The Continuity GuideMoonbase Guide
Technical
by Martin Willey
The Continuity GuideYear 2 TechLabs shared a common plan (identical to Life Support) with the exception of the Research Room in The Lambda Factor.
Filmed on L Stage (revamp Power Room) on Thursday 8th April 1976.
The exterior shot establishes the Research Building as outside of the main Moonbase complex. From the size of the windows and door, it is not big enough to accommodate the interior set.
We only see some of the room, including the observation room and partially the computer alcove. The foreground desk with the keyboard is Paul Morrow's desk from Main Mission. On the desk by the window, we see the green pipe, by the Krokus photograph enlarger ("propogatoscope").
Filmed on L Stage (revamp Power Room) on Thursday 13th May 1976.
We don't see much of the left wall (the reactor door is not seen at all). Among the props are the tall grey microscope, one of Bergman's perspex spheres, the thermal lance/telescope seen earlier in the episode, and the Geiger counter.
An alarm button appears on the right-side computer panel. It isn't clearly seen elsewhere in the episode, but publicity photos reveal it was sometimes not present- and in one photo in a completely different position.
Scene 65, filmed on Friday 23rd April 1976 on L Stage (as "Modelling Room"; the original location in the script was Helena's quarters). We only see the computer alcove of the set.
Filmed on L Stage on Friday 8th October 1976, Monday 11th October.
The power control panel is adapted from the "Life Support Systems Core" (The Beta Cloud) and "Alpha Air Conditioning System" (Bringers Of Wonder part 2) in Life Support. The slider panels were first seen in Seed Of Destruction Life Support (the revamped Weapons Section set). It has gauges for "Core Temperature", "Critical Mass" and "Interchange". The sliding dials on the side have the labels "Dummy Load Dynanometer" and "Exciter Input Regulator" (a dynamometer - not dynanometer - is a real instrument for measuring the force of an engine; exciter regulators are used in electronics).
Filmed on M stage, Tuesday 12th October 1976. This simple set was reworked as the Medical Stores 3 days later.
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Filmed November 1976.
The Life Support set is adapted again. The observation room has disappeared- the door is a normal wall panel, and the window is a blank panel, with the metal louvres from the nuclear waste dome central core corridor. The desk consoles are from the waste dome monitoring room too.
Notice the nuclear detonator
Copyright Martin Willey