Ralph McQuarrie I still get fan mail — people wondering if I worked on "Episode I" or just wanting to have my autograph." McQuarrie's production painting of R2-D2 and C-3PO wandering in the desert on the planet Tatooine was the first to be completed. His early concept for C-3PO was visibly inspired by the Art Deco "Maschinenmensch" robot from Fritz Lang’s 1927 film "Metropolis". The painting had a particular impact on actor Anthony Daniels, who was about to turn down the part of C-3PO; ""He had painted a face and a figure that had a very wistful, rather yearning, rather bereft quality,
The Hour That Never Was before laughing gas is set off leaving them in hysterics. Production for the episode was completed from 5 July to 20 July 1965. In the production set of the airfield buildings, the designer purposefully opted for a "meiosis", creating "an effect not simply of diurnal normality but of deliberate neutrality", to create the atmosphere of abandonment. Ray Austin, an ITC regular director, had an uncredited cameo role in the episode as the dead milkman. The Hour That Never Was "The Hour That Never Was" is the ninth episode of the fourth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series