The Continuity GuideMoonbase Guide
Medical
by Martin Willey
The Continuity Guide
The set in Breakaway was named the "Intensive Care Unit" in the script. It has single windows rather than a large observation window (we don't see the observation window plan until Alpha Child). We don't see the door between the monitoring room and the ward itself, but presumably it is alongside the windows.
Originally scheduled for filming 17th December 1973, these scenes were rescheduled for stage H on Wednesday 9th January 1974. As the last scenes of the episode, they were likely delayed; we know they finished the scenes on 11th January. Based the set changes (see below), it appears the sequences were shot in two blocks, with a later re-shoot which involved rebuilding the set.
The observation room is a thin narrow room with a communications post and banks of computers and screens.
View to one end of the room, showing two Main Mission desks (with Sorella lamps) and more computers. This shot follows immediately after the above; all the computer panels have changed. Between the two shots the set was probably taken down and rebuilt.
View towards the single door, by the two desks.
A view from isolation through the two observation windows.
The interior of the isolation room has an eerie blue glow. There are two beds- actually dentist seats, identical to Eagle pilot seats. The wall units are empty computer banks, although a strip of computer units is placed behind the patients.
The patients are monitored with chest units.
Detail of life support controls. These control banks are also seen in Nuclear Generating Area 3
Filming on the set. The video camera in the ceiling is filming Sparkman's face, which is then shown on the screen being filmed by the 35mm camera.
Left wall and door is conjectural.
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Left door is conjectural. Initial computer panel configuration.
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Copyright Martin Willey