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

The original shooting schedule for the episode was for 10 days, from Tuesday 2nd April 1974 to Wednesday 17th April. As normal, filming over-ran, reaching day 12 on Friday 19th. Two days, Wednesday 10th and Thursday 18th, were extended days, trying to make up time. From Monday 22nd April, the next episode, Missing Link, had to start filming. But there were still unfilmed scenes for Another Time, Another Place.

It was decided the unit would split into two, the "A" unit under Ray Austin filming Missing Link, and the "B" unit under David Tomblin continuing to shoot the missing scenes for Another Time, Another Place. Originally scheduled for just Monday and Tuesday, it actually finished on day 15, Thursday 25th April. Although there had been some second unit shooting at the same time as the main unit, this was the first time the unit split into two crews, each filming a different episode simultaneously. In Year 2, several episodes were shot like this.

On Friday 19th, production manager Ron Fry issued a second shooting schedule for the missing scenes (see below). The first scenes are the interior of the Earth living unit when Alpha Alan and Helena look in the window (the exteriors were shot on Wednesday 17th). We then film scene 70, when Alpha Helena talks to Earth Helena ("All I know is that we were the same person once...we became two different people..."). This would be shot with split screen (in reality, Barbara was talking to her stand-in, Suzanne Heimer). These interiors were originally scheduled for Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th on L stage (among the Moonbase sets); now they will film on the North Tunnel stage.

Next on the North Tunnel stage, for the remainder of Monday and much of Tuesday, were black void scenes. There was no set, just black velvet drapes. However, the complicated split screen work for the above sequence spilled over two days, and most of these black velvet scenes were eventually shot on Thursday 25th April.

Next on the North Tunnel stage was scene 30, Regina's hallucination sequence in Diagnostic when she hits Mathias. The Diagnostic Unit set had been filmed on Wednesday 10th April (the start of the scene with her in bed, and the end when she hits Mathias). Here they shot the scenes in a black void, with Regina breaking the mirror. This was filmed in slow motion, with a high speed camera. Anton Phillips is present, but the shots in the episode all show him on the set, from 10th April, not these void scenes. It looks like at least some of scene 30 was done on the 22nd or 23rd, but a retake was required on the 25th.

These were the double-exposure shots from the opening space warp sequence (scenes 9 and 11), as the Alphans split into two. Originally scheduled over Monday and Tuesday, they were eventually filmed on Thursday. Landau and Zienia Merton were filming day 4 of Missing Link, on 'L' stage; the other Alphan cast would not normally have been present, but were called in for these shots.

The last shots were Main Mission screen with captions ("Earth Orbit confirmed") although none of them were eventually used.