260 Doctor Who and the Silurians: Episode Three

EPISODE: Doctor Who and the Silurians: Episode Three
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 260
STORY NUMBER: 052
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 14 February 1970
WRITER: Malcolm Hulke
DIRECTOR: Timothy Combe
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 7.5 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who - Beneath the Surface (The Silurians/The Sea Devils /Warriors of the Deep)
EPISODE FORMAT: 16mm b&w film recording recoloured using 525 off air video

"It was like a reptile, but it walked upright like a man!"

When the humanoid creature sees Liz it flees. The Brigadier orders a manhunt over the moor. Quinn arrives at the barn behaving suspiciously. Tracks for the creature are found and end at some tire marks. The Doctor visits Quinn at his cottage, finding the heating on full blast and it's owner uncooperative. Baker bursts into a meeting between UNIT and Dr Lawrence demanding a search of the caves. He's escorted back to the sickbay by Captain Hawkins while Dr Lawrence tells the Brigadier he is displeased with UNIT's performance and has summoned under secretary Masters from the ministry. The Doctor breaks into Quinn's office, discovering a globe depicting the Earth millions of years ago. He's discovered by Miss Dawson warns Quinn. Quinn says he will keep the creature captive until he gets the scientific information he desires. The Doctor visits Quinn's cottage again and finds him dead.

Taking the signal device from him, the Doctor activates it, summoning the creature into the room.

There's some great goggle eyed Pertwee gurning at the end of the episode as he sees the Silurian for the first time!

When I watched this episode for the daily Blog, my wife Liz turned to me at the end and asked how many were left. The look on her face when I said Four said it all. At the time I felt it was just so slow this story, taking ages to go anywhere, but this time round I liked this episode. Yes it's a slow burner but things develop during it.

First Quinn unexpectedly turns up at the farm and is rather evasive with the Doctor, setting his suspicions off so the Doctor makes a house call:

QUINN: Yes?
DOCTOR: I thought you were going straight back to the research centre.
QUINN: Yes, yes, I am.
DOCTOR: Only I saw your car was still parked outside. I thought perhaps you might have been taken ill again.
QUINN: No, no, I'm perfectly all right, thank you. I just had to come back for something, that's all
DOCTOR: What a charming place. Mmm, charming. Lovely old grandfather clock. Is this the living room? Oh yes, very nice. Very nice. Had the place long, have you?
QUINN: No, I bought it a few months after I got the job here. Look Doctor, I'm sorry but I really have to be
DOCTOR: Centrally heated too, eh?
QUINN: It gets very cold up here.
DOCTOR: Yes. Still, you do keep it very warm though, don't you?
QUINN: Yes, well, the thermostat's jammed, you see. I'm having it fixed.
DOCTOR: Perhaps you'd like me to look at it for you, I like tinkering with these gadgets.
QUINN: That's very kind of you but I've already sent for the people who installed it.
DOCTOR: Good, good. Only it is rather like the reptile house in the zoo, isn't it?
QUINN: What do you mean? Eh? What do you mean?
DOCTOR: Nothing. I was just referring to the temperature of the room.
QUINN: Doctor, I'm sorry but I really must ask you to leave. There's something very urgent I have to do before I go back to the centre.
DOCTOR: Oh? Yes, yes, of course. I'm so sorry to have taken up so much of your time.
QUINN: Not at all. I'm only sorry that I seem to have been rather
DOCTOR: My word, it's just as hot out here, isn't it? You really must get that thermostat fixed, you know. Anything wrong?
QUINN: Er, no.
DOCTOR: You'd save yourself a lot of trouble if you'd let me help you. They didn't catch it, you know.

Suspicions obviously still there, The Doctor and Liz burgle Quinn's office and make some discoveries:

LIZ: Look, what exactly are we looking for?
DOCTOR: Anything. I must know more about Doctor Quinn. Hand me that paper knife, Liz, will you?
LIZ: Yes, here.
DOCTOR: Thank you.
LIZ: What do you think you're doing?
DOCTOR: Breaking open the cabinet, m'dear. He's not going to leave anything important just lying around, is he? There we are. Now then, what have we got here? Pitons, notes. What's this? Let's have a look at these.
LIZ: What's that?
DOCTOR: Some kind of a ball. It's got some markings on it. Have a look.
LIZ: It's a globe. Surely that's the shape of the west coast of America. No. No, the land mass is all bunched together

DOCTOR: What's that? Let me have a look at that. Of course. This is the world as it was before the great continental drift, two hundred million years ago. And these notes, well, they're calculations on the age of the earth, with particular reference to the Silurian era.
DAWSON: What are you doing in here? This is Doctor Quinn's private office! I shall have to inform the Director about this.
DOCTOR: That won't help Doctor Quinn, will it?
DAWSON: What are you talking about?
DOCTOR: I'm talking about the caves, Miss Dawson.
DAWSON: What about them?
DOCTOR: There's something down there, and I think Doctor Quinn knows what it is. Now look, you must tell me what you know, Miss Dawson, before anybody else gets killed. Maybe even Doctor Quinn.
DAWSON: Oh, I warned him.
DOCTOR: Warned him? Warned him about what?
DAWSON: I promised not to tell anyone, but if Doctor Quinn is in danger, I
BRIGADIER: Ah Doctor, we're due for a meeting with
DOCTOR: Yes, Miss Dawson?
DAWSON: I'm sorry, Doctor, I can't help you. If you'll excuse me.
BRIGADIER: What was all that about?
DOCTOR: Never mind, Lethbridge-Stewart, it's too late now.

Miss Dawson then goes to warn Quinn and his motives and greed for scientific fame stand revealed!

QUINN: What do you want?
DAWSON: That Doctor, the one with UNIT, I caught him searching your office.
QUINN: He had no right.
DAWSON: You can't go on like this. Don't you realise? People are being killed, and it's your fault. You've got to tell someone.
QUINN: No. Not until I'm ready.
DAWSON: Oh John, please. Please, let me tell this Doctor. He'll believe you. He wants to help you.
QUINN: He's a scientist, too. He only wants to steal the credit for my discoveries.
DAWSON: What discoveries? They haven't told you anything yet.
QUINN: They will now. I can make them.
DAWSON: You can't make them do anything.
QUINN: I've got one of them here. The one they were hunting. I've got it locked up.
DAWSON: But it might kill you. It's already killed that farmer.
QUINN: That creature in there is a scientist. With the knowledge it can give me, I can prove
DAWSON: It won't give you anything!
QUINN: Unless I get it back to the caves it will die. And I won't take it back until it tells me what I want to know.

And that desire is what presumably has led to his death, which is a shame because I rather liked his character.

BAKER: Everything! I saw this man. He must have been a saboteur. I took a shot at him, and then. And then I. Everything went black. Oh look, isn't the Brigadier taking any action?
LIZ: I'm sure he is. Just leave it to him. Look, I must go.
BAKER: Miss Shaw. Please, I have got to see the Brigadier.

Of the rest of the centre's staff Major Baker's annoying me with his insistence on saboteurs being responsible for the centre's problems and Doctor Lawrence is annoying me with his officialness, hindering UNIT's investigation, which is a shame as I enjoy other performances by both the actors involved!

DOCTOR: Look, I tell you, gentlemen, that the interference is definitely coming from those caves!
BAKER:Exactly, Doctor. This centre is being sabotaged.
BRIGADIER: Major Baker, you are supposed to be in the Sickbay.
BAKER: I am perfectly all right, thank you. I propose that we move down there in force, sir.
DOCTOR: That, Major Baker, is precisely what we must not do at this present time.
BAKER: I insist that you take some positive action.
BRIGADIER: I shall decide what action I shall take, and you, Major Baker, will return to the Sickbay and remain there till I send for you.
BAKER: Oh, this is ridiculous!
BRIGADIER: And that will be all, Major Baker. Captain Hawkins, you will accompany Major Baker to the Sickbay and see that he remains there.
HAWKINS: Sir!
LAWRENCE: Do I now take it you have arrested my security officer?
BRIGADIER: Major Baker isn't himself.
DOCTOR: I must say, Brigadier, that I'm delighted that you didn't agree with him.
BRIGADIER: Oh but I do. I intend to send for more men and mount a full scale search of those caves.
DOCTOR: Now look if you'd just give me a little more time
BRIGADIER: I'm sorry, Doctor. My mind is made up.
LAWRENCE: I advise you to do your best to achieve some kind of results in the time available to you.
BRIGADIER: Sir?
LAWRENCE: Masters, the Permanent Under-Secretary, is coming down here to conduct a personal investigation. Unless you can impress him more than you impress me, you may well find yourself transferred to some simpler duties, more within your scope.
BRIGADIER: Doctor Lawrence, as I believe I have told you before
DOCTOR: Stupid bumbling idiots, the pair of them.

Yes your eyes are not deceiving you, that is who you think it is playing Captain Hawkins, the UNIT Officer leading the search on the moorlands. Ladies and Gentlemen, the great Paul Darrow appearing in his first Doctor Who story. He was in the previous episode, but more in the background there and I struggled to get a decent shot of him!

He is of course best known as Avon in Blake's 7. He'll be back as Tekker in Timelash where he hams it up dreadfully extracting revenge on Colin Baker's performance in the Blake's 7 episode "City at the Edge of the World". We'll here a lot more about Blake's 7 later on but you can read my Blake's 7 blog where I watched all of that series.

Several of the Blake's 7 cast show up in other Doctor Who episodes: Peter Tuddenham (Zen/Orac/Slave) is in Ark in Space, Masque of Mandragora & Time & the Rani as various voices, Michael Keating (Villa) is in the Sunmakers, Brian Croucher (the Second Travis) is in Robots of Death and Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan) is in the Two Doctors. Blake's 7 was created by Terry Nation (of Daleks fame), produced by David Maloney (frequent Who director, most recently seen by us directing the War Games), script edited by Chris Boucher (who we'll hear from later) and had episodes written by Robert Holmes. The cast shared by the series is sop extensive I'd be here forever listing them all so as each of the Blake's 7 regulars listed above shows up in Doctor Who I'll list the shared cast for each of it's four seasons.

Ha! Just got the joke behind Paul Darrow's character name. The Brigadier's revolving door of Captains in his first few stories is frequently referred to as "The Interchangeable Jimmys" (Jimmy Turner in the Invasion & Jimmy Monroe in Spearhead from Space). If this character was a Jimmy too he'd be Jim Hawkins!

We get a much more extensive look at the Hankley Common location this episode as UNIT conduct their search:

The scale of the operation is made obvious by some overhead shots filmed using the same helicopter seen in the story:

It's not 100% clear on-screen, and indeed I can see one sit that thinks otherwise, but publicity photos taken at the time make it clear the helicopter used here G-AWFL is the same helicopter used in The Invasion and which returns in the next story, The Ambassadors of Death

The exterior filming at Hankley Common on Monday the 17th and Tuesday 18th November 1969 and at Sheep Hatch Farm the previous Friday, 14th November features a large number of soldiers played by different supporting artists to those used in episode 2, who were used for the studio session in the cave set on Monday 15th and Sunday 21st December 1969.

Reg Cranfield is the very first actor seen in Doctor Who: he played the policeman at the start of An Unearthly Child, replacing Frederick Rawlings who fulfilled the same role in the pilot. Cranfield then went on to play a Parisian Man in The Massacre, a settler in the Gunfighters, an Atlantean Priest & Man in the Market in The Underwater Menace and a UNIT Soldier/Bunker Man in The Invasion. He returns as a Solonian in The Mutants, a Villager in The Green Death and a Time Lord in the Deadly Assassin. He also plays a Soldier in the Adam Adamant Lives! episode D for Destruction.

Kevin Glenny had been a Thal in The Daleks as had Vez Delahunt and==> who went on to play a Galley Slave & double for the Centurion's Corpse in The Romans.

Jay McGrath was a Soldier in The Reign of Terror, and a Worker & Soldier in The War Machines. He returns as a Colonist & possibly a Primitive in Colony in Space, a SRS Scientist and a SRS Bouncer/Officer/Audience Member in Robot, a Man in Image of the Fendahl, a Priest in Androids of Tara, a Patient in Frontios, and a Dead Androgum in The Two Doctors. In Adam Adamant Lives! he was an RA Camp Guard in D for Destruction and Carry On Doctor he's a Visitor. He's in both The Sweeney, as a Detective and Contact Breaker, and it's first big screen version Sweeney! as a Man in Street. In Yes Minister he's a Restaurant Patron in Jobs for the Boys and inOctopussy he's an Auction Patron.

Derek Chafer was a Saxon in The Time Meddler, a Greek/Trojan Soldiers/People in Square in The Myth Makers, a Guard in the Massacre, a Settler in The Gunfighters, a Cyberman in The Moonbase, a Guard in Fury from the Deep, a Cyberman in The Invasion and a Miner, Issigri HQ in The Space Pirates. He returns as a Military Policeman & a Unit Soldier in The Ambassadors of Death, a Prisoner in Mind of Evil, a Primitive in Colony in Space, a Guard in Curse of Peladon, a Warrior in the Mutants, an Exillon in Death to the Daleks, a Guard in Monster of Peladon, a Soldier, Armourer & Brethren in Masque of Mandragora, a Levithian Guard in Ribos Operation a Gracht Guard in The Androids of Tara, a Skonnan Elder in Horns of the Nimon, Doctor Body Parts & a Pangol Doctor in The Leisure Hive and a Gundam in Warriors Gate. In Out of the Unknown he was a Man in 1+1=1.5 and in Doomwatch he was a Man in Project Sahara, Re-Entry Forbidden & The Red Sky. In Monty Python's Flying Circus he was a gasman in Dinsdale!

Vic Taylor was a Saxon in The Time Meddler, the Cardinal's Guard in The Massacre, a Worker/Soldier in The War Machines, an English Soldier in The Highlanders, an ATC Technician in The Faceless Ones, a Guard on Fire Escape in The Enemy of the World, and a Technician in Fury From The Deep. He returns as a Man in Pub/Coven in The Dæmons, and a Solonian in The Mutants. His Doomwatch roles were a man in Burial at Sea and a Police Constable in Fire and Brimstone. He was in Adam Adamant Lives! twice as an S.S. Man in A Sinister Sort of Service and a TA Soldier in D for Destruction.

Bill Lodge was a Rill in Galaxy Four. He returns as a Villager in The Dæmons, a Functionary in Carnival of Monsters and one of Irongron�s Men in The Time Warrior. IMDB has him down for two Doomwatch appearances as a Lab Assistant in the first episode The Plastic Eaters and a man in Spectre at the Feast.

Les Conrad had been a Tavern Customer in The Massacre, a Unit Soldier in The Invasion, a Pirate in The Space Pirates and a 1862 Union Soldier and an Alien Guard in The War Games. He returns as a UNIT Soldier, Control Room Assistant & Policeman in The Ambassadors of Death, a RSF soldier in Inferno, a UNIT soldier again in Terror of the Autons, a Prisoner & Military Policeman in The Mind of Evil, a Colonist in The Colony in Space, a UNIT Soldier in Time Monster, a Technician/Guard/Citizen in Pirate Planet, a Policeman in Timeflight, a 1983 Schoolmaster in Mawdryn Undead, a Gunrunner in Caves of Androzani, a Jacondan Guard in The Twin Dilemma, which also features his twin sons as the Sylvest twins, and a guard in Vengeance on Varos. He'd been a British Soldier in The Andromeda Breakthrough: Gale Warning, a man in Doomwatch: Burial at Sea, appears in the Blake's 7 episode Gold as a Space Princess Guard/Passenger, is a soldier in The Day of the Triffids and is a Legionnaire in the Douglas Camfield helmed classic serial of Beau Geste.

Arthur McGuire was a guard in The Massacre, an English Soldier and Scotsman in The Highlanders and a Guard on Fire Escape in The Enemy of the World. In Adam Adamant Lives! he's a Partygoer/Tourist in Death Has a Thousand Faces while in Dad's Army he was in the Backrow of the Platoon in Sgt. Wilson's Little Secret & War Dance.

Charles Erskine was a Passer-by in The Massacre, and a Workman in The Faceless Ones. He returns as a Scientist in Genesis of the Daleks. In Adam Adamant Lives! he was a TA Soldier/RA Guard in D for Destruction (1966) and in Doomwatch he was a Man in The Battery People.

Victor Munt was a Guardian in The Ark, an Inferno Customer in The War Machines, a Guard in Power of the Daleks and a UNIT Soldier & Bunker Man in The Invasion. His Man in Doomwatch is in the episode In the Dark and in Adam Adamant Lives! he was a Partygoer/Tourist in Death Has a Thousand Faces.

Crawford Lyle had been the Airport Police at the Immigration Desk in The Faceless Ones, a Warrior Monk in The Abominable Snowmen, a UNIT Soldier and a Bunker Man in The Invasion and a Technician in Seeds of Death. He returns as a UNIT Soldier in Ambassadors of Death,

Charles Finch was a Llama in The Abominable Snowmen, a Guard in Fury from the Deep and a Cyberman, UNIT Soldier and Bunker Man in The Invasion. He goes on to play a Medical Orderly in Mind of Evil, a Colonist in Colony in Space and a Man in Pub/Coven & a Villager in The Dæmons.

Bobby Beaumont was a Llama in The Abominable Snowmen, a Technician in Fury from The Deep and a UNIT Soldiers/Bunker Men in The Invasion.

Gary Dean was a Technician in The Ice Warriors, a Guard in The Enemy of the World, a UNIT Soldier in The Invasion, a German Soldier in The War Games and a Regular Army Soldier in Spearhead from Space. He returns as an Earth Control Guard in The Mutants, a Lunar Guard in Frontier in Space, a Spiridon in Planet of the Daleks, a guard in Pirate Planet, a Technician in The Armageddon Factor, a medic in Nightmare of Eden, a Passenger in Time-Flight and a Pallbearer in Remembrance of the Daleks. He was in Doomwatch as a Man in Project Sahara and Fawlty Towers as a Hotel Guest in Communication problems.

Walter Turner returns as a Primitive in Colony in Space, a Palace Guard in Androids of Tara and a Logopolitan in Logopolis. In Blake's 7 he was a Crimo in Hostage while in Doomwatch he was a Man in You Killed Toby Wren and in the 1972 Doomwatch film he was Mr. Murray.

Lionel Sansby returns as one of the Complex Personnel in Hand of Fear and a Passenger in Nightmare of Eden. He would have been a Krarg in Shada but that story was cancelled, Afterwards he returns as a Cricketer in Black Orchid, a Passenger in Time Flight, one of the Men in the Cave Crowd in Snakedance, and as a Lazar in Terminus. In Blake's 7 he was a Federation Trooper in Seek-Locate-Destroy and in Doomwatch he was a Man in No Room for Error.

Colin Thomas returns as Sole in The Face of Evil, a Mentiad in The Pirate Planet, a customer in Cafe in The City of Death, a Don in Shada - is he the only person apart from Tom Baker and James Muir in all three Douglas Adams stories, a Foster in Keeper of Traken, a Logopolitan in Logopolis, a Gallifreyan in Arc of Infinity, an Elder in Planet of Fire and a Pallbearer in Remembrance of the Daleks.

Paul Barton was the Injured Silurian's Voice in episode 2: see there for his credits. He plays a Silurian later in this story.

Tony McKinnon is in Doomwatch as a Man in Burial at Sea which also features, as another man, Brian Scott who later appears as a man in Burial at Sea and Spectre at the Feast.

Bill Leonard was in the Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes The Buzz Aldrin Show as a Hench-vicar and It's a Living as a Guest at Award Ceremony. In Doomwatch he was a Man in Project Sahara.

Charles Elkin, Ladbrow, Laurence Norburne & Raoul Johns all have no further appearances in Doctor Who

The UNIT Dog Handler is Graham Warwick from Animal Kingdom.

Three of the actors on location are down as UNIT Soldiers/Policemen 3:

Jay Neill, was previously a Kanowa Guard in The Enemy of the World. He returns as an IMC Guard in Colony in Space, a Pikeman in The Masque of Mandragora , Silvey in The Invisible Enemy and Guard Klimt in The Underworld. He made several appearances in Doomwatch as a Man in Project Sahara, Laing in The Battery People, a Man in By the Pricking of My Thumbs..., a Young Man in Flight Into Yesterday and a Man in Flood. In Monty Python's Flying Circus he was an Armoured Knight in Njorl's Saga, in Fawlty Towers he's a Bar Guest in The Wedding Party and in Yes Minister he's a Bodyguard in The Death List.

Bruce Cox is on his Doctor Who debut and returns as a Jeep Driver in Ambassadors of Death, a Driver in Inferno and an Army Driver in Invasion of the Dinosaurs.

This is the only appearance by Peter Blackburn in Doctor Who.

Likewise there are two actors down playing UNIT Drivers/Ambulance Men on location in this episode:

Dennis MacTighe was the UNIT Driver & an Ambulance Driver in Spearhead from Space. In Monty Python's Flying Circus he plays Superman's Bus Driver in How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away.

Richard Pickford, who's also a Police/Ambulance Man in episode 5, and then returns as a Jeep Driver in Ambassadors of Death, a Chauffeur in Day of the Daleks and a Lorry Troop Driver in The Time Monster.

Finally there's two new Technicians in this episode who both return in the next: Olive MacNeill played a Female Savage in The Savages. while Pat Matthews, who was a Gond in The Krotons, also plays a Plague Victim in episode 6 and then returns as a Technician in Inferno. If the numbers in the DWAS Production file are right they are the only technicians in this episode and both return next episode with some of the Technicians from earlier episode.

Two day after this episode was broadcast the second Doomwatch episode Friday's Child was shown on BBC1.

259 Doctor Who and the Silurians: Episode Two

EPISODE: Doctor Who and the Silurians: Episode Two
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 259
STORY NUMBER: 052
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 07 February 1970
WRITER: Malcolm Hulke
DIRECTOR: Timothy Combe
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 7.3 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who - Beneath the Surface (The Silurians/The Sea Devils /Warriors of the Deep)
EPISODE FORMAT: 16mm b&w film recording recoloured using 525 off air video

"One of us was wounded. He was forced onto the surface. We will give you a summoning device. He will hear it and come to you!"

The Dinosaur attacking the Doctor is called off by a strange noise. Returning to the research centre The Doctor finds the Brigadier preparing to mount a search of the caves. During the search Security Chief Major Baker shoots at a figure he believes is a saboteur but is injured by another assailant. Taking a sample of the blood spilt in the caves, The Doctor finds it resembles reptile blood. The figure Baker shot has reached the surface and hides in a farm barn. Quinn goes into the caves and confers with his hidden allies. They give him a signalling device to summon the wounded & missing creature. The farmer & his wife discover the creature in their barn, and it kills the farmer. The police summon UNIT who investigate. The Doctor & Brigadier talk to the distraught wife at the local hospital and realise the creature is still in the barn ..... with the investigating Liz Shaw!

I'm afraid I'm still not being grabbed by this. It's proceeding quite slowly and, despite the tease of an arm, a back and a silhouette against the sky, we've not seen the main monster clearly yet! The effect used for their tripartite view of the world is rather nice though!

The Wounded Silurian's Voice 2 is provided by Paul Barton who plays a UNIT Soldier in episode 3 of this story and 'll we see as a Silurian in later episodes. He returns as a Roundhead in The Time Monster, a Courtier in The Masque of Mandragora, a guard in Face of Evil, Marn�s Attendant in The Sunmakers a Skonnos Guard in The Horns of Nimon, a Rebel in State of Decay, a Citizen/Unbeliever in Planet of Fire and a Walk on in Remembrance of the Daleks. He was in Doomwatch as a Man in Hear No Evil, Invasion and No Room for Error and appears in Moonbase 3 as a Technician in View of a Dead Planet.

Quinn's role in events is revealed a little more to the viewer, if not the Doctor and company:

LAWRENCE: Simply to disappear at a time like this!
DAWSON: Doctor Quinn has been working very long hours under a considerable strain.
LAWRENCE: So have we all.
DOCTOR: Oh, I'm so sorry. I was looking for Doctor Quinn.
LAWRENCE: You're not the only one.
DAWSON: He completed as many of the tests as he could, and then he simply had to go and rest.
DOCTOR: Is he in his quarters?
DAWSON: Well, no.
LAWRENCE: Gone off to that cottage of his, has he? If he spent more time doing his job and less writing that book of his. When he gets back, tell him I'd like to see him, would you? If he can spare a moment.
DOCTOR: Don't worry, my dear. We're all under a bit of a strain at the moment.
DAWSON: Doctor Quinn works harder than anyone at this centre.
DOCTOR: Yes, yes, yes. Yes, I'm sure he does. It's just that I'd rather like another word with him myself. It's about those power losses.

However it's not his cottage he's gone to, but that line has set that Quinn, it's down into the caves where he meets with an unseen ally:

VOICE: Why have you come?
QUINN: I have come to warn you. There are men searching the caves. Soldiers with weapons.
VOICE: Your warning is too late. They have already attacked us.
QUINN: What happened?
VOICE: One of us was wounded. He was forced onto the surface.
QUINN: Were any humans hurt?
VOICE: That does not concern us.
QUINN: You must stop taking power from the cyclotron.
VOICE: We still need the power. We are not yet ready to make our own.
QUINN: It's causing endless trouble. That's what brought the soldiers here.
VOICE: One us of was wounded. We need your help to recover him.
QUINN: How do you expect me to do that? The soldiers will be hunting for him. They will see me. I tell you it's impossible. I won't do it.
VOICE: You refuse to help us, yet you expect our scientists to give you their secrets?
QUINN: All you've given me so far are scraps of knowledge, hints. I must know.
VOICE: You will be given the information when the wounded one is returned to us.
QUINN: Very well. What shall I do? How can I find him?
VOICE: We will give you a summoning device. He will hear it and come to you.

We spend a lot of time in th caves this episode, first with the Doctor, then UNIT and finally Quinn and none of them quite look OK on screen. They're quite dark and don't seem to have colour recovered as well as some of the more brightly lit scenes.

We get out and about a bit more this episode with more action in the caves and some nice outdoors shots of the creature approaching the farm.

The moorland scenes are filmed at Hankley Common, not far from the locations used in episode one, while the nearby Sheephatch Farm is the location for the farm the creature shelters in

Nancie Jackson, who plays farmer's wife Doris Squire was in the missing third season Out of the Unknown episode Immortality Inc and featured in An Age of Kings as Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester in Henry VI Part 2: The Fall of a Protector.

Gordon Richardson plays Mr Squire: he was in He was in Paul of Tarsus, alongside Patrick Troughton's Paul, as First man in Diana of the Ephesians,

There's a fair number of UNIT soldiers in this episode:

In the Caves we have the following all bar two of which are stuck there for episodes 2 & 4-6:

Bernard Barnsley had been a Monoid in the Ark, and returns as a Laboratory Technician in Claws of Axos and a UNIT Trooper in The Time Monster. He'd been in The Andromeda Breakthrough as an Intel Thug in Cold Front. He's in Doomwatch he was a Man in Flight Into Yesterday & Public Enemy and in Monty Python's Flying Circus he was a Gasman in Dinsdale!

John Doyle had been a Cowboy in The Gunfighters and returns as a Greek Philosopher in Four to Doomsday.

Alex Donald was a Guard in The Savages, one of Zaroff�s Guards, an Atlantean Priest & a Full Fish Person in The Underwater Menace, He misses out on episode 4 but he's also a UNIT Soldier in episode 7.

Jim Delaney had previously been a English Soldier in The Highlanders, and a Confederate Soldier & Resistance Man in The War Games He also plays a Plague Victim in episode 6 of this story. He returns as a Passerby in Mind of Evil, a Presidential Guard in Frontier in Space, a Time Lord in Deadly Assassin, a Coven Members in Image of the Fendahl, a Noble in Androids of Tara, a Skonnan Guard in Horns of the Nimon, a Logopolitan in Logopolis, a Time Lord in Trial of Time Lord: Mysterious Planet & Mindwarp and a Crimson Time Lord in Trial of Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids and The Ultimate Foe. In Adam Adamant Lives! he's a TA Soldier/RA Major in D for Destruction. In Yes Minister he's the Permanent Secretary in The Compassionate Society and in the 1989 Batman film he's the Election Ceremony Patron.

Antonio de Maggio was a Warrior Monk in Abominable Snowmen, and a UNIT Soldier in Spearhead from Space.

Alan Clements was a Waxworks Visitor in Spearhead from Space and returns as a Technician in Inferno, a UNIT Soldier in Terror of the Zygons, an Android UNIT Soldier in The Android Invasion and a Bi-Al Member in Invisible Enemy,

Will Nash is the other UNIT Soldier and he too is only in episodes 2 & 6.

Down as just UNIT soldiers, so presumably at the Research Centre, are:

Brian Nolan had already been an IE Guard in The Invasion, a Confederate Soldier & Resistance Man in The War Games and a UNIT Soldier in Spearhead from Space He 's in episodes 2,4 & 6 of this story and returns as a Sea Devil in The Sea Devils, a Solos Guard in the Mutants, a Prison Guard in Frontier in Space, a UNIT Soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, a Guard in The Seeds of Doom and the TV Cameraman in The Deadly Assassin. He was also in Doomwatch as a Man in Flood.

In episodes 2,4-5 & 7 is Mark Johnson had been a Gond in The Krotons. IF I've found the right Mark Johnson on IMDB, then he was also in The Rocky Horror Picture Show as a Wedding Guest.

One of these two also plays a medic in Episode 3, in a scene recorded on 22-12-1969

Just one new Technician this week and that's Sheila Knight who was The Receptionist in episode 1 and will be again in episode 7. She's joined by Norton Clark, Keith Goodman, Alex Hood, Barry Kennington, Cara Stevens, Joan Harsant, Ronald Gough and Keith Ashley who were Technicians in episode 1.

Timothy Combe is making his full Doctor Who directing debut with this story He'd previously worked on The Keys of Marinus as assistant floor manager, then The Reign of Terror & The Evil of the Daleks as production assistant, directing film sequences for The Evil of the Daleks: Episode 7. He directs two early Pertwee stories and as we'll see both end up with exactly the same technical problem.

This is Malcolm Hulke's first solo Doctor Who after writing The Faceless Ones with David Ellis and The War Games with Terrance Dicks.

Nowadays when we talk about missing episodes of Doctor Who we automatically think of the Hartnell and Troughton episodes. Once upon a time there were missing Pertwee episodes too. When Ian Levene visited the film and video library in 1978 their Pertwee holdings amounted to:

STORY	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Spearhead from Space	1	2	3	4	-	-	-
The Ambassadors of Death	1	x	x	x	x	x	x
The Claws of Axos	1	x	x	4	-	-	-
The Dæmons	x	x	x	4	x	-	-
Day of the Daleks	1	2	3	4	-	-	-
The Sea Devils	x	x	x	4	5	6	-
The Mutants	x	x	3	4	5	6	-
The Three Doctors	1	2	3	4	-	-	-
Carnival of Monsters	1	2	3	4	-	-	-
Frontier in Space	x	x	x	4	5	x	-
Planet of the Daleks	1	2	x	4	5	6	-
The Green Death	1	2	3	4	5	6	-
The Time Warrior	1	2	3	4	-	-	-
Death to the Daleks	x	2	3	4	-	-	-
The Monster of Peladon	1	2	3	4	5	6	-
Planet of the Spiders	1	2	3	4	5	6	-

All, bar Spearhead from Space which was held on 16mm colour film, were held on the original 625 line transmission tapes.

The Film & Video library held nothing from The Silurians, Inferno, Terror of the Autons, Mind of Evil, Colony in Space, The Curse of Peladon, The Time Monster and Invasion of the Dinosaurs!

When Levene visited BBC Enterprises he found black & white film copies of all of the stories from Jon Pertwee's first four seasons, from Spearhead from Space to the Green Death. This filled in the missing episode for most of the stories the Film & Video Library held and supplied complete versions of The Silurians, Inferno, Terror of the Autons, Mind of Evil, Colony in Space, Curse of Peladon & The Time Monster. This meant that the number of missing Pertwee episodes was reduced to 7, Invasion of the Dinosaurs 1-6 and Death to the Daleks 1. At some point the 625 line transmission tapes for Invasion of the Dinosaurs 2-6 were found leaving just Invasion of the Dinosaurs 1 and Death to the Daleks 1 missing from the archive. Invasion of the Dinosaurs 1 surfaced as a rough black & white film recording while Death to the Daleks was recovered first as a 525 line US video and then as a 625 line recording being used for transmission in Australia.

Two day after this episode was broadcast the first Doomwatch episode The Plastic Eaters was shown on BBC1. Doomwatch was a science fiction series created by former Doctor Who script editor Gerry Davis and his writing partner Kit Pedler, who had previously created the Cybermen. It's producer Terence Dudley would later direct and write for Doctor Who in the 1980s. Several Doomwatch episodes are still missing from the BBC archives but the first one exists and can be seen on The Doomwatch DVD.

258 Doctor Who and the Silurians: Episode One

EPISODE: Doctor Who and the Silurians: Episode One
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 258
STORY NUMBER: 052
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 31 January 1970
WRITER: Malcolm Hulke
DIRECTOR: Timothy Combe
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 8.8 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who - Beneath the Surface (The Silurians/The Sea Devils /Warriors of the Deep)
EPISODE FORMAT: 16mm b&w film recording recoloured using 525 off air video

"It's absolutely incredible. It's thrown his mind back millions of years!"

Two men, Davis & Spencer, are caving when they're attacked by a dinosaur. Davis is killed and Spencer is badly injured. The Doctor is working on Bessie, his recently acquired vintage Roadster, when he & Liz are summoned to the Wenley Moor nuclear research centre, built into the Derbyshire cave complex. They have been suffering personnel trouble and power loss over the last 3 months. Their security chief Major Baker thinks someone is sabotaging the establishment. Deputy head scientist, Doctor John Quinn, tells how one of their technicians was killed and another injured pot holing. The Doctor finds discrepancies in their log, with pages of paper been removed. Liz checks the centre's medical records for any unusual occurrences. The Doctor persuades local medic Doctor Meredith to let him see Spencer, the man injured in the cave in. Spencer has reverted to a child like state drawing on the walls walls and tries to attack the Doctor. The Doctor thinks Spencer is afraid of something he's seen. Quinn and his assistant, Miss Dawson are worried, Miss Dawson wants "them" to stop but Quinn thinks that the knowledge he will gain is worth any risk. There's another power loss, but as the Cyclotron shutdown is initiated technician Roberts goes berserk and attacks Miss Dawson. he is detained and the Doctor attends to Roberts' tasks. Liz finds evidence of lots of neurosis amongst staff who have worked in Cyclotron room. She obtains Davis autopsy report which reveals he had claw marks on his body. Curious, the Doctor descends into the cave complex and is attacked by dinosaur...

For me, Doctor Who and the Silurians, the only Doctor Who story to have the show's name in the story title, has never been a go to story. At seven parts it's a bit too long to watch in an evening, so I haven't seen it too often: I think I'm approaching this with less than half a dozen viewings. I'm afraid the first episode has left me rather cold.

For an era that's known for it's location work the brief scenes filmed in Godalming High Street and on the Hog's Back are the only outside we see.

Beyond that it's a lot of people talking in rooms. And two brief glimpses of a dinosaur. Despite having some great acting talent involved this episode just doesn't sparkle.

Speaking of which.... Doctor Quinn (not the Medicine Woman!) is played by Fulton Mackay at this point four years before his career defining role as Mr Mackay, the Prison Officer in the superb Porridge. He'd previously appeared in the missing first season Out of the Unknown story Andover and the Android as Cullen. British readers on my age may also remember him as The Captain in the UK Version of Fraggle Rock.

Quinn's assistant Miss Dawson is played by Thomasine Heiner who I've seen as a Secretary in the Jeeves and Wooster episode Lady Florence Craye Arrives in New York (or, the Once and Future Ex).

Major Baker is a return to the show for Norman Jones previously Khrisong in the Abominable Snowmen who would return as Hieronymous in The Masque of Mandragora. Prior to Doctor Who he'd appeared in Out of This World, the ITV predecessor to the BBC's Out of the Unknown, as Monroe in Botany Bay, an original story by the future Doctor Who writer and Dalek creator Terry Nation. You can also find him on the big screen James Bond film You Only Live Twice as an Astronaut on the 1st American Spacecraft. He played Det. Insp. Perraut in the The Sweeney episode Bad Apple, Andy Drake in The Professionals: Need to Know, The first episode of the Porridge sequel Going Straight: Going Home as Mr. Tanner, with Fulton McKay again, and has a recurring role in the first two Inspector Morse as Chief Inspector, then Chief Superintendent, Bell, an officer who beats Morse to a promotion appearing in The Dead of Jericho, which also features Abominable Snowmen's Doctor Patrick Troughton, and Service of All the Dead, which has several Doctor Who guest stars in it!

On Doctor Who debut, playing research centre head Dr. Lawrence, is Peter Miles who'll return as Professor Whitaker in Invasion of the Dinosaurs and as General Nyder in Genesis of the Daleks. There's elements of Nyder in his performance here. Interestingly enough his Genesis co-star pops up in the next story! Miles has a rare full house of 70s BBC science fiction series: he's plays Cook in the missing penultimate first season Doomwatch episode Hear No Evil, Prof. Heinz Laubenthal in the Moonbase 3 episodes Departure and Arrival & Behemoth, Lincoln in Survivors Gone to the Angels and Secretary Rontane in the Blake's 7 episodes Seek-Locate-Destroy and Trial. You can also see him in The Sweeney episode Golden Boy as Bradshaw.

Briefly appearing as Davis is Bill Matthews who was a Waxwork Visitor/Auton Replica & Soldier in Spearhead from Space. He returns as a Prison Officer in The Mind of Evil, a Draconian in Frontier in Space, and a Villager in Planet of the Spiders. He was in Quatermass and the Pit as a Sightseer in The Halfmen, Man in Crowd in The Wild Hunt and a Sightseer in Hob, A for Andromeda as an Extra in The Murderer, Adam Adamant Lives!as a Man in Theatre in The Deadly Bullet and Doomwatch as a man in the episode The Islanders.

I can't see anything on the CV of John Newman's, who plays Spencer, that I recognise. However the IMDB listing for this episode has Davis & Spencer's names in the reverse order, which reveals the probable inspiration behind their names!

The Security Guard who checks Liz and The Doctor's pass is allegedly Pat Milner, who had been a Foot Soldier, Resistance Man & German Soldier in The War Games and a Unit Soldier in Spearhead from Space. He returns as a Unit Corporal in The Daemons, an Army Solider in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, an Android Unit Soldier in The Android Invasion and a Marine in Seeds of Doom, for which he also supplied a dog! You can also see him in Fawlty Towers as a CID Officer in A Touch of Class. According to the paperwork, another Security Guard was booked for this episode, Brian John, but in the end not used on-screen.

The Receptionist at the centre is Sheila Knight who had been Wigner's Secretary in The Tenth Planet and a Waxworks Visitor/Auton in Spearhead from Space. She's a Technician in episode 2 and returns as a Technician in Inferno.

Ah the technicians. ....

There are rather a lot of them this story, and they change from episode to episode.

Firstly those in just this episode:

Alan Viccars was an Aztec Warrior in The Aztecs, a Servant in The Massacre, and a Laboratory Assistant & Miner in The Underwater Menace.

David Billa first appeared as a Guard in The Savages then played a German Soldier in The War Games episode one, German/Roman Soldiers/Alien Technician in The War Games episode four. a Time Lord Technician in The War Games episode ten and a Waxworks Visitor/Auton in Spearhead from Space. He returns as a UNIT Soldier in Three Doctors, a Prison Guard & Earth Guard in Frontier in Space, a Spiridon in Planet of the Daleks a UNIT Soldier in The Green Death, a UNIT Soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, a Soldier/Thal Soldier in Genesis of the Daleks and a Vogan in Revenge of the Cybermen. In Moonbase 3 he's a Technician in Departure and Arrival and Behemoth while in Doomwatch he's a Man in Flood.

Richard Lawrence was a Technician in The Tenth Planet, a Technician in Doctor Who and the Silurians, a Technician in Inferno and a Man in Pub/Coven in the The Daemons. In Doomwatch he's a Detective Constable in Fire and Brimstone and a Man in Flood.

Maggie Pilleau returns as one of the Complex Personnel in Hand of Fear, a Druid in The Stones of Blood, a Slave in Destiny of the Daleks, a Tourist in Louvre in City of Death and a Lady Passenger (40ish) in Timeflight. In Doomwatch she was a Computer Technician in Project Sahara, a Civil Servant in Fire and Brimstone and a Woman in Flood. In Blake's 7 she's a Mutoid in both Pressure Point and Hostage.

Michael Lomax returns as a Guard in the Deadly Assassin.

Mary Denton doesn't appear elsewhere in Doctor Who.

In both episodes 1 & 2 we have:

Norton Clark who had been a Greek Soldier in The Myth Makers and the Secretary in The Massacre. He returns as a Technician in Inferno. He was in UFO as the 1st Assistant Director in Mindbender and in Monty Python's Flying Circus he was a Gasman in Dinsdale!

Keith Goodman had been a Guard in The Savages, an English Soldier in The Highlanders, a Cyberman in The Moonbase, a Security Guard in Seeds of Death. he returns as a UNIT soldier in The Ambassadors of Death.

In episodes 1-2 & 4 are:

Alex Hood had been a Gond in The Krotons, a Man in Firing Squad, Prison Sentry &1917 British Soldier in The War Games, a Warrior in The Mutants and a SRS Bouncer/Officer/Audience member in The Robot. In Doomwatch he was a Man in The Islanders and in Monty Python's Flying Circus he was a Gasman in Dinsdale!

Barry Kennington had been a German & Roman soldier, an Alien Technician and a Resistance Man in The War Games. He returns as a UNIT Soldier in The Silurians and a Heavy in Ambassadors of Death. In Doomwatch he was a Man in Hear No Evil and The Islanders and in Monty Python's Flying Circus he played a Pantomime Animal in Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror.

In episodes 1 & 4 is Michael Earl who was a citizen & Lab Assistant in The Savages and an Atlantean Guard in Underwater Menace. He returns as a Technician in the Silurians, a Technician in Inferno, a Man in Pub/Coven & Villagers (inc Mr Greville) in The Daemons, a Time Lord in Deadly Assassin,

In episodes 1 & 7 is Cy Town who made is debut as an Auton in Spearhead from Space. he returns as a Technician in Inferno, a Prisoner, Audience Member & Medical Orderly in The Mind of Evil, a Gel Guard in Three Doctors, a Dalek in Frontier in Space & Planet of the Daleks, a Soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, a Dalek in Death to the Daleks, a Dalek in Genesis of the Daleks, multiple Vogans in Revenge of the Cybermen, an Android Villager in Android Invasion, a Traveller, Drummer, Pikeman, Brother & Servant in The Masque of Mandragora, an Bi-Al member in The Invisible Enemy, a Guard in The Sun Makers, a Dalek in Destiny of the Daleks, a Castrovalvan Warrior in Castrovalva, a Guest Gambler in Enlightenment, a Dalek in Resurrection of the Daleks, a City Person in Street in Attack of the Cybermen, a Dalek in Revelation of the Daleks & Remembrance of the Daleks, Execution Victim Harold L & a drone in The Happiness Patrol and a Haemovore in The Curse of Fenric.

Outside of Doctor Who appears in the Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes Spam as a Surfer and The Money Programme as a Trumpeter plus the film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life as a Restaurant Diner. In Doomwatch he's a Man in Flood, he's a Technician in all six episodes of Moonbase 3, a Security Guard in The Sweeney Golden Boy, in Quadrophenia he's a hairdresser, in Blake's 7 he's a Rebel Technician/Federation Trooper in Blake, he's a Coach Passenger in Miss Marple: Nemesis and in Jeeves and Wooster he's the Vicar in Wooster with a Wife (or, Jeeves the Matchmaker). And if you want to know what he looks like outside of his Dalek shell then there's some screencaps of him on his Aveleyman page.

In episodes 1-2 & 7 we see:

Cara Stevens who was a person in the Square of Troy in The Myth Makers and a Waxwork Visitor/Auton Replica in Spearhead from Space.

Joan Harsant who returns as a Technician in Inferno and would have played Boedicia in Shada. In Quatermass and the Pit she was part of the Crowd at Museum in The Enchanted and In Adam Adamant Lives!: The Deadly Bullet she's as Old Woman/Woman in Theatre. In The Black Adder she was a Nun in The Archbishop and she had a recurring role as the Cleaning Lady in The Paradise Club.

In episodes 1-2 & 6-7 is Ronald Gough who was an Atlantean Guard in The Underwater Menace, He returns as a Technician in Inferno, a Skybase Guard in The Mutants, a Spiridon in Planet of the Daleks, an Army Soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, a Zygon in Terror of the Zygons, a Marine & The Krynoid in The Seeds of Doom.

The last technician, for this episode, is Keith Ashley who is in episodes 1-2, 4 & 6-7. He was a Citizen & Male Elder in The Savages, an Atlantean Guard & Miner in The Underwater Menace, a Firing Squad Member in The War Games and an Auton in Spearhead from Space, He returns as a Technician in Inferno, a Villager in The Dæmons a Skybase Guard in The Mutants. a Villager in Planet of the Spiders, a Dalek Operator in Genesis of the Daleks, a Zygon in Terror of the Zygons, an Android Mechanic, Android Man in Canister and Man at Space Defence Station in The Android Invasion, a Krynoid & Sir Colin's Aide in The Seeds of Doom and a Peasant, Traveller, Workman Peasant & Brother in The Masque of Mandragora

There's also a single UNIT Soldier in this episode, who's also in episode 2 & 5-6. John Spradbury had been a Cyberman in The Invasion, a Foot Soldier & Alien Technician in The War Games. and a UNIT Soldier in Spearhead from Space. He'll gain more colleagues as the story progresses.

This is Barry Letts' first credited story as Doctor Who producer. A former actor, turned director, he had been behind the camera for Enemy of the World during which he had suggested that a Doctor Who season be scaled back to 26 episodes a year with a week's break between studio stories for location filming. The suggestion, popular with cast and crew, had been implemented for the show's 7th recording block starting with the previous story Spearhead from Space and when a new Producer was required, Letts was appointed. Letts recounts in his book, Who And Me: The Memoir of Barry Letts, that The Silurians was something of a baptism of fire! This episode had major problems on the first studio recording day: The scenery, provided by an outside contractor, wasn't ready and what little they had supplied wasn't usable. Staff were summoned from all over the BBC to make the studio ready for recording. At that time Doctor Who filmed one episode every week, albeit now with the added week in between stories for location filming, as it had done since the series started. Following a post mortem into events Letts proposed that the show moved to a two episodes a fortnight schedule with the episodes being shot on consecutive days. This would mean sets only had to be erected and struck once a fortnight, reducing workload & potential damage and allowing more complex sets to be built. To his surprise virtually everyone involved immediately loved the idea and it was adopted for the final story of the season, Inferno.

Finally this episode sees the debut of Bessie, the Doctor's yellow vintage Edwardian Roadster. It will be with us pretty constantly for the next few years and make sporadic appearances after that right up to the last season of the original Doctor Who.