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

Today includes all the action sequences in Medical, packed with casualties. The room is evacuated, but Mathias is sucked out through the window. The previous day, 30th October, they had filmed the scenes in Medical before the chaos.

Nurse Judith Hepburn and Barbara Bain attend the wounds of Martin Grace. Behind, nurse Jeannie Galston is attending to another patient.

John Clifford is holding out his arm on the left. On the right in the foreground bed, "first Alphan" Tony Goodall, with Martin Grace at the foot of his bed. The "second Alphan", Robert Atiko is attending to a patient by the cracked window (he was the Alphan who called it out).

Mathias shields "casualty 1" (Carol Dee) from the dust. According to the make-up instructions, both casualties are "decompressed". Dee's face looks covered in frost. Dee was also a patient in Space Brain, but was cut from the episode.

Stuntman Paul Weston doubles as Dr Mathias as he dives out the window. He will later shoot more scenes of being sucked into space as another Alphan.

They also filmed the scenes in the corridor outside Medical. Unusually the main Medical set and this corridor were built alongside each other, and filmed with the same cast. Bottom left is Martin Grace, Barbara Bain, Landau and Prentis Hancock in foreground. Behind is Roy Everson (technician looking down), Robert Atiko supporting a nurse at the far end, and the man on the right is Paul Kirby.

The previous day they had filmed this corridor scene of Alphans watching Koenig on the communications post; the cast here are also the cast in Medical. Tony Goodall is in front, with hand on hip. It looks like Trevor Ainsley left, behind Goodall. Roy Everson can be seen looking over nurse Jeannie Galston, with Robert Atiko on her other side. The other Alphans are all also visible in Medical.

The crew moves again, to stage M, for scenes in the Eagle. First we have Koenig and Helena leaving the Eagle when they first land on the planet.