The Production Guide
Script To Screen: The Seance Spectre
by Martin Willey

Script To Screen

• Comments
• Shooting Script
• Call Sheet
• Daily Report
• Final Scene

The episode ends in Command Center with Tony and Alan looking at the desk screen. "As you said, if you like nature, doctor." says Alan. "So I did." Helena replies. We see the screen, showing pictures of girls. Tony says "Well, you said choose something from the Picture Library, right? That is what I call choice. Oh mother." Alan's final line is "My mother was never like that" (a voice over), and we see Tony and Alan smiling.

The scene 183 was filmed on the morning of Monday 25th October 1976 (carried over from the previous Friday; the rest of the day was spent in Medical Center and corridor scenes). The filmed scene followed the script shown below. In the final edit, the scene is shortened, with the short addition of Alan's line (a post-production dub). Maya's transformation, the "Bikini Girl", was played by Venicia Day (real name Mary Weston, imdb; she also has a short uncredited role as a slave in the 1979 Dr Who story Destiny of the Daleks). A number of publicity photos were shot.

The main problem with the scene may have been the see-through costume, rather than the appalling sexist humour.

From the same cut scene, although no kiss is scripted. Probably the end of the scene; Tony has moved to the other side of the desk, Maya must be returning from the doorway, rather than exiting. Note the microphone.

Copyright Martin Willey