The Continuity GuideMoonbase Guide
Medical
by Martin Willey
The Continuity Guide
We first see a medical room with an observation section in Alpha Child. The same basic set also appears, with modifications, in Dragon's Domain, The Troubled Spirit and End Of Eternity.. The ICU in Space Brain is a variation of this design.
See also the Isolation Room in Breakaway and the Medical Security Unit in Force Of Life (both with different window styles and a different plan).
Filmed as "Medical Department" on 15th-18th July 1974.
The exterior door, marked "Medical Unit". The open Travel Tube door beyond is marked "Medical Centre".
The door to the corridor is right; the observation room is left. As usual, there is a shelf unit dividing the room.
One of the two beds.
The other bed.
Beyond are the three windows into the observation room, lit by blue panels. This version of the observation room is four wall panels wide and two panels deep.
The opposite wall to the observation room has windows to the lunar surface. In several reverse shots, we only see two windows at a time. Possibly this wall is actually the observation window wall with a black backing (in none of the shots is a moonscape visible).
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Filmed as "Medical Centre" on 27th-29th January 1975.
In the Dragon's Domain version of this set, the observation room is wider (2x6 panels, vs. 2x4 panels in Alpha Child) and has a single large window. In this scene, Koenig enters through a side door at left.
There are two standard beds.
Another difference is the double door entrance (in Alpha Child, there is a single door further to the right). The observation room is at left.
The four windows to the lunar surface are also seen in Dragon's Domain.
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Filmed as "Medical Department" on Friday 22nd November 1974, and 25th-27th November.
In this scene from The Troubled Spirit Helena is facing the two hospital beds. The length of this set varies; here it is a little longer.
The hospital beds.
The smaller observation room is the same size as in Alpha Child. There is a single large observation window.
View from the observation room towards the opposite wall. In the Troubled Spirit only, there are no windows to the lunar surface. The room has shortened- compare the shot when Helena is at her desk, under the shelf on the left, when there was an extra blank panel beyond.
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In End Of Eternity we see 3 medical rooms; the autopsy room, the intensive care unit, and a third room. the Medical Centre. The Autopsy Room and the ICU both have observation rooms, with the same layout but different computer configurations. The Medical Centre does not have an observation room.
These shots were filmed on 15th-16th October 1974; the Medical Centre set was filmed on 17th-18th October after the Baxter quarters sequences,
In End Of Eternity, the observation room (4x2 panels wide, now with two computers added) is used for operations and autopsies.
End Of Eternity "Intensive Care Unit 2". A large window allows observation. The computer panels have been changed.
The autopsy room (green) and the ICU (blue) wall configurations.
The main room of the Autopsy and Intensive Care Unit 2 have the same plan as the Medical Centre, without the observation room.
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Copyright Martin Willey