OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 263
STORY NUMBER: 052
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 07 March 1970
WRITER: Malcolm Hulke
DIRECTOR: Timothy Combe
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 7.2 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
"This man is dead. He was killed by an alien disease!"
The Doctor returns to the centre to begin work on finding a vaccine for the virus. Centre staff are given a wide ranging antibiotic in an attempt to hold it at bay, but Doctor Lawrence refuses his believing the virus doesn't exist and it's another attempt to interrupt his work. Masters returns to London by train, feeling unwell, and collapses after getting out of a taxi. All over the capital people start to die. The Brigadier starts to receive reports of virus cases from abroad. Lawrence, the virus having taken hold, attacks the Brigadier and dies. The Doctor announces he has found a cure but as he is transcribing the formula Silurians enter the centre and kidnap him.
This episode is essentially "The Doctor races to find a a cure while people start dying in London" Rightly famed for it's location sequence, nicely faded back to the research centre it's something different and there's something happening but it's a bit too little too late. Liz is still with me watching this story, though it's severely testing her patience and she's resorted to Mumsnet to get her through it. She laughs as Lawrence dies ascribing his performance to "Crazy Person Acting 101". We both spot that this is the third episode this story to end with bug eyed gurning Pertwee, as he's attacked by the invading Silurians!
As I pointed out in episode 4 Masters isn't as bad as those who follow in his wake like Chinn in Claws of Axos or Walker in The Sea Devils. Unlike the other two, who annoy me intensely and have the indecency to survive their stories, he does meet his end here albeit at the high cost of spreading the plague to London!
Location filming for this episode took place at a number of locations starting with Marylebone Station:
Masters is then picked up by a Taxi outside the station on Melcombe Place.
He's dropped off in nearby Dorset Square: his Taxi driver is actor Mostyn Evans, later Dai Evans in The Green Death and the High Priest in Death to the Daleks.
Masters meets his end at Swancombe House, which is certainly not within staggering & dying distance of where he was dropped off in Dorset Square!
All the locations here were recorded on 12th November 1969 but unfortunately it was discovered that film recorded at Marylebone Station and had been scratched and they had to return there twelve days later to reshoot the scenes. To reduce costs members of the production staff and their friends fill in as extras during the reshot sequences. IMDB lists a large number of extras for this episodes, all of which plus a few more appear in the Doctor Who production guide. Unfortunately it isn't clear which ones are actually in the episode or were used in the damaged and discarded sequences. So....
The first group are down as Passengers/Plague Victims/Passersby/Ambulance Men/Policemen.
Lyn Turner was a Tribeswomen in An Unearthly Child, a Saxon in The Time Meddler and the Charlady in The Invasion. She's also in The Andromeda Breakthrough episode Gale Warning as a Crowd Extra.
Roy Denton was a Tribesman in An Unearthly Child and a Window Cleaner in The Invasion . You can see him in the Adam Adamant Lives! episodes Face in a Mirror, as a Man with Coffin, and A Sinister Sort of Service, as a Nightwatchman.
Rosina Stewart had been a Citizen of Millenius in Keys of Marinus, a Woman Freedom Fighter in Dalek Invasion of Earth and a Shelterer in The Enemy of The World. In Doomwatch she's a Woman in Hear No Evil. In Give My Regards to Broad Street she's a Blue-Rinsed Lady.
Les Shannon had been a Citizen of Millenius in The Keys of Marinus, a Council Member in The Massacre, and a Settler in The Gunfighters. He returns as one of Collinson's Men & and a Cameraman in Ambassadors of Death, then would have been a Space Monster in Shada. In Blake's 7 he's a Federation Trooper in The Way Back and a Kairos Guard in The Harvest of Kairos. Earlier he was in Moonbase 3 as a Technician in View of a Dead Planet, Out of the Unknown as the Coroner in The Sons and Daughters of Tomorrow and The Andromeda Breakthrough as a Crowd Extra in Gale Warning.
Rex Rashley was a Slave/Prisoner down mine in The Dalek Invasion of Earth and returns as a Villager/Coven Member in The The Dæmons. In Quatermass and the Pit he's a Sightseer in The Halfmen, a Man in Crowd in The Wild Hunt and a Sightseer in Hob, in A for Andromeda he's a Civil Servant in The Machine and in Doomwatch he's a Patient in The Iron Doctor, The Silurians"Peter Ray" listed as a a Passenger/Plague Victim/Passersby/Ambulance Man/Policeman is Peter Roy. He was a Greek Soldier in The Myth Makers, an English Soldier in The Highlanders, an Airport Police Sergeant & Chauffeur in The Faceless Ones, a UNIT & Bunker Man in The Invasion and a Security Guard in The Seeds of Death. He returns as a Policeman in Mind of Evil, Technic Obarl in Hand of Fear, a Guard in The Face of Evil, a Guard in The Sun Makers, a Galifreyan Guard in The Invasion of Time, a Gracht Guard & one of Zadek's Guards in The Androids of Tara a Guard in The Armageddon Factor, a Skonnan Guard in Horns of the Nimon, a Policeman in Logopolis. an Ambulance Man in Castrovalva, a Man in the Cave Crowd in Snakedance a Van Driver in Resurrection of the Daleks. He was in Blake's 7 regularly as a Citizen/Prisoner in The Way Back & Space Fall, an Alta Guard in Redemption, an Albian Rebel in Countdown and a Federation Trooper/Rebel in Rumours of Death. He was in Doomwatch as a man in Project Sahara and Flood. In the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy he plays the Limousine Chauffeur in episode 2. He's got a notable role in the James Bond film Thunderball where he played British Secret Agent 006. He has a less obvious appearance in Return of the Jedi as Major Olander Brit but that hasn't stopped the character from getting a Wookipedia page!
Hugh Cecil, easily spotted in most roles thanks to his bald head, had been a Technix in The Dalek Masterplan, a Priest in The Massacre, and a Worker in The War Machines In Blake's 7 he's a Menial in Ultraworld. InDad's Army he's a Platoon Member in A. Wilson, Keep Young and Beautiful, Getting the Bird, The Godiva Affair and Number Engaged. In The Rocky Horror Picture Show he's a Transylvanian
Jean Channon, aka Jean Shannon, first appeared in Doctor Who as a Parisian Woman in The Massacre. She returns as Hilda, the girl in the Lotus Position in The Green Death, 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.
Roy Pearce was a Guard in The Massacre, a Engineer & Soldier in The Tenth Planet, a Chameleon & Airport Policeman in The Faceless Ones, a Technician/Guard in Fur from the Deep, a UNIT Soldier in The Invasion and a Cyberman in The War Games, He returns as a Man in Pub/Coven in The The Dæmons, a Submarine Rating & Naval Base Sailor in The Sea Devils, a Solos Guard in The Mutants, an Army Soldier in The Dinosaur Invasion, an Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, a Guard in Planet of the Spiders, a SRS Bouncer/Officer/Audience Member in Robot, an Android Mechanic in Android Invasion, a Pikeman & Brethren member in Masque of Mandragora and a Security Guard in Image of the Fendahl. In Blake's 7 he's an Armed Crewman in Space Fall, a Federation Trooper in Time Squad and a Scientist in Project Avalon while in Doomwatch he's a Man in Invasion & Flood. In Monty Python's Flying Circus he's a Trumpeter in The Money Programme and a Lifeboatman in Salad Days.
Joanna Laurence was an Airport Passenger on the Madrid Flight in The Faceless Ones.
Richard King was a Warrior Monk in Abominable Snowmen, a Cyberman in The Moonbase, a Cyberman in The Invasion, and an Alien Technician in The War Games He is the only actor in both sets of Plague Victims and later plays a Technician in episode 7. He returns as a Technician in Inferno, a Lunar Guard, Draconian Emperor Guard & Williams' Guard in Frontier in Space, a UNIT Soldier Typist in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, a Technician in The Android Invasion and a Time Lord in Deadly Assassin. In Adam Adamant Lives! he's a Man in Theatre in The Deadly Bullet, in Doomwatch he's a Man in In the Dark and in Moonbase 3 he's a Technician in Castor and Pollux and View of a Dead Planet.
Michael Moor returns as a Villager/Coven Member in The The Dæmons, a Time Lord in The Invasion of Time and a Noble in Androids of Tara. He's also a Thug in the Roger Moore James Bond film Octopussy.
Harold Horsham returns as a Time Lord in Invasion of Time and a Noble in Androids of Tara.
Harold White was in Doomwatch as a Bar Customer in Tomorrow, the Rat and a Man in The Battery People while Joyce Windsor is in the Doomwatch episode Invasion as Mrs. Hunter.
David Parry, Josie Dent, Winnifred Ray and Sue Casters don't return to Doctor Who as does Brendan Skilton who I can't find on IMDB.
The second set of Plague Victims are the following:
Stenson Falke was a Slave/Prisoner down mine in The Dalek Invasion of Earth. In UFO he's a Astro Space Commision Member in Close Up, in Doomwatch he's a Man in The Battery People, in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em he's an Extra in Library in Frank Goes Over the Edge, In Monty Python's Flying Circus he's a Plumber the at Montgolfier Estate in The Golden Age of Ballooning and in Survivors he's a extra in Lights of London: Part 1.
Walter Henry had been a Person in Square of Troy in The Myth Makers, an English Sailor/Scotsmen in Hold/Highlander in The Highlanders and a Mine Worker in The Macra Terror. He returns as a Primord in Inferno, a Peasant, Traveller, Workman Peasant and Brethren Member in Masque of Mandragora, a Time Lord in Deadly Assassin and a Cafe Patron in City of Death. In The Prisoner he's a Servant in Dance of the Dead, in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) he's the Policeman at Kay's Bedside in That's How Murder Snowballs and in Monty Python's Flying Circus he's one of the many Gasman in Dinsdale! In The Sweeney Flying Squad Detective in Ringer, Jackpot, Queen's Pawn, Jigsaw & Contact Breaker while in it's film vesion Sweeney! he's an Oil Conference Executive. In The Professionals he's a CI5 Man in Killer with a Long Arm, Stannard in The Rack and Cantwell in A Stirring of Dust. He's in the 1979 Quatermass as an Elderly Soldier in An Endangered Species, in Are You Being Served? he's the Priest in Heir Apparent and in Blake's 7 he's Zukan's Technician in Warlord. He was in The Empire Strikes Back as a Rebel Technician on Hoth and Return of the Jedi as a Council Member in the Briefing Room. He's also in The Italian Job as The Projectionist. He's in both unofficial James Bond films as a Casino Patron in Casino Royale and as a Man carrying papers on Largo's ship The Flying Saucer in Never Say Never Again. He was a regular in the Carry On Films appearing in Carry On Jack as a Deckhand, Carry On Cleo as a Roman Soldier, Carry On Doctor as a Visitor, Carry On Up the Khyber as a Burpa, Carry On Camping as a Man in Cinema, Carry On at Your Convenience as a Man in Cinema, Carry On Matron as a Wedding Guest, Carry On Abroad as a Stall-Holder and Carry On Emmannuelle as the Customs Officer.
George Romanov had been an Usher in The Massacre and returns as a Kaled Councillor in Genesis of the Daleks, a Time Lord in Deadly Assassin, a Noble in Androids of Tara and a Passenger in Time Flight. Adam Adamant Lives! Passenger in Ticket to Terror.
Maureen Nelson had been a Brassy Bar Girl in The Gunfighters. She is later in the SRS Audience in Robot. In UFO she's one of the Film Crew in A Question of Priorities, in Doomwatch she's a Woman in The Islanders, in Moonbase 3 she's a Technician in Behemoth and Outsiders and in Survivors she's a Woman in Corn Dolly. On th big screen she's a German Corporal in the Dad's Army Film and she's a Woman in Diner in Superman II.
Constance Carling was the Auton Secretary in Spearhead from Space. She returns as a a Technician in The Armageddon Factor. In Doomwatch she's a Bar Customer in Tomorrow, the Rat while in Monty Python's Flying Circus she's a Theatregoer in It's the Arts.
Colin Cunningham was a Passer-by in Spearhead from Space and returns as a Councillor in The Time Monster.
Stuart Myers is on his Doctor Who debut: he also plays UNIT Soldier Private Upton in Episode 7. He then plays a Unit Soldier in Ambassadors of Death, an Axon in Claws of Axos, a Draconian in Frontier in Space, the Photographer in Invasion of the Dinosaurs a Titan Base Crewman in Invisible Enemy, one of the Pangol Army in The Leisure Hive, a Foster in Keeper of Traken, a Cricketer in Black Orchid, a Buccaneer Officer in Enlightenment, a Citizen/Unbeliever in Planet of Fire, a Resistance Fighter/Alphan in Trial of a Timelord 5-8 Mindwarp and a Customer/Mercenary in Dragonfire. In Blake's 7 he was a Crewman in Space Fall and in Moonbase 3 a Technician in Outsiders and Castor and Pollux. In Monty Python's Flying Circus he's a Water Rat in Spam and a Tour de France Man in Bed/Man in Computer in Hamlet. He plays a briefly seen human Mos Eisley denizen in Star Wars: there's a picture on his Aveleyman entry which also lists an unnamed role in The Sweeney episode Payoff.
Alison Daumler returns as a Female Technician in Day of the Daleks, a Serving Girl in The Time Monster, a Hippy Girl in The Green Death and a Sister in Brain of Morbius.
Willy Bowman is back as a Time Lord in Deadly Assassin. In Adam Adamant Lives! he's a Villain in The Tunnel of Death while in Doomwatch he's a Man in The Islanders and Flight Into Yesterday. In Monty Python's Flying Circus he's one of the many Gasmen in Dinsdale! and a Norwich City Councillor in How Not to Be Seen. In Fawlty Towers he's a German Guest in The Germans and in Porridge he's Billy Moffatt in The Harder They Fall. In the 1989 Batman film he's a Crimelord.
There's also Richard King, see the Passengers/Plague Victims/Passersby/Ambulance Men/Policemen above, Pat Matthews, who was a Technician in episodes 3-4 and Jim Delaney, a UNIT Soldier in the Caves in episodes 2 & 4-6.
Aileen Lewis is making her only Doctor Who appearance but has an imprressively long CV! She was in The Day the Earth Caught Fire as a Demonstrator, Fahrenheit 451 as a Woman on Train, The Prisoner as a Villager at the Carnival in Dance of the Dead, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as one of the Theatre Audience in That's How Murder Snowballs, The Wicker Man as a Villager, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show as one of the Floor Show Audience. In The Sweeney she's Stone's Client in Queen's Pawn and in it's big screen version Sweeney! she's McQueen's Party Guest. In the Are You Being Served? film she's a Grace Brothers Customer, in The Professionals she's One of Stadden's Operatives in A Stirring of Dust and in Give My Regards to Broad Street she's the Upset Woman in Ballroom. Like Walter Henry, above, she's a Carry On Film regular appearing in Carry On Cruising as Mrs. Lewis, Carry On Jack as an Onlooker, Don't Lose Your Head as a Citizen, Carry On Up the Khyber as a Polo Match Spectator, Carry On Again Doctor as a Lady Dancing at Party, Carry On Henry as a Courtier, Carry On Girls as a Town Councillor, and Carry On Emmannuelle as a Dinner Guest. She's also got more than one James Bond film to her name appearing in From Russia with Love as a Chess Tournament Spectator, Live and Let Die as a UN Delegate, Octopussy as a Woman at Udaipur Hotel Bar and Never Say Never Again as a Casino Patron.
Peter Brett was in Monty Python's Flying Circus Mr. Bartlett in The Golden Age of Ballooning and a Door-to-Door Martial Arts Salesman in Party Political Broadcast. He's also in Monty Python's Life of Brian where IMDB doesn't identify his role, and Fawlty Towers as Brian in The Hotel Inspectors.
Jean Hylton starred in The Adventures of Sir Lancelot as Queen Guinevere with original companion William Russell as Lancelot and Ronald Leigh-Hunt, who'd been in Seeds of Death and returns in Revenge of the Cybermen, as King Arthur.
Betty Richardson was in Adam Adamant Lives! as an Old Person/Person in Jewel Room in Death Begins at Seventy.
Iona Macrae was in Doomwatch as a Police Constable in Fire and Brimstone and the Minister's Secretary/Woman at Palazzo in The Killer Dolphins.
John Shorter & Elizabeth Power are making their only Doctor who appearances.
Also down as Police/Ambulance Drivers are Richard Pickford, a UNIT Drivers/Ambulance Men in episode 3 anmd B G Heath. Heath returns as a Jeep Driver in Ambassadors of Death, a Driver in Inferno and a Milkman, Black Maria Driver, Rocket Driver & Van Driver Mind of Evil. My natural suspicousness and the similarity of roles makes me wonder if he's the Ted Heath down as a Driver/Motorcyclist in Day of the Daleks and an Army Driver Invasion of the Dinosaurs?
I'm told director Timothy Combe, producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks can be seen in this sequence: I think I've spotted Terrance striding across the concourse holding a briefcase in a long shot.
The only person I am sure about is the Ticket Collector who is played by assistant script editor Trevor Ray.
Brendan Barry plays the Hospital Doctor at the start of the episode who I've never seen in anything else. His nurse is Gillian Toll was a Girls in a Mini Kilt in the Tricolour Coffee Bar in Evil of the Daleks.
At the end of this sequence a second nurse briefly appears and that's famous comedy actress Bella Emberg! She returns as a Kitchen Maid in The Time Warrior: Part Four and plays Mrs. Croot in the new series episode Love & Monsters. At this early stage of her career working as an extra she can also been seen in the Doomwatch episodes You Killed Toby Wren as a woman and The Islanders as a St. Simons' Islander and also The Tomorrow People episode The Heart of Sogguth: Beat the Drum as a Cleaning Lady.
There's an Ambulance man in the studio scenes for this episode: That's Dave Carter who is the Old Silurian plus other unidentified Silurians, see episode 4 for his credits.
There's a bunch of Technicians in the lab: Keith Ashley & Ronald Gough were in earlier episodes of this story - Ashley's on the left below. They're joined for just this episode by Terrance Denville, who I think is the technician in te middle of the group shot. He had previously been a double for Captain Blade in The Faceless Ones, a Cyberman in The Invasion, a Foot Soldier & Alien Technician in The War Games and a Waxwork visitor/replica in Spearhead from Space. a Technician & UNIT Soldier in The Silurians, He is also a UNIT soldier in the caves in this episode and returns as a UNIT Soldier in The Three Doctors, a Cyberman again, briefly, in The Carnival of Monsters, Presidential, Earth & Prison Guards in Frontier in Space, a Spiridon in Planet of the Daleks, an an Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, and an Ice Warrior in The Monster of Peladon. He plays a Technician in Moonbase 3 Departure and Arrival, Behemoth and Outsider, appears as a Russian Security Council Member in the Pierce Brosnan James Bond film GoldenEye and appears in the Miranda episode Before I Die as an Old Man.
Private Wright in this episode is Derek Pollitt, previously the very Welsh Driver Evans in The Web of Fear, and latterly A. St. John D. Caldera in Shada. His brother is Clyde Pollitt who is a Time Lord in the final episode of The War Games and then the Time Lord Chancellor in The Three Doctors.
Still down in the caves are UNIT Soldiers John Doyle, Bernard Barnsley, Jim Delaney, Alan Clements, Antonio de Maggio, Will Nash and Alex Donald. Brian Nolan, preiously seen as a UNIT soldier in the complex, is down as appearing in this episode too so he might be dow there as well. This episode they're joined by Terrance Denville, who was a Technician above, and the following:
Barry Ashton had been a Highlander in Jail in The Highlanders, Scientist Franz Shultz in The Moonbase, the Double for the Doctor�s Hand and The Policeman in the Antique Shop in The Evil of the Daleks and an Auton in Spearhead from Space. He returns as a Technician in Inferno, Proctor in The Time Monster, and Kemp in Frontier in Space. He'd been in Out of the Unknown as Frank in The Counterfeit Man, which you can see on the Out of the Unknown DVD Set, Doomwatch as man in You Killed Toby Wren and The Inquest, both of which are on The Doomwatch DVD
Derek Hunt had been an Atlantean Guard in Underwater Menace, a British Soldier in No Man's Land & a British Soldier in The War Games and a Regular Soldier in Spearhead from Space. He returns as a Technician in Inferno, a UNIT Man in Day of the Daleks, a Prison Guard in Frontier in Space, a Guard in Planet of Spiders, an Android Mechanic & Android Soldier in Android Invasion, a Bi-Al Member in Invisible Enemy, a Time Lord in Invasiom of Time, a Technician/Guard/Citizen in The Ribos Operation, a Passenger in Nightmare of Eden, James the Footman in Black Orchid, a Worthy in Snakedance, a Guard in Planet of Fire and a Time Lord in all 14 episodes of Trial of a Timelord: we know he's an Orange Time Lord in Terror of the Vervoids & The Ultimate Foe so assume he's wearing the same colours the whole story.
David Melbourne had been a Gond in the Krotons, a British Soldier & Resistance Man in The War Games, and a Regular Soldier in Spearhead from Space He returns as a UNIT Guard in Day of the Daleks, a UNIT soldier in The Three Doctors, an extra in robot, a Galifreyan in Invasion of Time and a Crewmember in Earthshock. In Blake's 7 he was a Technician in Dawn of the Gods while in Doomwatch he was a Man in Flood and in Moonbase 3 he was a Technician in View of a Dead Planet and Castor and Pollux. In Monty Python's Flying Circus he was a Milkman in Spam and a Soldier at Award Ceremony in It's a Living while in Fawlty Towers he was a Hotel Guest in Communication Problems.
Roger Minnis was an Auton/Display Mannequin in Spearhead from Space. He returns as a UNIT Soldier & Control Room Assistant/Technician in the Ambassadors of Death, and an Axon Man in Claws of Axos.
Stuart Myers is also a Plague Victim in this episode: see above.
Pierce McEvoy is also a UNIT Soldier in the Caves but I can't see anything else on his CV that I've seen.
A thought: was Doctor Who writer Terry Nation watching the scenes of people collapsing from the plague? He'd played with the idea of plague before, in Dalek Invasion of Earth, but it's only in the 1970s that it creeps to the front of his thinking in Planet of the Daleks, Death to the Daleks and his own series Survivors.
Two day after this episode was broadcast the fifth Doomwatch episode Project Sahara was shown on BBC1.
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