The Production Guide
Script To Screen: Another Time, Another Place
by Martin Willey

Script To Screen

• Script - solar system
• Script - landing
• Call sheet 1- Main Mission
• Call sheet 9- Earth
• B Unit

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Tuesday 16th April 1974 was the 9th day of filming (they had just had a long weekend for Easter; 12th was Good Friday, 15th was Easter Monday, both public holidays in the UK). The unit now moves from the Moonbase sets on stage L to the Earth sets on stage M (via, for this day only, a corridor set on stage H).

The dust and equipment is cleared away for a regular corridor scene. In scene 31 Regina (Judy Geeson) is in her pyjamas, spinning in confusion. The guard (Tony Allyn) sees her and goes to help, but she knocks him down with Mathias's commlock and steals his stun gun. This scene had been started on Thursday 11th, before the holiday.

We then move to the Eagle set on stage M. Most of these are regular Eagle shots. In scene 51, Alan is flying them to Earth ("Eagle now on course for Santa Maria"; Prentis Hancock is present as he talks with Alan in this scene). In scene 56 he tells Koenig "There are signs of habitation below, sir". In scene 58 we move to the passenger module. Scene 76 is again in the passenger module, as they leave Earth, Helena holding the bunch of flowers.

The pilot section is redressed for scene 46, the crashed Eagle where Koenig and Alan find their own dead bodies. The trick shots are achieved with doubles- Landau's regular double Alan Meacham for Koenig, and Harry Van Engel for Alan. Van Engel (imdb, born 1931), mostly worked as a stand-in (often for Lawrence Olivier), and had small parts in Dr Who and Blakes 7.

We move from the Eagle set to the adjacent planet surface set. Scene numbers have a "N" suffix to indicate night.

The tower sequence was replaced by another shot, with the Alphans leaving a "full sized" Eagle (a foreground glass shot). This was conceived and shot three months later. It was filmed at Bray Studios on Monday 8th July 1974, during the filming of the episode Alpha Child. The actors were the regular stand-ins, Suzanne Heimer for Helena and Alan Meacham for Koenig, with Harry Van Engel (see above) returning as Alan Carter.

Next they arrive at the settlement. Koenig see Bergman tending his plants and checking his telescope (scene 59). The other shots are of Alan and Helena looking through the windows of another structure. The interior shots, with Sandra and Earth Helena, will be shot separately on a different day.

As usual, the last shots of the day got pushed back to the following day. The Alan/Helena shots (scenes 60-64) were filmed Wednesday 17th, as shown in these behind the scenes shots.