The Production GuideFilming
by Martin Willey
The Production GuideOn SFX scenes, there is no sound, so the clapper part is unused, and by the second series just a white title card is used.
Paul Turtle holds the clapperboard for a Care Unit shot on Tuesday 15 January 1974, second day of shooting Matter of Life and Death
Friday 18th January, filming on the Main Mission set for the 5th day of Matter of Life and Death. The female cast wear pink smocks to protect their uniforms between shots.
22 January 1974, filming the command conference in Koenig's office
25 January 1974, filming the planet scenes in Matter of Life and Death
28 January 1974, filming in Helena's living quarters
Filming Black Sun on the Main Mission, 5th and 7th February 1974. The two shots of Prentis are both slate 119, the second being marked "P/U" (pick-up).
Filming Ring Around The Moon on the lunar surface. Date unreadable, but this would have been around 1 March 1974.
Filming Ring Around The Moon on the Main Mission, 6th and 7th March 1974.
Ring Around The Moon, Thursday 14th March 1974. This is the camera rig to rotate the lens 360 degrees, while filming Helena inside the Triton sphere (so she appears to spin around).
Filming Earthbound, 22 March on the alien ship, 29th March in Koenig's office.
SFX clapperboard for Earthbound, Wednesday 20 March 1974. The Rescue Eagle on the launch pad was used for a large number of publicity photos.
Filming Another Time, Another Place, 17th and 18th April 1974. Director David Tomblin uses the clapperboard.
SFX clapperboards for Another Time, Another Place, filmed 22nd to 25th April, (see SFX footage)
SFX clapperboards for Guardian of Piri, 17th May, 29th May and 3rd June 1974. See SFX footage
Title SFX shot from Force of Life, filmed 22 July 1974 (SFX footage), end shot from The Last Sunset, 1 August 1974 (SFX footage) and Voyager's Return, 8th August 1974 and 16 August 1974 (SFX footage)
SFX clapperboards from Death's Other Dominion (23rd October 1974), The Full Circle and End of Eternity (24 October 1974 with final space shot 6 December 1974, see SFX footage)
SFX clapperboards from War Games (11 November and 28 November 1974, SFX footage) and The Last Enemy (16 April 1975, 28th November 1974, 13 December 1974, 16 December, SFX footage)
The Troubled Spirit on 4 December 1974
SFX clapperboards from The Infernal Machine (30 January 1975, 29 January 1975, SFX footage), Mission of the Darians (6 February 1975, SFX footage)
Mission of the Darians on 20th January 1975.
Filming Dragon's Domain on 7th February 1975
SFX clapperboards from Dragon's Domain (14th February 1975, 27 February 1975, 26 February 1975, 28 February, SFX footage)
12th February 1976, day 14 of filming The Metamorph.
SFX clapperboards from The Taybor(2 June 1976, 12 May 1976, 13 May 1976, SFX footage) and The Seance Spectre ( 22 October 1976, SFX footage)
The only clapperboard seen in an episode, at the start of A Matter Of Balance. Only seen on older, pre-2010, media, the US DVDs and the Network Blu-rays remove these frames.
Bringers Of Wonder part 2 filmed on 14 September 1976, seen at the start of a on-set "blooper".
14th December 1976, filming The Dorcons
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