The Production GuideScript To Screen: Missing Link
by Martin Willey
The Production GuideThe Diagnostic Unit set was built by converting Koenig's office and part of Main Mission (which became the corridor outside). There were 3 days of shooting on the set, from Tuesday 30th April 1974 to Thursday 2nd May, while also shooting Eagle scenes on M stage.
Wednesday 1st May was an extended day, filming into the evening. The call sheet below allows us to reconstruct exactly what was filmed.
The first scene is 77, when Bergman ponders "There were four of us in the crash."
In scene 81, Helena tries to shock Koenig back to life. As part of this sequence, Helena administers chest compressions (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR). Her technique is wrong, but performing correct technique on a healthy person is dangerous. To be safe, Bain uses a fake technique and Landau is replaced by a body double for these shots, his face carefully hidden by Mathias's arm.
Scene 83 is a short sequence as Sandra tells Helena "You mustn't let him die."
Scene 87 is cut from the episode, but a few frames from it appears in the "This Episode" sequence. The script direction reads "Slowly, SANDRA gets out of bed and tries to walk across the room. She gets about halfway when whatever lights are in the room begin to go out of focus, blinking on and off, then the room begins to spin until it becomes a whirling blur around her." The call sheet calls this the "giddy" shot.
Two scenes are run together- scene 91 shows Sandra moaning in her bed, scene 93 has Mathias saying "There's nothing more you can do for him.".
Scenes 96 and 97 has Alan Carter bursting in: "You're not going to kill him!" This is the big fight scene, between Nick Tate, Tony Allyn, stuntman Val Musetti and stuntman Paul Weston doubling for Anton Phillips. Some of this scene would also be filmed the following day, May 2nd.
Scene 99 is the final scene, as Koenig awakes. Although scheduled, it looks like this scene was filmed on the following day, with the rest of scenes 96 and 97.
Scene 89, the burn-in, is the image of Sandra in her bed that Raan shows to Koenig in the Zenno void.
A new scene at the Main Mission computer was filmed for episode 4, Ring Around The Moon. The cast is Koenig, Bergman and Kano. It involves computer readouts, of which there are several in the episode, and a replaceable component. This shot of Kano under the big screen, when Koenig calls "Now, Kano, now!" from the Eagle, is almost certainly part of the new footage (the clock panel was not the big screen in other shots of the episode). Another possibility is the shot of Kano holding a circuit (the replaceable component?) when he says "Paul. Information on Triton is in place. Doctor Russell. Now you can only transmit what we want them to know." Again, this panel was not in the original set.
This scene is listed again on May 2nd, so they either didn't start it, or didn't complete it on the 1st May.
A stand-by set was the Eagle scenes for the start of the episode. These scenes were eventually shot on May 2nd, but they would be cut and re-filmed in July. In this version of the script, they were surveying the moon, not an alien world, hence prop moon charts and a crater photograph on a screen.
| GROUP THREE PRODUCTIONS LTD. | SPACE 1999 TV SERIES. EPISODE 7: MISSING LINK |
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| CALL SHEET NO : 8 |
| DIRECTOR: | RAY AUSTIN | STAGE: | "L" "M" |
| DATE: | WEDNESDAY, 1ST MAY, 1974 | UNIT CALL: | 8.30 A.M. |
| EXTENDED DAY. |
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| ARTISTE | CHARACTER | D/R | MAKEUP CALL | SET CALL |
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| 1. INT. DIAGNOSTIC | 77.81.85.87.91.93. 96.97(pt) 99 89(burn ins) |
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| MARTIN LANDAU | KOENIG | 321 | 7.30 | 8.30 |
| BARBARA BAIN | HELENA | 322 | 7.00 | 8.30 |
| BARRY MORSE | BERGMAN | 324 | 8.00 | 8.30 |
| PRENTIS HANCOCK | MORROW | 335 | Required from 2.00p.m. | |
| ZIENIA MERTON | SANDRA | 328 | 7.45 | 8.30 |
| NICK TATE | CARTER | 326 | 9.30 | 10.30 |
| ANTON PHILLIPS | MATHIAS | 327 | 7.45 | 8.30 |
| TONY ALLYN | 1ST GUARD | 325 | 10.00 | 11.00 |
| VAL MUSETTI | 2ND GUARD | 336 | 10.00 | 11.00 |
| STAND INS | ||||
| Alan Meacham | for Mr.Landau | 8.00 | 8.30 | |
| Suzanne Heimer | for Miss Bain | 8.00 | 8.30 | |
| Ron Watkins | for Mr. Morse | 8.00 | 8.30 | |
| STUNT DOUBLE | ||||
| PAUL WESTON | double for Mr. Phillips | 8.00 | 8.30 | |
| EXTRA ARTIST | ||||
| A.N.OTHER | double for Mr.Landau(Sc.81) | 8.00 | 8.30 | |
PROPS
Commlocks. Wrist monitor. Mirror electrical shock machine.
Bandages.tongue block. Hypogun. Straps for chair. Life support
system. Stunguns. Mattresses, "Sign" for diagnostic.
Intravenous needle.
CAMERA
Wild arriflex for "giddy" shot. Sc.87.
WARDROBE
Koenig in pyjamas Sc.72. Sandra/Bergman pyjamas. Sc.77.
Pads for fight sequence Sc.99.
| ELECTRICAL |
Special light for Sc.87. |
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| GROUP THREE PRODUCTIONS LTD. | SPACE 1999 TV SERIES | |
| CALL SHEET NO : 8 (CONTINUED) | PAGE 2. |
| 2. INT. MAIN MISSION. EPISODE 4 Additional shooting. L. STAGE | ||||
| MARTIN LANDAU | KOENIG | 321 | from above | |
| BARRY MORSE | BERGMAN | 324 | from above | |
| CLIFTON JONES | KANO | 327 | Standby until 1.00. | |
| STAND INS | from above. | |||
| PROPS | Commlock. Computer readout. Computer component and replacement. |
| ELECTRICAL | Computer bank lights to flash. |
| ART DEPT. | Small panel to open in computer bank. |
| EDITORIAL | to stand by with Moviola and clippings. |
| 3. INT. EAGLE/COMMAND PASSENGER MODULE. STANDBY SET 'M' STAGE. Sc. 3 (pt) 4 5 (pt) |
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| MARTIN LANDAU | KOENIG | 321 | from above | |||||||
| BARRY MORSE | BERGMAN | 324 | from above | |||||||
| ZIENIA MERTON | SANDRA | 328 | from above | |||||||
| NICK TATE | CARTER | 326 | from above | |||||||
| STAND INS | From above. | |||||||||
| PROPS: | Clipboard book. Commlock pens. Mooncharts | |||||||||
| CAMERA: | Seahead required. Elemack. | |||||||||
| ELECTRICAL: | Practical Readout for Sc.4. | |||||||||
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| RUSHES: | Lunchtime. Theatre to be advised. |
| CATERING: | A.M./P.M. break on L Stage Running buffet from 5.30p.m. for 80 people |
| TRANSPORT: | 1 Ray Atkins to collect Mr.Landau and Miss Bain at 6.30a.m. 2 Unit car to collect Mr. Morse at 7.15a.m. |
KEN BAKER
Assistant Director.