Production GuideStoryboards
Production GuideSpecial effects art for the episode Dragon's Domain.
This is the fifth page of the SFX script for Dragon's Domain, scenes 76 to 96, as Cellini's Eagle heads to the spaceship graveyard and docks with the dragon ship.
Reverse of the above page has a sketch showing the Ultra Probe docked to the alien ship.
Scene 76:
Eagle lifts off leaving pod.
Framework of Eagle lifts off, leaving passenger module behind.
Brian Johnson and Cyril Foster storyboards.
Scene 78:
Calder in podless Eagle shadowed by two others.
Calder's Eagle flies away from Moonbase Alpha followed at some distance by Eagles 3 + 4.
Brian Johnson and Cyril Foster storyboards.
Scene 79:
Eagle Two descends onto pod on pad.
Eagle Two positions over module on Pad One and descends.
Brian Johnson and Cyril Foster storyboards.
Scene 80A: Eagle descends onto pod - pause; tube withdraws.
Scene 79A: Carter. Boarding tube tracks back.
Brian Johnson and Cyril Foster storyboards, with different scene numbers. In the episode this appears after scene 80 (when Alan says "What's that guy got against me?")
Scene 82:
Eagle lifts off.
Stock. Eagle 2 with Eagle 1's module lifts off.
Brian Johnson and Cyril Foster storyboards.
This shot of 3 Eagles (11 inch models) is not storyboarded, although the SFX script suggests that scene 92 has first of shot of the Eagles leaving the Moon, then a shot of them flying towards the space junk.
Scene 92A: Eagle Calder towards junk, Scene 109B Eagle very slow away.
Scene 92: Small Calder Eagle + shadows twds edge of junk yard.
Scene 92: Calder's skeleton Eagle flies away from Moon, some way behind are 2 escorting Eagles. Space junk in distance.
Brian Johnson sketch and storyboard, Cyril Foster storyboard. The first sketch shows how different scenes are planned together with matching set-ups. Filmed 28 February 1975.
Scene 94:
V/slow Calder moves twds Ultra Probeship
Calder's skeleton Eagle passing lifeless battlecruiser towards probeship docked with spaceship..
Brian Johnson and Cyril Foster storyboards.
Not used in episode, but filmed on 26 February 1975 (shown above). An closer view of the probeship and Eagle was used in the episode (below).
Scene 96:
V. slow track in towards graveyard and Ultra pbe.
Slow track in on graveyard. Burn in.
Brian Johnson and Cyril Foster storyboards. This is seen on the viewscreen in the Eagle passenger module.
