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Quotes
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"Well, we're all in somebody's history books." ~ The Fourth DoctorThe 4th Doctor: First things first?
Romana: Exactly.
The 4th Doctor: But not necessarily in that order.
"I knew a man who solved the insoluble by the strangest means. He sees the threads that join the universe together and mends them when they break." ~ Zastor
The 4th Doctor: That's not a problem. I happen to be an expert in power sources.
Romana: Tigella won't take long, then.
The 4th Doctor: No, no, no. A quick flight, a quick service.
Romana: What is the energy process, baryon multiplication?
The 4th Doctor: Erm, er, yes. Yes, something like that. They didn't actually let me see it last time. Religious objections.
The 4th Doctor: What's the matter?
Romana: Well, now his probe circuit's jammed.
The 4th Doctor: Well, that's easy. Just waggle his tail.
"Flies trapped in amber. Not even the Doctor can escape a chronic hysteretic loop. I've caught him inside a fold of time. His only respite is the short period when he loops back to the start. Round and round, for all eternity." ~ Meglos
"Don't think too hard, you'll burst something." ~ Grugger
Deedrix: Then you'll be in danger yourself.
Meglos: Well, hardly. I'm a Time Lord. Having lived in the future I can hardly die in the present.
Deedrix: That can't be true. That's a philosophical paradox.
Meglos: No, it's merely beyond your comprehension.
"Ah, yes, well, anyone can make a mistake." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"That's very impressive. It's not exactly what I expected, but it's very impressive." ~ The Fourth Doctor
Romana: I forgot that the planet rotates in an anticlockwise direction.
Brotadac: What's she talking about?
Grugger: Rotation, direction, revolving.
Brotadac: Oh.
Grugger: Well, what difference does that make?
Romana: Don't you see? If we'd gone the other way, we wouldn't have come back to the same point.
Lexa: I think you're a fraud and a liar.
The 4th Doctor: Well, that makes even less sense.
Lexa: Oh? Why?
The 4th Doctor: Well, you see, I just don't do that sort of thing.
The 4th Doctor: Exactly. On sight. If Meglos can impersonate me
Romana: You can impersonate Meglos.
Meglos: Ten thousand years. Cretins. Morons. Half-wits.
The 4th Doctor: Yes, they've not been very clever, have they, unlike us.
Meglos: They probably won't even hit Tigella.
The 4th Doctor: Well, if my calculations are correct, they certainly won't.
Meglos: Your calculations?
The 4th Doctor: I inverted your control setting. If he starts the countdown, he'll destroy himself, as well as you and me and, well, the whole planet, of course.
"Oh, yes. I've often puzzled about that. Why a good looking chap like you should want to control the universe. I mean, it baffles me, this burning ambition to...Burning?" ~ The Fourth Doctor
"Gallifrey? Do they, indeed. Well, we'll see about that when we've dropped our friend off home. Unless, of course, you want to stay here and do some gardening?" ~ The Fourth Doctor
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Trivia
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Working titles for "Meglos" included The Golden Star, The Golden Pentangle, The Golden Pentagram, The Last Sol-Fataran and The Last Zolfa-Thuran. Several of these names reflected the evolving shape of the Dodecahedron, which was originally a five-sided object (influencing the number of screens found on Zolfa-Thura) rather than a twenty-sided object made up of pentagons.
Keen to inject more science into the script, Christopher H. Bidmead suggested the chronic hysteresis element, the terminology derived from a loop-like phenomenon which arises in fields such as electromagnetism.
The story is notable because is sees Jacqueline Hill return to the Doctor Who series fifteen years after her last stint in the Tardis, as Barbara Wright (one of the original companions). She portrays Lexa in this story.
In the original script, Lexa had simply vanished from the action once she had served her purpose within the narrative. Christopher H. Bidmead suggested her act of self-sacrifice as a more dramatic end for the character.
This story features the only use in Doctor Who of a camera-linking system known as Scene-Sync that allowed the use of non-static shots of characters superimposed onto a miniature set. As the cameras on the actors were moved, the cameras on the miniature set moved the equivalent scaled amount automatically. The exact scale motion was achieved by trial and error, involving minute adjustments to the voltage delivered to the slave camera's motors.
While John Nathan-Turner had lured John Leeson back to the series, it was only on the promise that K9 would be written out of the program. While the character was popular, technical problems with the prop K9 made it difficult to work with.
Among the stories circulated in the press about the upcoming demise of K9 was the one where Bill Fraser was reported to have only taken the role of Grugger so he could kick K9. Fraser would later work with the K9 prop again, as Commander Bill Pollock in K9 & Company: A Girl's Best Friend.
The character name of Brotadac is an anagram of 'bad actor'. This was a joke by the writers.
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Links (Watch on DailyMotion.com)
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Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Doctor Who: Meglos (Story 111) DVD is available at Amazon.com,
or watch via online streaming at Hulu Plus.
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