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Importantly, this episode featured the introduction of something that would become one of the most famous aspects of the show - Agent Vib's famous space pencil. Speaking at a panel at EffectCon '87, Sylthe described the origin of the pencil: “The space pencil... yeah, the space pencil... uh... I hate to bring this up but... there was mention of a buffet?” ~ Kerry Slythe on the legendary Phenomenon Effect space pencil The highlight of the script was of course the legendary "submarine" speech, of which Slythe said

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rdfs:label	The Gathering Horror
rdfs:comment	Importantly, this episode featured the introduction of something that would become one of the most famous aspects of the show - Agent Vib's famous space pencil. Speaking at a panel at EffectCon '87, Sylthe described the origin of the pencil: “The space pencil... yeah, the space pencil... uh... I hate to bring this up but... there was mention of a buffet?” ~ Kerry Slythe on the legendary Phenomenon Effect space pencil The highlight of the script was of course the legendary "submarine" speech, of which Slythe said
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abstract	Importantly, this episode featured the introduction of something that would become one of the most famous aspects of the show - Agent Vib's famous space pencil. Speaking at a panel at EffectCon '87, Sylthe described the origin of the pencil: “The space pencil... yeah, the space pencil... uh... I hate to bring this up but... there was mention of a buffet?” ~ Kerry Slythe on the legendary Phenomenon Effect space pencil The script had to be written in a hurry in order to meet the grueling schedule of The Phenomenon Effect in which an entire thirteen week season was often shot in under a month. In order to write the episode in the eight hours he had been alloted, Slythe was obliged to get some additional dialog from his landlord, Yoltan Verbascof, which resulted in the characters of General Wittershaw and Colonel McTavish speaking all of their lines in Croatian. This was explained in the script with a line from Prof. Hotchickinglasses, who says that an "alien germ virus" had attacked the "talking centres of their cerebrums" during a recent visit to Belgrade.[#endnote_1] The highlight of the script was of course the legendary "submarine" speech, of which Slythe said “In the submarine speech, I really wanted to encapsulate that sense of uncertainty that is at the heart of the Human Condition. Why are we here? What purpose do we serve? Why am I, a busker, frequently commissioned to write television scripts? I mean, it's pretty unlikely when you get right down to it.” ~ Kerry Slythe on the Human condition Following the scrawling of the first draft, the script was put into production under fan-fave Phenomenon Effect director, Barry Slugg. According to an interview in the Phenomenon Effect fanzine Countdown to Minus Five, Slugg saw the script as "challenging", "technically demanding" and "one more step on my long downward arc from promising drama student to doomed, defeated alcoholic hack". With his characteristic self depreciating humour, he said “The Gathering Horror was a milestone for me; it was the first episode that whiskey alone couldn't get me through. That's when I started on the amphetamines. I'd have preferred cocaine, but I just couldn't afford it on what [famous and talented producer] Terry [Ling] was paying me.” ~ Barry Slugg on years of failure The production of The Gathering Horror was plagued by problems. Start of filming was delayed for a day by what was erroneously considered strike action. In fact, a large part of the technical staff were members of the Strike Reenactment Guild, an organisation dedicated to creating period costumes and placards and recreating famous strikes from British history.

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