. The older generation never had it so good ... with the Doctor unconscious and

bedtime!) Yet, that episode soon dispelled my petty prejudices apparently gravely ill. Jo looks for
help and finds herself facing the

dangers of an alien jungle.

IHHHillU^ilHIB- Sat 14 Apr 73 Episode Two:

Attacked by the deadly fungus
disease, Jo grows steadily weaker
- but unexpectedly she finds
$ Because Terry Nation had not written for his six draft scripts were entitled Destinus (the O Monday 24 July 1972: Terrance Dicks help. The Doctor and the Thais
Doctor Who since 1 965, he assumed that original name for Spiridon), Mission Survival, wrote to Nation and thanked him for the continue their search for her, and
individual episode titles were still being used Pursued, Escape or Die, The Day Before Eternity script of Episode One; he also sent his condo- run into a Dalek ambush. New
(a practice which was dropped in 1966). Thus and Victory lences since Nation's leg was in plaster, arrivals from Skaro bring ^
Pit
THE CnmPLETE THIRD DOCTOR
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nsnn in
commenting that delivery could be extended with a sponge like surface. They are four or C) Tuesday 23 January 1973: Many of the
by a fortnight because of Nation's accident. five feet high, irregular in shape but generally CSO shots - such as the Spiridon attack on
While Nation wanted to deliver all six scripts ball-like with a depressed top and bottom. Codal, and Jo with Wester - were recorded as
at the same time, Dicks was concerned that They pulsate slightly as though they were cutaway shots. The Spiridon furs were
the writer was not taking on board some of breathing and we get the feeling that they are provided by freelancer Alistair Bowtell
the things which they had discussed and so capable of movement". The Thai space craft

wanted each scripts delivered as soon as it found by Jo was "not large, and of the type ^ Tuesday 6 February 1973: Recording on
was done so he could check on their content. that would be used for landing a small group Episode Four was slightly out of sequence,
As a compromise, Dicks agreed to Nation from a mothership ... The door to the interior with the sequences of Jo and the Dalek patrol
delivering his scripts in pairs. Dicks' "only hangs on broken hinges. Already some of the being recorded after the escape up the
area of anxiety about the script" was that a jungle vines have started to crawl over it. It is chimney had been completed.
female Thai character which Nation had been shaped rather more like a guided missile than
asked to develop had not yet appeared. The anything we have seen in US space missions. 9 Monday 19 February 1973: One Dalek
script editor also re-iterated that Doctor Who Indeed, it was launched from a mother ship prop was painted yellow to appear invisible

now demanded more adult stories with strong and made a power assisted glide onto the against CSO and then spray painted as an
The refuse collectors on human interest, and at present the Doctor and surface of this planet". Of the Thais, Taron was insert shot. All the scenes at the City Entrance
Spiridon had difficulty Jo were the only real characters; when the "Tall, good looking with fair hair. His clothing for Episode Five were taped together towards
with some of the heavier Thais were fully introduced they needed to is a sensible workmanlike uniform. Insignia of the end of the episode. As well as the inserts
wheelie-binssBBC have different traits and reactions, with Dicks rank on his shoulder. Around his waist a utility for other episodes, the closing credits for

suggesting an authoritative leader, a young belt. This contains various weapons and tools, Frontier in Space were also re-recorded

^ shattering news.
rebel, a neurotic and a handsome youngster each of which are powered from a small

Sat 21 Apr 73 Episode Three: The who romances Jo. Dicks also suggested that energy pack on the belt and are linked to it in & A few cuts were made in editing. Episode

Doctor and the Thais are hope- not all the Thais should be killed at the end of turn by a coiled telephone like cable." Vaber One lost two filmed model shots of the TARDIS
lessly trapped deep within Dalek Episode Four after all; this was something was "uniformed in the same way and of the covered in fungus, the end of the scene where
HQ. The Doctor produces an which Ronnie Marsh would insist upon. The same physical type ...He seems more tense and Jo finds the dead Thai pilot (she finds a pool of
incredible escape plan - but will agreed that the Spiridons
script editor also nervous"; in the second episode, Nation noted liquid on the floor with footprints in it and
it work?
usual appearance would be blurred and fuzzy "He is aggressive and apparently cold- then hears something outside the craft), and
Sat 28 Apr 73 Episode Four:
("we have found a way to do this") and to ask blooded. Courageous to the point of foolhardi- two consecutive scenes of the Thais seeing the
Escaping from the Daleks, Jo and
for a "moment of charm" for Pertwee ness. However, much of this is a facade to foliage being disturbed as they move through
the Doctor and the Thais move
through the jungle, hunted by
conceal his own terrors and fear of the planet the jungle and Jo looking into the jungle from

Dalek patrols, and the ferocious 9 Tuesday 1 August 1972: Dicks wrote to Spiridon". Originally, Nation believed that the spaceship before returning inside. Two of

life-forms of the hostile planet. Nation, thanking him for Episode Two and there would be more Daleks available, speci- the later scenes with Jo alone in the Thai ship
Sat 5 May 73 Episode Five: The saying that the new script had put his mind at fying a patrol of four capturing the Doctor were also cut slightly. In Episode Two, a short
Doctor and his friends penetrate rest, particularly with regards the Thai char- rather than the two that appear on screen; scene with Jo in the spacecraft recording on
deep into Dalek HQ in an attempt acters. The script editor was keen to develop likewise, both Rebec and Codal would have the TARDIS log was removed, along with part
to carry out their desperate
Codal, but concerned about the female Thai been in Dalek casings in Episodes Five and Six. of a later scene where she collapses in the
attack plan. Suddenly, they are
still: "What about Rebec? What has she got to In Episode Three, it was originally "Doctor ship. Episode Three was to have ended with
recognised.
Sat 12 May 73 Episode Six: The
offer us, apart, of course, from the big Who" rather than Taron who comforted Rebec the Dalek pushing the door in, but this was
Doctor encounters the army of boobs?" asked Dicks, suggesting that Nation after Marat's death. Nation observed that resequenced into Episode Four. Episode Four

Daleks already beginning to could make her Taron's superior and maybe "wrapped in shaggy furs [the Spiridons] look lost part of a film sequence in the chimney as

come to life. Can he defeat the have her in conflict with him as a former lover like great lumbering animals" and also that the Doctor told Taron there would probably be
Daleks in time to save the galaxy while she also scorns Codal's advances. "Wester's furs should be marked differently a Dalek patrol waiting for them, and a scene
from invasion? Pertwee was pleased with his "moment of from the other Spiridons". For the introduc- of Jo lying unconscious near the Thai bombs.
charm" as the Doctor talked to Codal. Dicks tion of the Dalek Supreme in Episode Six,
REPEATS asked Nation to have the Doctor point out the Nation described it as having "a gleaming O Dudley Simpson was engaged to provide
Episode One* 5 November 1993
morals of war and conflict, maybe indicating black shell with golden domes. Quite the most the incidental music for the serial on Friday 1
7.3opm-8.oopm 3.6M - -

November 1993
that Taron is so determined that he is little impressive Dalek we have seen" September. Five musicians were used on the
Episode Two* 12

7.3opm-8.oopm 4.0M - - better than a Dalek himself serial, with recording at Lime Grove on the

Episode Three* 19 November C> The serial's title reverted to Planet of the afternoons of Thursday 1 ,
Saturday 10,

1993 7.3opm-8.oopm 3.9M - - I) Tuesday 8 August 1972: Dicks - deputising Daleks shortly before filming began; as late as Tuesday 20 and Thursday 29 March 1973
Episode Four* 3 December 1993 for Barry Letts who was on leave - wrote to Friday 8 December it was still Destination
7.3opm-8.oopm 3.3M - -
Nation to thank him for his last three scripts Daleks which was the title given on the Drama fi) Monday 9 April 1973: The first episode
Episode Five* 10 December 1993
and telling him to press on with Episode Six Early Warning Synopsis was reviewed in The Times where Stanley
7.30pm-8.oopm 3.3M - -
Reynolds nostalgically recalled earlier
Episode Six* 17 December 1993
7.3opm-8.oopm 3.5M - -
9 Friday 18 August 1972: Dicks wrote to 9 The flying gear used for the parachute encounters between the Doctor and the

*BBC Scotland broadcast the same

Nation to thank him for the final script and sequence in Episodes Three and Four was Daleks, noting that "Dr Who is just a bit

ia<j at 5.3opm-6.oopm on BBC2 confirmed that only minor rewrites on it provided by Eric Dunning. Special effects were more classy when you know the dustbins

would be performed provided by freelancer Chris Culley of on wheels are tootling around the next
Westbury Design and Optical Limited, a firm time warp."

O Tuesday 5 December 1 972: Dicks sent the based at Pinewood Studios. The vacuum
"mutated" scripts to Nation, explaining that formed non-practical 'Goon' Daleks were C> A complaint was lodged against Episode
some minor special effects had been simplified made by Scenic Craft Limited of Southall One by the British Safety Council because of
and continuity elements added. David Maloney the scenes where the Thais rescued the Doctor

had joined the production and was pleased & Rehearsals for studio began on from the TARDIS and appeared to put plastic

with the scripts. Nation replied on Monday 1 Wednesday 0 January, Thursday 25 January
1 bags over their heads, which it was feared
December, thanking Dicks and saying he hoped and Thursday 8 February children might imitate. Letts replied on

to visit one of the studio recordings Monday g April to say that the helmets had
Recording was scheduled to take place been designed not to look like bags specifi-

O In the camera script, the jungle of Spiridon between 8.00 and 10.00pm on Mondays and cally to avoid this comparison
was extensively described: "The plant life that 7.30 and 10.00pm on Tuesdays.
surrounds the TARDIS is dense. The 'trees' and 9 The serial was shown in Australia in

'bushes' are of weird shapes. They are living, 9 Monday 22 January 1973: Recording in May 1974 and repeated in 1986. New
almost animal like creations. The 'leaves' and studio over-ran by 17 minutes because of the Zealand screened it in May 1986 and January
'branches' seem always to be in slight move- large number of scenes. The spitting plants 2001 while other overseas sales include
ment. The colour of the night is green ... The emitted a wallpaper paste slurry, ejaculated by Gibraltar, Singapore, Dubai and Hong Kong.
plants as they move seem to give off a whis- a stirrup pump; the same mixture as used for When Planet of the Daleks was first marketed
pering sound that is quite sinister ... Large the liquid ice. The shots of the spitting plants in North America in 1984, the episodic
Taron begins to regret
areas of the TARDIS are covered with sponge were generally taped as cutaways. The shots of version accidentally omitted Episode Six; the
buying that Sevan's
Dalek kit ... e bbc like fungus spores. This fungus is growing in the Doctor with his face covered in 'ice' were compilation version omitted Episode Three
profusion around the area. Rather nasty yellow taped at the end of the evening and material at the start of Episode Four

cTrjR who mnGRZine

relating to the chimney escape with some 9 The serial was selected to represent Doctor episodically and as a compilation on UK Gold
other scenes resequenced. When Episode Who for its 30th anniversary, scheduled to run since November 1993, and on BBC Prime in

Six was supplied in 1988, Lionheart believed on BBCi on Fridays at 7.30pm; each episode 1996. Jon Pertwee recorded an abridged

the monochrome Episode Three to be a was prefaced with a five minute documentary version ofTerrance Dicks' novelisation in

mistake and wiped it - renumbering the under the title Doctor Who and the Ddleks. Spring 1 995 which was issued by the BBC on
last three instalments to be Episodes Three Broadcast against Coronation Street, viewing cassette in June 1995. The serial was released

to Five. The version of Episode Three which figures were low, and no episode was broad- on video as part of a limited edition Dolek Tin

comprises half of Episode Two and half of cast on 26 November due to Children in Need Set in November 1 999. The BBC hold D3
Episode Four was created by a Canadian copies of the serial, with Episode Three held

broadcasting company QI Planet of the Ddleks has been screened in monochrome only

The Green Death

Sorrow
mum hhchiue
DWM 320

The fact of fiction: Katy Maning and Stewart Bevan,

up close and personal in real life, too. Sorry, Mark ...
cnmmissinmnE
Thu 30 Nov 72 The Green Death

scripts commissioned for 1 1 Dec

72; Episode One delivered 8 Dec 72,

Until that fateful story. Episode Two on 15 Jan 73, and
I can still remember the strange feeling of sweet melancholy Episodes Three to Six on 1 6 Jan 73

that gripped my vitals when Jo Grant refused the Doctor's invi-

tation to Metebelis III. Change was in the air. And change is PRDDUCTIOII
always unsettling. "The fledgling flies the coop," mutters the Mon 12 Feb 73 Troed-y-Rhiw

Jestyn, Deri, Mid-Glam [Farm

Doctor, sadly. Thirty years on and tears still spring to my eyes.
Road; Road; WholewealJ; Ogilvie
Routinely dismissed in some quarters these days, the most
Colliery, Deri, Mid-Glam [Mine]
obvious thing to say about Robert Sloman's tale is that, unlike
Tue 13 Feb 73 Ogilvie Colliery, Deri,
later and far more fashionable stories, it is simply a good story Mid-Glam [Mine]; Colliery Quarry,
very well told. A top-notch cast, (Jerome Willis' Stevens being a Deri, Mid-Glam [Metebelis]
stand out), an unusual setting with interesting political over- Wed 14 - Thu 15 Feb 73 Ogilvie

tones, and monsters that people still talk about today. Colliery [Slag Areas]

"Remember the one with the maggots?" Watching afresh, Fri 16 Feb 73 RCA Factory, Bryn-

Mawr, Powys [Factory]

particularly in story order, the care shown by the production
Mon 19 Feb 73 RCA Factory [Gar-
team becomes more evident. Jo's departure had been 'trailed' in
age Area; Gas Area; Open Area]
the previous story via her flirtation with the wet Thai Latep, so
Tue 20 Feb 73 RCA Factory
things are wee bit easier for us when she finally
made just a
[Loading Bay; Roof]
goes off with the gorgeous Welsh mushroom farmer. Likewise, Mon 2 Apr 73 Television Centre

the Metebelis storyline would reach its climax at the same point Studio 3: Episode One

in the next season - only this time it would be the Doctor who Tue Apr 73 TC3: Episode Two
3

was going, the change of events begun, rather charmingly, by Mon 16 Apr 73 TC3: Episode Three
had been given to her as a Tue 17 Apr 73 TC3: Episode Four
Jo returning the blue crystal that
Sun 29 Apr 73 TC3: Episode Five;
wedding present.
Computer Room for Episode Four
Most importantly, though, The Green Death is about some-
Mon 30 Apr 73 TC3: Episode Six
am six. Outside it is almost certainly winter and the thing. There is a depth and emotional resonance to the story
bluey/blackness presses against the windows of our that is quite astonishing in what is, ostensibly, a children's RHDin Times
sitting room. The football scores are on the telly. My programme. Can you imagine a teatime show of today packing Sat 19 May 73 Episode One: A new
brother and I sit with our backs to the screen trying to the kind of emotional wallop of Episode Six? The unbearable oil refinery isto open in a small

predict the results. "West Bromwich Albion 2 - pathos of the Doctor's silent toast to Jo! The party continuing as South Wales village. Good news -

Bolton Wanderers ..." the Doctor drives ofFinto the sunset! We cared. Boy did we care. or is it? Deep in an abandoned coal
mine something strange and
The ketde is on and my Dad is checking the pools. Not long And, quite genuinely, we still do, as this particular 36-year-old
monstrous lurks, and a man dies
now. A current of indefinable excitement bubbles through me. (next birthday) can testify.
mysteriously. UNIT investigates,
The familiar old/young face swirls into view. A miner lies at the The Doctor's relationship with Jo may seem almost shock- -
but needs help from the Doctor
bottom of a shaft, his dead hand gripping an alarm, his face ingly close for a supposedly sexless Time Lord, but when she but on a distant alien plant he has
glowing bright green ... describes the gorgeous - did I mention that he was gorgeous? problems of his own.
I am now 36 (next birthday). It's spring. The football scores
- Cliff Jones as being like "a younger you", we feel it right Sat 26May 73 Episode Two: The
are on the telly. My brother is married with two kids. The kettle where the Doctor does. Except we've only got one of them. Doctor discovers that Global

ison but my Dad is hundreds of miles away. And doing the There's a real suggestion here that the Doctor isn't just Chemicals is more sinister than it

I draw the curtains to simulate winter. Then I put the suffering the pangs of lost friendship but something else, seems - and Jo discovers the
lottery.
strange secret of the coal mine.
video on. A current of indefinable excitement bubbles through something deeper, something very human.
Sat 2 Jun 73 Episode Three: Jo is
me ... gave my heart to Jon Pertwee and Katy Manning all those
I
helped by the Doctor to escape
Some things get better with age, some worse. A rare few years ago - and a part of it will forever beat in Llanfairfach. - only to
from the giant maggots
remain just the same. The Green Death is one such. The gritty
find herself in even greater danger.
ecological theme is more suited to Doomuratch or one of
actually Sat 9 Jun 73 Episode Four: The giant
the many early 1970s fantasy shows along similar lines - and I maggots escape from the coal mine
think I found the crummy CSO and the giant fly vaguely embar- and the Doctor is trapped by the

seemed to real Boss of Global Chemicals.

rassing even in 1973. Yet, The Green Death has always
Sat 16 jun 73 Episode Five: Captain
me to be quintessential Doctor Who - and is far and away my
Yates is captured by the Computer
favourite Pertwee story. It's become a cliche to talk of the thrall
and Jo leads Cliff into mortal
of the UNIT family, but it was true, believe me. Not having a
danger.
packed social life as a six year old, I wrote up the Doctor's
Sat 23 Jun 73 Episode Six: Our
adventures in my 'busy book' every week, colouring his hair planet is in double danger; domi-
black because there was never a white crayon. Invasions and Life's a drag for nation by the Boss, and a plague of

aliens came and went - but the Doctor, the Brigadier and Jo the Doctor, e bbc
giant insects. Will the Doctor be in

were always there. time to save the World? 7f

THB COmPLETE THIRD DDCTDR

The Show
Must Go On
All good things must come to an end. With the loss of Katy Manning and the shock death of

Roger Delgado, feelings are running high behind the scenes of the show. Andrew Pixley documents
Season Eleuen, when Jon Pertwee waued farewell to Doctor Who after five record-breaking years

lisabeth Sladen's contract for an initial26 episodes as Sarah on Tuesday 12 June, with the regular cast and crew leaving for three
was issued on Thursday 3
Jane Smith May 1973 - only four month's holiday. However, tragedy was to strike the team. On Monday 18
days before filmingcommenced on her first serial The Time June, Roger Delgado was killed in a car crash, having just arrived in Turkey
had been renamed) in Cheshire.
Warrior (as The Time Suruivor to start shooting the film Bell qfTibet. Everyone was badly shaken - particu-

The same day, Target Books published their first titles - larly Pertwee who had become good friends with his on-screen rival. A

including reprints of Doctor Who and the Daleks, Doctor Who and the Zarbi and sombre atmosphere pervaded the delayed first recording of Moonbase 3 the
Doctor Who and the Crusaders. Script editor Terrance Dicks had by now agreed following night.
to novelise several of the earlier Jon Pertwee serials such as Spearhead jrom In the meantime, Doctor Who was concluding for the summer on BBCi,
Space and brought in Malcolm Hulke to handle many of the other stories; and makers of TV Action, allocated it a lavish Doctor Who Holiday
Polystyle,

the intention was that these would hit the shops in December 1973 with Katy Manning appeared on Nationwide to discuss her
Special in June.

two further pairs of books in March and May 1974 (omitting the two Don impending departure as Jo on Friday 22 June - amidst clips from Terror of the
Houghton stories). Universal-Tandem launched their Target imprint with a Autons Episode One, Carnival 0/ Monsters Episode Three and The Green Death

reception at the Cadogan Hotel in Belgravia on Tuesday 15 May. Around this Episode One. The actress chatted about Doctor Who and promoted her new
time, more merchandise bearing Pertwee's features appeared such as World show, an arts and crafts show called Serendipity which was due to start at the
Distributors' The Dr Who Colouring Book, some more jigsaws from Whitman end of September. The next morning, Manning also appeared on A View
and a handy Doctor Who Space Mission Pad. Also, the BBC had now started from Richard Baker. With Jo having left on screen, Sladen could now be
regular releases of theme music on
record, and the [heme
series'
RRRRS LETTS DECIDED DD H
appeared as a single during May.
After the location shoot on The DEUI LOOK FOR DOCTOR IDHO
Time Warrior was completed, Pertwee IT REHCHED ITS TERTH RHHIUERSHRS
left for Stockholm where he filmed
an edition of Disney Time on Sunday 13
the links for introduced to the press and was joined by Pertwee
and Tuesday 14 May and returned to record Radio for a photo opportunity at Television Centre on
4*s Brain of Britain on Tuesday 15 May (broadcast Tuesday 26.
Saturday 18 August). As studio rehearsals got With the character of Sarah now established in

underway on The Time Warrior, the BBC attempted her first serial, Dicks continued to organise
to clarify the situation on the proposed stage scripts for her debut season; scripts forTimescoop
versions of the show, since Dimension Productions and Death to the Daleks were commissioned from
were anxious to move ahead on a show for Hulke and Terry Nation at the start of July,
Christmas and the Lancaster approach was also followed shordy by Brian Hayles' Return to Peladon.

still in the air. Dimension Productions were very Plans were also made to repeat a 60 minute
keen to use the Daleks - and one of the creatures omnibus of Day 0/ the Daleks on August Bank
(operated by John Scott Martin and voiced by Holiday Monday (although this would eventually

Michael Wisher - fresh from Planet 0/ the Daleks) be dropped back to Monday 3 September) and the
turned up on Jimmy Saville's BBCi magazine first six new books from Target were commis-

programme Clunk-Click shordy after transmission of sioned. Dicks decided that he would leave Doctor
The Green Death Episode One on Saturday 19 May Who as script editor at the end of the current
(recorded three days earlier); the cameo earned a season and return to freelance writing, concen-
mention in Monday's Daily Telegraph. tratingon the Target Books.
On Sunday 27 May, Pertwee made a public Over the summer, Pertwee could be heard in

appearance in costume at Beaulieu and was filmed The Nauy Lark which returned to Radio 2 on

by a BBC news crew taking part in a steam engine Saturday 29 July; he also featured as a guest in an
Bank Holiday; Disney Time was 26 June, 1973: the press meet Sarah edition of the Thames Television panel game
rally for the Spring
Jane Smith, alias Elisabeth Sladen. Whodunnit? in July and impressed the production
broadcast the next day; this elicited a complaint
from ten year old Christian Carter in the Radio Times team greatly during its recording. Back at the

on Thursday 21 June, complaining that by allowing Pertwee to present the BBC, scripts for the new season continued to arrive during August, and

show as himself, the BBC's "criminal" mistake had destroyed his illusion of taping on the six episodes of Moonbase 3 was completed by the middle of

the series. The Daleks were back in the news in early June when two of the the month. In the comic field,TV Action was merged back into TV Comic as
props were stolen after having returned from BBC Cymru (where they had TV Comic plus TV Action, which where the Pertwee Doctor continued his
is

been used on the programme Non Meum Pum Munud) and were awaiting
collection from Television Centre on Tuesday 22 May. Blue Peter launched an
appeal for the missing monsters on Thursday 7 with some tabloids also
covering the story. The two Daleks were located abandoned in Ealing and
East Dulwich on Saturday g, with Blue Peter broadcasting a film report of
monochrome adventures and briefly acquired a new companion in the form
of Arnold, a boy from the 32nd Century. The Dr Who Annual 1974 appeared
from World, and inside its pages the Doctor, Jo and UNIT faced both the
Master and some un-named aliens who appeared to be the Daemons.
Letts had decided on a new look for Doctor Who as it reached its tenth

on Monday 11
their recovery anniversary; a new set of tides were to be created for use on The Time Warrior
Problems on Moonbase 3 forced producer Barry Letts to abandon the first onwards using a cheaper variation of the slit-scan techniques featured in
intended recording on Friday 8 June. The Time Warrior completed recording 2001: A Space Odyssey and also incorporating a new logo for the series

THE COmPLETE THIRD CTDR

Above: Sladen and Pertwee get acquainted. Right: Who's your
friend? Michael Parkinson poses with Pertwee for Season Eleven's
Radio Times cover. Below: The legendary - and much imitated -
Radio Times Tenth Anniversary Special.

(which would become its trademark for years to come). It was

also decided that the battered TARDIS police box prop should
have some extensive refurbishment for its reappearance in
Invasion of the Dinosaurs (the new title for Timescoop) when
shooting started in September. By now, Dimensions
Productions were well underway with agree-
ments for a stage version of Dr Who and the driving it into Billy Smart's Children's Circus on the
Daleks, having already approached Pertwee afternoon of Sunday 4 November (broadcast
and Nation; it seemed that Pertwee would be Sunday 6 January 1974) and then demonstrating
starring as the Doctor if at all possible. it to Peter Purves live on Blue Peter the following

day. This edition of the children's magazine also

The UNIT team returned with Inuasion

which started shooting
of the Dinosaurs
gave an extensive history of the show with
from an Arabic dub of The Firemaker from die
clips

on Sunday 23 September; however, original 1963 debut serial, The Daleks' Master Plan:
the para-military organisation's links with the The Traitors, The Tenth Planet Episode 4, The War
show were still dwindling as Hulke's time- Games Episode Ten and The Three Doctors Episode
bending script included a storyline which led One. With some of his monstrous enemies but
to Captain Yates' quiet resignation. The UNIT minus his Whomobile, Pertwee also joined the
cast were now seeking work elsewhere; Lord Mayor's Show on Saturday 10.

Courtney had played a Brigadier-like Location filming on Death to the Daleks began in

straightman in a Colditz skit on The Tuio Ronnies mid-November as Dicks battied on with the
recorded on Friday 8 September (transmitted rewrites to The Monster ofPeladon. Planet of the
Wednesday 27 September). In the meantime, - the replacement for The Final Game - was
Spiders

Moonbase 3 had started transmission in BBCi's commissioned from Sloman at the start of
7.25pm primetime slot on Sunday 9 December, just before the BBC's special tenth
September; however, the audiences rapidly anniversary party onMonday 10 and the debut of
dwindled to barely three million and it was the new season the following Saturday. Nation
clear that series was not going to be renewed. featured on the Today programme on Friday 7
Dudley Simpson's theme tune for Moonbase 3 while Pertwee did another Open House interview
was released by BBC Records as a single in on Tuesday 11, the day on which Radio Times
October, backed by The Worlds of Doctor Who, a compilation of incidental published their lavish colour magazine charting Doctor Who's history from
tracks from stories such as The Mind of Euil. the first serial right die way through to Planet of the Spiders. For the fifth
On Tuesday 23 September, David Cardwell of Dimension Productions season running, the Radio Times gave Doctor Who's first night the front cover
informed Letts that the plan to stage Dr Who and the Daleks was being aban- treatment as various other BBC celebrities extolled the show's virtues in
doned after negotiations with Pertwee and his agents had ground to a halt; 'Who's Your Friend?' on Thursday 13 December; a letter in that issue saw P
the proposed ticket price of£3 was felt to be uneconomical. As October Yorke of Ipswich asking if- in the light of the extracts shown on Blue Peter

arrived, Robert Holmes joined Dicks as the trailing script editor, ready to in November - some of the old serials could be repeated? Head of Drama
take over fully the following Spring. Dicks was now having major problems Serials Ronald Marsh explained how actors' and writers' contracts ruled
with Hayles' storyline; renamed The Monster ofPeladon, this had been out the early serials, but that more recent tales were proving popular as
through various drafts, to the extent where Hayles was reluctant to under- compilations. The night before The Time Warrior began, Dicks was inter-
take any further work. Leaving Holmes to supervise other stories, Dicks viewed by Michael Barratt on Nationuiide which showed clips from The Sea
started to extensively redraft The Monster ofPeladon himself, and production Deuils Episode Six, The Green Death Episode Three and Planet of the Daleks
on was delayed from mid-December until after New Year 1974.
this sequel Episode Three.
On Thursday 18October, one Stuart Money of Gateshead got the anniver- BBCi regions apart from Wales, Doctor Who was in the Saturday
In all
sary underway in Radio Times with a letter asking if a special magazine was 5.30pm slot, meaning that ITV opposition was semi-networked shows such
planned to celebrate the event at all - which, Russell Twisk of Radio Times as the popular martial arts Western Kung Fu, The Rolf Harris Shorn, Candid
explained, there was - and it would be out in December! Camera and Reg Varney throughout its run. The pre-Christmas start also
November was the show's actual anniversary and Pertwee started to seemed to catch viewers unawares; ratings for The Time Warrior across the
make promotional appearances in a new customised car called 'the Alien' - festival period were down on those for The Three Doctors, although by the
a flying saucer affair constructed on a three wheel Bond Bug chassis. New Year they had recovered, with some instalments netting audiences of
Dubbed 'the Whomobile', Pertwee had already secured the vehicle's appear- 11 million. BBC Cymru initially ran thenew episodes on Tuesdays at
ance in film sequences for Inuasion of the Dinosaurs and followed this up by 7.10pm before shifting it to a very flexible Sunday afternoon slot; the

DCTOR WHO mRGPZiriE

 Left:Pertwee and Sladen meet a friendly Draconian at the opening of the Blackpool
Doctor Who exhibition in April 1974. Above: Kevin Lindsay (Linx) and Pertwee take a
popular folk programme Giuerin 74 replaced Doctor Who on
break from filming The Time Warrior. Below: The Fourth Doctor is announced. Tom
Saturday nights in Wales.
Baker bids farewell to his building site mates and takes to the TARDIS ...
By mid-December, Letts had also made up his mind to leave

Doctor Who and direct other drama series. This was a deciding
factor for Jon Pertwee. Since the departure of Katy Manning and the death As Pertwee's final serial entered production, the scripts for Space Station
of Roger Delgado, it was happy team was breaking up;
clear that the started to arrive with Holmes commissioning his old writing colleague

furthermore, Pertwee was becoming increasingly plagued with back prob- Robert Banks Stewart for Loch Ness and discussing Genesis of Terror with Terry
lems which made The star
the action sequences difficult to perform. Nation; the Children's variety show Crackerjack presented a spoof of the

decided that he would only stay on as the Doctor if the BBC offered an Doctor Who titles in their edition of Friday 22 March. With transmission of

outrageous increase in his fee. By the end of the year, the BBC had declined. The Monster of Peladon underway on BBCi, Pertwee opened one of two new
It seemed that the actor would be finishing Doctor Who at the end of his BBC Enterprises Doctor Who Exhibitions at Blackpool on Friday 6 April, with
current contract with a record five years behind him. the event covered by Nationunde. With only a couple of weeks left as the

Accompanied by Patrick Troughton, Bernard Wilkie discussed visual Doctor, Pertwee then appeared with his wife, Ingeborg, on Pebble Mill at One
effects on Doctor Who with a selection of monsters on Pebble Mil! at One on on Thursday 18 April; Ingeborg discussed a cookery book she was
Friday 21 December; The Green Death was the compilation Christmas treat for publishing while Pertwee himself talked of his return to the theatre with the
BBCi viewers on Thursday 27 December, with Richard Last of the Daily play The Bedwinner. Pertwee then recorded a Radio 2 pilot called The 78 Shou;
Telegraph commending this splendid fantasy in his column the next day. As on Sunday 21 April.

1974 arrived, Dicks completed his revised scripts for The Monster o/Peladon Pertwee taped his final scene as the Doctor on Wednesday 1 May, a few
which started shooting in mid-January; on BBCi, the second serial began days before the first instalment of Planet of the Spiders was due for broad-
with its first episode entitled simply Inuasion - a move which led to Hulke's cast; during this serial, some fans of the show were also lucky enough to

decision to stop writing for the show and concentrate on books instead. catch an unscheduled repeat of The Sea Deuils compilation when industrial

The scripts for Planet of the Spiders - crafted as Pertwee's swansong, and in action blacked out a cricket match on the morning of Monday 27 May.
which the Doctor would sacrifice himself by facing his own fear in a With the exception of The Monster o/Peladon, Doctor Who maintained a

PERTWEE DECIDED THRT HE WOULD DDLS 5TH9 DD DS THE

DDCTDR IF THE HOC OFFERED RR D0TRHGEDD5 IOCREHSE
IR HIS FEE.
Buddhist parable - were delivered, and Holmes
started to assemble scripts for the new Doctor,
starting with a retrospective commission
writer called Christopher Langley to deliver a Space
Station story on Thursday 24 January. The Daleks
turned up on an edition of the children's series
VisionOn on Tuesday 29 January but - although
booked and advertised - Pertwee did not turn up to
OH THE EOD OF 1B73, THE HDC HHR DECLIOED
strong audience across the 26 week run, and
for a
^ HI w 4fT *•
r
ended up with a respectable average audience
only just below the previous year's nine million.
During the summer and autumn between
seasons, Pertwee debuted as the new chairman of
Whodunnit? on Monday 24 June; his Doctor also
graced the cover of another Doctor Who Holiday
Special from Polystyle that month. Accompanied

discuss the subject of Horror and Fear on a new chat by either Jo or Sarah (depending on the story),
show, Just a Nimmo, which was recorded on Sunday the Pertwee Doctor enjoyed his final adventures

20 January; Pertwee was to have featured with a in The Dr Who Annual 1975 from September while
Draconian. The actor recorded two editions of the his comic strip alter-egocontinued in TV Comic
radio quiz Pop Score on Monday 4 February (broad- through Both of the Peter
to January 1975.

cast 13 and 20 February) - and four days later Cushing movies also got unscheduled broadcasts
announced to the press that he was leaving Doctor on BBCi in the coming months; Daleks - Inuasion
Who. Most papers covered the story on Saturday g Earth 215 oAD replacing Wimbledon 74 and Top of

(simultaneously promoting Inuasion of the Dinosaurs the Pops on the evening of Thursday 27 June and

Part Five). Pertwee's successor, theatre and movie Dr Who and the Daleks when rain stopped the Third
actor Tom Baker, had already been cast and was Test between England and Pakistan on the
announced to the press on Friday 15. morning of Monday 26 August.
February 1974 saw the delayed publication of However, for millions of loyal viewers, the
Doctor Who and the Auton Inuasion and Doctor Who and most exciting and colourful era of Doctor Who to

the Cave Monsters, the two new novelisations

first date ended around 6pm on Saturday 8 August as
from Target Books; these were promoted by a signing tour by Pertwee Jon Pertwee metamorphosed into Tom Baker at the end of Planet 0/ the
around the UK. Death to the Daleks made its debut on BBCi at the end of the Spiders Part Six. In five years, the show had been transformed - taken from
month, heralded by a less The Sun on Saturday
than enthusiastic article in the brink of cancellation and returned to the high-profile success it had

23; Part Three of the serial was on The Afternoon Programme

also previewed enjoyed in the mid-1960s - largely thanks to the charisma and showman-
on Saturday 9 March. Before starting filming on Planet of the Spiders in mid- ship of its star. The following Monday, Donald Gomery of the Daily Mirror

March, Pertwee recorded more editions of Sounds Familiar and an interview summed up the feelings of the audience when he wrote: "Thanks, Jon, for
for the BBC World Service on Monday 4 March. all you've done for us kids."

THE CCHT1PLETE THIRD DDCTDH

r
 ensnn 11

The Time Warrior

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
mum HHCHIUE
111. OWM24S

cammissioninB The Linx effect: Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen

and Kevin Lindsay at Peckforton Castle, s bbc
Mon 26 Feb 73 The Time Fuijitiue

(working title) storyline commis-

sioned for Mon 5 Mar 73 then unresolved navy larks with the Sea Devils.
Ik Mon 5 Mar 73 The Time Suruiuor
The next year, the family edition of the Radio Times advertised
scripts commissioned for Mon 12
that there was to be a Doctor Who special magazine and so,
Mar 73 (Part One), Mon 19 Mar 73
presumably after I had asked a few hundred times, an order was
(Part Two), Mon 26 Mar 73 (Part
Three), Mon 2 Apr 73 (Part Four);
placed with the local newsagent.

Part One delivered Mon 12 Mar As I was dressing for school one morning, the papers
73, Parts Two and Four on Mon 19 arrived, and with them, thatvery publication. So began possibly
Mar 73, and Part Three on Mon 26 the happiest day of my young life. Turning the pages, I imme-
Mar 73 diately saw that Doctor Who was to have "a new beginning"
(terms such as "title sequence" being thankfully a few years
PRODUCTIOn ahead of me), and then learned what all three actors to have
Mon May 73 Peckforton Castle,
7
played Dr Who thought of the part. By page eight, I was
Peckforton, Cheshire [Forest]
shaking with excitement. The adventures previously granted
Tue 8 May 73 Peckforton Castle
[Forest; Yard; Battlements]
only a perfunctory paragraph were laid out before my eyes, just
Wed 9 May 73 Peckforton Castle like Radio Times programme listings, and
with story titles

[Yard; Battlements] numbers of episodes - all absorbed by the end of that week -
Thu 10 May 73 Peckforton Castle and, best of all, photographs! The story listings, headed by
[Yard; Battlements] what must have been the debut of the notorious 'Diamond
Mon 28 May 73 Television Centre
Logo', are interspersed with photo calls and interviews with the
Studio 6: Part One
regular cast, headed with memorably lurid headlines - "The
Tue 29 May 73 Television Centre

Two
Animal Skins We Wore Were Full of Insects!", "Polly Was A
Hi Studio 6: Part
Mon 1 1 Jun 73 Television Centre
Weedy Frightened Lady", "I Don't Want The Brig To Look A

Studio t : Part Three; Workshop for Twit",and of course "The Nutcase Professor Swept Me Off My
start of Part Four Feet"- previously these people had been names, and no more.
Tue 12 Jun 73 Television Centre And imagine my shock at learning that grumpy Peter Purves
Studio 1: Part Four had been in Doctor Who! Purves, flanked by macabre dolls on a

futuristic motorway flyover is still one of my favourite images

rhdio Times from the series, even though it never appeared.
Sat 15 Dec 73 Part One: An alien
he way in which I watched The Time Warrior On page 28, Doctor Who leapt into colour and made a vital

T
ship crash-lands near a medieval
I! differed from that in which I had seen the previous connection with stories that I had seen for myself. But, infi-
castle. Soon the combination of
two or so years of Doctor Who, and not just because nitely better, on page 36, the magazine used time travel to
primitive ferocity and advanced
technology faces the Doctor with a it was the first serial I saw in colour (dispelling, surpass the Piccolo book by showing what would be enjoying I

terrifying problem. incidentally, a belief induced by the cover of Doctor in the coming year: Dinosaurs, Daleks, Peladon and Spiders, all
Sat 22 Dec 73 Part Two: Trapped Who In An Exciting Aduenture uiith the Daleks, that the TARDIS was, sounded too good to wait for. The facing page offered my first
in the Middle Ages, the Doctor in fact, purple!). ever glimpse of Sarah Jane Smith; Elisabeth "I'm Easily
hunts for the missing scientists.
The early 1970s - 1973 in particular - was a splendid time to Spooked and I Hate Creepies" Sladen seemed a bit strict-
His search lands him straight into
be a seven year-old Doctor Who fan, with three Doctors having looking, and dressed like a teacher, but she was at least from
the hands of Linx.
appeared together, banishing any confusion as to who exactly my Looking back now,
native Liverpool. see that she felt I

Sat 29 Dec 73 Part Three:

Irongron attacks Sir Edward's
was on the cover of the first three Target paperbacks - and with "ashamed" of her accent slipping through on screen, so
castle with his new-found a remake of the first of those, starring Peter Cushing, alongside perhaps this is precisely where I started to become such a
weapons. The Doctor fights back. Jon Pertwee's Serials appearing on TV. The series' past was dreadful snob myself.
Sat 5 Jan 74 Part Four: Linx's ship something of an enigma until the earlier appearance of The I was terribly late for school.
prepares to take off. In a Making of Doctor Who, which I would have stolen from WH A few weeks later, I settled down to watch The Time Warrior
desperate attempt to save the Smith had my mother not yielded to my instant moral black- Part One, already familiar with the new titles and logo, and
kidnapped scientists, the Doctor
mail upon first seeing it. looking forward to meeting Sarah Jane. The first half of the
and Sarah head the attack on
The was great - predating even those
Piccolo paperback story has the Doctor seen as a suspicious stranger by Sarah, and
Irongron's castle.
three Target novels - and, at its heart, had a rambling trave- it was deeply satisfying to know more than her about him and
logue description of the Doctor's journeys since 1963, culmi- his past than she did. Watching Doctor Who would never be the
nating in a series of Time Lord files and UNIT memoranda. same again. For me, and I suspect a few thousand others, the
Frustratingly, these ended with the Brigadier reporting on the series truly underwent "a new beginning".

iiiiMiiim^i!!
9 In mid-January, the story had the serial added at the Radiophonic Workshop on Tue- Doctor and Linx in 1984, Invaders issued a

code WV; this also appeared through to sday 9, Wednesday 10 and Friday 26 October model of Linx in 1996 and Harlequin marketed
Elisabeth Sladen's booking at the start of May a smaller Linx in 1997.

on some documents. The serial was still ^ Friday 1 February 1974: An Audience

referred to as The Time Suruiuor as late as Research Report on the final instalment gave 9 The serial was screened on BBC Prime in

mid-April 1973 comments from 272 viewers; the show was 1996 and New Zealand repeated it in January
well received with praise for Pertwee's 2001 . The BBC retain D3 copies of all episodes
"Do you know you're married
f> Dudley Simpson was booked to provide the performance and the realisation of "Lynx". As
to Dot Cotton, Edward?"
Ill
"Well you hum it and I'll play
score on Friday 13 April; this was recorded at usual, the children were very enthusiastic & In the Extras section, Douglas Domingo
Lime Grove on the afternoons of Monday 1 and and Robert Peters played Irongron's Men in
it, Miss Smith ..." < bbc
Monday 8 October, with electronic elements |)WH Allen produced a poster showing the Workshop (not UNIT Soldiers)

rjcTOR WHO mRGnzine

^Invasion of the Dinosaurs
If You Don't Know Me By Now BB dHCQBELIBE RHBBER
U 111 III HRCHIUE
DWM 203

cammissioninB
"Kkl<jk!".B BBC Wed 17 Jan 73 Timescoop storyline
commissioned forThu 1 Feb 73;
delivered Fri 15 Jun 73
and that's a big part of this story. The Doctor has earned Sarah's
Mon 2 Jul 73 Timescoop scripts
trust - he even makes her smile when they are facing years in a
commissioned for Mon 6 Aug 73;
military prison, because she knows he'll get her out of it - but Parts One and Two delivered Sun
her thirst for a story makes her trust Finch and Grover, and they 29 Jul 73, Parts Three to Six deliv-
exploit this. Idealism makes the would-be colonists vulnerable ered Sat 4 Aug 73
to similar exploitation. Benton trusts the Doctor enough to
disobey direct orders and allow himself to be rendered uncon- PRDDUBTinn
scious, and thus lives are saved. And then, of course, there's Sun 2 Sep 73 Covent Garden
Market; Albert Embankment;
Mike Yates. That's the story's masterstroke.
Houses of Parliament;
Doctor Who's always been a bit of a black and white world
Billingsgate Market; Trafalgar
(insert your own pun about you
the years 1963-1969 here if
Square; Westminster Bridge;
wish). There are the goodies, and the baddies. Sometimes the Whitehall; Haymarket; Margaret
baddies are pretending to be goodies, but they're always found Street; Outer Circle [Deserted
out. And sometimes they miraculously change sides at the London]
climax of a tale, and we've learned to accept that as just one of Sun 23 Sep 73 Long Lane,
those things. But here ...
Smithfield, London [Doctor takes
readings], Lindsay Street,
Can you imagine if Victoria had joined up with the Great
Smithfield, London [Dinosaur
Intelligence sometime between The Abominable Snoumien and The
Fight]; Moorgate Station, London
Web rjf Fear? Or if Jamie had been recruited as a Time Lord agent
[Underground Station]; Arcade,
in The War Games? Or if Miss Barbara Wright had planted a
Moorfields, London [Jewellers
homing device enabling the Daleks to track the TARDIS in The Shop]; New Union Street, London
Chase? One thing we knew with Doctor Who was that the people [Crashed Car]
that the Doctor teamed up with over the course of more than Mon 24 Sep 73 Northfield's

nvaston ofthe Dinosaurs. That's the one with the rubbish one adventure - when not hypnotised, at least - were always on School, Ealing, London [Detention

dinosaurs, isn't it? Out of all the Doctor Who stories his side. We'd trust them as we'd trust our own best friends, or Centre; Car Park]; CEGB Sub-
Station, Ealing, London
with rubber monsters (which, in case you hadn't the Doctor himself.
[Tyrannosaurus Hangar];
noticed, is a large percentage of them), this is the one But Mike Yates betrays everyone. Oh, he's motivated by
Pickfords, Ealing, London
that gets all the stick. Skarasens, Taran Wood Beasts idealism,and he doesn't want anyone to get killed. But he's not [Looters; Pterodactyl];
and giant snakes fade into insignificance beside the kklaking on our side anymore. And that's scarier than any amount of Chamberlain Road, Ealing,
pterodactyl and the wobbly tyrannosaurus. flesh eating giant reptiles. That's why this story's special. Way London [Detention Land Rover
Luckily, this wasn't a problem for those like me who first back in 1965/6 the acknowledged order of things had been driving]

experienced this story via the Target novelisation. And it prob- shattered with the deaths of Katarina, Bret Vyon and Sara Tue 25 Sep 73 The Straight,

ably wasn't a problem at the time, either, for the watching chil- Kingdom over the course of one story. On 21 June 1969, we'd Southall, Middx [Soldiers and
Tyrannosaurus]; White Street,
dren, or those who could suspend their disbelief enough to discovered that the Doctor didn't always win after all. And now
Southall, Middx [Doctor drives to
accept that a tallman in ridiculously frilly sleeves was travelling we'd found out that friends can't always be trusted. The world
Warehouse; Doctor evades patrol]
through time and space in a police box. had turned on its head again. Who would be next? Would the
Wed 26 Sep 73 Wimbledon
This season is particularly special for me because it marked Brigadier come to believe in a higher cause? Would Sarah sell
Common, Wimbledon, London
the start of my love affair with Sarah Jane Smith. I don't mean out UNIT for a story? Are we, in the end, gullible because we [Doctor chased by patrols];
actual kisses and cuddles with a fictional character of course; give our affections to these characters, or because we trust Kingston Meat Market, The
that would be rather disturbing. And anyway, there's the age people, or because we believe in ideals? Bittoms, Kingston [Doctor and

difference. (Sarah: early twenties; me at time of broadcast: one Are we gullible, then, because we're willing to accept, for a Sarah caught]; GPO Sorting

Office, Orchard Road, Kingston

and ahalf.) But oh, isn't she fab? She's not quite the Sarah that few hours, that slow moving puppets with rubber teeth are
[Police Station]; Palmer Crescent,
she would become - she's not as yet developed the fabulous terrorising London? "Yes," laugh the Dinosaur detractors,
Kingston [Looters' Van]; Wilmer
fashion sense of Seasons Thirteen and Fourteen, and, although embarrassed by 1970s budgets; "No," say people who claim to
Close, Kingston [Street with milk
she's wonderfully independent, she's also reckless and appreciate a story for what it is, not knock it for what it's not -
float]; Parkfields Road, Kingston
gullible. But she does come up with all the clues, follows them but are they being fooled by theirown idealism? A belief that [Doctor drives to warehouse]
up when no-one else will listen and is willing to attack peasants Doctor some way worthwhile, somehow meaningful?
Who is in Thu 27 Sep 73 Canbury Gardens;
when the Doctor is threatened. Nah. But then that's just what I say. And how do you know Lower Ham Road, Kingston

There's a fine line between being gullible and being trusting, you can trust me? [TARDIS; Phone Box; Bus Stop];
Kingston Meat Market [UNIT and
Stegosaurus]; Clayponds Avenue,
Brentford, Middx [Street with

dog]; South Lane, Kingston

[Doctor takes readings]; Riverside
Drive, Ham, Middx [Drive under
The serial began as a storyline entitled to-ground strike of some laser-type beam could see newsreel film of a government man Apatosaurus]
Bridgehead from Space written by Malcolm before they landed". The aliens promise not to returning from a trip to the aliens' mother Sat 29 Sep 73 CEGB Sub-Station,
Hulke on Monday 18 December 1972 and bring in any more of their people, but the ship, saying what nice people they are. The Ealing, London [Stun Gun

submitted on spec to Terrance Dicks. The Doctor learns that spaceships are landing day government has daily meetings with the sequences; Finch Stand-Off]

Doctor arrives back in a deserted London to and night with more troops. The aliens claim aliens at the Tower of London, which is the Mon 8 Oct 73 Unknown: Model
shots: Monster
learn from three or four people who have not to be the injured party, since it was humanity aliens' HQ. The aliens now demand the whole
- Tue 9 Oct 73 Unknown: Model
been evacuated that aliens have landed and who opened fire on them first; they have of South England be evacuated for them
shots: Deep Space; Tyrannosaurus
taken over the city centre; the weak British released monsters (hatched from eggs) to claiming the whole time that they are being
Mon 15 Oct 73 Television Centre
government have acceded to the aliens' patrol the streets to protect themselves. A 'provoked' - the same tactic which saw Hitler
Studio 6: Part One; Dinosaur
demands that the area be evacuated after "Vichy government" has been set up in rise to power. The aliens' plan is eventually to Effects for Parts One and Two;
"the aliens had demonstrated their powers by Harrogate (which the Brigadier is at logger- restrict mankind to Australia, which they will Underground for Part Four

vaporising, say, County Hall with a single air- heads with); Hulke suggested that the Doctor then destroy with a few H-bombs. The Doctor Tue 16 Oct 73 Television

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 9 Monday 29 October 1973: The crew played 9A film sequence intended for the start of

a joke on new girl Elisabeth Sladen, telling her Part One showed a looter grabbing a cash bag

that for the CSO sequence of the dinosaur in from an abandoned milk float and then being

the hangar, she must wear special CSO under- attacked by a shadow (that of a pterodactyl);

wear or the process would allow those in the the scene was filmed and then cut. Like Part

studio to see through her clothes! Three, Parts Four to Six also over-ran and had

cuts made to them. Part Four had four edits

9 When George Bryson who played Private made. The first removed the Doctor displaying

Ogden was unable to attend the recording of his energy detector - which the Brigadier
Parts Five and Six, the character's lines were thinks looks like "a madman's fly-trap" - to

given to 'Private Bryson' and the part recast the Brigadier before Finch and Yates enter.

with Colin Bell. Private Bryson was described The next cut removed a short film sequence of

in Hulke's script as "a rather dim soldier" the Doctor departing from the underground

station in his car and the start of the next

9 Tuesday 30 October 1973: The final two scene on board the spaceship where Mark,

day studio session was originally planned for Adam and Ruth try to convince Sarah that
Studio 3. Part Six's recording saw all the they will only take the best elements of civili-

Underground scenes taped together at the sation with them to the new world. A short

end of the evening scene of the Doctor attempting to show the

Brigadier the air vent (although this has been

High! Low! Everywhere must reveal the aliens' plan to the world; as 9 On Monday 14 January, Hulke wrote to his switched off) was dropped, as was the start of

we go! Our fine four- Hulke pointed out, this was "Churchill vs the friend Dicks to formally protest about the reti- a scene where Adam, Ruth and Mark discuss

fendered friend! And appeasement policy" tling of the first episode to Invasion and asking how Sarah was selected for their ship and

the Whomobile. bbc that the matter be brought to the attention of what to do with her. Part Five had one cut

9 A new title suggested by the production Barry Letts and Ronnie Marsh. He felt that made to it - the end of a scene which

office, Inuosion of the Dinosaurs, had been Inuasion of the Dinosaurs was "an excellent Courtney and Levene particularly liked: in

^ Centre Studio 6: Part Two devised by the time the final scripts were title", and that the decision taken by Paddy this, Benton asks about being under arrest to

Thu 18 Oct 73 Unknown: Model change must have lost millions of which the Brigadier replies "I can't spare men
delivered on Saturday 4 August 1973; the Russell to it

shots: Tyrannosaurus through

Timescoop working title had also been devel- viewers - as well as making it the same title as to look after you, Benton. You'll have to guard
house
Fri 19 - Sat 20 Oct 73 Unknown:
oped by the BBC and was still in use through used on Serial W (The Inuasion); he had seen yourself," and then adding "Sergeant. Well

to the start of September the title used on trailers and believed it was a done." Part Six lost three scenes after the
Model shots
mistake that would not be repeated on the Doctor is saved by the Brigadier; in the control
Mon 22 Oct 7} Unknown: Model
shots: Stegosaurus at Kingston 9 The TARDIS was refurbished for the serial episode. He also felt that the sudden switch of room, Grover is telling Yates that he admires

Market with new glass signs at the top of each side, title with the next episode would make it Sarah's spirit and this is why he had her

Mon 29 Oct 73 Television Centre recladding of the base with hardboard, a new appear as if the team could not make their placed on the spaceship when Finch phones
Studio 8: Part Three
coat of Prussian Blue paint and rehinging of minds up. "What I am thinking of is the from Graver's office to say that the Doctor has
Tue 30 Oct 73 Television Centre
been saved - Grover than sends Yates to
the doors. The cost of materials was £1 0.50 ratings for the serial as a whole, and my deal
Studio 8: Part Four; RSG Corridor
professional reputation," wrote Hulke, adding with them. The start of another scene origi-
and Store Room for Part Six

Thu 1 Nov 73 Unknown: Model 9 Richard Franklin was booked for the serial that he was glad to be moving over to writing nally had Yates explaining to the Doctor that

on Wednesday books rather than TV scripts. Letts responded he had been recruited to Operation Golden
shots: Tyrannosaurus in street; 5 September, with Nicholas

head through wall Courtney contracted on Friday 14 September to Hulke on Thursday 17 January, saying that Age after hearing Grover speak at a Save

Mon 6 Nov 73 Stage G, Pinewood Marsh was aware of the situation and took the Planet Earth meeting while he was on leave

Studios: Model shots Q) The dinosaur models were too big to be writer's point; indeed, he pointed out the after the maggots business. Benton trying to

Mon 29 Oct 73 Television Centre made by Clifford Culley's visual effects firm at drawing of pterodactyl in the Radio Times for raise the mobile patrols after the Doctor and
Studio 4: Part Five was dropped, as was
Pinewood and were contracted out to Rodney the programme billing which made a nonsense Brigadier leave a short
Tue 30 Oct 73 Television Centre
Fuller; most were operated by hidden cables of keeping the dinosaurs secret. "The decision scene where Butler and Whitaker were alerted
Studio 4: Part Sin
was a very dubious one," agreed Letts, "I now to the Doctor's attempts to break into the lift

rroio Times 9 The filmed sequence of the dog with the regret having made it. I should like to apolo- - causing Whitaker to summon up something
abandoned car was due to have been filmed at gise to you for causing such distress." Marsh to "discourage him" (the Triceratops)
Sati2jan74PartOne:As
promised, the Doctor gets Sarah either Burford Road in Brentford or Clayponds also telephoned Hulke on the afternoon of 18

back to London. But why is Avenue on Tuesday 25 September, but was January to apologise to the writer, and found Qt In August 1974, the wiping of all six epi-

London completely deserted? actually done two days later. Other planned Hulke very understanding. Hulke replied to sodes of the serial was authorised although it

Sat 19 Jan 74 Part Two: The Doctor shooting locations were on Sunday 23 Letts on Thursday 24 January, saying he seems that only Part One was wiped as a result

attempts to solve the mystery of made by of this action. was not wiped mistake
September at Ropemaker Street (for the believed the decision had been It in for
the monster invasion. His first
Doctor taking readings); on Tuesday 25 at Russell and adding that thought the finished Episode One of the 1968 story The Inuasion since
move - the capture of a dinosaur.
Brackley Terrace at Brentford (for the milk programme was "super" and that people were this had already been erased in May 1971
Sat 26 Jan 74 Part Three: The
float scene and the Doctor and Sarah escaping raving about the dinosaur effects
Doctor captures his monster, but
further enemy sabotage puts him the soldiers), Willoughby Road in Kingston or 9 Chris Achilleos' book cover was included

in terrible danger. Sarah is Swanscombe Road in Chiswick (for Philips in Titan's Chris Achilleos Art Portfolio in 1986.

kidnapped and finds herself on a evading the patrols), Park Road in Kingston Harlequin Miniatures issued a Dinosaur set,

terrifying journey. (for the Doctor and Sarah being arrested), Third Doctor, Sarah Jane and 'Whomobile'
Sat 2 Feb 74 Part Four: With Sarah models from 998 to
Coombe Road in Chiswick or Park Road (for 1 1
ggg
a prisoner, the Doctor comes
the soldiers fighting the Tyrannosaurus),
closer to solving the dinosaur

mystery.
Swanscombe Road, Willoughby Road or 9 The serial has been screened episodically

Loughborough Road (for the Doctor driving and as a compilation on UK Gold since July
Sat 9 Feb 74 Part Five: The
Doctor becomes a fugitive, hunted back to the warehouse and later evading the 1993, on BBC Prime in 1996 and on BBC

by the army across a monster- army patrol); and on Saturday 29 at Hearn Choice (with the longer edit of Part Three) in

filled London. Sarah discovers the Street behind Liverpool Street Station (for the October 1999. New Zealand repeated the

amazing truth about the space- Doctor trying to stun the Apatosaurus) serial in January 2001 The BBC retain D3
.

ship. prints of all episode plus the extended mono-

Sat 16 Feb 74 Part
Golden Age moves into
Six: Operation
its final
9 The Doctor's new car, referred to in the chrome film sequences for Part One
scripts as the "Whomobile", was provided by
stage. The Doctor, Sarah and the
Brigadier make a desperate
John Stanley of Hampton and director Paddy O In the Extras section, the Voice on Film in

Russell found the vehicle was forced onto her; Reminder Room credit should be omitted; the
attempt to stop time being thrown
into reverse. the UNIT tracker dog, Heidi, came from voice was that of the character Butler

Animal Kingdom of Denham

Caught in the act! The Doctor about to wipe

9 In the Credits section, omitted is the fact

9 Recording took place each evening from

Part One - and his atrocious cockney
that Robert Holmes was an uncredited Script

7.30pm to 10.00pm except for Monday 29 Editor on Parts Five and Six alongside
accent - from existence! © bbc
October when it began at 8.00pm Terrance Dicks

CTOR LUND mOGOSinE

Death to the Daleks
Amateur Hour
DUim HRCHIUE
DWM 278

Never play with fire. cnmmissioninG

Or Daleks, for that matter, e bbc Fri 23 Mar 73 'Four Part Dalek
Story' storyline commissioned for

Mon 2 Apr 73; delivered Fri 1 Jun 73

the household quiet enough to record 25 minutes at a time?
Mon 2 Jul 73 Death to the Daleks
Since my brother had left home for the joys of Oxford
scripts commissioned for Wed 1

Polytechnic and my parents had given up chaperoning me Aug One delivered Sat 28
73; Part
through the 'scary bits' just before the final episode ofThe Mind Jul 73, Parts Two to Four delivered
of Euil, however, the extraneous noise problem was largely Sun 29 Jul 73
solved. My solution to the tape stock dilemma was to record
only the best episodes ... in other words, the ones with Daleks PRODiicTinn
in. Of course! Tue 13 Nov 73 ARC Sand Pits,

Gallows Hill, Dorset [Pool]

So, as the BBC globe dissolved into Doctor Who's best-ever
Wed 14 Nov 73 ARC Sand Pits
and shortest-lived title sequence, I was there with my rabbit-
[Pool; Boulder Pit]
hutch-shaped microphone and Philips reel-to-reel machine,
Thu 15 Nov 73 ARC Sand Pits
recording Part Two of Death to the Daleks. I didn't bother with [Ambush)]
Part One, because everyone knows that the Daleks never turn Fri 16 Nov 73 ARC Sand Pits

up until the end, so what was the point of recording that? [TARDIS; Mining Pit]

Some months later, my childhood chum Nick Layton leant Mon 19 Nov 73 ARC Sand Pits

me his cassette ('Unknown technology! Alert! Alert!') recording [Fight]

of the first instalment. I must confess, I still haven't given it

Mon Dec 73 Television Centre
3
Studio 4: camera rehearsals
back. Alarmingly, on this recording, just as the BBC South
Tue 4 Dec 73 Television Centre
announcer finishes saying "And now Doctor Who in Death to the
Studio 4: TARDIS; Sand Dunes; Ext
Daleks", Nick's late grandmother can be clearly heard
Dalek Spaceship; The City; The
declaiming a perfectly timed "Rubbish!" just before the theme Great Cavern; Large Cell; Dome
tune starts. Maybe she was the one to start the 'terrible stinker' Mon 17 Dec 73 Television Centre
rumour ... Studio 4: camera rehearsals
Clearly it's because of all this that every second of Death to the Tue 18 Dec 73 Television Centre

Studio Dalek Ship; Rock

still remember that terrible day, when my good friend Daleks is etched into my brain. I love every note of Carey Blyton's 4:

Tunnels; City Wall; First Room;

John Ainsworth informed me that Death to the Daleks often derided incidental music. Ring-modulated woodwind
Corridor; Central Room
was generally held to be a stinker. I couldn't believe instruments somehow just say 'Daleks!' to me. And, frankly,

my red, flashing ears. My silver, dome-like head swiv- 'Daleks!' to the rest of you who think it's a load of old creaky
HHDin Times
elled uncontrollably, my eye-stalk jerked up and rubbish. Sat 23 Feb 74 Part One: The Doctor
down alarmingly. 'Self-destruct!' 1 grated, electronically. I know that Belial doesn't glow properly, Jill Tarrant is crap, promises Sarah a trip to a 'para-

It was a moment that probably comes to many Doctor Who and the city is obviously made of polystyrene. I also know that dise planet'. But when they arrive

fans. The heartfelt joys and enthusiasms born in the privacy of there was absolutely no point in the Doctor and Belial going the Tardis suffers a mysterious

your own tea-time sitting room clashing with 'received into the city ... except to be pursued by Daleks and have an breakdown. There are strange
horrors lurking the darkness
opinion', smelted from the white hot pages of fanzines and the exciting game of Venusian hopscotch. But isn't it just a in

outside ... Then the Doctor's oldest

seedy, late-night bars of conventions. But it's all lies, I tell you! cracking little story that hits all the right marks? The Doctor
enemies come on the scene.
Or maybe it's more to do with the fact that, no matter how and Sarah separated in Part One. Nasty indigenous life-forms
Sat 2 Mar 74 Part Two: The Doctor
many times I watch Death to the Daleks (and I do, sadly, watch it (with sunglasses for eyes), cute indigenous life-forms (with
and his friends are forced into an
a lot), I just can't dislodge that rose-tinted eyestalk. sunglasses for eyes), space people, a sand-pit planet and silver alliance with the Daleks. But
You see, although teenagers like me in 1974 had the same Daleks! Silver Daleks, for goodness sakes! Of course it's a already the Daleks plan treachery.
platform shoes and flared trousers that you youngsters have classic. What do you mean, Michael Wisher's Dalek voices Sarah is sentenced to be sacrificed

today, we didn't have none of them there fancy televisual sound a bit tinny and you can see the wire attached to a hook on by the Exxilons.

recording contraptions. And in 1974, it was just dawning on me the root monster's head? I know! I knoiu!
Sat 9 Mar 74 Part Three: Escaping
through the tunnels, the
that Doctor Who needn't entirely vanish into the ether ... I could What's a bit disappointing is that Pertwee is clearly unim-
'tape record' it. I had stumbled upon this novel concept by pressed by the Daleks and doesn't really try that hard. But he's
attempting to record the Doctor Who theme tune the previous still his reassuring, velvety old self for most of the time ... and
year, during Frontier in Space. To start with, I'd been annoyed by he's particularly good when he warns Sarah that he might not
the sounds of Ogron guns getting way of the fade out ...in the return from his death-defying mission in the polystyrene city.

but then I began to realise that was actually listening more to

I And, of course, Lis Sladen is great. Galloway's a brilliantly

the Ogron guns than I was to the theme tune. D'oh! Why didn't creepy and almost complex villain and why did John Aberneri
...

Irecord the whole programme? have to die so soon? Pertwee's "Nah! S'no good 'ee's dead!"
There were two answers to that question ... Firstly, I didn't wasn't a terribly fitting epitaph either!
have that much tape. (Yes, came in big expensive reels of
it Well, that'll be me rattling on about a sacred part of my Who
quarter-inch in those days). And secondly, how would keep I adolescence then. It may be a stinker. But I love the stink of it.

Ill
Cliff Culley was
:

Q) Thursday 18 October 1973: Originally,

i
to handle the visual effects but
& Tuesday 13 November
attacked the Dalek on location
1973: The root which
was controlled
making it clear that it

the Doctor and the Earth party. Part

was having no effect on
Two was
on Tuesday 13 November he was informed that on wires slung across the lake by visual effects edited on Monday 7 January 1974
the effects would be handled in-house by designer Jim Ward and his assistants Colin

the BBC Mapson and Peter Pegrum ^WH Allen produced a poster of Roy
Stone a friend? The
Knipe's book cover in 1984. Harlequin issued
Doctor and Belial,
9 Friday 9 November 1973: Michael Wisher £ The end of Part One was wrongly edited to figures from the serial including a Dalek, an
his Exxilon chum. © bbc
pre-recorded his Dalek voices show too much of the Dalek gun firing - thus 'Engineer Dalek' and an Exxilon in 1997/8.

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 ensnn 11
^ Doctor and Sarah find an Carey Blyton re-recorded parts of his music "But I've given him two Nurofen Plus.
unexpected ally. As the Daleks score for the CD Sherlock Holmes meets Dr Who I can't understand why he isn't better!" Jill

continue to hunt for him, the issued in July 1999 Tarrant does Florence Nightingale, a bbc
Doctor enters the forbidden City.

Sat 16 Mar 74 Part Four: The

Doctor matches his wits with the

$ Death to the Daleks was shown on BBC
Prime in 1997 and repeated in New Zealand Grumbar was incorrectly credited as 'Murphy
City's brain, with death as the
in January 2001 Grunbar' on all four episodes. In the Extras
penalty for failure. Sarah and Jill

section, omitted were Terry Walsh as Stunt

risk their lives in an attempt to
trick the Daleks. 9 In the Cast section, the key for
*** is Double for Doctor Who and Roy Heymann who
omitted; this was to indicate that Murphy played Jebal

f
yJhe Monster of Peladon
A Touch Too Much
mum iwcHiUE
DWM216

jt commissinmnE Rude jokes are not funny and never clever.

Thu 4 Jan 73 Return to Peladon You'll remember that, won't you? e bbc
storyline commissioned for Fri
9
Feb 73
would have been brave, albeit a move that would likely have
Thu 12 Jul 73 Return to Peladon

ijl scripts commissioned for Mon 1

cost the series its Writers' Guild Award for 'Best Original
Oct 73; Part One delivered Mon 13
Children's Drama'!)
Aug 73, Part Two on Mon 20 Sep In Curse, Brian Hayles managed the difficult trick of turning
73, Part Three on Mon 24 Sep 73, topical comment into something that also worked as pure
Part Four on Wed 26 Sep 73, and entertainment - but this time, it just doesn't happen for him.
Parts Five and Six on Thu 27 Sep
The miners are too colourless to care about; Rex Robinson's
73 Gebek is generally unconvincing as a leader of men; Nina
Thomas continues Peladon's line of royal lispers; and Frank
PRDDUCTIOn
Gatliff's Ortron, though looking splendid with a face of fury
Mon 14- Wed i6Jan74 Ealing

Film Studios Stage 3A: Mine

and mane of wild hair, is wasted - not served the same kind of
Tunnels fanatic dialogue that made High Priest Hepesh such a fright-

Thu 17 Jan 74 Ealing Film Studios ening figure. Production-wise, The Monster of Peladon's flame-lit
Stage 3A: Mine Cavern; Mine corridors dance some moody shadows, so we'll give it that, but
Tunnels it's atmospheric only in a way that feels like lip-service to the
Fri 18 Jan 74 Ealing Film Studios -
original Pound Shop version of Curse's feudal Gothic that
a
Stage 3A: Mine Tunnels
can't even stretch to a thunderstorm. Most of Hayles' sequel
Mon 28 Jan 74 Television Centre
limps in well behind Curse ... Well, except in one case. One case
Studio 8: Part One
in which it does rather better - those monsters ...
I! Tue 29 Jan 74 Television Centre
Studio 8: Part Two; Temple and Returning monsters suffer from battle fatigue and a fiend
Pit for Part Three it's understandable that Hayles made his
called familiarity, so
Mon
Studio
Aggedor
Two
1 1

6:
Feb 74 Television Centre
Part Three; Film and

Effects for Parts One and

^^H • * I
ention the Peladon stories and talk of their
political commentaries isn't far behind. The
Ice Warriors the heroes
Terry Nation doing that?
friendly, it
of Curse- but c'mon ... Can you imagine
Once one lot has been shown to be
erodes away the villainy of the rest, so there's an
I Curse of Peladon is a slant on Britain joining element of a spent force about Monster's Martians. Having said
Tue 12 Feb 74 Television Centre

Studio 6: Part Four

I the Common Market. The Monster of Peladon that, Alan Bennion makes Commander Azaxyr the best of his

Tue 26 Feb 74 Television Centre

IHBh^HBh echoes the miners' strikes of the early 1970s. three Ice Lords, giving charm of sorts, and some black
him a

Studio 6: Part Three; Aggedor And we like this. It makes the stories sound worthy and educa- humour. Together, Stuart Fell and Ysanne Churchman give a
Effect for Part Two; Fight for Part tional - and is more evidence that Doctor Who can be about real subtler, and much calmed, Alpha Centauri - Churchman

Four 'issues', which is good material for lofty articles. But the real employing a wider range of inflection. Particularly nice is Alpha's
Wed 27 Feb 74 Television Centre fascination of the Peladon stories isn't so much their political sense of hurt when Sarah reacts with fright at its appearance.
Studio 6: Part Six; Aggedor Effect
parodies, but the spectacle of a story packed to the gills with Onthe surface, Arcturus' demise in Curse leaves Monster an
for Part Five ^ aliens. We're talking weird and wonderful, scary and blobby aliendown. There's Aggedor, of course, but he's something of
monsters here, not 'issues'. Let's face it - if the delegates that a one-trick beastie - roaring loudly but up to little else. The
filed into King Peladon's throne room were all humanoid, in tunnel-hopping projection of his statue, however, more than
stock space-suits, Curse wouldn't be so well-loved, and neither makes up for that: a Night of the Demon-style apparition with eyes
would it have gained a sequel. 'Politics, shmolitics,' as I always of fire and nostrils bellowing smoke - a case of an imitation
say. What draws us to Peladon is our primitive delight in all being better than the real thing. There's even an all-new alien

things green and scaly. on offer in the briefly seen, lemur-eyed Vega Nexos.
The trick for any sequel is to serve up more of the same with The Monster of Peladon is a moving, talking Doctor Who Monster

just enough variation to make it seem different. This is the Book. It's the Weetabix collectable card series come to life. It's a

story's obvious failing. It collects together what we enjoyed return to the props room, the programme's cost-cutting writ

watching the first time, but the rest is Peladon Barbarism meets large. It's three Longleat Exhibition cases all at once. Like Curse,

Federation Progress II. We get a new monarch - Queen Thalira it's a descendent of The Web Planet and Mission to the Unknown,
- and the mining angle, but everything else is as near-as- mixed up into an unfocused see-saw of 'right-on' views and
dammit exactly the same. (Admittedly they drop the idea of Flash Gordon cheesiness - not grand, very badly plotted, but at

Peladon's ruler falling for the Doctor's companion - now that the same time, the epitome of Doctor Who.

I :l :H!I [l]^m:i :
-

Man woman) at C8tA?

(and
Sarah and Eckersley dress
& As Tuesday 7 August 1 973, Letts
early as 9 The original "Argument" for the serial advisers, Gebek, fears that this will not help

asked for director Lennie Mayne to helm the outlined the basic scenario. King Peladon is the mine workers. Another adviser, Chancellor
Il to impress. But we're not
serial; Mayne's availability was confirmed on taking aid in terms of education and technical Orton, desires to be King by getting money
sure who ... a bbc
Friday 24 August help from the Federation, but one of his and weapons, and conceals this aim from his

CTDH who mnGnzinE

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fellows - Gebek, Megeshra and Thalira - by tions to Galactic Federation HQ, whereupon January to say that he had enjoyed the scripts
claiming he is anti-Alien; in fact, Ortron is in the Chief of Federation appears on video and which had been passed to him by Ronnie
league with Eckersley, a villainous mining warns that Fed warships are circling the Ice Marsh, though he commented that "a lot of

contractor. Ortron wants to abandon the Fed- Warriors' home planet with orders to destroy the action is repetitive". Slater indicated that

eration and set Peladon up like a Middle East unless Azaxyr withdraws. Thwarted, the he had taken to "the beast" but was not sure

Oil Kingdom, rich in the vital mineral needed Martian obeys of its relevance to the society of Peladon

for spaceship drives. Thalira realises Ortron's

true motives and sides with Peladon; she was 9 However, the problems with the scripts - & The film sequences were rehearsed from
due to have married Peladon in a dynastic now entitled Monster of Peladon - dragged on, Wednesday 9 January, with Terry Walsh
marriage, but had turned against him after and although Hayles' new versions were replacing a guard extra David Rolfe on some
his romance with Jo Grant. Eckersley initially accepted by Dicks, the BBC team still felt they scenes. The studio rehearsals then began on

allies himself with the Doctor and Sarah, but were not right. By Friday 23 November, it was 21 January, 31 January and 14 February
deceives them. The Ice Warriors arrive to decided that since Hayles had already
crush Peladon's rebels, a mob which the King produced two radically different versions of the () Monday 1 1 February 1 974: After the main
cannot control. Seeing his chance, Ortron scripts, he should be paid a fee. A week later, recording, all the film sequences for Parts One
represents himself to the Ice Warriors as a no- Hayles' agent rejected the offered sum as and Two were transferred to tape and had the
nonsense ally. The Doctor supports Peladon, insufficient to cover the amount of work the Aggedor heat ray effect superimposed
The impressive statue of
warning that too much new technology could writer had put in; Parts Three to Six had been

two
Aggedor. His mum would
be disastrous. Sarah is initially indifferent to totally rewritten while the first scripts only Q> Tuesday 12 February 1974: The closing
have been so proud ... bbc
the situation, but the Doctor gets her involved; retained half their original material. Finally, a titles were recorded immediately after the
her reaction to the aliens she encounters suitable fee was agreed on Thursday 1 opening ones. Recording was in sequence
drives her into the arms of Eckersley December. The filming and rehearsal dates apart from two throne-room scenes taped
5f hrdid Times
were put back on Sunday 23 December, the together mid-evening. The camera script indi- Sat 23 Mar 74 Part One: The

H As the draft scripts started to arrive, Dicks reason cited being "due to script problems". !n cated that one recording break - after Ortron Doctor plans a return visit to some
found that they were becoming very compli- Dicks' scripts, the story opened in "a vast and says his people will be avenged - was because old friends. But things have

cated and convoluted. Hayles visited Dicks gloomy cavern in the heart of Peladon's sacred "Lennie's tired!". At the end of recording, changed on Peladon and the

and Letts, and together they simplified the mountain". The natives of Peladon were insert shots for the fight with the Ice Warriors Doctor and Sarah run straight into
danger.
basic outline so that Hayles could draft a generally referred to as "Pels" in the stage were taped along with the transfer of film
Sat 30 Mar 74 Part Two: Sarah
second set of scripts. In the revised storyline, directions, but later became "Peladonians" in sequences for Parts Five and Six
runs into trouble in the refinery
the first episode had the presence of the the dialogue. Eckersley was "a tough rugged
and makes a sinister discovery.
Doctor and Sarah detected in the mine by Earthman in futuristic gear" while Vega Nexos 9 Tuesday 26 February 1 974: Taping was in
Caught up in the revolution, the
Eckersley's scanner, with Ortron sending his was "a hairy carrot", Queen Thalira was "a sequence apart from a pair of Throne Room Doctor is condemned to face the
loyal guards to attack the intruders. In the frail beautiful girl of about sixteen, looking scenes. At 9.40pm, Elisabeth Sladen got some judgment of Aggedor.
cliffhanger, the Doctor is overpowered and a almost weighed down by her royal regalia" inhibisol in her left eye; the solvent was being Sat 6 Apr 74 Part Three: The situ-

summary execution ordered ... although the and Ortron was "a burly imposing man in his used to melt the Refinery door. Mayne also ation on Peladon worsens. Civil

Doctor's credentials are then verified by Alpha fifties". Unlike The Curse of Peladon, Centauri hoped to tape extra Aggedor shots for Part
War seems inevitable. The Doctor
searches for the truth about the
Centauri who defends the Time Lord when he was now described in the script ("the twit- Two and inserts for the fight sequence
monster - and runs into some old
is put on trial. Eckersley's scanner helps the tering, many-armed form of Alpha Centauri ...
enemies.
Doctor's defence and he is given limited who is of course an hermaphrodite hexapod. Cuts to the serial were minimal. Part One
Sat 13 Apr 74 Part Four: The Ice
freedom. After being arrested and helped to (Of course!)") and generally referred to as lost the end of Thalira's first scene where Warriors impose rule by terror on
escape by the Doctor, Gebek takes to the hills "Alpha"; on meeting the Doctor again, the Ortron ordered the lady in waiting to attend the Peladon. The Peladonians unite to
with his men. Ortron is led to the mining stage directions indicated Alpha "circumper- Queen, the film sequence in which Gebek and fight them, and the Doctor has a
refinery by Vega Nexos who is then killed by ambulates (?!) the Doctor" while later on as Eckersley discussed Nexos' death and the effect plan ...

Aggedor; the Doctor arrives and is found by Sarah made friends the script suggested of the miners to using the new technology, and Sat 20 Apr 74 Part Five: The
Doctor and Sarah discover the
Ortron standing over Nexos' body. The "Alpha Centauri smiles ??". The vital mineral the end of a scene in the Communications
secret of the monster. But the
episode was to end with a film sequence in a began as "tri-silicate" but later became Room where Eckersley leaves to get on with his
discovery comes too late - the Ice
quarry where Sarah tries to help the Doctor "trisilicate". In Part Two, the Doctor, Gebek work and Centauri tells Sarah how Thalira is
Warriors have them trapped ...

escape, only to leave them at the mercy of and Ettis escape the guards "thanks largely to only a figurehead and that Ortron holds the
Sat 27 Apr 74 Part Six: The Doctor
Ortron's palace guards. In Episode Three, the the Doctor's brilliant use of Venusian Aikido"; real power. Part Five had a small cut made turns the monster against the Ice
pair are saved by Gebek who rolls a boulder later on, a stage direction of the Doctor where Alpha says of the Doctor: "He has a Warriors. Victory for the
down, distracting the men. The Doctor attacking the guards notes that he "disables great capacity for survival" Peladonians seems certain. But

escapes to the miner's camp where he helps them with his ever so talented groping fingers. will the cost be the Doctor's life?

Gebek and his men to escape the approaching They fall stunned - wouldn't you?". In Part O Dudley Simpson was contracted to provide
palace guards. Ortron accuses the Doctor of Three, the Doctor "uses his magnifying glass the incidental music on Friday 31 August

helping the guerrilla miners and pressures and a torch to hypnotise Aggedor" and sings 1973. The music was recorded by five musi-
Sarah to admit that the pair are agents of the "Klokleda partha mennin klatch/Ablark, araan cians at Lime Grove, with the session for the

enemy in the Galactic War. After the arrival of aroon". In the cliffhanger, the refinery door final two episodes on Thursday 28 March. The
Azaxyr and his Ice Warriors to impose martial opens to reveal "the grim figure of an Ice full score ran to 35 minutes

law in Episode Four, the revolt by the miners is Warrior. It raises its massive fist, on which is

a success, with Gebek and the Doctor set its sonic exterminator ..." The character of 9 Australia broadcast the story in 1975,
presenting Azaxyr with an ultimatum at the Rima was originally referred to just as 1978 and 1986 while New Zealand repeated
installment's conclusion: "Either the Ice

Warriors withdraw from the planet or they

will blow up the mine." In Episode Five,

"Miner". Eavesdropping on Azaxyr and
Eckersley in Part Five, the stage directions

noted "(Doctor & Gebek surprised - 'Ullo??')".

the serial in February 2001

sales included Brunei, Dubai,

Swaziland, Malta, Sierra Leone and Canada.

. Other overseas
Hong Kong, r
Azaxyr plays for time and crushes the miners' The original intention was that Eckersley
revolt using Aggedor's ghost. In a literal cliff- created a giant image of the Aggedor statue in C) BBC Worldwide released the serial on

hanger, the Doctor, Sarah and Gebek are the mines rather than transporting the statue video in December 1995 with a cover from
hanging over a cliff while a patrol of Ice itself. When saving Sarah from the Ice Warrior, Colin Howard; the BBC retain D3 copies of the
Warriors passes by. In Episode Six, Azaxyr the Doctor and Gebek "take a rock, creep up serial. Harlequin produced an Aggedor figure
explains to Queen Thalira that there has been behind the Ice Warrior and smash the rock on in 1999, the same year as Howard's artwork
a putsch on his home planet: "the hawks have his head. Good for kiddie winkies - pleasant appeared on a Slowdazzle postcard. The
once again ousted the doves and the Ice dreams"; as the Doctor opened the refinery atmosphere for Aggedor's temple was
Warriors are planning to return to their tradi- door, the stage directions read "Sonic screw- included on Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic
tional role as Galactic conquerors". The driver opens the box - Take the money! No! Workshop - Volume 2: Neui Beginnings released

Doctor manages to reach the refinery's Open the box!" by BBC Music in May 2000
reactor and sets it to critical overload, with

the Doctor suffering badly from the radiation; 9 On Monday 7 January 1974, Dicks sent the <]f In the Extras section, Bob Blaine played a
Sskel (Sonny Caldinez)
he lights with a radiation-suited Eckersley and revised scripts to Hayles and thanked him for Peladonian Guard (not a Peladonian Miner).
and Azaxyr (Alan Bennion)
triumphs. The Doctor defeats Azaxyr by agreeing to the rewrites which he had under- Omitted were Max Faulkner as Stuntman/Miner - invaders from Mars! a bbc
secretly transmitting the Martian's true inten- taken. Bill Slater wrote to Letts on Monday 21 and Terry Walsh as Stuntman/Guard

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THE COiTIPLETE THIRD DOCTOR

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Planet of the Spiders

All Of My Life BH J dEREIIISI BEI1THHI11
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.. DWM314

cnmmissiDiuiiG Sarah makes yet another fashion gaff:

Thu 15 Feb 73 The Final Game "Spiders were so last season, darling!" s bbc

storyline commissioned; delivered

Mon 4 Jun 73 ence that were flaws in his nature, argued He went out and
h Wed 5 Dec 73 Planet of the Spiders
Letts.

took the blue crystal from Metebelis III, in The Green Death,
scripts commissioned for Mon 14
hoping it would bring him greater knowledge and wisdom. That
Jan 74; Part One delivered Mon 14
craving for plainly selfish reasons risked putting him atop the
Jan 74, Parts Two to Six delivered

Tue 15 Jan 74
same slope as the power-hungry Lupton, or even the Great One.
In Letts' eyes, the Doctor was therefore only a semi-enlightened
PRonucTinn being, instead of what he should be: a master, like K'anpo, who
Fri 22 Feb 74 Television Centre: sees everything as it truly is.

Experimental Session The skill in the writing of Planet of the Spiders lies with how this
Mon 11 Mar 74 Mortimer Railway dilemma is resolved - if indeed it is. Tommy is another
Station, Stratfield Mortimer, Berks
metaphor for a truly enlightened being. His simple pleasure in
[Station]; Tidmarsh Manor,
the structure and form of flowers, "Tommy's pretties", deliber-
Tidmarsh, Berks [Monastery];
ately restates the 'daisy' speech from The Time Monster, where
Bloomfieldhatch Lane, nr Stratfield
Mortimer, Berks [Country Roads]
Letts, again via Robert Sloman, recounted how the Doctor's eyes
Tue 12 Mar74 Membury Airfield, were first opened by his hermit mentor under a tree.

Membury, Wilts [Airfield] The harsh reality of his own merely semi-enlightened state is

Wed 13 Mar 74 Membury Airfield what K'anpo encourages his former pupil to confront in the
[Airfield]; Le Marchant Barracks, closing episodes. The Doctor has caused many of the tragic
Devizes, Wilts [UNIT HQ;
events which unfold during die story, and now he must atone for
Gyrocopter]
their effects by looking within himself, confronting the (Great)
Thu 14 - Fri 15 Mar 74 River
One and experiencing a rebirth. Clever, multi-layered stuff that
Severn, nr Westbury, Glos [River]
I effectively presaged what Christopher Bailey would later do with
Tue 2 Apr 74 Television Centre

Studio 1 : Part One; Doctor's Lab for Kinda and Snakedance.

Parts Three and Six The main problem with Planet of the Spiders is that it doesn't

Wed 3 Apr 74 TCi : Part Two give sufficient gravity to these narrative strands; the fault lies, in

Tue 16 Apr 74 TC8: Parts Three and

UH^RHH riters, by virtue of their background, inter- the main, with the direction, which is pedestrian at best and
Four: Earth Scenes
I ests and knowledge, inevitably invest a proof that Barry Letts is an infinitely more gifted writer and
Wed 17 Apr 74 TC8: Parts Five and
II I great deal of themselves in their work. When producer. The other problem is all the baggage the serial has to
Six: Earth Scenes

Tue 30 Apr 74 TC6: Metebelis Three:

I a writer is also the producer and director carry; everything from hovercraft and speedboats to dodgy CSO

Land-scape; Village Square; Hut;

BRRRRRRH of a programme such as Doctor Who that and a set of villagers so wooden they'd fail an audition for Joe 90.

Queen's Chamber; Castle Gate investment is effectively tripled. Ralph Arliss and Gareth Hunt are both capable actors, as later

Wed 1 May 74 TC6: Metebelis Three: Those fortunate to know Barry Letts know a man of deep triumphs in The Quatermass Conclusion and The New Auemjers

Cave of Crystal; Web; Council convictions and a quiet Buddhist faith; a left-of-centre, kindly respectively prove, so why their performances in Planet of tht

Chamber; Castle Corridor; Cell intellectual with a strongly moral nature. All of these qualities Spiders should be so unedifying remains a mystery.
are present in Planet of the Spiders, and its script is rich in every- Perhaps it's Barry Letts' kindness shining through? This is,

RADIO TIR1ES thing that best defined Jon Pertwee's era. after all, the sunset story for the Third Doctor; a final day out for
Sat 4 May 74 Part One: A Tibetan-
Through the mouthpiece of his wordsmith, Robert Sloman, stripey tops, Edwardian capes and brighdy coloured roadsters -
style monastery in rural England; a
Letts gave his audience of summer 1974 a final encapsulation of too jolly an occasion for frightening kiddies with hideous furry
stage magician with uncanny
just who the Doctor was, and what he stood for. And a complex, spiders and atrophied bodies riddled with radiation burns.
powers; an alien crystal ... these are
contradictory person he turned out to be, too! Peel away the "All the cells of his body have been devastated by the
the strands of the sinister web woven
by the Metebelis Spiders. A seem- layering of post-Victorian garments, the gadgets and the love of Metebelis crystals," explains K'anpo/Cho-Je - but Jon Pertwee's
ingly harmless piece of research soon all things mechanically-powered, and you found, underneath, always-immaculate coiffure doesn't quite suggest this. At worst
involves the Doctor in the most the core of his character. he looks like he's merely been too long at The Rod and Sash on
dangerous adventure of his life.
At heart, he is a wanderer who chose to cut himself off from Gallifrey, with his old drinking mate, Azmael!
Sat 1 1 May 74 Part Two: The Doctor the true legacy of Terrance Dicks and Barry
the trappings of his Time Lord peers, preferring instead to Perhaps that is
moves nearer to the centre of the
explore time and space. His eternal curiosity and delight in Letts' curtain call; Planet o/the Spiders is a trigger for memories of
web - but his enemies stay one
understanding the mysteries of the universe should have placed five years that were genuinely happy times for Doctor Who. The
incredible jump aheadl
May him on a similar plane to Prince Siddhartha, founder of the show had become a flagship for the BBC, ratings had risen, and
Sat 18 74 Part Three: Sarah
vanishes. The Doctor traces her to Buddhist faith, but it didn't. And it's those negatives that Letts Jon Pertwee already had new roles to look forward to.
Metebelis Three - and the nightmare sought to address in his final outing as producer. And then the summer was over. And, already, heirs to the

begins. It was the Doctor's craving for such knowledge and experi- Dicks and Letts thrones were planning darker days ahead ...

W it
Sat 25 May 74 Part Four: The Doctor
is dying. And Sarah, trying to save

L1
him, finds herself in the Spiders'
larder ...

Sat 1 Jun 74 Part Five: The revolution

starts on Metebelis Three. Back on
Earth the Doctor and Sarah find the 9 For the sequence in Part One where Yates included on Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic

sinister power of the spiders is still a swung his car off the road, the original Music - Volume 2: New Beginnings released by

threat. The Great One's radioactive obstruction was to have been a cow rather BBC Music in May 2000
home could destroy the Doctor. than a tractor
Sat 8 Jun 74 Part Six: Will Tommy's 9 The serial was shown on BBC Prime in 1997
innocence protect him from the
<i In 1994, Spacescapes marketed a print of and repeated in New Zealand in February 2001
power of the spiders? Will the spiders
j the 'Queen Spider' by visual effects designer
succeed in their plan to take over
Ian Scoones, while Jondar produced a
Earth? Will the Doctor risk destruc- The Third Doctor runs
Cave of the
phonecard with images from the serial around
tion by returning to the out of time ... ® bbc
Great One? 1996. The atmosphere for Metebelis III was

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1
HuDiDB
Two of the most overlooked entries in the Third Doctor's roll-call of aduentures are Barry Letts'

1 990s radio The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space. Though much maligned by
plays,

fans, Gary Gillatt persuades himself to take another listen - and finds a pleasant surprise in store ...

n the mid-1990s, BBC Radio broadcast Doctor and Nyssa can enjoy a variety of adventures Sarah use the machine, it offers both the perfect

I two new adventures which reunited the between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity - just so long opportunity to describe to their associates crea-
I Third Doctor with the Brigadier and as the young Trakenite remebers to change back tures and places we see and visit later. Similarly, in
I Sarah-Jane Smith. The scripts for The into her old clothes afterwards - these details The Ghosts oj" N-Space, the Doctor and Sarah embark

I Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space matter so much less. upon an out-of-body experience, drifting back to

came from former Pertwee-era producer and Barry Letts has a lot of fun with both of these the 15th Century to helpfully detail characters who

script-writer Barry Letts. radio plays, assimilating a wide mix of ideas, become important in the second half of the story.
On initial reception, The Paradise of Death was gimmicks and pastiche to enliven the plots of The theme park scenes of The Paradise of Death
judged the stronger of these plays, likely due to both. The serials have their similarities and their are the most effective of this first play. Here we

the fact thatit was more 'traditional' in content differences. Both exploit their medium to offer a meet the best characters, in the form the villains
and tone, and more easily imagined as part of the wide variety of locations, but while The Paradise 0/ Freeth and Tragan, played by Harold Innocent and
'real' Season Eleven. That said, this story proved Death travels through space, The Ghosts of N-Space Peter Miles respectively. Tragan is just the kind of

controversial from the off, claiming as it did to takes us on a journey through time. In the former role at which Miles excels: snide, sadistic and

take place between the TV serials The Time Warrior we rocket from modern-day London to the 'para- more than a little camp. Freeth is similarly
and Invasion 0/ the Dinosaurs. "Purists would argue dise' planet of Parakon, via an interplanetary war. familiar territory for Innocent: haughty, greedy,

about the accuracy and effectiveness of this," and even more camp than Tragen.
commented Doctor Who It's Tragen, a whittled
Magazine at the time. splinter of evil, who gets the

Indeed, those purists most hammy lines. "Their fear

were at pains to point out resonates like the shriek of a

that the Doctor and Sarah thousand out-of-tune violins!"

found themselves he gloats at one point, and

terrorised by dinosaurs in when Sarah is trapped in his
present-day London as ship, he replies to a request to

soon as they returned from speak to her with the famously

battling a Sontaran in the bargain basement pun: "I'm
Middle Ages, so where was afraid she's a little tied up."

there time for a trip to the Freeth, meanwhile, is camp

planet Parakon? However, if turned up to eleven, and an utter

this misdemeanour had delight. When the Doctor

continuity-lovers everywhere explains how he knows extra-

Lllduldh
muttering under their breath, then The Ghosts
oj" N-Space

already
of course:
Space', as
would have them screaming. Fans
knew full well what 'N-Space' was,

it was our universe, 'Normal

had been established in the Tom Baker

serials of Season Eighteen. Not for Barry Letts,

though, who had the Doctor explain that N-Space

LD DOUGH?
Even on Parakon, we

rather chi-chi party.

visit palaces, jungles,

tain hideaways, a gladatorial arena

The second
and even
play takes us
moun-
a
first
terrestrials are at work
Freeth chuckles, "My, my! Aren't
in the Parakon theme

clever clogs?" Later, claiming to be willing to

we the little
park,

was "a counterpart of our world", an area crossed to an island near Sicilly before heading back in surrender himself to authority, he presents
by the souls of the dying on their way to the after- time to the same location in 1818 and 1492, with a himself as "A peach, ripe for the plucking".
life. It's hard to credit in these more enlightened detour to the sinister limbo domain of N-Space. Always using five words rather than one, and
times just how much this confusion irritated the Audio plays oblige characters to explain to their generous alliteration - "I'll leave you to your deli-
fan audience. In some cases it turned them audience exactly what they see in front of them, ciously disgusting doings, Tragan" - Freeth was
against The Ghosts 0/ N-Space before they had even and the secret of writing successfully for the written for Innocent to play, and is great employ-

heard it. The further discovery that Brigadier medium lies in finding ways to make such ment for his fruity tones.

Lethbridge-Stewart was part Sicilian and heir to a dialogue seem natural and unforced. Letts often Alas, where pleonasm and affectation suit the
Mediterranean - rather than a Scottish one,
castle fails in this- "It's a six-foot, sabre-toothed likes of Chairman Freeth, he's not the only char-
as might have been predicted - only caused rottweiler!" - but, to his credit, in each play he acter to use too many words to say too little. The

further alarm. employs a cunning device to justify his characters' great weakness of both The Paradise of Death and

These days, however, the placing of The Paradise lengthier passages of descriptive narration. The The Ghosts of" N-Space is that characters are rarely

of Deathand the nomenclature of its successor are Paradise of Death tells of a new theme park in given lines a real person would actually say. In the
much less troubling, so inured have we become to London, operated by aliens and offering techno- former, after Sarah asks if anyone has seen the
the rewriting of continuity or the jemmying of logical gimmickry from outer space. One attrac- Doctor, a guard says, "Try ER." Sarah's querulous
new adventures into gaps previously thought tion is the 'Experienced Reality' machines, which reply is: "Elizabeth Regina?" Like you do. One
closed. In a world where Gallifrey is sometimes offer the user the chance to experience other would have accepted "The Emergency Room?" at a

rubble, sometimes extant, or where the Fifth worlds and memories. When the Brigadier and push, or better a simple, "I'm sorry?" On the

7D CTDH WHO mRGRZiriE

 strange way, oddly 'saucier' than your
usual Doctor Who; seedy, even. Audio is

certainly fantastic protection from the

fact that at one point during The
Paradise o/Death, the Third Doctor is
laid out on a table in the nude. When
Sarah's amateur photographer
colleague Jeremy Fitzoliver uses the
Experienced Reality machine, he meets
a naked sexy lady, who then sets about
providing him with personal pleasure
of some unknown kind before the
machine is hurriedly switched off. You
dread to think. There's also a couple of
mentions of a 'moon brothel', which
may be the first direct reference to
prostitution in broadcast Doctor Who.
Oddly enough, the second comes in The

Ghosts o/N-Space, when it's suggested

that villain Max Vilmio might turn San
Stefano island into a whorehouse.
Kinky stuff from Mr Letts.
may appear prudish, but even the
1 odd
It

bit of light swearing seems out of

place. Max Vilmio is variously
described as "a one-armed smart arse"
or "a two-bit godfather with cowshit
between his toes." Use of the word
'catamite' would also raise eyebrows if

younger listeners reached for a

dictionary. Sarah-Jane, of course,
doesn't succumb to such talk, generally

THE PHRHDISE DP BERTH LDUES ITS

TECHflDBHBBLE - BUT SHBLH IT BETS
UERH FHTIGUIRG FAR THE LISTENER
subject of emergency rooms, there's humour to be opting instead for a safe, "Oh, for Pete's sake!" At
found in a later warning of the dangers of one point she does refer to Jeremy, quite righdy, as
Experienced Reality: "You're as hooked on ER as a "A wimp, a wally and anything else beginning
junkie on heroin." with 'w'!" While it's good to know that Barry Letts

Paradise of Death loves its jargon. When the won't let his character go too far, there would
Brigadier suggests to the Doctor that he is about have been some joy to be found in hearing Sarah-
to "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" of a Jane Smith say 'wanker'.
device, the Doctor replies, "I know as well as you,
that expression would sound like nonsense to a nother aspect of Letts' non-naturalistic
classical sub-atomic physicist." This seems to be dialogue sees characters quoting chil-
poking fun at the series', and particularly the dren's rhymes at the oddest of times.
Third Doctor's, predilection for meaningless tech- While Jeremy fails to recognise Sarah's quotes
nical double-talk. However, the Doctor then goes from Alice in Wonderland, he does refer to himself at
on to explain that he is actually, "Reversing the one point in Paradise of Death as being like 'Diddle
pseudopolarity of the metaphorical synapses in Diddle Dumpling'. You may well ask. In the

Onya's plutative energy channels." As jokes go, second play, the Brigadier's bonkers uncle Marco
it's not a very funny one, with most entertainment suggests that his island might be "A-stolen like-a
stemming from the feeling that Jon Pertwee isn't a pig." "A pig?" wonders the Brig, reasonably.

going to make it safely past the tenth syllable, let "Like-a Tom, Tom the a-piper's son a-stole!"
alone the fiftieth. The Ghosts of" N-Space, meanwhile, replies Marco. It must be pointed out that Harry

has the Doctor building, "A multi-vectored null- Towb, as Marco, produces an Italian accent that
dimensional temporal and spacial psycho-probe." veers between that of Captain Bertorelli in the
All this nonsense is completely unwarranted and sitcom 'Alio 'Alio ("Whadda mistake-a to make-a!")
very fatiguing to the listener. and Manuel in Faulty Towers (remembering, of
Equally wearing are Letts' attempts at 'groovy' course, that Manuel was Spanish ...) For another
dialogue. Worse yet, this is groovy outer space "Alio 'Alio accent, listen out for the Brigadier's
dialogue of the sub-Douglas Adams variety. unlikely telephone call to UN Secretary General
Speaking of the gladiatorial games on the planet Kurt Waldheim in The Paradise of Death.
Parakon, giddy party girl Greckle talks up their It's fun to dwell on such trivia, but that's very

popularity with the claim, "The games are a much the root of the problem of The Paradise of
flame-out! Everyone hots at the games!" Well, Death and The Ghosts of N-Space. To understand
quite. The forced grooviness and the technoba- what makes these plays worthwhile you have to
bble finally meet mortal collision in the deathless dig through a mass of distractions: comedy
exchange: "Where's the ambience pluralizer?" accents, tortured dialogue, or the fact that the
"It's hiding behind the drinks, like a virgin at a whole set-up of The Ghosts o/N-Space relies not only
blip do." A 'blip do', we can infer, is a party at upon the Brigadier visiting his grandmother's
which people drink blip juice. "If you drink too second cousin, but also that Sarah and Jeremy co-
much, it blips you, ya know?" incidentally turn up there too ... But this wealth of
Mention of virgins brings us to another oddly absurdities hides the fact that both serials have
unseeding aspect of these plays. They seem, in a pretty sound Doctor Who stories to tell.
LllliH.UH

THE RHDID PLH9S

From Hampstead Heath to Parakon, from Sicily to N-Space,
his Uncle Mario, whose island - San
Stefano Minore, near
become a target for both gangster
Sicily - has

Max Vilmio, and a number of

the 1970s adventurers return for some 1990s escapades ... vicious-looking spectral creatures.
The Doctor soon arrives in the
THE PHRHDISE taken to the planet Parakon, the TARDIS, and Sarah and Jeremy -
DP DEHTH Doctor, the Brigadier and who are in the area working - also
Written by Barry Letts photographerjeremy Fitzoliver join the investigation. The Doctor
When a horrific death occurs at follow in the TARDIS. Parakon discovers that N-Forms, deadly
Space World, a new theme park seems like a paradise at first, creatures from another dimension,
on Hampstead Heath run by governed by a benelovent president are about to break through into the
the Parakon Corporation, the and with every need of the real world. While the Brigadier and
Doctor and UNIT are called into population catered for by the Jeremy tackle the gangsters, the
investigate.The Doctor's suspicions abundant Rappine plant. But the Doctor and Sarah travel back in

are aroused immediately by world hides a deadly secret ... time to investigate earlier tragedies
exhibits depicting animals and on the island. But when the Time
technology from distant worlds, THE GHOSTS DP Lord meets Maximillian, a 15th
and he soon discovers that aliens n-SPHCE century alchemist, he realises that
are in charge of the exhibition. Written by Barry Letts things are more complicated than
When Sarah is kidnapped and The Brigadier is asked for help by he thought ...

Right: Elisabeth Sladen, Jon Pertwee and

Nicholas Courtney recreate their roles as Sarah
Jane, the Brigadier and the Third Doctor. Below:
Lis and Jon get back into the swing of things!

The Paradise of Death wobbles a little after the

aforementioned theme park scenes - with hardly
anything happening in Episode Four at all - but it
does, in Parakon, present a very interesting alien
environment. We travel far and wide, and hear the
Brigadier flying into battle on a huge bat, and the
Doctor fight over a pit containing "the giant
butcher toad" ("It's about the size of a small
Though the final plot twist, when it
bull!")

comes, may be straight from Soylent Green (via

Reuelation of the Daleks), its re-dressing for this tale

is suitably diverting. For all its flaws, the story is

painted on a broad canvas in the boldest of

strokes, and with a devil-may-care confidence
that only experience can provide. While it is
fashionable to poke fun at The Paradise of Death,
there is a great deal that aspiring audio writers
can learn from it.

The Ghosts of N-Space offers a neat story of time

PERTWEE. CDURTFIEH HRD SLHDEfl most soon

elderly actor to play the Doctor) they

snnn Finn the old itihgic, trchliiig find the old magic and tackle the often clumsy
dialogue with great energy and charm.
THE PLHHS WITH GHEHT EHERGH hen The Paradise of Death was first
traveland paradoxes, better than broadcast on Radio 5 in 1993, it

most of its type offered by the from the weight

suffered, perhaps,
TV series, and many served up of expectation placed upon Who had it. Doctor
since both on audio and in been off TV for some years, and the proposed
novels. The more spiritual Dark Dimension special, which had raised hopes
aspects of the story are for a revival of the series, had been recently
surprising for Doctor Who - with cancelled. So these five episodes stood as the first
our Time Lord talking of 'lost new Doctor Who in nearly half a decade, and such
souls' and 'angels' - but it was the desire that it should be perfect, many
certainly makes a change from listeners became distracted by trivial complaints
the norm to not have this spooky regarding continuity and performance. And if The
atmosphere rationalised to Paradise of Death suffered from unfair expectation,
nothing. Some aspects of The The Ghosts 0/ N-Space suffered through unjust
Ghosts of N-Space are ahead of comparison; its six episodes broadcast on Radio
their time, with shades of the 2, over a year after recording, in the shadow of
Faction Paradox and the novels the mega-budget 1996 Paul McGann TV Movie.
of Lawrence Miles evoked when Although made long before Big Finish
the Doctor contacts the spirit world using a mix Across both plays, the quality of the guest Productions perfected the art of telling Doctor Who
of hi-tech gadgetry and the skull of a rat. performances is of an almost uniformly high stories on audio, The Paradise of Death and The
Furthermore, the story of a near-immortal who standard. While the stars - Pertwee, Courtney Ghosts of N-Space remain solid, well-played
deals with dark forces, and meets the Doctor and Sladen - struggle at first to rediscover the entertainment. Seriously underrated, they are
several times across history, pre-empts both the voices of their characters, partially lost to an engaging addition to the Third Doctor's era,
Doctor's later audio adventures on Excelis and memory or age (remember that his performance and are, if you will, the two most original and
the Eighth Doctor play Seasons of Fear. in The Ghosts o/N-Space makes Jon Pertwee the ambitious adventures of Season Eleven. C

DOCTOR WHO mOGHZinE

 Bddhs 1

tend to distance from the Third Doctor's TV

How have today's newfangled breed of book authors taken to the
adventures.
it

chap with the Edwardian roadster and youncj/old face? Matt Michael At the other end of the scale are Speed of Flight and
The Wages of Sin. The former is another of Paul
rubs his neck, thinks of old Boney and prepares to find out ... Leonard's attempts to create a thoroughly believable
and fleshed-out alien world as the backdrop to the

n recent years, the Third Doctor has suffered familiar from and The Time Monster.
Terror of the Autons Doctor's adventure. This moves away from Pertwee
I a fall from grace. Gone are the heady days of Others have relished the cliches of the era, paro- era allegory and into the realms of genuine SF, a

I 1983 when latterday Tom Baker was an insult dying UNIT'S incompetence, the Doctor's heavy- genre Doctor Who rarely seems comfortable with.
I to the legacy of William Hartnell, and The handed moralising and Jo's eyelash-fluttering Unfortunately, the author becomes so caught up in

Demons was an undisputed classic. Even the naivety. The Virgin Missing Adventures tended towards the complicated life cycle of his aliens that he forgets
pages of DWM have featured articles sniping at this the former approach: even potentially enjoyable B- that we want to have some fun as well. The Wages of
"half-man, half-granny"Time Lord, or, as Matt movie hokum like The Eye of the Giant is told with all Sin is another curio - a pure historical that tends to
tones so memorably described him in issue 249, the ponderous sobriety of Colony and is
in Space, show its roots as a First Doctor proposal. There's
"the hero that failed". It seems the Venusian Aikido- about as entertaining. The BBC books, on the other something odd about the Third Doctor choosing to

dispensing, wine-sipping, social-climbing employee hand, have shown far less respect towards their take a back seat, and the ending, although powerful,
of the military just doesn't fit with the ultra-liberal, subject matter: The Devil Goblins from Neptune cruelly just doesn't sit comfortably with this incarnation's

cerebral pacifist of the late 1980s and 1990s. As the but fairly mocks the Doctor's name-dropping, club- firm moral streak. It's hard to envisage the same
series and books widened their focus, and made Time Lord who pleaded with Kronos for the Master's
extra effort to appeal to an adult audience, the cosy life walking away from a drowning man.

parochialism of the Pertwee Who Killed Kennedy is a fascinating anomaly, a

era was left behind, as an novel that bases its

increasingly quaint, even premise on a journalist

embarrassing reminder of investigating UNIT from
what Doctor Who used to be. the outside. David Bishop
But, deeply square and does a fabulous, Trials and
reactionary as it may be, I Tribble-ations style job of
have to admit to liking inserting lames Stevens
Pertwee's Doctor. I think he's into the series continuity,
great. Ninety per cent of the showing us the other half
time, he gets it spot on - of phone conversations
chucking smoke bombs over seen on screen and the
his shoulder to repel Irongron, flipside of various stories.

squirming in discomfort at The book was clearly influ-

K'anpo's line of questioning, enced by The X-Files' brand of
expressing disgust at the sinister conspiracies,
Brigadier's destruction of shadowy departments and
Wenley Moor, and insulting pre-millennium paranoia.
Chinn. Unfortunately, it's the ten It also offers a unique

per cent of the time

lessly
LL when he's patronising Jo,
accepting the social hierarchy on Peladon, and
mind- going persona;
pokes fun
Games
Last of the Gaderene affectionately

at all the era's foibles, and Verdigris is out-

perspective on UNIT and
the outside they aren't the comfortable team we're
the Doctor - seen from

cavorting with UNIT that naysayers tend to fixate on. and-out farce. familiar with, but something far more dangerous.
Even so, Pertwee is the Doctor in a way that Sylvester That isn't to say that the BBC's Past Doctor books Obviously, continuity plays a big part in this book,
McCoy or Peter Davison are not, something have simply been a cavalcade of whimsy. Catastrophea and in Gary Russell's The Scales of Injustice - a novel
Lawrence Miles recognised when he chose to use the - or Doctor Who Discovers ... Drug Abuse - is a typical that not only ties in to Who Killed Kennedy's revela-
Third Doctor in Interference. He's an archetype; a Pertwee-era morality play that manages to pack in tions about C19 and the Glasshouse, but which
flawed hero like Captain Kirk or James Bond, and the anti-colonial message of The Mutants and the also brings in Rachel Jensen, Isobel Watlcins, Anne
that makes him a great star for a family-oriented detente of Frontier in Space. The Doctor calls everyone Travers and the Silurians. Phew!
action/adventure TV series. It also makes him wholly 'sir' as often as Rock Profiles' Lou Reed, hob-nobs Continuity issues have only rarely cropped up in
unsuited to the sort of multi-layered, angst-ridden with the local gentry and karate-chops all opposi- other Third Doctor books. For example, those fans
and introspective New Adventures in which McCoy's tion. And this is all done absolutely seriously, with hoping for some closure on the whole UNIT dating
angst-ridden, introspective and morally suspect none of the self-awareness of Last of the Gaderene. question have been disappointed by the novels'
Doctor-with-a-past excelled. That's probably why Sadly, this is probably the most accurate rendition of reluctance to provide a definitive answer. After eight
the Third Doctor novels have largely failed to excite the era in print, the natural successor to Colony in years and 15 books we're still none the wiser about
interest, and why his Missing Adventures languished in Space and The Monster of Peladon. It's just a shame that Jo and Mike's on-off relationship. The absence of
last place in DWM's 35th anniversary poll. Terrance chose to continue in the tradition of Hulke Mike's latterday partner Tom a good sign, and is

In general, authors have approached Third and Hayles, instead of Holmes or Sloman. several novels have suggested that the two have
Doctor stories in one of two ways. Some have toned Rags is vastly superior - a gruesome horror story been up on blind date, but Verdigris implies
set
down the more garish aspects of the TV stories in an that taps into the same Quatermass and the Pit influ- they're justgood friends. I'm certainly keeping my
attempt to capture the fabled "gritty realism" of ences as The Daemons. Its setting in the English coun- fingers crossed for the couple because Mike is such
Season Seven. These authors present UNIT as the tryside places it firmly in familiar UNIT territory. On a nice boy and it's a shame he never married.
genuinely tight military organisation of The Mind of the other hand, the graphic violence and horrific And that other UNIT dating issue is also lacking
Evil rather than the charmingly inept Scout group tone mean that this could never have been aired, and a novel resolution. Rags is firmly set in the Punk era

71 CTDH WHO mnGRZiriE

of the late 1970s. The Devil Goblinsfrom Neptune takes Virgin's more brow-furrowingly worthy Missing
place during 1970, and the events of The Face of the Adventures, Jo is ever so earnest and dull. In Rags and
Enemy occur in the middle of the decade. Most Speed of Flight she typically succumbs to alien mind
authors opt for a vague "sometime during the control, and in Carastrophea she's there to be

1970s ... probably" approach that, wisely, ducks the protected by the Doctor. It's only in the Eighth
issue altogether. Given the amount of monkeying Doctor novel Genocide that Jo has the opportunity to

about with the continuum that happens around shine, even winning an argument with the Doctor -
this era - time-hopping presidential assassins, but then, she is significantly older and wiser by then.
alternative Dalek histories and false futures - it's In many ways, Sarah's relationship with the Third
not surprising that the timeline is shot to hell. Doctor is more interesting than her friendship with

The Third Doctor's TV era can be neatly divided the Fourth: what keeps a card-carrying feminist and
up by companion: Season Seven is more adult in the most patriarchal of Doctors together? Sadly,
tone than before, and features a female assistant Missing Adventures authors have not taken the oppor-

more likely to solder than scream. Seasons Eight to tunity to improve on what we saw on screen, and the
Ten are cartoonish, so feature a Penelope Pitstop- sorry degeneration of what promised to be a strong

type, and Season Eleven is ringing in the changes, female character into an emotionally-retarded
breaking up the cosy old team and bringing in a schoolgirl in a bikini has gone uncorrected. Sarah
feisty new girl to shake things up a The books
bit. features in only two Third Doctor novels - The Ghosts
reflect these different tones, with each companion of N-Space and Amorality Tale. The former is a tedious
bringing a slightly different quality: Liz is almost novelisation of a terrible radio play. In retrospect, it
an equal, Jo brings out the Doctor's protective side was a mistake to sacrifice the brevity of the Target
and Sarah is as stubborn and petulant as he is. books in favour of an 80,000-word Missing Adventure,

AUTHORS EITHER HTTEITIPT TO CAPTURE

THE 'GRITTIRESS' DP SERSDR 7, OR ELSE
RELISH ITlDCKinB THE ERR'S CLICHES
redictably, given the continuing veneration particularly when Letts makes little attempt to flesh
of Season Seven, the Doctor and Liz have out any of the wafer-thin characters or improve on
proved to be a popular pairing despite the numerous flaws that made the audio such
there being little more to say about their relation- painful listening. Perhaps one bonus is that we no
ship. As Gary Russell rightly points out in The Scales longer have to suffer the abysmal Italian accent of
of Injustice, they are colleagues, not friends. Liz Uncle Mario, or the eardrum-perforating squeals of
never chose to throw away for a trip around
it all Sandra Dickinson, but it's small comfort. Amorality
the universe and space buns for tea (although we Tale is better, since Bishop seems to have put some
do glimpse her as the technocratic ruler of an alter- thought into Sarah's character, remembering, unlike
nate Earth in Prisoners of the Sun). We always suspect most of the scriptwriters, that she's actually a stri-

that, of an evening, she goes home to a houseful of dent feminist - and that means more than calling
cats and a good book rather than accompanying the Harry Sullivan an oaf.
Doctor to Tubby Rowlands' Mayfair club or sitting Given his frequent appearances during the Third
on the Brig's lap in the UNIT bar. As one of the few Doctor's TV run, it's hardly a surprise to find the
rounded female characters to appear in the series, a Master cropping up regularly in the books. David
genuinely independent and intelligent woman from Mclntee's fascination with the character seen in First

the outset, Liz doesn't really need to be developed. Frontier and The Dark Path finds further outlet in The
Accordingly, her novel appearances tend to add Face of the Enemy, a book that casts the Master as anti-
colour rather than character. We learn that she has hero and reluctant saviour of Earth. This gang boss
written a book, obtained numerous degrees, and, version of the Master is very much the cigar-
contrary to her Sapphic tendencies in the PROBE smoking villain of The Mind o/Evil rather than the
spin-off videos, has dated a UNIT soldier called camp Romeo of The Time Monster. There are some
Jeff. The Scales of Injustice is built around Liz's depar- fine moments as the Brigadier, in the Doctor's
ture, a somewhat inevitable story that probably absence, turns to the Master for help, but there's
needed to be told even if the teasons for her leaving also far too much macho nonsense and a refusal to
are adequately explained in Terror of the Autons. If play along in the spirit of the era. Paul Magrs is less

nothing else, both this novel and Liz's redundant respectful, hilariously having the Master turn out to
reappearance in The Wages of Sin suggest that she be Verdigris in disguise, and later having the real
and the Doctot didn't part on the worst of terms. Master retch at the thought of kissing Jo. However,
However, Liz's story doesn't end there. Her infa- none of these appearances really addresses the rela-
mous return in Jim Mortimoie's sadistic New tionship between the two renegades. Aside from the
Adventure Eternity Weeps leaves us with an image of Doctor's grief when it seems his old sparring

Liz painfully (and graphically) dying from a flesh- partner is gone for good at the end of Last of the
eating virus, and begging to be killed. More proof Gaderene, there's a disappointing reluctance to get to

that an association with the Third Doctor is the kiss the bottom of their relationship.
of death for companions - Dodo is as dead as her Time Lords aside, we mustn't forget those brave
name suggests, Sarah Jane snuffed it in a recent boys from UNIT. The Brigadier has benefited most
PDA, and David Mclntee infamously wanted to from the printed page, whether it's building on
bump off Barbara in The Face of the Enemy. Josephine hints about his private life or exploring the burden
Jones really should think twice before leaving the of responsibility he carries. The Scales of Injustice and
house. Downtime complement each other in their detailing
was devised as the sort of plucky-
Like Victoria, Jo of the breakdown of the Brigadier's marriage, and
but-incapable companion whose raison d'etre is to get his subsequent estrangement from his family,
hypnotised, ask silly questions and fall over a lot. follows up with some juicy details about Doris.
She would have been insufferable without Katy Meanwhile, in the audio-only story Degrees of Truth,

Manning to bring her to life so charmingly. So it's Mclntee comes up with a beautiful character piece as
hardly a surprise that Jo isn't very good on the the Brigadier contacts the family of one of the
printed page. Again, when the author is knowingly And there is a sweet
soldiers killed at Devil's End.
and, one hopes, lovingly mocking the character, Jo moment at the end of Where the Heart Is when the
works. When they're playing it deadly serious, she's Doctor tells the Brigadier that he is the only person
slightly embarrassing. In Dancing the Code, one of who can be trusted to run UNIT.
 BBB ETEROITU IB
RB HOUR (Decalog 5)

Written by Stephen Bowkett

Set after Planet of the Daleks

An evil queen plans to rule her planet for

all time.
Big insects, death by rock 'n' rollJFK, the Master saving the
worid and the Doctor regenerating early! They're all in here ... ERTHSTRBPHEH
Written by Terrance Dicks
THE STRRUJ THHT BROKE FREEDBm (Short Trips) Set after Planet of the Doleks

THE CnmEL'S BBEH (Decalog i) Written by Steve Lyons The Doctor and Jo encounter a peace-loving

Written by Vanessa Bishop Set after The Daemons race of giants who are being exploited by

Set after Doctor Who and the Silurians The Doctor sacrifices the chance for freedom in immoral Earth colonists.

The Doctor tries to handle an alien incursion order to rescue Earth from the Master.

alone - with hilarious consquences! SPEEB BP FLIGHT

HBBEST LIUIBB Written by Paul Leonard
EHE OP HEBUEB (More Short Trips) Set during Season Nine Set after Planet of the Daleks

Written by Christopher Bulis Written by Jason Loborik The government threaten to transfer UNIT'S The Doctor, Jo and Mike learn some valuable

Set after Inferno Set after Day of the Doleks powers to the Royal Navy. lessons about morality when they get caught

The Doctor battles a nasty case of giant crabs Refugees from the Dalek-ruled future try to up in the violent life-cycle of an alien world.

that just happens to coincide with Mike Yates' blakmail the Doctor into repairing their time UERDIEBIS
first adventure. machine. Written by Paul Magrs LHST BP THE GHBBREBE
Set before The Three Doctors. Probably. Written by Mark Gatiss
THE SEHLES DP THE FREE BP A whimsical adventure featuring Iris Set after Planet of the Daleks

inJUSTICE THE EDEITIU Wildthyme, the Tomorrow People, a butch The Doctor, Jo and UNIT are summoned to a

Written by Gary Russell Written by David A Mclntee lesbian, aliens disguised as characters from small English village. You know the rest.

Set after Inferno Set contemporaneously with The Curse Nineteenth Century literature and some

The inevitable Liz leaving story. The Silurians of Peladon exploding sheep. THE BHBST5 BF
are in it as well. In the Doctor's absence, the Brigadier joins R SPREE
forces with the Master to face down the threat THE UJBBES BP SIB Based upon Doctor Who and the Ghosts of

THE DEUIL EDBLinS of conquest by the survivors of a dying Written by David A Mclntee N-Space by Barry Letts

FRDI11 BEPTUnE parallel Earth. Set after The Three Doctors Set after The Paradise of Death

Written by Martin Day & Keith Topping The Doctor, Jo and Liz travel back to Imperial The Doctor, the Brigadier, Sarah and Jeremy

Set after Inferno UJHB HILLED KEDDEDH Russia where they become embroiled in the encounter some unconvincing stereotypes with

A Soviet plot to kidnap the Doctor, a traitor Written by David Bishop plots and schemes surrounding that meddling terrible accents. Doctor Who meets 'Alio 'Alio,

within the ranks of UNIT, and the threat of Set largely during the Doctor's exile. monk, Rasputin. only much, much worse.
alien invasion are all in a days work for An investigative reporter uncovers disturbing

Lethbridge-Stewart's boys. evidence that links Dorothea Chaplet, a BIBHTBREBmERS RmURHLITU TBLE
shadowy UN organisation, and an alien Written by Tom Arden Written by David Bishop
PBISBBERS BP THE SBB scientist to the assassination of JFK. Set after Planet of the Daleks Set after The Monster of Peladon

(Decalog i) On the moon of Verd Lady Ria flees The Doctor and Sarah battle gangsters

Written by Tim Robins BROS from her destiny and meets up with the in smog-bound 1950s London.
Set after Inferno Written by Mick Lewis Doctor and Jo.

A future Liz becomes the ruler of Earth. Set during Season Nine IBTERFEREBEE,
A spirit of anarchy sweeps Britain as the BHBEIBB THE CBBE BBBHS 1 E 2
DEGREES BP TRUTH Doctor defends the Establishment against the Written by Paul Leonard Written by Lawrence Miles
(Short Trips audiotape only) malevolent Ragman. Set after Planet of the Daleks Set between The Monster of Peladon

Written by David A. Mclntee More pesky giant insects interfere in UNIT'S and Robot
Set after The Da-mons UJHEHE THE HEHRT IS plans for the war-torn African state of The Third Doctor meets the Seven Faces of
The Brigadier contacts the relatives of a young [Decalog 2] Kebiria. Isn't it time the Doctor started Dr Lao before getting gunned down and

soldier killed at Devil's End. Written by Andy Lane packing bug spray? regenerating. Now there's a shock!

In fact, most of these stories are more interested is up there on screen. We never get the impression hen" of Planet of the Daleks or The Green Death, without

in UNIT than they are in the Doctor himself. He's of a tortured soul racked by inner doubts, so the inserting tongue firmly into cheek.
absent entirely from The Face of the Enemy and Degrees books are left attempting to add depth to a char- It seems that in this cynical age we're no longer
of Truth, and a mysterious and rarely glimpsed acter that has none. It's like trying to write convinc- able to appreciate the Third Doctor for what he is: a

figure in Who Killed Kennedy. None of the books has ingly for Virgil Tracy. straightforward hero who does space judo. The
really attempted to get under the skin of the char-
acter, perhaps because their authors are afraid that, THE BOOKS HUE LEFT HTTEITlPTinG TD HDD
stripped of his arrogant heroism, there isn't really
much to him. Certainly writers have picked up on DEPTH TD H CHARACTER THHT HRS DDDE.
the resentment he feels towards the Time Lords for IT'S LIKE WRITinG PDR UIRGIL TORCH!
exiling him to one time and place - for example, in

Steve Lyons' Freedom or his cameo in The Eight The very best Third Doctor novels have been problem is that we've grown up. We think too deeply
Doctors - but no more than Robert Holmes did in those that poke fun at the era. This isn't altogether about this TV show, and, as a result, we discover that
Terror of the Autons. Vanessa Bishop's Decalog story unexpected - those who praise Tom Baker's comic the Third Doctor's sexism, his relationship with the
The Strau) That Broke the Camel's Back is a touching turns sometimes forget that Pertwee was primarily Establishment, and his readiness to resort to
follow-up to Doctor Who and the Silurians, with the known as a comic actor before he took the role of fisticuffs offend our intellectual sensibilities. We
Doctor appalled by UNIT'S actions, but finally the Doctor. Unsurprising, then, that he excels in don't want The Phantom Menace to replicate the inno-
coming to realise why the Brigadier blew up Carniual of Monsters and The Time Warrior, two of the we want it to reflect the downbeat
cence of Star Wars,
Wenley Moor. But generally speaking, he's become funniest scripts outside Graham Williams' tenure. drama of The Empire Strikes Back. We don't want our
±e most caricatured of Doctors, easily summed up It's these performances that Magrs and Gatiss bring starship captains to come in peace and shoot to kill,
by a rub to the back of the neck and a cry of "Hai!" to mind when they have the Doctor desperately we want them to be thoughtful and angst-consumed.
As such, we've probably learned less about this fighting off Iris Wildthyme's advances or prissily And we don't want our Doctor to be a neck-rubbing
Doctor than any of the others. To be fair, Pertwee's sniping at the Brigadier. However, it's sad that patriarch, felling baddies with one blow to the solar

performance was so concise and uncomplicated many authors no longer feel able to write about the plexus. The hero that failed? It's funny, but I can't

that everything there is to know about the character straightforwardly avuncular character, the "mother help feeling it's we who failed the Third Doctor ... Q

THE CrjITlPLETE THIRD DDCTDR 77

So what did the Doctor get up to when he wasn't pottering around at UNIT HQ? Well, he

bought a cottage, befriended a pickpocket, murdered an innocent man and had exciting aduentures
through time and space, apparently! John Ainsiuorth uncouers the private life of Doctor Who ...

The 1970s was a particularly frus-

trating time to be a Doctor
During the previous decade, the
Who fan.
launched Countdown
- a new,
(later to

high-quality comic
dren. Featuring strips based
be re-named TV Action)
aimed at older chil-
on Gerry Anderson's
'continuity'and 'canon' went unspoken amongst
the disparate gatherings of small boys in school
playgrounds that comprised proto-fandom. So
series was shown almost all year action shows such as Thunderbirds and UFO, nobody really minded that the Doctor Who comic
round and only a handful of Countdown was the ideal home for a Doctor Who strip was something of an 'alternative universe'

Saturdays were completely Who-free. But with the strip. This fortuitous transition would result in version of the TV series.
Doctor's regeneration into Jon Pertwee and a some excellent artwork from Harry Lindfield, Although some of the strip's deviations from
complete overhaul of the show, fretting fans found Frank Langford and Gerry Haylock, as well as intel- established Who lore were the result of plain igno-
themselves facing the prospect of surviving seem- ligent scripts, oftenfrom Hooper himself. There rance - referring to the lead character as 'Doctor
ingly endless six-month voids between seasons - were still some stylistic differences between Who' being the classic error - others were borne
and home videos were still a good decade away. Countdown's Doctor Who strip and the TV show, but out of necessity. The rights to use the different
So, thank heavens for the weekly Doctor Who at least they were both pitching to the same audi- elements of the TV series in the strip, such as the
comic strip - a true life-line for us fans. So what if ence. This was the beginning of the golden age of Doctor's companion or UNIT, had to be negotiated
the Doctor answered to the name of 'Who'? So Doctor Who comics - one that would not be bettered and paid for separately. When one or more of these
until Marvel began publishing Doctor Who Weekly elements had not been acquired, the void would
in 1979. Although the Doctor Who strip did eventu- often be filled by wholly original concepts and
ally return to TV Comic, it maintained the high characters unique to the strip. This combination of
standards set by Dennis Hooper and ignorance and necessity led to the creation of a
fascinating - and now fondly regarded -
alternative Doctor Who mythology.
The foundations for this were laid in

centuRU the earliest issues of Countdown, with the

most memorable element of this
step' world being the Doctor's residence.
'side-

what if he was rarely accompanied by a

companion? And lived in a country cottage? If you
squinted from a distance on a dark night, this was
Doctor Who just like on the
telly! And, by jingo,
were grateful for
January 3, 1970 saw
we
it ...
BDH UNIT played no
in the Doctor's weekly
part

Doctor Who return to adventures in

television for its seventh Countdown and it is

season, but it was virtu- established in the

ally unrecognisable opening instalment of

from the show that Gemini Plan that the

viewers had been Doctor, still trying to

watching only a few repair the TARDIS, is

months previously. Not 'holidaying' in a small

only had the Doctor country cottage rather

changed into that bloke than UNIT HQ. The
cottage soon passed into
offThe Nauy Lark, but
10,1*0 W.
was also an Earth-
there comic strip lore and
bound setting, a new became the Doctor's

H CamBinHTIDH DP IBflDRHflCE HflD RECESSITH GRUE RISE

TD THE CDiniC STRIPS' PDRDLS REEHRDED HLTERRHTIUE THIRD
DOCTOR mSTHDLQEH - HLL CDURTRS CQTTREES HRD 'BETSb
companion, UNIT and, of course, it was all in continued to be illustrated by Gerry Haylock, the permanent Earth-bound residence. Interestingly,
glorious colour. The more conservative fans who artist perhaps most closely associated with the the idea of the Doctor having a country house was

didn't like these changes may have taken some comic strip Third Doctor. re-used many years later, in DWM's Seventh Doctor
comfort in the fact that TV Comic's Doctor Who comic In today's sophisticated world of super- comic strips and in several of Virgin's New
strip had changed very little in style. Yes, the informed Who fandom, would be virtual heresy
it Adventures novels.

Doctor now looked (a bit) like Jon Pertwee, and he for a Doctor Who novel, audio drama or comic-strip The Time Lords also got a bit of a comic strip

was aided by the Brigadier and UNIT, and the to contradict the now well-established and intri- make-over, becoming a far more prevalent force
stories were set on Earth - but the adventures were cately documented 'facts' of Doctor Who history. than they were on television. Their physical appear-
still of the schoolboy-fun-and-jolly-japes variety One can't even casually refer to the Doctor's car as ances were rare - most notably in the 'big'TV Action

that had typified the Second Doctor's comic-strip 'Betsey' without being pounced upon by the conti- adventure The Spoilers, where they are seen to be
adventures for the past three years. nuity-cops and sent into a shameful exile for the monitoring the universe, constandy on the lookout
Fortunately, change was also on the cards for the arch-crime of ignorance. But in those long-gone for trouble - but, though seldom seen, they were
comic strip when, in 1971, editor Dennis Hooper carefree days of innocent adoration, words such as constandy referred to and, once the TARDIS

ctoh luhd mnGnsine

 o CHILOREO BP THE Three Third Doctor stories have been
EUIL ESE published since the initial 1970-75
TV Comic 1133-1138 run. All have been placed firmly
o DOUR inside the television continuity and
TV Comic 1139-1147 must be judged as adaptations of the
o THE ROIRTEUR TV series rather than a continuation
Time-travelling bulldozers, plastic film crews, gaudy Daleks,
TV Comic 1148-1154 of the TV Comic/Countdown/TV Action
demented parrots and postcards from the Master. Blimey ... • THE DISIOTEBRRTBR story thread.

TV Comic 1155-1159
THE STRIPS o *SUB ZERO 0 IS ROHOOE THERE? • EHHOBE BP miBB
Countdown 47-54 TV Comic 1160-1169 Story Kate Orman
°THE HHKUJDUD • THE PLROET DP « SIZE CDOTRDL Art Barrie Mitchell

EHPERIUIEOTS THE DRLEHS TV Comic 1170-1176 Doctor Who Magazine 221-223

TV Comic 944-949 Countdown/TV Action + Countdown 55-62 ° the mHBicmn Set after Liz Shaw's departure from UNIT.

o THE mULTI-mUHILE • R STITCH in TimE TV Comic 1177-1183 The Doctor and Liz journey to Prague to

TV Comic 950-954 TV Action + Countdown 63-70 o THE RTETRL ERTERS attend the annual PSI conference. Their
o inSECT oTHE EDEOIH FRDOI TV Comic 11 84-11 go flight almost crashes but is saved by the

TV Comic 955-959 OOUJHERE • LORDS DP THE ETHER efforts of a psychokinetic student, who
o THE mETHL EHTER5 TV Action + Countdown 71-78 TV Comic 1191-1198 dies from the effort. The Doctor and Liz

TV Comic 960-964 o THE UBRHHHS o THE UIHnOERERB trace the cause of the disaster to Cambridge,

othe FisHmen ap TV Action + Countdown 79-88 TV Comic 1199-1203 where a Professor Hardin is attempting to

CHRPHnTHH o STEELPIST create an army of psychic assassins.

TV Comic 965 - 969 TV Action + Countdown TV COMIC HOLIDAY SPECIAL (1970)

o nCTDR WHO
RDCHS FRDm IRRRS
TV Comic 970-976
oDOCTOR UJHO ROD
THE ROBOT
89-93
HI1U THE o ZERDO mUHSIBO • HSSHSSin FRDm SPHCE 0 TRRBET PRRCTICE
TV Action + Countdown 94-100
o UnUERCDUER Story Gareth Roberts
DOCTOR WHO HOLIDAY SPECIAL Art Adrian Salmon
(1973)
o DERDLB CHDICE o FDGBOOOD Doctor Who Magazine 234
TV Action 101-103 • SECRET BF THE TOUJER The Doctor and Jo are lured into a trap

TV Comic 977-984 0 UJHO IS THE STRRDBER by devious Russian agents who have
o TRIHL DP PIRE TV Action 104
DOCTOR WHO HOLDAY SPECIAL (1974) learned of the Doctor's genius and want

TV Comic 985-991 oTHE BLED BF » DDOmCLDDD him to defect.

o THE HIDODOm BUILDERS SLEEPIOG • PERILS DP PRRIS

TV Comic 992-999 TV Action 107-111
• WHO'S UJHO? • the man in the
•THE THREHT FROm TV COMIC ANNUAL 1971
ion mRSH
• EEmini plro BERERTH o CRSTRUJHU Story Dan Abnett
Countdown 1-5 TV Action 112 ° LEUITHTIDD Art Brian Williamson
o TIR1EBEDDERS o HHCH TB THE SUO Doctor Who Magazine
Countdown 6-13 TV Action 116-119
COUNTDOWN ANNUAL 1972
Winter Special 1991
• THE UDBHO BLHUES o THE LRBHRIOTH
o THE PLRBT BIRSTER Following the capture of the Master at the

Countdown 15-22 TV Action 120 COUNTDOWN ANNUAL 1973

end of The Demons, the Doctor visits his old

o THE CELLULOID miOPS o THESPOILERS o RIBE TB OOUJHERE enemy in his cell at UNIT'S special detention

Countdown 23 -32 TV Action 123 centre. The Doctor's suspicions that the
TV ACTION ANNUAL 1974
o BHCHTIR1E o THE UBRTEH Master has not entirely mended his ways
Countdown TV Action 125-129
• THE HOOBRU PLROET are soon confirmed when he attempts an
33-39
• THE ETEROHL PRESEOT o THE UOHERRD UDICE TV COMIC ANNUAL 1975 ingenious jail-break by using a hologram

Countdown 40 - 46 TV Action 131 o PETRIFIED projector.

became fully functional again, it became clear that joined the strip Doctor in his TV Comic, Countdown illustrated by a different artist, all of whom seemed
almost every journey undertaken by the Doctor was and TV Action adventures. She did, however, make a to have a very different idea of what actress
being directed by them. belated appearance in the one-off story Target Elisabeth Sladen looked like!

Practice published more recently in Doctor Who The Brigadier and UNIT are almost as much a
man himself,
For the most
companionless
part, the Third Doctor was
in his adventures, though
Magazine. Sarah Jane Smith also never appeared
with the Third Doctor in his weekly comic strip
part of the Third Doctor's era as the
but both make rather less significant contributions
he would occasionally befriend someone adventures, though she did accompany him in the to his strip adventures. They are there at the start,

with common aims, such as the scientist Stephens 1974 Doctor Who Holiday Special. Each of her three though: in the very first Third Doctor strip story,

in Gemini Plan, Charlie the pickpocket in Backtime, strips- Doomdoud, Perils of Paris and Who's Who were The Arkuiood Experiments, the Doctor and the
or young Tom The earlier Doctor Who
in The Vortex. Brigadier go to the zoo and investigate
strips had given the First and Second Doctors two flocks of hyper-aggressive parrots, mad
companions created specifically for the strip - penguins and rampaging schoolboys.
supposed grandchildren, John and Gillian. Only Unfortunately, as the early TV Comic
one attempt was made to give the Third Doctor a Doctor Who strip was clearly aimed at a

regular travelling companion unique to the comic much younger audience than the TV
strip; Arnold - a young boy from a future Earth and UNIT frequently
series, the Brig

governed by the Children of the Em'l Eye. Arnold seemed rather out of place in the 'wacky'
remained with the Doctor for just one subsequent adventures of 'Doctor Who'. Artistically
adventure, Noua, before being hurriedly returned to the Brigadier didn't fare too well in the
his own time at the beginning of The Amateur. hands of John Canning in his earliest

The Third Doctor's TV companions did join him strip appearances - looking like a greasy
for a few adventures. Liz Shaw made an appearance spiv who'd more likely steal your watch
in three of the early TV Comic adventures - The Metal than save you from aliens. Maybe the
Eaters, The Fishmen of Carpantha and Doctor Who and comic strip Brig was indeed 'on the
the Rocks from Venus. Artist John Canning had obvi- make', as it is revealed in the 1971 TV
ously been given reference photographs of actress Comic Annual strip story, Castaway, that he
Caroline John from Spearhead from Space as the strip owns a luxury yacht in the tropics!
version of Liz always wore her hair in a bun and The BBC, unhappy with the way their

favoured textured-rubber couture! properties were being portrayed in TV

Jo Grant was the one companion who never Comic, soon withdrew the rights to use

THE CfJITlPLETE THIRD DOCTOR 79

cnmics
both UNIT and the Brigadier - and the Doctor was Sub Zero leads directly into the next story, The Not all the Doctor's strip opponents were quite

left to operate as a lone agent, occasionally at the Planet of the Daleks, a full year ahead of the almost so lacking in credibility. Obsessed scientist
request of the Ministry of Defence. Apart from identically-titled TV story. The Doctor pursues his Rudolph Steiner in Gemini Plan is a notable

appearances in the 1973 and 1974 Doctor Who old enemies to Skaro where they try to turn him example. He intends to fire a rocket at Venus in an

Holiday Special strips, the Brigadier and UNIT would into a Dalek- unsuccessfully of course. Again attempt to knock it into Earth's orbit, where its

not be seen again. Haylock delivers some excellent art with the mineral wealth will be easily accessible - but
Over his five years of TV adventures, the Third Dalek's city and metal walkways being reminiscent Steiner's true motivation is his ego, as he believes

Doctor had plenty of encounters with both the of the fantastic architecture displayed in the old that such an achievement will grant him a place in

Daleks and Time Lord-gone-bad, the Master. TV21 strips. the history books. Unfortunately, Steiner's drive to

Neither were absent from the comic-strips, but Subsequent appearances of the Daleks in the achieve greatness has blinded him to the reality

they were the only bad guys from the series to comic strip were less remarkable. The Threat jrom that his plan could destroy the world. Needless to
Beneath is a fairly stereotypical invasion of say, the Doctor intervenes.
Earth story and, as it is illustrated in

black-and-white, lacks the visual impact s well as human villains, the strips did
of the first two Dalek strips. The final have their own monsters and aliens, of
strip encounter with the Daleks in The course. Unhindered by the financial
Disintegrator is a laughable affair in which constraints of the television series, the strip artists
the Daleks, hiding on the dark side of the were free to realise the writer's creations with some
moon, have given their advanced memorable results - though not always for the

technology to a Professor right reasons. In The Vogan Slaues, the Doctor

Pillbright, who intends to use it to encounters the evil Vogans (no relation to the

rob the bank of England! The chaps in Reuenge of the Cybermen), who he's appar-
Dalek's motivation for doing this ently met before - familiar as he is with their

is, to say the least, unclear. language and reputation. Artist Harry Lindfield
The Daleks were not the only was clearly inspired by the Mekon from Dan Dare,

comic strip adversaries that had Vogans are small creatures with bulbous
as the
dubious or uncertain motivations. craniums,who hover around on floating chairs.
In the strips, villainy was Dennis Hooper, who wrote The Vogan Slaves must
frequently a personality trait have developed a fondness for his creations, as the
rather than a means to an end, Vogans later encountered the fourth Doctor in The

with only throwaway explanations This was one of the few times that a race
Wreckers!
- if any - given for their actions. of aliens createdspecifically for the comic strip

In The Secret of the Tomer in the 1973 would appear in more than one story.
Doctor Who Holiday Special, inter- The Ugrakks, from the adventure of the same
£ "\ galactic villain and master of name, are probably one of the most famous of the
OS£ who might as
J disguise, Hingrad,
well have been the Master, is
comic strip monsters for the simple reason that
they were the creation of one of TV Action's readers
'
intent on stealing the crown following a competition to 'design a Doctor Who
monster'. As well as being awarded a brand new

THE PLOT DP *5UB ZERO DDESfTT colour television set,

creation used in the weekly Doctor

the winner would see
Who
his
The
STHflD UP TD SCRUTIMH, BUT THE
strip.

Ugrakks were the creation of Ian Fairnington, who

HLEKS BEHHUE H5 DHLEH5 SHOULD! must have been thrilled to see his aliens brought to
life by artist Gerry Haylock. Dennis Hooper incor-

make the transition during this era. The Master porated the Ugrakks into a story in which the
made his only appearance in the weekly strip as the desperate, elephant-like creatures attempt to steal

of the piece in The Glen of Sleeping,.

villain

Masquerading as an archaeologist, he summons

Red Angus and his clansmen from a centuries long
slumber induced by an alien time-trap, and intends
TVacii Ti nil <ilE
the TARDIS from
their planet,
flies.
which
the Doctor in order to escape

forward and take your rightful place

is

Ian Fairnington, where are you

infested by the deadly Zama
now? Step
in the Doctor
ausmmmmsiminmsmm
to use them to capture a nuclear submarine. When Who hall of fame! Less well realised were the
the Doctor intervenes, all are transported back to IheUGWS Mantis in Size Control. This race of giant, dribbling

insects had stepped right out of a 'B' movie and

1745, where, at the close of the adventure, the
Master remains, apparently stranded. The Doctor, behaved accordingly.
however, is convinced that he has not seen the last The scripts for the Third Doctor's comic strip

of the Master. adventures were of a generally higher standard

And he's right, of course, as the Master returns than had been the case for the First and Second
for some holiday fun at the seaside resort of Doctors' tales. The stories seemed to be more
Tadcaster in the Fogbound strip in the 1973 Doctor firmly rooted in science fiction than the all-out

Who Holiday Special. Luring the Doctor to Tadcaster fantasy adventures that had been seen in the past.

by sending him a postcard with "Wish you were The rise in quality of the writing can be principally

here" written on it (no, really!), the Master has a attributed to Dennis Hooper, who, when not actu-
bloody good laugh as the Doctor flounders around ally writing the comic strip, was at least overseeing
in blinding fog - caused, of course, by the Master's it as editor during its residence in Countdown and TV

alien mist flowers from the planet Sarkan! Comic. It would, however, be fair to say that Alan

At the same time as the Daleks were making a Fennell, who took over as writer on the strip just

welcome return on television in Day of the Daleks, prior to its transfer to Countdown, did make notice-

they cropped up in Countdown just as it was turning able efforts to bring it closer in style and content to
into TV Action. Artist Gerry Haylock ignores the its TV parent, though FennelPs main tactic in

muted colours of the TV Daleks in favour of bright achieving this was by 'borrowing' from the TV
blues, yellows and reds, reminiscent of the 1960s jewels, as he believes that they will place him "in adventures that were aired in 1970 ...

movie mob and their TV21 comic siblings. charge of this pitifully primitive world". And one Fennell's first story, The Metal Eaters, saw the
Unfortunately, the plot of *Sub Zero doesn't actually Professor Logan in Doctor Who and the Rocks jrom Doctor and Liz investigate a meteorite containing
stand up to much - well, any - scrutiny, although Venus goes to great lengths to fake a manned intelligent iron filings that 'breathe metal'. The
the Daleks behave like Daleks should. Of course, I mission to Venus. He attempts to abscond with then-recently-broadcast Spearhead Jrom Space had

can't neglect to mention the Dalek's nuclear strike UNIT cash that he has saved with the intention of also featured meteorites landing on Earth that

on Sydney in * Sub Zero, which only has the effect of using it to fund the upkeep of the ancestral home contained an alien intelligence; The Fishmen 0/
partially demolishing the Harbour Bridge. Perhaps of the Logan clan. Ahem ... Well, at least he wasn't Carpantha was Fennell's second story and seems to

they forgot to load the warhead? after world domination! have been based upon Doctor Who and the Silurians.

CTGR WHO mnGRSinE

The Doctor adopts a sympathetic attitude to the

underwater dwelling Ashmen who blame mankind

of their To war
HELL, DOG TO R-
for the destruction
between the humans and the
city. avert a
fish people, the
HHlCH SIDE DO HE
Doctor refuses to reveal the existence of the
join ? since ine are
fishmen to humanity.
trarred in
Although a steal from the Silurian story, the
this century.,
comic strip benefited greatly from this more thanks to
enlightened portrayal of the Doctor. Too often
-fOU !

in the past, the strip Doctor, particularly in his

second incarnation, had taken sides on the
most spurious of evidence - and was not
averse to using deadly force. Indeed, the
Second Doctor frequently abandoned his
wits in favour of a laser pistol with which
he would happily dispatch his opponents
accompanied by the war cry of "Die,
hideous creature, die!" - so it was good
Doctor had mellowed
to see that the
somewhat!
Nevertheless, even in his third
incarnation, the strip Doctor does
have occasional lapses into gratu-
itous violence - most notably in

The Celluloid Midas, where he is

responsible for the death of a

mind-controlled villager. It is in

moments like these that the gulf between the TV

and comic-strip Doctors were most apparent
Glossing over the murder of an innocent, The starship. Hoping to avert an interplanetary
Celluloid Midas is actually one of the best of the strip conflict, the Doctor travels in the TARDIS to the
adventures of this era. Its contemporary village ship. It is at this point that the story disappoint- earth" was obviously intended to
setting was highly reminiscent of The Damons, ingly breaks down, as it transpires that the aliens make a returnengagement - but, as The Kingdom
which, at the time of the strip's publication, had on the ship are not benign victims but hostile Builders was the final strip in TV Comic before it
only recently been transmitted. The opening hook invaders who were on their way to conquer the made the move to Countdown, we never got to see
of the story is fascinating - the cast and crew of a Earth anyway. This revelation rather undermines the miraculous machine again. Shame!
BBC drama series have all inexplicably been turned the drama of the initial premise - but this is, never- Dennis Hooper was clearly very keen on the

into plastic. Unfortunately, the explanation that the theless, a well-scripted story, which presents an concept of dystopian future Earths, as his scripts
cause is mad Professor Midas and his deadly interesting situation. would often send the Doctor there. The Eternal
plastic ray is a little disappointing - but hey, it's Despite his exile, the Doctor's adventures Present has the Doctor being abducted by the 'time-
better than angry parrots, isn't it? weren't completely limited to contemporary Earth. police' and taken to England of 3550 AD, where
The Enemy jrom Nowhere opened with great In fact, the strip Doctor actually had far more the population have been frozen in time by mega-
promise, which it carried through for several adventures in time and space than his TV counter- lomaniac computer Mar-Kom. Later, in A Stitch in

instalments. Invited as an observer to the launch of part- and not always by means of the TARDIS. The Time, Hooper propels the Doctor even further
a new space platform, the Doctor learns that it is in
fact the space-borne launch pad for a nuclear UflHIflDERED BU THE TU SHOUTS
arsenal.
assumed
When
to
an unidentified object appears,
be an asteroid and it is used as target
it is
BUDGET, THE STRIP HRTIBTS WERE
practice for the missile platform.
Unfortunately, as the
HBLE TO CREATE H1EIT1DRHBLE HLIEflS
Doctor feared, die Timebenders sees the Doctor drawn back- forward, to the England of the year 5000 AD, which
object is in fact a wards in time to Nazi Germany during is a virtual wasteland. There, in the ruins of the

^ X World War II. He has been acciden- British Library, the Doctor meets the last members

a7 a PLACE DEEP WITHIN \ tally transported there by a Professor of humanity, who are being hunted down by a race
THE MOUNTAIN... Vedrun, who is being forced to of mute supermen that fly around in giant zeppelin
construct a matter transmitter for like airships.

his Nazi captors. Despite the It was tire Third Doctor's journeys into space
science fiction trappings of the that were perhaps the most memorable of his
story, this was essentially an comic strip run. Not limited to a spinning police
action/adventure war narrative - box model against a background of stars, artists

but none the worse for it. And

is Gerry Haylock appeared to take great joy in

Backtime was an episodic tale set depicting the TARDIS' journey through nebulae,
partly in Dickensian London, where exploding galaxies and giant suns. The vast
the Doctor meets Artful Dodger organic computer in The Vortex is wonderfully
t\i W,^n wannabe Charlie. Journeying to realised and reminiscent of The Clauis of Axos, as the

L K America in the TARDIS, the two Doctor and his companion Tom are analysed by
become involved in the American giant eyes on stalks. Amusingly, Haylock always
Civil War and encounter Genera] chose to illustrate peaceful worlds as being similar

Grant and President Lincoln. in appearance to ancient Greece - Togas being the
In the strips, the Third Doctor ultimate symbol of an advanced and enlightened
was also a frequent visitor to the civilisation!

future of Earth. In The Kingdom The Third Doctor's comic-strip adventures

Builders, one of the earlier TV Comic came to a close with The Wanderers - the final
strips, the TARDIS is still not frame of which depicts the Doctor, alone in the
working but the Doctor manages TARDIS, wondering if the Time Lords will allow
to jump to an England of the him to return to Earth. Of course, he would get
future by means of a time-travel- his wish - but the next time that we saw the
ling bulldozer! This bizarre device Doctor in comic strip form, he wouldn't be the
that can "move time as well as dapper dandy that we knew ... ©

THE COITIPLETE THIRD DOCTOR

 SEP mn
/ don't think
we stopped laughing
even once!"
V am
I employing
a very lucky

me - and
woman. Not
to this day,
only do people keep

I can't work out

why! - but I have been lucky enough to work with
the most wonderful people. None, though, as wonderful

as dearjon Pertwee ...

Doctor Who was an enormously happy period of my life

- and Jon was my playmate, always. Jo Grant was a

chirpy little thing, you know, but so was Jon Pertwee: we
were children trapped in grown up bodies. We drove
directors round the bend, you know, building aeroplanes

in rehearsal, or playing cards between scenes, or putting

on silly voices, and it never once occurred to either of us
how much older than me Jon was. We were blessed to

work with people who wanted to have a wonderful time.

And, oh darlings, we did!

I don't think we stopped laughing once. The family

feel, which Jon instigated, was vital to the success of

Doctor Who - especially as we were making the show for

children. He was just as wonderful in real life as he was
as the Doctor. We cared for each other, we looked out

for each other, just as the Doctor looked out for Jo. That

emotion on screen was absolutely genuine. We were

very close.

Playing my final scene was the most difficult thing in

the world. We were all in tears. I watched The Green Death

again recently, with Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks, and
we all burst into tears again! Doctor Who touched us in a

unique way, and I can still feel the pleasure that I felt at

that time. I grew up during my years on the show, you

see - not just as a person, but as an actress, too - and
letting go was the hardest thing that I have ever done. I

missed everyone terribly - none, though, as much as

dearjon Pertwee. I still miss him. More than ever.

We were all lucky to work with such a wonderful man.