The Welcoming

ST&SS05: The Welcoming
Preceeded by Fortitude in a Slipstream Followed by Doctor Who & The Monopoly Pub Crawl of Doom
Featured cast
The Ebullient Zautrino	Jacob Aldridge
Guy Anwar	Kane Major
Production notes
Recorded	December 2002
Released	March 2003

With a new companion aboard the TARDIS, Guy decides it is time to assist the Ebbulient Zautrino in one of the most harrowing experiences a new companion can go through - selecting a bedroom.

However, the room Zautrino selects contains far more secrets than are at first apparent to the former swordsman of Queen Barria. Before long, a mysterious voice is taunting Zautrino, striking at his very honour.

Where does this voice come from? What is it trying to tell Zautrino? And what important secret is it not revealing to him? As Zautrino hears more, he is soon unable to tell fact from fiction...

Crew

Photographer and Editor: Witold Tietze. Art Director: Kathryn Fallon. Zautrino's Costume: Jacob Aldridge. Musical Score: Michael Sadler. Assistant Director / Stand-In: Scott Marshall. Special Thanks: Yestin Hughes for the Samuari Sword & Gareth Preston and Matthew Kopelke for Sound Design Elements. Executive Producer: Matthew Kopelke. Producer & Director: Witold Tietze.

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"The Welcoming" Bloopers

Soundtrack

1. Music Cue
2. Music Cue
3. Music Cue

Episode endings

1. Guy and Zautrino leave the room Zautrino has chosen as his own, as Guy tells Zautrino a story about when he faced a 'dinosaur'.

Additional credited cast

The TARDIS Consciousness (Matthew Kopelke).

Up from the mud

That bird got me right in the eye!

A psychic attack turned physical

I survived my first stunt with only 50% brain damage!

That Director's got a terrific right hook!

Safety with live weapons was paramount on location...

An unlocatable foe

Visions of death

Facing the Enemy 1

Facing the Enemy 2

I know it's here somewhere!

Zautrino in solemn meditation

Companions unite!

Meditating over the Director's latest demand

Guy Anwar - Pensive Time Traveller

A Difficult Decision 1

A Difficult Decision 2

Fancy a dip in the six-dimensional spa bath?

Guy & Zautrino - Heroic Pose

The second smallest room in the house

Less than elegant decor

This velour is exquisite

So THAT'S how the Watcher arc ends!

Things to watch out for...

• When Zautrino attacks the bookcase in his TARDIS quarters, a number of well-known science fiction novels drop to the floor. Can you spot them all?
• The tome Guy leafs through at one point is a volume from an omnibus reprint of the Strand editions of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
• Zautrino wears two ties: one around his neck, and the other as a belt.

Things you probably never knew...

• Jacob Aldridge's "death" scene was warmly received on location by a group of passing children, who thoroughly enjoyed his impassioned performance. So committed was Aldridge to the scene that he genuinely slammed his face against the rough ground and caused himself some genuine discomfort.
• The sounds of battle during Zautrino's emergence from the sandy creek saw the first overt use of directional stereo effects in a BTR film.