The Production Guide
Script To Screen: War Games
by Martin Willey

Day 3 of Main Mission filming, starting with completing this scene, 59D, as Koenig tells most of the Main Mission staff to evacuate, including Bergman.

When Carter blows up the alien bomber, Koenig and Sandra are thrown to the floor. This is stuntman Eddie Stacey and an unknown stuntwomen taking the fall. A nurse, "Sister Seager", was on stand-by for the stunts, explosions and falling debris.

In an ambitious schedule, they only got to scene 94, with Koenig and Sandra alone in Main Mission after Carter blows up the alien bomber.

The first shot is stuntman Alf Joint, playing Balor, being sucked out the airlock into space at the end of End of Eternity. This is the "tilting airlock", actually an airlock set built vertically, with a camera at the top pointing downwards. The stuntmen fall through the set, landing on crash boxes covered with black velvet.

Stuntman Colin Skeaping falls through the tllting airlock for War Games. We also see yellow sleeved Paul Weston falling. Martin Grace, as a guard, was also filmed, but that shot was not used in the episode. There are also scenes of the stuntmen been pulled through a wrecked corridor (a conventional horizontal corridor, dressed with hanging wires and fallen communications post). Those shots were filmed a few days later, on 31st October, with Les Crawford as the guard in place of Martin Grace.

First is this close-up of the desk hatch being pressed from End of Eternity. This isn't Prentis Hancock's hand, it's probably a member of the film crew.

Close ups of the asteroid rock being disintegrated from End of Eternity. The original sequence with Koenig and Bergman had been filmed on Thursday 10th October; the actors were not present for these new shots, so they were close-ups only. The editor, Dave Lane, would have been editing the episode, and must have wanted new shots for this sequence.