The Penitent Invader: call sheet no. 36
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arthur_of_the_britonsThis call sheet was kindly donated to this archive by Barbara Hatherall, who was an extra on the series. The episode concerned is “The Penitent Invader.”
“The Penitent Invader” was episode ‘G’ - the seventh episode to be filmed.
The call sheet is No.36, and is dated 10 August 1972, which was a Thursday, so this would have been the fourth day of filming.
Filming took place at Woollard, and it was an early start at 6:30 for the Make-up/Wardrobe department, and extras, who were preparing for the two main battle scenes which were to be filmed starting at 7:30, while the main actors were in make-up.
For the first scenes to be filmed, between Arthur’s Celts and the Picts, there were 13 Picts, 20 Celts – as well as two stuntmen dressed as Celts - and 20 dead Picts. Herward’s three companions during his dramatic intervention were also stuntmen. Presumably the stuntmen were the “two bodies in river” listed amongst the props.
Also listed along with weapons and shields, and underlined, as if they were of high importance, are towels – presumably to dry off the extras or stuntmen who had been in the river – and brandy, which the wisdom of the time said would warm them up afterwards!
Though there is no obviously female rider among them, “Maria” is mentioned as a member of Arthur’s Cavalry. This is thought to refer to Maria Tolwinska, the niece of Ben Ford, who supplied the horses.1
Oliver Tobias, who had moved, since 4 August, from Ben Ford’s to a closer lodging, St Mary’s House, Wrington, was brought by taxi, to join Michael Graham-Cox in Make-up/Wardrobe at 7:15, with Jack Watson arriving at 7:30, to be ready to film their parts in the battle. Clive Revill was collected from the Unicorn Hotel 2 at 07:00
Altogether, the earlier scenes were 1 to 6e.
Jack Watson only took half an hour in make-up, as did Michael Gothard, but it took 45 minutes to make up Oliver Tobias and Michael Graham-Cox; Hedley Goodall, who played the abbot, took an hour and a half.
To simulate Arthur’s knife wound, artists from the Animation department, a chest-pad, blood and a knife were needed.
Michael Gothard, who was not needed in Wardrobe/Make-up until 10:30, was allowed a lie-in.
For scenes 41 and 42, filmed at 11:00 – the fight between Rolf and the Picts, and the arrival of Arthur and his men upon the scene – a total of 16 horses were required.
At 2 pm, scene 43, where the abbot goes about the battlefield, blessing the dead, was scheduled to be filmed, as well 40a, which was a shot of Llud talking to himself as he watches Rolf and his men ride out. Filming schedules and scripts supplied by Peter Thornton show that the scene with the abbot was not in the original version.
Food for morning, lunch and afternoon breaks for the cast and crew –110 people - was laid on, by George Cook (or Cooke) on location.
1 See this article from the Western Daily Press, 11 September 1972: "Back to school for King Arthur’s knights"
2 Possibly The Unicorn Hotel, West Street, Somerton TA11 7PR England – this would have been about an hour away by car.
“The Penitent Invader” was episode ‘G’ - the seventh episode to be filmed.
The call sheet is No.36, and is dated 10 August 1972, which was a Thursday, so this would have been the fourth day of filming.
Filming took place at Woollard, and it was an early start at 6:30 for the Make-up/Wardrobe department, and extras, who were preparing for the two main battle scenes which were to be filmed starting at 7:30, while the main actors were in make-up.
For the first scenes to be filmed, between Arthur’s Celts and the Picts, there were 13 Picts, 20 Celts – as well as two stuntmen dressed as Celts - and 20 dead Picts. Herward’s three companions during his dramatic intervention were also stuntmen. Presumably the stuntmen were the “two bodies in river” listed amongst the props.
Also listed along with weapons and shields, and underlined, as if they were of high importance, are towels – presumably to dry off the extras or stuntmen who had been in the river – and brandy, which the wisdom of the time said would warm them up afterwards!
Though there is no obviously female rider among them, “Maria” is mentioned as a member of Arthur’s Cavalry. This is thought to refer to Maria Tolwinska, the niece of Ben Ford, who supplied the horses.1
Oliver Tobias, who had moved, since 4 August, from Ben Ford’s to a closer lodging, St Mary’s House, Wrington, was brought by taxi, to join Michael Graham-Cox in Make-up/Wardrobe at 7:15, with Jack Watson arriving at 7:30, to be ready to film their parts in the battle. Clive Revill was collected from the Unicorn Hotel 2 at 07:00
Altogether, the earlier scenes were 1 to 6e.
Jack Watson only took half an hour in make-up, as did Michael Gothard, but it took 45 minutes to make up Oliver Tobias and Michael Graham-Cox; Hedley Goodall, who played the abbot, took an hour and a half.
To simulate Arthur’s knife wound, artists from the Animation department, a chest-pad, blood and a knife were needed.
Michael Gothard, who was not needed in Wardrobe/Make-up until 10:30, was allowed a lie-in.
For scenes 41 and 42, filmed at 11:00 – the fight between Rolf and the Picts, and the arrival of Arthur and his men upon the scene – a total of 16 horses were required.
At 2 pm, scene 43, where the abbot goes about the battlefield, blessing the dead, was scheduled to be filmed, as well 40a, which was a shot of Llud talking to himself as he watches Rolf and his men ride out. Filming schedules and scripts supplied by Peter Thornton show that the scene with the abbot was not in the original version.
Food for morning, lunch and afternoon breaks for the cast and crew –110 people - was laid on, by George Cook (or Cooke) on location.
1 See this article from the Western Daily Press, 11 September 1972: "Back to school for King Arthur’s knights"
2 Possibly The Unicorn Hotel, West Street, Somerton TA11 7PR England – this would have been about an hour away by car.