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* [[Peter Davison]] named this serial as a favourite. Matthew Waterhouse recalled Davison entering the rehearsal room shaking the script with excitement. | * [[Peter Davison]] named this serial as a favourite. Matthew Waterhouse recalled Davison entering the rehearsal room shaking the script with excitement. | ||
* The Terileptils, and the pioneering animatronic masks used to bring them to life, were intended to return. Those plans fell through. One mask did end up being reused in modified form on a delegate from [[Posikar]] in ''[[Season 23|The Trial of a Time Lord]]''. | * The Terileptils, and the pioneering animatronic masks used to bring them to life, were intended to return. Those plans fell through. One mask did end up being reused in modified form on a delegate from [[Posikar]] in ''[[Season 23|The Trial of a Time Lord]]''. | ||
* The story was inspired by the work of a former girlfriend of [[Eric Saward]]'s, who had been studying the architecture which arose in the wake of the Great Fire of London. She observed that the black rats which carried the plague became virtually extinct within months of the Great Fire, and Saward thought that this would provide an effective science-fiction “hook” for a story about social conditions in | * The story was inspired by the work of a former girlfriend of [[Eric Saward]]'s, who had been studying the architecture which arose in the wake of the Great Fire of London. She observed that the black rats which carried the plague became virtually extinct within months of the Great Fire, and Saward thought that this would provide an effective science-fiction “hook” for a story about social conditions in medieval England. | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bannen Ian Bannen], [[Brian Blessed]], [[John Carson]], [[Ronald Fraser]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Houston Donald Houston], [[William Lucas]], [[Glyn Owen]] and [[Donald Pleasence]] were considered for Richard Mace. | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bannen Ian Bannen], [[Brian Blessed]], [[John Carson]], [[Ronald Fraser]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Houston Donald Houston], [[William Lucas]], [[Glyn Owen]] and [[Donald Pleasence]] were considered for Richard Mace. | ||
* [[Peter Davison]] was late for the first rehearsal because the family [[cat]] had taken a live [[mole]] into the house and he had to return it safely. | * [[Peter Davison]] was late for the first rehearsal because the family [[cat]] had taken a live [[mole]] into the house and he had to return it safely. | ||