Production
| Episode | Broadcast date | Run time | Viewership |
Archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Episode One" | 2 January 1971 (1971-01-02) | 24:36 | 7.3 | PAL D3 colour restoration |
| "Episode Two" | 9 January 1971 (1971-01-09) | 24:48 | 8.0 | PAL D3 colour restoration |
| "Episode Three" | 16 January 1971 (1971-01-16) | 23:28 | 8.1 | PAL D3 colour restoration |
| "Episode Four" | 23 January 1971 (1971-01-23) | 22:10 | 8.4 | PAL D3 colour restoration |
Working titles for this story included The Spray of Death.
The dramatic scene at the start of Episode Three, where an Auton is hit with a car and tumbles off a cliff, was quite real. Dinny Powell was driving the vehicle in place of actor Richard Franklin, and stuntman Terry Walsh, as the Auton, fell further down the slope than intended, being injured in the mishap. He nevertheless got back to his feet in the same take as planned.
On the first day of filming, Katy Manning pulled all the ligaments in her foot jumping out of a car and running across a quarry. She also formed a fast bond with Barry Letts, as she was fond of the animals used in the serial.
The opening titles were coloured pink for this story. The longer 1967 arrangement of the theme returns on this story, last used in The War Games.
Read more about this topic: Terror Of The Autons
Famous quotes containing the word production:
“The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The growing of food and the growing of children are both vital to the family’s survival.... Who would dare make the judgment that holding your youngest baby on your lap is less important than weeding a few more yards in the maize field? Yet this is the judgment our society makes constantly. Production of autos, canned soup, advertising copy is important. Housework—cleaning, feeding, and caring—is unimportant.”
—Debbie Taylor (20th century)