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* Working tiles for this story included ''Return to Telos'' and ''The Cold War''. | * Working tiles for this story included ''Return to Telos'' and ''The Cold War''. | ||
* This is [[Terry Molloy]]'s only on-screen appearance in ''Doctor Who'' playing a character other than [[Davros]]. | * This is [[Terry Molloy]]'s only on-screen appearance in ''Doctor Who'' playing a character other than [[Davros]]. | ||
* The ''[[Radio Times]]'' programme listing for part one was accompanied by a black and white photograph of a Cyberman, plus a full-length black-and-white photographic cut-out image of the Doctor, topped with the neon ''Doctor Who'' logo, with the accompanying caption "A sinister subterranean encounter in the sewers of London between the Doctor and his old adversaries, the Cybermen / BBC1, 5.20 p.m. Doctor Who". | * The ''[[Radio Times]]'' programme listing for part one was accompanied by a black and white photograph of a Cyberman, plus a full-length black-and-white photographic cut-out image of the Doctor, topped with the neon ''Doctor Who'' logo, with the accompanying caption "A sinister subterranean encounter in the sewers of London between the Doctor and his old adversaries, the Cybermen / BBC1, 5.20 p.m. Doctor Who". ''(original published text)'' | ||
* This story reuses some incidental music from ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]] ''to establish the presence of the Cybermen. | * This story reuses some incidental music from ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]] ''to establish the presence of the Cybermen. | ||
* This story introduced the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s spiritual equivalent of the [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]], a portable [[sonic lance]], after the screwdriver had been written out in [[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]''. | * This story introduced the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s spiritual equivalent of the [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]], a portable [[sonic lance]], after the screwdriver had been written out in [[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]''. | ||
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* Michael Kilgarriff was confused by the plot and worried about the violence. | * Michael Kilgarriff was confused by the plot and worried about the violence. | ||
* According to Patrick Mulkern of ''Radio Times'', [[Matthew Robinson]] "fought the lighting crew to keep the sewer scenes dark and effectively creepy" and had the idea of changing the Cryons from male to female. | * According to Patrick Mulkern of ''Radio Times'', [[Matthew Robinson]] "fought the lighting crew to keep the sewer scenes dark and effectively creepy" and had the idea of changing the Cryons from male to female. | ||
* The repair to the | * The repair to the chameleon circuit was in part a publicity effort by John Nathan-Turner to drum up more interest in the series. He hinted publicly that it might be a permanent development, but never pursued the idea beyond this story. | ||
=== Ratings === | === Ratings === | ||