354 The Green Death Episode Five

EPISODE: The Green Death: Episode Five
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 354
STORY NUMBER: 069
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 16 June 1973
WRITER: Robert Sloman (and Barry Letts uncredited)
DIRECTOR: Michael Briant
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 8.3 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who: The Green Death (Special Edition)
EPISODE FORMAT: 625 video

"We must find an answer to those maggots before they pupate. Imagine, thousands of flying insects spreading their infection throughout the world!"

Cliff comes up on the slag heap and spots Jo. The Doctor argues with BOSS (Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor) which the Doctor labels as a Megalomaniac Machine. Jo & Cliff are trapped by the RAF barrage in a cave. Boss boasts of it's infallibility but the Doctor tries to trap it with a logic problem attempting to make his escape as Stevens arrives with guards. The maggots have survived the RAF attack. The Doctor is attached to BOSS. Cliff has been knocked unconscious during the barrage but Jo finds they are now cornered by maggots. The Doctor is taken away & locked in a room to be used as a bargaining chip. Yates comes to rescue him but they are quickly detected. The Doctor escapes, driving through the main gate on the milk float he came in on, but Mike is trapped and captured. The Doctor drives to the slag heap on Bessie as a faint transmission from Jo is received. The Doctor & Benton rescue her & Cliff, taking him back to the Wholeweal where he remains unconscious, waking briefly to say the word "serendipity". Cliff shows signs of being affected by the disease. The Doctor is worried that the Maggots will pupate.

Mike arrives at the Wholeweal, having come to kill the Doctor on BOSS's orders. The Doctor uses the Blue Crystal he brought back from Metebelis 3 to break BOSS's conditioning but unintentionally hypnotises the Brigadier as well. Stevens speaks with Mr James who has been programmed to obey the BOSS. Stevens and BOSS check the progress of their plans Yates returns and reports that he has killed the Doctor. Mike tries to break James' conditioning: he tells Yates that a 4 o'clock today The BOSS intends to take over and then collapses, dead, as Stevens enters the room having discovered Mike's treachery.

Ah the Metebelis 3 Blue Sapphire, or as it will be later known Blue Crystal:

The Doctor uses it to undo Yates' programming and Yates' uses it to undo James'. It's future use probably wouldn't even be in the minds of the show's creators at this time but it will later return to play a rather larger role....

My wife is not a woman that recognises the final technical points of television. She wouldn't have spotted that the end titles of this episode, as per episodes two & six of this story, are shown upside down and reversed. However she walked into the room as the Doctor and Benton are driving through the slag heap and immediately agreed with my assertion that that was Horrible CSO (Colour Separation Overlay) with it being immediately obvious that background and actors have been composited together. Also look at the shots of the Brigadier & UNIT troops standing on the slag heap talking, evidently CSO again. I can't find any record of the notoriously fickle Welsh weather having critically intervened with production but it's a possibility ....

Real life does have a major impact on this episode though: between the second (episodes 3 & 4) & third recording (episodes 5 & 6) studio recording blocks Tony Adams, playing Elgin, went down with Appendicitis and was hospitalised.

Our old friend Roy Skelton, of Dalek Voice fame, was brought in to play a new character, James, who took on Elgin's role & lines. James appears in two scenes, one just after he's been programmed by BOSS:

STEVENS: Mister James? Do you hear me, Mister James?
JAMES: I hear you.
STEVENS: Good. How have you been programmed?
JAMES: To obey the BOSS.
STEVENS: At all times?
JAMES: At all times.
STEVENS: Good. Now then, we must go to work. There is very little time left. Here are your instructions.

A little superfluous, but it does bring back the plot point that BOSS is enslaving people, seen previously with Fell, just before the process is used on Yates. There's a hint too here that it's becoming more prominent in the story:

STEVENS: New York. Seven two oh three slave units prepared.
BOSS: Now reading seven five eight zero.
STEVENS: Zurich. One five eight four.
BOSS: In preparation. Slave unit assessment to follow.
STEVENS: Moscow. Ten zero zero three.
BOSS: Prepared. One one zero zero nine eight.

James is then used to convey the information that BOSS is planning something:

JAMES: What are you doing?
YATES: Nothing. Just concentrate on the blue crystal, Mister James. As you look, you'll see it glow. Watch carefully.
YATES: Mister James? Your mind's clear now. You have to tell me what's going to happen.
JAMES: Takeover. By the BOSS. At four o'clock this afternoon, the computer is going to...
STEVENS: Just can't depend on anyone, can you, Mister Yates.

The novelization of the story restores these lines to Elgin which makes much more sense. Not knowing that Adams was taken ill when you watch the story seeing Elgin disappear without trace then a new character pop up and almost immediately get bumped off makes you wonder what's happening.

I suspect that Elgin may have had earlier scenes in this episode too which were cut when Adams was taken ill and replaced by the poorly CSOd scenes in the studio featuring the Doctor & Benton in Bessie and the Brigadier & Benton with two soldiers played by a couple of regular extras.

The dark haired soldier is Leslie Bates who previously cast the shadow that falls across the Tardis at the end of the first episode, An Unearthly Child and then played a Tribesman in the second, The Cave of Skulls. He's a Man at Lop, Mongol Warrior and Mongol Bandit in Marco Polo, a Guard in The Massacre, a Villager at Inn / Pirate in The Smugglers, an English Soldier in The Highlanders, an IE Guard in The Invasion, an 1862 soldier, Confederate Soldier, foot soldier in The War Games, a Waxworks Visitor/Auton in Spearhead from Space, a BBC3 TV Crewmember in The Dæmons, a UNIT soldier in The Three Doctors, a Guard & Draconian in Frontier in Space and a Security Guard earlier on in this story. He returns as an Army Corporal & UNIT soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, an Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, a Guard in Planet of the Spiders, a Time Lord in Deadly Assassin and a Bi-Al Member in Invisible Enemy. In the The Andromeda Breakthrough he was a British Soldier in Gale Warning, in Doomwatch he was a man in Hear No Evil, The Islanders & Flood and in Moonbase 3 he's a Technician in Castor and Pollux. He's also in our favourite Adam Adamant Lives! episode D for Destruction as a TA Soldier.

The blonde haired soldier, who I identified using his appearance in "I was a Doctor Who Monster", is David Billa who 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 and a Time Lord Technician in The War Games episode ten, a Waxworks Visitor/Auton in Spearhead from Space, a Technician in Doctor Who and the Silurians, a UNIT Soldier in Three Doctors, a Prison Guard & Earth Guard in Frontier in Space and a Spiridon in Planet of the Daleks He returns as a 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 was a Man in Flood.

There's another UNIT soldier in this episode, in the helicopter, and he gets a couple of lines yet isn't credited and I can't work out who he is!

Two days after this episode first aired Roger Delgado, the actor that played the Master, was killed in a car crash in Turkey. He was 55.

353 The Green Death Episode Four

EPISODE: The Green Death: Episode Four
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 353
STORY NUMBER: 069
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 09 June 1973
WRITER: Robert Sloman (and Barry Letts uncredited)
DIRECTOR: Michael Briant
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 6.8 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who: The Green Death (Special Edition)
EPISODE FORMAT: 625 video

"Oh, don't apologise, my little superman. Just be sure next time. The day is coming fast. D-day. Der Tag. Nothing must be allowed to stop it. Nothing!"

Hinks breaks into the Wholeweal and is attacked by the maggot falling into a coma and manifesting signs of what killed the miners. Sergeant Benton arrives with troops & explosives to blow the pit up. The Doctor goes to see the Brigadier and gets half an hour to negotiate with Global Chemicals but Stevens refuses to listen to him and threatens to arrest him under the emergency powers act. He introduces him to "Mr Yates", newly arrived from the ecology ministry. The detonation goes ahead as planned and Stevens throws the Doctor out. Stevens confers with the BOSS. The Brigadier reveals his suspicions about Global Chemicals led him to insert Captain Yates into Global Chemicals as a spy. The cleaner at Global Chemicals finds Maggots crawling up the pipes and alerts Elgin. Benton finds Maggots on the slag heap at the colliery. Elgin argues with Stevens who locks him in his office and allows BOSS to process him. Maggots are now emerging all over the slag heap having tunnelled their way out. Jo wonders what insects they will turn into as the Doctor discovers that they're bullet proof due to the chitinous plates making up their body. Pesticides have no effect. The Doctor disguises himself as a first a Milkman, and then a cleaner to get into Global Chemicals to obtain a sample of oil waste. Jo accidentally spills some of Cliff's fungus food on their sample of maggot slime. She then leaves to prove she can do something by fetching a maggot. The disguised Doctor finds Mike telling him how to get an oil sample and telling him that Stevens is not the real Boss. Cliff realises his spilled fungus has killed the cells in the maggot slime, then realising Jo is missing. The Brigadier orders a RAF strike on the slag heap, not realising Jo is out there. Making his way to the top floor the Doctor stumbles into an advanced control room and meets BOSS, the computer controlling the company.

It's the great Pertwee "dressing up and doing funny voices" episode! Pertwee's reputation, before Doctor Who, was built on his ability to do funny voices and for the first time since Inferno, where it was cut from the UK broadcast, he gets to give the talent an airing first as the old Welsh Milkman and then as the lady cleaner, seen for real earlier in the episode.

The cleaner is in a long tradition of pantomime dames and female impersonators but what "she" really reminds me of is Tim Brooke-Taylor's version of Lady Bracknell, originally from The Importance of Being Earnest, that he regularly gives air to in I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Yates' reference to the cleaner's handbag would seem to confirm the origin since Lady Bracknell's most famous line is "A handbag?". The Brigadier proves he's not a solider that simply obeys stupid orders by inserting Yates into Global Chemicals - the Brigadier rang Yates in episode 1 - but the orders are shown to be stupid when the maggots start escaping & crawling all over the hillside.

It's welcome back to two of the series regular characters this episode as both John Levene's Sergeant Benton and Richard Franklin's Captain Yates make their return.

We saw Benton earlier this year in The Three Doctors but Yates was absent then, last seen a year ago in the closing story of season 9, The Time Monster, and he was only in the first half of that!

The end credits on this episode confirm the Guard on the gate is the series regular stunt man Terry Walsh.

Brian Justice, the guard assigned to "Mr Yates" (and credited as Yate's Guard !) was a policeman in Spearhead from Space, a UNIT Soldier in Ambassadors of Death and Claws of Axos, an IMC Guard in Colony in Space, a Guerilla in Day of the Daleks & Castle Guard Wilson in The Sea Devils.

The first of the guards pursuing The Doctor is Steve Ismay who had been a BBC3 TV Crewmember in The Dæmons, a Guerilla & Stills Cameraman in Day of the Daleks, Sea Devil in The Sea Devils, Varan's Bodyguard in The Mutants and a Presidential Guard in Frontier in Space He returns as a UNIT Soldier in The Time Warrior, an Army Soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, an Exxilon and Exxilon Zombie in Death to the Daleks, a Guard in The Monster of Peladon, a Metebelis 3 Guard in Planet of the Spiders, a Guard in The Deadly Assassin, a Leviathan Guard in Ribos Operation, a Gracht Guard & one of Zadek's Guards in The Androids of Tara, would have been a "Space Monster" in Shada, possibly a Cyberman, then plays a Citizen in Full Circle, a Cyberman in Earthshock and a Security Guard in Time Flight. He had been Man in the Doomwatch episode The Islanders & Flood, and then appears in The Sweeney as a Policeman in Cover Story, a Driver in Golden Boy and a Villain in Stoppo Driver. In Porridge he played a Prison Warden in A Night In and a Gardener in Happy Release while in The Tomorrow People he was in a Vesh Rebel in Worlds Away and an SIS Sergeant in The Dirtiest Business. In Blake's 7 he plays a Scavenger in Deliverance, a Guard in Dawn of the Gods, a Convict in Moloch and a Hommik in Power.

His companion is regular extra Pat Gorman!

Jean Burgess makes a memorable cameo as the cleaner Doris!

While Ray Handy, who we saw briefly in episode 1, plays the real Milkman.

M'learned colleagues have identified one of the prominent UNIT Soldiers, the one who shoots the maggots, as Peter Michael McGowan.

His colleague who finds the maggots remains unidentified. Lots of the extras used in this story only appear in this one so my suspicion is the ones on location were sourced locally in Wales. The DWAS production guide also lists Roger Knott, who we think returns in Twin Dilemma, John Cadwaladr, who plays a Mentiad in Pirate Planet which is also location filmed in Wales, Edward Wyman, Roger Chapple, Bill Baker, David Braddick & John Jeffries, most of whom I've been unable to identify on IMDB!

While on location Jon Pertwee has a problem with his script: how to say the word Chitinous. Producer Barry Letts advised him to pronounce it as Chit as in "a chit of a girl" (An immature or disrespectful young woman.) After the programme was aired Barry Letts had a letter from a PHd Student:

The reason that I'm writin'
Is how to say kitin

This episode sees the introduction of more set elements from the TV series UFO serving as elements of BOSS' control room. We'll start with the orange control bank at the back of the room: it's definitely from UFO, as it's very similar to several on the set of the Skydiver. However I've not found an exact match

On the back wall we can see two panels from the ICT 1300, as previously seen in Terror of the Autons, Mind of Evil, Claws of Axos, The Sea Devils & The Time Monster

There's a third ICT Panel on the left wall of the control room, where we can also see a familiar looking curved desk:

This is recognisable as the curved desk found in the middle of the UFO SHADO Moonbase set.

Behind the Doctor's head are a pair of curved computer banks from UFO's Moonbase: these and their many relatives will appear in Doctor Who for years to come.

Finally the odd brown box, with a cream interior and what looks like a red record player was previously found in UFO's SHADO Earth HQ. It has a twin there, and both will show up together in a much later Doctor Who story.

352 The Green Death Episode Three

EPISODE: The Green Death: Episode Three
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 352
STORY NUMBER: 069
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 02 June 1973
WRITER: Robert Sloman (and Barry Letts uncredited)
DIRECTOR: Michael Briant
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 7.8 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who: The Green Death (Special Edition)
EPISODE FORMAT: 625 video

"Mister Stevens, two of my friends are still down there in that mine in the gravest danger. If I consider it necessary to close Global Chemicals, then closed it will be!"

The Doctor & Jo use a mine cart & pole to push their way through the sea of green ooze & maggots. Elgin confronts Fell about his refusal to loan cutting equipment. The Doctor finds a crevice he believes leads to the surface. The Brigadier summons UNIT to investigate and threatens to close Global Chemicals if they turn out to be responsible. Stevens counters by contacting the ministry of ecology. The Doctor & Jo find giant maggot eggs and bring one with them. Elgin takes an interest in the pumping that Fell is conducting. The Brigadier is instructed to put himself at the disposal of Global Chemicals by first the Ecology Minister and then the Prime Minister. The Doctor & Jo emerge into Global Chemicals pump room as Elgin discovers they about to pump more waste into the pipe. He opens the direct door to the pipe freeing them as Fell's conditioning breaks down. Elgin gets them out of Global Chemicals as Fell returns to Stevens who places headphones on him allowing BOSS to process him again. Fell is given instructions to kill himself jumping off a balcony. The Doctor, Brigadier & Jo return to the Wholeweal community for dinner. Professor Jones tells them he's going on a trip down the Amazon to investigate fungus. A phone call comes through saying Bert the miner has died. The Doctor intends to analyse the egg but gossip concerning it's existence has reached Global Chemicals and Hinks is sent to fetch it. As everyone retires to bed at the Wholeweal, the Brigadier staying at the local pub, Jo stays up reading. In the lab the egg hatches, the Maggot crawls across the floor and approaches Jo.....

I'm really not sure what to make of this episode, it's good yes, but there's a lot in. The dark glowing tunnels and the maggots will appeal to the show's younger fans!

But Fell's mind control, breakdown and instructed suicide are very adult themes that make me feel like I'm watching a series 7 story again.

Then we get this wonderful scene of the Wholeweal community having dinner together and there at the head of the table, looking completely out of place in his dinner jacket & bow tie, is the Brigadier. What follows as Cliff Jones attempts to explain to this very establishment figure what they're doing there is a wonder to behold.

JONES: Some more, Brigadier?
BRIGADIER: Oh, I wish I could. What was that meat?
JONES: Not meat at all. Fungus.
BRIGADIER: Fungus?
JONES: My new hybrid.
JO: So you solved your problem? You've found what you've been looking for?
JONES: Oh, I wish I had. No, no, it tastes fine, looks good, the texture's right, but it's relatively low in protein. Has to be picked at exactly the right moment, and it has to be eaten or dried straight away, or it goes off.
JO: Oh, so you've still got a long way to go.
JONES: Yes, you could say that. Right up the Amazon in fact.
JO: Up the Amazon?
JONES: Aye in about a month's time.
JO: Oh.
JONES: Look, I'll show you.
BRIGADIER: So, all your research is biological?
JONES: Well, mine is. The others, well. Take Jessie there, tootling away on her tin whistle. She's one of the finest mathematicians in the country. She's doing a study of the probability factors in a projected future ecology.
BRIGADIER: Is she indeed. I never would have guessed. And the gentlemen making that statue thing?
JONES: He used to design supersonic aircraft. They even made one once.
BRIGADIER: What's he doing here?
JONES: Making windmills.
BRIGADIER: Really?
JONES: Aye, and when Hilda's not upside down there, she's writing a book on self-actualisation. Aren't you, love? She used to run an encounter group in Aldgate.
BRIGADIER: Oh, I was stationed once in Aldgate.
JONES: Really? Here it is. Up the Amazon with rifle and camera. It's practically unexplored territory, see?
BRIGADIER: What, the Amazon basin? Oh surely not.
JONES: No, no, I mean the things people eat to get their protein. Grubs, caterpillars, locusts, the blood of their cattle.
JO: Urgh.
JONES: Well, it's only the same as black pudding, love.
JO: Oh, that's disgusting.
JONES: Ah, now listen to this. (reads) And when game is in short supply, these tribes, or so it is said, will subsist for months at a time on a certain giant toadstool peculiar to their region, which serves them for their meat. Thus doth beneficent providence etc, etc.
BRIGADIER: When was that published?
JONES: 1884.
BRIGADIER: And on the strength of that, you'll go gallivanting off into the jungle?
JONES: Aye.
JO: But of course, Well look, it's like finding an old treasure map, isn't it?
JONES: Aye, and what a treasure. It could help to make the whole world rich.
JO: Right.
BRIGADIER: A toadstool?
JONES: Aye, a toadstool!

There's also a running theme through the second half of the episode as Jo & Cliff try to share a romantic moment but keep getting interrupted! Stewart Bevan, who plays Professor Cliff Jones, was Katy Manning's boyfriend at the time this story was made. The other thing I've seen him in is the Blake's 7 episode Death-Watch where he plays Max.

Mitzi McKenzie plays Nancy, one of the Wholeweal community. She was Mrs Martin in Colony in Space, where she was credited as Mitzi Webster, which was also directed by Michael Briant. Oddly she is credited on, but doesn't appear in, episode 1.

The Blonde Haired Hippy Girl standing behind The Brigadier at dinner is Alison Daumler: she was an extra in the crowd scenes in The Silurians Episode 6, one of the Female Technicians in the future in Day of the Daleks and an Atlantean Serving Girl in The Time Monster. She returns as one of The Sisterhood of Karn in Brain of Morbius. Her companion is played by Robert Birmingham who was previously in Inferno as a Technician in our reality. I can't find him on IMDB!

The Sculptor is played by Ken Halliwell, who isn't the more well known Kenneth Halliwell who died 6 years previously! This Ken Halliwell was also in Michael Briant's first Doctor Who story Colony in Space, where he plays a colonist, and appears in Blake's 7 Federation Trooper in Games and a Bidding Agent in Assassin.

Hilda, the girl in the Lotus Position, is played by Jean Channon. She'd been a Parisian Woman in The Massacre. She returns as a Masquer in The Masque of Mandragora, a Passser By and one of Audience/Dancing Girls/Stagehands in The Talons of Weng-Chiang, a Passenger in Nightmare of Eden, a Castrovalvan in Castrovalva, a Dinner Guest in Snakedance, a Lazar in Terminus and the Woman at Telephone in Survival. In Blake's 7 she is a Zondawl Citizen in Warlord.

Jessie, the Flautist, is Jessica Stanley-Clarke. I couldn't find her on IMDB but a google search led me to a band she'd played in called Marsupilami which in turn led me to her Wikipedia page which reveals she is now organic gardening expert, author and broadcaster, particularly on the cultivation and use of herbs!

I can't spot the Long-Haired Boy that the DWAS production file lists but he's played by Keith Norrish who was also a Technician in Inferno. He returns as one of Irongron's Men in the Time Warrior, a Thal Officer in Genesis of the Daleks, a soldier & brethren member in The Masque of Mandragora, Leela's Guard in the Sunmakers, an Orderly in Frontios and a Technician in The Ops Room in Twin Dilemma. In he's a Federation Trooper in Bounty, a Salvage Man in Dawn of the Gods and a Guard in Moloch. In Porridge he plays a Prison Officer in the first episode, New Faces, Old Hands.He can be seen in Doomwatch as a RAF Man in Survival Code.

We get a lovely little joke during the Brigadier's phone call to the Ecology Minister:

MINISTER: Fair enough, Jocelyn, but you are interrupting a cabinet meeting, you know. Who? Oh yes, the UNIT chap. Well, you'd better put him on. Do forgive me, Prime Minister. Ah, Brigadier. Unfortunate business, this.
BRIGADIER: I'd put it a little more strongly than that, sir. Well, it seems to me that an international investigation. No, I don't agree at all, sir.
MINISTER: Don't you, Brigadier. Interesting. Nevertheless, I strongly suggest that you put yourself and UNIT at the disposal of the director of Global Chemicals. He is in by far the best position to handle the situation.
BRIGADIER: May I remind you that I answer to Geneva. Under Article seventeen of the Third Enabling Act, the United Nations
MINISTER: I helped draft that act, Brigadier. May I remind you of Article eighteen, Matters of Domestic Concern? Er, paragraph three if I remember rightly, will place itself at the disposal of the host nation in all respects. The Prime Minister and I feel
BRIGADIER: Sir, with respect, I disagree that this is a purely domestic matter, on the contrary
MINISTER (covering mouthpiece on phone): Wretched fellow needs a swift kick on the backside. Would you care to administer, Jeremy?
BRIGADIER: And what's more, sir. What do you say? ..... Oh. Yes, good afternoon, sir. Duty? Yes, I think I know. Yes, I know that. Is that an order, Prime Minister? I see.

At the time this story was filmed the leader of the Liberal Party was led by Jeremy Thorpe, the insinuation being that somehow the Liberal Party, third placed no hopers, had managed to form a government with Thorpe as PM! For more fun & games with British politics join us for Terror of the Zygons in two years time.

The silent, and all but off screen, Prime Minister Jeremy is Brychan Powell who Was previously in Day of the Daleks as both the Daleks' Guard and a Russian Aide following which he was a Solonian in The Mutants. He returns as a Mentiad in The Pirate Planet, a Noble in The Androids of Tara, a Logopolitan in Logopolis, an Umpire in Black Orchid, a Business Passenger in Time Flight and a Citizen in Planet of Fire. He can also be seen in Doomwatch as a Man in Flood.

His Minister of Ecology is Richard Beale who was in The Ark as the Refusian voice, The Gunfighters as Bat Masterson and The Macra Terror as the Broadcast voice.
He is in Blake's 7 as Saymon in The Web, and Ulf in two early second season episode of The Tripods.

Elsewhere in the same room is Cabinet Minister Evan Ross who had been an advisor in The Mutants. He returns as an extra in Robot, a Noble in Androids of Tara and a Logopolitan in Logopolis.

Right, we're on the look out for UFO props and there's a SHADO HQ control desk being used by Fell in the Global Chemicals pumping room:

We saw one of it's companions, with a reel to reel tape machine, in the Skybase lab in The Mutants:

We'll see that again in Monster of Peladon, if not earlier!

This one is similar, as they all are, but different with a phone at each end of the desk!