A12: DELIVERANCE

 

RADIO TIMES: A spaceship crashes on the planet Cephlon. When the crew of the Liberator look for survivors they find their own survival threatened.

GUEST CAST: Tony Caunter (Ensor), Susan Farmer (Meegat), James Lister (Maryatt

FACT FILE

 

• Deliverance was watched by 9.0m viewers.

 

• The script was commissioned from Terry Nation on 21 April, 1977 as the first of a 2-part storyline.

 

• Terry Nation’s script originally had Blake, not Avon, leading the rescue party on Cephlon.

 

• Douglas Camfield was originally to have directed this episode but he became involved with another project.

 

• Deliverance was directed by Michael E Briant but he was unavailable for pre-filming. 

 

• David Maloney seized the opportunity to direct the location scenes (uncredited).

 

• Filming was carried out at Betchworth Quarry for 3 days from Monday 13 February. 

 

• Ian Scoones & Mat Irvine carried out model filming of the Spacemaster exploding and the two life capsules tumbling towards Cephlon.

 

• Stock shots of the Liberator and Space Command came from earlier episodes.

 

• Deliverance was recorded in TC6 from Thursday 2nd to Friday 3rd March, 1978

 

• The launch of the race bank rocket was stock footage from a 1971 edition of Horizon about an American space launch.