OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 371
STORY NUMBER: 073
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 30 March 1974
WRITER: Brian Hayles
DIRECTOR: Lennie Mayne
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 6.8 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who - Peladon Tales: Curse of Peladon & Monster of Peladon
EPISODE FORMAT: 625 video
"The decision is no longer yours or mine, your Majesty. The girl and the Doctor have gone to face the judgement of Aggedor!"
Gebek digs the Doctor out with Eckersley's sonic lance to dig the Doctor out. Hearing an alarm Sarah searches for the Doctor. The Doctor promises to help the miners. Lost in the tunnels Sarah glimpses someone in the Federation refinery but is attacked by it's defence system. The Doctor believes the Aggedor he's seen is a product of technological trickery. Eckersley & Alpha Centauri rescue Sarah with the shadowy figure again seen in the refinery. Ortron wants the miners revolt crushed and the Doctor, who he thinks is a traitor, killed. Alpha Centauri & Sarah are seized by Ettis and threatened to allow his miners access to the armoury and Federation weapons. Ettis takes Sarah as a hostage, and escaping she is seized by Ortron's guards. The Doctor comes to rescue her but he too is seized. They are both sentenced to be cast into a pit under the temple where they encounter Aggedor.
Those who remember Curse of Peladon may already have spotted the flaw in Orton's plan! Here's his claim in the previous episode:
ORTON: Right from the day Chancellor Hepesh died, I served your father loyally. I worked for the things he believed in. Progress, civilisation, the Federation.Surely then he would have known how Hepesh died?
Apart from that ..... Oh dear, lets play the escape & recapture game again. I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who didn't know what it was in the refinery as it's absolutely obvious especially if you've seen the previous Peladon story.
I do worry that the guard helping his injured comrade outside the refinery, who I think is Guard Captain Terry Walsh, hadn't followed his direction too well as his manner of speech is modern English and doesn't fit with any of the other Peladon natives at all!
Plenty of other guards in the episode and story too:
We'll assume you know who Pat Gorman is! Last seen as a UNIT Corporal in Invasion of the Dinosaurs he's back as a Soldier in Planet of the Spiders. But just in case you don't, and since we've not had them yet this season, now's a good time for a ceremonial reading of his full Doctor Who credits: he was a Freedom Fighter/Rebel in Dalek Invasion of Earth, a Planetarian in Mission to the Unknown: Delegate Detective thinks he's Sentreal the black Christmas tree, a Greek Soldier in The Myth Makers, a Guard in Massacre, a Worker in The War Machines, a Monk in The Abominable Snowmen, a Guard in The Enemy of the World, a Cyberman in The Invasion, a Technician in The Seeds of Death, a Military Policeman in The War Games episode two, the Silurian Scientist in The Silurians, a Technician in The Ambassadors of Death, a Primord in Inferno, the Auton Leader in Terror of the Autons, a Primitive and Long in Colony in Space, a Coven Member in The Dæmons, a Guard & Film Cameraman in Day of the Daleks, a Sea Devil in The Sea Devils, a UNIT Soldier in The Three Doctors, a Presidential Guard and Sea Devil in in Frontier in Space, a Global Chemicals Guard / 'Nuthatch' Resident in The Green Death and -a UNIT Corporal in Invasion of the Dinosaurs He returns a Soldier in Planet of the Spiders, the Gate Guard in Robot part one, a Thal Soldier in Genesis of the Daleks, a Cyberman/Dead Crewman in Revenge of the Cybermen, a Guard in The Seeds of Doom, a Soldier/Brother in The Masque of Mandragora, a Chancellory Guard in The Deadly Assassin, a Medic in The Invisible Enemy, a Kro in The Ribos Operation, the Pilot in The Armageddon Factor, a Thug in City of Death part one, a Gundan in Warriors' Gate, a Foster in The Keeper of Traken, Grogan in Enlightenment, a Soldier in The Caves of Androzani, a Slave Worker and a Cyberman in Attack of the Cybermen. Of those it' easiest to spot his face in Abominable Snowmen, Planet of the Spiders, Robot and The Armageddon Factor! He's got several Blake's 7 appearances to his name as a Scavenger in Deliverance, Federation Trooper / Rebel in Voice from the Past, Trantinian planet hopper Captain in Gambit, Death Squad Trooper in Powerplay, Federation Trooper in The Harvest of Kyros & Rumours of Death, Hommik Warrior in Power, Helot in Traitor and a Federation Trooper in Games & Blake. We was also in Adam Adamant Lives! as a Guard in More Deadly Than the Sword, a Man at Club in Beauty Is an Ugly Word, a Coven Member in The Village of Evil, a War Office Guard / TA Soldier in D for Destruction and an S.S. Guard in A Sinister Sort of Service. He appears once in The Prisoner as a Hospital Orderly in Hammer Into Anvil and just once in Doomwatch as Man in Hear No Evil. His Porridge appearance in the second Christmas Special The Desperate Hours is another easy spot: he's the Prison Officer who comes into the loos as Fletcher and friends are sampling the contraband home brew. He was in two episodes of The Sweeney as a Flying Squad Officer in Thou Shalt Not Kill (director: D Camfield) & Latin Lady, and two The Tomorrow People stories: Worlds Away as the Vesh Hunter and War of the Empires as a US Marine. In the BBC The Day of the Triffids he played a Blind Man in episode 5 while in Douglas Camfield & Robert Holmes adaption of The Nightmare Man he played The Killer with Camfield using him again as a Legionnaire in Beau Geste. He was in The Professionals five times: as a Golfer in Killer with a Long Arm, a CI5 Agent in Close Quarters & Servant of Two Masters, a Security Man in Weekend in the Country and the Police Superintendent at inquest in Discovered in a Graveyard. He's a Policeman again in The Young Ones: Interesting and towards the end of his career Russell T Davies uses him in Dark Season as a Heavy.
Derek Chafer had been a Saxon in The Time Meddler, a Greek Soldier in The Myth Makers, a Guard in The Massacre, a Lynch Mob Member in The Gunfighters, a Cyberman in The Moonbase, a Guard in Fury from the Deep, a Cyberman in The Invasion, a Technician in Seeds of Death, an Issigri HQ Miner in The Space Pirates, a UNIT Soldier in Doctor Who and the Silurians episode, a Military Policeman & UNIT Soldier in Ambassadors of Death, a Prisoner in The Mind of Evil, a Primitive in Colony in Space, a Guard in The Curse of Peladon, a Warrior in The Mutants and an Exxilon in Death to the Daleks. He returns as a Soldier/Armourer/Brethren Guest in The Masque of Mandragora, a Leviathan Guard in Ribos Operation, a Gracht Guard in Androids of Tara, a Skonnan Elder in Horns of the Nimon, Doctor Body Parts/Pangol Doctor in The Leisure Hive and a Gundan in Warriors' Gate. And on the way the production paperwork will; spell his names several different ways! He was in Doomwatch as a man in Project Sahara, Re-Entry Forbidden & The Red Sky and played a man in the missing third season Out of the Unknown episode 1+1=1.5.
Regular extra Steve Ismay 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 a Presidential Guard in Frontier in Space and a Security Guard in The Green Death. So far he's been in every story this season playing a UNIT Soldier in The Time Warrior and an Army Soldier in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, an Exxilon and an Exxilon Zombie in Death to the Daleks and he completes this by playing a Metebelis 3 Guard in Planet of the Spiders! He then returns as 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.
Bob Blaine had previously been a Gatekeeper in Ambassadors of Death, an Auton Daffodil Man in Terror of the Autons, a Prisoner & UNIT Soldier in The Mind of Evil, a Colonist & IMC Guard in Colony in Space, a Chateau Guard in The Sea Devils, a UNIT Trooper in The Time Monster and an Exxilon in Death to the Daleks.
David Rolfe made his Doctor Who debut in the previous story as an Exxilon in Death to the Daleks. He's back as a Crew Member in Planet of Evil, a Courtier in The Masque of Mandragora, one of the Doctor's Body Parts & a Pangol/Doctor in The Leisure Hive.
Chris Hodge was previously an Airport Passenger in The Faceless Ones.
Somewhere in the miners this episode is stuntman Max Faulkner: he gets a speaking role later in the story. The story is that while Curse of Peladon is based on the UK's entry into the European Common Market, Monster is inspired by the Miner's strikes that occurred during the early 70s.
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