The Catacombs Production Guide
Storyboards
Collision Course

These are frames from the special effects storyboard for the episode Collision Course. Most year 1 storyboards were not coloured, but for this episode the planet Atheria is coloured in red and yellow.


In the original script (from 9th August 1974), Brian Johnson has marked up the SFX shots and sketched scene 74, when Koenig first sees the "mammoth spaceship shaped like a wingless vulture". The back page of the SFX scene list (dated 13 August 1974) with Brian Johnson's initial sketch of Arra's ship.

Scene 74
Window plate (18 mm)
Approaching is giant space shuttle [slow]

Collision Course

Scene 76
Eagle diag R-L rolls from side to side, drawn twds monster shuttlecraft.

Collision Course

Scene 76a
Rolling Eagle diag R-L rolls twds slowly growing giant spaceship.

Not seen in episode

Scene 80
Tiny rolling Eagle drawn towards gigantic spacecraft.

Collision Course