The Continuity Guide
Moonbase Guide
Medical
by Martin Willey

Our first view of the new Medical, in The Metamorph. The illuminated panels are blue- except in a few episodes (Seed of Destruction and The Beta Cloud, and the operation scenes in Catacombs of the Moon)

Detail of the end bed, against the wall. There are three sets of medical computers, but normally only two beds. A third bed doesn't appear until The A-B Chrysalis,

In The Mark of Archanon and Bringers Of Wonder there is only one bed, at the end. In the early scenes in The Mark of Archanon, and the operating theatre scene in Catacombs of the Moon there are no beds. In Dorzak there are four beds along the wall.

In The Beta Cloud there is another bed against the opposite wall (with no computer panel behind). We also see another view of the room with a further two beds (although this is a cheat, see below).

The extra The Beta Cloud bed. Throughout the series, on the central part of the curved wall there is a blank panel - perhaps hiding an earlier door panel.

Note the end bed (on the left here) is not squarely against the medical computers. There is often a Pileo floor lamp in the corner, which pushes it away from the wall.

The beds are normally aligned to medical computer walls, but sometimes they are shifted. This is an extreme example, in The Seance Spectre, with Stevens moved up to the blue light panel, and Eva only half aligned to the computer.

In The Metamorph and The Exiles, the computer displays are the same three-screen design as in Year 1. Below, the left-most panel is new (prop photos). The right-most panel is a repainted version of a year 1 medical panel (labelled "Blood Transfusion"). The new medical computer panels are white instead of black (or more precisely, a creamy white instead of dark grey). Both Annette Fraser and Cantar are in the second bed, and the screens have the label "Medical Computer 2"; presumably the one by the wall is "1" and the other, barely glimpsed behind the communications post, is "3".

In Journey to Where and subsequent episodes, two smaller screens replace them.

One of the new medical panels. This design also appears on two mobile trolleys.
Sketch of this design.

More details of the computer panels

More details.

Detail of the hanging computer control and one of the Medical monitors. An Ergastolo folding screen is always behind the Medical monitors (hiding the cable and power source).

For the most of the series, it is positioned at the back of the room. Often in front there is a red treatment chair (identical to an Eagle pilot chair, which is in reality a dentist chair). Often it is not present (it is not in The Metamorph; it first appears in The Exiles in certain scenes only). There are two red diagnostic chairs in Medical in both The Mark of Archanon and Dorzak.

In The Lambda Factor it has moved forward, to the end of the second bed. It moves back for the next episode, The Seance Spectre.

Finally in Dorzak, it has moved forward again, in front of the door.

In The Immunity Syndrome it is back to its first position, at the back of the room.

Medical monitors and drug trays are cluttered around.

The Pileo floor lamps make an appearance.

A Giano Vano Ruote telephone table between the beds.

In the main Medical Center, the observation room beyond.

The main Medical Center is modified by adding a fourth bed (note the one on the end loses the computer unit).

The layout of the larger Medical Center.

The main door is a single sliding door, unusually in the centre of a 8 foot/ 2.44m section (either side is a plain flat wall, not a standard Alphan pattern).

Seen first in The Exiles, the door has "Emergency Procedure" labels by the door control panel; in later episodes these are on the other side, some distance from the door frame, often obscured by foreground furnishings.

In The Mark of Archanon a red sticker appears above the door control panel, and will remain there throughout the series.

Catacombs of the Moon.

In Catacombs of the Moon, the room is shorter.

In Catacombs of the Moon, there is a temperature gauge. Later (in The Beta Cloud) it will move to wall by the door.

In Seed of Destruction Helena and Vincent look at the fourth wall and see this Life Support Systems Indicator.

In Bringers Of Wonder, they look at this screen on the fourth wall.

In The Beta Cloud we see the fourth wall, with another bed. Actually these are beds 2 and 3 from the regular layout, with a corner added between them.

In The Lambda Factor, we see a corner of the room. In other shots in this episode, the reverse shots are faked by moving the camera 90 degrees, so we see the bed wall, or the door wall.