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== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
* A preliminary outline for the story, then entitled ''The Trap'', was submitted for [[season 2]]. It was rejected because the robots were deemed too similar to the [[Mechanoid]]s, then set to feature in ''[[The Chase]]''. Three years later, Holmes re-submitted the outline as ''The Space-Trap'' to a new, more receptive production team. The script — under the name ''The Space Trap'' — was actually commissioned for delivery in 1969, probably for the penultimate story of Season 6. However, because Holmes had completed the scripts early, the story went into production in late 1968 when a [[Dick Sharples]] story, ''[[Prison in Space]]'', fell by the wayside. | * A preliminary outline for the story, then entitled ''The Trap'', was submitted for [[season 2]]. It was rejected because the robots were deemed too similar to the [[Mechanoid]]s, then set to feature in ''[[The Chase]]''. Three years later, Holmes re-submitted the outline as ''The Space-Trap'' to a new, more receptive production team. The script — under the name ''The Space Trap'' (without hyphen, as here) — was actually commissioned for delivery in 1969, probably for the penultimate story of Season 6. However, because Holmes had completed the scripts early, the story went into production in late 1968 when a [[Dick Sharples]] story, ''[[Prison in Space]]'', fell by the wayside. | ||
* All episodes of this serial exist in 35mm telerecording negative. | * All episodes of this serial exist in 35mm telerecording negative. | ||
* Robert La'Bassiere — billed as playing one of the Krotons in the closing credits for episodes two to four — was actually a pseudonym for Robert Grant, who had requested that he be credited under this name both on-screen and in the ''Radio Times'' programme listings. | |||
* This story was repeated on [[BBC2]] on consecutive evenings from Monday 9 to Thursday 12 November 1981 as part of the repeat season ''[[The Five Faces of Doctor Who]]'' as it was, at that time, the only complete four-part Patrick Troughton story available in the BBC Archives. | * This story was repeated on [[BBC2]] on consecutive evenings from Monday 9 to Thursday 12 November 1981 as part of the repeat season ''[[The Five Faces of Doctor Who]]'' as it was, at that time, the only complete four-part Patrick Troughton story available in the BBC Archives. | ||
* This is the first collaboration between writer [[Robert Holmes]] and [[script editor]] [[Terrance Dicks]]. It was only Dicks' second story in that capacity. In a neat bit of symmetry, ''[[Horror of Fang Rock]]'' was one of ''script editor'' Robert Holmes' last stories, written by Terrance Dicks. | * This is the first collaboration between writer [[Robert Holmes]] and [[script editor]] [[Terrance Dicks]]. It was only Dicks's second story in that capacity. In a neat bit of symmetry, ''[[Horror of Fang Rock]]'' was one of ''script editor'' Robert Holmes's last stories, written by Terrance Dicks. | ||
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