As many regular readers will know, when preparing ‘The Green Death’ for DVD release earlier this year, the Restoration Team were advised that, as the story would be issued on a single disc, there wouldn’t be room for much more than about 40 minutes of material. Although this material as it exists is both informative and entertaining, it has come to light that the RT were able to get their hands on a series of out-takes from the production, however the assembled material was too long to be included on the disc. This site is now exclusively able to reveal some of the material which didn’t make it.

(i) Jon Pertwee misreading one of his lines from Part One, thus: "So, the fledgling flies the Co-Op".

(ii) During the dinner-at-the-Nuthutch scene, Nicholas Courtney has a violent allergic reaction to the high protein fungus and vomits copiously in Stewart Bevan’s lap.

(iii) A collection of on-set pranks including the substitution of a pair of plastic breasts for the headphones Stevens uses to communicate with BOSS during recording of the last episode and laughs aplenty when one of the uninflated condoms used to make the maggots is replaced by a used one, to the embarrassment of the visual effects trainee entrusted with blowing them up.

(iv) Candid footage of John Levene doing a cross-stitch picture of a teddy while waiting for his cue.

(v) Jon Pertwee trying to put Stewart Bevan off his stride by constantly making "baa" noises during the final scenes of Part Six.

(vi) Candid footage of Stewart Bevan and Katy Manning doing it on Bessie’s back seat on location.

(vii) The characters playing the Welsh miners simultaneously dropping their trousers in mid-scene to reveal the words "ENGLISH TOSSERS" written in black marker on their buttocks. As the markers issued to the Who production team in 1973 were uniformly indelible, this may be the origin of the fan rumour that Talfryn Thomas had the phrase "E.T. NO" tattooed on his posterior.

(viii) Barry Letts, having seriously hit the gin during one of the studio sessions, telling the entire cast that Moonbase 3 is going to be the best sci-fi series ever and if he has anything to do with it, their contracts are all going to be cancelled, before challenging Terrance Dicks to a fight and passing out on the BOSS set.

(ix) Jon Pertwee performing all the Metebelis 3 location sequences stark naked.