NOTES

CHAPTER TITLES

1. The Dome of Death
   
2. The Vital Vote
   
3. Execution
   
4. Escape into Danger
   
5. The Purple Zone
   
6. Capture
   
7. Death in the Desert
   
8. Night and Silence
   
9. Interrogation
   
10. Quillam
    
11. Condemned
    
12. The Changelings
    
13. Realm of Chaos
    
14. The Final Vote
    
15. Into the End Zone
    
16. Goodbye to Varos

DEVIATIONS FROM THE TELEVISED STORY

• In the Punishment Dome and across the planet, there are lines of Monorails linked, across the planet.
  
• There is a scene including the Governor and his personal butler, Sevrin, in his home when the Chief officer requests him to return to the Dome regarding Sil.
  
• During the first meeting with the Governor and Sil, Sil rocks his water-tank so hard, he falls over. No such thing occurred in the televised story.
  
• There are numerous mentions of Sil’s superior, Lord Kiv – a character who would not appear until Mindwarp.
  
• When Sil receives a new voice-box translator, there are numerous speech malfunctions.
  
• The guards who fall in the acid bath are named Az and Oza.
  
• Peri, the Governor and Maldak are forced to cross the harsh surface of Varos in environment suits to get the safety zone in the Punishment Zone.
  
• In the televised story, the Chief officer, Quillam and their militia stop and are struck by the poisoned vine trap set by The Doctor in his friends. In the novelisation, they drive on, oblivious to the vines and are hit – causing them to crash their vehicles.
  
• The confrontation about Zeiton-7 does not appear in the vision control room. Sil is confronted by the protagonists about his star-ship.
  
• Bax is described as wearing an orange uniform, rather than the blue one seen on screen.
  
• The early scenes with Quillam, Areta and Rondel are omitted: Effectively, none of them appear until The Doctor meets them.
  
• The Chief officer orders Jondar’s chains to be tightened after he has avoided the laser for too long.
  
• The death of Az and Oza differs from on screen: Az attempts to push The Doctor into the acid bath and falls in when he steps aside, then drags Oza in as he tries to pull him out.
  
• Peri is not present for The Doctor’s supposed death in the desert simulation. Despite being separated from them when captured as on screen, she spends a night in a cell with Jondar and Areta and doesn’t meet the Governor until the next morning.
  
• Peri is strapped into the Governor’s chair when interrogated by him and threatened with the cell desintegrator.
  
• Arak accuses the morgue attendants’ deaths of being faked.
  
• It is revealed Jondar was arrested after sneaking into the officers’ dome and witnessing the luxury they live in. (A similar scene was filmed and appears on the DVD.)
  
• Quillam is described as walking with a limp, which is not the case on screen. He also replaces his mask soon after The Doctor removes it, whereas on screen he stays unmasked for the rest of the serial.
  
• During the faked hanging of the Doctor and Jondar, Sil becomes so angry his voice translator explodes. No such event occurred on screen.
  
• Sil’s bearers are armed with CD phasers. The phasers later appear in the television story Mindwarp.
  
• The “safe exit” is revealed to lead onto the poisonous surface of Varos.
  
• The cannibals are explained as the relatives of those executed in the Punishment Dome, left to fend for themselves when they have nobody to support them.
  
• It takes much longer for Peri and Areta’s transmogrification to reverse, with them still being partially transformed when The Doctor and Jondar take them away.