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The Troubled Spirit

This is the SFX script for The Troubled Spirit. It is dated 27 November 1975 (the shooting script was dated 11 November). Having an episode with just one SFX shot allowed the Bray crew to catch up after several episodes with lots of SFX shots (War Games and The Last Enemy).

There are just 3 shots; two are stock footage from previous episodes, and only new shot is required.

THE TROUBLED SPIRIT 27.11.74.

Scene 1
EXT. SPACE. SKY. SFX. (STOCK)
Establishing Shot of Moonbase Alpha, Sound of applause over.

Scene 19
Moon R-L through stars
EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA. SFX.
Establishing shot of Moonbase Alpha in semi-darkness. As we
hold we see the lights fade up.

Scene 35
INT. TRAVEL TUBE TUNNEL. SFX. (STOCK)
The Travel tube whistles along.

The new shot description is crossed out and a new shot of the Moon replaces it.

The SFX grid for the shot. It was shot in December 1974 (see SFX footage). The shot was used in many later episodes, often as an opening shot: Space Brain, The Infernal Machine, Dragon's Domain, The Exiles, Journey To Where and Brian The Brain. The Moon is a reversed photo cut-out of the real Moon, from an Apollo 11 photo taken on 22 July, 1969.

The editor added a few more stock shots into the episode, and repeated scene 19 as the final shot of the episode.

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Thanks to Simon