The Catacombs Production Guide
This Episode
by Martin Willey


The This Episode sequences in the Year One Titles are an exciting montage of visual highlights. Occasionally alternate takes and cut scenes were included, providing a brief glimpse of what the episodes could have been. Breakaway and Matter Of Life And Death have a high proportion of shots different to the finished episode. Other episodes have only a few shots, shown here.

Black Sun

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Alan's Eagle flying low over the lunar hills (the episode shows a more distant view). Explosion by gravity tower (a different version of Alan's laser strike). The Alphans fall over as the asteroid shifts (the episode shows a wider view from the opposite side).

Ring Around The Moon

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One shots shows Helena looking in a microscope; the second shot shows her looking up to Mathias.

Another Time, Another Place

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Silver domes and glass houses. Not seen in episode.

Missing Link

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The Last Enemy

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A laser tank. We see this shot in The Infernal Machine, but not this episode.

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The right side of the matte painting is not seen in the episode.

The Infernal Machine

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One shot shows the Moonbase through the rotating paddles of Gwent.

Mission Of The Darians

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There are two shots in the This Episode sequence of Koenig breaking into a broad smile when talking to Kara.


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