


This missing sequence made sense of Arra's later line that the gene of which she and her people were part would mutate. Cut for time, it had Arra explaining to the Alphan that if he were to consider the Universe as a microscopic cell, his galaxy could be thought of as a single chromosome, the solar system as one gene and himself as a minuscule fragment of that gene.

She would tell him 'You'd better get this shot, because I'm not going to last long,' and they ploughed through her fifteen pages of work in an unprecedented two days. Austin recalls her being transported to and from the set via wheelchair. Production designer Keith Wilson recalls while she had no difficulty with her craft, she required direction from Ray Austin to understand her abstract and complicated dialogue. Suffering from multiple sclerosis, the role of Arra was her penultimate performance (she died 13 January 1976 at the age of 53, four months after the episode was broadcast by ATV). The accomplished and prolific British actress had appeared in stage, film and television productions on both sides of the Atlantic, winning numerous awards.
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This approach would be seen in his subsequent contributions to the series ('Death's Other Dominion' and 'Catacombs of the Moon'). Penned by American-born British television writer Anthony Terpiloff, this story would showcase the author's pet theme of the perseverance of faith and trust over logic and reason.
