WEBVTT 00:30.000 --> 00:47.000 Right, well, I have to confess I didn't watch William Hartnell, I think this is well known by now, because I didn't have a telly, simply enough. 00:47.000 --> 00:55.000 But my earliest memory is of Patrick Troughton, and I think it's true to say that his portrayal influenced me. 00:55.000 --> 01:02.000 Patrick Troughton's story suffered from the junking of the archive material in the 1970s. 01:02.000 --> 01:14.000 So, we've just got some photographs that luckily some people took of the show when it was going out. 01:14.000 --> 01:22.000 And they've stuck them together and I go and do a voiceover and hopefully it will entertain you. 01:22.000 --> 01:25.000 I'm sure it will. It will entertain me. 01:25.000 --> 01:30.000 The late 1960s had the whole world captivated by the progress of the Apollo missions. 01:30.000 --> 01:39.000 A keen planet closely watched humanity attempt to escape the confines of the Earth and reach towards our nearest celestial neighbour. 01:39.000 --> 01:47.000 This worldwide excitement and interest in the Moon was an aspect that producer Innes Lloyd wished to capitalise on. 01:47.000 --> 01:53.000 A lunar base therefore seemed an ideal and somewhat topical setting for a Doctor Who story. 01:53.000 --> 02:04.000 In fact, the BBC had the satisfaction of knowing that they beat NASA to the Moon by more than two years, with the 1967 Patrick Troughton story, The Moonbase. 02:04.000 --> 02:11.000 In late 1966, the landmark story, The Tenth Planet, had made a huge impression when broadcast. 02:11.000 --> 02:22.000 Making both the departure of William Hartnell from the title role and the first appearance of a new race of creatures called Cybermen, created by Dr Christopher Magnus Howard Peddler. 02:22.000 --> 02:25.000 Or Kit Peddler, as he was better known. 02:25.000 --> 02:32.000 Even before the final episode of The Tenth Planet had been broadcast, producer Innes Lloyd had approached Kit Peddler to write a sequel. 02:32.000 --> 02:39.000 Provisionally entitled The Return of the Cybermen, The Moonbase became the second story to feature the adversaries 02:39.000 --> 02:44.000 and called upon a similar formula to its predecessor, The Tenth Planet. 02:44.000 --> 02:49.000 Once again, the Cybermen were found menacing an isolated group of humans. 02:49.000 --> 02:54.000 However, instead of an Antarctic base, we have a Moonbase. 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 Instead of General Cutler, we have Hobson. 02:57.000 --> 03:02.000 And instead of Z-Bomb, we have the Gravitron. 03:02.000 --> 03:10.000 Kit Peddler was relatively new to writing drama, and his first script for The Tenth Planet had to be completed by script editor Jerry Davis. 03:10.000 --> 03:19.000 This time, Peddler's writing brief was simply to write a new Cybermen story with the stipulation that the action had to take place on the Moon. 03:19.000 --> 03:24.000 And if possible, the story should involve no more than one very large set and only a couple of smaller ones. 03:24.000 --> 03:35.000 Both Innes Lloyd and Jerry Davis felt that this constraint gave a more impressive production as the budget did not have to be spread over many sets. 03:35.000 --> 03:42.000 To give a greater sense of size to the lunar set, director Maurice Barré opted to use forced perspective, 03:42.000 --> 03:50.000 including a distance model of the Moonbase for the travellers to look at, and also a quarter-sized TARDIS built for the show. 03:50.000 --> 03:56.000 Slow motion was also employed to give those on the Moon's surface a graceful and slow movement throughout the story. 03:56.000 --> 04:00.000 This was achieved by over-cranking the camera. 04:00.000 --> 04:06.000 As it turned out, Kit Peddler was hospitalised soon after completing the draft script for The Moonbase. 04:06.000 --> 04:11.000 So, once again, Jerry Davis stepped in to write the final version of the script. 04:11.000 --> 04:20.000 At very short notice, he also had to insert the character of Jamie, who had been taken on as a member of the regular cast only two stories earlier. 04:20.000 --> 04:26.000 To simplify the plot, Jamie was made unconscious for the bulk of the first two episodes, 04:26.000 --> 04:33.000 and shared around the lines of Ben and the other Moonbase crew in the last two episodes. 04:33.000 --> 04:37.000 This story marked the first change of appearance for the Cybermen. 04:37.000 --> 04:42.000 A costly design exercise, but one that the production team felt was necessary. 04:42.000 --> 04:48.000 The Tenth Planet-style cloth-covered face was replaced with a more robotic-looking helmet. 04:48.000 --> 04:54.000 The changing appearance of the Cybermen was a trait that remained throughout the history of the show, 04:54.000 --> 04:57.000 with their design altering almost every time they reappeared. 04:57.000 --> 05:00.000 This resulted in a steady and continuous evolution, 05:00.000 --> 05:08.000 until their final appearance opposite my portrayal of the Doctor in the 25th anniversary story, The Silver Nemesis. 05:08.000 --> 05:15.000 The Moonbase Cybermen now wore a one-piece PVC suit, which included three finger gloves. 05:15.000 --> 05:24.000 To indicate when a Cyberman was speaking, the actor would operate a small spring-loaded device within the helmet to open and close a plate behind the mouth opening. 05:24.000 --> 05:29.000 Actor Peter Hawkins once again provided the voice of the Cybermen. 05:29.000 --> 05:35.000 However, now the Cybermen voices were generated electronically using a vibrating dental plate, 05:35.000 --> 05:39.000 originally developed for people who had undergone laryngotomies. 05:39.000 --> 05:45.000 One final interesting fact is that one of the extras playing the Moonbase Cybermen was actor John Levine, 05:45.000 --> 05:52.000 who was later to become a regular of the show as the popular character Sergeant Benton. 05:52.000 --> 06:00.000 We join the Doctor and his travelling companions Ben, Polly and Jamie as the Doctor wrestles to gain control of the TARDIS. 06:00.000 --> 06:22.000 I'm pleased to present the loose-canon reconstruction of the Patrick Troughton classic, The Moonbase.