#1 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:10,640 "Captured by primitive tribesmen,
the Doctor faces
the 'Ordeal of the Horda'."
(Radio Times)
#2 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:17,960 This episode was first shown
on 8 January 1977,
and was seen by 11.1 million viewers.
#3 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:38,440 Rehearsals are a good way
for everyone involved in a production
to grow comfortable with one another,
#4 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:45,160 but with pre-filming,
everyone starts off "cold".
#5 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:53,240 That's why, on Monday 20 September 1976,
Louise Jameson was feeling
a little self-conscious:
#6 00:00:53,440 --> 00:01:00,720 it was her first day on the job,
and she was going to have to perform
half-naked in front of a crew
of total strangers.
#7 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:09,320 She stayed in her quilted dressing gown
as long as she possibly could,
but eventually had to remove it
for the lighting to be set up.
#8 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:15,600 Silence fell on the film set,
which was crewed entirely by men.
#9 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:22,720 "Well, I don't mind lighting this,"
said the chief technician,
and Louise suddenly found that
she was incredibly popular.
#10 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:27,160 This was Louise's
unscripted contribution.
#11 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:47,240 Long-time viewers may have recognised
the "oil drum" space helmet
which hangs at Neeva's shoulders.
#12 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:56,079 It was one of a batch made in 1960
for the ITV serial
and Doctor Who precursor,
Pathfinders to Mars.
#13 00:01:56,239 --> 00:02:03,559 It made its Doctor Who debut in 1965,
adorning one of the Daleks'
assorted allies
in 'Mission to the Unknown'.
#14 00:02:03,719 --> 00:02:10,479 It had since been worn by
the Doctor ('Frontier in Space', 1973)
and a dead Thal
('Planet of the Daleks', also 1973),
#15 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:17,079 and was most recently seen
on a sinister android "mechanic"
('The Android Invasion', 1975).
#16 00:02:17,279 --> 00:02:25,239 Later in 1977,
it returned to BBC screens
in the unsuccessful science fiction
sitcom Come Back, Mrs Noah.
#17 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:35,598 This is the hole Leela cut last week
(or, in the story, last night).
In the script,
it has been "hastily patched".
#18 00:02:42,958 --> 00:02:48,638 Brett Forrest (1943-2013)
plays the guard
and not the voice of Xoanon.
(That's an actor you'll already know.)
#19 00:02:48,838 --> 00:02:54,758 He worked with Pennant Roberts again,
playing another guard
in the second episode
of Blake’s 7(1978).
#20 00:03:02,438 --> 00:03:10,278 As scripted, "a length of plastic
tubing, strips of electric cable
and plastic sheeting, all hanging
loosely from a wire shoulder frame."
#21 00:03:31,278 --> 00:03:37,518 As recorded, this scene began
with the Doctor entering the Sanctum
through the hole in the wall,
#22 00:03:37,678 --> 00:03:43,518 but, once again,
this episode needed
some very tight editing
to bring it down to the right length,
#23 00:03:43,678 --> 00:03:49,878 and, exactly like Part 1,
the final cut clocked in at two seconds
under 25 minutes.
#24 00:03:53,118 --> 00:03:57,998 "Waiting for a voice,"
he adds in the script.
#25 00:03:58,158 --> 00:04:05,478 The transceiver was scripted
as a box-shaped object
rather than a tube.
#26 00:04:15,597 --> 00:04:23,237 In the background you can hear
the sounds of the jungle,
stock BBC tracks
added in post-production dubbing.
#27 00:04:23,397 --> 00:04:31,077 Tom Baker's pre-recorded Xoanon lines,
however, were played "live"
into the studio from tape.
#28 00:04:31,277 --> 00:04:37,877 The Doctor is less sympathetic
in the script:"Will you just get up, please,"
he tells her.
#29 00:04:38,037 --> 00:04:44,397 A character trait of Tom Baker's Doctor:
he often contradicts himself.
#30 00:04:44,597 --> 00:04:51,197 In the last episode,
he told Leela
not to be certain of anything:
it's a sign of weakness.
#31 00:04:51,357 --> 00:04:58,197 The serial's original costume designer
was Barbara Kidd,
who worked on Doctor Who
from 1973 until the 21st century.
#32 00:04:58,357 --> 00:05:05,797 In the event, she dropped out
and it wasJohn Bloomfield
who got to design
Leela's iconic leather outfit.
#33 00:05:05,997 --> 00:05:13,197 He originally planned that
she would wear a headband,
just like the male Sevateem.
#34 00:05:13,357 --> 00:05:21,277 At an early stage,
they were also considering
giving her a distinctive hairstyle,
#35 00:05:21,437 --> 00:05:28,717 which would have meant
asking Louise to wear a wig,
or alter her long hair.
#36 00:05:28,877 --> 00:05:35,357 The costume turned out
to be very uncomfortable to wear,
and, because it was all-in-one,
calls of nature couldn't be urgent.
#37 00:05:35,517 --> 00:05:42,757 When it wore out after four serials,
Louise asked that its replacement
should be a two-piece
— and in softer leather!
#38 00:05:49,677 --> 00:05:53,837 Most of this scene was cut.
#39 00:05:53,997 --> 00:06:00,437 Tomas has been scouting forward,
and reports back:
there is a gap in the wall,
the width of three or four men.
#40 00:06:00,597 --> 00:06:07,637 Andor suspects a trap,
set by the Tesh or the Evil One
— but Tomas reminds him
that the Evil One has been destroyed.
#41 00:06:07,837 --> 00:06:13,597 He lays his battle plan:
Tomas will take the left flank,
Calib the right, and he himself will
lead the main assault in the centre.
#42 00:06:13,797 --> 00:06:20,477 The script describes the wall:
"It is as though the world was flat
and this was the edge,
#43 00:06:20,637 --> 00:06:28,757 "except that there are no stars
or light of any sort, just a thick,
impenetrable blackness."
#44 00:06:28,917 --> 00:06:32,797 It's a "blue-screen"
Colour Separation Overlay shot,
#45 00:06:32,957 --> 00:06:38,437 with Camera 5's
"out-of-focus dark texturing"
inlaid into the output of Camera 3.
#46 00:06:42,877 --> 00:06:47,917 No crossbow bolts are actually fired.
#47 00:06:57,517 --> 00:07:07,757 A planned CSO model shot showed
three warriors charging at the wall;
they scream and die
as it closes around them.
#48 00:07:07,957 --> 00:07:13,997 The "heavenly light"
is just a white outline
on a black caption card.
#49 00:07:14,197 --> 00:07:19,757 The effect is achieved
by mixing the outputs of Cameras 1 and 2 (on Neeva)
and 3 (on the card).
#50 00:07:19,957 --> 00:07:26,637 In the script,
Leela starts the scene
sitting cross-legged on the floor,
whetting her knife on a stone.