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enemy= [[Slitheen Family]] <br> [[Jocrassa Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]] ([[Joseph Green]]) <br> [[Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]] ([[Margaret Blaine]]) <br> [[Oliver Charles]]/[[Asquith]] <br> [[Sip Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]] ([[Strickland]])| | enemy= [[Slitheen Family]] <br> [[Jocrassa Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]] ([[Joseph Green]]) <br> [[Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]] ([[Margaret Blaine]]) <br> [[Oliver Charles]]/[[Asquith]] <br> [[Sip Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]] ([[Strickland]])| | ||
setting= [[London]], [[March]] [[2006]] | | setting= [[London]], [[March]] [[2006]] | | ||
writer= [[Russell T | writer= [[Russell T Davies]] | | ||
director= [[Keith Boak]] | | director= [[Keith Boak]] | | ||
producer= [[Phil Collinson]] | | producer= [[Phil Collinson]] | | ||
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*The production team had intended to suggest that the murdered Prime Minister in this episode was current real-life incumbent [[Tony Blair]]. On the DVD commentary for the following episode, producer [[Phil Collinson]] explained that they had hired an actor to play the dead body on the understanding that the man was a [[Tony Blair]] lookalike. When the resemblance proved disappointing, they decided to avoid showing the body clearly. The suggestion that the body is Blair's remains in [[Harriet Jones|Harriet's]] line "I'm hardly one of the babes", a reference to the large number of female Labour Party MPs who entered the House of Commons in Labour's [[1997]] general election victory, who were dubbed "Blair's Babes" by the British media. That Tony Blair was elected in the ''Doctor Who'' universe was confirmed in ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]''. | *The production team had intended to suggest that the murdered Prime Minister in this episode was current real-life incumbent [[Tony Blair]]. On the DVD commentary for the following episode, producer [[Phil Collinson]] explained that they had hired an actor to play the dead body on the understanding that the man was a [[Tony Blair]] lookalike. When the resemblance proved disappointing, they decided to avoid showing the body clearly. The suggestion that the body is Blair's remains in [[Harriet Jones|Harriet's]] line "I'm hardly one of the babes", a reference to the large number of female Labour Party MPs who entered the House of Commons in Labour's [[1997]] general election victory, who were dubbed "Blair's Babes" by the British media. That Tony Blair was elected in the ''Doctor Who'' universe was confirmed in ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]''. | ||
*The armoured personnel carrier seen outside Number 10 is a Saxon, possibly foreshadowing future events. | *The armoured personnel carrier seen outside Number 10 is a Saxon, possibly foreshadowing future events. | ||
*According to Russell T | *According to Russell T Davies in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', the decision to establish the [[Bad Wolf meme]] in the series did not occur until after the spur-of-the-moment decision to have graffiti painted on the TARDIS; subsequently Bad Wolf references were added to the scripts for most of the other Series 1 episodes, and notwithstanding a few minor or inferred references in the interim, returned in force in the Series 4 episodes ''[[Turn Left]]'' and ''[[Journey's End]]''. | ||
*A boy spray paints the words "[[Bad Wolf meme|BAD WOLF]]" on the side of the TARDIS while it is parked on the council estate. According to [[Russell T | *A boy spray paints the words "[[Bad Wolf meme|BAD WOLF]]" on the side of the TARDIS while it is parked on the council estate. According to [[Russell T Davies]] in a 2008 episode of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'', it was this scene that inspired him to place Bad Wolf throughout the season. | ||
*Although not clearly seen on screen, one of the UNIT officers killed by the Slitheen at the end is wearing the name tag "Frost" (the tag is seen more clearly in publicity stills). This may have been a reference to the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic strip character [[Muriel Frost]]. | *Although not clearly seen on screen, one of the UNIT officers killed by the Slitheen at the end is wearing the name tag "Frost" (the tag is seen more clearly in publicity stills). This may have been a reference to the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic strip character [[Muriel Frost]]. | ||
*The [[TARDIS key]] began as an ordinary-looking Yale key, then changed during the [[Third Doctor]]'s last season into a more alien looking one, which was also used for the first two seasons of the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s tenure. It then reverted back to the Yale key for the rest of the run of the original series. The alien key made one last appearance in the [[Doctor Who: The TV Movie|''Doctor Who'' television movie]]. It has now returned to looking like an ordinary key, except that it starts to glow when the TARDIS is arriving. | *The [[TARDIS key]] began as an ordinary-looking Yale key, then changed during the [[Third Doctor]]'s last season into a more alien looking one, which was also used for the first two seasons of the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s tenure. It then reverted back to the Yale key for the rest of the run of the original series. The alien key made one last appearance in the [[Doctor Who: The TV Movie|''Doctor Who'' television movie]]. It has now returned to looking like an ordinary key, except that it starts to glow when the TARDIS is arriving. | ||
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